Christmas Blessings

I am truly blessed to be able to spend time with the people that I love so dearly. It is such an amazing feeling to watch my god-daughter grow up and experience new things and to teach me new things. I am so thankful that I am able to be a part of her life. She is most definitely a huge part of my heart. She may never know how special she is to me, but I do! Today I spent a couple of hours baking Christmas cookies with Olivia, my mom and my grandparents. It was a memory that I will hold dear for a long time. Who knows how many more times that will even be possible. Thank you C for letting me be a part of her life. Here are a few photos of our little baker during her cookie making process....

Getting dressed and ready to bake!!!

Learning to roll out cookie dough with her honey

Cutting out the cookies! A little flour on the face..haha

Isn't she cute

Sharing some of her flour with me

Time to start decorating with Aunt Robbie

Eating the leftover sprinkles

Happy Birthday Shawn!

Happy 33rd Birthday to my hubby!!
Also this past weekend my little brother Jeffie proposed to his girlfriend...yhea..she said yes..(of course)
On another note...if anyone knows of anyone that collects barbie dolls or beanie babies let me know..i'm getting rid of mine. I have about 500 beanie babies and about 10 barbies mint still in the original boxes..pretty expensive ones..so if ya know anyone let me know..k

I know..I'm a slacker!

I know it's been awhile since doing any postings. I am really bad at this! I check my myspace account almost everyday but this...well you've already noticed. Not much has been going on around here. Same ole' stuff, different day. I am working on cleaning out all of the stuff that we have accumulated separate and together over the years. I have already gotten rid of a bookcase that my uncle left here when he moved out and we bought the house, along with all of my nursing school books that were on it! I gave them all to my cousin CJ who is planning on attending nursing school here in the next year or so. She is working on all of her pre-requisites right now. I am so very proud of her and I hope that she makes it through! She just had her second child on November 11th. His name is Dominic Joseph and he was 9lbs 1oz. Yes he was a big boy.

well anyway...so yes I'm trying to do some major cleaning around here...i know you're supposed to do that in the spring but i just couldn't take it anymore. I've actually considered renting one of those POD things and totally emptying the house and doing all the remodeling that needs done and then bringing stuff back in and put it where I want it and getting rid of everything else that was left...LOL. Funny I know but I hate this! On another note I have a couple of friends that are going through some pretty rough stuff, so please if you can add them to your prayers..they all need it! My friend..my best friend Melissa and her husband have been trying to have a baby for awhile now and just recently she had surgery to hopefully (cross your fingers) fix things or improve them. So please pray that they will have a beautiful baby soon!!! I also just found out that a friend of mine that I used to work with has been going through some medical stuff and lots of testing to find out what's going on with her and the doctors are not quite sure but they believe that it could be MS..she's only 24 years old. So please pray for her..I'm worried about her lots. Also I regularly follow some blogs and one of them belongs to my cousins sister in law..she has twin girls and I just seen that they had a horrible night two nights ago. One of the little girls Rachel went unresponsive and they had to call 911. Apparently she had what they call a febrile seizure. Her temperature was up and they believe that is what caused it. I hope that that is what is was and that it never happens again. I'm sure her mommy was very scared. I cannot even imagine. They are beautiful little girls! My thoughts and prayers are out there for each and every one of them. On a lighter note...it's Christmas! (Bah-humbug!) I'm just not feeling it this year. I feel like such a grinch. Maybe it because I don't have children yet or maybe it's because I'm broke from my wedding but I'm just not in the mood yet and it's only 2 1/2 weeks away. I still haven't put up any decorations and I don't know if I will at this point. I did go help my grandma the other night. She broke her wrist and has troubles with lots of tasks so I spend 6 hours over there wrapping presents for her. We did get them all done!!! Yea...all 190 gifts!! I know WOW.. but she does spoil those great-grand babies. Well if I don't post again...and you know me....I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! Love you all lots!!!