Happy New Years

This is my last post of 2009 and it is going to have to be a short one because I have some tidying up to do! This momma is going out on the town with the hubby! YAY!

I just wanted to stop for one minute and tell you girls how much this blog has brought me close to so many wonderful women!! I have met some super great bloggy friends with this little blog of mine. I am truly appreciative of what each and every one of you brings to the table in my life. Whether it be a blessing of saying a prayer for me, great mommy tips, weightloss tactics, or tips on important things in life that I have no clue about (such as blogging, or house buying) You girls are truly the best. I look forward to many more blog post and funny moments with you all!

So good bye 2009 and hello to new opportunities, more time with cuddly little girls, more time to develop my marriage, a closer walk with God, and more time with great friends!!

Love to you all!!

Tyler

Our First Time

No NO No!! Get your minds out of the gutter! I wasnt meaning THAT kind of first time. I was meaning we are looking into houses and it will be "our first time" buying our very own home! I am so scared!! I have so much to think through and decide if we are capable and how much we are capable of etc.etc.etc. It is all so overwhelming! Just when I was thinking about quitting my job and trying the SAHM role.. that would be thrown out the window!

We only have Miss Emma right now.. but do we buy thinking perhaps, maybe, one day we may feel spunky and decide to add to our crazy little family. I am totally unsure of how many children I want (is that normal?).  So I would say we shouldnt go any smaller than a 3bedroom.. just in case right??! Then what about a playroom?!!? There is no way her room furniture and her slew of toys could fit in the same room (spoiled you ask? YES she is! Its ok not trying to deny it...maybe I do need another baby.. anywho)

Then you have the battle of the fittest going on...
ME
wants neighborhood
could care less if we have any land at all (just need a small backyard for girlie girl)
open floor plan
prefer two story over ranch

DEREK
wants land... the more the better
hates the thought of neighbors
likes the ranch style floor plan

BOTH OF US
just want a diff. house...lol

So girls I am asking you ... what were the things that were important to you when you were (thinking of) buying a new home? Do I try and buy what would suit us for five or so year or something that we are supposed to live in for -like-ever?

Give a sister some tips here.. im all ears eyes!

Please Pardon The Mess

UpDaTeD
Alright as you can see this is still a work in progess... I accidentally deleted everything and had to start over.. so this has turned into like a two day project more than likely. For some reason my oh so cute header will not center no matter what I do!! UGH! I have had all I can take for tonight.. thank you for bearing with me! I promise we will be up and running as soon as blondie can get this mess fixed ;)

Original Post
Ok yes I know my blog is a little off centered and some of the colors dont quite match etc etc etc. I am having the hardest time trying to do a little makeover here... and to top it off miss emma woke up so now I will not get to finish..until tonight (hopefully)

So if you could please ignore the mess for the afternoon I will do my best to snaz it up a bit tonight.

All hints and tips are encouraged in the comment section below... because this chica has no clue what she is doing ;)

Tyler (oh yea I need a tip for that too... how do I make a signature *sigh* I have alot to do)

Our Crazy Christmas

As I promised you girlies (and guys if I have any that read my blog.. dont think so though) here are some of my fav. pics from this past week. Everything was so busy but so magical.

Emma learned very quickly how to open presents. She learned that there usually was something fun and noisy behind the pretty paper. She loved it so much in fact that she was unwrapping presents before it was time! I guess we all love a gift ;)

We ate lots and lots of food. Laughed hysterically with each other. Shed some tears from the shock still setting in a daddy's sickness. Made lots of memories. Had a wonderful christmas.

Check it out for yourself. Hope you enjoy some of our pics... I will try not to bore you with adding to many ;)

Somebody was a little excited!

Terrible pic of me and Derek but ya know its one of like two we took that day

Grammy, my sister Lauren, me,Mom

Loving the tree

Loving on my girl

Emma was enjoying playing in the pantry

Papa was dancing to the music as he helped Derek with the Santa projects

They even set the table for her ;)

Emma and Derek playing kitchen (you can tell it was early for both of them ;)

My sweet daddy

Please excuse the runny nose here.. just a sweet pic I thought of my girl

I told you she was the best open mouth kisser in town!

Well as you can see we took lots of pics with our new camera. Need to work on not using the flash as much and get some natural light going on. As well as some other things photography wise.. bear with me...I am a work in progress ;)

Hope your christmas was as wonderful as ours!

