Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 16

Last night my sister in law and I went to get all of the food for Thanksgiving dinner! I am getting so excited since this will be the first Thanksgiving that I will be making. I can't wait. My sister in law is going to come over and we are going to cook all night. Thank goodness she knows what she is doing lol. I am really looking forward to Thanksgiving, I also love that I am blogging a lot more, even if no one reads my blog hehehe.

So today I am thankful for Netflix. Because of the Netflix app on my iPhone , I was allowed an extra hour of sleep before Alanna woke up. It kept Caden busy and he laid on the floor in my room watching movies all night. So hats off to you Netflix!

Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 15

I just love this, don't you?

The kids are finally headed back to school today! Hooray! I am looking forward to a nap this afternoon. I stayed up watching For Colored Girls, which I don't recommend. I love Tyler Perry but this movie was a lot of nothing with a side of disturbing. I'm sad that I am so tired because of it. Looks like I will be drinking lots of coffee to make it through this morning, I'd give anything for another hour of sleep this morning.

This morning I am thankful for my momma. She is the best mom ever, yesterday she went to pick up the kids meds for me, she always does things like that. My mom will bend over backwards for people, she is always here for me and I don't know what I would do without her. Thanks mom for always being there for me and being a great mom. I am truly blessed to have such a great mom.

Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 14

Another day that Maddie was home from school , she had 103 fever this morning and was crying of an ear ache. I'm telling you if  it's not one thing, it's another. Caden woke up with his eyes crusted shut....awesome. So I took them both to the doctors to get some medicine because clearly things are not getting any better around here lol. So it turns out that Maddie has croup, a sinus infection, and a double ear infection. Caden has a double ear infection, a sinus infection and an eye infection. So They are on a ton a meds. I'm just glad we got this taken care of because I hate seeing my babies sick.  I'm hoping they are feeling better enough for school tomorrow. 

Leo started his 4/10's at work this week, meaning he works 4 10 hour days so he has to go in at 4:30 which SUCKS!  But the plus side is that he is off on Friday so we are camping out with this kids. It's going to be a lot of fun....as long as they are feeling better :/

Anyway, Today I am thankful for my health.....although I have a slight cough I am pretty lucky that so far it hasn't been too bad. Because every mom knows that it sucks being a mom and being sick.

Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 12 & 13

Yesterday I didn't have a chance to post because I was completely exhausted by the time I got home. We went to our friends house warming party and stayed there pretty much all day and night. So I was beat. Today we had a ton of people over for the Ravens game and I got to try out a few recipes I got on Pinterest. For those of you who have no idea what it is, definitely check it out because it's life changing lol. I have become super motivated, crafty and organized thanks to this site. It's fantastic! I have spent the last 4 days cleaning, organizing and rearranging my house because I caught the cleaning bug. Leo has no idea what happened to his wife but he likes it. hehehe. I still have a ton of laundry to finish even though I did like 10 loads already. I feel like I can never catch up.



Anyway, today I am thankful for awesome parties with awesome people! I had a good time yesterday and today and I love all of my awesome friends!

Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 11

Today is 11/11/11, what a cool day. I don't believe in wishes and such but it's still pretty cool. But you know what is even cooler....it's Veterans Day. So today I am thankful for my freedom. I am thankful for all of those who fought for our freedom as well of those who died for our freedom. So today lets stand for those brave men and woman who have and will risk their lives so that we can have our freedom.

I am also thankful for my Daddy who was a WWII Vet. He served in the U.S Navy and fought in WWII. My dad is the smartest man I know, because he did everything he could to learn. He taught himself to read and write. He is amazing. He worked hard all of his life to support his family and I was lucky enough to have him retire when I was born so that he could be home with me. He knows pretty much everything and can build anything. Up until last year he was still climbing on the roof to repair it. It doesn't matter how old he gets he still does everything lol.  My dad is the ultimate role model, he has been through so much in his almost 88 years and he taught me so much about life, and still continues to teach me everyday. He is such a wonderful man, and I can't speak highly enough about him because I am the luckiest girl in the whole world that I get to call him daddy!  Thank you dad for everything you have done for me. I am truly grateful to have you as my daddy! I love you so much!

This is my dad during WWII, he was about 22 here

Not a great pic of us but I can't seem to find my favorite pic :(

My favorite recent pic of my daddy!

100 posts!

This makes my 100th post! Woohoo! How cool is that. I will post my thankful post later but I wanted to make the 100th post all about 100! :) So here are a few random facts about the number 100!

• 100 is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, as well as the sum of two prime numbers (47 + 53), and the sum of the cubes of the first four integers (100 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3). Also, 2^6 + 6^2 = 100

• On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

• An ant can lift 100 times its own weight.

• Wolves are capable of covering over 100 miles in a single day.

• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

• Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers

• A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh only 38 pounds on Mars and could jump three times as high

• A transplanted heart beats about 100 beats per minute (70 beats is about normal)

• A dog's sense of smell is about 100 times better than a person's.

• A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

• Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!.

• Crocodiles can live up to 100 years.

• Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

• Sharks can live up to 100 years.

• Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!

Thankfulness ; The Countdown to Thanksgiving Day 10

Today was pretty uneventful, other then the fact I spent a small fortune on baskets lol. Pinterest put me in the organization mood so I decided to clean.....which of course Leo was thrilled about....no really he was thrilled. He loves when I clean and usually if I clean well he rewards me with letting me sleep in. lol I know that sounds funny but you have no idea what a few extra hours of sleep compared to an hour or two of cleaning can do. He's wonderful! It's the little things that make it work lol. Needless to say my house looks wonderful....at least the living room and kitchen....I'm too tired to do the rest, but the kids rooms, our room and the bathroom is on the agenda tomorrow....giving that I can move in the morning. :)

Anyway, on to my thankfulness.....Today I am thankful for my beautiful little monster Alanna Robin. Alanna is crazy...all of the time. She's really smart and I can't believe how grown she is already. She is talking in sentences and everything....now if I could just get her potty trained. hehehe kidding, sorta. Miss Alanna is so funny and she loves Poptarts....no I'm not kidding....if we don't have poptarts ready for her in the morning you can cue the meltdown. She LOVES them! She also loves to color, play dress up and she loves monkeys. She's such a silly girl and my heart.

Photo's by Erin Dickson Photography.