30 days of Thanksgiving - Day 6

So this morning I'm reading my book, since Tanner woke me up at 6 (really 5 with the time change), and then later I'm moving stuff around in the kitchen, doing laundry, still trying to put Fall decorations out in the family room, taking pictures & uploading things to craigslist, facebook, uploading pictures to the computer, pulling all garage sale stuff from the basement & loading it into my car...a trip to Michaels, Target, Sams club - SO MUCH to do all the time around here & I LOVE it!  I am so thankful that I always have a million projects going on so I'm never bored!

30 days of Thanksgiving - Day 5

Today I was thinking how thankful I am that we have such great stores for shopping!  I went to Olathe Glass this morning, they were having their Holiday Open House today.  SO MANY FUN FUN FUN Holiday decorations!  I absolutely LOVE this store anytime of the year, but this time of the year it just leaves you in awe...I want to scrap some, ok most, of my decorations & start from scratch with everything new from that store!  Just love it all!

This wreath is THE thing that I went out there for!  But, an old friend of mine said I could totally make that so I'm going to give it a try!  It was $80 & there really is too much on this for it to fit on our front door.  We have a storm door so there isn't that much space & a wreath on our front door can't be too puffy.  LOVE LOVE LOVE it thought!  This green rocks!

30 days of Thanksgiving - Day 4

Oh my!  It just hit me that I did not post yesterday on here!  I managed to get it on Facebook, but not my blog.  So yesterday, day 4 - I said I was thankful for our extended family living in town so Tanner gets to have a releationship with them.  Tanner has both of his Grandma's, both aunts & all of his first cousins living here in town.  Grandma Jo, my Mom, watched Tanner everyday from the time I went back to work at 7 weeks old until he was just past 2 1/2 years old.  It's funny b/c he's always been much closer with his Aunt Rachelle, Brandon & Michaela b/c my sister, Aunt Helen, is just so busy & doens't ever have time to spend wiht him.  He's spent the night at their house once I think, I think she's only watched him maybe 3 times in his 6 years?  I can't even count how many times he's spent the night with Aunt Rachelle or how many days he's spent hanging out or running around with Aunt Rachelle.  Funny how life works out...

30 days of thanksgiving - day 3

I am so thankful that I had such a loving Grandma in my life for so many years! I still miss my Grandma everyday and I think of her so often! She was an amazing woman that was loved by so many!

 

 

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30 days of Thankgiving - Day 2

So as I think of the MANY things that I am thankful for, I think how thankful I am that my son is such a happy little guy!  He's always got a smile on his face & just has such a love for life and people!  I'm working very hard as a Mom to make sure that he is always respectful of others and to be compassionate.  He's pretty good from what I hear about his actions when I'm not around and that makes me proud!  Such as helping with the special needs kids at school in the library.  Love love love my smiley, happy little guy!

30 days of Thanksgiving

So a friend had this on FB & now that I think about it, I think I saw people doing this last year & thought it was a great idea!  TOTALLY forgot too until now that I was going to have us make a paper chain with the things that we as a family will right down each night that we are thankful for!  Oh well, there's tomorrow night & we'll start it then and do two nights! 
So today for me, day 1: I'm thankful for fun size Snickers! Yes, that really is what I said...fun size Snickers!

Tanner's 6th birthday

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A baby shower fit for a King...I mean cowboy!

So I knew I wanted to host a baby shower for Anna!  Got a few more of our besties involved & I was off and running with the shower plans!  I'd had a dream that I was doing an Old McDonald themed shower & really had to force myself to change!  Of course it had to be a western theme since this was what they were going for with the nursery! 

A new Halloween wreath!

Always gotta give credit where credit is due! Thanks goes to Crafty Sisters for this fun post I found! What a fun wreath that I was able to whip out in a couple of days & it's now hanging on our front door! So easy and so hauntingly fun for Halloween!