TGIF!

To get you in a festive spirit :) Happy Friday everyone!

Thankful Thursday

Another week, another opportunity to be thankful for what we have been blessed with. I have been told that talking about five things you are thankful for can make you a happier person. I am all for that! So here goes!
1. I am thankful that the day of my kidney appointment is FINALLY here. I should have results of my x-ray by 5 pacific time :)
2. I am thankful for the few hours I had with just Liv and I yesterday. Mom took the girls to the Veterans day parade
3. I am thankful that I was able to get my paper written and all my other homework before the kids came home.
4. I am thankful that my daughters have friends we can bribe to help clean the bedroom with candy!
5. I am thankful that I met my goal of working out at least 5 times last week :)

Wordless Wednesday

Knowing me Knowing you

Its November and time for Shan's Knowing me Knowing you. If you haven't played before head on over to Tales From the Fairy Blogmother and see what its all about :)

1. What's your strategy for gift giving this Christmas?
HA! What strategy. We will be LUCKY to get the shopping done before the big day! I plan to try and get the girls more of the stuff they will use (ie clothes) then the toys, because they have ENOUGH of those! lol. But likely they will all end up with lots more this holiday :)

2. How do you feel about the holiday newsletter?
I personally don't do a family newsletter. I usually get photo cards, if any at all, and send those. I figure the family and friends I send them to will appreciate the picture more then nothing. Besides with school and work and kids there really isn't alot of time. Maybe I can just add a link to my blog? :)

3. What's your favorite board game?
My favorite board game at the moment isn't really a "board" game. But its called Rummikub. Its really fun when you have four players :) Not so much with just two. And not particularly family friendly. And HEY I just found that you can play online! lol. I was just gonna link to the board game for sale, but you can find it at your local Walmart, mine was under 10 bucks.

4. What's your favorite cold weather comfort dish?
I love soup. Particularly Veggie beef, clam chowder or bean soup. YUM-O!

5. What is your favorite new show this season?
New show? Oh! I did think of one I am watching, Eastwick. Its pretty good. My sister and I watch together. :) Along with that I also have the DVR set up to record Top Model (but shhh! That is a secret one!), Biggest Loser, Law and Order SVU, CSI, Monk (final season :( ) and 30 Rock.

There you have it, a little more about me! Now I would LOVE to learn more about you. If you decide to play along, just post me a link to your blog in my comments so I can go look :)

Not me Monday!

Another chance to talk about all the "not me's" from last week!
1. I did not dip into the kids Halloween candy ALL WEEK (not gonna mention the other junk, but at least it wasn't Halloween candy right?)
2. I did not fake Alivia out and slip a blanket in front of her in the swing so she would stay there. I admit it, I am not above tricking the kids to get stuff done! lol
3. I did not tell my mom it would be okay for her to take both girls to the parade for Veteran's Day. She wanted them in the van for the church's part, and I really didn't want to go. But when she ASKED if she could take them, I jumped on it! Just me and Liv Wednesday morning.
4. I did not miss the meeting to learn the new music system because of work, and now have to run it alone on Sunday because my sister won't be there! This should be interesting. You know what I will be doing Wednesday now, learning the system!
5. I did not put off my blog till almost too late to post yesterday. I got it up though, without cheating!

Funny story

I have been working on getting myself active, hopefully in turn teaching myself to live a healthier lifestyle. Anyway. We have had a Wii fit since they basically came out. Well I got bored with it awhile ago (and I will admit, lazy) so I haven't been using, but when the Wii fit plus came out (an extension for the game with more stuff. You can see it here) I HAD to have it, hoping that it might encourage me to get off the couch and get moving.
Anyway, I am getting to the funniness. I was playing one of the new games they have called Island Cycling. You basically walk quickly in place on the wii fit pad to mimic you peddling around this island. The first stage you have to find 14 flags around one single area in the island. It gives a map but won't let you zoom all the way out to see the entire island. Anyway, I had no issues with that one. It was when I made it to stage two and they added some more flags (22 to be exact) as well as about twice (if not more) of the island to bike and find these flags. So I am riding around, and found the first 21 rather quickly, not sure how long as it doesn't keep a timer in game, but it seemed not too long. But that last flag I COULD NOT FIND! It was making me so mad! So I was just peddling my fake bike around the cartoon island looking for this flag, not finding it. I even had my sister and Jimmy searching for online maps to see if they could see which one I was missing. Still NOTHING! I was SO TIRED! The game kept popping up a little box telling me I could push this button and it would save my time, even though I didn't finish. I kept telling myself, NO I can do this! Finally I gave up. It added all my fit credits to my bank (actually pretty cute, "pennies" for each minute active on the game go in the piggy bank and you earn more games, so incentive to keep at it!) Well I figured out I had been playing for 44 stinking minutes trying to find that flippin flag!
I guess I was driving Jimmy crazy too, so he HAD to get on after me and see if he could finish it and find that last flag. He finished and found all 22 in 14 minutes some odd seconds, only 30 faster then it took me NOT TO FINISH! Gee thanks honey, way to make a girl feel great about her gaming skills. LOL!
Anyway, I love the new game. It keeps you moving for sure. And right now, I am more concerned with just getting up off the couch then necessarily working out, this is a perfect fit! I have already been active AT LEAST 30 minutes for 3 of 5 days this week. :) Yay me!

Things that make me smile

I thought I would start a new thing. Sometimes I get down and I thought something wonderful would be a list of all the things that make me smile. I would LOVE to see some of the things that make you smile as well, so if you want to join me, just leave a link in your comments... I hope to make this maybe a monthly thing and see where it leads me. :)
So, here are the things that make me smile today:

1. baby laughs
2. the leaves blowing in the wind
3. when my husband brings me home something from work
4. toddler toes
5. watching my daughters sleep
6. still getting a smile and a wave when I have to go bye bye without them
7. getting a good grade on anything
8. seeing my family all together
9. a good ending to a book
10. getting mail that isn't bills

There you have it. Now I can hopefully look back on this during one of my "bad days" and remember what makes me happy! Its the little things in life that make it worth living. :) Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday.