A Day With Two

I am Thankful

2011-11-23T20:29:00.001-07:00

I am Thankful that his eyes are perfect.

I am Thankful that she is a typical 7 year old second grader.

I am Thankful that they have the best Daddy in the world, and that he is my soul mate.

Dear Lord…I am So Thankful!!

Kindergarten & General Rambling

2011-09-07T21:23:00.001-06:00

Don’t stop blogging, because if you do…you stop taking as many pictures!

Our first day of Kindergarten came in late August…. We are now Angry Birds fans. I told my friend Andy that I did not want to download the app, I just knew I would be addicted! Guess what??? I am.

The Cutie Bug LOVES Kindergarten by the way. He scares me, his math is better than his 2nd grade sister’s is.

I have decided that since our school district has ~~taken~~ implemented 4 furlough days this year without an explanation as to when the children actually make up the missed days of school for their education (run on sentence, sorry), that I will be adding homeschool doses to my kids education as I can on Saturdays and during the summer. If I come up with anything exciting I will share it with you.

Little known fact for the ~~day~~ year. I have a teaching degree, but did not choose to use it as my career.

Had enough general rambling yet?? I have.

Just a note in case anyone is actually reading…. I spend way too much time on twitter now, so if you are actually looking for me you can find me here: @coloradomommy

Wordless Wednesday ~If you love a Man you should read this…

2011-09-06T20:52:00.002-06:00

Because I am still here…believe it or not!

Wordless Wednesday ~Because I Figured it Was Time

2011-02-22T21:21:00.001-07:00

Well, I figured I had better put up a blog post, just so you all know I am o.k. Someone get a big vacuum and suck me back out of Twitter, because that is where I have been… I have no balance, I apologize for that. I want to work my way back to you all, I miss my blogging, and my bloggers!

So please don’t worry, I will be back soon. I will also answer anyone via email that is worried.

Hugs to you all!!!

Thank you Children’s Place for the awesome “Hoodie” Sweatshirt that my daughter loves so much!!

Wordless Wednesday -23 degrees

2011-01-18T22:11:00.006-07:00

Yes, it was that cold here: -15, With a wind chill of -23. This is what Colorado kids look like when it is that cold:

Not linking today, because I am a slacker!

But remember when I said if I got 100 followers I would do a giveaway?? (No??!! You don;t remember, well maybe that's because I only said it on twitter, but hey, a promise is a promise right!)

So anyway.....l I hit that mark today!! So what should I giveaway? Leave a comment with what you want (UNDER the $50.00 mark please!!) and the winner (of the I want suggestions) will get an extra 3 entries into said giveaway. Suggestions end on Saturday 1/22/2011, because the giveaway will go live on Sunday 1/23!! Happy Wednesday everyone!

And P.S. If no one makes a suggestion it will probably a $50 gift card to Target again, so suggest away!!

A Day For Quotes ~Balance

2011-01-09T21:45:00.003-07:00

Yes, so I have no Balance! I must say I am sorry to my blogging friends because I have gotten sucked into Twitter in a big way. That is why I haven’t been here…as my Son would say “At All”. I must find my balance between my new Twitter family and my much loved blogging family. That is my goal for this week because honestly I miss you guys!!

So the quotes for this week are on Balance, may I be able to follow them!

Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. ~ Native American Proverb

Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ~ Robert Fulghum

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balance. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. ~ Carol Bartz

What I dream of is an art of balance. ~ Henri Matisse

Because I just know you miss them, here are the kids:

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

A Day For Quotes ~Beginnings

2011-01-02T12:04:00.002-07:00

Happy New Year everyone! The New Year is always a great time to think about what you want to to better, or more of. A time for new beginnings, so that is the theme of my quotes today. May you all have a wonderful 2011!

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ~ Louis L'Amour

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. ~ Edward Said

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ~ Anne Sullivan

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive. ~ Zig Ziglar

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. ~ Marie Beynon Ray

A Day For Quotes ~Touch Another Life With Love

2010-12-26T11:03:00.002-07:00

"Christmas happens everywhere every time someone reaches out to touch another life with love." ~ Carol Duerksen

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. ~ Francis P. Church

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love. ~ Christina Rossetti

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. ~Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. All, everything that I understand I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails ... And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ~1 Corinthians 13:4–8a, 13

Oh That’s Right, I Have a Blog

2010-12-23T09:44:00.002-07:00

Waves “hi”.

Pardon my absence, things have been a little crazy around here! Between getting ready for Christmas, trying to work things out about who goes to who's house on Christmas and one of the worst workloads at my job ever I just haven’t had the chance to be here.

I know I am not telling you all anything you haven’t experiences yourselves. I have seen many posts this week on how behind or overwhelmed everyone is!

I finally scored 4 days in a row off, and am going to make somewhat of an attempt to get caught up! Beginning with my favorite picture of the week!!

Like my Charlie Brown Christmas tree? One of the many things I got from a giveaway I won from Modern Wall Graphics – Wall Slicks!

I plan to be around tomorrow as well, but just in case I am not I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday from the Day With Two family. May your holiday be as wonderful as you all have been to me!

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

A Day For Quotes ~45 Lessons in Life

2010-12-19T12:19:00.003-07:00

A friend of mine sent me this in an email this week. How he knew I needed to remember a few of these this week I will never know. The list was too good not to share it with you all.

Happy Sunday my friends, I hope your holiday shopping is done and you can enjoy your week!

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
When in doubt, just take the next small step
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
Pay off your credit cards every month.
You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
It's OK to let your children see you cry
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
Over prepare, then go with the flow.
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
The most important sex organ is the brain.
No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
Always choose life.
Forgive everyone everything.
What other people think of you is none of your business....
Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Believe in miracles.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
Your children get only one childhood.
All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
Get outside every day.
Miracles are waiting everywhere.
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
The best is yet to come.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Yield.
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift

A Day For Quotes ~Funny Christmas

2010-12-12T09:29:00.001-07:00

I plan on posting some serious Christmas quotes as we get closer to the holiday, but thought you might enjoy some funny ones I found today. Hope you find one that makes you smile!

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first... your money or your feet.

You can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles three things... a rainy day, an ill loved one and tangled Christmas tree lights.

May you hear those three little words at Christmas: No Assembly Required!

Decorate your homes with lots of mistletoe... this won't really help the environment... But more kissing has got to be good for world peace.

My Little Diva

2010-12-11T12:12:00.001-07:00

Sorry i haven’t been here the last few weeks. Someone rocked my work world again and I just had to take some time to regroup. Nothing to bad on my end, except more workload because my boss needed to take some time off (read 3 months!) so he could regroup. Sigh….

Jumping back in with an easy one….my sweet Angel and her mini fashion show:

I will be here tomorrow for A Day For Quotes, and am going to try and visit some of my favorite people I have missed so much this week (and maybe hit up a few giveaways too)!!

Have a great weekend my friends…

A Day For Quotes: Random

2010-11-27T21:09:00.002-07:00

It was one of those weeks…. One where you love your family, and you could just scream at them at the same time! Thankfully (that is the word of the week is it not?) everything turned out just great. Funny enough it was, for me anyway, one of the best Thanksgivings I have ever had.

My brother’s wife extended an invitation to us to visit their house on Thanksgiving (Bless her beautiful heart). After convincing my Mother it would be fine if we had to share Thanksgiving with her family as well as ours, a wonderful time was had by all. Sadly, a bitter taste was left in my mouth about the whole “who gets who, and which family gets whom on Thanksgiving” thing. We ended up blending 2 families that know each other not at all, and had an absolutely blessed day.

So today, I give you a few random quotes from some of the things I have learned this week: Happy late Thanksgiving everyone!!

