Day# 59

Today I was thankful for fuzzy blankies and children's tylenol!  Poor Monkey Meat was sick today :(  But we stayed home (I only went to one of my classes today) and snuggled in the recliner under the fuzzy blanket and solon spartans blanket and took a long nap!  I was so cozy I even fell asleep with him :)  I may not be a big fan of needing meds....me and Bryan both seem to be like that!  But when Logan feels that poopy I don't feel bad giving him tylenol :)  Hopefully he feels better tomorrow!

I smiled today when I picked Logan up from Gramma's house after my class was over.  I had told him that I would only be gone for like 3 cartoons since I didn't know if he'd be able to see a clock in the room he was in.  When I came back and went upstairs, he looked at me and said, "You were wrong, it was 4 shows!"  Oh how he cracks me up with his technicalities!  He is way to smart for his own good sometimes! :)

Day# 58

I am thankful days that me and Logan get to spend together and just get things done as we get things done.  It seems like we are constantly rushing around trying to get things done before we are late.  So when we get a chance to just get around to things as we choose, it's always a nice feeling! :)

I smiled today when I got to help my friend Heather move some stuff to her new place!  I am so glad we got a truck so that I am able to help move people rather than people helping me with their truck!  Hopefully it doesn't get crappier outside so that I can make it to help her finish up tomorrow :)  I can't wait till we have our paint party at her new house!

day# 57

I was thankful for suppers with family today! It was so nice to see the Mathers and let Logan get to hang out with Uncle John :) They have so much fun together, I love it! :)

I smiled today after I finished my new island in the kitchen! I always tell Bryan that eventually I will use all the things I save, and this was a prime example! It's so nice having the little bit of more counter space :) Once I get used to it in there that is! :)

day# 56

Today I am thankful for getting to learn how to begin using a Mac! I always thought that a mac would be so hard and overwhelming, but really they aren't! They are actually a little easier to use in some aspects and I'm glad I have the opportunity to figure this out! :)

I smiled a lot as I was learning to use the Macs! Even the boring stuff was fun for me cuz I'm a nerd hehe :)

day# 55

Today I am thankful for days that I get to have a moment to enjoy going to school and being able to be at home and take care of things I need to get done around the house! It was so nice not having to rush around at night frantically trying to get the laundry done! Awww what a feeling!

I smiled today once my house was back in order from me slacking this week! It's so enjoyable being home when it's clean :)

Day# 54

Today I was thankful for my drawing class!  We worked on gesture drawing again today, but somehow it must have been a little bit different than before because I really enjoyed it today!  I even kinda like the gesture drawings I did (which doesn't happen very often) :)  I've noticed that I have gotten my love of everything artist back (oh how I missed it!) lately!  I am able to look beyond everything around me and see more of the artistic beauty in things, I'm in aww at things almost constantly again!  Something my professor said a few weeks ago caught me as interesting so I wrote it down, after looking at it again, I see what he means more than I did intially:

"To be an artist, you must be amazed by the world around you like you did when you were 6 months old.  Before you began naming things."

I think that statement is SO true.  How amazing would even a tree be if we went back to a time before we knew that it was a tree and just looked at them for the beauty they pocess?

Tonight I smiled just for the simple fact that it was the first night since we have been back from Omaha that we actually got to stay home!  It was so nice to know we aren't rushing around for a few hours!

Day# 53

Today I was thankful for being back at school, cuz I'm a nerd like that!  Until I got back into class, I knew that I'd have issues getting back into the swing of things, so I was glad to go to class tonight!

Today I smiled on the way to Grammas house while me and Logan sang Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds! :)  I love sharing some of my favorite things with Logan and The Beatles happens to be one of those things :D  I just love listening to him secretly singing along word for word to his favorite Beatle's songs :)  My little hippy boy (shhhh don't tell Bryan lol)

Day# 52

Today I am thankful for being home!  I loved this weekend in Omaha, and couldn't have asked for better hosts (thank you DJ and Sara you guys are the best!), but I'm by no means a big city girl, so I am happy to be in my boring, middle-of-nowhere home again to be back at the grindstone!

What put a smile on my face today you ask?  MY LOGAN!!!!!  I missed him oh so much while we were gone, but I knew that he would have much more fun with the Grammas than had he went with us!  I couldn't quit staring at him for the first hour I was just so happy!  I love having grown-up time every so often, but I couldn't live without my Monkey Meat! :)

Day# 51

Today was the day!!!!!

