Friday, January 9, 2009
New Blog
I have started a new blog! It is just for documenting my journey to becoming a marathon runner. I though it would be fun to be able to see where I started and look at my progress along the way. If you want to check it out it is: http://myjourneytotwentysixtwo.blogspot.com/ or just go to my home page and get to it that way. Wow, two blogs lets see how I do keeping up with both :)
Friday, January 2, 2009
Splashing in the New Year!
As I was lying in bed Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. I decided what I wanted to do this New Years Eve. First let me tell you why I was in bed so late! I had gone to Siloam to see some friends that I hadn't seen in a long time that I had graduated high school with. Then afterwards I went and hung out with Shan, Trish, and Bleu until way too late! Right before I went to Siloam I had ran 8 miles on my treadmill. That distance is a first for me, just a little closer to my goal of a marathon! So all those things combind made me one tired lady.
Okay anyway back to what I had decided. I thought it would be fun to go to Branson for N.Y.E. and so I looked at some hotels online and called Jay at work and asked if he liked the idea. He said yes but said he wanted to stay at the hotel with the water park inside it. I looked into it and got us all ready. We were off by 5 something. Let me tell you that I hate that drive there. It is up and down and side to side. I always feel so car sick and this time was no different and even my boy kept on saying he wanted to go home cause he felt sick. Poor little guy! We made it and ordered a pizza and ate it in our room. Then we decided to go to the water park that night cause it was open until 10:00 p.m. and we thought we would go crazy and let the kids stay up late. They had such a blast! Splashing, going down a kiddie slide, and hanging out on an intertube on the lazy river.
I decided I would just get in the next day and boy was I hot in that place. I felt like I was in a sauna! We left around 9:30 p.m. and got a few snacks then got in bed and watched TV. The kids hung on almost until midnight but not quite. Actually I didn't even make it until midnight!
The next day included me going to the Outlet mall while the kids and Jay went to Breakfast. When they picked me up they told me someone had payed for their meal and they got a card and it said that it was a "Random Act of Kindness" and that we should pass it on. How fun is that! After the mall we went back to the water park and this time I joined in. I spent most of my time in the pool like hot tub and the kids decided they liked it also. After we had our fill of the water park we killed 4 hours driving around and shopping and then we went to the IMAX at 6:00 p.m. to see "DEEP SEA" it was very interesting and the kids got a real kick out of it! After it was over we headed home. Ike was out like a light before we even had left Branson's city limits and Olivia didn't make it much further. It was funny to hear them snoring all the way home! It was a short trip but a good one.
Oh I forgot, the hotel we stayed in had the world's largest Banjo in it. I can't believe I had forgotten to mention this earlier :)
Ok, now I am done!
Okay anyway back to what I had decided. I thought it would be fun to go to Branson for N.Y.E. and so I looked at some hotels online and called Jay at work and asked if he liked the idea. He said yes but said he wanted to stay at the hotel with the water park inside it. I looked into it and got us all ready. We were off by 5 something. Let me tell you that I hate that drive there. It is up and down and side to side. I always feel so car sick and this time was no different and even my boy kept on saying he wanted to go home cause he felt sick. Poor little guy! We made it and ordered a pizza and ate it in our room. Then we decided to go to the water park that night cause it was open until 10:00 p.m. and we thought we would go crazy and let the kids stay up late. They had such a blast! Splashing, going down a kiddie slide, and hanging out on an intertube on the lazy river.
I decided I would just get in the next day and boy was I hot in that place. I felt like I was in a sauna! We left around 9:30 p.m. and got a few snacks then got in bed and watched TV. The kids hung on almost until midnight but not quite. Actually I didn't even make it until midnight!
The next day included me going to the Outlet mall while the kids and Jay went to Breakfast. When they picked me up they told me someone had payed for their meal and they got a card and it said that it was a "Random Act of Kindness" and that we should pass it on. How fun is that! After the mall we went back to the water park and this time I joined in. I spent most of my time in the pool like hot tub and the kids decided they liked it also. After we had our fill of the water park we killed 4 hours driving around and shopping and then we went to the IMAX at 6:00 p.m. to see "DEEP SEA" it was very interesting and the kids got a real kick out of it! After it was over we headed home. Ike was out like a light before we even had left Branson's city limits and Olivia didn't make it much further. It was funny to hear them snoring all the way home! It was a short trip but a good one.
