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Friday, December 31, 2010
A List of the good & bad most memorial moments of our 2010
For those of you who didn't get my New Year's Day or Holiday Card here is the blog version...I added a few pics so click around and reminisce with me on a great year!
Adam and Maddie tie the knot New Year’s Day on the beach!
Finally took the ugly duck wallpaper down in our bathroom!
Disney and all that Magic!
Taking rides in Papsy’s new Gator at the farm.
Macey started Kindergarten, and Mom and Dad cry!
Visitors that wouldn’t go away.
Trips to Savannah Georgia, Look out Mountain Chattanooga Tennessee, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Michigan, Indiana Dunes, South Bend Studebaker Museum, Evansville and of course our city…Indianapolis.
Taylor moved in a new house.
Paul completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Gavin survived 4th grade.
Fishing at Grammy & Papa’s.
Macey gets her American Girl Doll!
Welcome baby Nicholas. Gavin and Macey have a new cousin.
October weekends on the Ohio River.
Hiking at Turkey Run with the kids.
Macey jumps off the Diving Board. Thanks Merv!
Playing ponies at Ellis Park.
Jack’s encounter with the family of skunks.
Taylor finds out she get to graduate early. We are so proud!
Gavin joins facebook, gets a cell phone and has one awesome Nerf gun birthday party.
Adam & Maddie get their own place and move to Ohio.
Rocking out to Train at the Indianapolis Arts Garden.
Kary and her camera to capture all of the above.
Paul spending time behind the wheel of his Studebaker.
Adam and Maddie tie the knot New Year’s Day on the beach!
Finally took the ugly duck wallpaper down in our bathroom!
Disney and all that Magic!
Taking rides in Papsy’s new Gator at the farm.
Macey started Kindergarten, and Mom and Dad cry!
Visitors that wouldn’t go away.
Trips to Savannah Georgia, Look out Mountain Chattanooga Tennessee, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Michigan, Indiana Dunes, South Bend Studebaker Museum, Evansville and of course our city…Indianapolis.
Taylor moved in a new house.
Paul completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Gavin survived 4th grade.
Fishing at Grammy & Papa’s.
Macey gets her American Girl Doll!
Welcome baby Nicholas. Gavin and Macey have a new cousin.
October weekends on the Ohio River.
Hiking at Turkey Run with the kids.
Macey jumps off the Diving Board. Thanks Merv!
Playing ponies at Ellis Park.
Jack’s encounter with the family of skunks.
Taylor finds out she get to graduate early. We are so proud!
Gavin joins facebook, gets a cell phone and has one awesome Nerf gun birthday party.
Adam & Maddie get their own place and move to Ohio.
Rocking out to Train at the Indianapolis Arts Garden.
Kary and her camera to capture all of the above.
Paul spending time behind the wheel of his Studebaker.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Resolutions…
Before you run out and confirm your New Years Resolutions, consider this...
Recently I read a book by Lisa Scottoline titled “Why my Third Husband will be a Dog.” One chapter she devoted to New Year’s Resolutions and suggested that instead of making New Resolutions that you won’t keep, make a list of all the things that you are doing right and make a vow to continue doing them.
Here is my list of things I wish to continue…
Record the journey, and continue to archive our road map as a family. My children may not know where they are going, but they will know where they have come from. Be it notes, letters, old calendars filled with daily journals of what we did that day, baby books, a million photographs, ticket stubs, and of course my blog. Someday I will be gone, but the images I capture, and the notes I write will be left behind. I imagine them being treasured for generations to come, or rediscovered someday by my great, great grandchildren. What a gift!
I will not stop kissing and hugging my children goodnight and goodbye! Gavin still asks me to come and tuck him in, and is always handing out hugs and kisses. I am determined to hang on to this. I have never been a touchy feely person. It is only a small circle of people whom I will share my space with and I want to continue this with them.
