99 Balloons

I saw this on Oprah today, and WOW, if you didn't see it, well you can watch it here...this is an incredible story, and you can read their family's blog at http://thespectacularvernacular.blogspot.com/ or Elliot's story at http://mattandginny.blogspot.com/

Update and Anticipation

Hi there! Ok, well first of all, I have my computer back...YAY!!! We sent it out on Tuesday, and they said 5-6 business days, and then called the next night to say that it was going to be longer than expected...then all of a sudden on Friday, mid-day, the doorbell rang...and it was the DHL man, with my computer!!! Tom joked, maybe they have a Dell technician in the back of the DHL van because of how fast it was! Anyways, so only 3 days gone, it works and all free of charge because of the warranty, not bad at all! 

So the anticipation part is kinda a joke, but I am sure you all are waiting at the edge of your seats to see the bathroom pictures...haha...I don't have any pictures yet, but I LOVE it, so far...but, I did question myself of what I got myself into...its the hardest room in the house to paint; behind the toilet, above the shower, around the mirrors, not to mention a WHOLE lot of moulding! sheesh! oh and the ceiling too...because it was all yellow, I painted the ceiling, and put a fresh coat on all the woodwork, since we were in a rush when we painted it the first time, and didn't do the best job, and then today painted the blue...I have a bit of blue to finish up, and touch up, then to paint the cabinet brown. I am SO sore it's crazy...I decided painting is better exercise than going to the gym...so don't waste your money at a gym, just redecorate your house! lol...anyways, I will post pictures when it is done, and find the before pictures, for comparison. The best part is that we picked the colors so that we can keep the extras we have like rugs and shower curtain and stuff, because they will match, but can still change them out when we want to...anyways, thats all for now!

Oh one more funny thing...tonight Gunner was laying on the area rug in our living room and the lamps were all on and everything, well then he starts doing this little pounce thing and putting his nose into the rug, we thought he saw a ladybug or something, but there was nothing, and he just kept doing it, then we realized he saw his shadow...LOL 

Oh another funny Gunner story...last night Tom and I were watching a movie, and we have this huge blanket we had over us as we were sitting on the couch, and our dog has an obsession with anything soft; blanket, couch, bed, even a kitchen rug, oh and he LOVES carpet...lol if you tell him to sit(when standing on the hardwood floor) he will find the nearest piece of carpet, or rug, etc., oh and he will do anything to sit on your lap...he is 65 pounds!!! he doesn't realize his size...he will just very quietly climb up on you 1 paw at a time, lol... ANYWAYS...so he was laying on the small piece of the blanket that hung over on to the floor, he loves it so much, he won't even move when you get up, so we had both gotten up, and tossed the blanket...well he got covered in it, and decided to get up, and got caught in the blanket, we were in the other room and could here him moving around so we looked in the living room, and there he was, all wrapped up in the blanket, turning in circles, tripping, falling into the couch, it was pretty funny, we were laughing so hard, i wish we would have it on video...

Bye!!

ok, so I might be gone for awhile...my computer decided to stop charging, despite being plugged in, actually Dell sent me a new charger, and it still wouldn't charge, so today mr. dhl came and picked it up and it is being returned to Dell to be fixed, they say it should only be 5-6 business days, but who knows...lol, so for now i'm using Tom's laptop, but either way...HOPEFULLY when I return, I will have pictures of a painted bathroom lol...my goal is to start painting in the next couple days or so...so anyways for now, I hope you all have a great rest of the week!!

Happy Birthday Tom!!

Well today my husband turns 28...i can hardly believe it...but anyways, today we took a nice drive to Madison, WI and went to the Woodcraft store...its a woodworking store...since that was probably so hard to figure out from the name lol...anyways, Tom got some parts for his dust collection system for his tools. Today there was some even going on at the store, so we got to enter a raffle thing, guess how many candy corn were in a jar, spin a saw blade for a percent off, play plinko for another percent off, and then shoot balloons with an air nailer, for ANOTHER percent off, and we both got to play and our total was 25% off, so that was a fun surprise! Then we got to go to a huge scrapbooking store that was near there, that I have heard so much about, but had never been to. Its called Archivers...and wowza, was it cool! lol here is what I bought...

first in the picture is a clear alphabet set, got it for 75% off, only paid $2.98! then dog stickers and dog paper for a project I am doing, some jumbo flowers for cards, glossy accents, which is just a diminsional glue thing, i don't know how to explain it, but then greenish brownish chipboard letters, yellow/tan chipboard letters, and pink chipboard letters, and then lastly is a scalloped circle punch...so excited to get to start using this stuff!! anyways... then we came home, stopped by Tom's parents house and I got to play w/Boogie and Miguel for awhile, which was so much fun...I miss them so much! anyways, we came home I made Tom's favorite dinner, hamburger strogenoff, and his other favorite:

APPLE PIE! and yes, i made it homemade, well except the crust, but still...its not from a box. Anyways, Tom always prefers apple pie over cake, so this is what he gets :) now we are going to watch a movie and just relax...

