Halloween Blog Hop!

I've been hopping all morning and here's a good one to share for the upcoming holiday!  Start out at Cricut Confessions to get hopping!

Have fun!

K Andrew Designs 650+ follower blog candy!

K Andrew is have an awesome blog candy giveaway!  Stop by her blog Kandrew Designs and see what she's all about!  Be sure to tell her that I sent you! 

Good luck!

Cricut Search made easy!

I want to thank everyone for their kind words and support.  Your words have been touching my heart and helping it to heal...very much appreciated.  I've been trying to get back into our daily routine and throwing myself back into activities that I normally participate in at the boy's school.  It has been helpful that this week is homecoming with a lot of activities and tasks to be completed! 

I have been wanting to make a post about Cricut Search for a couple of weeks now.  For those of you who have not checked out this awesome site, you must do so!  Stop by Cricut Search to check it out and add their blog button to your blog for easy access the next time you are wondering which cartridge has a pumpkin on it!  I was very impressed with how well organized and quick this site was.  I will never use my Gypsy to search for a specific shape or font again after trying Cricut Search !  I have to say that my favorite part about it is being able to type in a letter and having it pull up ALL of the fonts showing what that letter will cut like!  Type in an "M" and it will show you every font cartridge style of "M" out there!  Makes it very easy to pick that perfect font that you just might not be thinking of to finish off that LO or card!  Give it a try, I promise you won't be disappointed! 

Hope everyone has a beautiful fall day!

Not the news we were hoping for...

It is with a heavy heart that I come here to make this post.  Unfortunately, the blood test results yesterday confirmed what we were afraid had happened.  We did indeed lose the baby.  We kind of knew after what had happened on Friday night that is what had happened, but we were still holding out hope that everything was going to be okay.  I tell you...preparing yourself for the worse doesn't make it any easier when you hear it.  Jim and I are both true believers that everything happens for a reason and so logically we know that this was for the best.  Emotionally our hearts tell us something different. 

It was nice being able to get out of bed and the house yesterday.  I was able to go and be part of the homecoming float building event for my boys school which was a wonderful distraction.  I cannot wait to share pictures with all of you on what we are creating over there!  Once all the finishing touches are complete I will be sure to post pictures.  I want everyone to see all the work Jim put into cutting things with my Cricut.

I cannot express enough how much all of your comments, thoughts, prayers and pixie dust has meant to us. It really did give me extra strength to get through the day yesterday.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

The winner of the Pink ATG is.......

First of all I want to thank everyone that came to my blog and became a follower!  It was very exciting to watch my follower count and blog visit counter climb each and every day (even if it was only because I was offering you some yummy candy! lol)  I hope that some of you continue you to come back and visit even though all the excitement is now over.  I have plans for other blog candy in the future so you won't want to miss out!

Most importantly, I want to thank you for all of your support, thoughts and prayers with the pregnancy and the situation we've been going through.  I should know the fate of our unborn child within a few hours, even though I'm pretty certain I already know what the answer is going to be.  I read each and everyone of your comments and so many of them brought a smile to my face and gave me strength that was needed this past week. 

Now...without further ado the winner of the Pink ATG is comment number 168 who just happens to be....

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~ŠǿƒŧβŖñ™~ said...

Thanks for the opportunity to win!..

Congratulations Soft!  I will be in touch with you for your shipping information! 

Okay....This has been driving me batty!!!  I've been trying to figure out how copy and paste the Random Number Org thingy here and it keeps coming with only the result!  Then I tried importing directly to Blogger and it showed only the result!!  I finally copied and pasted it to my email, but this is the only way I can get it to show up without the box around it.  I would have just went and grabbed my camera from downstairs and posted a picture, but I'm not supposed to be climbing the stairs!  UGH!  Someone want to tell me the secret on how to post the image of the actual number picker thingy?!?!?  (Number picker thingy...technical term. lol)

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 244
Result: 168

Last chance Pink ATG Blog Candy!

Good morning faithful blog followers!  Today is the last day to post for a chance to win this Pink ATG!  click here to enter

On a side note...we are going back to the doctor's office today for our second blood test.  We should have results back tomorrow morning on the status of the pregnancy.  Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers...it is very much appreciated. 

Good luck to all who have entered my blog candy!  It will close tonight at 11:59 PM EST and I will have a winner picked tomorrow morning by random number generator. 

WOW! Thank you to Okie!!! ...and reason for being MIA

I just realized that not only did I reach 200 followers on my blog today, but I also just became #40 on the Cricut Top 40 list!!!!  Now...I'm sure that I won't be able to hold my #40 spot for long, but it sure was nice to see that, even if it's only for a moment in time!   I have to thank Okie for posting about my Pink ATG giveaway on her blog which has been driving people to my blog in droves!  I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your support Okie!!!

I'm sorry for the lack of creating and posting lately.  It's been kind of a roller coaster couple weeks around our household.  I found out almost 2 weeks ago that we are expecting our third child.  To say we were a little surprised by this would be an extreme understatement (I am turning 41 in November and have an almost 6 year old and 10 year old).  Once we accepted this we started to get a little excited and started to anticipate reliving all of those wonderful pregnancy and newborn moments!   Well...this past Monday I started bleeding and it's continued quite heavily this entire week.  The good news is that I haven't been experiencing any pain or cramping.  We've been to the doctor and have had blood taken and need to go back tomorrow morning for them to draw some more blood so that they can compare the hormone levels.  So...until Saturday morning all I have to do is lay in bed and try to relax.  For those of you who know me well.....relaxing does not come easy to me not normally a part of my vocabulary.  I am trying to stay positive, but I have to admit that I'm scared.  I know that whatever is meant to be will be, but I would appeciate any extra prayers and pixie dust that you might be willing to send our way.