I am doing WAY too awesome with my Christmas shopping this year ( Read more... )

My brother, his wife and my niece do a Christmas picture every year. Last year my brother showed us two versions of the picture - one was the perfect smiling family and the other had my niece crying her little eyes out.

This year he posted the whole process on Myspace. Here are some highlights:

Daddy and daughter.

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Tonight I am thankful for ( Read more... )

Today, while my whole family is celebrating the 4th of July, my dad will be sitting in a hospital getting a blood transfusion ( Read more... )

So there was this little table I wanted at Target. I called my bank after I got off work to see if my rent check had gone through yet and it had not. This meant that I had money in my account tonight (instead of waiting until my paycheck posts around 3 in the morning) and that I was going to run over to Target and get my table ( Read more... )

Something happened to my cousin. My mother got a message from my aunt which was pretty much just her in a panic and knowing no real details ( Read more... )

Seriously, I had to brag on my niece a little bit. These are her 18 month pictures.



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I have been home since about 6. I had two messages on my answering machine and I was assuming both were from this morning when my boss was frantically calling trying to figure out where I was because I was on the wrong time schedule and running about 20 minutes late for work ( Read more... )

My mother called about 30 minutes ago and left a really nice Happy Birthday message on my answering machine ( Read more... )

The 17th was not only my brother's fifth anniversary, but also my niece's first birthday.

Today is the one year old birthday party. Some of her little playmates from daycare will be there along with lots of my brother and sister in law's friends and their children and then my family and my cousin's kid. Have I mentioned lately how much I love ( Read more... )