From Erin over at Slice o’ Heaven: (You really need to read her post!)

Thanksgiving…
1: the act of giving thanks
2: a prayer expressing gratitude
3: a day appointed for giving thanks for divine goodness: as the fourth Thursday in November observed as a legal holiday in the United States.

And from one of my favorite bloggers, (that I missed so much when she was gone!) Her Inspiration on her header just spoke to me. It was a reminder of the beautiful things in life! Thank you Cupcake!

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing alot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
- Audrey Hepburn

My absolute favorite picture from Thanksgiving. The one in black is my Angel. The other 3 are my brothers. Funny enough we are missing my brother’s oldest, and my youngest.

Quote of the week for me:

It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

And if Mom Takes Away Your Princess Tea Cart…

2010-11-21T21:26:00.002-07:00

If Mom Takes Away your Princess Cart:

You might just steal her beer box to push your brother around in!

That is Blue Bear by the way. Washed 1,259 times, lost 5 times, but long time friend and companion for 4 years!

A Day For Quotes ~Thankful

2010-11-21T07:37:00.002-07:00

Thanksgiving in 4 days?? Did this year past very fast or is that just me? Here are a few quotes to get your Thanksgiving week started. Have a great week my friends!

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner

Wordless Wednesday ~Yet Another Use For the Princess Tea Cart

2010-11-16T21:01:00.002-07:00

Why driving your brother around while he reads don’t you know!

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A Day For Quotes ~Priorities

2010-11-14T06:50:00.001-07:00

Sunday again? How fast the weeks are flying by. I have a few quotes on priorities for you this week, I hope I will remember some of them when I am working on my own. Have a great week!

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest Witcraft

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. ~ Confucius

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did.” ~Zig Ziglar

Wordless Wednesday ~God Bless the USA

2010-11-09T21:34:00.001-07:00

My Military Cousin OJ and his Wife. OJ is in Afghanistan as we speak, leaving his wife and 15 month old daughter at home. OJ is a Marine. Thank you Veterans, and all active military duty men & women, God Bless the USA.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. -Martin Luther

For more Wordless Wednesday, please visit:

Look What Mom Found and Dad Too!

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

In My (Work) Neighborhood Tuesday ~Things that make you say “Awwww”

2010-11-08T20:39:00.001-07:00

In my work neighborhood we have what I loving refer to as our '”backyard”. When you step out of our backdoor at the bus garage, you are looking out at a large blank field with train tracks running across them. Every spring a Mommy Fox returns to a den she has there and gives birth to her babies. These pictures are from a spring when we caught Mommy Fox and her babies on camera.

Here is mommy fox, you can see her den there and how close she is to the train tracks! Thankfully, the tracks are used very infrequently!

This year she had 2 pups. Some years there are up to 5!

Tiny fox, just chillin’

What are you doing over there lady??

Got a great picture that makes you say Awwwww?? Well that is the assignment for the week over at Eighty MPH Mom!

So go get your picture put up and join in for In My Neighborhood Tuesday!

Next assignments are:

November 16th: Rocks. Rocks that look like something else, or something else that looks like it is a rock.

November 23rd: Neighborhoods. Show us something unique about your neighborhood.

November 30th: Interesting Weather – show us your best shot of any type of weather!

December 7th: Turn that frown upside down – do something to make someone smile, and take a photo of that smile!

A Day For Quotes ~Siblings

2010-11-07T07:22:00.001-07:00

Happy Sunday everyone! Did you remember Day Light Savings time?? This week I have put together a few quotes on siblings, since I have a set in my house and well, I have one too!

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet ~Vietnamese Proverb

Sibling relationships...outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~ Erica E. Goode

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~ Isadora James

My brother and I Fall 1971

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ...Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ~Anna Quindlan

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~ Pamela Dugdale

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were. ~ Betsy Cohen

Wordless Wednesday ~Halloween of Course!

2010-11-02T19:12:00.001-06:00

Our 3 little ghouls on Halloween night…

Getting ready to trick-or-treat! My Cutie Bug = Batman! My Angel was turned into a Skull Fairy and our friend M was the Angel/Devil!

Kind of a Gangster Batman in this one!

This girl is starting to scare me, she is way to pretty!

A few days before Halloween at our local Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event (these people gave out way to much candy BTW, the bags were full to the brim!!) My Angel’s costume had awesome wings, but she was pretty tired of them by Halloween!!

Have to put a Shout Out here: Many thanks to Anytime Costumes and Nichol over at Kiddies Corner Deals for the sweet giveaway win of my daughters Skull Fairy costume!!

For more Wordless Wednesday, a few of my favorites are:

Look What Mom Found and Dad Too!

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

Slice O’ Heaven

A Day For Quotes ~Halloween

2010-10-31T08:34:00.001-06:00

Happy Halloween everyone! My your day be filled with fun! Here are a few Halloween related quotes/poem, along with a look back on our past Halloweens. Everyone be safe out there today!!

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!
Jack Prelutsky

2004

2005

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. -Linus Van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

2006

Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
~Elizabeth Akers Allen

2007

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
~Steve Almond

2008

The witches’ fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"
- Nina Willis Walter

2009

Wordless Wednesday ~Pumpkin Patch

2010-10-26T21:13:00.001-06:00

On Saturday the rain cleared just in time for us to visit our local pumpkin patch and all around fun Fall activity center!

Brother is not to sure about the big bouncy pillows.

But sister knew what to do!

Nothing quite like a huge haystack to play on for a couple of city kids.

But don’t forget the reason we went….Pumpkins!!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

Slice O’ Heaven

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Halloween

2010-10-26T05:38:00.001-06:00

Welcome to In My Neighborhood Tuesday, brought to you by Eighty MPH Mom!

THIS WEEK:

October 26th: Fabulous Costumes – Clever/fabulous Halloween Decorations or Costumes (if posting costumes make sure to blur faces if it’s not your child)

First up we have the neighbors house. Kind of looks like Christmas here on the Day With Two street! We have blow up pumpkins, and strung lights, and the lights in the front are supposed to look like body’s that are partly buried in the ground! Yes, you should see what these folks do at Christmas time!!

This would be my Cutie Bug! While not his Halloween costume, when I saw this shirt on the clearance rack at Wal-Mart last year I just knew I had to have it. Strange, but his sister fails to see the humor in this!!

Got a great Halloween costume or neighborhood pictures?? Well jump over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your picture up, because you so know you want to join in on In My Neighborhood Tuesday with Eighty MPH Mom!

Next assignments are:

November 2nd: Fall Colors. Show us the gorgeous colors of fall in your neighborhood!

November 9th: Things that make you say “Awwww” – post picture(s) of something incredibly cute or heartwarming.

November 16th: Rocks. Rocks that look like something else, or something else that looks like it is a rock.

November 23rd: Neighborhoods. Show us something unique about your neighborhood.

November 30th: Interesting Weather – show us your best shot of any type of weather!

A Day For Quotes ~Today and Tomorrow

2010-10-24T07:13:00.001-06:00

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ~ Clarence E. Hodges

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~ Dr. Seuss

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. ~ Harriet Martineau

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other... is Tomorrow. ~ Robert Jones Burdette

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~In Flight

2010-10-19T05:51:00.002-06:00

This weeks assignment was In Flight – Post a picture of an airplane, from an airplane, a bird in flight or anything else in flight.

This is a favorite old picture of mine, actually taken with my trusty 35mm camera in 1989! We were on our way from Colorado to San Diego to see my brother graduate from Marine boot camp at Camp Pendleton! I was just 20 years old and was probably very excited to be on an airplane for the second time in my life!

Got a great In Flight picture!! Just jump over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your picture up, because you so know you want to join in on In My Neighborhood Tuesday with Eighty MPH Mom!

