A Month of Thankfulness

Happy Saturday!! 
Right now I’m thankful for a full, fun day with friends.  We drove a few hours southwest to watch the NC State/Clemson football game.  And although it didn’t turn out like we wanted it to, I’m so glad we went.  It was a gorgeous day, not as cold as we thought it would be.  The kids were well-behaved!  And we got to see an old friend and his daughters and catch up a bit.  On top of all that, we got to spend some long overdue quality time with Chad and Faith, who are always a blast.
So to sum up:  thankful for my family, my friends, a fun day. 
Not so thankful for the Wolfpack.  Or that I didn’t take any pictures.
OH! And thankful for an extra hour of SLEEP!!!!!

A Month of Thankfulness – Day 5

Today I’m just thankful it’s Friday.  I’m not trying to wish my life away, but sometimes I find myself living for the weekends!  And we haven’t even had a rough week! 

I just like spending time my family.  And although I’m with the kids all the time, it’s different when Daniel is here too.  It’s better when the team is all together, you know?

Random pics of the kids hyped up on sugar last weekend. 

Giggle-fest 2010

 

Have any fun plans for the weekend?   

A Month of Thankfulness – Day 4

Today I’m thankful for the rain outside.  I love days like this when we have no plans and can just stay in our pj’s and make rice krispie treats.  We might even do school. :)

I’m also thankful for my sweet husband and how hard he works for our family.  I’ll also be thankful when that work brings him back in town tonight. Even one night away is too much.

Happy Thursday!!

A Month of Thankfulness – Day 3

Today I am thankful for these little knuckleheads.

Even though one of them frequently has an attitude to rival her mother’s at age 16.  And one of them took scissors to his hair and left a nice little bald spot on the top of his head. 

See? Knuckleheads. 

A Month of Thankfulness – Day 2

Today I’m thankful for my sweet in-laws. 

First of all, they raised a great kid.  Well, actually they raised 3 great kids, but I’m partial to the middle one.

Also, they are fabulous grandparents.  Our kids LOVE going to Nana Jewel and Granddaddy’s.  They don’t let them go too crazy but on the other hand they spoil them like nobody’s business.  Just the perfect mix.

And as in-law’s, I hit the jackpot. They treat me like a daughter and I know they love me.  They give their opinion on things but also give us our space.  No in-law jokes around here!

 

Happy birthday Jewel!!

A Month of Thankfulness – Day One

Last night I stayed up WAY too late rereading my own blog.  I really enjoyed seeing old pictures and videos and reading silly things I’d forgotten about.  I went to bed thinking that I need to start blogging again. 

This morning I read Deidre’s post about thankfulness and decided to join her!  I need to focus on blessings around here and this is my favorite time of year (hello, someone has a birthday coming up!) so this is perfect!

Today I’m thankful for:

--My sweet neighbor who made my kids these:

(the back)

 

How precious is that?  She usually gives them a special treat bag at Halloween and always makes us cookies at Christmas.  But this year she went above and beyond!  Becca said, “Mom!  We need to make Miss B cookies AND write her a thank you note!”

--This little guy (nephew Ty)

His dad, my brother is a baseball coach, hence the uniform.  He’s almost 2 and talking up a storm. I could just squeeze him!

That’s what I’m thankful for today!  What about you?  

Random Friday

Random, random, random.  I have lots of random information floating around in my head and my fingers are itching to get it out.  That doesn’t happen often.  Hence, the infrequency of my blogging.  So let’s go with a list, shall we?
1. My husband has been out of town all week long and it is SO good to have him back.  I love that man.  And I just don’t feel right when he’s not around.  Everything just feels…off.

2.  I stuck my finger in my eye last night on accident (don’t ask) and I think I scratched it pretty good with my fingernail.  It hurts like crazy!  It’s too bad I don’t have some cool story about it, but I think I was just going to scratch my face and missed. ha!

3.  We started kindergarten with Hayes a few weeks ago and he is doing so well.  The kid is flying through his math book, doing at least 4 pages a day. 

4.  My little brother is engaged!  He finally asked his girlfriend of 4 years (5 years?) to marry him and they are planning a June ‘11 wedding.  That girl already has her dress and bridesmaid’s dresses!  Mine is in my closet as we speak!  It’s so cute and from JCrew. 

5.  Did I mention my eye hurts?

6.  I really thought I’d get 10 things on this list, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

7.  OH!  Have you seen this blog? http://catalogliving.net/  It’s the blog of a lady who I think is an actor/comedienne.  She was looking at a catalog one day and laughing at the set up of the scenes and started making up stories about the people who “lived” in them.  Now it’s a whole blog and some of them just crack me up!  She uses a lot of Pottery B*rn.

8.  Here are some pics from the summer!

4th of July in Blowing Rock

Becca knee boarding for the first time

He snuggled up to Mom and clung to her arm for about the first 5 minutes of the boat ride.

Then he got brave and moved to the front!

Jumping off the boat house

9.  I’m so ready for Fall!!

10.  Hey! I made it to 10!  Happy Friday!!