And it is officially FALL

I love this time of year. We usually do not have much of a FALL season here in Arkansas, but this year has been exception. I think Mother Nature is apologizing for the helluous summer heat that we had this year.

Family Update...Hailie is now in 3rd grade. She spends 55% of her day in mainstream class and the other 45% of her day in either therapy or resource. Math is finally soaking in. I didn't think it was going to ever happen so I am very happy. Her reading is phenomenal and comprehension is increasing, but still low. Hailie has started P90X with me and Adam again. She only does bits and pieces of it, but it really helps with building her muscle mass. She is now 9 years old and only weighs 42 pounds. Carter started 2nd grade this year. As usual, he has high expectations for himself. The poor kid is way too hard on himself. He is awesome at everything he does, but excels in math and science. He scored in the 99th percentile on his standardized testing :) Fall season of baseball is also in full swing. He has moved to short stop and does a great job there. Adam still works his butt off all the time. He is the Wing Exec on the base now. We should be finding out next month if we are heading to D.C. or somewhere else. It will be hard to leave Arkansas after being here for over 7 years, but on the other side, the longer we stay here the harder it will be for the kids to move. As for me...just trying to keep up with everybody. I have a couple of Stamp Clubs going on this year. I will be having surgery at the end of the month to have a ganglion cyst removed from my wrist. That will be fun, NOT! I am excited about my birthday present this month! I get to go away for the weekend to scrapbook and hang out with the LADIES. I don't know if I am more excited about getting sleep while I am gone or the other stuff :)

Till next time...

And let Summer begin

Well Summer is here in Arkansas. Temps are hovering around the 100 degree mark already. Hailie had heat exhaustion at Carter's baseball game yesterday. It was a phenomenal game. Those boys played their hearts out. 2 innings of overtime to break the tie. The other team finally scored and won. Final score was 12-11. That was our last regular season game. All-stars traveling season for baseball starts Monday. No rest for the wicked.

Last day of school is today. The pool is filled and ready for action. I am sitting here in my craft room enjoying the beautiful silence that will be taken from me for the next 2 1/2 months. I think the dog can even sense that our little world is about to become chaotic. Kids could not be happier :)

A day in the life of me...

I went back in time today. I dug out a box of letters that I had written to Hailie after she was born. She was born on July 10th 2002. On the 10th of every month I wrote a letter to her. Now let me tell ya, I balled my eyes out reading these letters for the first time in 8 years. I can say with all my heart and soul that I would never change a thing. I read the first heartbreaking letter that I wrote after receiving her diagnosis. I literally went through "mouring" after the neurologist told us she had Smith Magenis Syndrome. Keep in mind that I was 8 months pregnant with Carter when we found this out. By "mouring" I mean this...

the day I found out I was having a girl I started to plan her wedding. The next day I planned her educational future which included Montessori schools and Ivy league universities. I thought of all the wonderful genetic attributes that she would obtain through mine and Adam's DNA. Would she have blonde hair or brown? Blue eyes like me or hazel like Adam? Will she be brilliant in science or fly mutli-million dollar planes and work for the Presdient of the United States like her dad? She would just have to be good in sports because me and Adam rock in sports. This is the kind of cocky confidence I had that I would have this "perfect" child. Then on a hot summer morning Hailie Morgan was born. She was very sick. Countless appointments to figure out why she had failure-to-thrive. Countless doctors telling me that I was an overreactive first time parent. Countless doctors telling me nothing was wrong with her because she was too beautiful (not even joking. that is what one of the numb nuts said to me).

Then when Hailie was a little over a year old I was looking at this beautiful blonde hair, blue eyed, adorable little girl. Only problem was she still couldn't walk or barely crawl for that matter. She was not attempting to talk either. We moved to a new Air Force Base in Oklahoma and saw a God sent doctor that actually listened to me and my concerns. She agreed that something was not right. For the first time someone listened. 2 months later after extensive testing we were called in the day after Christmas to meet with the lead Neurologist at Childrens Hospital in Corpus Christi. This is where I met the biggest asshole of my life. This jackass had enough nerve to sit us down and with a HUGE smile tell us that Hailie had Smith Magenis Syndrome. He was happy because this syndrome is sooooo rare that he never got to meet a patient with it. He then (no joke) tell us, "She will never walk. She will never live alone. She will never talk clearly. She will not have the ability to learn. She will not ever know what love is. Her reasoning skills will be so poor that if she set herself on fire, she will not learn a lesson from it, and do it again the next day."

That is when "mourning" occurred. My hopes and dreams for Hailie were stomped on and destroyed in less than 5 minutes. It took me a long time to realize how wrong I was. This beautiful little angel (that does not pause inbetween words when she talks) lives out my hopes and dreams every day. If it would not have been for Hailie I would have never learned patience, acceptance, and unwavering love. My children are the best things that have ever happened to me.