Next assignments are:

October 26th: Clever/fabulous Halloween Decorations or Costumes (if posting costumes make sure to blur faces if it’s not your child)

November 2nd: What were they thinking?? – Post photos of houses painted strange color(s). There seems to be at least one in every neighborhood!

November 9th: Things that make you say “Awwww” – post picture(s) of something incredibly cute or heartwarming.

November 16th: Rocks. Rocks that look like something else, or something else that looks like it is a rock.

November 23rd: Neighborhoods. Show us something unique about your neighborhood.

A Day For Quotes ~Gratitude

2010-10-17T07:36:00.001-06:00

After a trip to the grocery store yesterday my daughter was helping me put away the food. She turned to me and said “wow Mama, there is hardly any more room in the fridge for more now”. I told her we must be grateful that we have the means to put so much food in the fridge!

Today I give you Gratitude. Have a wonderful Sunday my friends!

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are. ~ Jim Carrey

Do not be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others. ~ Confucius

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all ~ William Faulkner

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~ William A. Ward

Thank you Lord for these smiling, healthy faces!

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard

Get down on your knees and thank God you're still on your feet. ~ Irish Proverb

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you have something you are grateful for today??? Post it in the comment section!

Wordless Wednesday ~Who Forgot to Stop the Clock?

2010-10-12T21:01:00.002-06:00

I am sure this will be one of may Halloween posts.

Can someone tell me where this 2 year old, and 6 month old went??? Don’t blink my friends! It goes faster than you think!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit a few of my favorites at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

Jamerican Spice

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Mailbox

2010-10-11T20:32:00.002-06:00

So apparently everyone in my small town is not into mailboxes! I looked, I made Hubby drive so I could look, and then after 5 days I finally gave up looking. Apparently no one in our town has a cool mailbox.

So I give you ours. It was inherited don’t you know. The birdhouse isn’t mine, is not my taste so please don’t tell me it’s cute. I know it is, in a homey sort of way ~~gag~~.

If my husband got to choose a mail box, this would be his: It’s a biker thing, don’t you know.

I would like mine to change with the seasons. This would be mine just about right now…

If your neighbors actually have a cool mailbox, or if you do too (and you have a picture) jump over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your picture up, because you so know you want to join in on In My Neighborhood Tuesday with Eighty MPH Mom!

Next assignments are:

October 19th: In Flight – Post a picture of an airplane, from an airplane, a bird in flight or anything else in flight.

October 26th: Clever/fabulous Halloween Decorations or Costumes (if posting costumes make sure to blur faces if it’s not your child)

November 2nd: What were they thinking?? – Post photos of houses painted strange color(s). There seems to be at least one in every neighborhood!

November 9th: Things that make you say “Awwww” – post picture(s) of something incredibly cute or heartwarming.

November 16th: Rocks. Rocks that look like something else, or something else that looks like it is a rock.

November 23rd: Neighborhoods. Show us something unique about your neighborhood.

A Day For Quotes ~Self

2010-10-10T08:29:00.002-06:00

Welcome to A Day For Quotes! Today I have a little Self Esteem for you. I hope everyone has a great week!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. ~ Louis L'Amour

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. ~ Melissa Etheridge

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. ~ Halle Berry

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. ~ Marcus Allen

Wordless Wednesday ~Old Chair

2010-10-05T20:33:00.001-06:00

Yes, me at 9 months old.

My kiddo’s! Angel 2 1/2, Cutie Bug 7 months old!

It’s been a good rocking chair, wouldn’t you say??

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit a few of my favorites at:

LookWhatMomFound...and Dad too!

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Yellow Flower

2010-10-05T09:11:00.000-06:00

It's time once again for In My Neighborhood Tuesday with Eighty MPH Mom! This weeks assignment was Yellow Flowers! Dandelions are flowers, right? Because that is what we have here! Our own backyard from the day this spring when we walked around to the side of the house and this is what we found!! Goodness, there were so many of them, that Hubby had to spray 3 times before they all went away!

Got some great photos to show off this week? Or just love taking pictures in general?? Then head on over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

Today: October 5th: Yellow Flower(s) - Let your imagination run wild!

October 12th: Unusual Mailbox – There are some pretty, funny, original mailboxes out there – find one or a few!

October 19th: In Flight – Post a picture of an airplane, from an airplane, a bird in flight or anything else in flight.

October 26th: Clever/fabulous Halloween Decorations or Costumes (if posting costumes make sure to blur faces if it’s not your child)

November 2nd: What were they thinking?? – Post photos of houses painted strange color(s). There seems to be at least one in every neighborhood!

A Day For Quotes ~Hurry

2010-10-03T09:03:00.001-06:00

Here we are at another Sunday!! My quote topic for today is Hurry. My life during the week seems to be made up of hurry here, hurry there, hurry hurry everywhere. I hope these make me remember to slow down and enjoy the moments more, especially with my kids as they are growing so fast….

The person in a hurry usually arrives late.~ Georgian Proverb

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished ~Lao Tzu

Don't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit so be sure to stop and smell the flowers. ~ Walter Hagen

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way ~Walter Hagen

Never let any mechanical device know that you are in a hurry. ~ Traditional Proverb

Wordless Wednesday ~No Way!

2010-09-29T05:30:00.001-06:00

Someone finally got a picture of me!! From our Estes Park Vacation in August.

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

A Day For Quotes ~Patience

2010-09-26T08:33:00.001-06:00

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Today I give you a few quotes on patience!

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. ~ A.A. Milne

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ~ William Penn

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. ~ Dorothy Bryant

Wordless Wednesday ~Cousins

2010-09-22T05:42:00.002-06:00

A few weeks ago we got to visit my brother and his family for a day of swimming and hanging out with Grandma.

My brother has 4 girls, age 11, 10, 7 and 3! Here is my Angel with her cousin K she is closest to her age, the 7 year old.

Being the only boy doesn’t deter my son at all. He just finds games to play with them, like step over the girls while they are laying in the sun!

My brother with his 2 middle girls, K age 7 and P age 10!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Water

2010-09-21T05:31:00.002-06:00

This weeks assignment for In My Neighborhood Tuesday was water.

Living as close to the Rocky Mountains as I do, water often means rivers here. This is from a vacation we took to Estes Park in September of 2008. We stayed in these cute, if not somewhat rustic, cabins called Loveland Heights Cottages. All of their cabins are either hanging over the Big Thompson River or extremely close.

You can see below that from the back deck of our cabin we were about 3 yards away from the river! It was pretty cool to hear that water rushing by as you are drifting off to sleep!

Got some great water photos to show off this week? Or just love taking pictures in general?? Then head on over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

Here is a preview of the next few weeks

September 28th: Something New – Let’s see what “new” thing you come up with!

October 5th: Yellow Flower(s) – Let your imagination run wild.

October 12th: Unusual Mailbox – There are some pretty, funny, original mailboxes out there – find one or a few!

October 19th: In Flight – Post a picture of an airplane, from an airplane, a bird in flight or anything else in flight.

A Day For Quotes ~Action

2010-09-19T08:49:00.002-06:00

Welcome to A Day For Quotes everyone! I was a little MIA this week due to business and some extra deadlines at work, I hope to spend some time getting caught up with everyone today! I hope your weekend is going well!

Move and the way will open. ~ Zen Proverb

We are what we repeatedly do. ~ Aristotle

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. ~ Nancy Reagan

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. ~ John Calvin

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. ~ Grace Slick

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Interesting Tree

2010-09-13T21:16:00.002-06:00

Have you ever just handed the camera to the kids and told them to take a picture of a tree??

Well, I did and that is what you get this week: A new take on an old tree:

They did a good job don’t you think? I just love how from a kid’s perspective it is always up!!

