Not happy being sick. But Dan takes god care of me and is making lunch and going out to buy the Sunday paper.

So, today we took Christmas Card photos...

...well, here are the rejects, they will end up in next years book of this year...get it? LOL!!!

And for the real Christmas Card you will have to tune in on Christmas! Until then...do some reading and don't forget to send me some mail :-0

Love Ya!

In Tucson with the Twins...part 2

So here is Niels!

In Tucson with the Twins...

...here are the first pictures of me and Alina.

Dan's Surprise Party!

Guess who turned 60 today!

It was fun to surprise Dan today with a party! Jason took Dan away shopping for an hour...hard job as Dan wanted to come home and eat the meal I made for "tonight" but really didn't serve as we were having surprise guests and I had appetizers for them all! It was a great surprise for Dan!
Thanks to all who were able to come, and we missed all who couldn't make it!
Tomorrow evening I should be able to post some pictures of the "burning cake"!!!

Dumb quiz!

Take this quiz (You can take it here.), which is hosted by The Art Institute of Vancouver ! But it isn't what I am at all! Go figure!!!  
You know you want too, just when you were a teenager and took all those tests in the teenie magazines! This one also comes out with fake results! Hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you come back as :-)


Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being: 

Left Brain	Right Brain
43%	57%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Look who's having a birthday!

Happy 3rd Anniversary to two special people!

Vuvuzela Hero

Vuvuzela Hero

If you don't follow my Facebook account, here is what you are missing :-)

Need to get another Vuvuzela fix now that soccer is over? Here you go!

My mother can cook!

Wordless Wednesday

Moenchbruch

Hmmm...seems that my pages are all to big and they don't fit here...go on my facebook site to see them all!

You just have to become my friend.

Paris!

RAIN! IT RAINED ON MY WAY HOME!

After work I did have to stop at two stores, one for Dirk, one for me...had I not stopped so long at the first one I would have made it home before this hit! There was even some hail in this...people waited in the stores, but that's just not so me! I got a bit wet, but made it home looooong before the weather changed.

I was looking forward to swimming though, and that didn't happen :-(

Today!

Oh, in three days I'll be packing the last few things and on my way!

ONE WEEK!!!...

...and I am off to Germany!!! :-)

Am I sounding exited or what? Well, this is not just a visit to my family and home, but I am taking a bunch of woman friends along to see the beauty of Germany (What the heck was I thinking???!!!)

Anyway, we have an itinerary for the FOUR weeks we will be there with hardly any free time (free time? I won't have any free time...I will have to be the one coming up with stuff to do! Luckily I have my Mama who is even more exited then I am and she is finding stuff to do! YEAH!!!)
So, if we all agree then it will be an easy trip, if we start disagreeing, then I have the say of what we'll do and when...hey, it's a win-win situation for me...or at least I think so...


What will we do? Well, here are the highlights: train to Paris, train to Berlin and Dresden, bus to Oberammergau (The Passion Play is in session and we have tickets). In between there will be a lot of ice cream eating...the weather better plays along...you know, "when angels travel the weather will be nice"!
And here is my first page of the Storybook I will be working on while on this vacation:

It's all about having F-U-N!!!

Have you gotten the theme for this trip? It's airplane, car, ship, bus, vans...Any mode of transportation will work for us...better have good shoes along as that is going to be needed also...there is loads of sightseeing involved...walking, walking, walking! :-)

STAY TUNED TO UPDATES ON THIS SITE...WHEN WEATHER TIME PERMITS!

The Two Howling Backyard Wolves

I hope I can upload this video to here and you can listen too it...there isn't much to see! I had to hurry and grab the camera to take this video. Tried it about 15 minutes earlier, but it didn't work as they quit before I had the camera. Was a bit faster the second time around, and tomorrow I am just going to wait till the ice cream truck is here and then take them when they are in full swing of howling! You can also find this video on my facebook.

The Renovation Page

And Sandra wanted to see some better pictures of the bathroom, well, here are some and after I go shopping for more of the detail stuff I'll post some more :-)

It's Anniversary Time!

30 Years ago Dan and I got married...what a time that was!

My parents did give me a great send off! And Dan did get home in time to get married, but that is a whole 'nother story! Actually we were married on the 10th at the CourtHouse...a must in Germany, so we celebrated yesterday...by doing taxes!!!

I guess after 30 Years no one remembers anyway and we just kept to ourselves!

Pizza and Gyro's from Dante's at the Mall, not even delivery, Dan picked it up!

And lunch was left-over stew from Easter LOL!!!

We watched a movie...oh, never mind...wasn't good at all and will get back into the mail today!

I made coffee this morning and Dan is just now getting me breakfast, Eggs, Ham and Toast...don't even have to get away from the computer! Sometime today we'll have Texas Steak Express...Dan promised me yesterday...so life is good for us!

Happy 5th Anniversary!

 Sandra & Clayton

Well, these two have to tell you their own story...I am not one to spill the beans...sometimes :-)

Anyways! Today is their 5th Anniversary of Married Bliss! So I hope they will enjoy this day and do something for the fun of it. Take the Puppy for a walk, and take Cinnamon along for the fun!

Ahhh...Jason made Pizza for us!

Okay, here are today's pics of the dogs in the snow...oh, yeah, some humans too!

Well, trying to add pictures, but for some reason it tells me that there is no image available...ah, I want to put my own image on it!

Well, if you want to see today's pictures, you will have to find me on Facebook :-) you know my name so it's not that hard! Maybe later today or tomorrow it will work.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Okay, I'll post again :-)

Hmmm...don't know when I posted last, but I do have to post these pictures so you can see it snowed AGAIN in Abilene! This makes snow #6 this season!

Muss halt mal wieder was posten damit ihr sehen koennt das hier mal wieder etwas Schnee liegt! Es hat zum 6. mal geschneit :-) Feuer im Kamin und mit den Hunden spielen so ist's schoen. Es soll heute nacht noch mehr schneien und morgen auch noch etwas, nicht mehr als 30 grad werden, natuerlich sind das Fahrenheit!

My nomination for the first Lufthansa A380

My nomination for the first Lufthansa A380: "The A380 the new Lufthansa flagship, a special experience, the Lufthansa A380. Find out more about the fascination of a new era in air travel. Take part, Raffles, Downloads, Photos, Video, Gallery, First Flight in 2010."

Well, here is an early Birthday gift for me!

My mom does want to see more of my writing on here and not on Facebook, so I will write on both places!

Mama, hier ist mein neuer Mikro! Endlich habe ich einen (obwohl das nicht auf meiner Liste stand!).

Anyone interested in Creative Memories? Well, here is a deal for you :-)

And last, but not least...

...if you are interested in learning about Digital Scrapbooking, I am offering a free class on Saturday!

Thought it would be a good idea...

...to put up some pictures!
This is what we saw when we left at 10 am to drive to Fredericksburg to meet up with Jason. As it was so darn cold we decided to take the dogs with us so they wouldn't be cooped up in the house all day...now they were cooped up in the car...but they like to drive and didn't care!

It didn't get warm all day long...as you can maybe see in the mirror it was 26 F when I took most of these pictures.

Happy New Year!

If you missed our New Years Party, sorry...you should have been here :-)
Here are pictures of what you missed, and then I might just have to add a few more later on. Hope we are all going to have a great Year ahead of us.