Happy 235th Marines!!!

Happy Birthday Marines!!!

To my Daddy....I am so lucky that your are mine!! Not only are you an amazing Dad, but an amazing Marine!! I am so proud to be your daughter, you will ALWAYS be my HERO!!! I love you!!!

To any other Marines who may read this and have come into my life, I'm so proud to know you all...THANK YOU and Happiest of Birthday's to you!!!

Semper Fi!!!

xoxo

Can you believe it?????

Yes, I'm alive and well. I thought I would shock you all and blog for a change! It's really hard to blog when you honestly don't have anything exciting to blog about. Cause ya know, my life is rather boring!!!

What's new with us???? I guess the biggest and most important thing that has happened since I blogged last, Rob has a job!!! Woo Hoo!!! He has been working since January, and life is now much easier!!! We have learned a lot about the things we can live with out and the things we wasted our money on before. No more for us, we are changed people!!! We have no credit cards, we are out of debt and we plan on staying that way!!! Rob is loving his job, great people, great company!!! I know he is glad to be back to work!!

As for me, well, same old, same old. Daycare is keeping me plenty busy, I've got great kids, who on occasion, make me totally insane!! But I love them anyway!!! I haven't done much scrapping or crafting, I just haven't found the time. Well....let me rephase that, I've become VERY lazy lately and sleep and doing nothing have sounded better. I think it's just the weather...I need sun in my life and we haven't had much of that lately!! Although today is bright and sunny and I'm feeling great!! Not to mention that Facebook is seriously addicting!!! I'm trying to do better about being on there!!

Our foster daughter whom we've had since September, is officialy living with her adoptive parents. She is VERY loved and has great parents, and I know she is going to have a wonderful life!!! We are looking forward to watching her grow, as her adoptive parents have said we can still see her and such!! We've now had our last two foster placements result in happy endings, and WOW does that make our job as foster parents so much better!! I'm sure after the happy endings our next placement will be all out hell!! Oh well, we take the good with the bad and just hope the best for all of "our" kids!!

As for Lily, she turned 4 at the end of January. I was really hoping that when she turned 4 she would snap out of her naughtiness, but not so much!! Three was not any fun, and I can see 4 is going to be great too!! No really, she really is a angel baby about 80% of the time, but you better run like hell for the other 20%. She can be UGLY!!! (yes, i'm told she may have gotten that me, and that I probably deserve it all for the hell I put my Mom through) We have started a responsibility chart for Lily, and she is actually improving. She has things she has to do each day to earn her smilies. At the end of the week, she earns a quarter for each smilie (side note, Lil who is supposed to be resting, just appeared and as I told her back to her room, she says, I just need to hug you Mommy....it's a good thing she's cute) Anyhow...for each smilie she doesn't earn, she owes me a quarter. At the end of the week, we pay her out. She gets half of the money to her piggy bank, then the other half we divide in two and she puts half of that into her spend jar, and the other half into her give back jar. It's been hard for her to understand the give back jar, but I think she's finally got it!! There is one smilie she has had the most trouble with, and that would be the "keeping her hands to herself", I think she only earned 3 of those last week. We'll get there I'm sure!!! Her things she has to do each day are: Get dressed, Make her bed, brush her teeth, keep her hands and feet to herself, say please and thank you, and clean her room every night before bed. We've only been at this for 3 weeks, so hopefully we will continue to see improvement!! In other Lily news, she is loving her dance class and looks forward to going each week!! She also loves that Papa or Grammy pick her up to take her and most of the time, she goes to their house afterwards. We are so lucky to have Papa and Grammy to help out!! We would have had to take her out of dance, had they not been able to help us out since Rob got a job. Thank you Papa and Grammy, you a loved and appreciated soooooooo much!!

I don't even know what else to say, cause this post is just a lot of ramblings....I'll TRY to do better, then maybe my posts won't be all over the place!!
xoxo

Thank A Veteran Today!

This video so made my cry!! I have been to the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier and it is a powerful place!!! I could have sat all day in silence.....

Please remember to thank a Veteran today, our freedoms are because of them!! Thank our active duty Soldiers too, they continue to keep us safe and make sacrifices every day for US!!!

(Don't forget to pause the playlist before watching the video)

Happy Marine Corps Birthday Daddy!!

Happy 234 Birthday Marines!!

I Love You Daddy, you will always be my hero!!!

Semper Fi

To my Marine friends, thank you for your service, I'm honored to have you in my life!!
Happy Birthday!!

xoxo

I received this blog award from my online friend Julie, you should stop over and check her out, she is super talented!! Not to mention, I think that she's trying to get me to blog more!! LOL!!

The rules are this: I need to pass this on to five people. Post on their blog that I gave them this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in one word. (ok, I can't answer in one word!!) So, I am passing this award onto, Sasha, Mandie, Shell and Traci.

