Tangie's Blog

The day the earth stood still...

As I sit here I can hardly believe that time has passed through it's ever ticking motion. A year ago today I would have never believed it was possible for the hands of time to ever start again. Time is quite literally our mortal enemy yet has a way of bringing us such great peace. While lost in the seconds that didn't seem to tick forward, I had to hear the words that my dad was lost to me in this lifetime. There is part of you that knows that you will never recover, the world could not and can not ever be the same again. But part of you begs for the clock to start ticking ever faster because it brings the release and the healing your heart so desperately needs. I never thought a year could pass by, yet in all honesty and reality it speeds by so fast you can't believe the days ever happened. I miss him more than words can ever express but I'm so grateful for the knowledge I will see him again...and that just makes it bearable. So here's to you dad and all the memories that keep us going in your absence!

Fantabulousooo Weekend!

We had such a GREAT and WONDERFUL truly STELLAR weekend! For shizzle just read my sissy's blog for all the details she's already done all the hard work! ;) Loved your post sister! Today I got to catch up on some LO's for Christina Renee! (I was SO behind!!!) It was fun to be able to just relax and scrapbook a bit!

Journaling: We’ve waited so long for the rest of our family to come. But we’re so glad we got you first. You are perfect you are sweet, you are kind, you are our greatest joy in all the world. We love you our dear sweet one and only girl

This one is for an upcoming challenge at Christina Renee Designs which was to scrap in the opposite style you usually do! My opposite style is "white space" for sure! This was super hard for me!!! I'll post details about the challenge when it goes 'live'!

Credits for all my LO's go to Christina Renee Designs! You can check out my gallery {here}

Oh for the joy in little things.

This weekend I babysat for my sissy so her and her hubby could go to Disneyland for their 6th Anniversary! They had such a great time (which you can read all about on her blog!) The first day I went and picked up the kids at Cami's house (she was watching them until I could get in town) when we got home Little P grabbed me by the hand and started pulling me has hard as she could to the back bedroom (Molly and Tim's room). She THREW the door open and looked up at me with her huge brown eyes and said "Where's Baby?" while shrugging her little shoulders and holding her hands out in question. Then she ran over to the bassinet tipped it a bit so she could see in and said "baby?". She missed her little sshnooogly sister, it was the cutest thing ever.

We also made a trip to Target where everyone got a treat, because that is what Auntie Tangie's do! My mom got the movie Star Dust, Samantha got Tinker Bell Fairy Paper dolls Townsendy got a horse for his schleich collection and the little P...well... she got Princess jammies AND shoes because well... Molly isn't so big into character clothes :D! It made me smile and made Little P smile even bigger! She had to wear them ALL day and the shoes could NOT come off at nap time!

Later that evening we went to get frozen yogurt (Mmmm delish!) when we got back in the car, I looked over at my mom and said "This is going to be Molly when she gets home...."Do you mean to tell my child has been all over Salzburg in PRINCESS shoes?" And you're just gonna have to be a Sound Of Music Lover to get that joke *wink*. We busted up laughing and had a great rest of the weekend! Hope you did too!

Just Catching Up

There is really no way to fill in everything that has happened in the last week! It's been a whirlwind and gone by so fast. Thursday night we went to Mesa to help with my Mom's estate sale, she is moving out of her beautiful house. It started at 6:00 and by 7:05 every single piece of her furniture was gone, there was at one time about 40-50 people in her house running madly to pull tags off their favorite items. It was insane, yet such a blessing. My sisters worked SO HARD on getting it ready. Then at 9 we went out and worked on the garage stuff until midnight...then up and ready for the garage sale 6:30-1---then we worked on cleaning out everything in her kitchen and laundry room, then we had a fun rest that night and sat around and chatted. Then it was up at 6 am for garage sale 6-2 and cleaning up! Somewhere in there we even went and cleaned the church to get it ready for General Conference. Today we had breakfast with my cousin and his wife and son from Tucson plus our whole family! It was so delish--we had waffles in honor of the Pachie Guy! It is always so hard to say goodbye to Ali, Nolan and the girls...knowing it will be 6 months before we seem them again. But we all survived and we all feel so blessed, things could NOT have worked out better and even better than we expected. We got home safely and to be honest...I can't wait to plop in bed ....maybe I'll go to bed earlier than normal...is 8 way to early?

Here's some pages I've worked on and haven't posted. Night Night Everyone!

Credits can be seen {here}

credits can be seen {here}

Meet My New Friend....

My husband (and daughter) went all out this year and bought me a goldfish for Valentines' Day ;) They are so cute. I was out last night doing church stuff when I came home...HELLO NEW PET! They even picked out the perfect and yet oh so mushy cards. It was so great, made me feel all special *giggles*.  Then tonight Dave made me and Samantha a fabulously delish steak dinner and baked potatoes! He spoils me and believe me I know it!

Today I bought a new kit from Annie Manning (Paint the Moon) called Perfect Day! I absolutely love all her stuff. I did this LO adding a couple of my favorite new products from our shop too! Full credits can be seen here.