Anyways, I just have to let you all know how fantastic my husband is...God really knew what He was doing when He brought us together...there is absolutely no one in this world a more perfect fit for me, than him! Tom is such an amazing man, wonderful person, and just the greatest husband! He works hard, and never complains, he loves me more than I could have ever imagined, and on top of all of it, he is so easy going, and has patience I desire! So many things I strive to be! He is always there to provide the laughter, as well as there to hold me, pray with me, and wipe my tears in the hard times...I have been truely blessed, and I thank God daily for the privledge to be married to such an amazing man! I could go on and on, but I need to go watch a movie with my sweetie!  

Well I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Picture update

Here are just some random pictures from recently...I will explain as we go...

this first one is a thank you card i made to send to tom's grandma and aunt mary for inviting me up to make cards with them last weekend...I had so much fun!

These next 3 are pictures we actually got for a wedding present, so 3 1/2 years ago lol...they are odd sizes and just got them framed and matted, don't have them hung on the wall yet, but they will look GREAT in our dining room!

The next two pictures are of our mums and pumkins on our front porch. the other day a lady had stopped by for something and she said they are so huge she had to touch them to see if they are real...lol, i love them! they are so beautiful! 

Butt Scratching and Bass Fishing...NOT my title..

Tom found this and forwarded it to me...it is a story by Dave Ramsey, from his website, www.daveramsey.com


Butt Scratching and Bass Fishing

A couple of weeks ago, I worked late like I sometimes need to do to run my business. It was a nice Tennessee summer evening, and I was enjoying the drive home. About 7:30, as I pulled to a stop light a few blocks from my office, I noticed a light on in the corner office of a friend’s office building. Through the twilight I could make out my friend’s silhouette as he bent over his desk. Being a fellow entrepreneur, I knew what he was doing.

He was looking over some receivables. Some turkey hadn’t paid him, and he was trying to make his accounts balance so he would have the cash to make it another day. In that instant, I had a flashback to some of the ridiculous statements I’ve been hearing on the talking-head news channels and from some individuals during this political year. And I’ll be honest—I instantly felt the heat of anger flow through my body.

Let me tell you why. You see, my friend who I saw working late—we’ll call him Henry—is a great guy. He’s what you want your son to grow up to be. He loves God, his country, his wife, and his kids. He didn’t have the academic advantage of attending a big-name university. Instead, he started installing heating and air systems as a grunt laborer after he graduated from high school. He was and is a very hard and diligent worker, and before long, the boss taught him the trade. But when he was 24, after 6 years of service, the company he was working for got into financial trouble and laid him off.

Henry still had his tools, so he bought an old pickup to haul around his materials and tools, and suddenly he was in business. He knew about heating and air-conditioning, but not about business, so he made a lot of mistakes.

He persisted. He took accounting and management at the community college to learn about business. He started reading books on business, HVAC, marriage, kids, God, and anything else someone he respected recommended. Today he is one of the best-read men I know. Soon, because of his fabulous service and fair prices, he developed a great reputation, and his little business began to grow.

Henry started 15 years ago, and now he has 17 employees whose families are fed because he does a great job. He is in church on Sunday and seldom misses his kids’ Little League games. Sometimes he has to miss a game because some poor soul has their AC go out in the 96-degree Tennessee summer heat, but Henry makes sure they are served. He is, by all standards, a good man. He is, by all standards, what makes America great.

Henry and I are friends, and so he asked me some financial questions last year. I learned in the process that his personal taxable income last year was $328,000. I smiled with pride for this 70-hour a week guy because he is living the dream.

At the stop light that evening, I also thought of another guy I know—and that is where the anger flash came from. We will call him John. While John does not have the same drive Henry has, I can say that he, too, is a good man.

