Birthdays @ the UPS Store... :)

This last week both Sara and I reached the completion date of nineteen years on earth... :) We are now twenty!!!

Cake, candles,

custom made birthday cards,

balloons, free lunch, and "Happy Birthday!!!" banners!

+ being thoroughly spoiled by Sam

= Some very happy females around here.

:) Thank you!

:) Work, Coffee, Hemp, and Flowers (what I've been working on)

Hello. How are ya'll doing today? :) So far my day has been wonderful. We have a great, wonderful, and awesome God! This week up at Faith we are having VBS. :) It has been fun. We took some pictures but I don't have them with me so, I'll do a post on it sometime next week. But for now, here is little bit of what I've been doing.

:) Does this look familiar??? We have some really BIG print jobs for some schools we are working on here at work. Dear crazy old Sam (as Anna affectionately calls him) has been doing a great deal of the work. The printing is going well. As of right know we've only called the printer tech. once and he was able to fix the problem the first visit.

:) Sam went to Starbucks this morning and came back with some goodies!!!

Thank you Sam!!!

The last couple of weeks I've had the urge to make something... At times it can be rather interesting what I end up with. A couple of years ago Aunt Ola (my moms youngest sister) taught me how to make hemp jewelry. :) It's really easy, all you are doing is tying knots. It has been awhile since I have made any so I thought it was about time. I don't like wearing it, it itches my wrist and neck and drives me crazy! I enjoy making it and giving it away. :) Let me know if you would like any.

The bracelet above is my favorite pattern. :) Trevor very sweetly held the end of it and handed me beads when I was working on it over at his house Tuesday night. It was a really big help. :) Thank you Trevor.

These two are just random. I think the one below looks like smiley faces.

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The UPS dress code is black or tan(... I've almost worn all of my tan skirts out. :)). So I made one. It looked rather plain so I decided to add some flowers. I bought a black skirt about a year ago that had flowers on it which is where I got the idea. I've been wanting to try it for awhile so I gave it a shot. Here is how it came out.

:o) I like this flower the best. And I'm very happy with the way it turned out. :) I might do it again sometime.

(Shhhh Adah's birthday is coming up. Do you think it would be something she would like???)

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:) Have a great day!

Today at the UPS Store

Hello I'm at work and at the moment it's kind of slow. (.... and of course no sooner had I typed that when customers started coming through the door.) We are in the middle of a huge copying job for Bryson Middle School. Would you like to see what we are doing???

Sam set up a table for us to lay everything out on while we are working. :) It was very sweet of him.

Hmm... let see. We have four differant colores of card stock that all have the samething on them. We get to make up LOTS of little piles with one of each of the four colors.

Then we combine them with the 22 page handbook that prints off in sets of 25 and put them into a small box.

So far we've got 550 sets done so that leaves 950 left to do. Well, Sam just got back with more boxes so back to work we go... :) Never mind I get to go home!!!

My mother has tried time after time to teach us that it is very bad to stick signs on people... :) We still do it anyway. This is the one Sam put on me this morning... It says, 'Smile. It makes people wonder what you are up to!'

(Mommy it's all Sam's fault.... :) well mostly!)

The first day of May :)

:) Today is Thursday May the first... This means our fearless leader Josh (as Sam lovingly calls the store owner) was in to pay bills and print out our house account holders monthly bills.

Here he is hard at work. When he is here doing this my job gets a lot harder. I get to keep the customers as far away as I possibly can.

Normally there is something like this you can see floating around above his head.

Oh but this morning to my delight he was quite pleasant to be around. He even laughed a little and let me take a picture (and he SMILED!!!). He does not like having his picture taken. :)

Recently the store has been rather slow in the mornings. Last week I started been bringing in my cross stitching so I'll have something to do. People see it on my chair and find it hard to believe that a young person knows how to and enjoys doing it. :) Here is what I'm working on.

This is what the pattern looks like.

I love watching it start to take form. Don't know why but it is a quite relaxing past time... even the undoing after miss counting part. Hmmm have I gone crazy???

:) A good Week

Hello :) My week has turned out to be a lot of fun. Sheppard asked Adah and me to help him stain a log cabin. So after work I've been driving to Duncan to work some more. :)

Below are parts of the front and sides.

This is the back of the house that looks out on the lake.

:) The dog you see is Winston. He is just a puppy and is a very happy one at that.
He is Adah's most favourites dog.

To the right of the stairs if you look carefully you can just make out a stump. Yesterday the lady of the house came home with flowers and planted them in the center were it had rotted out. They looked very beautiful in the stump and really helped to dressed up spot.

It was so nice and peaceful here it is quite amazing we got any work done at all. :)

They (Sheppard, Adah, and Lance) are finishing up the first coat today and we are hoping to have the second one done by the end of next week.

:) Another one of Sheppard's happy faces.

Adah and Sheppard putting up the scaffolding so we can stain the porch ceiling.

:) I have not spent much time with them in long time and it has been really nice getting to do this together.

Older brothers! He claimed to have gotten it all out...

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Sheppard and Adah on the way home after a good day of work.

Sam is 62!!!

Yesterday was April the 1st and Sam's birthday.

Here are some pictures...

Anna's birthday gift to Sam (Tea and a card).

She lovingly refers to Sam as "Crazy Dear Old Sam"

:) He really liked the card she gave him. The front reads 'A long long time ago...'

Then when you open it the theme song from star wars starts playing and 'you were born' is written. He has been showing it to everyone!!!

Bonnie gave him a book and I bought him lunch.

:) He seemed to really have enjoyed his birthday.

(Note for self: When giving Sam a gift make sure to put on lots of ribbon... He does not like cutting it and thus has to untie it all.)

The UPS Store

:) I am employed at The UPS Store in Simpsonville

and therefore that is where I spend a great deal of my time.

This is Anna Tyndall and my boss Sam.

:) We enjoy teasing him...

and I think he rather enjoys teasing back.

This is Sara Kamp (one of my meny cousins). She works here in the afternoons

The lady above is Bonnie. She has a great sense humor and is a delight to work with. She recently moved to one of the other stores Josh Hermann owns (He owns three altogether). I now work the hours she was working. :) She still comes by to visit and ask about Trevor.