I'm an official blog slackard!

I know, I know. I'm a worthless blogger right now!

I deleted my Facebook account so don't think I "defriended" you. Just don't have time for all the silliness on there.

I started back to school this week. I am so ready for December to be here! I'm so ready to graduate!!

Josh got married.

Josh's beautiful bride, Rachel. It's so funny. When I was pregs with Josh his name was going to be Rachel if he was a girl. Well it looks like I got my Rachel after all! LOL!

Emily will be 1 on August 31st. Can you believe that little stinker has been walking since she was 9 months old? She's just like her daddy. Josh walked at 9 months old too.

Isn't she perfect? I just love how she's colored like Eric- red headed and brown-eyed. Isn't that funny? She's our little strawberry. tee hee...

Ryan is coming home to graduate from Sullivan High.

Connor started first grade.

Eric and I have been together for 7 years as of August 16th.

Sorry so brief but I have an 8:00 a.m. class tomorrow!!

Tree

XOX

Back from Texas!

Gosh, I shoulda posted this a month ago. It has been sitting in my drafts since May 29!!

I can't believe my baby graduated Kindergarten this year. Here he is on the last day of Kindergarten with his bff, Michael.

We went to Texas for a really quick trip over the Memorial weekend.

I finally got to hold my baby for the first time.

Here is a photo of Emmy and her mama, Rachel.

Connor loves his baby niece

My sister's baby, Savahn, is finally getting some hair and man, is she ADORABLE or what in her little Mexican dress?! Tee hee!

As promised, here is a pic of my new piano. I've always loved music, as you can see of this photo of me with my little toy piano at age 2.

Here I am many, many, many years later. Lots of things have changed in my life but my love for music will always remain the same.





About the RAK, anyone who posts on this thread will get a small token of my appreciation of our friendship. I love making cards, so you will get a little card kit put together by me!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Did everyone have a wonderful Mother's Day??

I had such a great day! I actually won a prize at church for being the youngest Grandma!! LOL!!

After church we all went to lunch. I ended up crying so hard on and off all day because I missed Shirley so much. I also missed Ryan's Grandma, Ruth Ann, who passed away unexpectedly exactly a week after Shirley. So those two things together left me so sad amd with a splitting headache!! Has your head hurt so bad that you felt like throwing up? Well that was me yesterday. We went to see Star Trek yesterday evening (I know, I'm a nerd) and it was FANTASTIC!!!! You should go see it! Even as sick as I was, I still enjoyed the movie.

But on a brighter note, I want to share the most recent picture of Emmy and her mom Rachel. I've only got to see Emmy in pictures because she's in Texas and I'm stuck here in Misery, umm, I meant Missouri. I can't wait to hold her for the first time!

As I said, Eric bought me a piano for Mother's Day. He also got me another hummingbird feeder for our front porch as well as some hanging baskets of flowers. I don't know where the camera card is to my Nikon, so as soon as I find it, I promise some pics of it.

ALSO, Eric bought me a piece of furniture to use as a scrap desk in my scrap room, so this motivated me to clean up what the tornado left behind in there! Hee hee....

While doing so, I came across some stuff that would make GREAT RAK prizes!!

SO stay tuned for:

1. Picture of my new piano

2. RAKS!!!!!!

Tree

XOX

My WONDERFUL husband bought me...

a new (to me!) Yamaha studio piano today for Mother's Day!!! He knows how much music is a part of my being, so he got me the piano today and we pick it up next weekend. Here is the touching part. When his mom died, she left him a bit of money left over after paying for the funeral expenses from her life insurance. So what does Eric decide to do with the money that his mom left him? He buys a piano for ME! God love him. I really don't deserve him. He is so good to me. His mom would be so pleased to know that the money went to the purchase of a piano because she loved music so much as well. I will use this piano to teach her grandson how to play.


OMGosh! I can not believe that I've posted like 3 times within the last few days! I guess I am just now feeling whole again and able to share.

I have two more weeks to go of school. My last final is on May 15th. I will be receiving my Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri in December (fingers crossed!). I hope I can pass my classes in order to complete my degree. So far I'm making all As and Bs. I'm a worry wart. I have to worry though so I can make sure I do well on my exams, kwim?

Thanks for letting me share. I will be posting a pic of the piano real soon!!

Mmmmuuuaaaahh!!

Tree

New find

Ok, I don't have time to make a fancy looking link to this blog that I just found today, but I wanted to share it with you.

http://starlitstudio.typepad.com/

This artist blows me away! When I have more time, I'm gonna check her out some more.

