Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday today to my Dad!!!

(aka "Pops" or "Grandpa")

We hope that your birthday is very special & we can't wait to celebrate with you later tonight!

Love,

Anita, Scott & Luke

P.S. We're also very pleased to hear that your electricity (after being out for several days after the recent ice storm) was restored just in time too! :)

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday to my 1st little sister~Emily!!! :)

It's a "golden" one-29 on the 29th!

Enjoy the end of your twenties-next year you can be 'old' with me ;)
(Just kidding!)

Hope it is one very special day!!!

Love,
Your big sis~Anita

Life right now...

is SUPER crazy at the moment!

*Volleyball practices officially started this week. We held tryouts last week (on the one day we didn't have a snow day :) and one day this week.) That is always a tough thing-not enough spaces and too many sad faces-I didn't sleep very well that night :( Unfortunately we have also had to work around remaining basketball seasons at the moment so getting gym time has been a little tough & very unconsistent. We're able to practice everyday, but the time has been different each day...confusing for us as well as the players...it should settle down soon though...

*On top of volleyball, this week has been filled with places that I need to be either almost immediately or immediately after practice. Monday=parish council meeting and Wednesday=teaching PSR so both of these nights were fairly late nights where I wasn't home at all (maybe an hour on Monday) during the course of an entire day, which makes for a looong feeling week...

*I have also officially signed up for an official running event (I will probably have more on this in a future post) this spring so have been attempting to train around all of these different practice times and places to be as well...

*I am definitely going to be in need of some quality time with my little guy (& the big one too I guess :) since we've gone from "Snow day=all day together & lots of them" to maybe a good hour a day spent together in just the past 2 weeks...

*Outside of the lack of family quality time (which I was well aware of when I stepped up for the coaching postition), it has been a good experience & worth it! And, last but not least,
THANK GOD FOR A WONDERFUL BABYSITTER!!!!! :)
We're definitely blessed that she doesn't seem to mind spending some extra quality time with Luke during this time of year!

It's "Pretty Fly"! ;)

I had been putting off adding music tracks to my phone. Why? I really have no good reason...I just hadn't done it. I kept thinking that it would be nice to have this as a backup to listen to when I'm somewhere besides home & get a chance to go running if for some reason my MP3 player wasn't with me (which it is not most of the time.) Well, yesterday, I asked Scott if he would mind doing that & lucky for me, I have a nice husband who did just that :) I told him to add whatever he could find on our computer & then I would sort them into playlists later. Well, once again, lucky for me, Luke has taken some SUPER naps over the past two snow days & I ended up with time on my hands to sort out the songs. It was great getting to hear parts of old favorites, remembering certain memories when certain song titles came up & rediscovering songs I had forgotten.

There were several that instantly made me laugh like this classic that I had "forgotten" :)
Enjoy!

"Make Me Think" (at least for a little bit anyway :)

I haven't done one of these for a very long time, but am short on 'material' (at least any that I think you all would find interesting) & I happened upon my little book of questions here in the office so here it goes. I decided that since today is 1-20, I would choose question 120 (brilliant philosophy...your impressed...I can tell ;)

Question #120: "Would you accept $10,000 to shave your head and continue your normal activities sans hat or wig without explaining the reason for your haircut?"

Answer: YES!!! We're talking about $10,000 folks and it's just hair! Although, this book was copyrighted in 1985/1987 so I would have to say that some things have changed. I think that any doctor would medically recommend that one at least wear a hat when out in the sun (with sunblock of course) to decrease sun exposure, but as for not wearing a hat otherwise...sure. I do admit, though, it would be very hard to part with my hair, however, the question does not state that it would be a permanent thing so knowing that all I'm really doing is waiting for it to grow back, well, I think that would make it easier. Especially, knowing that $10,000 could go a long way around here...house/property projects or pay off part of mortgage or go towards future adoption(s) or Luke's college fund, etc, etc, etc...plus I wouldn't have to take time to mess with fixing my hair everyday either ! :)

So, yes, I could part with my hair temporarily if it meant helping out my family in a major way! The hardest parts would be people assuming that there was something wrong with my health and not telling anybody why I actually did it ;)

Four Bottles

Sorry folks, I'm short on ideas at the moment! My nasal/sinus passages have been wreaking havoc on my brain today and the past few days~so the thought of typing coherent thoughts has been low on my list of things to do. I have been blessed to get in a few naps though over the weekend, which means you get the benefit of a post...a ripped-off from an email post...but still it's a post! :)

I received this from a friend a long time ago & saved it because it still makes me laugh every time. It's short, but to the point...

Beware if you don't like crude language, there is ONE cuss word coming right up!

"Life can be summarized in four bottles...

SHIT!!! We're on #3!!!" :)

Hope you enjoyed! ;)

The First Christmas...

probably wasn't exactly like this!

After finally getting to add the last additions (3 wise men & their camel) to his Nativity set on Epiphany Sunday, Luke decided to do this with all of them...

I myself always enjoy a nice Christmas parade too & wondered just how different the Christmas story would have been if our Luke was the Luke who wrote one of the versions of it :) I'm sure Thomas the train & company would have felt privileged to have been included. The parade is made even more complete by having all of the livestock at the end of it! Although, I'm not sure how much more glamorous it is for the Baby Jesus to be hauled around on a train car rather than resting in his manger, but at least he's the one at the front of it all...