Leather Wrist Band problems I need your help

In 10 days I will be celebrating my 2 year anniversary with my boyfriend, Adam. I bought a set of matching leather wrist bands that I had personalized but there is a slight issue. Mine is too big length wise. It would not be a problem if the wrist bands weren't wide, but they have to be 2 inches wide to fit the whole date on them. So my question for you is how to effectively and quickly shrink the wrist band ( already tried water and the dryer and just letting it sit) or what to use to make it smaller ( like an extra snap) That is easy and effective. It has a set of heavy duty snaps on it which is why it's too big, if it was like a belt or Velcro it would be ok. Any advice my fellow bloggers?

High School

Do you remember when you were younger and couldn't wait to walk in on the first day? Or even now, some of your kids or grand kids are probably in elementary school and telling of exciting tails. Not me. High school. Love it, but hate it. I love the freedom, seeing my friends, some of my classes and teachers. Not really loving getting up before the sun, living 25 minutes from school, or how long the classes are. But love it or not, they say high school is some of the best years of your life. Hmm, i don't know about that one yet, but I'm going to make the best of it. What were the best years of your life?

It can be terrifying even when it doesn't involve you ( not exactly a post for little kids)

Today was filled with a little bit of panic. Let me start by filling you in with a little information about the two high schools my town is districted to.There are two high schools that are down the street from each other. Three middle schools are districted to my high school. My middle school however was split in half. One side of my town goes to our rival school with other towns, while my side goes to my high school with some of the same other towns and different ones. Now that we've got that straight, a lot of my friends from middle school attend the rival high school. Today there were students in the halls crying and standing around very serious talking a bout a supposed suicide at the other high school. I did not know if this information was true or just a rumor. Even if I didn't attend the school it still hit me that most of my friends attend that school and are dealing with issues in their lives. I had to stop what I was doing and say a little prayer for all my friends and pray they were safe. Other students were texting but I was not about to get my phone taken away so I had 3 hours to wait to find out what really happened. It turns out that there was a dead body found hanging from the bleachers this morning. It was not a student from the school or even a resident of the town. The body was found and reported by a jogger who runs the track most mornings. Even though I do not attend that school, I still had a mini heart attack being out of the loop and not knowing how my close friends were and right now i'm thanking God that they are okay and praying for the family of the suicide victim. Thank you God for keeping my friends safe.

I love critter

No matter how irritating he can be, and believe me he's more like the little brother I never had than a cousin, this kid always makes me smile. I <3 Critter.

fireworks at the gardens

I can always dream right?

This is a picture of me and mans best friend, other wise known as Lucky. Who can actually be a devil dog but is usually a good buddy. Lucky is my friend Heathers dog and he'll be five years old in a few months. Her grandmother asked us to write our Christmas lists yesterday and it got me to thinking, what do I really want? Sure I wrote down, Ipod Touch, clothes, etc. But what I really want, What I've always wanted is a dog. And every year my parents say no for some reason. But this year, yet again, I will hope that maybe i've grown more responsible, or something in their hearts has changed, and I will hope that sitting under the tree in three months will be a Finnish Spits, or a Patterdale Terrier, or anything with four legs, a tail, that's alive and barks. If that was the only thing I got I would be happy. But atleast I can always dream. If anyone's reading this, share with me your dog stories.

Critter :)