I will continue to pamper myself with simple luxuries. By this I mean, I will do the necessary maintenance to make myself feel good. I will continue to splurge and spend the $$$ every six weeks to color my hair and wax my eyebrows! I will occasional not buy the needless toy my kids want and instead buy something for myself. Be it another pair of sexy high heels, or a new dress. If I don’t do this for myself, then who will? And I will not feel guilty about this!
I will keep reading… my new found love! I use to feel that reading was a waste of time. If I was going to read…I had to read something that would be useful to my growth as an individual, or read something only to gain knowledge about a subject. Now I will read anything. I am upset that I have missed out on so many wonderful books for decades. Every book I read gives me a new perspective, builds my vocabulary, and teaches me about people, places and things…what a true gift. Read on…..
I will continue to study photography, take photos and learn as much as I can about my camera and this craft.
I will stay married My third husband will not have the option to be a dog! I enjoy being married to Paul and I am proud of the life we have built together.
I challenge you to think of a few things you are doing right and want to continue in the coming year! I hope what you find within yourself will be as enlightening as it was for me. So…really what will you continue to do this year? Post it on here…share it!
Recently I read a book by Lisa Scottoline titled “Why my Third Husband will be a Dog.” One chapter she devoted to New Year’s Resolutions and suggested that instead of making New Resolutions that you won’t keep, make a list of all the things that you are doing right and make a vow to continue doing them.
Here is my list of things I wish to continue…
Record the journey, and continue to archive our road map as a family. My children may not know where they are going, but they will know where they have come from. Be it notes, letters, old calendars filled with daily journals of what we did that day, baby books, a million photographs, ticket stubs, and of course my blog. Someday I will be gone, but the images I capture, and the notes I write will be left behind. I imagine them being treasured for generations to come, or rediscovered someday by my great, great grandchildren. What a gift!
I will not stop kissing and hugging my children goodnight and goodbye! Gavin still asks me to come and tuck him in, and is always handing out hugs and kisses. I am determined to hang on to this. I have never been a touchy feely person. It is only a small circle of people whom I will share my space with and I want to continue this with them.
I will continue to pamper myself with simple luxuries. By this I mean, I will do the necessary maintenance to make myself feel good. I will continue to splurge and spend the $$$ every six weeks to color my hair and wax my eyebrows! I will occasional not buy the needless toy my kids want and instead buy something for myself. Be it another pair of sexy high heels, or a new dress. If I don’t do this for myself, then who will? And I will not feel guilty about this!
I will keep reading… my new found love! I use to feel that reading was a waste of time. If I was going to read…I had to read something that would be useful to my growth as an individual, or read something only to gain knowledge about a subject. Now I will read anything. I am upset that I have missed out on so many wonderful books for decades. Every book I read gives me a new perspective, builds my vocabulary, and teaches me about people, places and things…what a true gift. Read on…..
I will continue to study photography, take photos and learn as much as I can about my camera and this craft.
I will stay married My third husband will not have the option to be a dog! I enjoy being married to Paul and I am proud of the life we have built together.
I challenge you to think of a few things you are doing right and want to continue in the coming year! I hope what you find within yourself will be as enlightening as it was for me. So…really what will you continue to do this year? Post it on here…share it!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Phobias
Most of us have one…what is yours? My husband makes fun of my phobia, as if it were way out there in left field, but I have to tell you what his is first. Here is a picture of what he is afraid of.
Yeah, that is right spoons. He has this thing about eating from a spoon. He does not like spoons to touch his food in anyway. He hates restaurants that put spoons in your unsweet tea . He tends to favor the restaurants that don’t even place spoons on the table unless you order something that requires them. And yes, there are restaurants that do this. Bet you haven’t even noticed this before! He even eats ice-cream with a fork. Which I have to say after sharing some very frozen chocolate brown chunk ice-cream I actually found it easier to eat…and thought he might be on to something.
