Thankful Thursday

Since its 11pm here and I'm just sitting down to this, I'm keeping this simple.

I often complain about the stupid things in life, but I am thankful I have things to complain about.

I'm thankful for laundry, it means I have clothes to wear
I'm thankful for a dirty house, it means I have a home to live in
I'm thankful for the dirty dishes in the sink, cause we have enjoyed a good meal
I'm thankful for all those kids toys overflowing from my house, cause It means I have children who've had a wonderful day playing with them.

There's so many things I can keep mentioning, but I think you get the idea=)

Wordless Wednesday!

Hot Mama Tuesday Topic!

Today's topic is:

What is your favorite vacation ever and why?

We've had a lot of different vacations. It seems like everytime we move its like a vacation when we get there in the sense we get to explore everything about the area, and tend to do the touristy things. We've done week long camping trips, trips to waterparks, living in Corpus Christi felt like we were on vacation the whole time.

But I think my favorite vacation is a combination of Disney in August of 2009 and our recent trip to Florida.

Back in August I was so excited to share the Disney experience with the rest of my family, Jas had never been there and neither had the girls. I had such awesome experiences and memories of Disney from when I was younger, the anticipation up to the trip was awesome. We did all 4 parks and saw everything we could. Not only did the girls get to meet all their favorite characters but they were in heaven with the whole atmosphere. Their first site of the castle is a look I'll never forget on the faces of my children (and my husband). Pictures never really do it justice, and until you see it in person you never really know how cool it is. That trip we also visited Cocoa Beach, which of course is a favorite thing for us to do. Not only that but it was a first time for Jas and the girls too, we had spent numerous days and weekends at the beach on the Gulf of Mexico but none of them had ever been to or in the Atlantic Ocean. We talked about the differences between them, what the water looked like, the sand felt like, the shells we found that were different, etc... Just a very awesome trip full of learning and experience. And another wonderful part was meeting the Bass Family. We had supper at Downtown Disney during our stay and made friends right away. We came home with lots of memories and new friends.

That brings me to our trip in January this year. We went and visited the Bass Family again. This trip was especially awesome cause for once on a vacation we RELAXED! It actually felt like a vacation. We got to experience Disney with some awesome friends, see gators and just spend some fun times with Eric, Kat and Whit.

I hope every year I can say whatever vacation we go on that year is my new favorite. Wonder what's in store this year?

5 question Friday

I pulled these from a random questions website:



When was the last time you went to the mall?
I haven't been inside a mall since about a week before Christmas, malls really don't impress me anymore, if I do go, I may run into a couple stores then right back out again. I am a bigger fan on online shopping or shopping centers I can pull right up to, shop where I want and don't have to deal with lugging a stroller (yes I have 2 children that are big babies and complain about walking). I'm sure we'll be at the mall this weekend though, I have a Victoria Secret coupon I need to use and Mr. Jas Michael needs a haircut.


What do you wanna know about the future?
There are so many things I wanna know, Will I have anymore children?? Where will I live in the next year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years? Will I ever have a career of my own? There are so many other questions I'd love answered, however, if we knew the future how would the present feel? If you knew in 3 years something bad was going to happen, would you want to know now? I don't know. The only reason I'd want to know is if I could possibly change something today that would effect the outcome of those questions.


Do you have a tan?
I do yes. I am a frequent tanning bed user, not only for the "tan" but it actually makes me feel better, especially this time of year when its gloomy and we haven't had one peak of the sun in 2 weeks. Its relaxing to me and makes me feel better about myself. And yes I do know the risks.


Are you wearing socks right now?
I am. I was NEVER a sock person growing up, through high school or at all. I could wear flip flops till there was snow on the ground. However since moving back to the north, I even sleep in them. I can't ever get warm here, I've even invested in fuzzy socks, slippers. Oh and footed jammies=) Okay I won't go that far.


Where were you 3 hours ago?
I was sitting in my car driving back from the wonderful town of Sullivan, IN. We went down and had lunch with Jas, we may just make this part of our Friday routine.


I'll be taking a blogging break over the weekend, its too hard to do this everyday, but I wanted to know that I could do it!! So there ya go, 5 days straight!!! Muuuahhh!

Thankful Thursday

Since I tend to be a pessimist who is not always an enthusiastic person, today is a good post for me to look at what I am thankful for. Since this is my first Thankful Thursday post it should be easy!

First of all Thankful for this guy who has taught me so much about life

And gave me these two! My beautiful girls who make me smile when I'm sad

And this place: Thankful for my house, cause without this, living in Indiana would be much worse, but at least I have a beautiful home to live in

Today I am also thankful for colors, stickers and coloring books because they occupied my children for 3 hours while I sat next to them at the dining room table and did homework.

I am thankful for all the experiences I've been able to give my children, from Texas to Florida, to Indiana and every where in between. They've seen and lived in places so many people have never even been! Our life is crazy much of the time and always up in the air regarding relocations that could arise any day, but I am thankful for Jas's job and giving us new adventures!

Wordless Wednesday!

These are pics taken today, as you can see Addison was having one of her weirdo days!

I have been looking at new cameras and I can't wait since I feel like the quality of these aren't that great!

Hot Mama Tuesday Topic!

A group of message board friends and I have decided to dedicate Tuesdays to a specific topic.

Today's topic is: What would you do with $50,000?

I guess there's a lot of things I'd like to do with it.

Responsible Brittani:

Put $15,000 onto my increasing student loans or onto the house.
Put $10,000 in each of the girls' savings accounts for college.
Put the remaining $15,000 into our own personal savings account.


Not so Responsible but OH SO FUN Brittani:

I would probably take the money and plan an awesome trip, first for Jas and I since we've never really done a vacation just the two of us. It would probably be somewhere tropical, one of those ultra expensive spa places on a deserted island or something. Then I would plan to take the girls on a trip, probably to somewhere like Austraila or Africa where they could see animals they've only seen in zoos (my girls love animals).

If we didn't take a trip, I'd use that money to purchase a winter condo down south (and in this market I probably could get pretty far with that). This way I could escape the nasty dreary depressing cold of the midwest during the worst months, (even though my dream would be to live there all the time).


Some people may want to buy "stuff", whether that's new cars, clothes, electronics (which is probably what Jas would spend his on), but I'd rather buy experiences, if that makes sense. So I guess when it comes down to it, I 'd have to make the decision whether to be boring and responsible=) or fun and full of experience! Hmmm... guess there's a thought to ponder.