Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope your Thanksgiving is much more of a success then this guys!

Thanks Jori for the hilarious pictures!

Taken Off into the Friendly Skies

Later this afternoon, Jeff and I are heading to Maryland to see Grandpa and Zack for the Thanksgiving weekend. We are flying this time. I didn't want to sit in the holiday traffic here and there as we drove south. But, I can't wait!

We'll arrive in MD around supper time this evening and then we will head to Grandpa's. We'll spend the holiday eating and relaxing at Grandpa's while my Uncle cooks dinner. I'll help here and there, but usually its a prepared meal from a local restaurant and the food just has to be heated up. So, that just leaves us to eat and relax during the day.

Grandpa and his typical look that says "what do you want?"

On Friday, around 10am we'll get Zack. Not sure yet if he'll be dropped off at Grandpa's or if we have to go to her hotel to pick him up (or even if it'll be at 10am), but we'll see when we get to that point. Then we'll have him for the weekend until Sunday mid-morning.

Zack several years ago, hence the gameboy & not his PSP, but caught off guard

So, I can't wait to see either of these guys. We have shopping, eating, visiting and of course revealing baby news to everyone!!

Good luck & be safe to everyone with your holiday travel plans!

My First Blog Award

Thanks Sarah at My Slice of Life for nominating me!

The Rules:

1. Put the award up on your blog


2. Add a link to the person who awarded it to you


3. Nominate at least seven other blogs


4. Add links to these blogs on your blog


5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog


And my nominees are:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

The Sweet Family

On the Upside

Everyday Baily

A Girl & Her Blog

The Forth K-H

Chillys World

Has this ever happened to you?

Have you ever been in a store and its robbed?

Well the other night, my FIL and I were in that type of situation (a "minor" robbery situation with no weapons).

Here is our story-

We were leaving Walmart plaza around 5pm on Saturday night. My FIL wanted to stop by a little hole in the wall cell phone store that is on the same road (but in its own little parking lot) to get his phone fixed for a minor cosmetic issue. We entered the store and noticed the clerk was sitting behind the counter helping a customer.

My FIL and myself were checking out the phones in the store while the clerk was helping the other customer. We could hear chit chat between them, but not really paying attention to them.

All of a sudden my FIL walks over the table near the door, I turn to face my FIL and I see the other customer at the counter. I hear him say thanks buddy then run at full speed out the door, through the parking lot, into the dark area behind the store. The clerk then yelled hey, hey come back here. I just stood there and my FIL takes off out the door after the kid. The clerk not too far behind.


So, I'm standing in the cell phone store all buy myself watching the clerk and my FIL talking to some lady in a van out the window. Come to find out the lady in the van almost hit the kid (she should have too) as he ran out the store. The clerk returned to the store and called his manager and my FIL returned too. The manager didn't want the clerk to do much about the stolen $100 Bluetooth device.

The stolen Bluetooth device

I guess before we arrived at the store there were two kids in the store asking the clerk odd questions about phones and bluetooth devices. One of the kids said, hey I'll be back I have to go get the money and then we walked in the store with the remaining kid (who looked about 17 years old) at the counter.


There was no one that was hurt, the merchandise was and will never be recovered and I hope they clerk doesn't get into too much trouble. Now that I think about it, the situation could have been alot worse, but we walked away feeling bad for the clerk more then anything.

Ok, Its Official

Its official. My hormones are out of control, like any pregnant women's.

It really didn't dawn on me too much while I was at work (or home) that I would get snippy with people when I usually wouldn't....nope not then.

Or, the frequent headaches that are caused by increased hormones....nope that neither.

Those unexpected breakouts.....no, that couldn't be a sign either.

What convinced me was this - Yesterday morning while driving to work, a radio ad for a local grocery store came on about Thanksgiving. I've heard this ad before, but yesterday morning the water works started flowing as I drove to work as the sappy commercial played. Yup, I cried as the sounds of Grandma's traditions during Thanksgiving filled my ears.

OK, now I can officially say that my hormones are out of control, like they should! Watch our world!

Thankful Thursday

1. My mom being convinced to start her Christmas Shopping before Thanksgiving. I bring her for the bulk of her shopping and I convinced her to go this weekend since the mall is having a fundraiser/sale after hours. She usually starts mid-December.
2. My yoga class. Well, of course I'm grateful for the health benefits but what I'm grateful for this week is the night sleep after the class I encountered. Ahhhh!
3. Having an auto starter in my van. That is the first thing I had installed when I bought the van over two years ago and I love it on cold mornings like we've had the past few days.
4. I get to see my Grandpa and Zack next week for Thanksgiving! I miss them both so much.
5. Southwest Airlines for not charging luggage fee's. We have to pack a bag for Zack and we don't have to pay extra for it, yeah!

Wordless Weds - Disneys Desperate Housewives