Vegas bound

The girls did it- they placed 2nd last night in the Jamz cheer competition! We are off to Vegas in January! :)

The girls did fabulous! Really, their best performance ever! I may be a bit biased (you think?) but seriously, I think their routine was original and fun.

Do you like my new banner? I am so excited that I know how to do this now. I followed a link from Pam's blog to another blog, (I think it was Clover Lane), that gave this tutorial on how to do this on Picasa (it's free to use). Now that I know how to do this, I will be able to change it all the time. This banner was just a test run! :)

It's been awhile since I posted and I have nothing really to say...kind of in a funk again. But I thought I would post this picture of Princess...this cat makes me laugh, she is the weirdest cat ever!

This is my new read. I came home yesterday afternoon after Tanner's depressing loss (football) and elimination from the playoffs and started reading this. I didn't know what it was about, but I thought I would lose myself in a new book. And boy did I. I am already 1/2 way through it and I only read for a couple of hours. It is a really good book. Too bad it isn't one of those funny, uplifting books (really what I was wanting to read). This book is really hitting home with me as what the character has, it what my grandmother had- scary.
Here is what one person said about the book (on Barnes & Noble)

For anyone whose life has been touched by Alzheimer's disease (as so many have been, and many more will be), or for anyone who is approaching the far side of middle age, this book is at the same time clarifying and terrifying. The author takes the perspective of the Alzheimer's patient herself, one which is frequently overlooked by more "scholarly" works on the topic, and changes the whole tone of her writing as well as the subjects portrayed, as the narrator progresses further into the grip of the disease. She brings out many seldom-contemplated factors such as quality of life, support groups and counseling for the patient as well as the caregivers, and provides a gripping, touching, and horrifying sense of how it must be to feel yourself slipping away. I highly recommend this book to anyone. I have already passed around my advance copy and plan to buy several copies for family members and friends when it is released. A must-read for caregivers, relatives, and persons in the early stages of Alzheimers, and a goldmine for book groups