My new love....

Yes I know I am a dork....but I have a new love.......my cookie dough scoop! Oh my goodness I love this little gadget. Oh how it makes me so happy to see perfect uniform cookies come out when using this little guy. I am not exactly sure why....but it just made me smile and I even think that they tasted just a little bit better. No, not really.....that was probably the overdose of vanilla. : ) This new found love made baking cookies even more fun and quicker I must confess. But I guess really in the end.....who doesn't love warm cookie straight out of the oven? Right?!

Happy Valentine's Day

This year is our first Valentine's Day as a married couple. You might think that we would be all romantic and do something super fun to celebrate this day of love. Nope....we are an old married couple now I guess. Heehee : ) A girl wants her dishes and that's just what I got! Derek got me new everyday dishes that are just perfect for entertaining as well. I love them!

It's official!

I just joined Stampin' Up! and will have my own little side business. How fun! I will get to be creative and earn some extra money on the side. Well.....we shall see just how much extra money I will earn. My plan on joining was to actually be able to buy the product at a discount. So basically I am what you may call a "Discount Demonstrator". I Like the idea of buying stamps for personal use at a discount and occasionally sells to friends and family. This whole idea got me started when I made our Christmas cards last year. I had so much fun doing it.....that I want to get into making cards through out the year. And I am also wanting to get into scrapbooking. I have always wanted to do that. You should have seen all the different stamps and inks that Kim had when we were over at her house making Christmas cards!!! I have never seen so many in my life and she had EVERY single color of stamp pad. Every single one! All Stampin' Up! of course. I was in such awe over it. You would of thought she sold this product.....but nope, just bought it for herself. Wow! I want to be just like Kim! So, fast forward a few months and here I am. A Stampin' Up! demonstrator on my way to building my very own collection of stamps and ink pads of every color you could imagine. Oh I am so excited I can hardly stand it.

Check me out. Here is my website:

http://www.kellienorton.stampinup.net

Phew! January is over. What a month. There has been so much going on at my work.....there has been no time....for anything. Hopefully things will start to turn around. I hope! It can only get better...right? Derek is still working nights most weeks. Which leaves us little time to spend together. On the weekends it is not much better. His sleep habits leave him exhausted by the time the weekend rolls around and he spends some time trying to catch up on sleep or just simply wanting to hang out in his pj pants and relax. It's been really hard to get him motivated to do much. I can't blame him though. There is no way that I could work his schedule! His schedule is really starting to interrupt my sleep as well. I was startled awake this morning around 4:30 am to find him underneath the house dragging out his weight set that he tucked away some time last year. It was the loudest sound right underneath our bedroom. At first I thought someone had gotten into the garage and was getting underneath the house. It scared me so I went out to the living room to get Derek and figured out it was him! He talked all weekend about getting back to lifting and working out. I guess he decided this morning was it! Eyi yi yi. I really hope he goes back to working days soon. I am not sure how much more of this I can take. We are thankful that he even has a job right not......but my goodness! Ugh.....