tucked inside his coat pocket out in one of the saddlebags on the bike.   Wonderful place for his wallet to be, but at least it wasn’t lost.

Even though there was no school today I still got up early.  Baby crawled in bed with us again and took up the entire middle of the bed (how can 1 little girl take up the entire middle of a king sized bed?!?).  I woke up with a backache and just decided to get up and take a hot shower.  My back felt a little better when I got out, so I had my coffee with hubby and since he has the day off too we decided on what to do today.   Going to Menards to the Garden Center is what we ended up doing.  The rain was coming down in sheets when we got there but it did eventually stop.  I picked up some pepper and tomato plants, a pretty hanging flower basket, and some seeds to plant.  The peppers and tomatoes are going into containers on my deck.  I only want enough to eat with dinner or for a snack, I really don’t want to have so many that I need to can them, although the way food prices keep going up I may need to start…..    The wind has really picked up outside but at least the rain has stopped for now and the sun is shining.   I think I will go outside and see if I can get my plants planted before the next rain storm comes thru this afternoon.   I got all my window boxes planted last weekend, of course I planted from seeds so it will be awhile before I have any flowers.  Baby likes watching them grow from seeds so it is something she likes to help with.  Her daddy bought some more of those mammoth sunflower seeds.  She had such fun helping him plant them last year and watching them grow.  It was even nice watching the woodpeckers hanging off of them upside down this past winter trying to get the remaining seeds.  I also took the solar lights we bought last year and put them in the window boxes all around the deck.  They look really pretty at night when they start coming on..    I will try and get some pictures to post later…

In other news….   My daughter Catie, who just got married last August called the other day to tell me I am gonna be a grandma!    This baby is due December 17^th      That makes 3 more grandbabies due this year,  one the first of September,  one due around the middle of November, and this one due the middle of December.    That will bring our grandbaby total to 9 !!    This Christmas get together will be a big one    We may have to start renting out the hall just to fit all our kids and grandkids in for get-togethers…

Well,  I better get a move on.  I want to get my plants planted before the next storm comes thru.   I hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday! 

Finishing our pizza when the waitress brings our bill.  No big deal, hubby reaches into his back pocket and pulls out NOTHING!   He doesn’t have his wallet!   I am trying to figure out what I am going to tell the waitress while hubby goes outside to check and make sure his wallet isn’t in the van.  He comes back in empty handed and now I am panicking.  I am wondering what on earth I have on my person that is valuable enough to leave at the pizza place, that isn’t so valuable that I wouldn’t leave it.   The only thing I can come up with is my cell phone.   So now to tell the waitress she isn’t getting paid….   She comes over to the table and I tell her hubby left his wallet at home, she is just looking at us,  some young teenage girl without a clue.   Just then hubby has an idea and asks her is she can manually process our card.  She can!  All is not lost.  I call home and have Alex dig out my card and read me the numbers.  I give her the numbers, she processes the card and we are outta there!   Talk about a close call!   It may be awhile before we go back there, although she did get a good tip

No school tomorrow! YEAH!  I won’t be sleeping in, but at least I don’t have to get up early and drive the bus.  I can sit back and leisurely drink my cup of coffee and I web surf.  Actually I don’t generally have time to surf, but I will be able to answer customer emails and deal with any other problems that may have come up with TSG over night.  Sometimes my customer service mailbox is full and other times things are slow.    We did open a whole new store.  We moved up from Zen Cart to Xcart.  The new store is so much nicer, the images of the products in the store just pop out now.   If you have some time while you are drinking your morning coffee why don’t you go check it out HERE  

Ok,  I am going to call it a night and go relax a bit.  I will try to get back tomorrow so I can finish my updates…   Have a great night everyone

 Actually she sent me the US pics first, then she called me while I was looking at them…   I am gonna be the proud grandma of a baby…….

BOY!!!

I can’t believe it!   After 3 little girls I think my daughter is in shock too!  Now we have to spend the next few months getting some little boy clothes, otherwise he is gonna be looking real pretty in pink  

Since I have been to Xanga that is.  I have been so busy trying to get things situated at The Scrapping Garden that I haven’t had time to come and do much visiting.   I HAVE been keeping up with all my friends thru my subscriptions, but it just isn’t the same. 

Things have been so busy at TSG site.  We are in the process of moving the store we have right now to a bigger, fancier Xcart store. The payment has been made, the store is just waiting for the last few modules to be installed and we will be ready to start getting our digital products put in.  I shut the old store down this morning and we are hoping to be back up and running on Monday.   Check back every once in awhile and I will let you all know when we get the new store ready to open.  We will be having a grand re-opening sale so anyone who is interested in digital scrapbooking should come by and check out all the available products from our designers.   We just recently added a new designer who specializes in genealogy and heritage type kits.  I am looking forward to attending her chats and checking out her designs.  I have tons of heritage photos of my family that I would love to get scrapped into an album for each of my brothers and sisters…   Maybe this will help me get started…

On the home front things are about the same.  I was able to go with hubby on his last business trip.  School was shut down for Spring break for a week so I went with him.  I spent my day in the hotel while he was in his meeting but I was able to get a lot of work done with no interruptions.  I did think I was going to have to go and ask the cleaning ladies to keep the noise level down a couple times though.  I couldn’t believe how loud they were,   even going so far as to slam every room door I swear!   Eventually they finished up and then it was quiet…   Just me and the sound of the keyboard as I typed….   Sure beats the noise of slamming doors.  Anyway, Hubby and I spent a very nice 2 nights away from home and were able to reconnect with our usness (is that a word?) 

Alex is counting down the time til he goes to Marine boot camp.  I have a date now..  July 21^st.   I am soooo not looking forward to this     Ok, buck up mom and just get through it…..

Sara is in another school play.  This one is a musical and the performance is next week.  She has been so busy rehearsing every night I have hardly seen her.  Hopefully I will get some pics of the play and will get them posted next week.  Prom is about a month away.  Alex is going,  he hasn’t gotten a date yet so he may just go with a group of kids.  Sara was asked to the prom by her (at least right now) boyfriend.  She is only a sophomore this year so I told her I wanted her home after the prom, no going to the after prom party and staying out all night.  I told her that hubby and I would happily pick her up after prom if need be.   (I don’t think she likes that idea <wink>)

Hmmmm  oh yes.  This past weekend Alex and I worked putting more of our privacy fence up.  We got about 17 more sections up.  We aren’t using already made sections.  We are screwing single boards to the fence frame all the way around the house.  It takes a lot more time but hopefully the panels will never need to be replaced since we are doing them all one piece at a time.  

Not much else happening, just work and more work.

Today my daughter goes in for her US…  We will hopefully know whether our newest grandbaby arriving in September will be another little girl or a boy…  I am just waiting for the phone call and then the US pics

Well,  time for me to get moving.  Take care everyone; I have missed not having time to check in very often.  I’ll have to make myself a sticky note to remember to make time!      Big huggs to all my pals