John also graduated from high school and did not attend a big-name university. He went to work at a local factory 15 years ago. When 5:00pm comes around, John has probably already made it to his car in the parking lot. He comes in 5 minutes late, takes frequent breaks, and leaves 5 minutes early. However, to his credit, he is steady and works hard.

Over the years, due to his steadiness and seniority, he has worked his way up to about $75,000 per year in that same factory. He seldom misses his kid’s ballgames, but most nights you will find him in front of the TV where he has become an expert on “American Idol,” “The Biggest Loser,” and who got thrown off the island. When he is not in front of the TV, he spends a LOT of time and money bass fishing on our local lake. He never works over 40 hours a week and hasn’t read a non-fiction book since high school.

This is America, and there is nothing wrong with either set of choices. Nothing wrong, that is, until the politicians and socialists get involved ...

I have seen several elitist people on the talking-head channels make the statement lately that people making over $250,000 per year have a “moral imperative” to pay more in taxes to take care of the country’s problems. This is not only infuriating—it is economically, spiritually, and morally crazy!

Where in the world do these twits get off saying that Henry should be punished for his diligence? If you are John, where do you get off trying to take Henry’s hard-earned money away from him in the name of your misguided “fairness”? If you want to sit on the lake, drink beer, scratch your butt, and bass fish, that is perfectly fine with me. I am not against any of those activities and have engaged in some of them myself at one time or another. But you HAVE NO RIGHT to talk about “moral imperatives” about what other people have earned due to their diligence. That money is not yours! You want some money? Go earn some! Get up, leave the cave, kill something, and drag it home.

We are in a dangerous place in our country today. A segment of our population has decided that it is the government’s job to provide all of their protection, provision, and prosperity. This segment has figured out that government doesn’t have the money to give them everything they want, so somebody else has to pay for it. That is how the “politics of envy” was born. “Tax the rich” has become the mantra of the left, and this political season it has been falsely dubbed a “moral imperative.”

Ninety percent of America’s millionaires are first-generation rich. They are Henry. To tax them because you think it is a “moral imperative” is legalizing governmental theft from our brightest, most charitable, and most productive citizens.

If I can get a law passed that says you must surrender all your cars to the government because it is the “moral imperative” of anyone who owns cars to support the latest governmental program, that would be a violation of private property rights and simply morally wrong. This new “moral imperative” to redistribute wealth is no different from that. It’s the SAME THING!

Please, America, re-think the politics of envy! You are sowing the seeds of our destruction when you punish the Henrys of our culture.

If you think taxing the populace to support government programs is the best way—and I don’t—then at least tax every single person the same! There are very few Henrys out here who would squawk much about paying a set percentage of their income—if everyone else did, too. But this idea of some butt-scratching bass fisherman saying government should tax his neighbor and not him—just because his neighbor has succeeded—must stop.

So the next time an elitist media talking-head starts telling you it is the moral imperative of our culture to tax my friend Henry, change the channel.

The next time you see someone wealthy who feels guilty and is preaching the politics of envy, change the channel.

The next time you see some celebrity who feels guilt over their income preaching socialism, change the channel.

And the next time you run into a misguided, butt-scratching bass fisherman who says the evil rich people in our culture should have their private property confiscated because that is fair… well just shake your head walk away—and make sure to vote against his candidate. If he and his type win, God help America.

October 15th

I'm sure some of you know, others may not, but today is the National day of Rememberance for Pregnancy and Infant Loss. A blogger friend of mine, Angie at Bring the Rain posted a great post today...please go read it! The quote she posted is great, but as well as, if you have the time, read the comments...She asked for anyone that has experienced pregnancy loss or infant loss to comment for prayer and to pray for each other. So far, there are 1,300 comments...which just that alone brings tears to my eyes...but here is why...