Where is your cell phone? Purse
Your hair? Messy
Your mother? Best Friend
Your father? My Hero
Your favorite food? Mexican
Your dream last night? Nada
Your favorite drink? Diet Coke
Your dream/goal? For hubby to find a job!
What room are you in? LivingRoom
Your hobby? scrapbooking
Your fear? Something happening to the princess!
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Right were I'm at now, except hubby to have a job!
Where were you last night? Home
Something that you aren't? Mean, i'm usually too nice
Muffins? Poppy Seed
Wish list item? Crossover
Where did you grow up? Everywhere, I moved every three years (Michigan, California, Illinois, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina and some of those states twice!)
Last thing you did? Fed the Baby
What are you wearing? Clothes
Your tv? Off
Your pets? Getting Old
Friends? The greatest
Your life? Many people have it worse, we're making it!!
Your mood? Upbeat
Missing someone? Grandpa
Vehicle? I have a very old Eddie Bauer Explorer that I love!!!! I will drive it til it falls apart around me!!
Something you are not wearing? Makeup
Your favorite store? Build A Bear
Your favorite color? Pink
When was the last time you laughed? This morning
Last time you cried? Lastnight, happy tears as Lily sang "our" song to me!! You are my sunshine makes my heart melt every time she sings it!!
Your best friend? Jodie
One place that I go to over and over? Mom and Dad's
Facebook? Too Much
Favorite place to eat? Belt Line Bar and Mongolian BBQ


So people, I blog!!! Just not very often!!! LOL!! I still haven't posted Lily's dance class photos, I will do that this week!!! Hmmmm, I think I've said that before!!!

xoxo

I got Scrappy!!!!

I did this lo for the Point Blank Period challenge. I love the way this one turned out!! The prompt was Get Over It, and you have certain rules to follow, if you haven't been to check out PBP, you really should!!

This one I did for These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things challenge. The prompt was your favorite time of the day. I'm finally getting going on some of these prompts, be sure to stop over and check out TAAFOMFT!!

Just a lo of last year on Halloween!

Grammy and Lily

My Sissy!!! She will hate me for posting this, but I love this photo!!! Then again, she'll probably will never look here!! LOL

I know these photos are terrible, but that's what happens when you have no sun and all rain for DAYS ON END!!! UGHH!!!

I keep saying that I'm going to blog way more, but no, it just has not happened!!! Maybe I'll surprise you tomorrow and post photos of Lily dressed and ready to go to dance class!!

xoxo

Lisa Leonard Designs Jewelry GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Be sure to stop and check out this super cute jewelry!!!!!

Lisa Leonard Designs Jewelry GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Thanks for sharing Mandie!!

I'm Back........

Since I've got nothing better to do with my time, heck, I guess I'll blog!!!

What's new????? Lots and lots to share.

First off, we are without power and I'm typing this from my sister's house. We had some straight line winds come in yesterday, and we lost power about 19 hours ago, and according to the power company we're looking at power again Wednesday night about 11 pm. Hello people, I need to work!!! I can't really run a daycare with no power, cause for us, that means no water, along with no power!! We didn't have any damage to our home, but 2 miles down the road it's a MESS!!! Fruitport was CRAZY!!! So many trees down, power lines, trees on houses, it was unbelievable!!!! We drove through last night and I was just shocked!!!! Now they aren't letting anyone through the village!! So we can only hope for power before Wednesday!!! Keep your fingers crossed!!

We are heading to the Big D this weekend to see a Tigers game!! Lily will get to her first baseball game!! We are going with the whole family, Mom and Dad, Robynn and Wally and us. We are really looking forward to the game, and the visit we will have with our dear friend the "Jones'" No one told me that going to a baseball game was so expensive!!!! Not to mention Lily's ticket was as much as ours!!!

Next weekend I will be heading back to Big D to see Kenny Chesney!!!!!! I know, I know, YES, I've seen him a million times, but I just can't get enough!!!! Jodie got us tickets from the casino, so this is an all expenses paid trip, minus the gas money!! We are staying at the casino, and I'm sure fun will be had!!! Thanks Jod!!!!

What else is knew??? Ummmm, well our sweet foster daughter is now living HAPPILY with her Mommy and Daddy and her two brothers and we know she is extremely happy!!! Her Mommy came to Michigan to get to know B and she is just awesome, and we have totally made her a family member now!!!! It's great to know that there are happy endings, and we are happy to have been a part of that!!! Someday, I will share photos of the sweet little B and her family, just know B is a happy girl surrounded by so much love and will have a wonderful life!!!! Love you B and Lisa!!!

Lily is doing wonderful, she is becoming such a lady!! We will be signing her up for dance next week!! I'm so excited!!! Lil has totally enjoyed the summer, we have camped for 10 days by the beach, swam in Auntie Wendy and Auntie Heather's pool, spent lots of time with Grammy and Papa, and loves being outside!!! She is our little dirt troll!!!! I'll be sure to put photos up once our power gets back up!!!

Hope all is well with my blog land family!!!! (Luz, are you impressed, that I'm here???)

xoxo

Remembering those who served and are serving....

We are forever grateful, Thank You!!!

Yes, I am still here!!! Photos from today as we headed off to the parade in Fruitport! We had a busy weekend with lots going on, but wanted to at least post a new photo of Lily!!

I'll be back.....sooner than later!!!
xoxo

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day from the Princess and I!!
xoxo