I Believe

I believe in:

Love ... Maybe not at first sight, but I do believe in Love.

Miracles

The power of God

Date nights even after you've been married for years and years

Finding the good in people

Not holding grudges

Forgiveness

Celebrating Valentines day, in whichever way you please

The power or Prayer

Being Thankful

Family

The Little things

Friendships-

the kind that stay strong even though you don't talk or see each other every day

Getting what you put into things

Love only fades when you stop noticing the little things

Love is great, but it's hard at the same time.

Divorce isn't always the answer, maybe it's searching a little harder to find the person you fell in love with.

Hardwork:

It does pay off

The saying:  Good things come to those who wait

Living life the way you want to live it.

Showing and expressing your love at all times to those who matter most in your life.

Saying I love you as often as possible, because you never know when you may not get that oppourtunity again.

This is a list of things that I believe in.  What do you believe in?

Thanks to whomever posted their own "beliefs" post, I cannot remember who.  If it was you, let me know and I will give credit!  I just think it's important to remember the things that we believe in and stand true to those beliefs!

Credit:

I need your help!

We're having a game night on Saturday and we are providing the snacks!  I have no idea what to make!  I need a few ideas that are not too difficult and definitely crowd pleasers!  Any ideas?

So far I'm making:

Mer's Bacon Jalapeno Dip

My Spinach Dip (If you want the recipe just ask)
&
The infamous Lil' Smokey's

Does anyone have any ideas?  I want to make 2-3 more things.  They can be desserts, dips, anything!

Edit:  Thanks for all the great suggestions!!!  Now I'm having an even harder time deciding what to make! :-) 

Sugar Doll

The fabulous Brittany Ann at Living in the Moment gave me the The Fabulous Sugar Doll Blogger Ward!

This is my second award ever and I am very excited about it!! :-) Thanks Brittany! 

The rules:  I must list 10 Interesting facts about myself that you don't already know!

This is probably more difficult and I hope I don't lose any of you because I'm not all that interesting :-)

Without further adue:

1.  Thanksgiving is my all-time favorite holiday!  I love the fact that all you do is get together with family and EAT!  Then you may watch some football and then EAT some more!  :-)  If you cannot tell, I love eating!  haha

2.  Even though I love Thanksgiving, so very much, I Love Christmas almost just as much!  I love wrapping presents, listening to Christmas music and spending time with family.  O, and I love decorating for Christmas.

3.  This is related to the above, but I cannot stand when people put Christmas lights up before Thanksgiving, let alone before November!  I know the weather is a bit nicer, but come on.... Thanksgiving is a holiday too and it deserves just as much respect on it's reserved day!

4.  I have worse handwriting than a 12 year old boy.  No.Joke.

5.  I have no self control when it comes to brownies, cake or cookies. I think I need an intervention.

6.  I cannot have company over unless the house is at least picked up.  Even if it's hubby's friends, I have to scramble to clean before they come over.

7.  My hubby and I are getting a camera for Christmas (with the help of my parents) and so we've put a limit on Christmas spending for each other.  I've bought him one small thing, but otherwise he is SO hard to shop for.  He pretty much gets what he wants within reason, so buying him something is so very hard.  He'll tell me what he wants, but I hate giving gifts when people know exactly what it is.  There's something about surprising people with a gift that I love.  I love getting them something that I think they will love and then seeing the reaction on their faces.

8.  Whenever I go shopping, I'll end up always returning something.  I have a thing about not trying clothes on at the store.  I hate dressing rooms and the idea of trying clothes on in them. 

9.  I too have road-rage.  Sometimes I'll go so far as to honk unnecessarily and I may have tailgated a time or two in my whole 8 years of driving :-)

10.  Surprises are my favorite.  Though, 10 9 out of 10 times I'll try to figure out what it is.  Hubby is great at giving bad hints so that I can never guess what it is.  I don't actually want to know what the surprise is, but there's something about surprises that makes me go crazy and try to figure it out anyway.  He's learned to be pretty sneaky when giving me surprises.

