... to being thankful.

I just want to be thankful. I have so much in my life that God has blessed me with.
One of the things I am thankful for, is my family. How can anyone ask for a more fun and loving family! I love you all!
I have been blessed ten times over with great friends. So many people to lift me up and encourage me, laugh with me and cry with me! Thank you for being so thoughtful! (Especially you Ron!)

Believe it or not, I am thankful for education. I blessed to be able to go to school and to be around such amazing students and teachers. I am excited for school to be over but thankful for the journey it's started.
Above all I am thankful for being able to love the Lord no matter what. Thank you for being so faithful Lord.

... to Happy Birthday Momie!!!!

So my mom's birthday was the 24th, and as you know my sister is in Iraq and unable to give her mom a birthday hug. So we planned a little somethin for my mom. I have a mac, my sister has a mac, we have ichat, my mom doesn't know what that is, it's perfect. I told my mom we had a cool video for her to watch on my laptop. So we all sat down on the couch ready to watch a "video." This whole time I had the screen open with Alison waiting to say "Happy birthday!" When we had all settled in, I opened my laptop with alison there. Alison very sweetly says "Happy birthday mommy!" And instantly my mom started started crying. She looked at me and said "we can't say anything to her can we?" (very pitifully I might add) Alison pipes in with "yes you can mom!" We were all a little weepy at first, but we got to chat for an hour before we let Alison go to bed since it was after midnight there. It was wonderful to be able to chat with her, Momie loved it too.
So happy birthday Momie! I love you so much and you do so much for our family. Thank you for all your prayers and bits of wisdom! Muah!

... to Ahh! A whole month went by without a blog!!!!

Yikes! I can't believe it! I thought my last blog was in October, but no it was September! Shesh. What kind of a blogger am I?

Well as you might have guessed lots has happened. So I am going to have to only tell the highlights. Oh let me tell you what has been going on. A couple Mondays ago was the highlight of the Fall so far. It was a great morning, I got up on time, made my lunch, had breakfast and left for work with plenty of time to spare. I turned left out of the driveway to go down the green valley road and right before I went down the hill into the woods, right next to that new huge house... BAM!! A deer tried to commit suicide on my car! I mean BAM! I rammed that thing so hard it flew OVER my little innocent Neon and slide off into the ditch I sat there in the middle of the road a little stunned. I saw a little bump in my hood so I thought "oh I got time to turn around a get my sisters truck."
So I backed into that fancy house's driveway and there straight ahead, starring into my headlights was the 3-point deer. I thought "great I killed a deer, just what I need" So I hurried home got out of the car, and I saw how bad the damage really was. It was awful! I started shouting a little at my car" Good grief, I can't believe this" I exclaimed. I stormed into the house, got the keys, stormed back out and into the truck, mumbling and grumbling all the way. I pealed out of the driveway and when I got back to the crime scene the deer was gone!!! How dare he leave my car in shambles and then run off! It was terrible. I would have felt better if I had killed it if he was going to do so much damage to my car!
When I got home later I could REALLY see how bad the damage was. He totally crumpled my hood, took out a headlight and bashed the side of my car. Apparently he cracked my radiator and the frame around it. Can you believe it! Seriously, why do these things happen to me? I have to admit though, there is a small happy ending to the story, besides finding a clump of deer fur in my headlight.
I went over to Nicole's to help her with some homework and she was telling me that the game warden goes through her coffee stand and apparently he went through that Monday. He was telling her that he had to go pick up a deer somewhere. Nicole very sweetly said "Oh, my friend just hit a deer today." His reply: "Was it the one on 212th?" Hahahaha! So unless someone else on our road happened to hit a deer the same day I did... it was the same one! It must have hopped the fence and went off and died somewhere. Vengeance is mine! So yeah, the total damage came to $2100, more than what my car is worth. So we totaled it out and now I am on the look out for a new car. Whew!