2010 Highlights

Last year at this time I couldn't wait for 2009 to come to an end.  This time I'm feeling very nostalgic for 2010. 

Take a walk with me down memory lane as I recall highlights of 2010...

My girls in their dance recital in January.

The Duchess turned 7.

Building the bike jump with Daddy.

The Cub Scout Pine Car Derby.

My Boys baseball games.

Watching Cousin T's baseball games.

Allergy season.

Coloring Easter Eggs.

Easter Egg Hunt.

Decorating Easter cookies.

Target shooting with the BB gun

The Slip and Slide

The Contessas Girl Scout Ice Cream Party.

Hubby making his own decoys

Little League Day at AT&T Park with the SF Giants

The Princess spends 4 days in the hospital bravely fighting bacterial phnuemonia

The Princess (with her two best friends) graduates from preschool.

The County Fair

The 4th of July Parade

Swimming!

Fireworks at Uncie T's

The Princess and her guitar.

The girls mastered the art of making friendship braclets.

Giving The Pooch a bath

Our family trip to the river.

Girl Scout Camp

2010 Football season

Family bike rides.

Walks along the old railroad tracks.

The Pooch finally mellows

Sisterly bonding

The Princess turns 6

The Princess has her very first slumber party

The SF Giants win the World Series

Halloween

SF Giants day at school

Countless hours of dress-up

Playing on the roof

Thanksgiving

Grammie was the Mystery Reader in the twins 3rd grade class

The Contessa and My Boy turn 9

Mommy dropped The Contessa and My Boys birthday cake on the kitchen floor!

The Christmas House

Going to the Nutcracker Ballet with Grandma

The Contessas slumber party

My Boy's slumber party

Pillow Fight!!!

Lunar Eclipse

Decorating Gingerbread Men Cookies

Riding Sleugh

Riding Lesson with Auntie Lis

Christmas

I hope your 2010 was as memorable as ours and here's to hoping 2011 is even better!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

It's my birfday!!!

Yep, today is my birthday!  I'm a year older than I was yesterday.  To celebrate my day here is a list of 10 little known facts about little ol' me.

1. I have NEVER had a birthday without a cake.

2. I'm 9 months younger then my Hubby.

3.  I always thought it interesting that my birthday is on the anniversary of JFK's assasination.  I Love history!!

4. I was born at 1:02 am weighing 8lbs. 9oz. 21inches

5. I am the shortest person in my ENTIRE family over the age of 12!  No joke!!  Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Neices, nephews I'm the shortest at 5'2"

6.  I love thunder storms and rain.

7.  I do not think Brad Pitt is sexy.

8.  If I had been born a boy my name would have been Nathaniel Benjamin.

9.  I was born the day before Thanksgiving  x-number of years ago.

10.  I wear a size 9 shoe!  Crazy I know considering my lack of height!!

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Every once in awhile I step out of my normal reading genres and find a book worth sharing.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is just such a book.  When I first stared reading it I though.....Oh good lord I'll never get through this, however I'm VERY pleased to say I got through it and what a joy it was!!

We first meet Janie Crawford, a black women in her 40's, when she returns to Eatonville, Florida in the mid 1930's.  She has returned after leaving town with a much younger man and all her neighbors are speculating on why she has returned WITHOUT the younger man.

As the book progresses, we hear from Janie herself the accounts of her life, starting at the time of her childhood living on a plantation with her Grandmother, up to her return to Eatonville. 

This is a very enduring love story, with a few twist on the "Happily Ever After" part.

I will admit the dialect takes some getting used to, but after a chapter or two it flows easily.

5QFriday........on Saturday. LOL!

I haven't participated in Five Question Fridays over at My Little Life in awhile, but decided to join in today............Here are the questions.......join in too!!!

1. If you could have any talent and turn it into an occupation, what would it be?
I would have to say scrapbooking.  I have scrapbooked for years and truly love it.  It would be great to make a little money doing it!!

2. Would you rather have a house at the beach or a cabin in the woods?
Cabin in the woods!!  I love the smell of trees.  The ocean scares me!


3. Is there any meaning or reasoning for the names you chose for your child/children?
My Boy shares a middle name with my Hubby, which is my hubby's grandfathers name.  As for his first name we just liked it.

The Countessa's name, both first and middle are uniquely hers.

The Duchess...now don't laugh......her first name came from a Disney movie....When I was pregnant Hubby was SOOOO confident we were having a boy, he wouldn't discuss girl names.  When she was born Hubby was STUNNED!!  He said "What are we going to name her?"  I told him he had two choices...both from the Disney movie Aristocats, and he choose which he liked better.  Her middle name is uniquely hers.

The Princess had one name for two hours after her birth, then we changed it.  We changed it to a name Hubby liked much more, which also happens to be my Great-Great Grandmothers name.  Her middle name is my stepfathers last name.  He had passed away a year before she was born.  

4. What is your guilty pleasure? (I know we've done this one before, but I'm guessing people's "guilty pleasures" change frequently. At least, mine do!)
Currently that would be Halloween candy!  Namely Milk Duds!

5. Do you live in a house that is deep cleaned or straightened?
Staightened daily, deep cleaned once a month.  I just don't have time to REALLY clean everyday.  I always do a deep clean the last weekend of the month.

Halloween Recap

Here's Hubby and My Boy.

We started our day off with a early morning football game, and My Boys final official game of the season.  We ended the season 8 and 3, ranking us as 2nd place in the league.

We will have our "Mitey Mite Bowl" on November 13.

After the game we headed home to do some pumpkin carving.

Here's The Contessas Jack-O-Lantern

Here's My Boys

And The Duchesses.  You can't see them in the picture, but it has eyelashes.

And here's The Princesses.  Her had eyelashes too.

The gang heading out to Trick-or-Treat.

We had:

A Pirate - The Contessa

A Ninja - My Boys best friend

Frankie Stein (daughter of Frankenstein) - The Duchess

A Pink Fluffy Bunny - The Princess

And a Ghoul - My Boy

We spent nearly 3 hours going house to house, and running across a dark field....more on that another time.

Fun was had by all!!  I hope you too had a spooktacular Halloween!!!