My fav. Christmas Present.

I hope to get a christmas recap up and at it tonight! In the meant time I am going to play along with Keely over at Mannland5 and do "Getting to Know YOU" The question this week is "What was your fav. christmas present you recieved" This one is easy for me!! My fav gift this year was...

a Canon Rebel. I am super excited about it. You should be too... now you wont have to see those grainy yuck pics on my blog anymore!! WOO HOO! There is a small problem though. I have no idea how to fully work it yet! Also my photography skills are really lacking. So dont expect any Mckmama style photos just be happy they arent grainy ;)

Now that christmas is over... I am ready to get back into the swing of blogging and chatting it up with my @imaginaryfriends.

I will be back later on tonight to fill you in on all of our christmas craziness and show you some of my fav. pics!!

Cant wait to hear about how your christmas was and what your fav. present was!

Tyler

Merry Christmas

While Santa is delivering the toys and putting things together I thought I would pause for just a short minute to wish all my wonderful bloggy buddies a very merry christmas!! I hope each and every one of you enjoy your time with family and friends. Laugh alot. Make lots of wonderful memories. Take lots of pics (to post on your blog of course ;)

Christmas has been so magical so far.. I can only imagine what the morning will hold!!

Thank you all for your wonderful friendship. You girls are so special to me!

Merry Christmas!! Talk to you all after the craziness comes to a hault

Much love
Tyler

For me?!!?

I got an early Christmas present! Nope it wasnt my camera that is sitting under the tree perfectly wrapped just waiting for me to tear into it! It was a bloggy award from my buddy Beth over at Laught Until You Cry!  Here check it out for yourself.. its super cute

I love it... Thanks again Beth!

Now this award comes with rules.. but pretty easy rules! (Thank goodness ;)

 Rule *1 List 10 things that make you happy

1. My precious baby girl Emma

2. The sweetest husband ever (well most of the time anyways)

3. Shopping

4. Sweets...anything sweet!

5. woship music at church

6. Football (Go Panthers)

7. Comments on my  blog

8.Twitter with my @imaginary friends

9. My family (not just Derek and Emma... but being with everyone this time of year!)

10. Did I mention sweets?!? ;)

Rule *2 List ten fellow bloggers to pass this award on to

1.Backwoods Fern
2.Emersyn Grace... Our Bigest Little Blessing
3.Our Daze in the Desert
4.The Bignell Family
5.The Nuthouse
6. Cop Mama
* I am giving myself another early present and having to stop at 6 because someone decided they wanted to cut there nap time a smidge short *ahem* so girls feel free to scoop up your award whenver you get the chance!!

Rule *3 Link up to the person who gave you this award!

Alright well I have abided by all the rules (well almost) so now I must go and get miss priss dressed and ready to go. We have a par-tay tonite!!

Merry Christmas

Tyler

Hot and Healthy week 8?!

Its that time again......

Time to check in and see how we did this past week. So sorry I didnt check in last week...I got carried away and by the time I remembered it was to late.. I know excuses excuses.. but I am here checking in now! So all is well.. right?!

These past few weeks have been tough and I am sure this next one will be as well. Its just so hard to resist all the scumptious sweets and great food around. Not to mention all the fast food you eat while you shop!! Its terrible. What is even more terrible is that I am not strong enough to control the urge and just walk past the sweets instead I dive in like cookie monster and dont look up until they are all gone! ;)

This week the questions are.....

How'd your week go?

As I said earlier... it was pretty crumby!

Did you consume any empty calories.?
Yes I did... and way to many at that.. I know I know that was the whole point of this challenge :(

Did you get your cardio in?
I got a couple days in but nowhere close to the goal...

Pilates? Did ya do it? Huh, huh..didja?
That would be a negative...

Are y'all ready to be done with the Hot and Healthy gig or could ya go for more?
welll... Kind of! I am ready because I feel terrible when I check in and I have had a week like this past week.. but come new years its on like donkey kong in this house... because as many of you have noticed bathing suits are already starting to hit the store shelves and this momma IS going to feel better this summer than I did last year!

It was a tough week last week so I am going to go out in style this week and have a calorie binge because its all over come January.

If I dont get around to posting again before Christmas I hope that each and every one of you has a fantastic Christmas. Cant wait to see all of your pictures and hear all about it!

Merry Christmas

Tyler

Let the rush begin!

