I'm home!!!

I had a total blast in beautiful Brazil! There is no way I could ever explain how amazing this place is and how wonderful the people there are.

I loved both Sao Paulo and Rio. They are very different but both great!! I would like to thank my awesome friend Ana from AC ALBUM for taking me to her beautiful store and the expo. I had such an amazing time with her, Vicky (whom I think is one of the sweetest person on this planet), Fabriana, my Brazil grandma, and everyone else I met there.

I got to see her different stores and they are sooooo gorgeous!
Next year, I'm coming back and we have an amazing event we are planning!!!

Here are some of the pictures I took. They are in no order.

Ana, you are amazing!! I love ya girlie!!
Hugs

Suzy West

Still in Brazil and LOVING it!!!

Hi there gals!!! I wanted to come in and say HI!!! I am in one of the most beautiful places on earth, RIO!!!!
I am having an amazing good time! I taught today from 9am to 9pm. It was a total blast!!
Hello to all my friends that I have met in both Sao Paulo and Rio!! You gals are amazing!
When I get home I will post pictures here and on the My Little Shoebox blog.
Tomorrow we are going to hang out and do some fun things and then I´m heading home.

I can´t wait to see all my buddies when I get home.
Let´s see if my mechanics read my blog...I emailed you gals about something big....did you read it? if so....guess what? I´m just kidding!LOL I´m sooooooo bad!LOL

I have sad news, Christian´s grandfather passed away. We are so sad. Please pray for his family.

Okay posting more when I get back!!!!
Hugs
Suzy West

Checking in from Brazil

HI there everyone. I am checking in from beautiful Brazil. I have been staying at this beautiful hotel with amazing food in Sao Paulo. It is one of the largest cities I have ever seen.
The people are very beautiful here. the woman are tall and thin with these great butts and the men are freaking hot!!! LOL
anyway, I am having a great time and they are treating me very well.
I will try to post more later. I have a lot of stories.
hugs
Suzy

See ya!!

Alrighty gals, I'm signing off and saying GOOD BYE!!
Hopefully I'll be able to get online but I know I'm going to be busy the
entire time so we'll see.
Have a fantastic couple of weeks!! I'll make sure to get some pictures
up asap!!
Hugs
Suzy West

Scrapbook Memories TV

So it looks like I'm heading out to Ohio in October. Helen and I were going to do a taping of Scrapbook Memories TV in what I think we both thought early November but it turns out it's going to be in the middle of October.
Helen was going to be taping while I do the behind the scenes stuff but Helen has another important trip so I'll be doing the taping. I haven't done any filming for a while so let's hope I do okay. LOL
I'm going for just one day so it doesn't take to much away from work. I'm leaving on the 13th and taking Pattie with me. She'll be awesome helping me with all the behind the scene stuff.
I'll keep you guys posted on how it goes. Wish me luck please, I think I'm going to need it! LOL
Hugs
Suzy

updates on Sierra

So it's been a pretty crazy week with the West family.
As you know Sierra hurt her arm. Well yesterday I got up early to take Sierra to the dr.'s. They were going to put a cast on her arm.
We got in the car and we were talking and she says, "Mommy, I think I'm going to throw up". I look back at her and she was YELLOW. Her skin starts turning yellow quite often because she has hereditary spherocytosis . Most of the time she's okay, but there have been times when it's NOT, and this was one of them. I looked at her and her eyes were looking really droopy, which I immediately knew she was about to pass out.
I get her out of the car and we take a few steps and sure enough, she got sick and her body got heavy because she was ready to pass out.
I got her in the dr.'s office and tell the receptionist that we have an appointment for one thing but need to see a dr. NOW because of what was going on and what she has. She took one look at her and knew she was in bad shape. She asks me to stand to the side for a second. On a loud speaker I hear, "We have a CODE 5 in the lobby" and almost immediately we had EVERY pediatrician and nurse flying out the doors. Scared the daylights out of me.
They take her to the back and Sierra was shaking really heavily and was looking really bad.
They did blood work and stayed with her til' she was feeling better. She was there for a while. She is all better now but boy did she scare me! The last time she was like this she was about to get a blood transfusion.
Please keep her in your prayers.
Big hugs,
Suzy West

