Ed Hardy........Just don't do it!

Ed Hardy is a clothing company that makes a wide range of expensive t-shirts, hoodies, and jeans. These clothes are notable for their use of elements from classic tattoo design such as skulls, hearts, and dragons. I know hate is a very STRONG word but I HATE these clothes. I mean take a look at these GOOBERS.....

They are really cool, don't ya think!!!! My husband has a name for these guys with the initials of D.B. Don't get me wrong I really do like the "slim fit" shirts that are in for guys right now but something about the Ed Hardy ones just make me ill. I always think they are about to head out to a UFC party or the nearest night club so they can do their "White Man's Overbite Dance" you know the one where they sway back and forth while holding a beer in one hand!!!!

So this is my public announcement for the day...... If you own any Ed Hardy clothing, burn it! Or WAIT  maybe you could hang on to it and instead of having a Tacky Christmas sweater party I will have a D.B Ed Hardy gear party!!!!

Oh and one last thing..... I realize they are now selling Ed Hardy merchandise for children, please don't do that to those innocent babies - IT'S JUST WRONG!!!!

P.S. I do understand that Ed Hardy was a legendary Tattoo Artist, but he never should have let Christian Audigier get the rights to produce apparel! He is also the same guy to bring us those lovely Von Dutch trucker hats......

need I say more???

Ed Hardy                                                           

                                                          

Christian Audigier

Kate Mcrae

Well my blog today isn't something that will make you burst out in laughter but is something that I hope you will read and begin praying with me for this sweet, sweet girl.

Isn't she beautiful, her name is Kate Mcrae and she is almost 6 years old (just like my Ella). This little angel is battling cancer. She has a brain tumor that was discovered in June of last year. She has already been through, brain surgery, chemo and is currently undergoing proton radiation. Her tumor is so rare that at this point once she finshes the radiation the doctors are unsure of what to do next if the radiation does not kill the tumor.

I stumbled across her website about 3 months ago and just feel attached to this little girl, maybe it's because she is the same age as Ella and I just can not even begin to think of my baby girl going through this.

I follow her blog daily praying for a miracle. I do know that our God is the Great Physician and with him all things are possible. I hope that you will join in with me and pray for Kate and her sweet family.

Here is Kate's Story:

This site is dedicated to our beautiful and courageous daughter Kate who is currently battling against brain cancer.

June 29, 2009 has forever changed our family. The day continues to bring a torrent of emotions as we recall it, and yet we pray that one day we will recall it knowing it changed us but did not defeat us. It was a Monday where I, Kate's mom, was going to take our 3 kids Olivia 7, Kate 5 1/2, and Will 4 to the water park. A day of celebrating summer. Plans changed quickly as I noticed that a slight tremor in Kate's right hand over the past three days had notably worsened.

We made an appointment to her Pediatrician. Early evening we were headed to Phoenix Children's Hospital for a stat CT of Kate's head. I patiently filled our Kate's kindergarten application as we waited to be released after the CT. We however would not be released. Rather 3 people came out to tell me that our little Kate had a large mass on her brain. Our world stopped.


You can never prepare fully for a moment where one sentence changes everything. We were emergently admitted to PICU and began the battle for Kate's life.


There are no words possible to describe how difficult this journey has been. Our hearts saddened to a point we didn't know existed. And yet, we are fully prepared to walk this and fight with Kate every step of the way.

We believe strongly in the power of prayer. We know none of this has caught our God off guard. And He is fully capable of healing our daughter.

Love,
Holly & Aaron Mcrae
                               http://www.prayforkate.com/

Once you go to the site you can click on blog, this will take you to her caring bridge page. You can read the current journal or you can click on journal and start from the beginning. You will see that this family has had so many ups and downs but through it all they have kept their faith and know that God is with them every step of the way!

 

Grab your babies, Hug them, Squeeze them and thank GOD for their health!

Don't sweat the small stuff!!!

GOD IS GOOD!

It's been a long time..........

Like that fine band Led Zeppelin once said, "It's been a long time since I rock and rolled!" except for me, "It's been a long time since I blogged at all!" But I am taking the steps to get back on track!!! A dear friend has "reminded" me often that I have not blogged and that I was letting my followers down. I am so sorry and I promise to TRY and do better!(TL)

Let me just say that my world has been super, super busy - THE WORKING MOTHER IS VERY OVER-RATED! With work, coaching softball, baseball, PTA, Room mom, Sassy & Sweet, Treasurer and all the other stuff that I do I stay pretty crazy. But you know I don't think I would have it any other way. I had someone tell me that I needed to quit trying to be a stay at home mom, but you know I want to be there and do all those things for my kids - I wish that things were different and I could stay at home but until that day I am going to keep on truckin' like I have been. Yes, I will probably be grey a lot sooner than some but I will be happy that I was so involved in my kids lives!


Until next time America............. Smith Out ---

Super Excited

 

My friend Amy Darsey and I are embarking on a new adventure!

Amy and I both LOVE being in the kitchen (minus doing the dishes) so we have decided to take what we love and try to make a business out of it. We are going to have lots of sweet treats to choose from, packaged super cute for great gift ideas!

Say a little prayer for us, I am so excited about this I can hardly contain myself!!! We are in the process of working all the kinks out and plan to have a Taste Party real soon!

Stay tuned everyone!!!!!

Still hurts after 8 years...........

Doesn't it seem like just yesterday that this horrific assault took place against our country. I don't know about you but I still tear up every time I see images like the above. It just breaks my heart to think of the innocent loss of lives. The picture  below is one that is just mind boggling.