Oh I forgot, the hotel we stayed in had the world's largest Banjo in it. I can't believe I had forgotten to mention this earlier :)
Ok, now I am done!
Friday, December 26, 2008
I didn't know three could mean so much!
Boy, I have been out of the blog loop for awhile and now I am ready to get back in. I can't believe Christmas has come and gone this year. I feel like my brain has been in a constant state of fuzziness for the last few months. This year has proven itself as a difficult year for me. Not one particular event has been the down fall but more like a mound of events that seem to have suffocated me! I could go into what those events were but I seem to think that for the most part they are pretty irrelevant. So right now, this is where I will start!
Today I was in the car with Jay and I said to him "2009 will be the year of organization, for me". I am a person that needs structure and this past year it has been lacking. So are you bloggers thinking, "is she going to give me her New Year Resolution List already". Heck ya, I am!
This first one is probably my most challenging one and one that is the hardest to tell you all because if I don't follow through with it I will feel pretty silly! Which makes me also want to really tell you all so that I will follow through with it. Alright here goes, I am going to run a marathon around my 30th b-day! That means I need to start training NOW.
Number two; was mentioned earlier in a pretty broad fashion, "organization" and I will break it down just a little more. I want to start making meal plains, start having house cleaning schedules, have weekend idea lists, a better budget, more family fun times, read more to my children! I need to say "NO" more to outside events. Have more date nights with my hubby and more one on one time with my children.
Last and definitely not least, I want to discover more who God is. I think I have been holding on to "Religion" and not working on my relationship with God. He is why we are here, not religion. We are to worship Him, not religion and it is about time I do some major sitting down with Him and learning more about Him. I really believe God has been asking me to do this for a while and fuzzy headed me hasn't been listening. I am ready to Listen Lord!
So those are my three. I see a lot of work ahead but oh just look what I have to gain from them all!
Today I was in the car with Jay and I said to him "2009 will be the year of organization, for me". I am a person that needs structure and this past year it has been lacking. So are you bloggers thinking, "is she going to give me her New Year Resolution List already". Heck ya, I am!
This first one is probably my most challenging one and one that is the hardest to tell you all because if I don't follow through with it I will feel pretty silly! Which makes me also want to really tell you all so that I will follow through with it. Alright here goes, I am going to run a marathon around my 30th b-day! That means I need to start training NOW.
Number two; was mentioned earlier in a pretty broad fashion, "organization" and I will break it down just a little more. I want to start making meal plains, start having house cleaning schedules, have weekend idea lists, a better budget, more family fun times, read more to my children! I need to say "NO" more to outside events. Have more date nights with my hubby and more one on one time with my children.
Last and definitely not least, I want to discover more who God is. I think I have been holding on to "Religion" and not working on my relationship with God. He is why we are here, not religion. We are to worship Him, not religion and it is about time I do some major sitting down with Him and learning more about Him. I really believe God has been asking me to do this for a while and fuzzy headed me hasn't been listening. I am ready to Listen Lord!
So those are my three. I see a lot of work ahead but oh just look what I have to gain from them all!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Jessica Brower McGonigal
Fall of 1990 was the year I became friends with my BFF Jessi. It wasn't the first time that we met because we had attended the same elementary school and even road the same school bus but there was something about our 6th grade year where we just clicked. Which is quite funny since we started out pretty different. Jessi; super cute, little princess, outgoing, instantly popular. Myself; awkwardly cute, princess of mud, tomboy, not so popular. None of those things made us have one bit less fun with each other.
Once we became friends there was rarely a weekend that we weren't together. We would go rollerskating, go to the the movies, the mall, pretty much everywhere. Sometimes we would be out and about and we would act like we spoke another language around strangers. We would just laugh about it all the way home. I spent so many night at Jessi's house and we would make up songs, dances, and play play play. When morning came I always would wake up like an hour before she did. Not knowing what to do with myself I would just sit there. She wasn't a morning person and I was okay with that!