Well actually our family gatherings started yesterday but you get the point. I cant believe Christmas is THIS week!! The past month has flown by..I feel like I have ran around like a chicken with my head cut off and still am not finished. I still have to buy for my mom. Not really sure what to get her. She gave perfume as an option but that is very hard to pick out for somebody. Dont you think? She said nothing loud and /or fruity smelling. Do you have any suggestion?

Also as some of you know from my twitter comments but wanted to let the rest of you know in case it is brought up in a post. This past week my dad was diagnosed with liver cancer. Still unsure of alot of the details at this point. what I do know is he has two tumors on his liver. That is two more than we would like there to be. So please if you are a prayerful type person keep him and my family in your prayers. We have alot of tough decisions coming up and could really use them.

I am not going to keep going on and on about it... I know this is a fun and joyous time of year but I just wanted to make you all aware. Some of you have come to feel like family...

Tyler

Getting to know YOU!

Hey girlies! Today I am going to jump on board with my bloggy buddy Keely over at MannLand5 and have a sunday funday. This is a little blog carnival she put together to help us get to know each other a little better. So head on over and check it out!!

Alright we have one word (I will try and keep it short ;) answers this week so here it goes....

Today's questions..


1. Middle name? Elizabeth


2. What do you think is your best asset (physical)? Eyes


3. If you could only eat one type of cuisine for a year, what would it be (Mexican, American,Chinese..etc.)?
hhmmm... thats a hard one but I am going to to Italian

4. Walmart or Target? Def. Target... there are not very many days when I have the patience for wal-mart. I do believe you can get alot better deals at wal mart but after you deal with the crowd and crazy people I would rather spend a few more dollars...lol

5. Favorite State besides the one you live in? New York... really because I love the city! I love the hustle and bustle of the city, the melting pot of people, sense of style, and entertainment. Christmas time is my fav. time of year to visit.. beautiful

6. What side of the bed do you sleep on, left or right? Left

7. King or Queen size bed? King.. thank goodness... I need my space

8. Beer or wine? Beer... does that make me a redneck? Possibly!

9. Water..ice-cold or room temp? Ice-cold.. room temp water is so... BLAH

10. Christmas..love it or hate it? LOVE IT!! :)

5QF 12-18

Five Question Friday with Mama M

Holy Christmas Batman!! Can you believe that one week from today it will be Christmas morning!! Santa will have came and all the kiddos will be beaming with joy! They will be wired from all the sweets and driving us moms absolutly bonkers with all the talking, flashing, singing toys they recieved from everyone! To top that off... I still have a smidge of shopping left. I better get on the ball... the problem is.. they are calling for snow here in good ole North Cack-a-lac ( yea thats the southern way of saying carolina ;) They are calling for it more in the mountains but trust me when I say they have been wrong before. I will update you if we recieve the blizard of '09 or even just a flake! But now its time to get down to our Friday business and see what kind of questions Mama M came up with this week.

1. Which boygroup did you like most in your teens?

NSYNC! Need I say more... I was like in love with some Justin Timberlake... ohhh la la. He still if a pretty piece of work!

Ok.. that pic is a little smalle than I wanted... but you girls know what he looks like!

2. Do you do Christmas cards, letters, photos, nuthin', all of the above?
umm.... I am slack and saying nuthin'! I know it terrible but I promise next year I will be on the ball with the christmas cards... right now I just send out a few ;)

3. If you could meet one celebrity who would it be and why?
Celebrity... ummm... hmmm! Not sure! I might want to meet my hunky of love Keith Urban.. no explanation needed! I wish I was going to meet Mckmama tonight... she counts as a celebrity right? She just comes across as such a sweet genuine person. I would love to sit and chat with her and meet them all.

4. Favorite thing to cook with (i.e. stainless, non-stick, Dutch oven, microwave, debit card...or, perhaps, a cauldron, etc.)?
Microwave... because I stink at cooking and that is def. the easiest! It it possible to mess up in the microwave but that is def. the easiest. I am going to have cooking lessons with my mom the first of the year... thats how terrible I am at cooking!

5. What is the one thing you wear the most, besides your unmentionables?
Sweats! I am a nanny so I have no reason to get up and get all purdy for work! I crawl out of bed throw on my sweats put my hair up and pretty much run out the door. The is the one and only plus about this crazy job I have.


That was a fun one this week. Hope everyone has a fabulastic weekend and it able to finish up all the last minute shopping. Here I will be shopping and dreaming of the snow that prob wont come!

