Oh so very grateful!!!

When I look back on my life, all my journeys and adventures, it brings a huge smile to my face. All the good times, crazy times, sad times, but mostly all the happy times! I know I always seem to say the same things on here but man, I LOVE MY HUSBAND,  AND MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER!!!

I honestly cannot imagine that my life could ever be any fuller than it is right now! I love living close to my family!  It's so nice to get to see all my brothers and sisters/bro and sister in-laws on a more regular basis, and be involved in their lives.. I love to know that Seerie will grow up knowing her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins...   It's crazy to me how the time has flown. How our immediate family is growing, and eventually will be "too big" and we will have our own little family get togethers (Maybe we will start our own version of the DDB's)  THANK GOODNESS that time is far down the road. That's kind of sad to think about.... So let's move on.....    

I love that my friends are my family, and that my family are my friends. I am just very grateful for the love that we have always grown up with, and that our parents have always shown to us! That we are able to show to each other as siblings..  I know that living close also comes with times of  maybe "too closeness".. However nothing that a few days break won't cure! haha..  

I feel that life is too short to hold grudges, too short to live worrying about hurting someone's feelings and instead holding onto and becoming bitter towards a person that you love. I feel that our family has gotten much better in this department. We may fall back into old habits from time to time, but shoot... As a whole I think we have grown up a lot!  I am thankful for the strong family bond that we have!!!  I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!

I love my husband with all of my heart, soul, with every fiber that is in me! I love him more and more every day (which seems like it's not possible at times I feel as though my heart will explode if I jam any more love into it... and yet it never does.. It's amazing how it always stretches a little bigger.) I learn so much from him, he is soooo smart, and so gifted!!  He seems to always have the answers I am searching for, and if he doesn't, he searches until he does. I so admire that about him!  HE IS AN INSPIRATION TO ME, I LOVE HIM!!!

It's such a gift, and a miracle to look into my daughters eyes every morning... and see a part of myself, a part of my husband, AND A WHOLE LOT OF HER AWESOME SWEET SPIRIT looking back at me!  She is a bubbly bright light in our lives.. There is not one second that goes by that I am not so amazed by her! I love to watch her pick up and study something new... an object, or a new noise someone is making, it's sweet to see her little wheels in her head just turning...    She gets a serious look on her face, and then just watches...  It usually takes about a day or two, and whaaaaat?!??..    now she's making that sound or face..
I have busted her more than once in her bed practicing new things!! It's so funny!  I LOVE SEERIE WREN SOOOOO MUCH!!!

I just want to say how very grateful I am for my life that I love! On this Thanksgiving I really feel that my heart is so full, and that this year more than any other, I have so much to be grateful for!



 

Continued..... So read my previous post then come back to this!

Our last stop was at Mom and Dad Dana's.....   We stayed there about an hour and 1/2 as well then headed hm around 11pm... It was a jam packed night but it was awesome that Seerie got to see all of her !!    

Wow...  I just Deleted this whole blog!!!!!! I'm so pissed right now....   It was really good to... 

Well now you all get the short version......    

Sunday- Football, and that night Seerie barfs again... everywhere.  

    Golden and I decide to have some left over soup......    You guessed it, I woke up at 1am blowing chunks, FOR REALS!        So today, Monday, I feel like super doodie... Seerie threw up around noon. I gave her a bath and got her cleaned up...   She just threw up AGAIN.....   ALL OVER THE PLACE.  

I've spent the whole day trying to console her, and then Golden and I both have been on the job since he got hm around 6......      She is still crying in her room as I write this. Golden and I are at a lose as to what to do now...   It has literally been all day that she has been crying, and I know her tummy hurts but she cant get to sleep....   

I will sign off now and go get her....      poor baby, this sucks!!!

I go to Vegas tomorrow night, and to the DMV in the morning... So I will get back in touch with you sisters next week! love you, K

Welcome to the house of puke.....

WHOA, WHOA..... Let's break down the weekend a little...  

