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Enough said! I still have two sickly kiddos and it was another long day!! Hope you are all well out in blog land!

That is how I am feeling right about now! Like I could squeal with delight at the fabulous amount of fun I found on Etsy this afternoon! I can hardly contain myself and feel this overwhelming need to call someone! But instead, I am blogging! I am not sure my whiny kids would allow me to have a phone conversation the way this day has gone! In fact, it will probably take me hours just to complete this post!!

So as you know, the kids are both sick – I have no new pictures of either of them. I have spent the last week and a half working diligently away on Hissyfits stuff {which by the way is coming along wonderfully!}. So while I have been keeping up with blogs the best I can, my time on the computer has been spent researching photo stuff and “working.” Not as much goofing off as usual! However, today I am goofing! It is cloudy and my mind is on candy!!

The past week my mind has been reeling with all things candy. I have in fact decided to have just one blog but am going to do that through Hissyfits. I don’t quite know how all that will happen just yet, but I’ll keep ya posted on where to find me!! Anyway, considering my love affair with my new logo, the blog is going to be AWESOME! Bright, funky, cheery, and totally candy-ish! So all of this candy chatter along with the fact that I have been planning this Candyland birthday bash of Gentry’s for over a year now has me in full swing!

Today I was browsing on Etsy and just typed in “Candy Party.” I have always typed in Candyland and although that is the direction I am going with the party, it is no secret that I like fun and original, not so much “matchy matchy.” So…fix yourself some lemonade, get comfy and take a gander at what I found!!

First of all…I came upon this amazing shop!! We have never had a pinata at any of the kids’ parties. I hadn’t really thought ahead about whether we would have one for Gentry this year or not. Probably not since there is going to be a large abundance of candy there anyway! But HOW CUTE are these pinatas?! Seriously, my mouth was gaping at how cool these are!! So unique and creative!

This one would be the one I would choose for her if we had one! Only in more colors!

I have also been thinking about what she will wear. Yes, I am weird and I plan REALLY far ahead, I know. Just bear with me!!

I am thinking a tutu…a bright, rainbow colored tutu! {I have another idea for that same tutu for advertising, but that is another story for another day!} Anyway, I came across this fun candy-wear while I was browsing too!

I LOVE this outfit. LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about it!! I found it here. It looks like the skirt isn’t available anymore though which makes my decision to go with the tutu much easier!

And this fun shirt! I am thinking I could make something like it…and if not, I am sure my mom could help me!! Pair a cute little lolly tank top or tee with a sassy tutu and you have the perfect party attire!!

So then come all the other candy finds!! There are some REALLY cool things out there and I am so inspired as I sit here now!!

These next three all came from the same shop!! It is FULL of sweet finds!!

What a fun party favor idea this is!!

Isn’t this the funnest stuff?!!

So check out this happy little button for 4 Little Men and Girly Twins Random Picture Challenge! Cute, hunh?! It just so happens that my great friend Laura designed it!! She does all sorts of custom stationary design so if you are needing something, go check her out!! You won’t be disappointed!

Alright, so the challenge this week is to post your 11th picture from your September 2007 folder. I am quite embarrassed to post these seeing as when I look at them today they are HORRIBLE, but hey, we all start somewhere!! They are what they are and no matter what, they are sweet memories!!

So here is picture number 11:

And I am posting the one directly after it so you can kinda get a sense of what exactly Huntler was doing:

That orange “thing” is the controller for the rocket and Huntler was adjusting it!!

Okay…so, you know I can’t post without mentioning The Bachelor. WHAT in the world happened last night?! I must admit I have NO patience whatsoever and pumped my “all knowing” friends for the scoop so I knew what the rumors were going in, but oh my goodness! I think it is safe to say that was seriously “THE most dramatic rose ceremony ever!” Those of you who watch regularly know that they use that line in every.single.episode!! Last night it was finally the real deal! Chris wouldn’t let me tell him what I knew so he was shocked! I guess I am shocked too and I have had a few days to think about it!!

I will be wasting yet another hour of my life tonight {after wasting three hours last night!!} glued to the second taping of After the Final Rose! I can’t decide where I stand on all this. There are so many ways to look at it! I mean, if once the taping of the show was over and “it” just wasn’t there with Melissa, then that is just the way it is. You can’t force yourself to love someone. I get that. I am so sad for Melissa because I REALLY like her and picked her back on the first night, but if he just can’t imagine his life with her, then I guess I can’t pick fault with him! BUT…the way in which he handled it was SO not cool! At all. It was crazy for sure!!

So, I guess I should get! I just wanted to post really quickly because I am not sure when I’ll get a chance again. I have two sick kiddos today…yesterday Gentry was sick and then Huntler woke up in the night with a horrible cough and fever. They are both coughing and carrying on this morning. I have this sneaking suspicion that today is going to be even more challenging than yesterday!!

I love this image. I really and truly do. It represents where I came from…and where I long to be. The golden summer wheat, the wind whipping through Gentry’s hair as she so intensely studies something new, the dark sky as a good ole fashioned thunderstorm moves across the Kansas prairie. I can almost smell the rain and feel the wind on my skin as I type…almost.

As I see my sweet girl examining wheat for the first time, a countless array of memories from my own childhood play like an old movie reel in my mind. I harbor so many memories from this very ground where she is standing. Wonderful memories that will travel with me throughout my life. Those hot, sticky, windy summer afternoons spent picking ladybugs off of the wheat during harvest. The cool, brisk fall mornings picking pine cones from underneath the old pine tree next to the shed. The Easter Egg hunts. The fireworks shows. The four wheeler rides with my grandpa to abandoned little creeks on dirt roads. The pairs of jeans lined up on the clothes line out front drying in the sun. I can see it so vividly as I sit here now. The old fashioned {and I am sure highly dangerous} popcorn popper that popped kernal after kernal of popcorn. The tiny little baby food jar filled with cinnamon and sugar which we sprinkled on our toast all those mornings we woke up after spending the night…

This is the home of my grandparents. When I think back to years gone by, I can honestly say that other than my own home, my most fond memories were created on this farm of theirs. I am a lucky one…at almost 29, I still have three of my four grandparents. While I was close to all of them, I have always been especially close to my mom’s parents, and more specifically my grandpa.

I look back at pictures and he was so young when I was born! I was the first grandchild on my mom’s side and was admittedly slightly spoiled! My grandpa is the only one who can get away with calling me “B-Beth” or “Bethy!” He is the only one I don’t mind yelling for so he can hear me!! {All those years of riding noisy farm equipment really did a number on his hearing! I talked to him this week though and he finally got fitted for hearing aids!!} I don’t really know why, but for some reason we have always been especially close. And although I have never considered myself a country girl, it is amazing how much I crave the simplicity of that lifestyle at times!

I took this back in June while we were home for my class reunion. When I posted it back then I received TONS of comments on it! I have spent some time today sifting back through images in an attempt to find some for my Hissyfits website and came across this one. The editing was atrocious, so I started all over and created something I love!

So, just for a little comparison, here is my first editing job from June or July…followed by the one I just did an hour or so ago!!

On that note, sweet Gentry girl is waking up from her nap so I need to get! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend out there in blog land!