I'm So Excited...

And I just can't hide it!
So yesterday was my birthday and my merm got me a Cricut! It is the coolest machine that is like a dye-cutter on crack. I use my friends machines when we are all together to scrapbook, and then I come home and work on my books and think, oh I need a Cricut for this title, or something...So then I put that page to the side to be finished later...ask me if this is progressing the completion of the scrabooks? (Yes, plural.) So my plan is to get a couple more font cartidges in the next few weeks and have two books finished and one other caught up to current times by the time school starts. (Our Italy book will neither be finished or caught up-due to the ginormousness of it!) Anyways, if you want to come over and play with my Cricut you are so welcome to! But I have to warn you-you will want one.

On other birthday business-
I had a great time being with my family. I got some great gifts, and there are more to come today because today is dad's day. =) We had a nice relaxing morning yesterday while opening gifts, and then it was on to cousin Emma's 5th birthday party (her b-day is Tues. with her Aunt Sarah)-nothing like 5 year old girls squealing at every package that was opened. Then we went to shoot a round of sporting clays...love it! Get this I shot a 57 out of 100, but that's hitting over half the clays people and I don't do this often. (only when we are in edmond) And the best part is Jeremy scored a 52...that's right I beat him-on my birthday! I am telling you it was a great birthday. Last night, we went to dinner at an Italian place in the city and then had ice cream cake with my cousin Sarah to celebrate our birthdays. (hers is Tues.-same age as me-twin cousins) One last fabulous part- Jerm's getting me an iPhone for my birthday tomorrow. So I will official be one of "the cool people." =)

Hawaii

Well it's been a week or so since getting back from Hawaii, and I just realized I hadn't said or posted anything about it. We of course had a fantastic time as we usually do. Glad to be home though, we missed our Guinness terribly! And he of course missed us, and my sister was done being "tortured" by him. hehe I am having Jeremy pull all of our pictures from the camera onto flickr, so go visit flickr.com/jeremydcase if you want to see them all soon. I will post a couple of my favs on here in the next fews days. Oh and I have to mention I was like 10 feet from real live wild bottlenose dolphins...it was soooooo awesome! Dolphins are the coolest; they were swimming along the edges of the boat so they could get a free ride and not have to do the work lol. Anyways, I will post more about Hawaii later with pics of the dolphins among other things!

Farming

So I have taken up farming...
and before you say "what not teaching anymore...!" Let me stop you and say I am farming on farmtown on facebook...lol. I am so addicted and so is the rest of my family, mom, aunt, cousins, husband...someone has to stop us! I mean we are calling each other and having people check our farms to see if crops are ready to harvest, or we are planning ahead like, "oh i can't plant grapes...I won't be online to harvest them in 4 hours better plant potatoes." And to make matters worse it has chat on it, so the fam will get online and go to one persons farm and harvest and chat. (which i love because i get to talk to my fam from far away all together like we're in the same room rather than eachof them 1 at a time) Well got to get back to my farm... chatting with my bubba...stop the maddness