Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for:

My sister who is also my best friend, I am so lucky to have you as a sister.

My Mom who is so special and who calls my sister and I three-way...I love our chats!!

My Dad who is so sweet and loves his girls so much...even if they're old married girls now.

My MIL for making our little girl clothes and a blanket.

My Hubby and our life together.

Our warm home, winter clothes, and plenty of food.

A Special Gift

Today I received a box from my MIL & FIL for my birthday. In there was a card and gift for me, but more exciting a dress, hat and blanket my MIL made for our little girl. This was her first time making baby clothes and a blanket and I think she did a wonderful job! Thank you! The fabric for the blanket is an Amy Butler print. I have seen similar blankets online so I just sent my MIL some photos. I am so happy with all of the pieces, thank you for the special gift!

*There are matching bloomers for the dress, which is reversible, but I wasn’t able to photograph. Our camera is on the fritz so it looks like we will be buying a new one.

A Day at the Art Museum

My husband’s Father and step-Mother came into town this weekend for a visit. So on Saturday afternoon we went to our local museum of art. We were all really excited to go as our museum has special exhibit on Roman Art from the Louvre. I have to tell you the exhibit was amazing. The intricate designs that were carved on the marble were impressive. Unfortunately, in this exhibit you are not allowed to photograph any of the pieces. We were allowed to take photographs in the rest of the museum. One of the other special exhibits we visited was the Dior exhibit. The dresses are breathtaking. Below are some of my favorite dresses and some other art in the museum that we liked. Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday. We spent Thanksgiving at my parent’s house. It was a relaxing day with family and great food. I don't like turkey (strange I know) so my Mom was sweet enough to make chicken instead...and it was wonderful! I have to admit though; my Mom and I are terrible at remembering to take photos. So it’s my new goal to do better at taking more photographs. Hopefully some to share next year.

Friday morning my Mom and I ran to the mall for a few items we know we wanted to buy. Luckily the mall we went to was not very crowded, I believe this was mostly due because they weren’t having any big sales. We’ve decided it’s not worth going to the mall, next time we’re having breakfast at the house and shopping online. Below is a photo of one of our finds.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels! May you enjoy the day with family, friends and great food.

I am so very thankful this Thanksgiving for all my blessings. I am so very blessed to have a great husband, a wonderful family, true friends and our LID.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Love Actually and Other Target Finds

I stopped at Target tonight on my way from work. Our Target is a super Target and is huge. It’s a very addicting store there are home accessories, books, Starbuck’s, food, ect...all in one place, it’s dangerous. Well tonight I found the movie Love Actually for $7.50…deal! I haven’t seen this movie but both Danielle and H&H both rave about it. I honestly can’t believe I haven’t seen it as I love Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. I’ve seen the Bridget Jones Diary movies more times than I care to admit. In addition to the movie, I found some poinsettias. Yes, they are fake, which is perfect because then I won’t kill them and I don’t like having real ones around because we have dogs.

I’m off work tomorrow so I plan to watch Love Actually and bake cookies.

*Thanks Danielle for giving my blog a Christmas makeover!

eSnips....help! *Update

Is anyone is familiar with eSnips, if so I need your help. I am apparently technologically challenged (please keep the blonde jokes to yourself :). How do you add a song to the Widget? Do you need to have your music converted to an MP3 file, or are you supposed to choose from the songs there? Also if your music is in iTunes how to you convert to an MP3 file? I did upload a song, but it's showing it as a .cda file and doesn't give me any options.

Thank you!

** Ok, I finally have it figured out. Apparently, you just search for the music then cut/paste the code into your blog. I was trying to add my own...that's for another day.

What's for Dinner

Today I made Cheddar Corn Chowder, a recipe from my Barefoot Contessa cookbook. I do substitute a few things, for instance, I use red potatoes instead of white boiling potatoes and turkey bacon instead of pork bacon. This is one of those soups that you add to or leave out…which is great. This is soon becoming one of my hubby’s favorites…and mine! I would have taken a photo, but I was too excited to eat and forgot.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Holiday Time

The other day I ran into Target and saw they had all their Christmas decorations out. I am usually a traditionalist and believe Christmas decorations shouldn’t start until Thanksgiving, but I have to admit it made me really happy to see them. I am really ready for the holidays this year. There is something so magical about this time of year. It’s a time to slow down, spend time with our families and give thanks.

Below is the photo of the Thanksgiving parade in NYC. I have never been before, but I watch it each year on TV. I hope to go to NYC some Thanksgiving and actually watch the parade.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Hubby and I are having date night tonight, dinner and a movie!

Thankful Thursday!

I'm a little late on this today.

I am thankful for...

My wonderful family- I'm looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with my parents.

Great coworkers- I work with a great group of people who are also terrific friends.

Thursday - because that means it's almost the weekend and hubby and I will finally be able to slow down from this busy week and spend some time together.

Veteran’s Day

Thank you to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve our great country.

Weekend Wrap Up

Mamma Mia was excellent. I would highly recommend this show; if it’s playing in your area go see it! It’s so much fun. Yesterday was all about fun, so today I organized…I know exciting stuff. Today’s agenda included organizing closets and paperwork.

Below are some photos of our dogs…I like to call these “Being a dog is hard work.” As I worked around the house and my husband prepared for some upcoming meetings these two decided to take it easy. I'm thinking we got the short end of the stick...napping would have been so much better.

LID Anniversary and Mamma Mia!

Today is our one month LID anniversary! I know it's only one month, but you've got to celebrate the small stuff!

Tomorrow I am going to see Momma Mia with some friends and I'm so excited. I've heard it's fantastic. I'll post a review later this weekend. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for….

Having known Grandma C. she was a super lady and I am thankful that I was a part of her family.

My Mom and Sister…I love that we talk everyday.

My mother-in-law- she is already making dresses and blankets for our daughter…thank you!

My husband- thank you for running out late at night to get me medicine when I was sick.

Great friendships- both old and new.

Waiting on Our Little Girl

We are just beginning the long wait for our sweet little girl, we have a long road ahead of us, but we know in the end she will be worth the wait (this is my new mantra). In order to help pass the time I have found shopping for her extremely fun. I even started before we were logged in…I just couldn’t help myself and I am not alone my Mom and sister are also accomplices in buying for our little girl. Below are photos of some purchases.

Monday, Monday

Well I am finally starting to feel better, upper respiratory infections are no fun. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know for many of us the weather is certainly changing…okay it’s getting cold. Well as I’ve mentioned before I love Fall and the holidays, when the weather gets cooler there are some just certain things that you love to wear, eat, drink, ect…. so below are some of my favorites.

* I hope to start actually taking photos again now that I’m feeling better for now these will have to do.

Uggs ( I can't wait to buy our little girl a pair!)

Down Vest

Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte

Shea Butter Hand Cream


Homemade soup

Thursday's Thoughts

I just want to thank those of you who left comments regarding our loss, we are so appreciative of your thoughts and prayers. I just have to say again how much we'll miss Grandma C. she was a super lady! I am still sick, my cold has unfortunately turned into an upper respiratory infection...yuck! I will be unable to travel with my husband to his Grandmother's funeral, I just feel terrible not being there, however, he was so understanding and insisted that I stay home and rest. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I'll be back on after a few days of rest.