Summers would come and there was no separating us. The summer of 1992 was one of my favorites. That was the summer that Jessi invited me to go to her grandparents vacation home at Lake Anna in Virginia for 4 days. We had a blast! We went water skiing, tubing, and just lounged around. I felt so apart of her family.
There is so many more memories I want to mention like the time when Jessi and I made our time capsule in 7th grade. We worked so hard digging the hole and collecting our items to put in it. Our big mistake was, we didn't mark were we put it in her woods. One day I will find it! Another small event that made a big impact was one day Jessi and I were hiking in the woods and she slipped and almost feel into a shallow river bed, I ran and pulled her up. The next day she had made me a metal and said I saved her life :). A few things Jessi and I loved was music, roller skating, and making up dance routines. So naturally we have a video of us doing a roller skating routine to Mariah Carey's song "Some Day" Jessi and I even tried out for the talent show singing "Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams" but thankfully we didn't make it. We couldn't sing!
I moved to Arkansas the middle of my 9th grade year. Before I left she gave me a poem called " My Bestest Friend" that is hanging on one of my walls today. We had a lot of distance between us in high school and college but always would get each other caught up with phone calls or visits every year or two.
She was one that I shared many first's with and she was the one that stood by me as I married my husband. She taught me a lot and I think I taught her a thing or two also. She really was my BFF.
May 20th 1979-December 17th 2007 I love you Jessi!
Once we became friends there was rarely a weekend that we weren't together. We would go rollerskating, go to the the movies, the mall, pretty much everywhere. Sometimes we would be out and about and we would act like we spoke another language around strangers. We would just laugh about it all the way home. I spent so many night at Jessi's house and we would make up songs, dances, and play play play. When morning came I always would wake up like an hour before she did. Not knowing what to do with myself I would just sit there. She wasn't a morning person and I was okay with that!
Summers would come and there was no separating us. The summer of 1992 was one of my favorites. That was the summer that Jessi invited me to go to her grandparents vacation home at Lake Anna in Virginia for 4 days. We had a blast! We went water skiing, tubing, and just lounged around. I felt so apart of her family.
There is so many more memories I want to mention like the time when Jessi and I made our time capsule in 7th grade. We worked so hard digging the hole and collecting our items to put in it. Our big mistake was, we didn't mark were we put it in her woods. One day I will find it! Another small event that made a big impact was one day Jessi and I were hiking in the woods and she slipped and almost feel into a shallow river bed, I ran and pulled her up. The next day she had made me a metal and said I saved her life :). A few things Jessi and I loved was music, roller skating, and making up dance routines. So naturally we have a video of us doing a roller skating routine to Mariah Carey's song "Some Day" Jessi and I even tried out for the talent show singing "Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams" but thankfully we didn't make it. We couldn't sing!
I moved to Arkansas the middle of my 9th grade year. Before I left she gave me a poem called " My Bestest Friend" that is hanging on one of my walls today. We had a lot of distance between us in high school and college but always would get each other caught up with phone calls or visits every year or two.
She was one that I shared many first's with and she was the one that stood by me as I married my husband. She taught me a lot and I think I taught her a thing or two also. She really was my BFF.
May 20th 1979-December 17th 2007 I love you Jessi!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
29th Birthday
I said I wanted to tell you about my Birthday weekend so here goes! Saturday the 8th, I planned a girls night out for my b-day. I sent an e-vite that said "A hip new Game Show is looking for adventurous contestants in the Northwest Arkansas area. Have you got what it takes to conquer the competition? This is your chance to make it big! Wow us with your game show prowess, and join the host for dinner afterward to celebrate your success." That is all the girls knew about the night except to meet at Jason's work at 6:00p.m.!