I am thankful for being able to share today's tattoo adventure with Bryan, DJ, and Sara!  I have been waiting for almost 10 years to get to be able to share this day with Bryan, I'm so glad we finally got to!

We stopped and grabbed some of the yummiest spaghetti for lunch on our way and then spent an awesome 5 hours at Black Squirrel Tattoo!  It was so much fun and I am now the proud owner of the bestest sacred heart tattoo EVER! Thank you so much Mel, you rawk!!!!  Everyone walked away with some super sweet ink!  Hopefully we can do it again sometime (soon if I had my way lol)!!!!

My AWESOME sacred heart tattoo!  She did such a good job and was such a trooper dealing with my cover up issue!  She even did it so that if I decide down the road I want to add to it, I can with ease (I've already decided that if I do I'm totally doing something in greyscale so the heart still pops!)

Bryan officially has a tattoo!  Matt did such an super sweet job!  I can't stop staring at it when I see it even in photos, although photos don't do it justice! :)

Well as seen from above the whole day was a GIANT smile!  And to end the day we ate at Upstream!  They even had vegan choices (marked with "vegan" in the menu even)!  Their black bean burger was so yummy!  When I told the waitress that was what I wanted she even asked if I was vegan to let me know the mashed potatoes had butter in them (they sounded too good not to cheat a little), she even came back to let me know that the chef had said that he was going to put my burger on beer bread since their buns weren't vegan!!!!!  Why can't more places be like that!  I will definitely be going back there! :)

DAY# 50!!!

Wow I made it to day 50!  (ok so I haven't actually posted everyday, but I've been keeping up on paper atleast :)  and I have eventually posted them haha)

I am thankful rawkin family members (like how I totally claimed stake on Bryan's family LOL)!  I had a blast today hanging out with DJ and Sara and Bryan!  Oh and Maddox, Chico, and Diego! :) We went to the mall so Bryan could go get a hairs cut and we got to roam a bit and do some shopping (who knew that I would find clothes at Pac Sun that I would like?  Guess I should start going in that store LOL)
We went to see the Muay Thai fights tonight and that was super cool!  I kinda wanna look into learning it just for the training aspect (the first sight of blood and I was over actually doing it seriously)!  I'm a lover not a fighter so I could never actually do it for anything more than to get into better shape!  but Damn those folks from Mid America are in mighty fine shape, you never see ladies with 6 packs around here!!!!!

Today I smiled a lot just looking at everything and taking it all in!  Seeing all of the old buildings and just the way Omaha functions is just so neat to take in!  And the fights were just so interesting, I cringed a lot when the people got in a good kick or hit, but it was so intriguing watching these folks willingly get into the ring to match their fighting skills against another's.  I have even more respect for these people than I already did!  Can't wait to watch DJ!!!!

Day# 49

And we're off!!!!!!!!

I am thankful for me and Bryan's schedule to FINALLY allow us another weekend away together (it only took 2/3 years for it to happen!)  I wish we had the time and money to do it more often, but I guess this way I can appreciate it more when it happens :)

I was almost giddy all day!  Class seemed to take forever, but at noon it was off to get on the road!  I smiled first cuz we got a free upgrade on our car cuz they couldn't find our charger!  Oh btw, anyone wanna buy me a Chrysler 300?????? hehe

(I totally forgot to take a picture of our car like I had planned :( )

We got to Omaha just in time for supper and to stop by and me th tattooists so it worked out perfect!  I can't wait till Sunday :D

Day# 48

Today I am thankful for having the wonderful landlord that we have :)  Not only has he came and pulled Bryan out of the ditch during a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, but he let me into the church next door so I could take some really neat photos for my photography class!  All he asked for in return was a copy of the photos for them to keep with the church!  I may not be all that religous (and have recently learned that I am fairly intrigued by Eastern religions), but I have always found old churches beautiful, I can't wait for this summer so the sun is out (since I don't think it will anytime soon!) so I can get some rawkin' pics of the stained glass windows :)

Today I a giant smile because I was able to not only get all my class work done for the weekend, but I got the house completely cleaned up AND me and Logan's clothes packed!  Omaha here we come! (oh and Grama Kim here Logan comes! lol)  Getting a bit more nervous, but I am SO very excited for a weekend aways with Bryan! :D

Day# 47

I was thankful for my tufo this evening :)  Tofu is one of those things that many people have misconceptions of, hey, I even did just a few years ago!  I don't know what I'd do without it now!  I love me some tofu every few days (I even figured out how to cook it up to make it taste like I made a fried egg sandwich :)

So since I could easily have all 365 days worth of smiles revolve around Logan, which I'd be ok with but that makes it way too easy!  So I've decided to try and keep my monkey contained to once or twice a week, since this is supposed to help me see the good in my life, and I already know he's the bestest :D

So today I smiled after I was able to get the laundry done before we go on our road trip this weekend!  I even went in the basement after dark to do it :)  Oh how I'm so proud of myself (well it helped my nerves knowing that Bryan was just a scream away hehe)  So now I can check 1 more thing off the list of stuff I'd dread coming home to do!

