Grammar Lesson

1. Rule 1- always capitalize the first word "of a sentence."

Okay-former teacher-I learned that you need to completely explain things to 1st graders- I was helping little man with his spelling words-we kept going over that you only capitalize a word if it is at the beginning of a sentence or someones name etc. So he had his words down and if they get all the word correct and the sentences on Wed. they don't have to take the test on Fri-well...Wed came and went, and I said to his teacher, "how did he do on his spelling test." Great she said-but he capitalized the o in of? Well I went my way and in the car on the way home, I asked how was your spelling test? He said great mom! I said you spelled all of the words right and your sentence was perfect, but I said you only made one little mistake. He said, well what was it? I said, you capitalized the O in of-
He said, yeah-it was the first word of the test and you told me to always capitalize the first word!!!!! oh my-I feel bad-he listened and too well-bless his little heart!

My girl is having a daughter daddy weekend this weekend and she is planning a big slumber party with her dad-we are really going to miss them, but are looking forward to camp! I hope you all have a great weekend-
Sarah-this one is for you honey-so that you would have something to read today!!!

Busy as a BEE!

Busy as a Bee-
It has been soooo crazy-finishing up stuff for camp which is this weekend! I am so excited we have 40 campers and 25 counselors-It is called "Camp Limberlimbs," a camp for kids with Juvenille Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, and other auto-immune disorders-It is so much fun-I have become the director somehow??? We are all going to a Griz game on Saturday-which should be a ton of fun for the kids. I will post pictures on Sunday. I have been finishing up my kits, and doing spelling test reviews (wow, I cannot believe my little man is old enough for that.) My husband asked each one of them on the way into dinner, what the best part of their day was, little man said, "my spelling test." Lil love said, "show and share." She was able to bring her stuffed dog, because I wouldn't let her bring Griz to school. She did put Griz's leash and collar on him though-
This felt has been looking at me for months, so due to the fact I have not done anything but kits and camp stuff-I wanted to sew this lil bag tonight-It is creative cafe felt and is a cute bag for a little love! I wonder how long until mine spots this one.
I promise I will get better next week at posting again-just too many things going on-
and I don't think my walking partner Stacie is going to let me out of our nightly walks/runs to blog-I will sneak in after though! Hope you are all doing well!

don't ask...

Where have I been???? Don't ask???
Too many things going on right now-starting preschool tomorrow-second week of school for lil man-a weekend at the cabin-getting ready for camp make a dream, preparing 20 kits to get in the mail, sewing-and I really need to get to bed-I am sorry and I will be better at posting soon-I am sorry!

Griz Attack!!!

Alright I will get to our Pozega Lake trip in a minute but first. . .
This afternoon we were cleaning around our cabin-Ike went out back to work on the wood pile. I just sent Little man out to help him-he came running back in and said, "quick mom get dad's pistol, there is a bear and he is after Griz (our 6 pound yorkie) so I panicked like usual and scrambled and could not find the pistol-Ike put away in a safe spot (of course) so Little man, calm and collected, said grab dad's bow it is right there!! So we got the bow and ran out! Ike came running back and said-you are not going to believe what had happened-when he was working he heard Griz bark and he looked over and saw Griz facing a bear-so Ike turned to go get something and looked back the the bear was running-across the road-he thought after Griz, but Griz was CHASING THE BEAR- so then he chased after him screaming for him to come back-Griz treed the bear and then left when he couldn't get the bear down!!!!!!-Little man said well I guess we won't have to worry about bears with Griz around-!!!!!!

Okay back to Pozega Lake-first of all I spelled it wrong-thanks to Papa our tour guide and Pozega Lake expert the spelling is correct-love ya Papa!!! The trip was a blast despite the 25 lb pack on my back - and I am not in shape to ride into a mountain lake on a motorbike-the kids were both troopers-they loved finding huckleberries, the ride, fishing, and seeing Papa's cabin where he and his 6 brothers and sister all stayed every summer! They took care of the cabin at Pozega Lake and worked there every summer to earn money-their dad would go out every couple of weeks to buy groceries- I am amazed they all made it throught those summers-but he said they were great times and the memories and stories they had are great. I sat on their toliet and broke it-we barley got a picture before the seat snapped! Our 6 hour venture was a fun one and one that our children will soon not forget-make sure you spend time and learn what your family history was all about, it is worth it!!! Have a great week!

