It is AFRICA hot!!!

Bob and I are trying to get the yard ready for a church get together. But it's so hot, we floated in the pool! I threw Oscar, Meredith McKenzie's and Wendy McKenzie's dog, in the pool!! He won't get near me yet - and it's been over an hour ago!

Audrey's leaving for confirmation camp tomorrow. She'll be gone for a week. Evan is excited - I'm losing my buddy that keeps me company when Evan has all-star baseball practice and games! I'll miss her a lot, but it's good for her to be gone. She loves it!

Pictures from today include dh, Bob, throwing Audrey in the pool and pictures of a tag album I'm going to sneak into Audrey's suitcase tomorrow. It's from K and Company. I love the way it turned out. I put 3 bible verses in it: Galations 3:26-27, John 3:5 and Matthew 5:14.

Flower Soft

Kathy Brennan came over tonight. We played with a cricut cutting machine and flower soft. The flower soft is really cool! We added it to a wheelbarrow for the flowers then made flowers on pieces of cover wire. I'm not sure which one is more fun!!

Both Audrey and Evan has sports camp this week. Audrey is in an 8am-5pm basketball camp and Evan has a 1/2 day baseball camp. Audrey CRASHED on the sofa around 7pm! Unfortunately, she woke up and is watching MY vampire movie - The Lost Boys.

Have a great week!

Carolina Girls Shoebox Swap

Saturday was the 7th Carolina Girl's Shoebox Swap. We had a great time! The cards and other items we made are below!

Last week, we hosted Jenifer Luceno from Watermark Denmark Youth Encounter group. It's amazing! We have hosted 4 years now and we have been so lucky and blessed to have 4 terrific people! But what makes Jen so special is she's the first lady we hosted. Audrey was thrilled! Jen's first 2 hours at the house were spent braiding Audrey's hair. A week later, and the braids are still in! Below is a picture of Audrey, Evan and Jen. Evan is such a goofball! He just finished baseball practice when this picture was taken. He normally isn't that sweaty!! OK - he normally is, but we'll pretend he isn't!

I also want to say congratulations to my nephew, Ethan, who was mentioned in one of last year's posts. He made it to State Finals in Track and had never been on the track team before! He is getting ready to go to Hawaii to play football for two weeks, too. What a way to end your senior year in high school!

I'm back!

It's been a long while since I posted on the blog. It was when the corporate budget got hot and heavy at BCBSSC. It's finally over and I'm getting my life back.

And what a life - - arguing with Evan about homework, forcing Audrey to study....

But I'm glad we're through with the budget!

SLACKER!!!

WOW! What a slacker! I haven't blogged since August. That's about the same time the budget at Blue Cross began. Imagine.....my life came to a halt when that started.

Evan is now playing football, Audrey's with Dent's Volleyball team and recreation soccer has begun. Oh, how we love the fall.

It has finally started cooling off here in the south. It was only in the 70s today. Definite football weather.

Well, since the name of my blog is 'Laura'a Creations', I guess I need to get creating. Hopefully this weekend.

To all my friends who live in the Houston area, I'm glad you all are OK with minimal damage. Good luck!!

New School Year

Well, Richland 2 starts tomorrow. My kids are depressed because they have to go back to school. Evan is now going to Lonnie B. Nelson and Audrey is still at Dent Middle in the TWO Academy. I start back at Columbia College next Wednesday. I'm taking Biology - scary!!

Evan broke his hand on Saturday. It's his first broken bone. He's never had a stitch. The cast is bright orange and lime green (see picture).

My nephew, Ethan Deselem, was featured in an article in my hometown newspaper. He's quite the handsome one! I'm very proud of all my nieces and nephews, but it's very exciting when one is written about in the newspaper!! Here's the link: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/high-schools/2008/08/21/sns082108tabnortheastern.html.

I hope everyone is well!

Evan turns 10!

My baby boy turned 10 yesterday! He's such a sweet boy, but can be mean as a snake. He had 6 boys spend the night (YIKES!). I, of course, left at 9pm and went to the movies. When I came home at midnight, they were all still awake.

We got up early and took the boys, Audrey and her friend Meredith to play paintball. In the matter of 2 1/2 hours, the 10 of them went through 6000 paintballs!

Tonight, we had a group from church over for horse races. We raised money for one of our members who had brain cancer. Not a lot money, but anything is better than none!