On Friday my sweet dear cousin drove from Tennessee to spend the weekend with me. He got here around 11:00 p.m. He knew what I had planned and he wanted to help out! Well, on Saturday morning Jason and I got up at 5:45 to go run a 5K race at the Pea Ridge Battle Field. IT WAS COLD and the run was hard but we did it! Bryan stayed home with the kids and when we got home we got ourselves and the kids ready and went to a Jason's company party at Fastlanes. We ate and played games and had a lot of fun with the kids. We got home around 1ish and put the kids to bed for a nap. From that point on we were working on the final details to my girls night out b-day party. Well 6:00p.m came and this is how it played out:
Jason greeted the ladies at the door and they had to sign in. They sat in the lobby and we did some small talk. Once everyone arrived my cousin took them into the "green room" (cafeteria) and put them into two teams. He explained that he was the Production Manager and that we were going to play "Friendly Fued" each team had to come up with a name and make a sign. He explained the rules of the game and then it was show time.
Prior to this night I had made up a bunch of questions and surveyed about 50 people and tallied the answers. I asked Jason if we could use his theater room at his work b/c it felt like a studio. I borrowed a camcorder so that we could film it. Jason put all the data on the computer so we could project the answers onto a big screen in the theater. He also got the theme song to play and some sound effects from the show. I had also went around to buisness to see if they would donate items for my goodie bags that I had for each lady. The goodies bags turned out pretty good.
The night turned out great! The game was fun and afterwards I opened gifts then we went out to eat. It wasn't the normal b-day party and I loved it. I am going to make a copy of the video and send it to each lady as a little momento!
On Friday my sweet dear cousin drove from Tennessee to spend the weekend with me. He got here around 11:00 p.m. He knew what I had planned and he wanted to help out! Well, on Saturday morning Jason and I got up at 5:45 to go run a 5K race at the Pea Ridge Battle Field. IT WAS COLD and the run was hard but we did it! Bryan stayed home with the kids and when we got home we got ourselves and the kids ready and went to a Jason's company party at Fastlanes. We ate and played games and had a lot of fun with the kids. We got home around 1ish and put the kids to bed for a nap. From that point on we were working on the final details to my girls night out b-day party. Well 6:00p.m came and this is how it played out:
Jason greeted the ladies at the door and they had to sign in. They sat in the lobby and we did some small talk. Once everyone arrived my cousin took them into the "green room" (cafeteria) and put them into two teams. He explained that he was the Production Manager and that we were going to play "Friendly Fued" each team had to come up with a name and make a sign. He explained the rules of the game and then it was show time.
Prior to this night I had made up a bunch of questions and surveyed about 50 people and tallied the answers. I asked Jason if we could use his theater room at his work b/c it felt like a studio. I borrowed a camcorder so that we could film it. Jason put all the data on the computer so we could project the answers onto a big screen in the theater. He also got the theme song to play and some sound effects from the show. I had also went around to buisness to see if they would donate items for my goodie bags that I had for each lady. The goodies bags turned out pretty good.
The night turned out great! The game was fun and afterwards I opened gifts then we went out to eat. It wasn't the normal b-day party and I loved it. I am going to make a copy of the video and send it to each lady as a little momento!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
By Request
I have gotten a few requests to show some of my latest auction buys, so here they are!!!
The table and chairs I got out of the paper and it needed a little work. I had to recover the seat cushions , refinish the top, and spray paint the chairs and base but it turned out well. When I saw the side table at the auction I thought it would go so well with my table and it does. Even the stuff on the side table I got from the auction. Jason and I have had so much fun with the Fooseball table. I think I am finally out of the dog house!
The table and chairs I got out of the paper and it needed a little work. I had to recover the seat cushions , refinish the top, and spray paint the chairs and base but it turned out well. When I saw the side table at the auction I thought it would go so well with my table and it does. Even the stuff on the side table I got from the auction. Jason and I have had so much fun with the Fooseball table. I think I am finally out of the dog house!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
What was I saying?
Okay, today is my birthday and I had a great weekend. I can't wait to tell you all about it but first I want to share a little video with you! Maybe it won't be funny to you all but myself, my husband and my cousin can't stop laughing over it so I am sharing. The funny part is in what I say or in what I am trying to say, so listen carefully!!
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