Day# 46

So today I am thankful for my night class being cancelled.  I know that that isn't all that positive of a thing to be thankful for but I was very thankful.  I was also thankful for my heating pad today :)  My tum wasn't doing so hot and my trusty heating pad always seems to do the trick :)

I smiled today cuz I got to go hang out with my fav cousin for a little bit this evening for some awesome retail therapy!  Although I wasn't able to get the shirt I really wanted, it was a nice relaxing couple of hours :)

Day# 45

Happy Valentine's Day!  Today I am thankful for all of you that I call my friends and family!  I love you all to the moon and back and back again!  I wouldn't be who I am without you all and your friendly nudges :)

I smiled quite a bit today!  I got to go to Logan's class Valentine's party!  I had so much fun and was so happy I got to share it with him :)

Day# 44

Today I am thankful mommy and me days with my monkey :)  I just can't get enough of my little man and cherish this opportunity I have while he is still little and wants to hang out with Mommy!

Just watching Logan running around with Chloe today made me giggle!  It is so much fun to watch them interact, it just cracks me up!

Day# 43

I am thankful having friends over to the house!  And having the opportunity to play around with the hobbies I enjoy!  Nate and Katie and Keagan came over and I got to have a little "photo shoot" with my bean!  We took a bunch of cute photos for his 3 months :)  I had so much fun!  I can't wait till I get the chance to do another one (I'm trying to talk Logan into letting me play around with get shots of him but it's up in the air still!) :)

We also got to have some yummy grilled food for supper!  The boys had some of the prettiest steaks I've seen in a long time (I won't eat it, but I understand that others do and I still see some meat that is "prettier" than other meats!) and I got have some of my delicious grilled veggies in olive oil and coconut milk!  It was so yummy I ate the whole packet myself!!!!

I smiled today the biggest smile when I actually knew what the heck Nate was talking about when we were talking about computers and files and whatnot!  I know I know, kinda silly but I've NEVER understood what Nate is talking about, so today I felt like I was actually making progress in class.  Nothing like the first time you actually get to use the knowledge you are learning and knowing you aren't learning it just for no reason :D

Day# 42

I'm thankful for the ingenius ideas I get sometimes (wow does it feel weird to toot my own horn!)!  They don't happen as often as I'd like them to, but when they do, I'm so grateful because a lot of times it also saves me some moola!!!!  Gotta love it!

What put a smile on my face today?  My monkey meat of course (surprise, surprise!)  I was finally able to get the pictures of my meat printed and I AM IN LOVE!!!!!  I can't wait to get them up in my kitchen tomorrow!  I just couldn't stop staring at them!

Day# 41

I am thankful for huhot tonight!  LOL  I love eating at that place so much!  It's one of the few places where all 3 of us can find something good to eat AND I don't have to cook any of it!  :) Yummy peanut sauce too!  I wish I could figure out how to make it at home so I could eat it all of the time! lol

I giggled tonight listening to Logan carrying on about how the last time we went to Huhot their "grill" (actually the fryer) was broken and he didn't get his chicken strips till we were almost done eating!  I just kept picturing me going back in time 25 years and sitting there listening to a little Bryan! LMAO it just cracked me up!

Day# 40

I am thankful for being able to volunteer at Logan's school!  When I got there to help this afternoon, I was given some of the cutest little valentines EVER (besides the things that Logan makes :) )!  I felt so good knowing that the few minutes every other day that I go and "play" is actually helping and appreciated.

I laughed at Logan tonight a lot!  Just sitting back and watching him run around and playing and just forgetting about the worries of the day.....it's the best thing around!