Have an awesome day!

Meet the newest addition to the Tyree clan

Introducing.....

Daisy!

I've always wanted a little girl. Well now I have one! LOL! She's a 9 week old Maltese puppy. I wanted a lap dog so here she is!

:0)

NSD celebration over at AMLT!!

Here are the deets:

http://amillionlittlethings.typepad.com/amlt/

I can't wait to get my goodies!

Enjoy!
Tree

Sad sad

My mother-in-law, Shirley, lost her battle to breast cancer on March 20th. A week later, my ex-mother-in-law, Ruth Ann, died suddenly of a heart attack. My poor son has lost two grandmothers in one week.

Hopefully, I will be able to post more in the future.

Tree

Fun with photos

Here's some fun with photos, created by my sister. Ain't she a kook?? LOL!!





I made this one:



Be sure to leave me a comment if you posted any fun photos of yourself on your blog.
Have fun!

Facebook

I just love Facebook so much! My sister turned me on to it and I just recently reconnected with old friends from school. It's been such a hoot reminiscing about high school days. For example, here is a pic of me my senior year in my Cavalier outfit. Ha ha!




One of my high school girlfriends I talk to alot on Facebook is Linda, seen below. I'm so glad she snapped this photo of us at our reunion a few years ago. I just love this girl!!





I've been reminiscing alot lately as you can tell by last few posts. I guess it's that time of year to reflect and think about what's truly important in this life. Facebook has alot to do with it also. Thanks for letting me share.

T
XOX

Wow, how time flies.

Josh and Ryan, then (1996)




Josh and Ryan, now (2008)





My how time flies. Sad.

Hello

At the insistence of so many friends, I guess it's time to update my blog. Thank you so much for caring enough to keep in touch with me and for praying for us.

Eric and I are separated at the moment. Please pray for us to have the strength to get through this.

We got a cute little Calico kitty we haven't named yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? We also have a Jack Russell terrier, Odie. Odie sleeps under our bed. One night we couldn't find the kitten. We looked under the bed to find this:



I guess the kitty hasn't figured out yet that there is no milk coming out of there! LOL! Poor Odie. He seems to take it well, but he'll have enough of it and nip at her and tell her to stop it. Ha ha.

Most of y'all don't know this yet, but I officially work for Piggy Tales!! I worked CKC-Kansas City the first part of October. Here I am teaching one of my classes. I taught four classes in all. It was a great learning experience seeing that I had never taught at this level before. It was great that all four classes were packed. If everything works out ok, I'll be working for PT at CHA-Winter. Hopefully I won't be sick and will be able to get more pictures.

Here's me and Connor on our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch. It was a gloriously beautiful day. We always look forward to this little tradition.



Well, I haven't scrapped much so there's really nothing for me to show off.

I love you all and appreciate each and everyone's friendship and prayers!!

~Tree

Update

Hi Everyone!

At Detta, Joy and Cheryl's request, here is an update.


Eric and I have been going through hard times in our marriage. Please pray for us.

On to happier news...



Here are a few cards I made for Papercrafts Magazine Gallery Idol contest. I'm proud to say that I made the Gallery top 20!!













JULY:

Ryan came home for two weeks. For two weeks we had a plethora of smelly teenage boys in and out of the house. It was nice to have the house noisy again, even for just a little while.






Yes, I did go to CHA. Here is a pic of me and a good friend, the ultra talented Basic Grey girl, Kelly Goree. Isn't she just so dang cute!!









Here I am with two of my roomies, the ultra talented Margie and Becky Chabot.








Here I am working the Piggy Tales booth with owner, Debbie Juden. I love Piggy Tales so much. They really make me feel like I'm a family member and not just a designer!!

Ok, Detta, there's about 4 pictures of me smiling. Yes, I do have teeth. But I look horrible when I smile, so now you know why I don't. LOL!


AUGUST:



We were supposed to go to Cancun for a week, but dummy me thought you could still board an airplane overseas with just a driver's license and a birth certificate. Needless to say, we didn't have our passports so we had to reschedule our trip for a later date. So instead we went to Texas to visit with my mom for her yearly visit to the states. I was going anyway, but since we cancelled the Cancun trip, I was able to spend more time in Texas.


We took Connor to San Antonio so we could see Shamu the killer whale at Sea World.




We also visited the Alamo while in San Antonio.