THURSDAY-  (which is not the official start of most peoples weekend but it is the start of ours seeing as Golden works 4-10's giving him every fri, sat, sun off!!)    I made a fantastic chili soup that my client had given me last Christmas. It came with directions and a seasoning packet along with some snowflake shaped pasta noodles... Also these adorable soup bowls w/red snowflakes on them. Very festive. I have been looking at this little package for almost a year now, why not cook it on up!  It also gave me a chance to use my food processor that mom gave us for Christmas like 2 yrs ago, BONUS! Oh, wait.... Was I supposed to puree the onion/green pepper and garlic?!!... NO I was not, however that's what happened, and it all turned out. It was delicious!!! So delicious in fact that I gobbed up 2 MONSTER HUGE bowls of it. Along with many pieces of garlic bread...   YUMMMMMMMMMM!!!


MMkk, Dinner was scrumdiddlyumscious and the evening was going great.....                              

HOLD UP! What the HECK!!?!  GOLDEN!!  Seerie totally threw up on me!!!   AGHHHH, GET ME A TOWEL OR SOMETHING, SICK!  Man, that was so sick.. Like real throw up......          Darnit, are you feeling ok baby? She seemed ok, we laid her back down and went to bed..............

5am-   I wake up...............        OHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO... This is not gonna be good!   I run to the bathroom,  BARFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF......    This is not the kind of throw up I would wish on my worst enemy!! (skip a few lines if you so choose, this is gonna get a little graphic)       Remember I had gorged myself with CHUNKY STEW!!  This was the heaviest throw up of all time! It was splashing back in my face!! Leaving  chunks in my mouth.............. 3 times of this gut hurling vomiting....   

I vowed I would not eat one more drop of that soup!

Friday-   Having thrown up all morning it was a laid back day of recovery....  Until we all ventured out that night on our big trip to target....  

Saturday-  We lounged around in the morning, then got ready and headed down to see all the grandparents for Halloween.....  

  Here was our first stop at Golden's step sisters house.. Goldens dad, Golden W. and Gaye were up from Vegas, so we visited with them about an hr. then on to our next destination......      

Then we headed out to Golden's mom's, more hamming it up for the camera, and admiring her sweet pantalonies and leg warmers......       After about an hr 1/2 we headed to our final and last stop of the night.... 

BRING ON THE GIFTS YO!!!!!

I realize that I have been a total looooooooserrr w/my blogging attempts this past month. I realize this because coming up already this next Tuesday we will be heading back to vegas already...... WHHHHHAAAAA???  I cannot believe this last month just seemed to slip through my fingertips. (I mean that literally, haha, since I didn't blog)    No really though, I guess somewhere between "Don't Forget the Lyrics, Fuse Music video count downs, and LAME (I'm really not proud of) reality death traps such as Millionaire Matchmaker, Flipping Out, etc."  my time got whittled down...........    

Now that that's out of the way let's move on shall we......  

I received a letter from my dear sister Heather Anne last night, and I must say it was a welcomed one for sure! I have been reading my sisters blogs a bit hear and there (I am surrendering to the fact that I'm not going to get all the way caught up w/you two, and that's OK. I will take it from here, and one day when I get away from the tv long enough to read a bit, I will have a whole lot of stories waiting for me!!)  I noticed a bit of chatter about "gifts" ....   I must say this sparked my interest.     

So the letter stats pretty much that 29 days of giving will change my life. I know that this is already true. I am taken back to a time when I was participating in some classes that NO DOUBT were focused on gift giving in the form of  being conscious, and totally aware AND ENGAGED with those around me.....      IT ABSOLUTELY CHANGED MY LIFE! FOREVER!!!!!    

The sad thing about it is that as the time has gone by I have slowly let some of those things go.....   What an amazing feeling to really connect with everyone you see. Through their eyes!! How often I look around or to the ground lately. I most always have my sunglasses on when I am on my way to or from my house, (only because most of the time I have no make-up on and I feel a "need" to hide my face. Therefore my eyes!) and  I know that it is disconnecting me with those around me.  

So YES, Hug. I will take your challenge!  

GIFT #1-  This evening Golden and I decided to pack up baby and head to target. It was around 7 or so, and lil Seerie bird was already getting very tired. (She usually goes to bed around 8)  So I told Golden, we don't have much time, let's hustle!

We proceed to dink around target for about, well, just short of 2 hrs....  
Let's just say our little dear was as good as we could have asked of her. By the time we were checking out her tears were a constant down her face, although she was not crying, she was in fact still pulling out her big smiles at the cashier.  It was obvious to her parents though that we had pushed her to her limit as we saw her smile was a painful one, and as much as she was holding back her grunts were getting louder and more sad by the min....    