I say to myself, "How bad were things inside to think that jumping would be a better option!" Or maybe he fell - either way HOW SAD!!! I pray that God came and swept him away before he began to fall and also that the family never saw this photo. Oh how AWFUL!

And so many times we get caught up in all that happened at the World Trade Center that we often forget about the other 2 attacks.

 Exactly one hour after the WTC North Tower was hit, Flight 77 crashes into The Pentagon.

All 58 passengers, four flight attendants, and both pilots on board, as well as 125 occupants of the Pentagon, died. Thanks to the quick thinking Military and civilians running up and down the corridors yelling for people to get out helped to save a lot of lives.

Lastly when United Flight 93  took off, it began a journey that would end not in San Francisco, as planned, or smashing into some Washington target, but in an aching glory. No one will ever know exactly what happened on that plane but the key to whatever took place on Flight 93 may be the 41 minutes it sat on the ground. It gave the passengers enough time to hear about the three other hijacked planes that smashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon that morning.

Below are pictures of the Hero's that confronted the planes hijackers:

Without these 5 courageous men- there would have been even more devastation and loss.

God Bless these men and the families they left behind!

I hope that you will take a moment today to pray for our country and for those families of lost loved ones. I pray that we will never forget September 11th and how it changed our country forever!

I leave you with a couple of images that make my heart smile - that remind me that those men and women were never alone in their last moments. God was right there with them, comforting them and taking them home!

This is a cross that was uncovered under all of the rubble and debris:

God Bless America!

The Crazy Night Man

Well last night we all hung out and watched TV in the family room, both kids were out pretty early. Parker was asleep by me on the sofa and Ella was piled on top of Keith in the recliner. Let me start off by saying when Parker is asleep he is out of this world into a whole other dimension! I mean it's like he has been given anesthesia - when you try and wake him up he talks about the craziest things and is just completely limp.

With that being said I know I am up for a challenge when tying to rouse him to go upstairs to get in his bed. The boy is 74lbs and I just can not carry him. I call his name a couple of times, give him a little nudge.....nothing! I then grab both of his arms and pull him up while saying, "Parker look at me, it's Mommy, I need you to get up and walk upstairs to your bed" He looks at me smiles and goes back to his comatose state. I try again, " Parker baby, Mommy can't carry you please get up" I pull him up to his feet his head bobbles around and I get him walking leading him by the hand. We make it over to the steps and I see that his eyes are closed, I tell him that he has to open his eyes and take a step. Well 15 steps later we finally make it to the top, at this point his eyes are open and I think he is good to go. I say to him, "Ok buddy go get in your bed, love you!" I go to my room to fold some towels on the bed and then walk to Ella's room to get her clothes ready for the morning and to make sure her bed is ready for her when Keith brings her up. Keith gets her into bed I give her a kiss on the forehead and tell her goodnight. I turn her light off and walk around to Park's room and look in the bed and he is not in there!!!!!!!!!!! I think to myself, "Oh dear, he must have laid in the floor." I walk around the bed and do not see him anywhere. I walk outside his room and say to Keith, "I can't find Parker" and out of the corner of my eye I see movement in the office!!! His head popped up- He had went into the office pulled the chair out and sat down and laid his head on the desk and went back to sleep!!!! When he lifted his head silver glitter was falling off because earlier that day I had made a sign for cheerleading. It was so funny!!! I am so glad that I went and checked on him or he might have had a crick in his neck this morning!

If only I would have taken a picture!!!!! Darn it - I couldn't quit laughing long enough to think about getting a picture! Oh well here is a picture of him anyway so you can get a visual of his cute little face!!!

Sounds like a Great Job, well maybe not!

I have always thought it would be so cool to be a Drug Rep. They all dress so cute, in their top notch business suites and their oh so cute heels and they all have the most perfect shiny hair- Have you ever noticed? They beebop in the doctors offices with the biggest smiles on their faces like life just couldn't get any better. Call the Doctors by their first names, bring the staff all kinds of treats- it just seems like the most perfect job.

Well I found the downside to the job.......while sitting in the waiting room of the Gastroenterologist (after flipping through every Chron's, Colitis & IBS magazine - apparently it is against the rules to have any normal magazines like Southern Living or Family Circle in there) The door opens and in comes this tall, dark & handsome man (don't forget dressed to kill) pulling his bag of "goodies" behind.
As he enters everyone looks up at him and he smiles and I swear his teeth sparkled, he then turns to the ladies in the front office- they all smile at him and they open the little sliding glass window to talk to him. He remembers that one of the ladies had been on vacation and that one had been out sick - just s super duper guy! Well then the bomb is about to drop....................... The office manager ask, "So are you dropping off more Nexium samples for us?" and he says, "Yes, but I also have a new product I would love to talk to Jay about." (You know he and the doc are on a first name basis). The other ladies in the office perk up to see what this might be...... The Office Manager then says "Oh, tell us about it!" and then that perfect mouth opens to reveal those perfect teeth and he replies back..................."I have a brand new Suppository that comes with an Easy ANAL GLIDER!"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Oh my dear, it was bad enough to hear the word Suppository come out of that mouth but then to hear ANAL Glider - I almost laughed out loud!!!! I looked around the waiting room to see if anyone else was listening but they were all knee deep in the current issue of Colitis Weekly.

So to sum this all up - there has got to be a down side to every job. I now know that I could not be a drug rep, at least not one that pushes suppositories with ANAL GLIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I leave you with a picture.......