Poor Sierra fractured her arm yesterday

Yesterday I got a phone call from school that Sierra had fallen while playing PE. Paul picked her up as I was alone at work and took her to my parents house. Sierra said she was okay and that her arm didn't really hurt that much. Later on she started to complain. Paul checked her again and decided to take her to urgent care. It turned out that she fractured her arm. They didn't have anyone to cast it so they wrapped it and put it in a splint. I'm taking her this morning to get her cast on. My poor little one.

Here's a picture of her sleeping last night.

In the blink of an eye...

Everything is happening so fast.

I swear it feels like Angel just told me she was expecting again and yet....her baby shower is this Sunday and she's 31 weeks!

Sierra talked to me about getting a dog...we told her she could when she was older and well yeah....she has a dog.

Jeremy was starting school...but omg I wasn't ready for HIGH SCHOOL.

I blinked and everything happened so fast!

No more blinking! :)
Hugs

Suzy West

So you know your losing it when...

you totally space out and don't realize until...
two days ago that you have TWO HUGE TRIPS that you are going on a week from one another.
So I knew that I was leaving for Brazil in a week. What I didn't realize was that my trip in October was just...well...a week after I get back! I'm teaching in Orlando as well. This is madness!! I guess I better get to work on the next projects!LOL
So here's the scoop:

I'll be in Brazil from the 15th-24th---teaching at the expo being held in Sao Paulo and then traveling to Rio to teach there.

Exactly a week later I'll be in Orlando with Erin teaching at the Fred Hill/Sue Gilman Show. While there, we are going to Disney World!! I can't wait!!!!

I believe we are going to Ohio in November for another filming of Scrapbook Memories TV.

In January we are going to CHA, Anaheim.

Oh and Rocio and I are booking a CRUISE to Mexico in February for my birthday!!!

So it's a good thing I'm not traveling as much anymore! LOL
Hugs
Suzy

Lots going on...

So as you know I've been really busy lately.
*Teaching in Brazil on the 15th
*Angel's baby shower on 14th
*Anniversary crops on 20th-21st
*Lots of classes
*MLS stuff
*kids going back to school
*The big Event

yeah, tons of crazy good stuff. So, I learned something the other day and it has me a little emotional and nervous. I'm trying to stay positive until we get the results but it's hard.

My mom has been complaining about pain by her tummy. It's been going on for a while. She had some tests done and they found that everything in that area was just fine. While checking they found a little tumor on her lung. They told her not to worry until they do more testing but it has her really nervous!
My mom is such an amazing woman and the last thing she wants to do is worry anyone so she didn't want to tell me, but we were together on Labor Day and ran some errands and she started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she told me about the tumor. We talked about trying to stay positive until we know anything but I could see in her eyes that she was scared.

I'm trying to stay positive but the thought of something happening to my mom scares me. I'm really selfish and want her in my life forever! She is my rock and I love her more than life it's self. So please pray for my mom.

I'm also a little emotional because Angel's going to be leaving work soon. She's going to stop working the middle of October. She's due in November. Her due date is the 17th but the dr.'s don't think she will last that long. She can't deliver a baby that weighs more than 7lbs so they think they will induce a little early. I'm going to be busy!!! LOL

So much going on!! Anyway, that's what's up with me right now. Never a dull moment. LOL

Hugs
Suzy West

So I've been doing a litte bit of scrapping

I've scrapped about 4-5 in the last two weeks. That's a lot for me you know. LOL

I have quite a few up on the walls of my store so I don't want to get them down but here are two that I recently did.

This is one that I made last night using the NEW Scenic Route line. I love this line. I love this picture. It was Erin and I at 49er game. We had such a great time that day laughing, snorting, clapping, cheering, wel just being us!LOL We were totally emotional to because it was our Friend and football player Bryant Young's last game.