The photos above show a gift from my sister Katie to my husband Paul on his 40th birthday. They (she and my family) took spoons from various establishments and recorded the amount of the dinner, or trip to get the spoon. She collected 40 of them and then displayed them nicely. They hung in our kitchen for years, but then they started falling off. Paul re-gifted them in our dirty Santa gift to our family. Unfortunately Katie got the spoons back, and I know her mind is already plotting and scheming for another way to showcase these lovely spoons. Paul and I just washed them all (as they did not wash them before hanging) and put them in a nice utensil organizer. Who can’t use a few extra spoons, besides my husband?
As for my phobia…there is no photo (you can thank me now). I don’t photograph the things I hate…and what I hate the most in this life, well…actually there are two things I hate the most and I don’t know which I would rather do. I hate throwing up…and I hate flying. And flying makes me throw up, or feel as if I am going to. So ok…the fear of flying is totally irrational, but please tell me who does not mind being sick? I use to take this to an entire other level and hated throw up in general, and I still do, but something about having kids made me have to step up to the plate, take one for the team, and suck it up. You can’t be a mom and not deal with a little or a lot of throw up now and again. It is just something that comes with the territory.
So tell me is my phobia of vomit really that out there?
Hum, spoons or barf…you tell me!
Yeah, that is right spoons. He has this thing about eating from a spoon. He does not like spoons to touch his food in anyway. He hates restaurants that put spoons in your unsweet tea . He tends to favor the restaurants that don’t even place spoons on the table unless you order something that requires them. And yes, there are restaurants that do this. Bet you haven’t even noticed this before! He even eats ice-cream with a fork. Which I have to say after sharing some very frozen chocolate brown chunk ice-cream I actually found it easier to eat…and thought he might be on to something.
The photos above show a gift from my sister Katie to my husband Paul on his 40th birthday. They (she and my family) took spoons from various establishments and recorded the amount of the dinner, or trip to get the spoon. She collected 40 of them and then displayed them nicely. They hung in our kitchen for years, but then they started falling off. Paul re-gifted them in our dirty Santa gift to our family. Unfortunately Katie got the spoons back, and I know her mind is already plotting and scheming for another way to showcase these lovely spoons. Paul and I just washed them all (as they did not wash them before hanging) and put them in a nice utensil organizer. Who can’t use a few extra spoons, besides my husband?
As for my phobia…there is no photo (you can thank me now). I don’t photograph the things I hate…and what I hate the most in this life, well…actually there are two things I hate the most and I don’t know which I would rather do. I hate throwing up…and I hate flying. And flying makes me throw up, or feel as if I am going to. So ok…the fear of flying is totally irrational, but please tell me who does not mind being sick? I use to take this to an entire other level and hated throw up in general, and I still do, but something about having kids made me have to step up to the plate, take one for the team, and suck it up. You can’t be a mom and not deal with a little or a lot of throw up now and again. It is just something that comes with the territory.
So tell me is my phobia of vomit really that out there?
Hum, spoons or barf…you tell me!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Best Christmas Gifts for Kids...a box...
Santa brought my Myrt a cardboard castle that she can color....
Wow! What a great idea! How did he know that she and the dog would love it so!
Wow! What a great idea! How did he know that she and the dog would love it so!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Watch me grow old....
As promised here are me and my sister's Christmas pics....
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New Year's Eve 1999
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New Year's Eve 1999
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
My Sisters and I
Every Christmas since I was 18 my sisters and I have tired to get a Christmas photo. There has been a handful of years that I have missed, last year was one of them. So here we are for this years Christmas Photo....Katie, Kelly and me!
I am going to look for all of them and try to post them this week so be sure to check back later!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Santa was full of caprizes (Macey's word for surprises) this year. Merry Christmas...and to my sisters I love ya!
I am going to look for all of them and try to post them this week so be sure to check back later!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Santa was full of caprizes (Macey's word for surprises) this year. Merry Christmas...and to my sisters I love ya!
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