We pulled in to the parking lot, loaded up all our crap (if you picture a homeless pushing a cart loaded to the gills with everything imaginable that's how we look pretty much 99.9% of the time as we load Seerie's stroller up w/blankets, groceries, HER of course as I have on a diaper bag back pack, And my purse)   So we make it to the elevator...   da dee daaaaaa... going up. OH, Oops, Here comes a lady. Golden and I fumble around to get the door open.   Ok, come on in.      It's a blonde haired lady, she is also going to the 4th floor. She is not making any kind of eye contact. We are looking at Ser, making little chatter, oh, here we are.   We all start walking down the hall.... The lady is in front of us, and I am trying to stop a bit so we aren't on her heels, Golden doesn't seem to care so much about that as he is ready to be home...............              

WELL, She is still walking down the hall. She is getting closer to our door, and whoa whoa...... wait a min...........        

This is our next door neighbor.. LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOR......    She was extremely RUDE to me one evening while I was sitting outside on my deck.. Let's just say, we have never meet, we have had bad blood, and we have NEVER felt any kind of desire to make friends with this lady.......  

As she stopped at her door, she was lingering there, waiting and looking on at us....  I looked at her, smiled, and said, "Have a good night"  and I really meant it!  This may sound like a simple thing, but the part about stepping outside of myself, going out of my way was definitely the bigger picture her.  

I was happy to let it go! To see that she was kind of smurkingly looking at us, like she knew who we were, and we knew her, and I made effort to look back at her and say something.  I know that had I not been open to this challenge I would have been looking straight ahead, and as soon as I stepped inside would've been talking trash.....     I already feel better!!!!!!!!!  

Thank you hug, for extending your challenge to the rest of us and enlightening our lives!!! Love you!!!   

P.S. Hug, and Min, You guys gotta go on Don't Forget the Lyrics! I keep telling Golden, maybe I already mentioned it to you hug, but check it out!!! You can win 50 THOUSAND, why not try?!!  It's a karaoke game show on VH1...   :)       

I love to go, I LOVE to be Home!

So I'm doing things a little different today. Normally when I get on to blog, I read my sisters blogs and comment so by the time I'm ready to blog my window named seerie's naptime is gonejo.  Instead I will blog now and catch up later!
Let's go back like 2 weeks... I had a freak out/melt down on Golden. Probably for something really lame, and it was brought to my attention that this is the cycle that repeats itself every ding dang month. I fail to realize (until I have a blow up) that I begin to get really stressed out about a week before it's time to go down to vegas. Well I know that I get stressed, I think it's not really that bad until I have a come apart... Let's think for just a few seconds of our mother..... Now we were always going along, EVERYTHING GREAT, life as we kids knew it was, well,  pretty awesome... all of the sudden, BAMSHLINGSHANGINGFORD..    Mom's pissed, yelling, slamming things around,  followed up by crying.. leaving everyone in the house super quiet, wishing themselves to the size of an ant to hopefully (cross our fingers) not cause any more waves...

So I'm like my mother after all!!!! Love you mom, I wouldn't want it any other way! haha. However, I really didn't realize how stressed I was feeling. I know that I do this to myself every month, and I am committing to shift out of this nonsense!

I think it was when Golden said, under his breath a little, "I know. it's the same thing every month. this happens every time."............      So after calming down, getting a hold of myself, I told him.. "I am going to have the best week down in vegas. I'm going to be really busy, and clients are going to get a hold of me to come in that I haven't seen for a while. I'm going to enjoy every client, and have a good time! I'm not even going to be stressed, and it's not going to feel like I'm even that busy but I will make more money this time than I have (since I've just been working the 2/2 1/2 days)"  

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT!   I was for the first time ever, super relaxed and enjoying myself! (I always enjoy myself but not as much because I get overwhelmed in the back of my head) I was not stressed at all, I was super busy, I was thinking of our conversations in our blogs and how we've been talking about being in the moment, REALLY TAKING IN EACH MOMENT, and I really did! I was for the most part on time, (give or take a half hr here and there) Before we left to come down I had heard from a couple clients that I hadn't seen for awhile and got them in... I made more money than I have been making, and I had a blast!  I KNOW that our words are so powerful! It is something that amazes me time and time again! It is so true, and I KNOW that it is.. Why I get caught up in the nonsense and stress, Not anymore I tell you!