Bloggers Fault

I haven't taken a hiatus on purpose-it is simply due to the fault of blogger-I have tried to post for a couple days and it wouldn't let me upload photos-so I am sorry-
Okay Monday I could not get out of bed-due to this little act of water skiing that I did on Sunday-All went really well-I haven't been water skiing for 20 plus years, and so I can't say that I stayed up for very long-but I went two times this weekend and had a blast. Then came Monday morning, when little man said, Geez mom what is wrong with you-okay I am still sore and it is Wednesday night!!! Better keep running so that I can get into better shape. The other acts are our olympics that we had on the boat-our little loves entertained Ike and I will these stunts off the rope! We had a fun weekend and are heading to Pazigga Lake this weekend! Can't wait
The Dates to Remember Class was really fun-forgot my camera-sorry girls-we had a great time. I am going to be selling the Dates to Remember Kits and I will have 2 left over-so if anyone wants one let me know!
I hope you are having a great week!

Fun Times at CKU

Finally, I am posting pictures from CKU- I am sorry it has taken so long! I was such a great trip. We had fun meeting new people, learning new techniques, laughing a lot, shopping and the list goes on. If any of you out there are wondering if you would enjoy a CKU I would say YES- go for it. I heard they are going to have another one in Provo Utah in August next year!
Later I will post a couple of the projects that we did! I had a lot of fun meeting great scapbookers and meeting people from all over the world!!
We have had so much fun watching the olympics - our kids love it. My little man was watching gymnastics yesterday and his comment was, "Whoa, that girl is WAY Skinner than Mom! I just had to laugh! My lil love likes to say Bejing, over and over again-her favorite part was the opening ceremonies! I love the olympics!
Another tooth out at our house tonight-lil man is only six and I seriously think Ike is going to need to make him a partial so that he has some teeth to eat with. I think he has lost 7 teeth now! It took 2 hours to get this one out and a lot of technique. Lil man is getting smart-he won't let his dad touch them. Finally Ike told him that he had to get it out because if he didn't he would swallow it in his sleep. I have pictures of the little dangling beauty and I will post them later! I hope you are all having a great week. I need to seriously get some beauty sleep! I am sorry if there are any typos! I am tired!

Back from CKU

Sorry-it seems like forever since I have posted-because I have been gone. If you are visiting my site for the first time welcome. If you are visiting because you want an apron that you saw at CKU/Provo I will be adding a paypal account soon to this site-you can also e-mail me what color you would like, and I can begin working on it for you-my e-mail is carrieheaphy@q.com- the cost is going to be $35 and $5 for shipping so $40 total-if you want it sooner than later like some of you mentioned you can mail me a check-and I will ship it or you can wait till I get pay pal set up-we are off to the pool today and tonite I will post some pictures of CKU-I had a great-great time and am excited to share some of the excitement with you! Have a great day1

Sunset at the Lake

Oh how I don't want summer to end-we had so much fun on the lake this weekend. I love the sunset! I actually got in the water-but no water-skiing, it was toooo cold.
The kids had so much fun swimming-I swear they don't care about the temp-neither does my husband-he wake boarded!
Tues is the big day to leave to CKU-we are so excited to go-not really excited to drive that far-but it'll be a fun road trip for Amber and I-I will post a lot of pictures when I return.
Happy Anniversary to my mother and father in law on Saturday-41 years! Wow-Happy Anniversary you guys!
I cannot believe that school is only a month away! We went shopping for back packs tonight! And we had to go to Cold Stone while we were out on Reserve Street! I hope you all have a great week!

You know you are out of shape when. . .