Have an interesting tree to show off this week? Or just love taking pictures in general?? Then head on over to Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

Here is a preview of the next few weeks

September 21st: Water – Can be a body of water, rain, or a creative photo of any type of water.

September 28th: Something New – Let’s see what “new” thing you come up with!

October 5th: Yellow Flower(s) – Let your imagination run wild.

A Day For Quotes ~America

2010-09-12T09:05:00.002-06:00

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy. ~ Thomas Jefferson

This is America. We can do anything here. ~ Ted Turner

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~Adlai Stevenson

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson

Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. ” by President George W. Bush.

Amen!

Wordless Wednesday ~When Did You?

2010-09-07T22:23:00.002-06:00

Hey Ti? When did you go from this little tiny puppy that harassed your buddy Callahan? To the dog you are today?

When did your eyebrows turn grey? When did your hips start to give out on you daily, and when did you get so thin??? I understand that you are 14 now….but when did you go from my baby to my biggest kid?? Just tell me…..When Did You???

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit:

Felicia at Go Graham Go

because she had a baby TODAY!!

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Animals in Funny Places

2010-09-06T18:57:00.001-06:00

Meet Ti! Formally know as Theisen this is my 14 year old Border Collie/German Sheppard mix. Yes he has stuck his head in the side of my husband’s lawn chair just to get some attention. We nicknamed him “Freak Dog” long ago as this is just one example of some of the odd things he does. Oh, and don’t believe him if he tells you he never gets any love around here at all!

Did you find an animal in a funny place this week? Well go show it off and join in on a fun new Meme too! Just grab your camera, take a walk, take some pictures…. but first visit Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

Here is a preview of the next few weeks, including this one!

September 7th: Animal(s) in Funny Places – Find an animal in an odd or funny place, inside or outside.

September 14th: Interesting Tree – Take a shot of an unusual tree, or an unusual shot of a normal tree!

September 21st: Water – Can be a body of water, rain, or a creative photo of any type of water.

September 28th: Something New – Let’s see what “new” thing you come up with!

October 5th: Yellow Flower(s) – Let your imagination run wild.

A Day For Quotes ~Labor Day

2010-09-05T07:16:00.001-06:00

Happy Sunday everyone, and happy Labor Day too!! Today I have quotes for you about Labor, or the lack of. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend for me I am excited about having a 3 day weekend and being able to get caught up!!

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~Aristotle

Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. ~ Helen Keller

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ~Doug Larson

Wordless Wednesday ~The Eyes

2010-09-01T06:25:00.001-06:00

My eyes may be perfect now….

But I can still do this with them!

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

In My Neighborhood Tuesday ~Something Old

2010-08-30T20:51:00.002-06:00

In our city, we have the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). This beautiful building below is named Gunter Hall, and is one of the University’s Gyms and PE Education centers on what is termed the “Central Campus”. Build in 1926 this old brick building was built when the University was called Colorado State Teachers College. I attended this college from 1987 – 1991 and obtained a degree in Elementary Education. Teaching teachers is still something UNC is known for.

Interested in showing off your own neighborhood and joining in on a fun new Meme too? Well grab your camera, take a walk, take some pictures…. but first visit Eighty MPH Mom and get your assignment for the week!

A Day For Quotes ~Perseverance

2010-08-29T09:27:00.002-06:00

Happy Sunday everyone! I just finished visiting my friend Laurie’s blog Guessing All The Way where she put up a very inspirational post on her experiences with walking the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. She is on day 3 today and could really use any and all support we have to offer, so go give her some comment love if you have a moment!

He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory. ~ Karen Bliss Livingston

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there, then never, never, never give up." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

"You can do anything you think you can." ~ Christopher Reeve (He should know)

Target Gift Card Winner!

2010-08-25T22:05:00.002-06:00

Hi All!! I did draw an original winner on Saturday morning for the Target $50 gift card. Sadly, I have had no response after my email on the same day (48 hour response and it has even been more)…..So my second draw is chosen below, as I had a few questions as to to winner!! So the giveaway goes to: #223 The Green MomSter. Please check you email as I would just love to give this gift card away…Please…and Thank you!!

Just a reminder, that this was not a sponsored post in any way, and if anyone wants to see the proof about the first winner I did save the screen shot to show you! I really enjoyed hosting this giveaway and thank you to everyone that entered and linked up!

Love you all!

Wordless Wednesday ~Favorite Picture of the Week

2010-08-25T05:40:00.001-06:00

Taken with my cell phone, just got to love these faces!

I am finally finding time after a very busy week to take a breath! I hope to hop around a little and visit your blogs today, thanks for visiting me over the last week and being so patient!

I also need to draw a new winner for my Target $50 Gift Card giveaway that ended last Friday night, as the first winner didn’t respond, so stay tuned for that!!

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

LookWhatMomFound...and Dad too!

A Day For Quotes ~Smile

2010-08-22T08:48:00.002-06:00

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you start your week off with a smile after reading these!

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey. ~ Helen Keller

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~ Japanese Proverb

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours. ~ Zig Ziglar

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ~ Goldie Hawn

A smile breeds a smile. ~ Ted Engstrom

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

Going Down!

2010-08-18T21:24:00.002-06:00

I have 47 unread emails (just today!)
I have 291 unread blog posts in my Google Reader
I have 5 work days ahead of me where I will miss lunch
I will never get caught up at work (at least until the calendar says September)
I have no time to read blogs at work this week!
My Mother’s Birthday was last Sunday….the cards are still in the car
But I get to go see my Mom (1 hour away) on Saturday (Yea!)
I have to work 2 hours on Sunday (but I can take my kids)
I missed A Day For Quotes, Take Me Back Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday this week!
My daughter is a 1st grader, and that went great!
Help Me! I feel like I am going down this week!

P.S. We went camping this last weekend and had a GREAT time!

See you soon guys!!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-08-11T05:56:00.001-06:00

So where did the summer go? I can’t believe this little girl will be in 1st grade on Monday, and my Cutie Bug will be in “Pre K” (Preschool). And don’t try putting bricks on their heads, it just doesn’t work!

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at:

Jolly Mom

Go Graham Go

If I am not hopping around this weekend it is because we are camping! Have a great weekend everyone and don’t forget to enter my giveaway too!!

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

A Day For Quotes ~Each Day

2010-08-08T07:41:00.001-06:00

So here I am, sitting at home very late on a Saturday night. Where is everyone you may ask?? Everyone in the Blogging world is a BlogHer don’t you know! My Hubby left for Sturgis today, so that just leaves you and me!

Here is my plug for my giveaway! Can’t go to BlogHer? Jump on over and enter my Target $50 Gift Card giveaway instead! First entry is only a comment!

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

For today’s quotes I give you Each Day!

Live your life each day, as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. ~ Harold B. Melchart

“Riding” Daddy’s bike

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~ Ann Ruth Schabaker

The days are nouns: touch them. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

“Riding” Uncle CB’s bike

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. ~ Norman Cousins

Greet each day with your eyes open to beauty, your mind open to change, and your heart open to love. ~ Paula Finn

Wordless Wednesday ~I am so in Trouble!

2010-08-03T21:23:00.002-06:00

This was a self chosen pose, just so you know. Help me when she is 13 and 15, and 18 oh, and 21!!!

A few of my favorite Wordless Wednesday can be found at: .

Jolly Mom

Look What Mom Found & Dad Too!

Go Graham Go

P.S. While you are here, go enter my $50 Target Gift card giveaway!! All you have to do is comment to enter!!

It’s all about NOT going to BlogHer don’t you know!!