I wrote a few posts back about my clients, and doing hair gives me a way to connect on a different level w/them. I feel like because I wrote it down, and verbalized it, it also made me more aware of my time with them, and really take it all in.  I also know that for me to open up to Golden, and share what's going on in my head is so awesome for us.  I am indeed grateful for this blogging!         

VEGAS BABY, VEGAS

Really quick I want to leave a little note for my sisters..  I'm supposed to be packing right now, and although I've had all day to get this achieved.... I have only gotten so far as getting out all the suitcases, watching all the animals freak out, (because they know it's that time again) and getting aesop with all of his gear over to amy's house so they can watch him for the weekend. Amy also comes over once while we are gone to empty out the kitty liter, and get the cats some fresh water.... Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Amy!!!! It is not the best job in the world, and we soooooooo appreciate you doing this! (And I just know that some day you will get on this handy thing called the internet, and read my blog, and get this thank you! Maybe you will even be so lucky to be getting on it at your very own house ;))  Although I am not happy for you that your car broke down, I am happy that we are able to let you borrow our car while we are gone. It's one thing we can at least do for you guys to say thanks!...      

Anyways, I'm just letting you guys know that I will be taking a break from blogs until monday 11th... It's time for me to dust off my professional self, and get busy! I love you guys, and I promise a big juicy long blog when I get back! xo 

OK, So FINALLY onto my own post....

I've been struggling to get a post of my own out since I log on and first read HB and Details (leave them comments that seem to take up a whole dang page as of late) and then when I am finally ready to settle into my own posting the little bird is up, or it's time for dinner, etc..   so here we go....   I do find though that I always come away from reading my sisters posts with so many ideas of my own to write about, and to get into a little more off of hugs post today, Humor Me, I find myself reflecting to the last week or so with Seerie. She is really turning into quit the good little eater. She takes after her momma that way, and when she eats sweet potatoes she actually makes some super noises after each bite... hummm, hmm hym huymm... so the other day, I had to warm some up in the microwave and they were a bit too warm. I got her little spoon full and blew on it. OHHHH my goodness she started laughing and laughing! She had her nose all crinkled up, and her laugh was super airy, she is just discovering this new kind of laugh. SO I started laughing, like really laughing, and she starts laughing harder and we are just having this little laugh off.. It pretty much lasted the whole rest of her lunch, and has continued on for the week. It's for sure this small bit of bliss that is no doubt a beautiful part of my day. It was so refreshing and freeing to be in a real exchange of laughter with my daughter. I do fake laughs/funny noises all day long for her, but this one was way different.... it's awesome!             Now, we get on to my very least favorite thing to do with seerie. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... NOT the DR. OFFICE for shots. PLEEEEEAAAASSSSSEEEEEEEEEE....boo hoo. When oh when will it be time to stop getting more shots in this lil baby!!! I mean lets get real for a min. from the second she got shot out into this big world she starts getting poked, prodded and stuck every ding dang time we turn around. We were informed today that on her 9 mnth check up there are no vaccinations HOWEVER, comma, she has to have her second flu shot. So nope. Not getting out of it yet.  Golden let me know (as he was mowing down cheerios while we were waiting for the dr. to come into the rm) that it was indeed my turn to hold seerie down while she was getting her shots seeing how he did it last time. I said, "fine. no big deal. She doesn't cry that hard anyways. You're the one that freaks out more than her anyways"  the truth is that it sucks to see her crying, and I do hate this day just as much as golden does.... So we get through the appt. She's weighing in at 18.8 lbs, 26 inches (70th percentile for her weight, hehe, and 50% height) we go over why she has a rash on her back, what foods she's eating and how she's not really down with her bottle as much anymore. She'd rather eat her food, but we know that she is still supposed to be getting the bulk of her calories/nutrition from formula....  Right-e-o... lets get on with this already.. during our visit she's been rolling all around the table, grabbing and admiring the dr.s stethoscope, just taking it all in. Here comes the nurse... Okey doke. Lets start with the heel stick.. great. OHH wait, not even a peep, this is going to be a cake walk! Next is the edible one, sweet, she takes her medicine like its a treat, fanfizzytastic.. OK. Now you hold down her arms so she cant try to grab or move..   Just at that moment in walks golden (he had scurried off to the restrm to make a bottle) he immediately starts to cringe, I stopped my humming in seeries ear long enough to tell  him to get out. (in the nicest way of course) nothing but positive energy in here ... K, going to go one after the other, like 5 shots, including her first flu shot... I was laying kind of on her, with my head nxt to hers, holding her arms down, trying not to focus anything but LOVE and LIGHT to her, humming softly in her ear..... I cannot even begin to tell you how sad it is. She starts crying, it's like no other cry I have ever heard from her. She is hurting so bad, and I feel that I am this ultimate betrayal right about now. She is barely able to make any sounds out because she can't catch her breath, tears streaming down her face and she is looking at me like mom, how can you do this to me... the nurse finishes up, quickly gets the band aids on, and buggies out of the room... It was about 5 long min. of heart wrenching sobbing.. and then more like the saddest mini catching the breathe cries for the rest of the time.  Man, it sucks!  I know why Amy used to want me to go w/her to get the kids shots. I know I held down Elle for one of her sets, but the lady had me hold her in my lap, and maybe because this is my daughter that it makes it so dramatic...   Because I know her every single tiny emotion, every cry, every face she makes.... It really makes me think. It's going to be really hard for me when she gets older to sit back and allow her to go out on her own, do things that I know will result in hurt for her. How it will be for her own growth, and progress, but how hard it will be to watch..  I guess that's when it turns into where I get to be LOVE and LIGHT for her and allow her to make mistakes, and know that she will learn from them and become the BRIGHTEST LIGHT that she can be because of those mistakes and lessons.                  I think a lot about mom and dad. I remember asking them to let me be, let me make my mistakes and for them to love me in spite of my choices. AND THEY DID! AND THEY DO! It makes me feel from such a different perspective. To feel, really feel just on a small scale what it means to LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY... I really feel that I have barely scratched the surface on this topic. I desire for Seerie to be happy. However that looks for her.  I look at her now and wonder what she will decide to be when she grows up, I think she will do something with music... She loves it so much all ready. :) That's the thing right, it doesn't matter what I think or want.. it's what she decides..  I just want to provide her with the best life and opportunity that I can, and when it comes down to it that's what my parents did for me and I am so very thankful for them!..  It is really something to be unconditional love. To really be that. I know that it is a small snippet of how Heavenly Father feels...... He wants us to be happy! And He loves us!  ................... Check out this video of the hubble telescope up in space, zooming in on the Lagoon Nebula (click on the link)!!!!      OH  P.S. her iron is low. So now we get to give her iron supplement twice a day. She doesn't like the taste of it at all, but nothing a little apple sauce wont fix!                                           

