A Proud Moment...

So I'm totally patting myself on the back today. I know some of you have probably been doing this for MONTHS maybe even years. But I finally made it a point to do it. I went to Wal-Mart with my family last night and used my own grocery sacks!! :) I had got 2 pink ones from a breast cancer walk this weekend and then my best friend, Holly, gave me two more different pink ones about supporting breast cancer research. So I pack my four bags up and off we went to the store. My husband informed me he needs different ones that weren't pink. Oh well...he'll get past that. HA!!

life is hard.....

So I sit here trying to decide what to write about in today's blog. I've had such great times with my sister who is home visiting but do I share my stories or no?. SO I write about life in general. Plain and simple....it's rough. Somedays it's just not fun being an adult.

There is alot of drama in my life right now. Some of you who that know me personally know that a few years back I had some people in my life that I just decided didn't need to be a part of my life. They carried to much drama with them. It's been about 18 months since we've been "friends" and it's been nice. Not having to worry about either one of them saying this or that. It's been real nice. Well now drama has came up from some other areas. So I'll just say this. People amaze me. Friends or family, blood related or not...the knife still inserts and turns to dig deeper. No matter if it sacrafices a family connection to do so.

Life is hard. People Amaze me.

A great weekend!

My sister and her husband came last Thursday for a visit. My brother in law flew home yesterday but my sister is here til FRIDAY! We had a nice relaxing weekend. I canned veggies most of the day saturday and froze corn yesterday but got to spend a majority of the day in the pool. I'm glad I did. Today it's rained most of the day. I look out my office window and what do I see? RAIN...POURING DOWN RAIN.

I'm a bad blogger I know....

WOW. It's been forever. And what is so sad is that I've done SO MUCH that I could have been blogging this whole time. But I have not. So sorry. I'll do better this time I promise. I have tons of pictures downloaded to my computer so I'll be better. And I've got quite the system now with my new camera. So I promise I'll be better.

My biggest news is that my sister and brother in law are coming for a visit tomorrow. Am I excited?....I am BEYOND excited!! I just saw my sister and her family in February when hubby and I were blessed through is work with a trip out west and we were able to take the kids. So this will be the second time I've seen her this year. AND I'll be seeing her again in October! How cool is that. I can't really say when the last time I've seen my sister 3 times in one year. Probably like junior high maybe. And that was a long.time.ago.

Tomorrow is the 1st day of school. WOW. Where did summer go. Grant has continued to amaze me all summer long. He's been my office buddy all summer long and even though we had are fights I'm going to miss not having him in my office!

So anyways....I'll post tomorrow and fill you in on what is to come. It's exciting.

Good night.

Garage Sale days.....

So this weekend my husband's extended family and I decided to do a garage sale....I love garage sales...my husband yeah not so much. He hates that he has to be the one who drags everything down from the upper part of the barn. I love him for that b/c I for one couldn't do that.

So I spent the week pricing and digging clothes out of my kid's closets. DONE! So last night starting right after work I started setting up. By the end of the night my sil, niece, nephew, nephew's girlfriend, husband, another cousin, and kids (well they supervise) had all helped set up and get things finished for our 8 a.m. opening today.

Now mind you the cousin who was putting her stuff at our house also has a little girl a size bigger then Gracie. PERFECT! I ended up pulling $40.00 in her stuff out...now hubby doesn't get it b/c he thinks then having a garage sale was pointless b/c all the money I made I give to her...BUT he doesn't get (is it b/c he's male?) that really I just saved us a ton more b/c if I would have bought all that stuff at a store then it would have cost us a fortune more. DUH! Not to mention I have a little girl so won't let go of a certain set of glitter slippers. He week has been made! :)


Have a great weekend everyone!

A little pick me up....

I've been just working away and a client that was in my father's office came through on the way out and told me what a wonderful job I do. He also told me that I light up my office when I smile! Awww...how nice was that. It's little things that make the day go by better. There needs to be more people like that in the world.

Enjoy life....take time.

A new leaf.....

So I'm always trying to find one more simple task to be more organized. So I think now I'll start my weekly meal planning back up. Lately it seems I've fixed enough spaghetti, sloppy joes, or hamburgers more then anything. Summertime is hard b/c we stay outside until late but then my kids don't eat til late. We focus more on swimming and the garden then dinner. But maybe if I'd be more organized for dinner then I could just come hope pop in the the oven or on the stove and then we could eat early and get back outside.

Wish me luck...starting Monday I'll post my weekly meal menu. :) If anyone has any tips please post them. I'm always up for suggestions!