Alright it has been day three to my "Back to Running" routine. And I know that I am out of shape, because little griz dog can run faster than me. He is only 8 inches off the ground and weighs 6 lbs. Okay I seriously have a lot of work to do- but three days and I am still doing it-I don't go very far-just enough to get my heart working. Tonight the kids and Taylor ran with me, along with Griz, and it was nice to have company.
This other picture is one of Stephanie's new doodles-we really need to get her up to Montana to teach a class! She is amazing. I have just been working on a few things for CKU next week. Cannot wait to go-Amber and I leave on Tues and we are driving to Provo-
Off to the cabin for the weekend-we are all ready to go-tomorrow night we are going to have a hot dog roast and make s'mores! See you Sunday!

Summer Fun

It seems like forever since I posted on my blog and that is why I have random pictures and a lot to say.
Great weekend. We went swimming with Molly and the kids on Friday and they had so much fun! Then we headed to Anaconda to have dinner with Nana and Papa. On Saturday my dad took the kids to Evil Kenevil Days in Butte and Fishing at the potholes on Sunday. So when Ike returned on Sunday we finally got to take a bike ride-(this is our picture without helmets) it is the rule that helmets are worn-so if you ever see my husband without one he is in big trouble!!!!! He loves the bike and has had a lot of fun with it-It sure beats filling up the Chevy Silverado with gas let me tell ya-It cost him $14.85 to ride to work all last week.
My lil love and I hung out all day today-while our little man was at football camp. My self and two neighbors all locked ourselves out of our houses today (what a coinicendience??) So my little love was climbing through the screen windows to let everyone in, I can't believe three of us were locked out in the same day. She had a lot of fun doing it.
The picture of my little man is with Griz, and I found them like this one night last week. I don't know how griz made it under the covers of if lil man put him there.
The two garden photos are of my mother in laws gardens-they are so beautiful!!!
She and my father in law really work a ton in their yard and it shows.
My next class "Dates to Remember," will be August 19th at the Hideaway-call to sign up, I am taking 8 people-pictures will be posted next week.
Also other great scrapbooking news, Lisa Bearnson and Stacy Julian will be coming to Missoula in October to do a fundraising benefit crop for Tracy and her family. We are so lucky to have both of them come. The Scrapbook Hideaway will be posting dates, times and classes soon.
This weekend we are heading up to the Lake-can't wait, haven't been there for a couple of weeks, and really miss being up there. Maybe I will even waterski!!!
Hope you are having a good week!

Ten Years Today

Today Ten Years Ago today I married my sweetie in Butte Montana. I have to say besides the birth of my children it was one of the happiest days of my life. Ten years, 2 children, 2 dogs, moves, school, buying a practice, oh the list could go on, and here we are. I love it where we are, couldn't ask for a better life and am so blessed to have what I have. It has been a great ten years and I can't wait to see what the next 60 bring. When we first got married and lived in Milwaukee we said that we were going to buy a Harley on our 10th Wedding Anniversary, welllllll, nothing was said for a long time and let's just say I will post pictures later.
Now on to less "deep thinking issues," here is a new school project-something fun and simple for school, coming up in a month.
My day started off rather rough. I usually wake up at about 6-6:15-I see patients starting at 8:00. Well at 7:15 I awoke to Griz puking on my bed, didn't know whether to clean up the puke, wake the kids, or run to the shower. I did clean up the puke, then woke up the kids, and then took a 36 second shower-
Everyone made it out the door in 17 minutes-wow!
Have a great weekend!

Vacation Book Class

I had a great time teaching at the Scrapbook Hideway last night. Even though I put those poor girls through a whole album-they all completed an entire 5 x 7 album in one night! Good job! They all did a great job and their vacaction books turned out great!
The next class I am going to teach is the "Dates to Remember Book," I will have to ask Gina about a date-I think there will be the book and 5 cards to go along with it!
You can watch the Scrapbook Hideaway website for class details.
Tonight we ventured to Costco and the Grocery Store-and now I
am pooped!
I hope you are all having a great week. The kids and I are going swimming on Friday with Molly and the kids and maybe we will catch a movie on Saturday!

Home from Vegas. . .