(sorry if you read this twice, cuz i wrote some of this in my comment on her page) Its so sad to see that soo many people have experienced this pain, and loss in their life, but just the shear number is amazing in that we are not alone! We are not alone, because we have Christ in our life, as our foundation, but to have this large number of women who have experienced loss in this way, who understand the hurt, and pain, and emptiness, leaves me speachless. SO MANY people don't know how to respond to this kind of loss, so it leaves me feeling alone, and others i know of as well. No one hardly talks about it, as humans, we don't like to deal with sadness, its uncomfortable!...think about it, what would you do if you said to someone oh how many kids do you have and they said none, but i've lost 2 babies, now granted there are other ways of saying that, and i'm talking complete stranger...at the grocery store, or the mall. Just the other day and i've gotten it alot over the years, maybe its because I buy so much kid stuff for everyone but I dont know, but just the other day i bought a pair of baby jeans at a garage sale for someone, and the lady said oh how old is your baby, i just said they were for a friend...but the point is, pregnancy loss is not something you just blurt out to anyone, like you would when say you have 2 living children...anyways, moving on, thats another long topic, for another day :) the whole point is that because its so almost "hush hush" not talking about it, not discussing it, etc...it makes you feel like wow, something is wrong with me, i am all alone, and can spiral into depression very easily, but to see this large number, and those are just the ones so far, and only of the women that read her blog, its encouraging to know that a lot of women all over this world know what i am feeling, even if family or friends don't, other women do!! Now to just talk about it...

This year, Tom and I will be adding beautiful pearl ornaments to our tree in remembrance of our babies. they are both the letter "B" (for baby)and are just perfect. Also you already know about my necklace that I wear in remembrance of them as well...let alone all the times I think of them...with the first one, i think about how we would be starting preschool lessons with them soon, and planning the second baby, and preparing a nursery, and i really think about them, specifically the first one since more time has passed, but this month not only am i still recovering the loss of the second baby, i'm dealing with the remembrance of the loss of the first one 3 1/2 years ago almost exactly...and the hardest, is when its around the time they would have been born, or when we celebrate my great neice's birthday, who was born a day after I was due w/the first one or so...but the point is, this is a life long thing, when someone sees me, and it appears to them that its just Tom and I, in my mind, its not just Tom and I, I have a family, they just aren't here on Earth with me, thats all. 

Please be praying for all of these women who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss. I have really been praying about something I think God is laying on my heart to do for all of us in this catagory to share our stories, so if you could pray that God will give me discernment with that as well, that would be much appreciated.  Thanks so much for reading all this, and please hug your kiddos a little tighter tonight...

Oh buddy! lol

Well, I have been tagged by Britt to come up with 7 random/weird things about myself....so this should be interesting lol...so here we go!!

1. The first scrapbook page I ever made was to enter a contest, and I won first place...and I'm about to enter my second ever scrapbook page, in the same contest again lol :)

2. I have had 3 last names in my life, 2 of which are the same! lol my biological dad and my adopted dad have the same last name, but are NOT related! weird huh? lol oh and the 3rd is my married name.

3. I have a small freckle between 2 of my small toes on my left foot(i think..lol )( so this isnt that interesting, but I have to fill this up w/SOMETHING) lol 

4. I don't have my gallbladder or my tonsils

5. I secretly would love to be one of those women who have like 16 kids or something...SERIOUSLY!(ok, so maybe its not so secret, but whatever, lol )

6. Oh this is kinda dumb but whatever...lol...I sometimes will say I hate something like spinach, just cuz I think it looks, smells, and sounds grose, when in reality, I've never tasted it..lol...its like a reaction...someone will say oh do you like "this" and i will say "oh i hate that" and then I will backtrack and say well actually, i mean i have never had it...lol weird huh? idk i think its that i hate the IDEA of whatever it is...lol who knows..

7. I have what I think is a weird obsession with music...i call it a love for music, but many would probably call it a weird obsession...lol...I would be happy if I could just listen to music all day everyday, oh and i can't randomly recite the lyrics, but the min. a song starts, i can almost always tell you what it is, and sing it almost word for word...lol

Ok, thats all! whew...i made it! now i have to tag some more people.

Laci 

Tara

Anna

Jessica

Dana

What a FUN Saturday!!!

Yesterday, Tom and I went to Wisconsin, he went to help on a work site with his uncle, cousin and brother, and I went and spent the day with his grandma and aunt making cards! I had so much fun, this is the first time in our marriage I have been able to spend time w/them by myself, not at a family function I mean. I am posting pictures of the cards I made while there from some GREAT ideas from Aunt Mary! Anyways here are the cards  I made!

This first one says " Age is only a number, Mine is unlisted" and "Happy Birthday" on the inside.

