Happy 3 day weekend!

Happy Memorial Day weekend ladies!!! I hope all of you get 3 days off as well.... I'll be off at 1:00 today, can't wait! Only 4.5 hours to go!! But who's counting??


On a side note..... Anyone else thrilled that Kris Allen won American Idol??? Thoughts???

The weekend is almost here!!!

So, since I will be very busy tomorrow, I won't have time to post about what we are doing on our extended weekend! This weekend has been, for the past 10 or so years, been a family weekend. We head up to Indianapolis, Indiana for some good ol fashion fun...

Friday:

Indiana is about 7.5 hours from here, so we're taking 1/2 days off work tomorrow to head to my hometown to meet up with the rest of my family and then we will head off to Indiana. We should arrive around 10:00 pm... We will be greeted with drinks and snacks and then head to bed.

Saturday:

We will be up early because my two youngest cousins will be sure we don't get to sleep in past 7. Jesse and I have planned to go running first thing Saturday morning if we aren't too tired from lack of sleep! My two aunts, Grandma, Mom and myself will then head out shopping for a bit and I plan to hit up my two favorite stores that we do not have anywhere around here..... So we'll be going here and here.... I am sooooooo excited! After shopping, we'll head back to my aunts house for our usual cookout and relax the rest of the night.

Sunday:

This my friends.... Is Race Day!! My uncle is an engineer for the Ganassi Target Racing Team and last year they did not disappoint in the Indy 500 with a 1st place finish!! :-) We wake up very early, get everyone ready and head down to the track. There are millions of fans and it is really a sight to see.... I'm pretty good at taking pics on this day, so I'll be sure to take some for you all! After we get there, we find our seats, grab some world famous, delicious, margarita's & bloody marys to start off the race! The weather looks amazing holding steady at 80 degrees and sunny! Say a prayer for us so that it doesn't rain! 2 years ago it rained, they had to clear the track off, dry it off and then start the race up again, three different times..... Then it was canceled. So anyway, we are not avid race fans, but this is a family event. This year my mom and my brother's fiance will be gracing us with their presence, so it will be even more exciting!

Monday:

This is the day we make the long trek home...... So hopefully there will be plenty of resting up for work on Tuesday...

Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!!! Anything special planned?

My Bucket List

This was inspired by Lucy Marie over at Lucy's Life

1. Take time out everyday to appreciate the little things
2. Plant a successful garden
3. Send more birthday cards
4. Talk to my long-distance friends more often
5. Tell my husband everyday how much I love him
6. Be a mom in the next 1-2 years
7. Continue to give to my favorite Charity
8. Run the 5K in under 24:00 minutes and the 10K in under 60:00 minutes
9. Be a grandma (Thanks Lucy!)
10. Become a successful School Counselor
11. Clean my house more thoroughly, more often
12. Have two healthy children
13. Stop gossiping so much
14. Pray more often
15. Teach my children the importance of Jesus
16. Build our own home
17. Life happily ever after with my husband
18. Get my PhD and teach at the college level
19. Be a better blogger
20. Visit my friends more often
21. Continue to have fun and laugh with my husband everyday
22. Be a stay at home mom someday
23. Cherish every moment I get with my family
24. Move back to my hometown to raise our children
25. Spend more time with my brother and my soon to be sister-in-law
26. Tour Europe with my husband
27. Scrapbook more often
28. Stay completely in love with my husband
29. Not worry about the smalls tuff
30. Spend a little money and have fun while doing it
31. See Cats on Broadway
32. Read more books
33. Raise my children the way my parents raised me
34. Do a good dead for someone else, everyday
35. Become a Big Couple with my husband through Big Brothers Big Sisters
36. Count my blessings everyday
37. Have a beautiful guest bedroom at our home for guests to visit
38. Renew our vows on our 10th Wedding anniversary 10/4/2018
39. Never give up on myself
40. Eat healthier
41. Teach my children the importance of humbleness, patience, love, honesty and loyalty.
42. Stop complaining about certain things....
43. Make new friends
44. Spend more time with my Mom
45. And my Dad
46. Complete our Wedding scrapbook
47. Complete a scrapbook for every one of our children
48. Visit 10 more states
49. Learn my directions (N,E,S,W) I'm horrible!!
50. Travel the world with my husband after we retire

Trying to waste some time

Shaina over at Post Smith posted the quiz below and I decided I needed a mid-day break from my work... So, here it is! :-) Enjoy!

A - Age: 24

B - Bed size: Queen

C - Chore you hate: Vacuuming and dusting.... Hate hate hate them!

D - Dog's name: Bear

E - Essential start your day item: A goodbye kiss from my hubby, a nice long shower, some computer time and some Honey Nut Cheerios

F - Favorite color: Pink

G - Gold or Silver or Platinum: White gold

H - Height: 5'0" Very short, I know..... I never got that 4th-8th grade growing spurt

I - Instruments you play: I "playED" piano, viola, Saxophone, and clarinet.... None of which I still play today.... Such a waste, I know....