Happy Friday Everyone!!
Tyler



 

Advice wanted!

I am taking a break from all reguarly scheduled hectic"ness" (I know thats not a word but ya know we can pretend just today right? Thanks) to ask for your advice. I did a post a while back about my job and how unhappy I have come to be with it?!(couldnt find it to link back to it.. but just know its there somewhere) Well things have not improved since then really actually they have become a little more complicated.

My boss informed me that she would be putting her kiddos in daycare this summer to save some money. All that is fine by me.. as I said I am ready for a change of scenery anyways. The problem is I am scared to death to take the plunge financially?! If we majorly cut back and totally changed our way of life then I think we could make it. Maybe! The thing is I am scared to take that chance/challenge!! We have NO debt right now except for my car and I am terrified if I selfishly become a SAHM then I would put that in jeopardy and we would get behind on things... maybe or maybe not.. not sure if we would or not. I have tried writing it all out on paper and doing a budget but the truth of the matter is that it never seems to work like it does on paper?! Anyone else have that problem?

This morning I email from a lady wanting me to watch her kiddo (3mo)... it would be some income but kind of what I am trying to get away from right?! (I am a nanny now)It wouldnt be as crazy as it is right now because I would be in my own home (now I watch the girls at my boss' house) and at least I could be kind of productive in my own home rather than keeping her house half clean like I do now. The money would be alot less as well. Talking about half probably.

I am trying to think of ways to cut back with out being drastic ya know. Like cutting off the internet.. that would be considered drastic.. OUT! Cant do it! lol... I mean I could but lets try not to go that route ;) Minimize cable bill? possible. Power bill? not sure how I could its already pretty reasonable. We dont have a water bill... soo I guess what I am asking you now that I have rambled on about totally nothing you are interested in is "Do you stay home?" "If you had to cut back.. how did you do it" I am going to look into some possible WAHM options.. so if you have any suggestions I would appreciate it!!

Sorry this post was kind of out there... just trying to think things through and sometimes writing it down helps. Let me know what ya think!

Confused!!
Tyler

Tis the season to....

Neglect my blog?! I hope not... so sorry I am behind on everything! I thought this time of year was for kicking back and enjoying family. Instead I have been running here and there and a little of everywhere. Dont get me wrong I enjoy every minute of it but it just takes away time from other things. So if during the next couple weeks I dont post as much as normal I am asking for forgiveness in advance ;)

Alright time to catch up on what has been going on the past several days....

*First of all on Thursday of last week I had a package on my door and it was addressed to me!! I am a lover of packages! In my package was the most beautiful pillow ever. My sweet bloggy buddy Kassi over at Backwoods Fern made for me. She is so talented girls you have to go over and check out some of her work! I had won one of her giveaways a while back and it was a sunglasses case she had made (totally precious!) and decided to see if she could make me a Christmas pillow for Emma's room. All I told her was I wanted it pink and christmas'y' and this is what she came up with. Once again please forgive the pics... you know my camera is terrible (but only for another week!! Gotta love santa ;)

Love it Kassi!! Thanks so much again.. its adorable! Exactly what I wanted :)

* Then on Sunday we headed over to Derek's grandmothers to have a christmas gathering with their side of the family. Let me just tell you as nicely as I can...they gave my girl some UG.LY clothes. Im not talking bearable.. I am talking UG.LY! I am not sure what to do about it... I guess I just keep them and let her wear them to grandmas house? Not really sure... what would you do with them. My bloggy buddy (or imgainary friend as my husband calls her...dont ask) Kate is dying to see the pics of the clothes..girl I will twit pic them tonite..promise!

* last but not least in my catch up post is the fact that I could possibly.. just maybe.. have the best husband in the world! Yesterday he went with me to take the girls (Emma and the one I nanny for) to monkey joes. Monkey Joes is like a huge indoor play area with a ton of giant inflatables. We all had a blast! Then after her nap I went back to work with S* and he napped Emma and took her to my moms house. After being wonderful already that morning he then came home and for 3 hours!!! washed and waxed my car... it hasnt been that clean since the day I bought it. I was suprised and excited.

