I'm Thankful for My Freedom This Holiday Season

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and Remember to give thanks to those serving our country.

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Where should I put my gun?

The only place I can find.

*He's not uncomfortable, that is his "mean scary face to scare away the bad guys"

Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes...

It's 17 degrees outside...what should we do?

I know, we should shovel the snow off of the yard and lay down sod. We should take a weed burner to try and melt the snow (which will immediately freeze again) and then just lay the partially frozen sod on the ice. OK, I'm being sarcastic because to me it seems ridiculous. However, according to the sod company, it should grow fine. FYI we were expecting this sod about a month ago. Plus, the sod is dormant right now, so it looks amazingly brown. Nice. Seriously though, I do appreciate Randy going out in the freezing cold and making us a place for the kids to play.

I will post a picture when it is finished. The sod was too frozen to unroll so we only got about half of the area done.

Tough Crowd

Nobody likes the poem I wrote about Cyber Monday? Come on people, I spent about 10 minutes of my day to express how I feel and I get two comments? Tough crowd.
Thanks Joan. I appreciate the comment. you too Michelle.

I heart "Cyber Monday"

Deals deals deals that's all I can say
and what with free shipping they're all on there way!
Toys and electronics flash on my screen
and with only a card they're no longer a "dream"
No traffic no crowd
no kids being loud.
I can't believe I spent all day
just looking at stuff that COULD come and stay
No dragging the kids out of the house
I do it all with the click of the mouse.
Budget don't fret; I came just under
that's how I do it; no need to wonder
then it is over and I can calm down
I got so excited NOT going to town
My spouse can relax and call me "honey"
cause I got all our Christmas and saved lots of money
-Heather

Black Friday Magic

I love black Friday! It is so awesome. I stay up on Thanksgiving night with Randy and write down our "wish list" for each store. Then, while I sleep, the magic happens. I awake the next morning and find out how many items I got from my list. I get to look at the Christmas presents for the kids and new items for my home. It is so exciting I can hardly stand it. See, I told you....Magic.

Now, Randy, as I understand has a different knowledge of Black Friday. His is more of a nightmare then anything else. His Black Friday is full of tired, pushy makeup free women, crazy people and "white trash" grabbing and hoarding. running through a swarm of sale driven people in a maze of "hidden" treasures. He finally escapes, only to go into another maze with different insane people to grab what he can on the list before it disappears and then try to get the heck out. More of a nightmare, ...but at least he comes home to a happy wife.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am so thankful for my family, friends a nice home and especially for Randy and all that he does for me. Happy Thanksgiving!


P.s. Lily is sporting two new bottom teeth today. The first one came in on Sunday. I would post a picture, but she won't even open just a little for me. It figures. If you click on the picture of her smiling you can see the first tooth though.

Dream Disruptions

It has been a while since I have posted about our sleep walking/talking fiascoes. They have occurred, but none were profoundly funny enough to post as of late.... that is, until now. The other night, I was doing what I usually do around 2:30 am. I was sleeping. Suddenly Randy jumps out of bed onto his feet and grumbles something that sounds like "eahhhhhhh" in an exclamation of disgust. He steps over to the wall and turns on the light in our room. I exclaim with my eyes tightly shut to avoid the light "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!?" and Randy said "Well, look at Jake's FACE! it has CRAP all over it!" I kinda laugh a little, tell him to turn off the light and he says: "Oh, sorry, I guess I'm not thinking straight." Yep, he has that right. He gets back into bed and right back off to dreamland he goes. That crazy man sure does keep me on my toes. By the way, lights are especially bright when you have been sleeping in the dark for a few hours.