J - Job title: Mentor Coordinator.... Dream Job Title: School Counselor (2 more years and my masters is finished! yeahhh)

K - Kid(s): Currently, zero.... Someday 2

L - Living arrangements: Our 3 bedroom, 1 bath home (with Jesse, Bear, and our 2 cats, Josie & Allie)

M - Mom's name: Joleen

N - Nicknames: Gosh.... I have a lot.. K, K-LA, K-Jo, KK, Kbert, Bert, etc...

O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: None! (Knock on wood)

P - Pet Peeve: hmmm..... Probably people who think they know it all.... and argue all the time. I like to argue, but I make sure I am right when I argue...

Q - Quote from a movie: I honestly cannot think of one off the top of my head!

R - Right handed or left handed: Right

S - Siblings: One brother and one brother-in-law

T - Time you wake up: During the week I set my alarm for 6:53, though I wish I could get up earlier so that I could workout in the morning, but I do not have the motivation for that! On weekends, I get to sleep in till the late time of about 8-9..... :-)

U- Underwear: I love love love American Eagle's Aerie's Boybrief underwear

V - Vegetable you dislike: Zucchini and Brussels spouts

W - Ways you run late: gosh..... Think I have more time than I really do, take too much time doing something other than getting ready, the fact that I'm known for never being on time, don't want to be too early, there are a lot of reasons as to why I'm late.... oops!

X - X-rays you've had: Dental xrays, back/neck xrays for the chiropractor, xrays for my feet (I felt like an 80 year old woman, but the balls of my feet felt like they were on fire when I worked out), xrays for my ankle when I sprained it.

Y - Yummy food you make: I make a lot of yummy foods.... Jesse's favorite's are lasagna, French Dip subs (his new fav), my cookies (with vanilla pudding) [If you haven't tried making these babies, ask me for the recipe and you won't be disappointed!]

Z - Zoo favorite: Monkeys for sure! Love them!

Catching up.....

So, I have a lot of pictures to take from my good friend, Katie's wedding that was on May 9th... I'm terrible at posting pics on here, because for some reason it takes me forever! Anyway, this past weekend was another eventful weekend!

Friday night, Jesse and I finally got to have a night in. I actually did some shopping while he worked a few hours of overtime and when he got home, we ordered pizza for dinner and plopped in front of our ginormous tv (READ: 93" of tv....) I can't even remember what we watched, but since our PS3 is on the fritz and is our only Bluray player, we cannot watch our Netflix.... My hubby decided that we needed to order all of them in Blu Ray because it's better picture quality.... Yada yada yada.... Well I say DVD's are better than no movie at all! Anyway, I fell asleep pretty early, so I suppose putting in a movie wouldn't have helped me any...

Saturday, I left bright and early for my friend Bri's wedding shower. It was about an hour & 1/2 drive back home for her shower. It was so good to see her as I haven't seen her since October and she recently had a little baby girl named, Quinn, who is the cutest thing you've ever seen!! (sorry, I'm a bad photographer, no pictures.... Maybe I'll find one and put it up here) Then I did a bit of shopping with my mom and bought this and this for our trip to Vegas in July!

*Side story: My grandma turns 79 this July and said to my mom "I'd like to go to Vegas one last time before I die..." I thought it was the most morbid thing she's ever seen, given that she looks to be about 55 and is healthier than any other 79 year old out there..... But I suppose she thinks a lot differently than I do. Back in her day, it was a miracle if people lived to their 60's so I'm sure she thinks she's doing quite well! Anyway, my mom has 6 sisters and 2 brothers, so it's a big family. I have about 30 cousins and about 20 second cousins..... So, with that being said we are getting a big group of my aunts and girl cousins to go. I think we've mustered up about 20 girls to go already! I'm so excited, I've never been to Vegas, but I hear it's amazing... I'm not a huge gambeler, so I'm not even sure how much money to take.... We're staying here, which I've heard is very nice. Needless to say, I'm pretty darn excited! If all goes well, the hubby and I might plan a New Years Eve trip there!

Ok back to my weekend! :-)

After shopping, I headed back to my parents to get ready for my friend Molly's wedding. Hubby couldn't come with me because he was putting in some serious overtime hours, and well I figure a lot of people are getting laid off, we better take advantage of the overtime pay while we can! Molly's wedding was so beautiful! She was such a beautiful bride and once again, I forgot my camera! Sorry guys.... Don't hate me! I'll get better! We've been talking about getting a really nice camera, one that takes great pictures inside and out. Our current camera, a Cannon SD450 is quite outdated.... I believe my husband bought it in 05.... So it's time for a new one!

Ok So after the wedding, I headed back out to my parents. We watched a movie, and I fell asleep, what a surprise.

Sunday, my mom and I went to breakfast, then to Target to do some last minute shopping. I was home in enough time to get ready to go play sand v-ball with some friends. We played for a few hours and then we made dinner and I crashed right away....

I'm so ready for a weekend at home! Next weekend we'll be in Indiana and then finally we'll get to spend some time at home. So, I hope to get all of my planting done before my classes start on June 4th!!

What did you guys do? Any suggestions on nice camera's or things to do while we are in Vegas? I'm sure I'll talk more about the trip when it gets closer!

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