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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: Random

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

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!

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A Day For Quotes ~Siblings

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

 

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!

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Wordless Wednesday ~Cousins

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!

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Go Graham Go

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

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:

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A Day For Quotes ~Camping

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

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!

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Where In The World Wednesday ~Estes Park

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!

Happy Mother's Day!

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!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Time Passes

Oh my goodness, when did the time pass so fast???

This picture is of my parents, in 1987. The world was at my feet that year, I had graduated from high school then, and we went visiting colleges. I chose the one in Greeley, the University of Northern Colorado for those of you that don’t live in CO!

This picture is my parents in 1997. I chose it because I guess I am feeling nostalgic for my Dad. Look at you guys, so young and yet so much my parents. I miss you Dad, and so does Mom.

While we are looking back, I just had to put this picture of my brother in. He was the hunk of the High School I went to, and joined the Marine Corps shortly after this picture was taken. Now he is a very blessed Father of 4 girls, with a wonderful wife to boot!

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“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!”

The Top 10 Things Kids Want Their Parents To Do With Them

After having a great week just spending time with our kids, I though I would post this list from an article I read way back in January! What jumps out to me the most is how many times kids just want you to talk to them. I love hearing my kids talk about what is important to them and I love their perspective on their world! What do you talk to your kids about??

Found from an article here, this is a list of the top ten things students around the world said they remembered and loved most about their mothers.

1. Come into my bedroom at night, tuck me in and sing me a song. Also tell me stories about when you were little.
2. Give me hugs and kisses and sit and talk with me privately.
3. Spend quality time just with me, not with my brothers and sisters around.
4. Give me nutritious food so I can grow up healthy.
5. At dinner talk about what we could do together on the weekend.
6. At night talk to me about about anything; love, school, family etc.
7. Let me play outside a lot.
8. Cuddle under a blanket and watch our favorite TV show together.
9. Discipline me. It makes me feel like you care.
10. Leave special messages in my desk or lunch bag.

    

A Day With Two #3

Here is hoping every one had a nice Easter!  Or just a nice weekend for that matter!! 

Since Hubby works retail, he was working Sunday but was home for our favorite part of the day, our Easter Egg hunt.  The Easter Bunny was very nice to us this year and left much candy and a toy for each kiddo! 

While Daddy was at work we dyed our Easter eggs.  The Cutie Bug of course had to do yellow.  Looking back at our pictures from the day, yellow seamed to be a theme as he also had to wear his brand new How To Train A Dragon shirt we got at Wal-Mart!  We continued our day with a visit to the park!  This was a treat since it has hardly been warm enough here to do that very thing.  I think sometime in the near future I will have to get out comparison pictures of the last few year at this park because my goodness how big these kids are getting!! 

 

Hey, on a different note I will happily be hosting a Meme on Tuesday that I have accepted responsibility of from my lovely  friend Kari at A Giveaway Addicted Mommy! 

Take Me Back Tuesday will encourage you to post pictures that take you back in time and can be anything from really old pictures you have to scan, to your favorite memories of last week!  Think about joining in as I can’t even tell you how many awesome people I have met in my last year of participating in this Meme.  So get scanning or digging in all of those digital archives and grab the button!!

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And, hey!  Get ready to see a lot of me this week since our whole family is on Spring Break (which means no work for me, Yea!!)

 

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Plaid?

Hey! I know you guys were missing my family and their plaid, so I was looking for plaid in my Mom’s photo album and found this!! It does count as plaid because, well….my brother is wearing plaid you know.

I also had to share this because it took me back to 1980. When I still had 2 living Grandparents. The first is my Mom’s mom, and the second is my Dad’s mom. Both gone for many years now. I never was lucky enough to know my Grandpa’s as they were both gone way before I was even born.

I love participating in Take Me Back Tuesday because it gives me back those very precious moments I seem to have forgotten, like the simple thing of having Grandparents.

Hi Grandma Glascock! Hi Grandma Taylor! Hi my beautiful brother I don’t see enough of!! It is so nice to see you again!!!

Want to remember your childhood, or just the long gone days of your babies?? Just visit Kari’s for Take Me Back Tuesday!!

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Take Me Back Tuesday ~Pork Pullin’

Take me back to 1999…I think.  Should have written the dates on the pictures I guess, you were right Mom!

Sometime in early summer, a bunch of us, bikers and non bikers alike got together every year to provide an overnighter benefit for Easter Seals.  Our group always helped out with the food.

This first picture with the train is actually the BBQ grill that the whole pig was roasted in overnight!  But someone had to get all the lovely Pork off of the bones, hence the Pork Pullin’.  

 

Below is my best friend on the left, and on the right my brother-in-law in the back and hubby in the front!  My best friend and my brother in law are engaged!  Life is strange sometimes, they weren’t even dating back then and were with others.  I can’t even tell you how excited I am that my best friend is going to be my sister!

 

You know you want to dig our your old photos and join in right?!?! Just head on over to Kari’s!

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I’m Here, Plaid, and Take Me Back Tuesday

Hey folks!  I have been a slacker blogger and I am sorry!  I am here, I haven’t been around to comment, and I haven’t posted, but I am here.  The end of the week always gangs up on me at work, and I never get around to posting.  Then Saturday came and Hubby was home on a weekend day (Yea!), and then for some reason on Sunday, I didn’t want to blog, I didn’t want to enter giveaways, and I never got the chance to visit all of you!  I sure hope to get caught up this week!

So here we are on Tuesday, well Monday Night actually.  I give you Plaid from 1977!  I mean really, who thought this was a good idea?  I was 8, Matt was 11 (that would be my brother BTW) and my parents were young.  Oh wait I say that every week don’t I?!?! 

I just like these pictures, because we rarely got a photo with each parent at the holidays. 

Yeah, Plaid! 

Just in case you didn’t notice my socks, they have Holly Hobby on them…remember her???

 

You know you want to post your Holly Hobby socks too, right?  Just head on over to Kari’s and join in!

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