Uhhhh my car told me to call you.......

Yup, that's what happened! I was driving down the road when my navigation errored out along with all the lights on my dash that had to do with brakes. Bells were binging and when I hit the navigation error it told me to call my dealership. So I called them up and told them that my car told me to call you. They got a kick out of that. I took my car in on Friday and she has to spend the weekend there. They did give me a nice little F-250 crew cab to drive, it's very nice and roomy and I'm now wanting one. It's funny because it's the car that Toby had wanted to get me instead of the Explorer.

Also, I didn't realize how dependant I have become on my navigation until I drove a vehicle with out it! Our dealership is in Blair, Nebraska, which is a little town outside of Omaha. From our house we take little back road highways to get there and usually I just plug in the address and go but on the way home I was a bit nervous not sure if I was going the right way or not. I DID go the right way but I sure do miss the lady that tells me to turn right in two tenths of a mile LOL.

Donate for a cure!

My very good friend Holly is doing the 3-Day walk in Arizona and needs our support. She is trying to reach her goal of 2500. If you can donate anything it would be appriciated, a link to donate is on the bottom of the email message. Here is a copy of her pledge email:

I wanted to follow up on the email I sent you earlier about my participation in the Breast Cancer 3-Day. I've been spending the past few weeks preparing for the event and have made steady progress. So far I've raised over $300 - only $1900 to go!

My training is also going well. I've walked 30 miles in the last 3 weeks. I can hardly wait to hit the route with the thousands of other women and men who are joining together for this common cause.

I have no doubt I will meet my fundraising and training goals. I've had several generous contributions to start a raffle as well. More details to follow later. The raffle winners will be chosen on Nov 5th, so please make your donations asap!

Please follow the link below to visit my personal and fundraising webpage to make your donation today. Remember you can split your contribution up over the next 7 weeks if you like.

If you can skip one Cafe Latte (appx $4.50 value) a day you'd be able to donate over $150 and probably never notice the difference. I have until the middle of Dec to meet my $2200 goal and am so thankful for every donation since we all know every penny helps!!

So, please feel free to forward this email to your family and friends that you feel would like to participate in this journey as well.

As always, thank you for your support and prayers.

Prayerfully His,
Holly Valenzuela

Click here to visit my personal page.
If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address:


http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/Walk/ArizonaEvent?px=1839692&pg=personal&fr_id=1180&et=SRPiz_7paH-b8XCJJraEPg..&s_tafId=5770

Click here to view the team page for Sisters Helping Sisters
If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address:
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/Walk/ArizonaEvent?team_id=38351&pg=team&fr_id=1180&et=d9EmANsCrelRwVr_p2OxbQ..&s_tafId=5770

For more information about the Breast Cancer 3-Day, Susan G. Komen for the Cure or the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund, visit

http://www.the3day.org/ or call 800.996.3DAY.

Wordless Wednesday - Afrotastic!

In remembering Breast Cancer Awareness Month.........

Better video.

Here is a better video of her sitting. I took it this morning but just now found the time to upload it.

Look at what Kira can do!

Here she is sitting unassisted. It looks really dark on here so I will have to get a better one tomorrow.

I just had to include this video of her cracking up at Jake tonight too.

Livid!!!!

Yep that's me, at least i'm sure that's what haley is thinking about now LOL.

I don't know how your views on Myspace and Facebook are with your teens but with me and mine it is a for sure NO. Haley and I have had the Myspace talk many, many times. She tried the old 'my friends all have them' nope don't care. There are many reasons why I don't want her to have one but lets start w/the obvious one of she's a kids who doesn't think and always believes things that people say. So imagine my shock when I turn on her computer and up pops Facebook as her set homepage with her email in the sign in box. Oh hell no! I asked her if she had an account and she at least said she did and didn't lie first, so I did what any parent would and asked her for her password LOL. She of course LIED about it and after 4 tries/lies I simply did a password reset and since I know her email because I do monitor that-not as closely as I should if she was able to set up a Facebook w/o me catching the email ::HMF::. I see 20 some odd borderline provocative pictures, her first and last name, full address, home and cell phone number, and her school. Now it doesn't take a genius to figure out that that is completely unsafe for the average person let alone a teen. She not only put herself in danger but all of her younger siblings as well. Our house is a predators dream as far as pretty little girls go and here she is spreading our info-along w/pics of her little siblings I might add-on a social networking site. Then I find out that she at least had the account since June but try as I might I can't find where the 'member since' info is on the account. If any of you know where this is located and can point me to it I'd appreciate it. In any case she lost her cell phone, computer, email, digital camera and after her dad sees the Facebook it will be deleted. In the meantime I changed the password and email addy on it so she can't reset the pw. I was looking at some of the girls she has on there and am dumbfounded as to why they would want to place pictures of themselves like that on this site. Just stamp "whore" on your forehead and forgo the internet completely LOL.

Wordless Wednesday - Wii Rock!!

Wordless Wednesday

Jacob's Catwalk

Happy 15th Birthday Haley!

LOL the ice cream cake icing bled

Ugh! I feel so old. I can not believe that I am the mom of a child that can legally drive where we are-she isn't driving, but she *could. She is really putting the pressure on to get that license but I need to talk to our insurance agent and the DMV to see what all we need to do.

Wordless Wednesday

"I guess mom didn't read the shirt!"

Her 3 favorite things, blanket, swing and thumb.
Kali's new 'do.