Almost time for the weekend....thankfulness times 2.

Yup, you got her.....

things I am thankful for this week........

1. I got to do Jury Duty. (my how things change! well, I got $116 check in the mail today...so that changed my tune a bit....and I'll gladly sit in a courtroom again for 4 hours, lol!)

2. My friends here in New Mexico.

3. The fact the lady who took my blood at the lab on Wednesday was able to get it on the 1st try and I wasn't used as a pin cushion for once.

It's been a pretty quiet week.....that's all. I hope whoever reads has had a good week! :)

Hooray for Taxes!

So thankful that my dad does our taxes....we get a break from having to go to a place like H&R Block or somewhere like that. But anyway, our taxes were done over the weekend and we got a nice little hunk of a refund back. Most of it is going to be payed towards the credit card, but we're saving some out to play with...Eric is upgrading his camera and getting some sort of fancy Nikon he's been wanting, that'll be put to good use when we go on vacation in May....and we're going to buy tickets to the NASCAR race in Fort Worth on April 9th. plus we'll have a little bit left over to pad our savings with....so we did good this year. :)

Pictures from my trip home this past fall.

My cousin Jason, his daughter Madisyn, and me.

Hannah, me, and baby Claire. (my cousins children)

Me, my aunt, and my mom at the Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV (if you've seen Ghost Hunters you've seen this place on there before)

all of my best girls at Shaylyn's bridal shower

and BlackWater Falls.....our trip to Canaan Valley.

these of course are just a few random ones from my trip home......i have lots more on my facebook.

Pictures from the Wedding.

Sabrina, Mary Beth, Jenny, and me....best friends from HS

of course, the wedding party

during the ceremony

us girls.....Claire, Hollie, Maggie Beth, Eva, Shaylyn, me, Jamie, and Lauren

the girls again

Now that I have figured out how to post pictures in my blog, I can finally post pictures from the wedding that I was in back in November. :) *Note* these aren't the professional pictures, just pictures taken from my camera.

Picture of the Week

I love my wonderful husband so much and I am so thankful for him and all he does for me :)

Steelers - Here We Go Steelers 2010 - 2011 version

It's Friday.....can I get an Amen, and things I'm thankful for this week.

I got this blog idea from another AF wife I'm friends with, so I think I'll start doing this every Friday...it is a good idea to be reminded of the things you are thankful for.

1. Sunshine
2. My wonderful husband
3. Having an accountant for a dad
4. W-2 came out today...and will be done by the end of the weekend!
5. Exercise....(it's becoming like a drug to me, honestly)
6. Football.....(I may feel different by the time Sunday ends, but hopefully not)

All may sound cheesy, but that's for this week edition of "Thankfulness"

Picture of the Week.

Whew.

I must say, after last week and the week before that, it is quite a relief to finally be back to my old ways again....doing pretty much nothing. Oh, I do the regular stuff, like cleaning and laundry and stuff, but you know what I mean. I pretty much don't go out unless if I have to. So it's nice to get back to my regular ways this week, and I am lookin forward to it. :)

Whole new way.

I promised myself at the beginning of January that I would get right back into my exercising and eating right, but I'll admit, I haven't. I was afraid that once I got away from my TOPS meetings, and having to weigh in every week, I would stray away from everything and start gaining weight back, which is exactly what I'm doing. I think my big eye opener today has been the fact that I only have until late May to lose the amount of weight that I want before we go on our vacation with our parents, and I don't want to be in the same shape as I was when we went in 2009 to the Grand Canyon, and other places.

I have put my own foot down and decided that this coming week is going to be a whole new way for me....even my hubby has started working out religiously. I have no room for slacking now. If anyone has any suggestions, I welcome them.

Picture of the Week.

It wasn't so bad.

I had to go in yesterday for jury duty. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, actually, it was kind of interesting. I was supposed to go in today, as well, but I got a call this morning telling me that the case had been decided on already and we didn't have to come in. So all I've got is tomorrow afternoon and hopefully I'm done. Maybe tomorrow afternoon I won't have to go in either. :)

New Years Resolutions

1. Lose 50 pounds by May. (I believe that's possible.) That is when we are going on our vacation with our parents, and I want to be in a whole heck of a lot better shape than when I was when we went on our last vacation.

2. Exercise every day.

3. Drink less soda and more H2O.

4. Dust off my Bible and read it more.

5. Worry less about what others think of me....and dwell less on the past.


That's it. That's all of my resolutions for the New Year....Good luck to those who have also made resolutions.