This is one that I did last week. It's using NEW My little shoebox . Pictures of one of my most favorite girls nigt. The four of us went to see John Mayor. He freaking ROCKED!!! We were in the grass area and under the stars. It was so awesome!!! I'm scrapping some of my favorite photos this weekend. Will try to post if I remember. LOL

Have a good one.

Hugs, Suzy West

Filled with so many emotions because...

my two little pumpkins went back to school today.

Jeremy started High School this morning. Yes, HIGH SCHOOL!! I am officially a dinosaur. Wait, I turned into a dinosaur when I became a grandma. I'm officially older than the dirt that the dinosaurs walked on.

This little beauty (as my dad calls her..okay just made my heart full thinking of my daddy)

started 2nd grade. She was more than thrilled and actually wanted pictures. LOL

She is in class with a lot of her friends so she is HAPPY!!! She also has TWO teachers!! Yup, two. So thrilled she's in that class.

Have a wonderful day!!
Hugs

Suzy West

Busy busy fun weekend!

I had a really fun and busy weekend!!! I think I've slept a total of 10 hours from Thursday to yesterday. eeek!

Friday we had a great time during our crop. We had a lot of fun!! Rocio and I then got the place ready for our garage Sale.
Saturday morning I got to work at 8:30am and finished getting things ready. We had our garage sale from 10am-2pm. We worked until 8pm. My Angel, Web Angel, Angela, and I went to La Fondue and met Erin there. We had a great time!!!

On Sunday morning I picked up Michelle Van Etten from San Jose and she came and taught two classes at our store. They were beautiful!!!!
After the class, Satyn, Rocio, Michelle and I went to La Fondue AGAIN and we ate up a Storm!! OMG I was still full from the night before. LOL
I dropped off Michelle after midnight and then picked her up at 5ish AM and took her to the airport.

I came home and was going to go back to bed but decided to finish what I needed to finish and then we got ready and had a bbq at my parents house. Everyone was there. We had a great time!
We were there until around 8pm last night. Came home. I made brownies. I cleaned the kitchen. Watched part of Will and Grace and fell a sleep!LOL
Okay so this morning I have a ton to do. Off to do them but before I go, here are some pictures.

Three generations of LOVE

I am a pretty lucky girl. I've been blessed to have amazing people in my life.

The two gals to the right of me in this picture are reasons to why I'm so lucky.

My mom and daughter and my best friends. My mom is the person I go to for advise and my daughter is who I pass advise (or craziness) down to.

I love this picture taken at Angel's baby shower.

I love you mom, gracias por todo!!

Angel, I love you my baby!!

Have a great day! Love, Suzy

Fun with Friends

I just got home from an awesome day with my little Sierra and Erin and her girls. We went to Gilroy Gardens. It was blazing hot but fun!!!
Sierra didn't want to get wet at first but then went crazy in the water park.
It was so great to spend time with Erin! She's just so much fun!! As you all know, I love that girl!!
On our way home I asked Sierra if she was tired and she said, "not really". I looked back to see her a few minutes later and she was OUT COLD!
Here are a few pictures of our day.

Thank you Emi, Mari, and Erin for making our day soooo freaking fun!!

Hugs, Suzy

Visas, friends, baby showers, puppies, and more

So today I got my VISA to go to Brazil. HOLY COW who knew it would be so hard to get one.
I had to fill out applications, take pictures, bring itineraries, yadda yadda and more yadda yaddas.
I went with my gal pal Wei (thanks girl) to San Francisco to go to the consulate. When we arrived we grabbed a number. I looked up and saw that they were on #180. We were #195. It took HOURS to get to #195 but when it was all over, I got my visa.
So it's official, Brazil says they are crazy enough to let me in, I wonder if they know what they have done! LOL Brazil will never be the same again.
I can't wait. I'll be there in a few weeks. EEEKKK!
I'll be in San Paulo and then I'm going to Rio!!

On Sunday Christiane and Pattie through a baby shower for Angel. It was soooo beautiful! There were a lot of people there and we had the best time EVER!
I'll post pictures soon.