What a GREAT Weekend!

I had such a great weekend! It was so nice to see my family and spend time with them. Poor little Province was so sick, but she managed to be a trooper and have a great time. I got to spend some time with my sister and mom showing them some cool stuff for the store, and we were all swapping CS2 tips! Fun Times! We went outside and drove the 'cars' from Christmas...Townsend thought that was a hoot! We of course had a DELISH mexican feast made by my wonderful hubbie...homemade salsa, homemade chips, fajitas! Mmmmmm! Perfect weekend all around!!!

Molly even brought her brand new camera with her! She took some oh so sweet pictures of my girl and I did this LO! THANKS MOLLY!

full credits can be seen HERE

I also scrapped this page yesterday--what a fun relaxing Sunday!

full credits can be seen HERE

Pathetic I Tell You!

How has it been so long since I updated my blog!? Things have been BUSY, BUSY, BUSY around here. So much happening, I'm sure I should share it all, but its all still so close to the heart you know? We sold my dad's RE/MAX office this month (sigh of huge relief and at the same time slight pang of sadness in dreams that were lost with him). Dave had to "quit" his new model home sales that was supposed to the most amazing opportunity of a life time (don't get me started but we knew things weren't what they should be when the internet and phone got "shut off" for failure to pay...the people who owned the subdivision do NOT have it altogether!) But we're all healthy and happy so we'll survive this too, lessons learned...right? And after all it's only the knowledge from those lessons learned that go with us to the next life so bring it on!

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited my family is coming to visit us tomorrow! HOORAY! I miss them so much, and I'm so excited for them to come here...we love to share our home with people and it's a rare occasion someone comes up this far! YAY for family.

In store news....(of course I have to add store news in...it's the art stuff that fills my soul with joy!) Our second Mystery Case! And it's only $3.50!!!!!!

Check it out in the shop! You won't be sorry! 

The Word.

Last year our friend inspired us to pick a word to focus on for the year, instead of a long list of "New Year Goals". Last year my word was discover...and it was a great power word to focus on. This year I've finally chosen my word:

Enjoying the journey instead of focusing on the destination....journey to find more joy all around me in the world...journey to see only the good in my family...journey to find peace and time for meditation and reflection...journey to find more love for those who need it...journey to love who I am and who I can become...journey of the soul!

Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful New Year's Eve with just our little family last night. We made lot's munchies for dinner like we have over at Dave's dad's house on Christmas Eve for dinner--we drove our new cars (we got for Christmas) all over the house and kept crashing them under the couch--was too fun! Then we had "rest time" Dave and I watched some CSI and Samantha watched a movie in our room (that is a treat for her!) while we rested until 10. Then we had nummy ice cream sundaes and played a game we got for Christmas called "In a Pickle" (I highly recommend it, it was SUPER FUN!!). Then at about 3 minutes to midnight we turned the ol' tube on to watch the ball drop in New York--then ran outside with our crackers and noise makers! (A tradition in Mesa--no one seems to do it here, I'm sure we woke a few people up--too bad for them!) It was a fabulous evening!

My favorite Picture of the evening! :)

Samantha surprised us by making cute table settings and menus for each of us! Dave and I also tried (and conquered I might add) to make spinach artichoke dip like they have at El Paso BBQ Company (one of my favorite restaurants)! OH MY was it delicious--not to mention Dave made his famous homemade tortilla chips to go with it! Mmmmmmm!!!!

 

I also realize it's a bit late and somewhat anti-climatic but here are some of my Christmas decor pictures :) I've still got to blog about Christmas but thought I'd post these anyway!

How to Catch Up!?

Well for starters I must find my camera! I got home Thursday night and didn't get the car unloaded until really late! Yesterday I woke up went straight to work...came home and wasn't in the mood to clean (yet!) but now I am ready to go!!!! I can't wait to get the house scrubbed down from ceiling to floor, tis the time of year to get every nook and cranny and make trips to the local DI or Good Will (we have neither here, but I'm sure there is some sort of place that can use donations). I love putting away Christmas presents after getting rid of old stuff first! I can't just "go put them away"--it's a wierd little habit I have I suppose.

  In other fun happenings I found this website...it's called Design*Sponge! Have you ever heard of it? Oh it's so FANTASTIC! As if I needed one more blog to read?

Also I have a confession, I'm an addict. This is why I NEVER turn the TV on. But a few weeks ago I was so tired from working, working, working I actually went and sat down and watched TV. Yes me! And what to my wondering eyes should be on but a 5 hour CSI: Miami marathon and oh boy was I hooked! After that I started recording them on my DVR so I could fast forward the commercials and the "intense parts" (I can't handle some of it! ewww!). So guess what I got for Christmas? LOL 3 seaons on DVD! My hubby is cute and funny, so we've been watching an episode or two every night the last two nights! It's been fun!

More Christmas News coming as soon as I unearth the camera in all my luggage!