Happy Turkey Day!

- - - - Monday, November 30, 2009 - - - -

I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday and was able to spend time with family and eat way too much :) I had the most amazing time in California, as you can see from my lack of blogging! Every day of my short trip was jam packed with family, friends, and lots of good memories.

Tuesday when I arrived my mom picked me up at the airport in San Fransisco and, of course, we got some Starbucks and headed out shopping. Oh how I have missed you Nordies! Great way to start the trip!

Leavin' on a jet plane.

- - - - Monday, November 23, 2009 - - - -

Less than 24 hours from now I will be on a plane on my way to California!! Do you feel my excitement? I am SOO excited to see my family and friends. Thanksgiving at "home" in Turlock means so much to me. I'm especially excited to see my sister...


With her living in Seattle and me living in Mississippi we never get to see eachother. We are both flying in tomorrow night and I can't wait to see her! This little guy is someone else I can't wait to see and squeeze into a giant bear hug...

Looking forward.

- - - - Friday, November 20, 2009 - - - -



I am so ready for the weekend & excited for all that this next week holds...

Thankful Thoughts #9.

- - - - Thursday, November 19, 2009 - - - -

I am so thankful for the Internet and how it helps me stay connected. 

I am not a phone person at all so the internet is my solution to keeping in touch. The Internet is practical. I can update my blog daily {which I do} and everyone can stay up to date on my life without me telling the same story to multiple people. Then when we do talk on the phone or in person, we can skip most of the long catching up part and get straight to good conversation. Video chat is also something that amazes me and makes me so happy since I am so far away from my family.

I love getting emails. I love getting blog comments. It makes me so happy to know that someone took the time to think of me and write to me. It makes my day to know that someone cares enough about me to read my blog. And I love reading other people's blogs {as you can see from my excessive blog list on the right}. Every morning while I sip on my coffee I check my blogroll to see what new and exciting things are going on the lives of my family and friends. I also love facebook. I have stayed connected and reconnected with so many people from high school, college, distant family, church, and even people from my childhood daycare! There is no way I would still have contact with all these people without facebook. People of all ages now have facebook and I think that if you don't have one, you should get one. And you should be my "friend".

The Internet gives me no excuse to lose touch with friends or family even if we have to move to Timbuktu and for that I am so thankful!

Sweet little Badge.

Badger is the sweetest little guy. He's a mellow, happy, chubby 5 month old puppy. Seriously, he is such a good dog and seems to only want to make us happy. He never gets into things he's not supposed to and he very easily can entertain himself.


This morning he had so much energy but Bailey was not quite ready to wake up and play with him. I needed to get ready so I gave him a small rawhide to chew on; but instead of chewing he started playing with it and flinging it around the room. It was so cute! He is so easily entertained :)

I grabbed my camera and got a video of some of it but he seriously played with it for a solid 10 minutes by himself before he actually started to chew on it! Watch the video below to see what I mean.
I love my sweet little Badge!