Oh My Peanut

There is a little girl that is 7 years old and she is known as my Peanut. Since the day she was born she has tugged at my heart (not that there aren't some other special ones in my life, but there has always been something extra special about this one.) I saw her after the hour she was born, she is my best friend's oldest and also my goddaughter. I got to hold her for hours when she was a baby and to this day she loves to sit and cuddle with me. Anyway, I lived with my best friend and her family for a little while when my Peanut was around 2 years old. I think she vaguely remembers this because she will ask when I am moving back in. Since I have had trouble getting an answer about a transfer and haven't been able to find a job and many other things that have gone wrong lately I told my best friend that I needed some luck and she said she had run out as well and that she would ask my Peanut for some of hers. A funny thing happened while my BFF and my Peanut were out for a walk all on her own my Peanut told my BFF that if I needed some of her luck she would give it to me, all without my BFF suggesting anything. I mean how can you not just smile, she is just too sweet.

It Was The Worst Phone Call We Ever Got...

Funeral's always bring out the stories for people, about the person that has passed or others that have gone before. Having attended a funeral this past week so close to the day my dad passed away had many people talking about him at the funeral home. One of my cousin's wives talked to me about getting the phone call from my cousin, and not being able to understand what he was saying because he was crying so hard.

At first I thought I don't want to hear this I have my own story, however I do realize that hearing this just reiterates how much my dad meant to so many people which was shown by the number of people that came to his funeral.

Although every year this day seems to be so hard, it helps some to know how much he affected peoples lives. We have missed having you around so much that it still really hurts to think of what you weren't here for Bub and Shyguy's births, E., Turtle's graduation from high school and my own graduation from college. Plus all the little things the birthdays, visits, helping with everything that you could and throwing a really good barbecue. If I could have just one more day, conversation, hug, and laugh, but I know that wouldn't work, because I will always just want one more day, conversation, hug, and laugh.

Scooby-Doo Where Are You?

For those of you who don't know me I LOVE SCOOBY-DOO, I now have 2 little boys that have found the same love for these crazy characters. So it is only suitable that they dress as yes that is C-Bear as Velma and E. as Daphne, I mean what else would 2 boys want to be for Halloween. The family shot is the Director as Fred, and the Newsman as Shaggy. These costumes are awesome, this is definitely the best dressed family, except where is Scooby?

A Long Week

So this past week I drove to Michigan for a funeral, one of my aunts passed away (technically she and my uncle have been divorced for many years, however we all still called her aunt and invited her to parties.) She was a great lady she loved to craft which I can relate to, her greatest ability was making cakes. She was one of my sister's godmother and every year to my utter jealousy my sister got a doll cake. It was the ones with an actual doll and the cake part was the dress they were always awesome! It is always great to see relatives the unfortunate part is that most days we only now for most we only see people at funerals and weddings the bad part is that we don't have many left to marry in the family.

The high point of this past week was of course seeing my family and friends and all the little ones as viewed in the above pictures of Little Bob, Peanut, Curly-Q and Munchkin, I also got to see C-Bear and E. I just didn't get any shots of them unfortunately but I did get to enjoy dinner with them and watch Dinosaur Train! I'm glad I got to end the week on a better note! Always great to see everyone and those I missed hopefully next time I'm through I will be able to visit.

Oh How I've Missed You

The Internet is something that I didn't realize how much I used and or depended on it until I couldn't use it for a couple days. We had some technical difficulties with our Internet provider so I wasn't able to do any job searches or look at emails (which pile up extremely fast when not looked at for a couple days). However, we are now up and running again. Yea us! So now maybe I can get some more posts up.

A Great Story...

My nephew Spanky who plays freshman football for my old high school, did an amazing thing. When practices started in August, he was the only kid who talked to another player on his team that has extremely bowed legs. This kid came out for the football team and is always ready to go at practice he is on time and dressed everyday, even though he is not on a first string offense or defense. Spanky went to a local Lutheran school and so did this other kid, so he did know him before going into school. Some of the other football players constantly picked on this kid until Spanky told them all to shut up and leave him alone, that he is there everyday and ready to practice. Yes, my 15 year old nephew stood up to his entire football team in defense of another player. We only found out because one of my other nephews plays on the team as well and he told his mom what Spanky did at practice and so the story was told to Spanky's mom. She asked him why he did it and he simply said he was sick of it so he told them to shut up! He is such a good kid and this truly proves it, we are all so proud of what he did!

October Birthdays

So the October Birthdays were celebrated...last week was one of my older brothers surprise party he turned 40. The top pictures are from that...I unfortunately had my camera battery die so I didn't get that many shots, but I did get one of the "Big L" after he got out of the car. The next one is 2 of my nephews Turtle (bearded one) and Spanky standing with G.S., as you can see she is not as tall as they are!

The next shots are of my roommates birthday dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (Yum) we had a very nice dinner and they brought out her cheesecake with a candle in it and we all sang to her. The couple shots are of the Brit showing off her new sunglasses and her very large cappuccino. Of course we all were in a food coma afterwards, but really enjoyed the day.

Earlier in the day the Crafter, Brit, and I went out shopping at a ginormous craft show where I picked up a few things for my Peanut. It was a very enjoyable time to wander around and see the things people have created. The most popular dog bandannas and little girl barrettes...not sure what that means...but there were a lot of interesting things.