Seerie Wren Bird

OH my goodness, I love these pictures!

oh yes for yard sales!

So Golden and I have started our own small ritual, its been two weeks in a row now so maybe we get to do it a bit longer before we can classify it as a ritual. Anyways, DUDE YARD SALES are bomb! We scored some sweet stuff last week, and this week was even better. Let me first say, I know that by Melissa's standards we got ripped off however, comma, we feel pretty good about our bargains... Last week we got a few little tee shirts for Seerie 10 cents each, also some little shorts, 25 cents, and a little toy thing that plays songs $3... This week we scored 2 tv trays, $2, a boat load of clothes for ser, 7 sleepers, 3 hats, 4 jackets/sweaters, 5 pairs of shorts (one overalls), 3 pairs of pants, 4 onesies, 3 tee shirts, and 7 dresses all for $8! Oh and she threw in two free blankets, one has clamps on it so you can put it on the car seat and it wont fall off... Man what a deal! We actually tried to give the lady $12, but she gave us back $2 and told us to go buy a drink on her.. haha! I think because we showed up so late in the game, it was around 2, and they looked like they were getting ready to clean up and be done w/the the whole thing we really got some deals... Honestly we prob could have offered them 3 dollars and they would have given us even more. We decided on the way home that the more we go to these things the better we will get with the wheel and deal of it all.   Let's just say, One mans garbage is another mans prize possession!  I'm positive that Seerie will feel that way when she is dressed in her "new" duds!  .....................    HMMMMMM... well I guess that's it for now. I always have way more things I wanna write about later in the evening, and OF COURSE that's when I don't have the time. Right now I have some time seeing that the bird is still sleeping but I feel  I will do my best to get some sweet pics on here :) 

ALL THE THINGS I LOVE......

