I won, I won, I won!

OMG! Jumping up and down and happy dantcin at the same time! Maybe I've mentioned a time or twleve how much I LOVE t!m Holtz. And Mario too! So imagine my surprise when I read t!m's blog post for today and I learn I am one of the "big" winners from the 12 Tags of Christmas. You KNOW I'll be sharing when I get my winnings!

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In like Flynn...with t!m

Mah man t!m Holtz is heading back to the Tampa Bay area in May to teach more classes! This time at Whim So Doodle in St Pete. I just made 169 calls and John made 96 before I got a clear line to ring thru! On call 170...it rang instead of the beep, beep, beep of a busy signal! Oh sweet glorious ring! I told the gal who answered you'd think t!m Holtz was coming to town or sumthin! I am in for two of his four classes. The two I'm not taking are ones I've taken before. His Grungeboard class and his mirrored square class I've taken, so I'm doing two new ones. The first is Creative Outlets in which we will be inking and adorning tags and the second is Creative Blocks where we will create a multi-layer canvas project. Soooooooooooo excited!! May 6 and 7 can't get here fast enough!! Happy dantcing here!

No Shame

Yesterday afternoon was the final round of the National Geography Bee at Jake's school. One young man was a no-show, so there were 9 boys competing for who would represent their school at the State level. They first asked two rounds of verbally answered questions to each boy. Each had to get 2 answers wrong to be eliminated. Jake was eliminated in the first round when he answered both of his questions wrong. We are still so very proud of him for being the only 6th grader at his school to participate AND for going on to the second round. There is no shame in that. The competition eventually wound it's way down to three boys. One answered his question wrong and was awarded third place. Now the tension mounted! The final two boys each missed one question in the final round and now we went into sudden death. Questions would be asked of each boy and if one answered wrong and the other correctly, the one who answered correctly would be the winner. It took two more rounds before Emmanuel was declared the winner! Everyone cheered and I think he was probably more than a little embarrassed when his younger brother hugged him and his mom hugged AND kissed him. Right there in front of everyone! I think I even saw a tear in his proud mothers eye! Jake has two more years of Middle School to compete. He is a very bright young man and loves to read and learn, so we have every hope that he will be back in the next two years competing for the chance to represent his school. We are very proud of you Jake. You hold your head high!

He dun gud!

Jake had the first round of his Geography Bee yesterday. And while Unca John and I were late getting there due to routine maintanence on my truck taking for.ever, we were there for the best part! There were 24 kids competing and there were 7 rounds to the first set of questions. They had already completed four rounds by the time we got there. Jake had answered all of his questions correctly. Rounds 5 and 6 were multiple choice questions and Jake missed one of those. Then Round 7, they were each asked a question and not given a choice of answers, instead having to come up with it on their own. And Jake missed his. Aunt Sue didn't do so hot either! Out of the 24 questions, I only knew the answers to TWO! Don't say much for age and failing brains, now does it?! Then the scorers huddled and decided who would move on to the next round. There were 4 kids who only missed one question each, so they went on. Then they called the names of the kids who had missed two questions and Jake was one of those 15 or so. All the others were excused. They then put the remaining kids at separate small tables and gave them each a piece of paper and pencil. They were all read the same question and had 15 seconds to write their answer down and hold their paper up to show they were done. They were then asked their answer. There was only one correct answer for that question, so that boy went on to the next round. Question two and no one had the correct answer. Question three and four had the correct answer. AND JAKE WAS ONE OF THE FOUR!!! Can you say PROUD?! So those four joined the others for a total of 10 going to the next round. Which will be NEXT Tue! So Unca John and I have already said we will be there in support of Jake. Crossed fingers are again appreciated!

Proud Auntie Moment!

Knock knock! Is dis thang on?! Oh, hai! Yes, we are still here. Took a bit of time off. I'll blame it on the holidays, but I wasn't crafting and we weren't doing anything to blog about, so I just shut my yap for a while. I'm getting back in the crafting mood, so hopefully I'll have some stuff coming up soon to share.

So my Proud Auntie Moment, you ask! Got an email from sister Jan this morning and she was bragging on Jake, so I'm gonna take her lead and share what he's been up to. Seems he had a math project that that had to use Power Point. ('Scuse me if I don't know 'xactly what that is!) But anyway! He had to apply this math project to something he was passionate about. And he is PASSIONATE about Renewable Energy. He talked Unca John's and my ear off at Christmas about his ideas! So being a typical 11 year old, he was down to the wire on getting the assignment done. Trying to find a computer with Power Point and getting it all put together. Turned the assignment in on the very last day! And he got 100% on it! Way to go Jake! Then, he comes home yesterday telling Jan that he is the ONLY 6th grader at his school to score high enough to compete with 7th and 8th graders in the National Geography Bee! How stankin' cool is that?! Next week he will compete with other local schools and possibly go on to the State and National levels. So keep your flingers and toes crossed for Jake next week and I'll post how he does. Jan said just when you think that he might be in over his head, he pulls this rabbit out of his hat and all you can do is say ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...maybe he IS getting it after all!

I won! I won!

Remember I told you about a free giveaway over at SheetLoad ShortCuts last month? If you placed an order and referred to me, you'd get 10% off your order and I could get my order for free? Well, Alicia contacted me (and posted to the blog!) that I won! So I get my order that I placed in Sept for free. How cool is that?!

Cyber Auntie!

I'm gonna be a cyber Auntie again! My best cyber-friend, Chris and her hubby Mike are three months pregnant! I've known about it for a couple of weeks now, but have held off blogging about it until I was sure Chris had told everyone. I am so stankin' excited for them. They are gonna be the BEST parents! The baby is due sometime around Valentine's Day, but we know how babies have their own schedule and timetable!

I won!

Thanks to any and all who went to Heidi's blog over the last couple of days and voted for me. I WON!!! How cool is that?! First time ever entering something like this and I win! I'll be posting pics of my prize(s) once they come, so stay tuned!!

Off to happy dantce now! Yes, dantce! It's what Snoopy does when Schroder's playing the piano on the Charlie Brown Christmas Special! Dantce!!

Shameless begging

I think I've emailed everybody I know shamelessly begging for votes, but in case I've forgotten anyone, know that it was not intentional. I entered a fellow CTMH sister's blog challenge. Today is the last day to vote. If you'd pop over to Heidi's blog and vote,I'd be ever so greatful! Thanks!

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edited to add: If you are on AOL, you will probably have to got thru Internet Explorer to vote. Whatever voting site she is using does not seem to want to play nice with AOL!!

Thanks!

Wow!

Sweet Marjorie, Mommy Scraps, nominated me for a You Make My Day Award! She made MY day instead! How sweet is that?! Thanks Marjorie!


And no I have to nominate 5 people who make my day! But there's only two that I know haven't already gotten the award, so that's all I'm nominating.

I nominate Liane, my wonderful friend. Liane's Blog And I nominate Jeanne, also a wonderful friend. silly to sane. . . .

Proud!

Last night, our oldest nephew Kyle attained the rank of Eagle Scout. He is the 76th member of his Troop to become an Eagle in 74 years. He was one of three Scouts to reach Eagle Scout last night and five total for his Troop in 2007.

Way to go Kyle! We are so very proud of you!