Feeling better

I made my second Avon order yesterday and I am feeling much better about the whole thing now. I found out that I am only $8 away from making my $500 goal for the first three campaigns! That made my day! I'm pretty sure I can get at least an $8 order next time. Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary that my Brother-in-law Stephen was killed in Iraq. I can't believe that time has went by so fast. It seems like just yesterday we were in New York for the funeral. Also Monday marks the one year anniversary of the death of our next door neighbor. That one flew by too. I was talking to his widow today and when she told me that I was shocked!

Avon woes

Today is the last day to get the orders in for my second Avon campaign, and it sure isn't half as good as my first. I guess I thought that I would get the same amount of orders as last time, but I don't even have half. For the next campaign I really need to hang some books on some mailboxes and try to generate new customers. So yes it is mainly MY fault that I don't have many orders. My goal right now is to have at least $500 in sales in my first three campaigns, because then I get acknowledged at the next sales meeting and receive a pin for reaching that goal. I'm pretty confident that I will make that goal, but we'll see. I may come up just short. Other then that there's not a whole lot happening here.

4-20-06

Well, we had a really nice Easter. The Easter Bunny was very good to Dylan. We had a brunch with Alton's parents and then later on went to my grandparents house for dinner. We had an Easter egg hunt for all of the great-grandkids. We hid the chocolate foil wrapped eggs and plastic eggs that had money in them. Dylan made out with about $15.00! I had taken a bunch of change to put in. The weather could have been a little better, but at least is didn't rain and ruin the egg hunt. It was kind of funny....I kept thinking how I used to do the egg hunt at that same house and now my child is doing it! Sure did make me feel old! Other then that we've just been enjoying this awesome Springtime weather we've been having. Dylan's been riding his bike, blowing bubbles and writing on the driveway with his chalk that the Easter Bunny brought him. My tulips are in full bloom! The squirrels didn't get any of the bulbs! They look so pretty! Yesterday Dylan took his first fall of Spring. He went up the deck stairs to get his cup of juice, and I don't know if he missed a step or just lost his balance, but he fell down the steps and hit the cement face down. He had a big ol' goose egg on his forehead. Today it's nice and purple. Poor guy. I was surprised though that he didn't cry more then he did. A few seconds and it was over.

Crazy week!

I don't know if it'd Spring fever or what, but Dylan has been giving me a run for my money this week! He's learned how to open the refridgerator, so he wants to be in that non-stop. He just opens it and then stands there wondering what to get into. Then yesterday....I had been doing a crossword puzzle on our front porch over the weekend.....Well, the weather was warm so I had the door leading to the porch open....guess who finds the pen in the magazine where the crossword was. D-Y-L-A-N! I was upstairs putting towels away. When I came back down Dylan had taken off his pants and had written ALL OVER both of his legs! I couldn't believe it! I don't know if he was trying to be like Alton and have a tatoo or what. DUMB ME for leaving the pen! I never even thought about it. Live and learn right? Then when I was brushing Dyaln's teeth this morning I saw that his two year molars are starting to come up, so I'm waiting for the crabiness to start. We are going to see the Easter Bunny tomorrow, so hopefully that will go good! Wish me luck!

4-2-06

Today started out with a really nice breakfast at the Old Country Buffet near our house. We went with our friends Bill and Melissa any their daughter Reagan. Reagan is six months younger than Dylan so they get along perfectly. The breakfast went surprisingly well. Usually Dylan does terrible in a restaurant. He always want out of the high chair to run around the place. But today was totally different. I don't know if was because It was first thing in the morning or what, but he ate and behaved great! We were surprised! After that we made a trip to Toys R Us to check out the swing sets. We'll be getting Dylan one soon. We having a hard time trying to decide on a wooden or metal one. I know they don't make things anything like they used to, but growing up we had a metal one, and it lasted WITHOUT a bit of rust for like 20 years! There was nothing wrong with it when my Dad took it apart. Everybody had just outgrown it. It was great. But then they got the cool wooden ones that have like a little clubhouse type thing on them and a big slide. Of course there is a BIG price difference too! So we'll see. Got to do a little bit more thinking on it. Then we came home and Alton started a fire outside to burn some of the junk wood we have. It was a chilly day, so it felt good by the fire. Of course Dylan wouldn't come anywhere near it to warm up. All he wanted to do is ride his bike. If the sun had of been out it would have been a perfect day weather wise. I had Alton get our Easter decorations down for the attic in the garage so I decorated a tree in our yard with the little bright plastic eggs and our front porch railing. They look so cute. I had forgotten all the cute Easter stuff I had, because it hasn't been out in like three years. I just haven't decorated. So we had a really nice Sunday!