Day# 39

So today I am thankful for having days where I can stay at home and get my work done without having to rush!  Ok, so I didn't really get a lot done, but I did get a paper written and started getting ideas for Logan's birthday party (I know, who starts planning a going-to-be 6 year olds birthday party 3 months in advance....well, this lady!)!  I am SOOOO super excited for his party, I love trying to come up with the most cleverest parties and goodies EVER!  I'm totally working on being THAT mom! LMAO  I have found so many fun ideas, I'm just afraid it's going to be too much!  Really, is it necessary to want to have 3-4 different kinds of cupcakes and still have a cake at a 6 year olds birthday?! Probably not, but when would I ever be able to use these ideas again?  Besides, no party is ever big enough for my little man (until I have to tell Bryan what my plans entail that is!)!!!!  I think I may have to go look for the paper I need for the Happy Birthday banner tomorrow cuz I'm so excited!!!!

Today I smiled when Logan asked me how many more days til winter was over!  It was so funny listening to  him explain that he doesn't like winter, he likes snow.  The jist I got from his explaination was that we just needed snow around Christmas.....exactly how I feel!  He keeps me on my toes everyday and I wouldn't have it any other way! :)

Day# 38

Today I am thankful for my health back! lol I felt so odd missing class on Friday and I am so glad to get back to class and get going again! :)  Makes me feel 100% better in itself!

Today I smiled when I actually won a game of pool!  I'm no where near a good pool player so the few times I ever win I get so excited!  LOL  I know, pretty lame, but hey, It's the little things in life that make me happy :D

Day# 37

Today I am thankful for McDonald's FINALLY getting oatmeal!  Now I don't ahve to starve when Logan wants pancakes from McDs in the mornings on Sundays!  And it even tastes pretty darn good :)

Today was a day full of smiles!  Today was Logan's Science Fair! :D  He was such a proud little man showing off his project to our band of Logan supporters!!!!  He had fun running around with his friends seeing all the other projects too.  It was bittersweet letting him go run with his friends, he's growing so big so fast!

Day# 36

Today I was thankful for now being a 2 vehicle family!!!!  It has been quite a few years since we have had a 2nd car, because we haven't really needed one!  I've already forgotten about it a couple of times! lol  It makes it so much easier to schedule things and Bryan is happy that he doesn't have to be me AND Logan's chauffer on Fridays anymore :) hehe

Today I smile after the hairdresser was done with my hair!  It turned out awesome!  I never would have thought about combining purple and orange stripes but it looks great :)  guess I found my new hair dresser :) YAY!!!!!

Day# 35

Today I am thankful for the ability to do NOTHING when I need to have a sick day!  I was so thankful Bryan was off today so that I could stay in bed and get feeling better but Logan was still taken care of!  I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have that!

I smiled a lot this evening!  After school, I was feeling a bit better, still pretty weak, but better.  By that time Bryan wasn't feeling well, so me and Logan spent the evening lounging in our room watching cartoons, reading library books, and playing board games!  Made for a good end to a yucky couple of days :)

Smile of the Day

So I've decided to try something (keep in mind I don't even know if it'll work the way I want it to!)  I would enjoy getting a bunch of pictures of everyone smiling added :)  since that is pretty much the point of this blog :D  So if you would wanna send me pic of smiles, that would rawk and I'll add them as soon as I can :) 
Thanks all!

Day #34

I am thankful for our landlord and all the plowdrivers in our area!  If it wasn't for them, there is no way me and Logan coulda went anywhere (and I was in dire need of leaving the house for a few!)  We were able to run to get Valentine's printed and got to go to Gramma Kim's house and help make Valentine's cookies!  It was so much fun!

I smiled the entire time Logan was cutting out cookies!  He is so entertaining to watch when he into what he is doing!  He loves baking with his Gramma :)

Day #33

Thankful for snow days (just as long as there aren't too many of them!) got the house picked up, and laundry done, just have to finish putting clothes away and vaccuum tomorrow! I also got my chapter read for friday :) I think maybe me and logan will work on taking pictures for my photo class tomorrow :)

I smiled tonite watching Logan play in the snow for a bit, he was digging at the snow like a little puppy dog! Pictures to come (maybe I'll do that tomorrow lol)

Day #32

I am thankful for having a "job" that i don't lose money when there is a snow day, or a snow night in this case! I was getting a little concerned about driving to cr for my class at 5 so I was super happy when they said Kwood was closing at 1 so I didn't have to worry about it anymore! Guess my theory on all of us living in a bubble was a little off!

I smiled today a lot! Had an old friend remind me of some sweet memories which is always nice to hear! Can't wait to share some more old memories one of these days!