A Fond Farewell & A Warm Welcome

Or, out with the old, in with the new. Either way, Josh threatened to buy me salt & pepper shakers for mother's day and my birthday (one for each since they are two days apart (for those marking your calendar, that would be the 9th and 11th of May)) if I hadn't purchased any before then. Since I work best when given a deadline (if you will remember this) or threatened with a crappy gift, so I picked some up while perusing Target today. So with a pat on the back for a job well done even with a crack in one of them, we say goodbye to these salt and pepper shakers. My grandmother gave them to me and they perfectly match my Corelle Dinnerware Set (view HERE).And please give a warm welcome to the new S&P set that will grace our stove top and table.
Your welcome Babe!

Easter Clothes

Our Talented Children

Gavin had a talent show in one of his classes. He choose to showcase his monkey bar talent. We took a video of him doing the monkey bars backwards and then played it for his class, it was a hit!

Owen has been taking guitar lessons since January. He recently serenaded us at our St. Patrick's Day party. He played Song of Joy part 1, Skip to my Lou, and Michael Row the Boat Ashore. I don't have video of this yet, but here is a great picture!

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!