Like usual gotta say how grateful I am for my friends!!! ERIN, I love you girl!!!! You're a lifer (someone you know will be in your life forever!) PO...girl you are my sister!!! I love you my darlin!!! I love you Christiane, Pattie, Wei, Linda, Jeannie, Emelyn, Carla, Satyn, Janice, and Nicole. You gals ROCK!

Biscuit, omg he's so stinkin' cute and we love him!!! The happiness he has brought Sierra is amazing!!!! I need to take more pictures for you to see him.

Okay gotta get back to getting things ready for this weekend.
Have a good one.

Hugs
Suzy

Having the time of your life...

...dig in the dancing queen!!! Love me some ABBA!! We had our girls night last week and had a freaking blast!!
There were about 15 of us that got together in Mountain View to watch Mama Mia! OMG We had the "time of our life!" LOL Erin and I sat next to each other and were laughing (coughcoughsnortingcoughcough) the entire night.
Here are some of the pictures from our night.

ohhh and this is for you!!! DANCING QUEEN. enjoy

Hugs, Suzy West

A dream come true

I have heard the words, " I want my own puppy" a thousand times. A thousand times I have told her the same thing, "when you're older".

On her last birthday we sat down and watched an old movie called, My dog skip. It was such a cute movie about a boy who gets a dog and he brings him so much happiness. Sierra smiled, giggled, and cried through out the entire movie.

When it was over the words, "Mommy I want a puppy so much!" came out of her mouth.

I told her that we would start "LOOKING" and "RESEARCHING" puppies and that we would get her one when she turned eight.

I remembered the puppy place where we got Sassy and planned to go there one day. We were on our walk from my store to Starbucks and I heard the sounds of puppies. I looked around and saw that a cute little puppy store was opening that day.

Sierra was in HEAVEN!!! We hung out there for a while and played with all the puppies. The owner Joey is a doll and talked with Sierra and I for a long time.

Well since that day we have been there almost EVERY DAY hanging out and helping with a lot of different things.

We have really got to know them and we love them to pieces.

As a thank you for all the help Joey gave Sierra her very own puppy.

The words, "I'm so happy I can explode" came out of her mouth.

She got to choose her own puppy and this is the one that she wanted.

This really is a dream come true. She's so happy!!!!
Here are some of the pictures I took of her the night we picked 'Biscuit' up.

Fun with the Family

Sunday was so much fun! We planned to get up early and go to Quarry Lakes. Christian and Jeremy were at the puppy store all day so the rest of us met over there.

It was blazing hot but we enjoyed our time there. Here are some the pictures I took. They are soooo not in order.

Sleeping in...

wow, it feels good to sleep in. I haven't done that in a super long time. Angel opened the store for me this morning and Paul took the kids to work with him so I stayed in bed...and even though I couldn't sleep because my body is use to waking up at 7am I forced myself to stay in bed.
I watched tv, and watched tv, and watched more tv. LOL
What did I watch???? The Olympics, The Illusionist, and Batman Forever (don't ask me why).
I do so much during the week it was really nice to just sleep in.
Hugs
Suzy

"I'm warning you Suzy......"

"I'm going to take off your phone". Those are the words that came out of Paul's mouth the other day. WHY???
Because I've been baadddddddddddddddddddddddddd! I use my cell phone so much that I go over every month.
Well he warned me and warned me that he was going to take it off a few months ago and he finally did! Just because I went over 3,000 minutes. I'm sure I had important things to talk about.
"Erin....what ya doing?"
"Rocio do you want to go to La Fondue?"
"random stranger....why is the sky so blue?"
Well it was off and he didn't put it on for a while. The girls would laugh at me because I was having serious withdrawls.
So I need to watch my phone usage. It's getting out of control again.
The funny thing is...that I actually don't like using the phone. Isn't that wierd? The only time I like to be on it is when I use the cell phone. It's like it's calling out my name in a sweet intoxicating voice and I pick it up with love. my precious
Regular phones? don't like them but oh well. I need to use them more. So everyone that calls me on my cell phone....help a sister out....call me at work. LOL
Have a good one.
Hugs
Suzy