We then head out the door for what I thought was a night in charlotte to go shopping for Emma and dinner. He told me when we got in the car that yes we could buy Emma a few things but this was a shopping trip for me. AWWWW... so we had a blast. He bought me a new pair of shoes, two pair of jeans and a shirt!! Man I love him.. I cant tell you the last time I went shopping for me. These days I just seem to enjoy dressing her and not myself... thats bad I know but just how it is :)

Well now that your girls are caught up a little bit on where I have been the past few days its now time to catch up the house work... BLAH!

Happy Hump Day :)

Tyler

Getting to know you!!

Alright girls. Its time for my bloggy buddy Keely's sunday funday blog carnival. This week we are to find one of our fav. christmas pics from the past and write a little about it. I already did a post last wed. with my fav pics of Miss Emma last christmas. So today I am going to show you this pic.

This pic was taken 3 when my sweet hubby purposed to me. At the time we had just moved back from VA. We had been living up there for about 6 mo while he helped my dad with a huge job. We came back home just in time for christmas. Unfortunatly being young and crazy we didnt have much money so we moved in with one of his best friends for a couple of months. Now girls let me just tell you this house was kind of like living in a frat house. Not quite as bad but pretty close. It took all I had to make it through those couple of months but I was determined to stick it out because I couldnt stand the thought of not being with him.. oohh young love ;)

So since this house wasnt exactly my dream living quarters or anything I just decided to make the best of what we had. Our room was all we had.. but that was enough for me. I told him we were going to go and get a tree and just make the best of it. So we did. It made us both happy.. it was the simple things ya know!?

So one evening Derek called and said he was running late from work. I was giving him down the road and carrying on because we were going to be late for dinner plans we had with another couple. So like over an hour late he walks in.. and walks back to our little room and purposes to me in front of our very first christmas tree. It was nothing overly dramatic. Nothing elaborate but meant more to be than anything because christmas has always been a big deal to me and he had done everything he could to make it special for me despite the conditions we were living in.

The rest is all history.. we were married the next Sept. and are very happily married!! Tried to give you the brief version.. hope I didnt bore ya to death.

Cant wait to see your pics and read about them..

Tyler

Five Question Friday 12-11-09

Five Question Friday with the Fabulastic Mama M

YAY!! So excited about Friday this week. Do you know why? No... ok well let me tell you. The baby girl is at grandmas today, no work for me, and the hubby IS working. Do you know what that means? Some serious shopping for me!!! WOO HOO! I have never been so excited or needed some me time as I do today. So if you dont mind I am going to skip the fluff of this post and get straight to the questions and then straight out the door!! :)

1. Does Santa wrap the presents he leaves at your house?

Santa does not wrap the presents at our house. As a child I always loved to come in and just be overwhelmed with everything sitting out. Everything was so perfectly placed and put together and ready to go! It was the best thing and most magical thing about being a child. Santa always left his sitting out but mom and dad would wrap their gifts and place them under the tree :)  

2. When is your "big" Christmas celebration...Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Tell us about it...
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. My family puts the "fun" in dysfunctional..lol.. so we celebrate with my moms side on christmas eve and then on christmas morning we see what santa brings and do my dads side on christmas night. Now it doesnt bother me at all.. just spreads out the joy but when I was younger I remember hating it because I felt like I didnt get any time to play with all my new things that Santa had just brough before it was time to leave and head to dads. Anywho I have a feeling that this will be the best christmas yet. I am super excited

3. Are you big on keeping tradition every year?
Umm... not really since we are just now starting our little family and we havent really set any traditions in stone yet. Cant wait to read what your traditions are so hopefully we can start some of our own!

4. Do colored lights or white lights tickle your fancy?
I only do white lights at my house... but I like to look at colored lights on everyone elses house... wierd yes I know just what floats my boat I guess.

5. Do you decorate outside your house for Christmas?
Usually I do the garland around the banister, a wreath on the door and small simple pretties but this year everything needed to be replaced so I simply said just do inside and spend the extra money on Emma. So that is what we are doing.

Alright girls I am off to wrap up something and then me and the hubby are going to have a meeting with Santa tonight at ToysRus! Sure hope Emma will be on the nice list ;) 

Cant wait to read your 5QF tonight! Happy Friday everyone!!!

Tyler

Almost Wordless Wed.

This time last year....

no her face wasnt splotchy its my crazy camera...

Emma and my little sister

She loved sitting in her seat looking at the tree!

Boy does time fly!!