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Sturgis Ramblings

2010-08-03T05:35:00.001-06:00

I wasn’t sure I was posting about Sturgis this year, but it always just fits into Take Me Back Tuesdays so well!! So here you are going to get a few general ramblings about past Sturgis trips.

This first photo is from the last time I went to Sturgis, that would have been in August of 2002. That is actually me in the middle, with our friend J, and Hubby there on the left. The big truck set up with the trailer in back is affectionally know as the Chase Truck. When you have 15 or so people, their assorted camping gear, food to feed them for the week, and well….the beer you need something large to haul it all. This rig is a F250 Ford Diesel pick-up with a 4 horse trailer attached. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that I was usually the one driving this set up!

The year 2002 was my last year because I got a new job in 2003, and in my office of five people, 2 of them were my Sturgis buddies, thus making it pretty hard for me to get the week off. By 2004 I had a tiny baby (Yea!) and we have never found a good overnight babysitter to free me up for an extended vacation away from the kiddos.

This picture above, while it looks a lot like Sturgis is actually Sundance Wyoming. Basically in the entire region of Southern South Dakota and northern Wyoming the towns end up just packed with bikes and all end up looking like this.

This picture is of Hubby and our friend D. This one takes me back to 1994, my very first year of Sturgis.

While I do miss going to Sturgis with my friends I don’t look back with regrets that I can’t go. I couldn’t imagine my life without my kiddo’s, and the friends that go, well they are mostly here in our small city anyway!

“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”

Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? + a $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

2010-08-01T23:15:00.014-06:00

Couldn't go to BlogHer this year?? Well that's o.k.! Because as small as my blog is, I decided to start an “I can’t go to BlogHer” blog hop! How does this work? I would love to have you write a post on why you can’t go to BlogHer, but that is not required! If you just want to link up you can! Just put in your main blog link, or a link to any post in your blog, and I will pop over and visit you and maybe even share your sad story about why you can’t attend BlogHer this year!! Have time to blog hop? Then just visit as many people as you can in the Linky!

But wait….there is more. If you even comment on this post, you will be entered into a wonderful Giveaway drawing for a $50 Target gift card. Yes, all you have to do is comment!! Additional entries will be added at the end of this post!

But first I must bore you with the details of me!!

I am a full time work outside the home mom as a Transit Specialist with a local government's Transit Division (i.e. I work my cute hind end off doing anything they need me to do to hold things together, at a bus service).
But the main thing about me?? I am a mom of 2, a 6 year old girl my "Angel" and a 4 year old boy my "Cutie Bug" Throw an awesome Hubby into the mix, and a 13 year old Border Collie and you have me. I started to blog because of the giveaways don’t you know!! If you post buttons, and write posts you get extra entries!! But once upon a time many things changed, and I started to pay attention to these awesome bloggers that hosted giveaways!! I learned that they are real people that are going through many of the same things I do every day, and well….I learned to just Love them!!

My goofballs!

But I know you came over for the giveaway right?

To enter the giveaway for the $50 Target gift card you must:

Comment on this post! Way to easy I know, but if you don’t do this you will be disqualified (I will be checking).

Hey regular readers that are going to BlogHer, you guys can comment as well! All you have to do is leave a comment too!

Please make sure your email address is marked as public in you profile, or leave it in you comments! If I can’t contact you, you can win you know!

For additional entries please:

Put your blog into the link below and leave a comment!
Blog about not going to BlogHer (include the link in your comment please because I want to read it!)
Blog about going to BlogHer! (include the link in your comment please because I want to read about that one too!)
Follow me on twitter at @coloradomommy (You are now warned that I mostly tweet about giveaways, but please say “Hi” anyway o.k.?)
Tweet this giveaway every day for an extra entry. You can use this: Anyone One Else Not Going to BlogHer? $50 Target Gift Card Giveaway! Visit A Day With Two to win! @coloradomommy http://bit.ly/bu68T7

Jump up and down and say “I want to win this giveaway” (Sorry, but I don’t want to make you follow me, or subscribe to me if you don’t really want to. I mean my Google reader is way out of control as it is, I assume yours is the same!)

This giveaway will end on Friday August 20, 2010 at 11:59 pm Mountain Time. The winner will receive in the mail an actual $50 Target gift card.

Please note that I was not sponsored in any way by Target or anyone else. I just wanted to do this for anyone that came across my blog, and for the regular readers too!

And hey, if anyone loves quotes, or posting old pictures please link up to my Meme’s! Here they are:

A Day For Quotes ~Camping

2010-08-01T09:32:00.002-06:00

I am finding it hard to believe that in the Day With Two household we are watching our Summer winding down!! The next 2 weeks become a flurry of activity for us. Hubby leaves for Sturgis on Saturday, when he gets back the following week we take the kids camping for 3 days. Then my daughter goes back to school on the 16th!

Today I give you quotes on camping in anticipation of our upcoming trip!

Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry

Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. ~Author Unknown

Camping last August

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. ~Henry David Thoreau

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead

Yes, it gets cold in the Colorado mountains in August!

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ~Dave Barry

Wordless Wednesday ~Siblings

2010-07-28T11:48:00.000-06:00

I just love, that they love each other!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit: Go Graham Go, Jolly Mom, or Two of a Kind Working on a Full House!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~1998 Not Our Best Year

2010-07-26T22:24:00.003-06:00

Do you ever wonder why you have a blog? Because sometimes I do. I look back at the fact that I got dragged in for the giveaway entries! I mean you get extra entries for blogging about a giveaway and posting buttons…oh and don’t even get me started about twitter.

I think what I am trying to say is hey, it is so easy when you blog to show what a perfect life you have. It is so easy isn’t it? To post picture of your perfect children, and your perfect life. You have time for everything when you have a blog right?

Today, in Take Me Back Tuesday I give you a down side of our life. The year 1998. We didn’t have children then, but we had each other, and God decided to give us a true test, the biggest test of our lives.

Once upon a time my husband’s hands shook, I mean like all the time, and we didn’t know why. So he went to the doctor and they said it was because his cholesterol was to high, or something basic like that! We asked to see a Neurologist. They gave us the reference (had to have that for the insurance company don’t you know).

The Neurologist did an MRI, and they found a tumor, yes I just said tumor, at the base of his brain. That is why his hands shook. They were shocked that he wasn’t dizzy all the time, that he wasn’t blacking out!

Four days later we were at the hospital for brain surgery. The tumor was benign, we knew that all along. But my friends, Brain Surgery was well….brain surgery. The doctor (one of the best if the field we would come to find out later) cut into the top of my husband’s head, went down between the 2 lobes of his brain, and cut out the tumor.

What followed was a very quick physical recovery, and a very long short term memory loss recovery. I hate to leave anyone hanging, but just writing about the short term memory lost stage would take about 3 post’s in it’s self, and this one is getting way to long as it is!!

The pictures I give you are from the night before surgery. We knew that for the doctor to do what she had to do, they would shave Hubby’s head in 20 different places, so we saved her the trouble and our friend B came down with his razor and shaved him the night before:

Hey, if you have to have your head shaved, you may as well play around right?? Hence the Mohawk!

A true friend in life, is one that will shave his head when he knows you are going to be shaving yours too right?

A Day For Quotes ~Housework

2010-07-25T08:47:00.001-06:00

So yesterday I spent quite a bit of time cleaning, and organizing 2 things I don’t really enjoy (but who does right?) So I give you some quotes on housework before I get back to my self assigned cleaning chores for today!

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~Erma Bombeck

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. ~Author Unknown

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy. ~Author Unknown

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ~Nancie J. Carmody

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. ~Robert Brault

Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Little Van

2010-07-20T05:38:00.001-06:00

Take me back to June of 2008, my Cutie Bug was just barely 2, and my Angel just barely 4. Cutie Bug had a love affair with the little Cozy Coupe at his daycare, so we found this sweet little Step 2 Van on our local Craigslist!

