Who doesn't love popcorn?

Here in Kansas City we have a popcorn shop called Topsy's. I really wanted a can of popcorn before the holiday season ended but that never happened. So just last week I was shopping with my girls and we wondered into a Topsy's and their popcorn cans were 50% off. Yeah!!! I know it is only popcorn, but I was so excited to buy some for myself. My favorite flavors are the caramel, cinnamon and cheese.

There is a science to eating all 3 of these flavors. No way would I ever put 2 or 3 different flavors in mouth at once. I have to eat each flavor individually and 1 kernel at a time. Savoring each one as I go. Yummy!!!1

You capture-a look back

This week You Capture is all about your favorite photos from 2009. It was so fun to look back and reminisce, we created so many memories this past year. Here are just a few of my favs.


my 8 year old made her first holy communion in April
Sam visited Thomas the Train in May

We played outside in the rain in August


Took Family pictures at the park in October



Added to our family with Bubba our boxer puppy in December

Can't wait to see all of your pictures from 2009.

Please no more snow..

Just as my kids go back to school for 1 day...they are home again. They called off school last night before the snow even started to fall. As I am posting the snow is falling down quickly. Our sidewalks are already covered and I am sure my hubby will have to pull out the snow blower again tonight. This makes 3 times in the past 2 weeks he has used the snow blower (and to think we were going to sell it a few months ago).

I am tired of seeing snow, tired of driving in snow, tired of my kids wanting to play in the snow (they have no snow boots, we never need them and this is the 1 year we really needed them), tired of taking the new puppy out to potty in the snow, I am just tired of snow. So I ask Mother Nature "please no more snow".

Bubba

An early Christmas gift came into our lives a few days before Christmas arrived this year. We have been wanting a boxer for a few months now, but the price and timing just weren't right. My children each received Christmas money from their Great Aunt, jokingly my husband said "we could by a boxer puppy with that money" Kate automatically agreed (she wanted a new puppy the most) Sam is too little to know the he even got money and Kailey knew right away there was no way she was spending money on a dog of all things...she had much more important things in mind to spend her money on...Makeup. Yes my 11 year old daughter is just like her Mommy..a makeup hog!!

Anyway back to Bubba, we looked on the computer and right in our area there were 3 boxer puppies for sale and the price was right. So at 10:00 that night we met Bubba and brought him home. He is so spoiled we love to hold him as he naps and play with him when he is awake.

He has truly stolen our hearts.

Hope

"Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

-Charles Sawyer

"The important think is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living

without it." -Harvey Milk

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." -John F. Kennedy

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I found these quotes in an old Woman's Day magazine today. I thought they would be appropriate to post.

A new path

The past few months our family has been through so much. But through it all I held out Hope. Hope that things would return to normal (or somewhat normal), Hope that we would not lose our way, Hope that we would get over the mountain (or at least reach the top of the mountain), Hope that we would become stronger as a family, Hope that my faith in God would be renewed.

Deep down I always knew God was with us, but I did not always feel him there. I could not help but think "was he trying to teach me/us a lesson"? What kind of lesson would God be wanting to teach us? What did we do wrong? I knew/know that God all along has had a plan for our family, I often wondered what it was? What path are you taking us down?

Well today my husband got some great news, news that we really needed. It is not the path that God used to have us on, but it is a new path he is sending us down. Through everything over the past two and a half years we have become stronger as a family and as a couple. We have learned to hold our heads high no matter what is thrown our way and to hold on to what really matters in life, the little things in life..............

All Gave Some..Some Gave All

Our VFW just finished this Veterans Memorial. I thought it was only appropriate to visit it on this Veterans Day and reflect on what our Military have done and continue to do for us. I know in my everyday life I take our Veterans and active Military for granted, but on this day and everyday I am truly thankful for our Military. Thank you for keeping us safe and out of harms way.