Well Charley has now challenged us to blog our most embaressing moment. This will make most of you feel a bit sorry for me...but you will laugh a bit too.

The most embarassing time I can think of was not a public embaressment(praise God!), but a rather intamate embaressment....

I became pregnant in the year 2004. This was a time of big change in both my and my husbands lives. I was graduating from cometology school, embarking on a new carrer, haveing huge changes to my emotional state, and to my body. Times were a bit crazy that year! Jeremy and I went through alot of growth in our marrige through my pregnacy. We learned to be honest, patient, and laugh with one and other.

The day I went into labor I was already schedueled to be at the hospital to be induced. We got up got dressed and drove an hour to the hospital. This was the last day of our lives "alone". I so vividly rember staring out the car window,"It feels like today" by Racal flats played on the radio. I was overcome with fear and anxious feelings. Today I was going to be a mom! When we arrived at the hospital I was in labor (I was not aware of it...but they assured my i was). 23.5 hours later I was still in labor and still not a mom. (this in itself is another embarassing story...for another day and a more private venue) It was time for the emergency c-section. I was so afraid, so tired, and so READY! My husband did not get to go along for the procedure, but about an hour later he met our beautiful daughter for the first time...this is all very fuzzy for me because morphine will do crazy things to your head....

We had to stay in the hospital for a week because of the surgery. The first night was rough. I had a hole cut in me and the nurse came in and wanted me to stand up..."What!!!! My Guts are gonna fall out.", I thought..I could read that look on Jeremys face too! But I did as she asked. You know what it wasn't so bad....or so i thought...Then I looked at Jeremy's face. (I think he thought that i would have that baby and slink right back into my jeans!) I was too tired to care. About two days later I was able to shower on my own and get a really good look at my body. Mind you I was very unprepared for what it was going to look like as well( In the back of my mind I thought I would slink back into those jeans too!) I got in the shower and was a bit horrified. I had staples in my stomach, I was bruised and flabby! What happend. I came out of the shower and needed help getting dressed. I felt so embaressed of my body at that moment. I didn't want my husband to see me that way...but I needed help, It was hard to move alot and put my undergarments on much less some sweat pants. So I bit the bullet and walked out of the bathroom into the hospital room we were staying in. He looked and me eyes very wide and said.."You look like Tim Allan from the Santa Clase", imagine my horror and utter embarassement at this comment. But he was right. I had what looked like me regualr body with the prostetic looking stomach hanging in the front. I couldn't help but look down and laugh. "Ho Ho Ho", I said.

Since then my Santa Clause belly has gone away wich we are both very greatful for. But I will miss being able to talk to the elves...lol.

I look back at that moment and I see that that wasn't my husband trying to put me down, but my husband trying to make me laugh. He doen't always say the right thing!

I have scrappers high......
I am a very big Becky Fleck Fan...i think she is just uber talented. i emailed her yesterday with a layout I had made and a link to my gallery because i wanted to be one of page maps friends and do layouts for page maps(this is totally for free, but I am siked because to me this is big) and here is what she wrote back.....
Hi Dana,Thank you for your email and for sharing your American Beauty layout - it's beautiful! Wow, that was the most popular map I've ever sketched! I checked out your gallery and just love your work! I'd be happy to send you an August sketch for the newsletter. Are you open to any size or do you have a preference? Please let me know!Thanks again,Becky

Becky Fleck loves MY work...omg what a compliment!
here is the layout i submitted to her.
So this totally made my week can you tell!

I run a Challenge on SB.com. My dear friend Charley has agreed to help me by posting a journaling challenge this week. We are to blog about the first time we met our sig. other.

Walking down the halls of my highschool sophmore year I was awestruck but a handsome and tall boy in a red and grey letterman jacket. My eyes met his sparkeling green eyes and I was hooked...you just couldn't wipe the smile from my face. I turned to my best friend(she was always by my side), and said"Thats the guy I am gonna marry." She scoffed, "you don't even know his name" "I can easily find that out." Most people totally don't belive that i KNEW that very moment but i did. I knew he and I had a future. Little did I know that future was a year and two jerk boyfriends away....(i had been praying for the man i was to marry...and God sent him to me...but I had to learn some things first)
Fast forward about a year and three months to my 16th birtday...I was hanging by my pool with my best girls, in my purple swim suit...just being crazy...really crazy. I came up out of the water and looked up and it was none other than the man of my dreams...this was our third meeting....Why was he at my party....I didn't invite him...but i didn't care. I was a little embarred about how he had seen me acting so silly with my friends...but he was at my party. I just couldn't get over it. I spent the whole night talking to him. We had alot in common. I thought we probally woulndn't talk after that, but two days later he called and asked me on a date. I said yes before I asked my parents. Luckily my Dad was happy and said I could go. (My mom on the other hand thought he was to old for me.) Our first date was to Imos Pizza and to see the movie snake eyes..(this cricket just kept chirping in the theater...we still laugh about it) I had an amazing time with him. When i got home I prayed. I asked God to give me a very very obvious sign that Jeremy was the one for me. I prayed that he would call at 6:00pm on my clock wich i was going to set ahead thirteen minutes. I put all my faith in that prayer. The next day he did call right as my clock turned 6:00...and I knew , God answered my prayer.


I didn't love Jt at first site, but I knew he was the one. Our love has taken work,time, and trust. But our relashionship was started on faith...a side note...he was praying for the girl he was to marry as well...and he remebers that same moment on the stairs in the hall of our highschool...Thank you God!