Artistic

Ok, so I got this link to a page where you can draw and paint with your mouse using different tools. I saw a lot of different pictures that other people had drawn so I decided to give it a shot. Mine looks more like something a 5 year old would finger paint in art class, but I had fun anyways! Let me know if you can figure out what it is.

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?kc27st1i3ch4

Since it's the Christmas season I thought I would share with you some of my fav things to look at. Christmas lights are always nice, but I think it's just a little more special when people take the time to put on a big show just because they are in the spirit! here are some of my favorite videos that I have come across this year. John and I always look for new ones on the web, so if you happen across one feel free to send me the link!

I cant help but be reminded of August 2005.

In August of 2005 my grandfather passed away. It wasa devastating to me because I had lived with him for my entire life. HE was not only my grandpa, but one of my best friends. It may be weird for a girl of my age, 19 at the time, to call her grandpa her best friend, but I told him things that I couldnt tell my friends or my parents. I used to drive around with him and we would experence road rage together while he uttered the familiar fraise "ram in to the jerk" when some one cut me off. He always had Pepsi and butterscotch candies with him. And I still have a hole in my heart from the day I got the news that he had passes away.

Now today I find my self in that same situation with another man I have come to call
Grandpa. While he will never replace my grandpa, he was a different kind of grandpa. Everytime I talked to him I felt on the verg of finding out something completely life changing, like the meaning of life. But I was never fully able to grasp the message that he was trying to get to me. He was Sam Howard, Johns grandfather. He passed away just over four hours ago and it hurts no less now then the moment I found out that it happend. We wil be going down south on thursday to go to his memorial service. There is so much that I wish I had had time to tell him but didnt get a chance to. I wish I could have sat in the office with him one last time and just talked about buisness and chocolate. We both had a verry bad sweet tooth. He always made sure there were chocolate cookies and Hershey Kisses waiting for when we came to visit. He paid for John and I to move to Fresno so we could get back on our feet. He gave john the opertunity to learn the family buisness, but most importantly, he gave us unconditional love. Im just glad that he lived long enough to see his first great grand son be born. His oldest granddaughter gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Dylan Patrick Steece on October 8th of this year. He was a wonderful man, and I know he was beyond proud of his children and grandchildren. His jokes were great and sometimes dirty. He didnt have to rais his voice to be heard because he new that people will shut up and listen when someone has something of importance to say. He served our contry in WWII and Korea and he served his family as the greatest husbend, father, and grandfather there ever was. I will truely will miss him, and allthough I just talked to him last tuesday, just to make sure that he had voted, I wished I would have called him yesterday just so I could say good bye.

Rest In Peace Grandpa. I love you.

Tag

I got Tagged on myspace, so here we go


Here are 6 quirky things about me:

1)When I find something I really like to eat, Thats the only thing I will eat! Right now Im on a corn bread kick. It drives John nuts. No matter what we get at the store I'll only eat the one thing. He is adapting though. Every time he goes shopping now he orders two corn breads for my at the bakery!

2) I am slightly obsessive compulsive.I have to have all the soda cans and drink bottles facing forward, and all the food containers have to be lined up from biggest to smallest. It really, REALLY bugs me if they aren't!

3) I refuse to do my hair or makeup to go to work. I know that I need to make a good impression since I work with the public, but I can not justify spending an hour and a half getting ready just to go to work and be covered in concrete and sometimes manure... ick..

4) I hate email. I actually like sitting down and writing a regular letter. I just don't do It because I never get a letter back. Lol, everyone sends me emails saying how silly I am for sending them a letter. I'm a little old fashioned

5) I love to read! I will spend days reading my favorite book to the exclusion of everything else!

6) I always have to have a pillow with me in the car. I can not travel more then thirty minutes before my back starts hurts, so to stop that i just always travel with one. Ive even made john stop at walmart so I can buy a new one because I forgot mine at home!

The rest of our engagement pictures

Here are the rest! I hope you all like them. Announcements will be going out in about 4-6 weeks and I need addresses for everyone. Please email me at mdgroves1@yahoo.com so I can make sure you get them!

Candy recall

I know many of you have kids that will be trick or treating on Halloween. Please be careful and check their bags for little chocolate coins

For those of you with little ghosts and goblins in your lives.





Hello everyone: the following recall is confirmed by snopes. Read and pass on especially if you have or know little ones.....

Don't eat these!

The little chocolate coins are not safe for kids to eat this Halloween.






They are made in China and contain the Melamine that childrens deaths were
related to recently.





!!!!!!!

With Halloween coming soon, pass this on to your family and friends.








Sherwood's Milk Chocolate Pirate's Gold Coins from China contain
melamine.





It is true, Read the full story at the following link from Snopes:

http://www. snopes. com/food/warnings/coins. asp


These were basically distributed in Canada, however they were sold through the Costco stores, so some may have found thier way in bulk to the stores here in the United States

What our great Nation has come to...

I was sent this in a bulletin on myspace by a good friend and I think it pulls everything into perspective

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy am I confused.

I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the
Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.



I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.



I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they
are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.

I have
included the URL's for verification of all the following facts

1.

$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each
year.


Verify at: .. http://...com/zob77

2. $2.

2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as
food stamps, WIC, and free school
lunches for illegal aliens.


&n bsp; Verify at: ..
http://www.
cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.


Verify at: ..
http://www.
cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html

4 $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: ..
http://transcriptscnn.
com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0.
html

5.

$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor
babies.


Verify at ..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html..

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

8.

$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.


Verify at: ..
http://premium.
cnn. com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.
01html

9.

$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by
the illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

10.

The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and
a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.


& nbsp; In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the US
Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt. 01.
html

11 During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that
crossed our Southern Border also, as many as
19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.

Millions of pounds of
drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed
into the U. S from the Southern border.


Verify at: Homeland Security Report: ..
http://...com/t9sht

12.

The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass
deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion
or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period.

'
Verify at:
..
http://www.
nationalpolicyinstitute. org/pdf/deportation.
pdf

13.

In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin.


Verify at: ..
http://www.
rense. com/general75/niht.
htm

14.

'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Near ly One Million Sex Crimes
Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United
States '
Verify at: ..
http://www.
drdsk.
com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT
stupid?

If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message.

If, on the other
hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward
it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in
Washington, D.C.

- five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some
semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.