November 6th - Thankful for Sundays

November 6th - Today I'm Thankful for Sundays

I love Sundays!  I especially love Sundays that I get to stay home all day.  Today started off getting an extra hour of sleep thanks to turning the clocks back.  Then Gary made us a good breakfast!  We hung around the house until it got warm out then Lyla and I went for a nice walk while Gary mowed the grass.  Then we came home and my friend Ashley came to visit.  While she was here we had tacos for dinner.  Now I am just enjoying some quality time with my little family.  Soon Lyla will go to bed and Gary and I will watch the Steelers game!  I really am thankful for Sundays!  I always feel like if I can have a calm and enjoyable Sunday at  home it sets me up for a good week!  There are weeks when I have things to do on Sunday and don't get to stay home and it never fails that I feel completely flustered going in to the week.  Anywho, I am going to jump off of here so I can enjoy the rest of my evening and take in this perfect view:

Be jealous, my life is pretty perfect at this exact moment!  :)

November 5th - I'm Thankful for our HOME

November 5th - Today I am thankful for our home.  I am so glad that we got the guts to finally buy a house!  And I'm so happy that it all came together and I'm glad that we waited until we found the right house for our family!  And its so wonderful that we have a backyard for Lyla to play in!  Today was a perfect fall day and we were able to let her spend a little bit of time out there this afternoon!

November 4th - I'm thankful for Lyla

November 4th, today I am thankful for Lyla.  I feel so blessed to have her. Its not always easy and its not always fun.  Anyone who is a parent that tells you different is lying!  BUT - she is always the highlight of my day!  She is one amazing little person!  And at the end of the day she is more than worth all the work!  Example:  Last night I was putting her to bed.  I was leaning over her crib rubbing her belly trying to get her to go to sleep.  I was getting frustrated because it was an hour past her bedtime and I was tired and couldn't go to bed until she went to bed.  She reaches over and put her arm through the slat in her crib and starts tickling my belly going "belly belly belly"!  hahahaha  How can you not laugh at that??  Definitely the highlight of my day yesterday!  :)

November - A month to be THANKFUL

One of my friends (Miss Sammy Jo) had this as her status on Facebook last night.  November - A month to be thankful.  And since it was November 2nd she listed two things she was thankful for.  I think this is wonderful and I'm stealing it and doing it in the blog.  Well I don't think its stealing if I gave her total credit!  ;)  So since today is November 3rd, I need to catch up with 3 things!

1.  I am thankful for my family.  They are always there for me whenever I need them.  They love me no matter what. 

2.  I am thankful for my friends.  Sometimes my friends are the only ones who understand.  My life would not be complete without my friends! 

3.  I am thankful for Gary.  He is an amazing husband!  He puts up with a lot from me and he always has my back.  We were lucky to have found each other and I am thankful for that every day.

Stay tuned for reasons 4 through 30 to round out the month!  I have a feeling that some days will be easier than others!  But I also think it is a fun challenge to find something each day that I can be thankful for, even on the days that seem like there isn't anything to be happy about.  I know we all have those.

Fun Fall Weekend

We did lots of Fall activities this weekend.  We ate some of our trick or treating candy:

We carved a pumpkin:

And we watched football:



Trick or Treating - Take One

The mall by our house had their trick or treating last night so we decided to take Lyla.  I really wasn't sure if she was going to grasp the concept at all, so I thought that would be a good test run for her before going trick or treating in our neighborhood on Monday.

She did GREAT!!  She had so much fun!  It was like she was on a mission!  She carried her little basket and walked up to each person passing out candy and would only take one piece (not a big handful like I was afraid she might)!  We all just had so much fun!  We were very proud of our little Bee!

Weekend Rewind

So here is a little recap of our weekend! 

Friday night:  I went to the casino with people from work.  We had a blast!  Maria and I got to meet Arron Asham from the Pittsburgh Penguins!

Gary and Lyla stayed home and watched the WVU game which wasn't quite as much fun....

Saturday:  Gary had to work in the morning.  Then that evening my mom, Em and Gerald came up to watch Lyla while we went to the Scarehouse.  Before they got there I put Lyla in her Halloween costume.

Sunday:  We all got to sleep in until 8:30!  It was wonderful!  Then we just stayed home all day and cleaned and did laundry and watched the Steelers game.

It was a great weekend!  :)