Hot and Healthy Week 6

Hot and Healthy week 6 has came and gone WOW!! This has just flown by. I am not really feeling like I am doing much better than I was before I started this program BUT obviously I am! I went shopping in my attic this weekend...lol! I went up there and pulled out the pre-baby wardrobe (alot of new clothes I had just got as christmas presents before I found out I was preggo). I didnt think I would be able to wear any of them but DH kept saying just try..so try I did and guess what?!!?! They fit! I was super excited :0)  I mean it only took me 15 mo post baby to get back to normal (whatever that is).

Anyways its time to check in with the girls.. Mama M and Keely. I am not even going to attempt to answer their questions because I didnt have such a hot week. I did eat pretty decent but the exercise was totally lacking (other than a couple days of cardio). I did however get my water in most days.. thats a plus right?!?!

Hoping for a better week this week and hoping to make some smart choices while I am out and about this weekend trying to get this xmas shopping started/finished! Yes I am wwaayy behind but thats a whole 'nother post.

Goin to read and check in on you girls now ;)

Tyler

PS.. sorry I am a day late

O' Christmas Tree...

"O christmas Tree.. how lovely are thy branches" Well as you may remember the weekend after Thanksgiving my little family and I headed to the mountains to cut down our tree. I promised you a post about our little trip so here ya go!

Our ride up was not this peaceful little ride singing christmas carols and making jokes. Nope this ride consisted of one terribly cranky toddler that cried the entire (1hr 30min) ride up the mountain. I am not sure what her dealio with the car is lately but its like every time I put her in her seat she starts... and she pretty much whines off and on the entire time until we reach the next destination..UGH.. ok now that I have rambled on about that lets get back to the story. So approx. 15 min. before we come to the cute little cabin we will be spending the night in Emma decides it is nap time..

*I guess 15 min of peace and quiet is better than none..huh?!*

Once we arrive everyone seems to be much happier (thank goodness) and ready to venture out a little bit. We went downtown and walked through the old General store and neat little shops and had dinner. Everything was peachy king! A great little getaway!

The next morning we woke up and headed to the tree lot. We were so excited. We were thinking there would be this nice chill in the air so we brought all our bundle up type clothes and headed out. Obviously nobody watched the weather because it was at least 60 degrees out and sunny. We were like literally sweating picking out our christmas tree?!?! Strange huh?  Anywho...

This girl over here loves a big christmas tree! Like Griswalds big! I want it as big around as it is tall! As I told my buddy Kate its like the saying "Go big or Go home" type deal. So we set out in search of the biggest fattest tree on the farm. Boy did we ever find it. The guy that helped us get it down and everything said "Wow! That is a big one...Good luck with that" I should have known then I was in trouble.

There she sits!!

Getting all netted(if thats a word) up and ready to go!

So mission accomplished huh?! Not even close!!!! Once we get this monster of a tree home... grit and grunt trying to get it inside (it took both of us!) It was time to trim the tree...now I wont bore you with all the details but lets just say after 2 thousand lights later, three blown fuses and not a big enough bow for the top we did get it all done! Here are some pics of the process!

*Mommy why in the world is this tree in our house!*

Derek helping with the first blown fuse!

Four hours later we have lights!

And the bows that are a little small... LOL sorry the pics arent great! Getting a new camera for xmas hopefully that will help :)

Well hopefully you enjoyed hearing about our crazy adventure.. lets just say that next year the ride up will hopefully go a little smoother and we wont be bringing home the Griswald tree ;)

Happy Monday everyone!

Getting to know you!

My bloggy buddy Keely and her sister Kassi have been doing this post about getting to know you...SOOOO I thought I would play along! Hope you will too! You can either write you own post and link up over at Keelys blog or if you dont feel like doing a post leave me some comment love with your answers. Fun stuff!! :) 

The questions are....
1. How old are you?
25


2.Where are you from and where do you live now?
I am from a small city right outside of Charlotte, NC and guess what... I still live there! Not very exciting huh?!

3. What music have you been diggin lately?
Well country music is always my fav..but lately Christmas music has been on the radio
4. Favorite food(s)?
Anything sweet or cheese! Not necessarily together but those are def. my fav foods!

