09.09.2009 Rainbows

Support my Memory Walk Campaign

Today an estimated 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. In addition, 78 million baby boomers are approaching the age of greatest risk for developing this fatal disease. Now is the time to ACT to end this epidemic!

This year, to support those affected by Alzheimer's, I'm participating in the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk® to raise funds and awareness to fight this disease.

I walk in honor of my grandmother, Betty Thomley, who is currently fighting the final stage of alzheimer's.

The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research, and funds I raise will go directly toward supporting their efforts.I know I can make a difference with your support! Will you consider making a donation? It's easy to give online by following the link below.Thank you in advance for your time and generosity - together, we can help end Alzheimer's!

Visit my page at http://memorywalk09.kintera.org/huntsville/inhonorofbettythomley and help me in my efforts to support Alzheimer's Association Mid South Chapter.

No donation is too small or big – everything helps!

I am also looking for team members – if you’d like to join my team just click on “Team Page” under the website page heading and it will take you to my Team Web Page where you will have the option to join the team. The walk is on Sept. 26th – registration at 8 AM with closing ceremonies at 10AM at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville.

Please forward this along to your family, friends and co-workers too :) We need all the help we can get!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Sandy

My Charter Scrapbook Workshop/Party

I'm having my first scrapbbooking event!

My charter Creative Memories Workshop is a great way to get inspiration, share ideas, and complete pages.

My upline, Laura Lindberg of Hartselle, AL, will be on hand to lead the workshop. Laura's emphasis will be on traditional paper scrapbooking - how to create a page and use the tools. She will also expose you to ways to organize your photos & the new digital scrapbooking - you won't even believe how easy digital is! I wasn't even a srapbooker until I was exposed to the digital scrapbooking - you just have to check it out for yourself.

Creative Memories is all about helping you capture your life and your story, your way.

The workshop will be in Athens, AL on August 22nd - if you'd like to join us then jsut let me know - we'd love to have ya!

Making Every Moment Count

Hello out there :) As some of you know a friend of mine invited me to a scrapbooking party a week ago. I had never scrapbooked in my life - and technically I still haven't (my order hasn't yet arrived) and was introduced to the new digital scrapbooking! I am so excited about it too ;) The company was running a sign up special for only $22, so I am going to give it a whirl ;)

If anyone would like to host a party and earn product rewards, then just let me know - and make my day :) This company has awesome host rewards.

Check it all out at www.mycmsite.com/scrappingwithsandy

Send an email to ScrappingWithSandy@gmail.com to be added to my email list for monthly specials and such ;)

Thanks for reading!

Please Vote for Smitty :)

I'm getting HITCHED :)

HAPPY NEWS :)

James and I have decided to get married :) James wants to get married in June because he loves that month of the summer, so we are shooting for June 6th. We want to get married on the beach in Panama City Beach where James grew up, so we can’t say for sure on a date just yet because we have to get some plans made with a wedding company down there to see what dates they have available – not sure how booked up they are going to be.

We are very EXCITED :)

Aunt Norma's House gets hit by a truck!

High-speed chase ends in Destin house Comments 0 Recommend 0 February 17, 2009 - 11:40 AM Jenni Rich Florida Freedom Newspapers DESTIN - Waking up early on a Monday morning is not usually a treat - especially when it's because there is a red Ford pickup truck parked in the guest room of your home. "It sounded like a thud and the dogs started barking," homeowner Norma Calhoun said. It was a quiet morning in the cul-de-sac of Seaview Circle as the Calhoun household was sound asleep, and next-door neighbor Sara Harris was rising around 4 a.m. to get ready to head off to her nursing job. "She heard a car coming at high speed," husband Gary Harris said. It was a 2001 Ford that led deputies on a high speed chase from Fort Walton Beach. The truck was traveling south on Eglin Parkway when police clocked the vehicle going 45 mph in a 30 mph zone. The officer pulled in behind the truck with lights on and called in a traffic stop, but the driver had other plans. The truck did not stop and the report said that the driver proceeded onto eastbound U.S. 98, accelerating at speeds up to 80 mph, swerving all over the road as he crossed Okaloosa Island. The report said the driver almost ran the truck off the roadway near the sea wall. Fort Walton Beach police in pursuit were joined by Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies as the truck crossed the Marler Bridge into Destin. The driver sped up Marler Street and tried to lose the units in the back streets of Destin until he made the mistake of turning onto Seaview, a street that ends in a cul-de-sac. The truck made tracks across the Calhouns' lawn and crashed into the front guest room of their home, just missing their porch. "My grandson just moved out, thank God," Norma said. "He would have been there." After the impact, the driver and a passenger fled on foot. The driver escaped into the dark, but the passenger was apprehended. The passenger said that the driver, a young male approximately 25-years-old, was someone he just met. The owner of the truck is a Niceville woman that was called from the scene. Gary said that he was standing nearby as the officer spoke with the woman and she told the officer that the truck was primarily driven by her son, but that he loans it out to a lot of people. After the truck was pulled from the home, the Calhouns were left with a gaping hole through the brick siding and sheet rock. The impact knocked the big double window off its mount and into the home. The shrubbery lining the front of the home kept the damage from being worse than it was. An evergreen "that's been there forever" kept the truck from penetrating the brick home even more. "It was almost on the bed," Calhoun said. Ironically, the Calhouns were set to have a security system with surveillance installed next week. "We've been in this house 30 years and been through every hurricane, and this is the worst damage," Norma said, adding that they have never had more than $1,000 worth of damage happen to the home at once. The truck lifted the rafters of the home, causing more damage to the foundation than meets the eye. "You don't wake up every morning with a truck in your house," Norma said.