boo hoo

I bought a friend for our frog, rodney, along with a new tank. So now we have rodney and henry and they are so cute! I put them both in the bigger tank and added some water so they could get used to their new environment.

I went downstairs by the fire and took out a huge box of old pictures my mom had at her house. I sorted through hundreds of them. It was so heart wrenching to see my mom in those pictures and all of us so happy...the good old days.

After a few hours, I went upstairs to check out the snow storm we're having...there's tons of snow out there....kind of cool considering the fact that I hate snow! I then go check on our frogs and neither of them were moving! I put my finger on the new one to see if it would do anything...but nothing....he was dead! I shook the tank a little so the other one could move since he was stuck in the corner...he didn't move either!!! All of a sudden I burst into tears, sobbing over these stupid frogs....I cried to Adam "even my frogs die!"...and poor Adam put his hand on my shoulder to confort me as tears streamed down my face. "Don't cry, Renee, we'll get new ones." And then suddenly there was movement! Both of them were really alive! Those bastards tricked me!!

Maybe my little breakdown wasn't over the frogs after all...

iphoto

I want an Apple just for iphoto! It's so much fun and I can't believe how much we laugh EVERY time we use it. I swear it never fails...just constant laughter for a very LONG time. I think it got old after an hour today. Here we are at my uncle Paul and aunt Lori's house.

It's me, Jennifer, and Farah...don't we look gorgeous?!

we had way uglier pics but Jennifer's computer froze and these were the only ones that loaded. Here's the real us...

and here are the "look alikes"...maybe not so much in this mirrored image

So today was a very unproductive day. I woke up at 12:30...yeah, I know..very lazy but I had nothing to do and no one was home. Then Marie and I did something we never do. We went to the bar for "lunch" at 3 and played those machine games right at the bar. Before we knew it, it was dark out and 5pm! I took her home and then went to my aunt's house for dinner....her infamous ribs...they were so damn good and we ate so much that it hurts to lay on my stomach! What a lazy fat ass I was today! But it's okay, I didn't have anything better to do!

today feel like the day after my mom's funeral. empty.

new addition

meet the new addition to the lige family...

This is Joan

and this is Rodney...I love this thing! He's SO cute!


They found a new home in my scrapbook room where today, I spent most of my day. It was so nice and warm in there (since the rest of our house is 60 degrees thanks to Adam!). And I started a new mini book called "the crew...aka the cousins". I love how it's turning out and it's not close to done. Here's a peak at what I was working on today...





I had a couple other pages done but I messed up on them with damn rub ons that will not come off! Can't wait to complete this book...it's gonna be funny.

By the way, I actually bought skinny jeans today! I never thought I'd give in to that 80's look but I bought a pair of awesome boots that would only look good with a pair of skinny jeans. So now I own a pair.

i am obsessed with the internet...

...and it keeps going down!!!! It's driving me crazy! I'm spend the morning and evening on the internet for a very long long time...I can't live without it! This on and off again internet crap needs to STOP!

But I'm on now and here's a new layout of my mom holding my hand. Oh God, how I loved holding her hands. My heart literally aches for those hands. I miss those hands. I need those hands. Just can't wait to hold those hands again one day!

surprise, surprise...

we had a surprise birthday for Farah on Saturday...and she was SO surprised!!! She really had no clue. Adam and I took her out to dinner while everyone else waited for her at my house. When we walked in, everyone was so silent!! I swear you could hear a pin drop, that's how quiet it was! It was so much fun and I think maybe 2 of the crew was sober by the end of the night...it was a riot! Here we are....

That's us "madonna" lovers jammin to her music...

And this is Jennifer's and my profile... EVERYONE is always telling us how much we look alike... and i think we resemble each other...in fact, when i glance at pics of jennifer sometimes, I have to make a double take. So how many of you think we look alike??? By the way, for those of you who don't know Jennifer, she's my cousin.

One more thing...Marie has a blog!!! Check it out...

HO HO HO!!

What a hit the christmas party was!!! It was beyond what I expected....just SO awesome! We had so many activities that the kids enjoyed....Everyone was so happy...the kids, parents, volunteers, and the staff at starfish family services.

Here's a peak at what went on at the party....

The kids got their faces painted. That was a huge hit...Marie and Foof were painting faces from 9:30 until 12! And the kids just got a kick out of it. Check out this kid when he looked in the mirror and saw his face....He was so happy!

They decorated mittens and trees...

This is Milton...one of my favorite kids...he's so damn cute!

They saw santa...one of the kids asked santa if he could make her mom have a baby...funny...

Of course, after Santa were the GIFTS!!! Check those babies out....The kids were almost overwhelmed by all the gifts...they were taking their sweet time in there so we had to rush them...

We didn't forget about the necessities either...each family got one of each of these...

After the gifts, we had a raffle for the parents. We raffled a dvd player with some dvds, 2 $50 gift cards to walmart, and 1 $100 gift card to walmart....the parents loved it!

And here are two of our favorite kids....all of us fell in love with Robert....what a character he is!! And check out that smile and those amazing eye lashes (i want them!)


This is Destiny....the most beautiful little girl! I want to eat that face!!!

And how cute is she?!! Her name is Sierra...what a doll!!

And this lady (Milton's mom) was so thankful! She gave one of the volunteers a hug and said that she loved us and that we have no idea how bad she needed all the things her family got....

I love throwing these parties and making a small difference in people's lives. It's hard for me to imagine the hardships some people go through, but it makes my heart swell with happiness to know that we did something to make them smile!