His Daycare provided warned us that he felt that the little coupe at daycare was his, and even though he was good at sharing, this little car was one thing he wouldn’t share!

But ours has a back seat!!

But Brother still wouldn’t let her drive!

A Day For Quotes

2010-07-18T07:37:00.001-06:00

Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you are having a great weekend! For us I can sum it up in one word: HOT. I am not quoting about heat today because I am tired of thinking about it. So I give you, Be Yourself.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e. e. cummings

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ~ Lao Tzu

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. ~ James Leo Herlihy

Be yourself, that’s all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. ~Dave Pelzer

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ~Bruce Lee

Where in the World, and not so Wordless Wednesday

2010-07-14T05:44:00.002-06:00

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away. Oh wait, I have already started a post like that in the last month!!

So the long and the short story is….I haven’t been anywhere this week!! So Where In the World Wednesday comes to you from our own living room! Please ignore the mess, because well…housekeeping is just not my forte so to speak (now you know one of my dirty little secrets, I pretty much suck at housekeeping)!

If you are here for Wordless Wednesday, well, this is so not going to be wordless, because I just have to give a few shout outs to people!

I won an absolutely awesome MLB (Major League Baseball for those who don’t deal with acronyms) chair from a wonderful blogger Mommy Goggles ! This win was from Guidecraft!

I think she likes that chair!!

Well, it must have been a Guidecraft month for me, because just a few weeks later we won this awesome GUIDECRAFT Train Toy Box! Can you even believe it?? One of my favorite Review/Giveaway blogs, and just a great blog in general Night Owl Mama had a huge giveaway party and I (and my kids) were the luck winners of this awesome toy box! Hey Tricia, I think the kids love it…what do you think???

To join in on Where in the World Wednesday please visit Lemon Drop Pie.

A few of my very favorite Wordless Wednesdays are: Jolly Mom, Go Graham Go, The Mommy-Files and Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Portraits

2010-07-13T05:34:00.002-06:00

Looking back on this portrait of the kids I just have to laugh at the memory. You have a new baby who is just about 4 weeks old, so you make an appointment to get their portraits done. What I didn’t count on was my usually picture happy 2 year old wanting to have no part of the whole thing! After many failed attempts to get her to smile, the photographer and I just had to give up. I had to get just one print of that day for the memories alone!

June 2006

About 4 weeks later in July 2006 we got a different story and my Angel behaved as I knew she could!

And then we have this little Cutie Bug, who had found his smile by the time these portraits were taken!! I still just want to pinch those cheeks!!

A Day For Quotes ~Books

2010-07-11T07:46:00.001-06:00

There is nothing quite like a good book! Being an avid reader myself, it is a joy I am trying very hard to pass on to my children! It seems as if we have books falling out of every available corner in my house. We read, my daughter is finally getting old enough to read by herself too!

Today I give you quotes about books!

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ~ Paula Fox

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time. ~ Louis L'Amour

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William Eliot

Nothing like falling asleep with your best friend, and a good book!

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island... and the best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ~ Walt Disney

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important — that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them. ~ Laura Bush

Where in the World Wednesday ~Puerto Vallarta

2010-07-07T05:39:00.002-06:00

Once upon a time, in a land far far away…O.K. just before we had kids, we visited Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Can I just tell you what a joy it was to look back on these photos? This was our honeymoon in May 1995!

Remember the panoramic photos? I have these big 8 inch long photographs, the only time I ever took them was in Puerto Vallarta.

A few things I remember; all the Mexican-seafood restaurants! Our favorite was called the Seafarer I think. And shopping downtown in the open air market where everyone thought my husband spoke Spanish, he doesn’t. Buying Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts from a vendor on the beach, those shirts lasted us for many years!

Where in the World have you been?? Go link up at Lemon Drop Pie!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Grandparents

2010-07-06T05:26:00.002-06:00

Take me back to November of 2004! This was probably Thanksgiving that year. At family gatherings I am always bad at remembering to take pictures, just get to busy with all the preparations I guess! This year it looks like my Mom and Dad remembered to get the camera out and then sent me pictures when they got them developed.

My parents bugged my brother and I for years about having Grandkids, we managed finally between the 2 of us to give them 6 Grandkids in about 7 years. My kids fit in nicely with their cousins at number 3 and number 5!

A Day For Quotes ~America

2010-07-04T07:13:00.001-06:00

Happy July 4th everyone! I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating America’s Independence and spending time with your family if you are able too!! Today I give you America!

If you have quotes on your blog, feel free to link up below!

E pluribus unum--out of many, one. ~ Great Seal of the United States

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall ~John Dickinson

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” ~Robert J. McCracken

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck

Pssst…..I’m Over Here

2010-07-03T08:22:00.001-06:00

Want to see my first ever feature and interview??

Jump on over to Lemon Drop Pie, because Ginny featured little ole me and my Meme "A Day For Quotes” on her Meme’s the Word!!

Take Me Back Tuesday

2010-06-29T05:39:00.002-06:00

Take me back to July of 2004! Wow, is it really almost the 4th of July?? The upcoming holiday makes me remember dressing my sweet Angel up in her patriotic outfit!! It was one of my favorites for sure, and so was the cute grin she was learning to use! In these pictures, she is about 3 1/2 months old!

A Day For Quotes ~Friends

2010-06-27T08:28:00.001-06:00

Every once in a while the power of friendship astounds me. This last week has once again reminded me of the blessing of friendship. I have been truly blessed over the years to have acquired some awesome friends and have make many through blogging as well, so I give you Friendship quotes today.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. ~ Joan Walsh Anglund

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ~ Frances Farmer

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises. ~ Calgary Bob Edwards

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller

Pardon the Dust!

2010-06-26T18:01:00.001-06:00

I thought it was about time to shake things up around here!

So pardon the dust, if you will as I tweak until I like it!

Have You Ever?

2010-06-23T20:13:00.001-06:00

Have you ever, ever taken a chance on a friend? A friend who has very little, and the little that is there bailed on him when he needed them the most?

How could I not? The bikers have taught me about friendship, and brotherhood and love. How could I not?

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~ Jane Howard

Wordless Wednesday ~Goof-balls

2010-06-22T21:51:00.001-06:00

Let me introduce you to my goof balls!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit: Slice o’ Heaven, Go Graham Go, or Jolly Mom.

Where In the World Wednesday? The Carnival, That’s where

2010-06-22T21:30:00.001-06:00

It must be getting close to the 4th of July, because Carnival fever is running ramped in my house!

Every year, during the last week of June, the Greeley Stampede rolls into town! Billed as the world’s largest 4th of July Rodeo, the Bill Hames Carnival rolls right in with it!

We learned all about the carnival when we were 3. Dubbed the “motorcycle” she rode this little ride about 6 times in a row! No interest in anything else!

By the time brother was 3 we found the “real” motorcycles. Too bad they aren’t having any fun!!

We also have a train

and an obstacle course that ends with the best slide ever!

As we speak, the Stampede and the carnival are being set up! One very cool thing is, that I work across from the park where it is all held, and we get to watch them setting up all week!

I am sure next week I will have new pictures of what kind of chaos my 4 year old, and a 6 year old created at the carnival! See then for the next Where in the World Wednesday!

Where in the World have you been?? Go link up at Lemon Drop Pie!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Daddy

2010-06-22T05:29:00.001-06:00

Take me back to June 6, 2006. To that 6 week old baby with her Daddy! I have a whole series of these pictures that I took with my old 35mm camera, you know the kind that you have to take the film out of to be developed! This remains one of my favorite of that series. Just seems fitting since it was just Father’s Day!

