Saturday, February 16, 2008

Audrie's Self Portrait


Just wanted to show y'all a picture Audrie drew of herself. Isn't it the greatest? It was laying next to my head one morning last week when I woke up, because she wanted it to be the first thing I saw!! I think it's pretty close to the real thing! Go Audrie!!

That's not her handwriting, though. I just thought it would look cute to have her own "watermark"!! (the font is Scrap Round, if you're interested). Also, on blogs, most pictures will enlarge if you click on them to see detail. You can't tell it in the scan, but her whole face is colored peach! Every time I look at it, I can just tell it's her!!!

Good News!!

Eric got a phone call yesterday from a placement agency, telling him he needed to call this lawyer at an insurance agency they had sent his resume to. He was under the impression that it would be for a phone interview and to set up a time for a "real" interview. Well, after the lawyer talked to Eric a bit (only like 30 minutes), he asked him if he could start on Monday!!! YAY!!! He will be doing regular paralegal work (discovery, evidence, real legal stuff that he hasn't done in a while, but really likes) for Standard Insurance Agency over on Pipeline in Hurst! Very cool! The drawback (there has to be one, because we are the Liles' family): it's an "indefinite temporary" position (huh?). So it's not a permanent thing, but could be later on, the attorney said. Therefore, we are keeping all of our irons in the fire. In fact, Eric is supposed to be getting a phone call for an interview with a company, Pioneer Energy out in Las Colinas, that would be really perfect for him and a great company to work for. The guy has been calling all his references and we found out he had talked to a couple of them. He got his foot in that door through a friend of ours from church and he has exactly what they are looking for. We are really hoping this one pans out. He also had an interview with a title company yesterday in Westlake and they are supposed to let him know something in about a week. So, grateful for the opportunity which was laid before us yesterday, but still in the market for a job that does not include the word "temporary" in it's title. Been there, done that!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Poor Anna

As you may know Lily has a NEW hamster. Well I guess the mice had a little party with because now I'm minus ALL mice and short a hamster. Needless to say Lily was sad. I foresee YET a new pet in the VERY near future.

Somehow he thought of a hamster running around the house isn't near as bad as mice. Why is that?

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OK...I was playing with a banner for us and I saw something in the corner of my eye....nothing. I see something again but further behind me. I look and guess who was there...Anna! But alas she is WAY FAST and a squeaker so I can never catch her! We NEVER even take her out of her cage...I'm getting that mouse in the house feeling again so I'm off to bed. Maybe she'll find the food I left out.

Oops

I forgot to allow comments from anyone...fixed it...sorry Michael!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Blog Candy

I made a gift certiciate for Michelle...her design team is using it as blog candy! Enter for a chance to win: http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/blog-candy.html

She just requested more so be watching her design team for more blog candy!!!

It's the Final Countdown

daaa da...da da da daa daa....

8 mice NO LONGER in my house! VICTORY IS MINE!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Welcome!

Hey everyone! I said I'd do it and I finally did... Introducing our family blog! You will all receive invitations to be authors of this blog which means you can all make posts on it! I will keep the admin permissions to myself unless, of course, you guys WANT to play with the page layout and such. But I'll do anything you want to it...for you!

I hope you guys like the name...tell me NOW if you don't before we start making posts!

So how should it look? Give me your design input and I'll work on it when I'm sick of or don't feel like working on everything else. How do ya think I made time to do this?

Be sure to subscribe so that you'll receive email updates when new posts are made and I already set it up so that you all receive an email when comments are made on posts.