What a great trip to Vegas we had-We saw two great shows-O and Blue Man Group-both were great! We ate at a lot of awesome restaurants-If you get to Vegas you need to go to the Burger Bar-They have the best hamburgers around. We shopped and swam and just had a great time together! We loved watching the people-I guess it must say it somewhere that you are allowed to wear what ever you want in Vegas-because let me tell you that everything goes-We had an awesome time-but I think we are both happy to be home. Two weekends in a row traveling is a lot for people that usually don't go much further than Georgetown Lake. We also visited the Harley Store in Vegas-very cool and for those of you wondering I have no idea who the man in the O picture sign is-I was just taking a photo and he happened to be there-I must get to laundry and kissing my kids again goodnight-(they have been sleeping for awhile-but I love seeing them sleep-especially when I have been away for awhile) Oh yeah big thanks to Nana and Papa who took care of the fort! When they picked us up at the airport today they looked like they were ready to be relieved of their duty! Thanks so much the kids had a great time with you!!

Our Rental Car

Recently for an undisclosed reason Ike's truck has been in the shop (and no it wasn't me for once!!) One of our assistants accidentally hit the dumpster at the office after running an errand-any how long story short the truck is in the shop and our rental car is known as "ol blue." It is Amber and Jared's and we thank them so much for allowing us to borrow it while Ike's truck is getting it fixed-
Jared tells Ike it is quite the chick magnet and I better watch out-
I drove ol blue coming home from the office tonight, and she likes to go 55- that's where the little orange spot is on her speedometer-and that's where she should stay-
Her only down fall is lack of cup holders and we are going to work on that one!
Thanks for the ride and she has been a perfect rental vehicle for us while Ike's truck is getting fixed.

Seattle

Our meeting was great- took a lot of great dental classes and it was really fun for our entire staff to be together!! Despite our assistant Michelle nearly knocking her front teeth out in the Spokane airport- it was a great trip-
The second night we were there we ate at the Cheesecake Factory and the third night we ate at Ivers on the waterfront-hence my new flossing invention (Sarah I know you will appreciate this one) Have you ever seen those little floss handles? I made my very own with my crab claw- It is now known as the Seattle Floss Handle!!!!
We got to shop and just hang out and have fun after our classes!
Also posted are a couple new cards!
Big week this week with Griz Basketball Camp and our trip to Vegas!!!
I hope you all have a great week!

You know your car is dirty when.....

We are taking our car part way-to Spokane for our Dental Conference and so I thought the staff wouldn't appreciate the wrappers, dirt, chicken nuggets, and other little special things my children leave underneath their carseats so I had it detailed. My husband picked it up after work and brought it home. When he brought it home he opened all the doors and my little love was looking inside-she ran in and said, "Mommy, Daddy bought you a new car!!!"
I guess I need to clean it more often!
Have a great weekend and I will post pictures when I return.

Vegas here we come....

Okay I have been seriously bummed out-It just so happened that Ike scheduled a dental course in Phoenix over a year ago and come to find out it landed on our anniversary-Not just an ol Anniversary-our 10th-so I was a little sad until today!!
It started at dinner when he told me that he needed to use my scrapbook room for awhile. He was down there for about 40 minutes when he came up with a gift certificate to my favorite clothing store and a card-(a homemade one by him) First he went into the details about all my little gadgets and how he liked the chalk (maybe our next Tim Holtz?????) He used stencils for the card-Heidi Swapp Hearts and inside this little message:
Here is to 10 wonderful years!!! The 10 best years of my life. Here is a little something to pick our an outfit for our big trip!

Who: Ike and Carrie (married for 10 years)
What: A fabulous trip for two
When: Leave on Thurs the 17th and return on Sunday the 20th
Where: Las Vegas; three nights at Mandalay Bay

PS: All dinners and shows are included
I Love you very much! Hope we have a great time!
Love You
Ike

Okay.....I am impressed-scheduled Nana and Papa to come, booked everything; including a nice dinner, two shows, I am SOOOOOOOO excited I can hardly stand it.

Alright-now that I am floating, I think I am going to go fold laundry!