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the new blinkie I'm gonna be sporting for the month of July in my signature.

Woooo Hoooo!

Remember I submitted a LO to Heather Roselli's Creative Team? Well... I got picked to be her July Guest CT! I'm so excited and can't wait to get started. She decided to pick 10 girls, 2 a month for 5 months. Here's the link to see all who made it, the month they have and their amazing LO's. http://heatherroselli.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/27/losplayground.jpg
I have never applied to an independent designer before. I have joined in the DET contest over at DSP twice. The 1st time I made it to rd. 2 and the 2nd time I made it to the final rd., but didn't make the final cut. It was really disappointing. I don't know if I can go through that again.
After this I feel a little more confident. I never think my stuff is good enough. But who knows this may be the start of something amazing for me!

New Do

Here's one of my latest layouts. Such an adorable photo of Zoie. She loves to pose like a model. She also has this cute little model walk. She puts her hands on her waist and sways her hips from side to side.
I'm so glad I got her hair cut. She got a bath today and it only took a few minutes to comb it. I asked her if she wanted to let it grow long again. She said she wants it to stay short. That shouldn't be a problem.
It's raining!!!! We haven't had rain in 2 weeks. The yard and the crops surely need it. I hope it rains all night with a light steady rain. Well I just looked outside and the rain has stopped (after about 10 minutes) and the sky is clear. Poop!

I did the unthinkable today.

I decided to get Zoie's haircut. The length hasn't be cut for 3 years. It was just too much to work with. It would take me forever to comb through it even with a ton of conditioner on it. She would cry everytime it had to be combed. So it was time to say good bye to all that baby hair and give her a big girl haircut. Doesn't she look so beautiful even though she's giving me that I don't want to take any pictures look. She was excited to get it cut too.

Another good thing about getting it cut is we were able to donate 10 inches to the Locks of Love Foundation.

I got a new Toy!

Well after talking if over with Todd, he gave me the ok to get a new camera. I got the Nikon d40x and I totally love it. It takes such amazing photos. Here's one of my favorite pics.I've got so much to learn though.

Jeremy left for his dad's for the summer. So for the last couple of days he had play dates with two of his friends. I showed him how to connect his Nintendo DS to the internet so he can talk over it with his friends while he is away. You have to have certain games in order for it to work. He does it through his Poke'mon game. Things will be a little quiet around here w/out all the fighting between him and Zoie. They fight all the time, well I can't say ALL the time. They do sleep... he he She just likes to be around him too much and he gets aggravated. It's just me and her during the day and when either Jeremy or Todd comes home she is all over them.

Time for Zoie's nap now. Maybe I might take one too.

Not a good start for the week

Monday night Jeremy got really sick, throwing up and all. Tuesday he threw up in the morning, was running a little fever and had some leg cramps. I thought that was really weird. I had to call my Aunt to talk to her about something and my Uncle answers the phone and tells me she's in bed really sick too. Well, Sunday was my cousins graduation party, so I thought Jeremy may have picked up something from there. He did, so did half the people there. Food Poisoning!!! I talked to my brother, him and his wife got sick. One of my cousins had to go to the hospital because he was having problems at both ends and the doctors suspected food poisoning, because it happened so fast and violently. It affected everyone differently, some just threw up, some had diarrhea and for the unfortunate ones they had both. After talking to a few people asking what they ate, some ate the same stuff, some ate different but what we all had in common was the sub sandwiches. I didn't throw up but my stomach was turning all day Monday. Todd was lucky enough to have other plans helping his friend with some things. And I'm so glad Zoie was being her stubborn self and wouldn't eat. Jeremy and I felt better yesterday but we took it easy and didn't go anywhere.

I put in my first submission for a Guest CT (creative team) call for July. Heather Roselli gave everyone a free kit, which was so cool. If you get picked you get free kits and have to create a "X" amount of lo's using her kits and posting them to a few different web sites to promote her work. It's like doing a little advertising. Here's my LO.