A Few of My Favorite Things (Irish Edition)

Hope you all had a LUCKY day!!!!

50 Years

Today is Josh's parents 50th Wedding Anniversary and also his mother's birthday! We are celebrating tonight at a family party. For those of you who read my last post, it has been a long time! Hopefully the craziness of life will slow down a bit so I can get back to blogging. But we did just buy a new TV, so maybe not! To those of you who read Josh's last post, I hope you realize that that man has enough love for himself, for the both of us, to last through the next 50 years! I love you babe, for the next 36 years, 6 months, 23 days and many more!!!

Long Time Coming

My goodness it's been a long time since I posted anything. You might think I had dropped off the face of the earth.
We had a wonderful Christmas,..thanks in large part to my fabulous husband.
It occurs to me I haven't talked about what a great man he is for awhile. While I have a hard time thinking of my favorite quality of his (because there are so many),near the top of the list would have to be his rugged good looks. Many's the night I couldn't sleep because I sat up staring at that angelic face. I really am a lucky woman to be married to such a simmering pot of manliness. Honestly, if I ever catch him with his shirt off, I'm done for the day. Most people haven't seen his chiseled six pack, but believe me,...it's there. And talk about buns of steel! You could bounce a quarter off that butt.
Next on the list is his fantastic sense of humor. I never truly appreciated bathroom humor until I knew him. Literally thousands of fart jokes at the ready, waiting to be unleashed to raucous laughter for one and all. The best part is,...that once he finds a joke, he won't let it drop. This is my favorite thing he does. Others might call this beating it into the ground, but I say "if it ain't broke,...don't fix it."
Did I mention what a great help he is around the house? Just the other day, not only did his socks AND underwear make it into the laundry, but he also washed all the shaving cream and whiskers down the drain. A lucky woman indeed.
I'm also crazy about his dog. I'm constantly looking for a reason to go out and see him, or pet him, or just wrestle with him. I am so happy Josh brought that lovable beast into our lives.
When he's not making a hilarious joke. He is a fabulous conversationalist. But sometimes we just watch TV. We could talk,...or not talk for hours.
Back on the physical side, he smells great. Not just out of the shower, but fresh home from work or a bike ride. I love nothing more than drawing deep into my nose, his manly essence. If only they could bottle it, they'd have a bestseller.
Obviously I could go on for hours about what a great man I married, and if I didn't think it would crash the servers at Google I would, but right now, I'm gonna go up and show that stud what I really think of him.
Love,
The happ-iest girl,...in the whole USA

Give Thanks

Our computer was out sick with a nasty virus, so I'm a little late with all this. But this blog is like my journal, so here goes.

Dear Journal,

I am super thankful for crafts. Just Kidding, I'm no TAMN.

Okay on a serious note, I really am thankful for a bit of craftiness. I am no professional, but I do good enough to get by. I have a plate rack in my kitchen that rarely has a plate in it. After I took down my super cute BOO sign, I was sad that I didn't have anything Thanksgivingish to put up. However, I do have a plethora of cute paper, so I went to work on this:

I am really good at cutting rectangles and then pasting them in a line. Really good.

Speaking of really good, the desserts I made for our Thanksgiving dinner were REALLY GOOD!

I am not really a pie person, so I signed up for a pumpkin cheesecake and accompanied that with white chocolate-raspberry cheesecake bars. 5 packages of cream cheese. Yum. Plus they made super leftovers to eat while I watched The Biggest Loser. Not kidding about that.

Here are the recipes:

PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

WHITE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE BARS

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!

I went to see New Moon and all I got was.........

this super HOT beverage holder! Wasn't the movie just fantastic?!? Like a million times better than the first one! Can't wait for Eclipse in June!!!!!!!

The many (somewhat cranky) faces of Molly

This girl. Oh, this girl. She is lucky she is so cute, because we may have thrown her out. For as much as she makes us laugh and smile, there is just as much screaming and crying. Don't let the cuteness fool you!

Darn we make cute kids!

This year I choose not to participate in school pictures (AKA "the Chicken Man"). Josh did not agree, but who says he's in charge. He gave me a deadline to get the kids pictures taken, and I succeeded with the help of my little friend I call Torie. I call her Torie because, well that's her name. She took our family pictures last year and I knew she would do a great job. All I provided was these darn cute kids, and I succeeded in that regard as well!

Halloween '09

Carving Pumpkins

Trick~or~Treating

Owen

Gavin

Molly the Cat

Have I mentioned that Molly the Cat, was the crankiest cat in the history of cranky cats?

I decided she would be a cat when she started meowing. Yes, meowing. She would answer questions with a "meow". Pretty cute, right? Well after the thousandth meow, it's not so cute. But Grandma Billie bought her some cute cat ears, so how could we not dress her up for Halloween as a cat. The first party we went to she screamed when it was time to get dressed, never got her hand made tail pinned on, didn't wear her ears, and never even came close to getting her whiskers painted on. She had also decided she wanted to be a butterfly after she saw Josh's angel wings. (Still waiting for our family picture to get emailed to me. Becky if your reading this, email it to me, THANKS!!!) I did not have high hopes for Halloween night. But Molly the Cat surprised me. She willing got dressed, let me paint her face (which she was super proud of and kept saying "look at the three colors on my face!") and wore her ears and tail with out any fuss. Miracle beyond miracles! The pictures with her mouth skewampus is when she is meowing. It is really hard to get a cranky cat to look AT the camera.

The next morning she did tell me, "thanks for my cat costume, mom" so I guess that totally makes up for all the bad "cat"titude! Ha, I crack myself up!!!

Jason & Frankie

Favoritism

I had the kids pictures taken and then stole them off Torie's blog. This is now Josh's desktop background. Owen and Gavin cried.