P.S. Can anyone tell me where this baby with the fat cheeks went? A sassy 6 year old seems to have come and replaced her :-)

A Day For Quotes ~Happy Father’s Day

2010-06-20T07:36:00.001-06:00

Happy Father’s Day to all the great Dads out there! I have been very fortunate in my life to have had a wonderful Dad of my own, who passed away just over 2 years ago. I also have the joy of watching my own husband be a wonderful Father to our 2 children. Happy Father’s Day honey!

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love ~Margaret Truman

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty ~Unknown

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be ~Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys ~Unknown

Where In The World Wednesday ~Our Own Park!

2010-06-16T05:42:00.001-06:00

Two blocks down, and 2 block over is our neighborhood park! Here are a bunch of reasons why we might love our park!

You might love your park if it has a tire like swing,

and Monkey bars when you are just learning!

It might have an animal bouncer you love when you are 4.

Your brother loves when he is 3,

and you can have an attitude on when you are 6!

This park might have an awesome slide,

and a dinosaur climber you can boss your brother around on!

But Mom may love this park when she realizes she has taken some of her absolute favorite pictures ever at it!

Where in the world have you been?? Hop on over to Lemon Drop Pie and let us know!

This post will also be linked to meme’s the word on Saturday!

Take Me Back Tuesday

2010-06-15T05:23:00.001-06:00

Take me back to the “I must have a very small rodent as a pet” phase!

The year was 1979, I was 10 and my brother 13. I am proudly displaying for you my Teddy Bear Hamster “Teddy”. I lovingly raised Teddy from just a tiny little thing, he taught me many things including how to train him to be picked up, how to tell when he was sick and how to make sure he had food, water and a clean cage. Sadly Teddy also taught me about death, as hamsters only live about 2 years.

In the second picture my Brother is holding our gerbil “Bernard”. Where that name came from I don’t know! Bernard was sweet for a gerbil, letting you hold him most of the time but still teaching you to watch out for those lethal teeth that could chomp into your fingers unannounced at any time!!

So do your kids have or have they had pets? I know that will be coming for us some time soon!

Got some memories of you own posted??

A Day For Quotes #4

2010-06-13T07:10:00.001-06:00

Poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was born on this day in Sandymount near Dublin, Ireland, the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats. Passionate and serious-minded, he published his first poem in 1885.

A founder and director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre and member (1922–28) of the Irish senate, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. He was considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

Here are some quotes by Yeats for your enjoyment today!

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

I have spread my dreams under your feet tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

In dreams begin responsibility.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time. ~ William Butler Yeats

Friendly Friday

2010-06-11T06:35:00.001-06:00

Hi everyone!

Shannon over at The Mommy-Files is starting an new adventure called Friendly Friday! She says “On Friendly Fridays, I will provide a linky so that you can leave the link to your blog and have other people in the blogosphere visit your site and leave comment love. After all, who doesn’t love comment love, right?”

If you are here from The Mommy-Files welcome! My name is LT, and I have been blogging for about a year and a half now. I originally got into blogging to enter Giveaways! But I quickly learned that most bloggers offer much more than just giveaways and started to meet a bunch of super nice people too!

My days are filled with my 2 kiddo’s my Angel who is 6, and my Cutie Bug, who is 4. I also have a sweet husband of 15 years and a full time job!

I participate in several Meme’s each week, and try to put a few more personal posts up too! The links to my Meme’s are over in the left side bar! Every Sunday I host “A Day For Quotes”, where you can show off your favorite quotes every week! Every Tuesday I host “Take Me Back Tuesday” where you can post older pictures from you past!

I am looking forward to meeting some new bloggers, and if you are too head on over to The Mommy-Files!

Where In The World Wednesday ~Estes Park

2010-06-09T12:13:00.000-06:00

Estes Park, Colorado!

One of our favorite family vacation destinations, we live about an hour and 20 minutes from this secenic mountain town! Estes Park is known for its large quanity of specialty shops and nearness to Rocky Mountain National park, where the snow on the Longs Peak mountain is currently melting (more on this in a minute!)

Just last month we took a few days off and stayed there. The above picture is from in front of our hotel!

There are cabins near the river you can stay in, and horseback (or pony) riding to thrill any 2 year old! (Fall of 2008)

And the best slides and racecars to ride in when you are older!

If you are into camping, there a ton of nice places to do that too! They might even have a swingset where you can push your brother, and stand in front of a mountain at the same time!! (Summer 2009)

The Big Thompson River also runs through Estes Park. The above photo from early this week is from a spot I was standing 2 weeks ago!! I am sure glad that we are not there right now! The snow, as I said earlier, is melting off the mountains, apparently at a rate faster than normal and the river is very high. The water under this bridge should be about 3 or 4 feet lower than it is!!

Have somewhere exciting to tell us about?? Stop on over to Lemon Drop Pie and let us know!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Saucer Version

2010-06-08T05:03:00.003-06:00

Take me back to September of 2004! My Angel was 5 months old and just loved her exersaucer! We had the basic kind that came with no toys and required you, as the parent, to keep picking up tossed toys from the floor and lovingly place them back onto the tray! No matter how many times I retrieved said toys, I could not have done without this!

Wow, just look at those pinchable cheeks! Where did those go?? This was also the spit blowing phase which is what she is doing in those last 2 pictures!!

Got some memories of you own posted??

A Day For Quotes #3 ~Maya Angelou

2010-06-06T07:56:00.001-06:00

Good morning everyone and welcome to A Day For Quotes! If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

This week I have chosen Maya Angelou. Her quotes just seem to stick with me and inspire me whenever I read them.

Global Renaissance Woman

Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.

Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture.

Dr. Angelou’s words and actions continue to stir our souls, energize our bodies, liberate our minds, and heal our hearts.

A ton of good Maya Angelou quotes here at Goodreads

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Where In The World Wednesday ~My Own Backyard

2010-06-01T20:38:00.002-06:00

So last week, Ginny Marie asked what was outside our own door, and is it an an oasis or an eyesore! Our answer is that yes, our backyard is probably on the eyesore side, but when you are a kid do you care??

Our backyard is big enough to have a brand new swing set from Sears:

It is big enough to have room for a kiddy pool: (Where you can shoot your Mom with a squirt gun)

It’s big enough to ride your mini bike in when you are 2

And it is big enough to have friends over for a Memorial Day BBQ, who take pictures of you (with you camera no less!)

I would love to see what is in your backyard!! Anyone??

Jump over to Lemon Drop Pie and tell us!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Bathtub Version

2010-06-01T05:28:00.002-06:00

In our bathroom I have this cute little picture of my daughter in a ducky frame. She was just 6 months old (November of 2004).

Yesterday my son asks, “Mama, where is my bathtub picture”? So I had to dig in my picture archives to show him!!

Here is my Angel, just 3 and my Cutie Bug at 1 (May of 2007).

Thank goodness I had bathtub pictures to show him, and he is even using the same little blue bathtub seat his sister used, man that was the best little thing!

A Day For Quotes #2 ~Memorial Day Version

2010-05-29T22:18:00.002-06:00

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who died in military service for their country.

This first picture is of my Father In Law (on the left) who served in the Korean War. While he did not die in military service, I am sure he knew many who did.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ~Norman Schwarzkopf

The following is our very own Veterans Memorial in Greeley, CO. We are very close to it, and visit it often. My Father in-law's name is on it’s walls….

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. ~John M. McHugh

They fell, but o’er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. ~Francis Marion Crawford

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake

One of my favorite songs ever:

And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
And I gladly stand up . . next to you and defend her still today
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God bless the USA!

~Lee Greenwood

If you enjoy quotes and blog about them, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week! So jump in for A Day For Quotes!

Where in the World?

