Prayers for the Hales

My heart goes out to one of my very Best Friends, Megan Hale, and her family. Lossing someone you love is terrible. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family in this hard time.

A little Update

We're back from Iowa. It was so much fun to see Courtney, Doug, Drew, and little baby Preston. It was my first time seeing Preston and I expected him to be huge, but he wasn't. He is really long and has the biggest hands I think I've ever seen on a baby. I was expecting the weather to be cold but it was actually very nice (mid 40's). I'm glad I had the opportunity to see everyone and I really hope they move closer and somewhere warm. :)

Now for Valentines Day. Just for kicks I thought I would let you in on a little secret...I don't care for Valentines Day. Before I was married I never had a good Valentines Day. My Husband is really cute and always gets me really good stuff for Valentines, but we never make it a big deal. This year we went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch and then we bummed the mall for a while. I gave Jason a fossil watch and he gave me some make-up I've been wanting. For dinner we went to the Mexican restaurant down the street and it had no wait so that was awesome. Then we sent the rest of the night at home watching TV.

Oh and the coolest thing, I won a magazine at http://theletteredcottage.blogspot.com/. I'm so excited I won, I never win anything! I love this Blog.. Layla is so creative. If any of you need decorating Ideas Layla is the person to go to. She does all sorts of design stuff. I really need to enlist her help in my house for some ideas. I highly recommend checking out her blog, its so cute.

So that's my little update. Now I'm Starting the count down to my Birthday!! Only 38 Days!!!!

Time for a Vacation

You know how Sometimes you just feel like blah.. and you do the same thing over and over again and you know if you could just get away for a little while all would be well. That's how I feel right now. I need a vacation, some time away from normal everyday routine. Lucky for me, I'm getting one. This isn’t going to be a sit back and relax vacation. I’m sure this vacation will consist of crashing cars (Toy ones of course), Freezing my butt off, watching the entire collection of Disney movies (or the same one over and over again), and of course holding my new little nephew. I can’t wait to see my sister and Doug it seems like it’s been forever since I’ve seen them. Anyway, Special thanks to Courtney for having another child so I have an excuse to go out and visit. Although, next time court you can just ask me to come out, you don’t need to have a kid every time you want to see me. ;) I can’t wait till I’m in Iowa just one more week!

Twas a foggy day in London town...or Saratoga Springs

The weather here is Foggy today, its been foggy for the last week or two. Every morning we wake up to this amazing white stuff floating around outside our bedroom window. Some days its so thick that we cant even see the neighbors house from across the street. I have never seen so much fog in my live. It probably means the the air quality is really bad but i think it looks so cool. Especially in the morning when everything is frozen over, the trees with their white branches and the fog surrounding them, its so pretty.

The End of the Year

So 2008 just flew by. So much happened last year I got a new car, a house, job. I can't believe its over already. Christmas was fun a little different than I'm used to but still great. It was our first Christmas in our new house, of course we weren't there for very long. Around 10:30 we headed off to Jason's parents house. We spent the day playing games, eating, and opening gifts there. Then around 8:00 pm we went to my parents house, Stacey (my mom) was supposed to get in around 8:30 but due to the huge snow Storm she didn't get in till 4:00 am. So we decided instead of sitting around we would go to Grandma & Grandpa Quinn's. We stayed up there for a while hoping the snow would die down but it never did. The roads were so icy that we decided not to chance it trying to get home, We ended up staying at Jason's parents house. The next day we spent with my parents and the Bleazard Grandparents opening gifts. Oh the holidays are exhausting. Jason and I work together and they graciously gave us a week and a half off. So i made Jason help me hang stuff in our house. It was so nice to have a break but it makes it really hard to come back to work later. New Years was fun we spent it at Jeff and Sue's house, they have some of the best stories and Chase is hilarious. Fun times!! Well I try not to make new years resolutions that i can't accomplish so hopefully none of these are out of reach (fingers crossed):

Make Healthier decisions i.e. go to the gym more often, eat better, take the stairs
Read through the BOM again but this time study it out more
Be less judgemental
Try to be more observant of peoples needs
Find a new hobby

Christmas party

Every Friday before Christmas we have a Christmas party with the whole Quinn side of the family. Usually this involves getting together, eating food, doing some rendition of the nativity story with all the cousins, and then Santa drops off his sack filled with goodies for the little kids (Those “little” kids ranging in age from 4 to 20.) In years past I remember practices started in thanksgiving for the nativity play and it was taken very seriously. You had to “try-out” for your part; which of course meant there were a lot of tears shed, feelings hurt, and envying of the parts other people got. I was usually the star but, I was so good at it, who can blame them for casting me as that year after year after year. The one year I got the part of Mary I ended up crying because some body yelled at me for not getting my lines right and then told me I couldn’t be Mary anymore. That year I believe there were two Christmas stars. Anyways, the last couple of years the nativity play has just been thrown together on the night of the party. This year was no exception but it still was so cleverly done. Chase (my wonderful theatrical cousin) asked 4 of the littlest grandchildren to tell us the story of when Jesus was born, and then we would act out their version of the story. This year I played 3 parts the star, a horse, and an elephant, yes I said elephant. <-- Me as the Star

Man, they have amazing imaginations! The Story ranged from Jesus being baptized the day he was born to there being tigers and elephants present at Christ birth. It was so much fun. Acting out the nativity scene is one of my favorite Christmas traditions, I hope it never ends. Oh the memories… 

Belle of the Ball

Last night Jason and I went to The Grand America Hotel for a work party. We rode with Brad and Julie (Jason's parents) and Julie demanded we get valet parking and since it was cheap and we wouldn't have to freeze Brad so graciously agreed. We got to dress up really fancy and the party was in one of there ballrooms. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! I was so impressed with the hotel. it looked just like it had come out of the nineteen hundreds when big parties were all the rage. The staff was excellent. they had people staffed everywhere so you knew just were you were going and the food, oh the food was excellent. We have fish and beef, with a salad and chocolate raspberry cake for dessert. Before we were let in to the ballroom they served spiced cider. It was delicious but very expensive.. it cost somewhere in the range of $40 a gallon and with close to 400 people there it was, I'm sure, every expensive. I was a little over dressed, not really for the place it was held in since down the hall someone was have a tuxedo party, but for the people we work with I was just a tad over dressed. However, people really seemed to like my dress i received compliments all night.  By the end of the night though i was ready to go home. My stomach was full and my was dress was feeling a bit tight at that point. I wish we had stayed the night at the hotel but oh well maybe next time. I am curious to see what the rooms look like..............