5. Single,married, divorced?
Happily married to my sweet husband Derek for a little over 2 years now

6. Kids? If so, how many and how old?
Just one! Our 15 mo old little girl Emma

7. What are 3 blogs you read daily?
3?!?! Just 3?!!? I wish... I wouldnt have a diry house and lots of things on my to do list if I only read 3 a day. I couldnt even narrow it down 3 if I had to. I just love all my blogging buddies and their blogs :)

8. What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday tradition?
Our new tradition we started this year. Going to the mountains and spending the night then cutting down our tree and heading back home. It was so fun! A little get away for a night and picking out our tree...loved it!

9. Lastly, if you're a blogger, how long have you been blogging and if you don't have one..how long have you been reading blogs? I feel in love with Mckmamas blog last spring sometime and gradually got involved in her community and it all snow balled from there. I was very reluctant to start a blog because I didnt have much to say. I have enjoyed it though and getting to know so many great women out there :)


Now its your turn! I on the other hand have to get back to that busy toddler running around... she is crazy these days.

Tyler

5 Question Friday

Its that time again! 5QF with the infamous Mama M ! Boy has it been a crazy week! The little one has come down with some type of viral bug :(  Work has just been totally crazy.. have I mentioned I am ready to quit my job and stay home!? BUT its Friday and that means the wonderful weekend is upon us.. so bring on the fun :)  This week the questions are...

1. Favorite gift you are GIVING this year?

well honestly I have no idea what I am getting anyone except for my baby girl! Thats awful isnt it... I really need to get a move on!!! But Santa will be bringing Emma a bat. powered pink four wheeler! Me and Derek are super excited about simply because she is going to adore it (she has already tried it out at the store) and because us slack lazy parents wont have to push the girl around the house on her ride on toys anymore! See we have mostly carpet and she kind of struggles to get around so we end up pushing her all the time. Thank goodness for santa ;)

2. How many parties will you be attending between now and chritmas?

Well seeing that I am not miss socialite.. I will only be attending two well actually three if you count the one last night. (super fun by the way!!) The problem I have with these parties is what in the world to wear?!? I mean I am usually just a more comfy type person and casual. Not the party diva type so shopping will be in order (which is never a bad thing ;)

3.What is your fav. Christmas song?

Hmmm... I dont know I love them all lately I have really been getting a kick out of "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" Just cracks me up every single time. If I were going the serious route I would say my fav. Christmas song would be "Mary did you know" 

4.Who was your fav. elementary school teacher and why?

Mrs. Elkin! She was my 1st grade teacher. She was the perfect blend of lovey and strict. She was the best.. I actually saw her a few years back in the grocery store and she recognized me... crazy huh?!

5.If you had one chance to live in any other time period (other than now) which one would you choose and why?!?!

Gracious... what a tough question! I have no idea... maybe the fifties so I could wear a totally cute pink poodle skirt.. maybe I could be one of the pink ladies?!!? Heck I dont know... cant wait to see what you girls have to say on this one!

I hope everyone had a great week and is planning a fun weekend. I am going to work on getting some shopping done since I have only been concerned about Santa so far. Possibly baking some sweet treats too.. yummy!!

Tyler

Wordless Wednesday

It was a happy kind-of day :)

Hot and Healthy Week 5

Hot and Healthy Through The Holidays With Mama M and Keely

WOW! I can not believe we are already in week 5! This has been going crazily fast. I am so upset with myself this week but more on that later. How did you do? Were you able to resist that second helping or one piece of pie instead of two?! This week Mama M and Keely are stepping up the cardio to 4 hrs! Geeze louise I was struggling to get it in already now we have even more...but thats ok..I will get it in! I will make time for myself (hopefully) Now lets get to the questions and see how I did.

1.Starting week five! Are you seeing any progress?

Well no.. but only because last week I wasnt on Team Mama M (snacking) or Team Keely (exercise) because I happened to join Team Turkey and ate wwwaaayyy to much! Oh well, luckily for me that is only one day  week a year ;)

2. Do you feel like you are gettin your groove on? A nice routine?

getting there... I will get there! Just have to keep telling myself that.

3. Are Keelys pilate exercises kicking your butt?

well yes actually they do when I make the time to do them... workin on it this week Keely!

4. How about the healthy tips from Mama M?

Even though I ate like crap and didnt exercise I did drink a fair amount of water... so what if it was because I drank a little too much wine the night before and was feeling a little parched ;)

Feed back for the girls* Girls you two rock! Keep it up... it def. is movitation to keep my butt half way in gear to know I have to check in on Tuesday. Thanks so much for starting this up :)

I hope everyone had a great week! Good luck next week with the extra cardio!!

Tyler