30 days of Photos

I have a couple of friends doing this on their blogs and I finally agreed to do it.

Day One: A Photo of Yourself with 10 facts

Facts:

1) I love Penguins

2) I do not find being a mom a job. Even on the hard days, it is not a job in my book

3) Michael and I have been together for 7 years and I still get butterflies

4) I wish I could be a professional football player

5) I am obsessed with music

6) I (well Michael) is lucky if I don't buy a DVD/Blu-Ray each week

7) My daddy is my hero

8) My family are my friends and my friends are my family

9) I have no problem breaking out in dance, anywhere

10) I sing obnoxiously loud in the car, shower, while cleaning, with friends, etc

11) I love Action (Bourne Series, Italian Job, Jason Statham anything) and Science Fiction (Serenity and The Fifth Element) flicks...it's my nerdy side

12) Laughing is one of my top hobbies

13) I could be dirt poor and not care because I am so happy with the people and love I have in my life.

14) God never gives up on me. No matter what hurdle I jump, he is always there to catch me

15) I love white cake! Especially white wedding cake!

Weekend

Short and simple.

Weekend sucked.

Highlight: Making Valentines with Jake and my parents catered Jethro's!

Being replaced sucks at times.

Elmo is now in dog heaven and I think I am still in shock.

I would like to just sleep for the next week.

I am now 28 and don't feel anything different.

I have some special gifts for friends tomorrow and can't wait to give them out/drop them off.

Weekend was pretty much an epic failure.

Epic Downfall

I am not naming names on who is to blame for the probably 5lbs that are about to appear on my thighs. I will however tell you what I have consumed to cause this....Tootsie Rolls. Talk about my Epic Downfall in life. This chocolate flavored treat is a weakness. Small, Midgee, Long...I love Tootsie Rolls. It is not a pleasant thing. Some of my friends know this weakness and leave them in random places. My hubby leaves them on my pillow, in the car, and in my purse. Friends always give them to me for Christmas, Birthdays, Valentines Day, or just to get on my bad side of a day (I swear!). It is especially bad at work. Again, someone that will remain nameless, is going to get set up on an Epic Downfall of their own soon enough. Revenge is 'sweet' and it's coming. If I am sitting at my desk, I will just eat them all. This is in reference to someone giving me a GIANT thing of them on Thursday. It is now Friday evening and I can say only 1/4 of them remain. I have no eaten them all myself. My trash can is/was full of about 500 wrappers due to people constantly stopping by both days. I also think the night crew grabbed a few because there were wrappers in my trash can AFTER they dumped it. Tisk Tisk. I honestly should just tell them to take them. I do not need them attaching to my thighs. Ugh, they taste so good though. I will ban them after Monday. I have to prepare myself for lent. Giving up candy again...this is not going to be a good 40 days. March 9th - April 23...look out for me! Kidding!

Thank you to a certain someone for filling me up with Tootsie Rolls for the past few days. The chocolaty little logs honestly are delish!

The lovely holiday that makes you sweat is coming up......Valentines Day. Don't get me wrong, I think it is great to celerate love, whether if it's in a significant other, children, friends, family, etc, but we should be doing it year round. I love them all everyday so why should one day be different? I love spur of the moment things rather then a day advertising you to do something. For instance, I enjoy those days when Michael comes home with flowers 'just because' or there is a card laying in my car or on my pillow to just tell me he loves me. I love enjoy the spontenaity of that. If you celebrate Valentines Day, it's perfectly fine. I enjoy seeing others get gifts and have their men/woman gush all over them. I maybe spoiled and just get that all the time. I will however, spoil my friends. Your friends are your friends no matter what. They are always there for you and I think those are usually the people I tend to not thank enough. I did send out/going to give out, some friendly valentines to some special people in my life. Jake got into it too and is sending valentines in the mail to some of his friends. Most of course are girls, but I can't help it that my children are severly out numbered in the sex category. Apparently we are one of the rare ones that have only boys! =) I love it though! My one I guess major let down about Valentines Day is when I see others not get what they want. I feel like there are some men out there that need to take full advantage of Valentines Day and don't. My heart aches for those people because they deserve it more then most. That is why my agenda this year is to make those who are single (even if by choice) or that sometimes don't get enough recognition, to give them a special day! I am so very fortunate to have some of the most amazing people in my life and I am very grateful for how they have blessed me and made me a better person! God always puts people in your life that complete you. I feel like every where I go, I have people that always complete me and make me better. I try to be that for others as well.

I hope everyone shows a little extra love on Monday to show people in your life that you care. Even if it's just a silly card or a piece of candy. I guess you can never really hear "I love you" enough.

Half Time Flashback

I miss half time shows like this one. I am not ashamed to admit that I loved it. I heart me some Aerosmith. The half time show from Sunday's game, just didn't do the band justice. I have seen BEP's in concert and it was fantastic. This still rates as my favorite though:

Mid week

I am officially over the hump for the first week back at work. Other then the snow, it has been pretty uneventful. I have been managing to go to bed by 9:30-10 every night and wake up to my 4:30 alarm clock with a little pep in my step. The first day was mainly catching up with people and emails. I ventured out and quoted 'a' policy and slowly information started to flow through my brain. Not too much had changed so that was very beneficial. As the days move forward, more and more comes back to me and I get more comfortable with everything. Down fall is I am completely useless and exhausted when I get home. I did 150% more things when I was on maternity leave and wasn't this tired. Jax sleeps through most nights so it isn't from lack of sleep. I don't know if it is because I am sitting at a desk all day or what. Man, I am just pooped. I have agendas for when I get home from work and they never get done. Blogging was not on the list but my computer is getting the workout my butt needed. Ugh. I need out of this funk. Today I severely needed a nap. I kept closing my eyes and almost had my face meet my keyboard 3 times today. It was painful. I do like being back into our normal routine. I just think my body needs to adjust to going back to the regular grind. Hopefully it happens sooner then later. 

On another note, the boys are doing well at my moms. I was so stressed about that but they are doing well together. Let's hope it continues.

Finally, I would like the snow to stop. I would like it to be Spring. I am not complaining about the snow because we do live in Iowa and it will happen. I am just sick of being cold! I want to put away the coat!

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go

Today is my final day on maternity leave. Technically not really, because I would have this day off normally but I still like to think of it that way. I am starting to get anxious. I hope Jake is okay with not getting all the attention at my moms. I hope Jax sleeps for her. The kid hardly sleeps during the day. I hope he takes a good nap for her in the afternoon. I know it will take some time but I just hope it goes well. 

I feel like I have forgotten everything at work. I didn't forget with Jake but this time, I don't even remember how to turn on my computer. I am sure after I get through my hundreds of emails, things will start coming back to me. I hope they do. On the way plus side, Josie comes back the same day as me! I am very fortunate for that! Someone else to go through all this with! It will be really hard to first day to just get into the swing of things. I have a feeling I am going to be extremely exhausted when I get home. I hope I'm not. 

Let's hope I can sleep tonight. I am completely exhausted already but sometimes I get overly excited and then I can't sleep. I might have to take some Tylenol PM, but maybe only take 1. That stuff makes me so groggy the day after. 

It has been a great 10 weeks off and I am so blessed to have been able to take this time. Jax is a fantastic and perfect addition to our family and we love him more and more each day. 

Too bad for the dogs, they have had a plush life the last 10 weeks. Tomorrow, they will meet their fate of not being so free! Sorry kids!