All shiny and CLEAN! lol

Ok, so I have been cleaning and organizing my dining room on Friday and then today...It had basically become the storage room for...well anything :) lol...the table was shoved in the corner that rug was rolled up since we took it out of our living room, the table was piled full of stuff and there was stuff shoved under the table, and stuff shoved in every corner as storage lol, but now, look now we actually have a table to eat at lol :) I love it, it looks so nice right now...OH and i got some paint on the mistint clearance at walmart the other day, and hope to paint my bathroom soon, i hope it will look GREAT! :) I will, of course, post pictures, when I do lol...I STILL need to post pictures of all the cool stuff we did when my mom was here...my house is really looking like a home! I love it so much! anyways, here are some pictures of my hard work. I have pictures to put on the wall, and we got frames for them last night, but they are odd sizes so I have to special order some mats for them, but THEN we will have pictures on the wall lol :)

1 month, and a fabulous gift!

Well today it has been exactly 1 month since this last miscarriage...and this past week I was given a BEAUTIFUL gift that is a great memorial and memory of our babies...When I met my grandma in Iowa, she gave me a package and I opened it and found this

Mine doesn't have all those birthstones on the side of it, it has 2 birthstones, 1 for September, 1 for October, for the months our babies went to Heaven. It has a saying on the back that says "it was then that I carried you" It is beautiful and perfect, and I love it, and just wanted to share it with all of you( sorry i couldn't get an actual picture of mine, i had to find one online)

Love/Hate Relationship with going to church

Please just hear me out before you scroll to the bottom to the comment box...lol...I love going to church....I love the praise and worship, the message, all of it, but on the other hand, the same things make me annoyed...with myself basically...see the problem is we went to church this morning, and ever since my life changed 3 years ago after the first miscarriage, when I go to church, it takes everything I have to not completely lose it! Crying, bawling, weeping, call it what you will, but its what i fight, and don't do that great of a job...I always think i'm doing just fine, until I go to church, and this was this way even before I was pregnant this last time, so you can only imagine what it is like now! Anyways, so I think it is a combination of everyone around me having kids, or maybe the couple sitting right behind us with a brand new baby, or the woman 3 rows in front of us with an even newer baby, or the use of the word "family" repeatedly, the praise and worship, the message, or maybe the pastor even mentioning in his list of things that might be going on in your life, he says something related to not being able to get pregnant, but it all somehow leads back to the same subject in my life...and makes me start crying, and I try REALLY hard to not let it be more than tears in my eyes, but then they say its time to pray and, well then the tears that were being held back by my open eyes, are now streaming down my face...See the thing is, when i am at home, during the week, even if i'm singing praise songs while cleaning, or praying or whatever, i am occupied and try to stay busy, and just be strong, and honestly believe I am fine, but then when I go to church, I feel it all so much more, and realize maybe when I said i didn't have an ounce of anger in me, maybe I was wrong, maybe just a couple ounces :) lol...but nothing fixes it, nothing makes a child appear in my life that is my own, but isn't it funny how we always want what we don't have...Someone will say something about how their baby cries all the time and UGH i just can't ever get anything done around here, and have no me time...and I want to say, I would give anything to have a baby that cries all the time and to have no me time...I've had enough me time to last me awhile...but then that person is sitting on the other side thinking what i wouldn't give to be able to just go to a movie w/my husband, or to be able to clean my house with no distractions, to not have to wake up in the middle of the night, etc...perfect example right now...it is 4:45pm on Sunday...the tv is on, but on mute, i have no clue why, tom is on the couch on his computer, and i am in the chair on my computer, its completely quiet in here, except the tapping on my keyboard and listening to my dog sighing because he wants out of his cage(after being bad)...i'm sure that sounds fabulous to a lot of you, Don't get me wrong, I love my husband, and my home and my life more than words can express, and am very thankful for Tom and I's relationship...and the continued foundation we are building for our family that we will have one day...weather that be through adoption, or naturally...its just like the pastor said at church today, and I know there is a great song about it too, but is that God is going to finish what he started in me, and that God never said this road would be easy, but I know I am not walking alone. Some days are just harder than others, and those days I know God is holding me even closer and reassuring me of His plan for my life. 

Fun giveaway!