1/2 the Price

Just a reminder that the Stampin Up! Demonstrator's Starter Kit is on sale for only $87.50 (normally $175) until November 30th, 2010. That is a $310 retail value kit for only $87.50. Check out my website for more info... www.scrastampin.stampinup.net.

For those of you still in need of some great Christmas card ideas visit www.splitcoaststampers.com and check out their gallery. Many new ideas being loaded daily.

You have to look at these prices!

Okay I have been a total slacker at keeping up with the blog. I see a New Years Resolution coming out of this problem. After reading my e-mail this morning I had to jump on here and share this info...

www.cricutdirect.com has 101 cricut cartridges on sale for $19.95. That is a phenomenal deal. The only thing is the sale lasts 24 hours so get on there now. For my ebay resell friends out there this is a perfect time to buy these cartridges and hold on to them until after Christmas. After people get their cricut machines for Christmas they love finding deals on cartridges.

Alrighty then
Carrie

September's Happenings and Future Classes

I don't know where August and September went! I blinked, and here we are at the end of September already. I had my first Stampin Up club meeting last week and it was so much fun. I loved seeing everyone and getting a chance to play with my new stamps and supplies.

Right now I am working on Christmas Cards for a class that I will have in early November. I am going to do a class with detailed cards (5 of them), and a class with 10 simple cards. I will post the pictures of the cards once I have them finished. I had to order a couple more Christmas stamp sets to finish them up. If time permits, I will also start working on a scrapbook class. I wanted to do it before Christmas (so you could give as a gift if you wanted), but if time keeps going this fast it might not be ready until January.

I have been up at Stagecoach the last week volunteering in the classrooms. It is a lot easier just working with one child at a time. Hailie still cries everytime I have to leave. Hopefully she will get over that soon. We are still waiting for October to roll around about any moving assignments we might get. Feels like we have been waiting FOREVER! Okay, off to baseball games and getting the house ready for family coming in on Monday.

ScraStampin Scrapbook Store is now The Scrapbook Zone

If you are looking for the website about "the store" please visit this website for info about new products, sales, and classes: www.thescrapbookzone-cabot.com

Change is Coming

Changes, changes, changes. That is the story of my life right now. As many of you know this is my last week at the store :( SSSSSOOOOO bittersweet. On the plus side I will have time to scrapbook (how is that for irony?) and on the negative side I will miss all the excitement of the store and my dear customers. It is killing me to not be able to place orders for all the NEW awesome items being released at CHA right now. Robin (new owner of the store) will be getting a bunch of them so I am sure I will be dumping a lot of money on them because I have to have them all.

As for the future of The Jung Family...We will wait for our orders to move. Until next summer I will be around though. I am now a Stampin Up Demonstrator and will begin to sell their products and have stamp clubs once a month. Between Stampin Up, PTO, substitute teaching, the kids, and getting the house ready to put on the market I think I will busy enough to stay out of trouble.

To those of you who want to know what is up with me and anything creative I might do, just keep visiting this blog. I will post here about life, my craft projects, and such.

Until then....

New Products on Shelves by 7-7-2010

Cricut Cartridge Sale

We will place our cricut order on June 11th. The following cartridges and their prices are good until June 11th. To place your order for any of these cartridges please come into the store, e-mail me or call the store. Cartridges must be paid for at time of ordering. It takes from 5-10 business days to get the cartridges in.

The following cartridges are BRAND NEW RELEASES and are on sale for $44.99
-Mini Monsters
-Wall Decor and More
-Freshly Picked
-Cindy Loo

The following cartridges are on sale for $39.99
-Destinations
-Songbird
-Tie the Knot
-Forever Young
-Once Upon a Princess
-Create a Critter
-Nursery Rhymes
-Preserves
-Robotz
-New Arrival
-Just Because Cards
-Heritage
-Sports Mania
-Storybook
-Pooh and Friends
-Pooh Font
-Graphically Speaking
-Lyrical Letters
-Pagoda
-Spongebob
-Everyday Paper Dolls
-Sweethearts
-From my Kitchen
-Sweet Treats
-Old West
-Dinosaur Tracks
-Life's a Beach

The following cartridges are on sale for $34.99
-Celebrations
-Beyond Birthdays
-Animal Kingdom
-Walk in my Garden
-50 States
-Paper Doll Dress Up

The following cartridges are on sale for $29.99
-Doodlecharms
-Opposites Attract
-Calligraphy
-Jasmine
-Locker Talk
-Stretch your Imagination

The following SOLUTIONS cartridges are on sale for $27.99
-Independence Day
-Summer Vacation
-Summer in Paris
-Indie Art
-Home Accent