2010-05-26T05:52:00.000-06:00

If you happened to visit my blog Tuesday, you would have seen pictures of my trip to Alaska in 1984!

Where in Alaska was the question I left you hanging with!

The answer is Kodiak, Alaska!

Our church youth group went on a mission trip to a partner church there and boy did they put us to work! We painted houses, felled trees and dug ditches. After all of that work, our one desire was to visit a beach with “real” waves. So they took us to Fossil beach.

This first picture is Kodiak Island as seen from when we were on neighboring Woody Island.

The other 3 pictures are of Fossil Beach on Kodiak. What strikes me is how warmly we were dressed at this beach! It was July, and one other thing I remember was the fact the the sun set at about 10:00 pm, and rose at like 3:00 am.

This beautiful picture below I cannot take credit for, but is shows an overhead shot of Fossil Beach.

Been anywhere close or far? Go visit Lemon Drop Pie and link up for Where in the World?

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Alaska in 1984

2010-05-24T21:58:00.001-06:00

Once upon a time, what seems like a long, long time ago, (but was really July of 1984) I got to go to Alaska! This was a huge deal for the “I have never been anywhere” girl from Colorado.

The youth group at my church worked and worked to be able to send a bunch of us on a Mission trip to Alaska. If you want to know exactly where in Alaska, you must tune in on Wednesday for Where in the World? over at Lemon Drop Pie!

What you are looking at in these pictures was something completely new to me, was a Buoy swing. A Buoy in Alaska is typically used as a float in the ocean to mark where crab pots are for the fisherman. In this instance, it was strung up in a tree, much like a tire swing is. Going on the Buoy swing, involved climbing the tree, reaching for the Buoy, taking a leap of faith, and swinging. But hey, we were there on a church mission trip, so I took the leap! These pictures are a few of people that were with me on the mission trip, since I was the photographer at the time!

The first picture shows some bear prints from a very large brown bear native to the area next to a grown man’s boot!

A Day For Quotes #1

2010-05-23T08:50:00.003-06:00

I have long been a lover of quotes of all kinds! I have also met many other bloggers who share this same appreciation of quotes I have. So I give you A Day For Quotes.

If you enjoy quotes and blog about them, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

This week my quotes are centered around Marriage and Love. Fifteen years ago last Thursday I married my heart and my soul…my Husband. Happy Anniversary Honey!

Marriage should be a duet when one sings, the other claps. ~ Joe Murray

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart--about a finger's breadth--for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. ~ Marnie Reed Crowel

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. ~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What is the goal. The goal is love. ~ Christina Rossetti

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in / my heart) i am never without it ~ e.e. cummings

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~ Ogden Nash

And my number one marriage rule:

Step number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it’s all small stuff. ~ Anthony Robbins

This post will be proudly featured at Meme's the Word! On Saturday! Jump over to Lemon Drop Pie to see what that is all about!!

Please feel free to grab my button if you would like!

A Short Pause…

2010-05-19T21:20:00.002-06:00

I seriously feel like this is how my desk looks at work right now!

I am in the process of hitting some major deadlines at work and also preparing to be off next week (YEA!) .

On the home front we are right in the middle of the last week of school, dealing with figuring out the summer schedule at my Angel’s daycare and planning a Summer kick off BBQ on Sunday (seriously, what was I thinking?!)

So if I am MIA for a few days please don’t worry. I will be back in ~~full~~ ~~half~~ full force by the weekend, and maybe even have some pictures of the week to share!

Have a great few days my friends!!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~May

2010-05-17T21:45:00.002-06:00

May will always and forever remind me of babies! I had a baby born in May, and a baby born in April. So May was when I had Maternity Leave from my job to stay home and learn how to take care of a baby. I got to do this twice. I guess that I learned pretty good judging by how the kiddo’s are today!!!

This one is when my cutie bug was about 3 days old. So take me back to May 12, 2006. The proud big sister was just barely 2.

This is my sweet Angel when she was about 5 weeks old, May of 2004. This picture has always been one of my favorites, because the hand you see is Dad’s. Always supporting her.

I love looking back on those early days of motherhood!! What do you love looking back on??

“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if I just scan a few each week, eventually I will get them all safely into my computer. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "take you back." Maybe it is the bad hair we all had in the 80's, the bell-bottoms you swore were so hip in the 70's, or your favorite pictures of your kids! If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”

This post will be proudly featured at Meme's the Word! On Saturday! Jump over to Lemon Drop Pie to see what that is all about!!

Quotable Sunday ~Erma Bombeck

2010-05-16T21:40:00.002-06:00

I am having a terrible time giving up my Quotable Sunday Meme. I got to the point where I felt I had to due to disinterest of ~~the host~~ many parties involved. Quotes have always been a big part of my life that I attribute to my father. He taught me to love quotes from an early age, and to learn from them. So today I give you Erma:

If I had my life to live over, I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.

I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

I would have talked less and listened more.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the Fireplace.

I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.

I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.

I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.

I would have sat on the lawn! With my grass stains.

I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.

I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, 'Later. Now go get washed up for dinner.'

There would have been more 'I love you's, more 'I'm sorry's.

But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it and never give it back. STOP SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF!!!

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

Instead; let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us not those who HATE on us.

Meme's the Word!

2010-05-15T13:36:00.003-06:00

My very new and fun bloggy friend Ginny Marie over at Lemon Drop Pie has this great idea of posting your links to any of the Meme’s you participated in this week! And guess who she featured this week??

Yep, me. I could not be more excited that she chose my Take Me Back Tuesday Meme to showcase today! Thanks Ginny Marie!

Here is an excerpt from Ginny Marie’s blog:

Did you participate in a meme or blog carnival this week? Link up your post here at the end of every week, and get more for your meme!

Link up using the direct URL to your meme post. If you participated in more than one meme, go ahead and link more than one post!
Visit a few links, and leave substantial comments. You don't have to write a novel; just write a nice comment that shows you actually read the post!

Since this isn't a usual meme, there's no need to write a separate post for "Meme's the Word." Publicize this meme in whatever way you would like.

So go and visit Lemon Drop Pie and link your must read Meme!!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-11T21:04:00.002-06:00

What?

Nope, not looking at you!!

You can’t make me look at you!

Oh fine!

For more Wordless Wednesday please visit: Two of A Kind Working of a Full House, Go Graham Go, or Jolly Mom.

Take Me Back Tuesday ~1981

2010-05-11T05:28:00.001-06:00

Ahh, the 80’s. This is me in the fall on 1981, the year I started Middle School. Did anyone else not like middle school as much as me?? Way to many hormones to deal with, and a large introduction of exactly what a clique was. Thankfully where I went to school we only had to suffer through 7th and 8th grade there before being dumped into High School, which was much better for me!

And no, I don’t think this dress qualifies as plaid, much more of just a light check pattern, of course it was handmade for me by my mom! I was 12 in this picture.

Family vacation at the end of the summer in 1981. My brother was 15, and obviously not to pleased to be on a family vacation in the first place! And yes, that is plaid he and my dad have on. I guess my new Tuesday venture needs to be finding pictures of my family NOT wearing plaid??!!

Happy Mother's Day!

2010-05-09T08:07:00.002-06:00

A mother's love is like a circle, it has no beginning and no ending. It keeps going around and around ever expanding, touching everyone who comes in contact with it. ~ Art Urban

I never had a clue before 6 years ago what it meant to be a Mother! It is so much better than I ever imagined!

Happy Mother’s Day Mom.

Happy Mother’s Day to all you Mom’s out there too! I hope you enjoy your day!

Wordless Wednesday ~Stuffed Version

2010-05-04T21:24:00.002-06:00

Do you have way to many stuffed animals?? Because we do!

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