I found this on my blogging friend Tara's blog and had to pass it along to you all, it is pretty cool, let me know if you win...if you sign up of course :) 

Long Update

Well, it seems like I haven't blogged for quite awhile, been trying to get back to normal around here. So I will just recap the last while lol...this last weekend, we went to Iowa to visit my family and Tom helped my dad remove the radiators from their house since they are getting a new furnace and stuff, so we got there late Friday night, and my dad and brother were already hard at work on removing the boiler and Tom jumped right in to help them finish up, and they were all FILTHY, i mean serioiusly! Mom and Katy know what I am talking about, we should have totally taken a picture! lol anyways...Saturday Tom and dad got hard to work and I went to hang out with my bestest friend, Britt, and had the FANTASTIC surprise to see an extra vehicle in her driveway! :) her family was in town and Britt, her mom and I got to sit and chat for a few hours, and I wish we wouldn't have had things to do, because we had a great time! Then Saturday night, we had a blast! My mom, dad, grandma Riley, tom and I all went to Pella and picked up my grandma Joyce for the weekend. It was a surprise to her that Tom and I were there, she didn't know we were coming since we had just decided on Thursday night we were coming for the weekend, so that was fun! Then we had supper at Happy Joes and drove back to Osky and we all went and saw the movie Fireproof. WOW! FANTASTIC movie! PLEASE go see it!!!! I could go on and on about that movie, but I will move along...lol...Sunday we went to church, the church I grew up in, and have not been back to for quite awhile, and it was nice to see friends! Then went home where we all got together again and had a very yummy lunch my grandma Riley had made for all of us! :) That afternoon we had the great pleasure of getting to see Kelly and Britt again, this time Tom was able to come! :) spent some time with them and then took the long drive home, so that was last weekend...

Last Tuesday we got a puppy, only to realize this week, that I am allergic to her! so I am driving halfway to Iowa tomorrow to meet my grandma, and Zoey will be living with my grandma and her little Izzy, I am sure they will be best of friends! 

Well, I think thats the most of it, oh other than a funny story from Tuesday night...Tom said I should blog about it, and title it something like, "As two ships passing in the night" lol...you will understand why, very soon...lol :) Tom got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, well him getting out of bed woke me up and I decided I needed to go to the bathroom as well, but layed there for a few minutes debating if I needed to go THAT BAD that i wanted to "wake up" and walk down the hallway and freeze to death, cuz i dont know about you, but its been pretty chilly here lately, despite my warm pjs, i just can't wear socks to bed, drives me crazy, anyways after a couple minutes I decided ok fine! so i climb out of bed, and walk out the bedroom door, with my eyes closed of course, because I don't want ANY glimmer of light to actually "wake" me up...and my hand on the wall, so I don't fall into the stair railing or something...I get halfway down the hall, and BOOM! OUCH! Tom and I collided, and of course because I am short, my head hit his shoulder or so, and it hurt! lol...I said didn't you hear me?! he said no, i can't hear anything, my ears are bugging me LOL...come to find out, we were both walking down the hallway, with our eyes closed...see? it makes sense to someone else...don't tell me you have never done that lol :) 

Anyways, I promise I will try to blog more often...if you all haven't given up on me yet lol...Like i have said before though, I really don't think you want to read my daily blog if all I write about is cleaning and organizing my house and doing laundry! I have had a lot of stuff weighing heavy on my heart that I want to blog about my thoughts and opinions, but at the same time, I think it will only create drama, not deter from it, and I hate drama...and its the LAST thing I need right now...so we'll see... :)

Thank you, I love my great friends!

How cute is this award? And its my first award...two friends gave it to me at the same time, first being my bestest friend Britt and another great, long time friend Anna. Along with this award comes a questionaire so here we go!  :)

1. Do you have the same friends since childhood? I have a few of the same friends since childhood, a couple actually since preschool and kindergarten! But my friends from when I was in jr. high and high school (even though I was homeschooled) I am still friends with most of them, and at least keep in contact with the rest of them :)

2. What do you value most about your friends? Honesty, sense of humor, geniune love and caring, I tend to be drawn to simple, "what you see is what you get" kinda friends, DRAMA FREE! lol :) You know what i'm talking about! 

3. Are your friends your sounding boards? Oh yeah! Especially my husband who is my absolute best friend, but secondly my bestest friend who I love that we can be completely honest with eachother, having a girlfriend like that is PRICELESS! :)

4. What is your favorite activity to share with your friends? I love to just hang out with my friends, watch movies, just talk, drive around just us girls and be goofy, but most of all, I LOVE to just talk to my friends, just being in contact w/them, even if its only through email or IM...i'm weird, i know :)

Thanks ladies! this was fun! now for the hard part, because all my closest friends have already been tagged with this award, but I have to pass it on to 4 friends...so I am going to award this to my blogging friends:

1. Melissa at Stretch Marks

2. Tara at Living A Dream

3. Jessica at Furse World

4. Brooke at My Broken Road

make sure you stop by their blogs and check them out, great ladies!!