Saturday

Today is over and it's late. I've been multi-taking and lost track of time. So I will make a quick list of my things I'm thankful of today.

*Waking up feeling slightly better
*Being able to eat breakfast with Josh.
*Cleaing boxes and presents out from under the tree.
*Diet Pepsi from Panera for free with my gift cards!
*Cleaning out my purse. Yikes!!
*New shoes from McSports
*Shopping by myself
*Sleeping in past 7:30am
*Kohl's Cash
*Shopping at Kohl's
* Buying Wyatt his birthday gifts.
*Dinner at Olive Garden with Josh and not getting "too sick".
*Uploading pictures to the printer
*Writing thank you notes tonight.
*Seeing my mom at Kohl's
*Blogging

Helpers

Today I am thankful for all our helpers in the basketball tournament for the past two days. Some of my softball players and alumni worked most the two days helping the event run smoothly.

Also, some of my parents and girls stepped up to help in concessions yesterday. Today my team and coaches all pitched in to help at concessions from 230 to 9pm. We rocked it!

Also, I'm thankful for being able to take Gabby Boyt on her first trip to Panera! We made the lunch run for everyone and had a fun trip together. :)

I'm thankful for fun our helpful people

Downslide

I am in the downslide of this flu bug. It was nasty! I feel much better now though. I'm thankful for our friends the Olivers who brought us some Gatorades today. I'm hoping I can stand and walk tomorrow I'm thankful to be over the flu bug. I'm thankful my family all survived it as well.

Wednesday

Well yesterday did not to as Josh and I had planned. Every year we try to enjoy the day after Christmas with Josh's family. With the storm coming and Josh stomach rumbling, we headed out early.

All I can say is the day didn't get any better. Josh didn't even make it to Ithaca before I had to pull over for him to puke. The road conditions got awful as the snow kept falling. We had a really close call! Ahh.

All I can say is I'm thankful yesterday is over. This flu bug killed both of us. Awful!

I'm thankful it's over! We still feel badly, but haven't been vomiting. :)

Christmas 2012

Generic title, I'm aware. Sorry.

Our Christmas Day is not the typical Christmas, well maybe it is for some.

We enjoyed an awesome morning of presents from mom and Larry. The tree, or what you could see of it, looked awesome surrounded by presents! The kids were tired, but excited. Afterwards, we ate some traditional 'one pan' breakfast. Yum!! I hate rushing out of my moms house and off to do other events, but we all had to leave. I appreciate the time we get to spend with my family.

Josh and I ran home to unload our gifts and load up some more to take up north. We showered, packed, cleaned, and got the house and dogs ready for our sitter. Thanks Jordan! :). We even power napped.

Our drive up north was uneventful, besides our two restroom stops. Usually we don't stop, but we did twice today. I guess our old bladders are getting smaller. Ha! It's amazing who and what you see in a gas station on Christmas Day. I'm pretty sure the non-America working the first stop didn't celebrate Jesus' birth so he might not have respected or appreciated my "Merry Christmas!" as we left. Ha!

We arrived at Josh's Aunt and Uncles house at 5pm for dinner. It was good. Very good. We did our annual gift exchanged too. Fun stuff.

Then on to Erin's house where we opened gifts and chatted with us six. It was a lot of fun to catch up.

Now after a 17 hour day including a 3 hour car ride, I'm off to bed. Night. I hope everyone's day was as eventful as ours. Today I am thankful for Christmas! In so blessed to have great family in my life.

Birthday

I'm very lucky to have my birthday on Christmas Eve. Everyone has always said 'double the presents', but that's not really why I've liked it. As I get older, I realize its because ever year, I get to see all my family and lots of friends on my ACTUAL birthday.

For a long time now, we've had a birthday breakfast at my mom and Larry's house. We even have a cookie 'cake' (I don't love cake) and ice cream. I open some presents and we head out to run a few errands and then a power nap. This year I was spoiled by my mom and Tara with some nice gifts and a nice gift from Craig and Tara for watching Paige too. Paige, Wyatt, Mylo and Eastyn all got me a birthday gift. It was pretty cool. Josh also spent way too much money on some nice ear rings for me too! Whoa! He's awesome!

In the evening, we head back to my moms to have Christmas Eve with our Steven's family. The food was wonderful. We opened some more gifts and did our fun family gift exchange too. It was fun!

We took our annual Christmas pictures too. We love these!

I am very fortunate to spend my day with my friends and family. Throughout the day, I received some nice next a and Facebook posts from many people. I had a nice phone call from my dad too. The Oliver's stopped over. And Josh took me to get a diet Pepsi from Panera too. It was nice to hear from softball alumni and some softball alumni parents! It's a great feeling to know on your birthday, that others care about you. I learned from a book I read this week, that's I'm socially oriented. This I would totally agree with. I appreciate all the social time with others in my life especially on my birthday! I was overwhelmed with the kind gifts today too.

Today I'm thankful that Ahum, 32 years ago, my mom and dad gave birth to me! :) I am thankful for my Christmas Eve birthday!

Christmas #1

Today I am thankful for starting the Christmas season off with our first Christmas party. Tara did an awesome job of putting on Christmas dinner today. She cooked all day and everything was excellent. Her decorations are fabulous at her house. It really feels like Christmas with the trees and the warm fireplace.

My dad brought some nice presents for all of us. We ate. We laughed. We danced. And we took pictures. It was truly a fun time with my family.