It was also perfect timing for me to catch Ryan on his first day of school. I haven't missed taking his picture on the first day of school. I was worried I wouldn't get it this year since he lives in Texas now with his dad, but it worked out that I could be there. We also took Connor to Surfside beach. It's not the prettiest beach, but hey, it's a beach complete with waves, sand and sea shells!! So he was in heaven. I'll post some beach pics soon. For some reason, my camera card is giving me an error message when I try to download them to my computer.

Here is a picture of me with two of my bestest girlfriends, Gracie (middle) and Maria (right). We worked together at the environmental analytical lab for Dow Chemical company. We had such great times working together that we're now friends for life. Although we've all gone our separate ways, we're still close and keep in touch and get together when we can.






Here is a picture of me with my oldest, Joshua taken at El Toro- my favorite Mexican Restaurant in Clute, Texas.







Thanks for visiting, y'all!! I haven't forgotten about the RAK I promised way back when. In fact, I have several tubs of swaps that I've never used and probably never will use. I hope to get a list of them together to RAK. So check back. When I post the list, let me know which ones you want and I'll send them to ya.

Tree
XOX

Playing with filters

I thought it was time that I showed you a photo of my new do, so I took some snaps of myself and played around with some filters, downloaded free from Optiverve labs- thanks, Kara.

Attention Friends and Family!! This is not a dead blog!!

Hi everyone! I know y'all think that my blog is dead, but it really isn't! It is in dire need of resucitation, though.

Right now we're finally moved in to our new house, but since we're living out in the boonies in a new construction, we're having issues getting the internet hooked up at our place, so I happen to be at work today and thought I'd come over and say hi and give an update!

I don't have any new pics to upload, but even if I did, I wouldn't be able to share them here from work. I will really soon, hopefully. The phone company is working on getting service to our house. Another downer for me is that all my scrap stuff is packed in a million different boxes. I can't wait to get my space set up and organized so I can get to scrappin' again!!

I will be off work for the next two weeks because we shut the plant down for summer vacation every year at this time. So you won't be hearing from me until we either get the internet hooked up at home, finally, or I come back to work in 2 weeks- whichever comes first.

Have a safe and happy summer/july fourth weekend!!!

Love you all!

~tree

Another Piggy Tales project

Well, the house is just about ready. We're waiting on the plumber to tie the septic to the house. I guess the last thing to do is the toilets- a low priority for men since all they have to do is hang it off the porch! LOL!!!

So for father's day, I made Eric this little beauty:

I chose to take a Piggy Tale's slider and alter it to hang off DH's rear view mirror. I put a little saying on the front beside Connor's picture that says, "Daddy, please remember to drive safely". Then when you slide it open, it says, "My life depends on it"

I used a Crop-a-dile to punch holes and threaded the Pumpkin Eater ribbons through the holes.

It was really easy to do since the package of sliders comes with a transparent template- which makes for perfect placement of the sliders.

Hope you have something great planned for the man/men in your life!!

XOX

Piggy Tales- Oh yeah!

I have been down in the scrappy dumps lately. I'm so glad to have found my way back again. Does anyone else get this way?

When I saw these photos of my sweet friend, Morgan's beautiful baby boy, Ari- I just knew I had to scrap them using the new Piggy Tales Steadfast Tin Soldier line. Nothing like the sweetest face to get the ole mojo goin' again! Thanks, so much, Morgan for letting me "borrow" your precious boy!

It's Blog Hop Time again!

I can't believe a whole month has gone by already since the last Papertrey Ink blog hop! You can find out more details about the blog hop here.

Our challenge this month was to utilize score lines in a creative way as a decorative accent to any type of project. So, being the last minute scrapper that I am, I chose to use my Scor-Pal to make a matchbook gift card holder and also to frame the purple mat for the baby onesie. I didn't want to overembellish, so I just added little baby button brads to the onesie. I stamped the onesie using Bitty Baby Blessings Set. I will tuck a gift card inside the matchbook. Thanks for looking!!

WOOOHOOO!!!!!!! DAVID COOK!!!

You shoulda heard me and my mother-in-law screaming when they announced David Cook as the American Idol winner!!!

But the way that Simon judged last night, he gave all THREE rounds to David Archuelta, but I guess America doesn't always do what Simon says!! I said that I didn't care who won because I think they are both phenomenal with bright futures ahead of them. I'm especially proud of David Cook since he's a Missourian.

So, congrats to David Cook! Now I can get on with my life! LOL!!!

AMERICAN IDOL PREDICTION

I had to run in here and tell you who I predict to win tonight before the announcement is made.

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We'll see. It's 8:54 p.m.

The announcment is in 6 minutes!!!