Today I have been enjoying my life.. I love my little daughter! To pieces! She is the light of my life (aside from my honey, who of coarse is like my light house ;)) It does not matter what I'm doing,  I take one look at her, with her chubby checks, and her little two teeth smile and I just light up. She is adorable! It's such a wonder to me, the miracle of life, of how something so precious and perfect is made.. How we all end up here, grow, and develop.. It's so fantastic. When I look at the circle of life and the perfect complexity of it, I know there is a GOD. It is perfection in every tiny detail....   Amy and I took the kiddies down to mom and dads (we drove separate cuz she had to work at 2:30 and I was staying in A.F til 6 to go cut anne's hair) On the way down I realized mom might not know we were coming (it was 9am) so I gave her a jingle and sure enough it was a surprise to her. So in between mom and dads dr. visits we all got to chat about an hr total, but Amy, Avery, Elle C, Seerie bird and I were outside picking peaches (we held down the fort while ma & pa were away) when I looked over to see Seerie.. Let me see if I can paint this picture, because of coarse I forgot my camera.. She had on a onsie outfit, w/bib, a hoodie, some sweet orange socks that look like shoes that have shoe laces, and her hoodie was up on her head w/her headband flower poking out.. but the cutest part was that she was sitting there good as can be, kind of making little noises, in the little blue/red chair w /yellow tray, with crumbs of cheerios stuck to each had, shaking the cheerio tub with a little bit of sadness because the sun was blaring down right in her face... so her eyes were all squinted up.. I will see if I can figure out how to post some pics tomorrow because it will give you a better idea.. Mostly I just love that little girl......  So aim left, and I had some hrs to myself w/mom and dad... mom and I mended ser's fav blanket, went for a walk, sat on the porch while it was hailing, it was a really nice time. Just really relaxing..  When it was time for me to go do my haircut, I left seerie w mom n dad, and boogied over to annes house...  Another really relaxing time. (Her husband and oldest son were gone, leaving just Anne and her 5/6 yr old son Jace).........  I realize when Im doing hair (by myself, not half doing hair, half watching to see and make sure seerie's ok) how much I love to have one on one time w/people. Hug was talking about having one on one w/mom n dad, which I love as well... But I also really love one on one w/fam, friends, clients, when I'm behind the chair doing their hair... Its weird that there are certain things that people will open up and tell me when Im doing their hair, that they otherwise might never say to me. Or maybe it never comes up, or the opportunity isn't there..  I know that's one reason I love what I do so much. I get a lot out of it as well. Also for me to have the chance to open up and say things I might never say otherwise. I've been able to get to know anne (goldens step sister) waaaaaaaaaay better than he know's her! He has started to come w/me since we've had seerie, and it's been awesome for their relationship to grow the last little bit. Also goldens step mom, gaye, I knew more about her the first time I did her hair than golden prob really ever did.... Maybe because you know your going to have to sit there for an extended period of time, so it's easier to talk about whatever comes up, and might as well get into a story of sorts? Maybe because the hair dresser is an outsider (in certain instances) and becomes that person who you can say whatever to because they don't know the people your talking about? ..... I love being that person.. I feel like a little different person when I'm behind the chair. Is that weird? It's like I'm the professional here, and I can take on that role w/ease and confidence. Why is it different otherwise? Maybe also because it's that one on one time that makes all the difference. It gives time, opportunity, and the space to ask the hard questions, and then really listen to the answer.......

The best part of the year.... is here, at last!

Sooooooo it's that time again. The leaves are starting to change, there's the beginnings of a chill in the air (unless your hug and live in park city, and it was never really summer) the mornings are crisp and refreshing..... AND its time for FOOTBALL! I swear I am a dude when it comes to this, but I love football season! There's something so rewarding about waking up on sunday morning to sports center, anticipating the games to start for the day. I think also because it is a time to get together, eat, and chill that it also makes it a season I look forward to..  Which then leads to all the holidays, Min will be coming out soon, and the feeling all around changes. If you notice that Christmas, well starting around halloween , people start to get all friendly and nice?!! I am just as guilty as anyone I know this, and I guess it's because we have things to look forward to? Or because it's something that takes us away from the daily grind, and into something to celebrate?  I notice that people will actually say hello when passing by, or hold the door open. It's been a weird experience to have a kid, a diaper bag, a dog, a stroller, w/car seat, and my purse with me at all times. I've been so shocked a number of times at the way people DON'T move for me, or offer to hold a door... It has made me much more aware of it when I am out and about... Maybe it is just the places I've lived, or maybe it is me that is putting off an attitude....  I feel I def do my best to be friendly....    Anyways, back to football... HAAAALLLLLLELLLLUAJAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

For my second post......

