ThankFul

I'm thankful for many things. Here are just a random bunch of things I'm thankful for!

- Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream while snuggling up cozy on the couch with a good book!
- Working for such a great bunch of people. Very caring and GOOD people. Who actually believe in me and think I'm awesome!
- The best friend in the world any one could ask for, who understands that I am just as selfish/moody/needy as she is!
- The best son in the world who does the most adorable funny things
- Being able to actually see and hear things. Though my sight is going fast!
- All things crafty! Stamps, Ink, Stickles, Zip Dry, Patterned Paper, flowers, and I you!
- A big cool glass of sweet tea!
- The Snowflake bakery I found here in the town I work in. Great food!!
- The nurse I hired who loves to bake!! She makes the BEST pecan pie in the world!
- Great books! I love the Twilight Series right now!
- Tivo/DVR! I would not be so happy in life without it! I'd never see General Hospital again!!!
- A husband who is so great with our son and lets me be a big goofball with all my many flaws!
- Great songs on the radio! I love my drive time to and from work listening to the radio. It's my quiet time to just chill!
- My mom who does more than she should have to for me. I guess I'm a little spoiled! But hey! I'm gonna have to change her diaper when she's OLD so whatever! :)
- My online scrappy friends! Such great inspiration I get from them and all the blogs I frequent.
- Google Reader! OMG! How did I ever live without it!
- Jello Banana Hot Fudge Pudding with Cool Whip! Delicious and sugar free and almost no calories!!
- Pixie Sticks! My energy booster!
- Maggie - the best dog ever!

Since it's almost thanksgiving I'm sure I'll come up with more before then! Stay tuned....!!

Disconnected.

I don't know if it's just because I've been sick or because Gavin is sick, but I feel so disconnected from life this week. I feel like everything is fading away and leaving me behind. Like people like me less or don't see or care about me. I've been feeling sick for like 2 weeks but it got MUCH worse the last couple days. Then throw in Gavin being sick and fussy and Chris being sick you get the makings of a not so great week. I hate missing work too. I have a million things to do and feel so left out when I'm gone. Plus Friday they had a chili cookoff that I missed at the nursing home :(. Throw in the fact that I barely get to see my best friend now and life sucks. AND her little boy got pneumonia the same day Gavin did! But he was in the hospital for 2 days and I didn't even get to see him. I bet Michelle understands because she knows that Gavin and me and Chris are just as sick, but it doesn't make up for the fact that I hurt that I couldn't go up there. That all her other friends went there but not me. Left out again. I hate feeling disconnected and out of the loop. And I'm stressed out because we really think Joint Commission will be here this week and I'm sooooo nervous and have a million things to do but feel so weak and run down it's hard to do them!

Our Life this week.

First of all , Voted for the first time! Me and Chris went to vote. We zeroed each other out because we voted differently, but we still voted! All the local races I voted for the person I voted for won!! I guess we will see if this president of ours can actually pull dreams and high hopes out of his ass. We shall see if money DOES start growing on trees for once! Don't get me wrong I am all for dreaming and having hope. I agree with alot of his IDEAS. Just do not think that any of them will come into fruition any time in our lifetimes.

I'm loving these low gas prices!!! I know it won't last long, but it sure is some relief while it IS here.

I think out Joint Commission surveyors will be here next week so we are super stressed out this week trying to perfect everything!!

I have not been feeling good this week and it's just getting worse! I've had a fever off and on. Chills. Sore throat every day. Weak all over. Just exhausted too.

Today Gavin got sicker. He has had a cough for a couple weeks but it just got worse so I took him to Doctor today. He has pneumonia and double ear infections!! That is horrible!! He is miserable! Lots of antibiotics and breathing treatments. He is feverish and cranky! Almost had to go to the hospital cause his respirations were at 46 and oxygen level at 92% !! Now he is sleeping in his amazon jungle room with the humidifier flowing high!

San Antonio Trip

Me, Chris, Michelle and Kris went to San Antonio for the weekend for Stampin' Up Regionals! It was super fun! We took separate cars because Michelle and Kris were going to stay later and meet up with someone Kris went to school with after we left Sunday. 6 Hour drive each way and both times me and Chris left the radio OFF the whole time and talked and just relaxed in the silence of the road! We stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the riverwalk. It was nice but not quite as nice as the last hotel me and Michelle got to stay at. The lobby and stuff was super fancy but the room we got wasn't that great I guess. But it could have been MUCH worse. Friday night we went to The Melting Pot. It was an awesome fondue restaurant that I've aways wanted to go to. It was very good, but cost $115 for two people!! CRAZY! SO next year when we go to regionals we will go there again but only for the cheese and chocolate and skip the main course. Which we will get at Taco Bell!!! LOL! Saturday me and Michelle spent the day at Regionals. We learned TONS and had lots of fun. LOTS of pictures of cards and projects to lift! The guys walked four miles for no reason while we were gone! They went to a brewery without calling first and when they walked 2 miles to get there they found out it was closed down, so had to walk 2 miles back! LOL. They weren't feeling well already so after that they were exhausted and stayed in the hotel the rest of the day!! Soooo when Michelle and I got back we took them to dinner. It was a fun time trying to find the place Chris wanted to eat but we finally found it! Durty Nelly's Pub! It was fun, food was ok. Didn't get to stay long cause Chris wasn't feeling good. Sunday we did a little shopping and then me and Chris headed home! Maggie got to stay in a doggy hotel all weekend LOL. :) We missed Gavin AND Maggie! Here are a few of the pictures from our trip!

Pumpkin Carving.

We carved the pumpkins we got at the pumpkin patch! I had never carved one before. At least not that I can remember. It was fun and messy! We saved ourselves from TOO much mess though and did it while Gavin was sleeping!

This is Gavin picking out his own dinner. :)

AND Gavin has been throwing little tantrums! For no reason what so ever usually. He will just throw him self on the floor and thrash around like he is being tortured. He does this when he doesn't get his way, when I walk out of the room, when he is ready to leave but we aren't yet, when he is too tired, lots of times! Here are a few images of one from one morning this week because he was ready to go to school but we weren't yet!

Pumpkin Patch 2008 - 10-18-08

We went to the Pumpkin Patch at the Bell Family Farm. It was our first time and super fun, we will definitely be making this a yearly tradition! They have a pumpkin patch, hay ride to the patch, tractor pulled train ride thingy, seesaw, merry go round, playground, tire swings, mountains of hay to climb on, lots of picture opportunity spots, a pond with catfish you can feed, wagons, face painting, etc. It's ALL free except the pumpkin you buy if you buy one, and face painting costs some. We took the boys with Gavin in his halloween pirate costume!!! Here are tons of pictures (but not near all the ones I took! LOL)