Now, 10 of you lovely ladies are very deserving of this Fabulous Sugar Doll Award!  Those lucky 10 are:

Mrs Bee at Secret Life of Sass & Lex

Jamie at His 'n Her Towels

Ashley at Joshley and The Charles

Abby at Life with B & A

Becky at The Branches

Kait at My Crazy, Unpredictable Life

Sara at That's Sassy

Taryn at The Colorado Desert

Lucy Marie at Lucy's Life

Summer at B is for Brown

Thanks so much Brittany!  It was fun learning new things about you! :-)

Prayers Needed

Edit:  My grandpa is having surgery tonight to clear a blockage to his heart.  I'm not sure what all the surgery entails, but as far as I know, it's a pretty common surgery and should go as planned.  I'm not sure if I will get updated again tonight or not, so I will update tomorrow on his status.  Thanks for your prayers!

My grandfather on my Mom's side had a heart attack this weekend.  He's use to being in pain, so he didn't think anything of it.  He had it on Saturday night, but went all day Sunday saying his chest hurt and he just had a cold.  My Grandma finally called the Dr on Monday Morning and they took him in.  The doctor said he had suffered a heart attack on Saturday night and that is why his chest has been hurting.  They won't know more until later this afternoon, but I'm praying that everything will be alright.  Any prayers you can throw our way would be greatly appreciated!

I have been bitten.....

By baby fever big time!

I find myself ooing and awwing at all of the things at Target that resemble babies.....

Everytime I hear of a new friend who's pregnant (and mind you, this has happened about 4 times in the past 2 weeks), I find myself wishing it were me.

I find myself worrying about the possibility of not being able to get pregnant.  We've done things the "right way", we've grown up, gone to college, fallen in love, gotten married to our best friend and then started talking about having a baby.  My mind rushes to all of the what if's about pregnancy.  What if I'm one of those women who cannot carry my own child, what if we cannot get pregnant, what if something happens, what if what if what if.

I realized that these are all things that I cannot control and if God wishes for my husband and I to have a child, then we will, on his time schedule.  So I'm putting an end to the worrying (or so I hope) and I'm going to leave it up to He who is in charge.

Don't get me wrong, I am so very very happy for all of my friends who have witnessed the miracle of birth and who are pregnant, because there is no better gift!  So I am so happy for all of you out there who are pregnant and I feel for those of you who cannot conceive. 

So, with that said!  To all of you mommies out there, all of you who have children, are going to have a child or want to have children, you're all in my prayers because it is such a great miracle to be a mom and I cannot wait until I have my chance.

I know my husband will be a fantastic father.  He is so enthusiastic about everything he does.  Whether it's cars, engineering, speakers, boats, etc.... He's passionate and I know he will be a good teacher.  So I do not worry about how our family will change once we do conceive, I am just ready and willing to accept all of the joys, sorrows and pains that come along with being a mother.  I am ready for all of it! :-)

Bring it on world, I can and will survive anything that comes my way. :-)

P.S.  Have you seen the baby clothes at Old Navy!  I seriously wanted to buy some the other day, but thought my hubby might think it was quite odd :-)

Happy Friday everyone!  Have a wonderful weekend!

I'm gone & a wordless Wednesday

I won't be posting much this week because we do not have internet at work and I've been working from home for a day & 1/2 now, diligently working! I've got a lot to do and very little time to do it in.  Thanks for staying true to following me! I'll be back next week with more posts, I hope!  Have a wonderful rest of the week!

I leave you with my Wordless Wednesday picture! :-)

Happy Veterans Day!!

Thank you to all the men and women out there who have fought, are fighting, and will fight in the future for my freedom and the freedom of this country.  I am truly grateful for everything that you do.  Without you, I do not know where we would be today.  So thanks again and just know that you are doing a great job and I pray for your safety daily!