Watch Me!

That title is retarded and lame... I know. :D I have found a new favorite hobby! I love the interchangable watch bands! I have always wanted to learn how to make them, but figured I wasn't "crafty" enough to do them. They looked hard. But I got brave and got a bead kit for my Mom for Christmas. I made one for her that day with the jewlry tools I got from her and my Dad. I LOVED IT! They are seriously, easier then they look! Here are some pictures of the ones that I have made for myself:

All Silver Beads

Lakers Band (Go Lakers!)

Christmas #1

Christmas #2

Brown

Black and Yellow

Valentine's Day

Black and Silver

Angels (Go Angels!)

Halloween

They really are so much easier then they look! You just throw the beads on there. The hardest part about them is making sure that the strands are level and the same length, but other then that they are super fun and so easy!

Elder Teddy Parker

So I've heard of the people who buy Build-A-Bears and make them their missionaries. Lindsey and I decided to do that with Parker, and take him places that Parker would normally go and then take pictures and send them to Parker and put them in his scrapbook. So meet...

Elder Teddy Parker

Lindsey and I had so much fun making him. And yes... we were the only big girls in the store besides the people that worked there. The faces that some people were giving us were hilarious! We made bears to be us too... a Lindsey and Shelby Teddy. Kinda lame haha but it was fun and we're excited to do this for Parker.

Elder Teddy Parker with hair... it was just funny at the moment. What a horrid wig!

Yes I am a lameo... but I miss my brother haha. That's what only child syndrome does to you. Well me at least.

Sorry I haven't posted since before Christmas. Christmas was fun! It was different without Parker there, especially while watching "The Grinch" but it was fun. New Years was a blast as well. Lindsey and Deb and Claude couldn't come down because Lindsey had to work New Years Eve and morning, but Holly and her friend, Emily, came over and we ate and played games. It was fun! Then after Linds got off work that afternoon, we went to her house and to The Bead Fairy and bought beads to make those bead watch bands. (I have no pictures yet so please forgive me... I will post as soon as I get them up.) Then we just played all night. I slept over and then went back home on Sunday.

Lately, I have been feeling really lonely. I have no brother to tease me to my wits end, I have no boyfriend to tease me to my wits end either hehe :P (I love both of their teasing... hence the reason I miss it so much. Poppa Shawn? I need you to take over more bahaha!) My sister is far away... okay not really too far away but far enough away that I can't just drive over there and hang out with her and the nephews all the time. Lindsey is far away... Nash is off doing her soccer stuff most of the time so I hardly see her :( So yes, I have been super super lonely. I was listening to Backstreet Boys "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" today on my way to work and almost started crying because now I really know the meaning of being lonely.

Sorry this is such a long post. I needed to catch up! Forgive me for not being good about updating Cody's blog as well (if you follow it at all)... I haven't heard from him in weeks so I really have nothing to post.

Until next time... :*

Sad day... :'(

..... Only because I missed the chance to have an email conversation with Cody this morning. Dang work! Why do I have to be there at 7:30? haha!
I didn't email Cody last night because I wasn't feeling the best, so I went to bed early and decided that I was going to just email him in the morning. Well I emailed him around 7 am... which I forgot is when he's usually on in Uruguay (which is 5 hours ahead of us by the way). The only reason I know that is because his Dad told me that he gets to work early so that he can be on by 7 am to be able to have these conversations with Cody for a few minutes. Anyways, I got home after work, ate, checked my email and all it said was, "Hey! Are you still on?"

:( :( :( :(

I cried! Seriously! I'm such a baby. Oh well... I'll try again another Monday.

More to come about my New Years tomorrow!