Abigail!

Three years ago today, this little cutie decided to make her appearance in the world.

Happy Birthday Abby!

You're Auntie Christy Loves you!!

Summer!!

Corpus Christi here I come!! :) Im so excited to be going to the beach this weekend to finally get some sun on these pasty white legs of mine. I love having fun friends who have fun friends in great places to visit.

On Being Spectacular

I read the following quote here today...

"If your time is unscheduled, you are SPECTACULARLY ineffective and inefficient. It's because you don't treat time as your most precious resource, so you squander it."

I found myself quite guilty and then took solace in thinking that at least I was spectacular at something :) hehe!!

Note to self: it's time to change

Productive Day

Load of laundry done. Check
Payroll complete and money recieved to cover it and bills. Check
Work for the day complete and errands run by 2 so could start painting. Check
Drilling rig part recieved after 2 month wait, so it will be up and running soon. Check
One room w/closet and trim completely painted, second room started. Check
Birthday package for missionary brother sent. Check
Lots of missionaries fed. Check (This was my parents check but I thought they did Great so I had to mention it)
Wrote on blog. Check
Happy Day!

Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melodie Beattie

Gratitude is my favorite reciept.

I wish I were better at expressing it because frequently I feel like this:

" I awoke this morning with a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would add family to friends as well, although, they are generally one in the same.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Thanksgiving!

I really enjoy Thanksgiving, in fact it's probably one of my favorite holidays. Lots of really good food :P, relaxation, family time, expressed gratitude and remembering all the things you have to be grateful for (and I always have a lot to be grateful for :). A few months ago my brother got out of the Navy in Virginia Beach, and he planned a weekend visit that turned into a semi permanent stay, leaving all his apartment stuff with a friend and in a storage unit. So, my mom decided to book a condo there for Thanksgiving week, so we could get all his stuff, and enjoy a vacation at the same time.

The view from the condo was fabulous:

Even when it was raining, which it did a lot while we were there!

It wasn't one of the best trips I've been on, there were lots of unfortunate incidents during the week. The 22 hour trip there and the 2 day trip home were both miserably long, but with only one ticket and a 3 hour lunch waiting for the rental truck to start working again, we made it there and back again!! My mom was sick most of the trip, and got me sick at the end, my brother's soon to be Mother in Law (Kelly) was in an accident that totaled her car, Dan scratched a car with his rental truck and a large coldfront complete with a sleet storm moved in while we were packing his and his old roommate, Billy's stuff up. We did, however, get to enjoy watching several groups of dolphins, surfers, and kitesurfers swim by, walks on the boardwalk, lots of Christmas lights, and some very delicious food and desserts. I also really enjoyed meeting and getting to know Kelly and having Thanksgiving dinner with her and Billy. It definately made me happy for my brother that he will have such a nice wife and mother in law, and since I didn't do a post for it before I'll say it now. Congratulations Dan and Lindsay!!