So I've finished reading my sisters posts, and I feel inspired to reflect on a little time when I was young... about 5 years of age, playing hide and seek with heather and amy. I was it, I searched all around the basement, through all the rooms, storage rm, jasons rm, mins rm (well her rm was probably off limits, cuz she would freak out if we went in there) anyways, I found them... OK KERI, now it's your turn to hide while WE ARE IT. .  ummm.. ok. WE are adding a new hiding place, come on and we'll show you! WOW, a new hiding place, I could hardly wait to see it! This was going to be really exciting!  Here we are... the DRYER! It's now been added to the places to hide.. We are going to go count so get ready to hide ker. 1,2,3... GEEEZZZZ I had to hurry. This was going to be the best place ever! I burned around the corner into the laundry rm, that would later be turned into amys rm, and strategically placed myself into the dryer.. taking  great care in leaving the door open a crack. Making it look as if nothing/no one was in there however, leaving a small slit for me to breathe of course. OH wait... I can hear them coming now... I was holding my breath, they were never going to find me! I was so quiet... but then SLAM! LAUGHING, AND THE DRYER BEGAN TO TURN!!!! THEN CAME THE HEAT! I was crying as I began moving around, going up and falling down on the dividers, BAM! and UP, BAM! and UP, BAM! They were coming around so fast. It was obvious that crying and screaming was not going to stop this cycle. I was getting really hot, but never mind that. I wanted to stop landing on those things! I started to hold myself with my legs out and my arms up so I could do a full rotation.... It was just about then that the door flew open, and my older sisters ran off giggling ahead of me that I was brought back to the horrid realization that I was just tricked into the dryer.... BY MY SISTERS, AND THEY TURNED IT ON! It seemed like the longest 5 min of my life!! (I know it was prob more like 20 sec)... The thing that still gets me is that as I was running up the stairs yelling for my mom, they grabbed me and bribed me w/candy to not tell. I actually took it!!! ohhhhhhhh man, good times!!!!  Its really times like these that I think how sad it would be to be an only child! haha

oh my goodness

After much thought today I've decided it would be in my best interest to start a blog. I've read a bit of my sisters blogs and they are awesome! Inspiring me to do a little blogging of my own..   It was early this morning when I was doing my make-up ( I actually got out of bed before my daughter, made breakfast for my honey, took a shower and began getting ready for the day) when I realized...... I was having some serious conversation WITH MYSELF!!!! This was a bit alarming considering that I know that this has gone on for quit some time, but I really think today was the first time I was conscious of it... AND COMPLETELY FREAKED out by it!  I guess because I felt for a brief moment on the fast track to crazy unless I start giving myself some sort of social outlet. So here I go.........    I have felt for some time now that I want to start writing. My first thought is naturally to write in my journal. I think about it a lot, and never seem to find the time. More accurately, I never make the time. The days and months fly by,  now my daughter is 7 1/2 months and the days are lost behind me. So my desire with this blog is to say whatever is on my mind. Melissa does coupons/running, Hug does gratitude, and Im going to do whatever I feel like at the moment. I feel that is something I talk a lot about, being in the moment. Each moment. Enjoying what Im doing now.. loving the fact that once I was a super busy hair stylist, working my brains out, making lots of money, talking to people all day long, and it was sweet to have the means to buy whatever I wanted... NOW I am a full time mother, I make up silly songs/dance for my daughter on the daily (as long as she thinks I'm funny, right?!) I play pranks on the cats, and my dog aesop, and I get a kick out of talking to myself all day until my husband gets home. We are tight on money, and I will tell you that I have more appreciation for a 20 dollar bill (shoot, let's be honest a 5 or even a couple 1's) than I ever had before. However, I AM THE HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER BEEN in my entire life!!! I love my soul mate, he is my everything, and my angel. Just when I thought I would be alone forever he came along. Now we have a little girl, and our world is so different and so beautiful. I will say that I know that all the money in the world cannot buy happiness, and I absolutely delight in my relationships! For me, this is what life is all about.. OUR RELATIONSHIPS!!!!!  K