A little Sound of Music pick me up

Taking the Ride of My Life! :)

As many of you know, this year I have joined with several members of my family in riding the Tour de Cure for Diabetes! Our team name is the Blood Sugar Daddies. Catchy right? :) We are choosing to go on the 25 mile ride! This is quite the goal for me as I have never done anything like this before, but am very excited to do it this year! All of you support both financial and emotional is greatly appreciated. I am dedicating this ride this year, personally to my friend Dawn as she is the one who coaxed, encouraged, harrassed....however you classify it (all of the above, actually)...to do this for myself as well as all of those in my family and around the world who suffer from this disease. Dawn and I had planned to train and ride together and while she will not be there with my physcially, she will be there with me in spirit!!

I also have a goal to raise $500 to go toward research to find a cure! I am currently 34% there! So I have a ways to go!!! Below is the link to my personal webpage where you can click on the link to sponsor me in this endeavor....any amount no matter how small will help me in reaching my goal! You are also welcome to join our team, or to simply come up and cheer us on! June 13th is the date and there is a link with details on the below page to where the festivities will be! Come on up!! I could use the encouragement for sure!!! :) Please show your support in any way you can! Thanks so much!!!

http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TDC530148030?px=4653405&pg=personal&fr_id=5629&et=ipW56pajIYjdykDaOamPiA..&s_tafId=219408

I Miss You My Sweet Friend

This week has been a very difficult one. My sweet friend Dawn Shelton was found dead in her apartment on April 1st. This was devastating news for me. Dawn and I have been really close buddies...we went to church together, we encouraged one another through difficult times, we just really fit well with one another. She was truly a kindred spirit to me and I miss her dearly. We only knew one another for just over a year, but it felt like we had known one another forever. I do know that she is safe and happy where she is now, but I cannot help but wish she didn't have to go so soon. I just feel like I still need her, but I guess others must need her more.

Sadly I only have one picture of her. It was taken on the opening night of the Twilight movie. A bunch of us all went out for dinner and a movie that evening and I wanted to mark the evening with some pictures. I will be forever grateful I did.

Here are the group pictures. One of many fun and happy memories I will treasure with my sweet friend Dawn! I truly love you and miss you with my whole heart and soul!

My date with Twilight

As many of you know, Emily, my friend, and I threw a Twilight DVD release party! It was soooo much fun! We had all kinds of silly fun! Had a pot luck dinner full of Twilight cuisine as seen below:

The menu consisted of:
Marble White Ice Cream
Vegetarian Pizza
Cooked Flesh (fried chicken)
Harry Clearwater's fish fry (w/catfish)
Venison Fajita's with red "Bella" Red Peppers
Vampire Blood Punch
And lovely fondue - 1 Strawberry, 1 Chocolate!

We did a fabulous job of decorating Emily's living room...true twilight style! :)

Due to Emily's genius, we created a photo booth to take photos...some of our own apple pics as seen below.

These are just a sampling, but I thought that the hostesses of the party should be featured here. :)

Then we did some lovely pictures with Edward. :)

Not my best side, but oh well! Again this is just a sampling, but Natalie was the lovely friend that introduced me to the love world of Twilight...so I think it fitting that she get a feature in this blog as well! Thanks Natalie!!!

There were, of course, a few out of control moments! I just love my fellow Twilighters!!!

And finally, here is the group shot of us all! Thanks ladies for a completely fantabulous night!!!! Y'all are all da bomb! :) Can't wait for part II in New Moon!!!

Buffy and Edward FOREVER!!

My friend at work have been counting down to the Twilight DVD release. The last couple of days she has been sending me these Twilight emails, with movie trailers and lines and todaythe below picture! Isn't it sooo awesome!!!

Twilight Humor

A friend of mine sent me this cartoon and I just cracked up! I totally loved it and thought it needed sharing!!! :)

Happy Songs

So I have been reminded over the past few days the power of music in my life. I have had a bad couple of weeks. I had surgery on my wrist and while it went pretty well, it has been pretty painful especially since it was my right wrist and I am severly right handed so I have been pretty dang disabled. Well I have become pretty impatient and depressed throughout this healing process. and to take a phrase from my nephew Jacob, "I am done with this injury! SO DONE!!

Now keep in mind that this statement could be applied to a mutitude of other issues over the last little while as well, but we won't get into all of that. Today as I have been working and listening to my itunes one of my favorite Michael Buble' songs came on and suddenly my mood improved. Now this doesn't always work, but for whatever reason it worked today! So I thought I would share today's happy song with you all. Here is a nice live performace of "Everything" by Michael Buble! THANK HEAVENS FOR HAPPY SONGS!!! Enjoy!