Wedding website

I've been bad about keeping up with my blog again, but soon hopefully I will get back into the habit! I have started making our wedding website. So far I've only updated the proposal section but be sure to check it out!

www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AmandaStewart&AndrewReeve

New year......new start

I had been blogging pretty regularly but then I got so busy that I just didn't make any time for it! A lot has happened since I last blogged, I got a second job, went back to college, Ty started kindergarten, Dillon started preschool and I met an amazing man who I will be marrying in October this year! So although I'll still be very busy this year I am still going to make time to blog and I shouldn't have any problems with trying to think of what to blog about. Stay tuned ;)

Email Monday......try this test

I'm trying to get back into writing posts more frequently so here is another email to help clear out my inbox ;)

A dog is truly a man's best friend.
If you don't believe it, just try this experiment.

Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car for an hour.

When you open the trunk, who is really happy to see you?

Haha....i think my next post will be about my amazing dog, Marley!

This Christmas.....

I know, I know, this is a little late! I had computer issues a few days before Christmas and then time issues after!

This was the first Christmas where I didn't really have any Christmas spirit. Some people have said that it was because i was working retail but i don't really think that was entirely it. Usually i would have gifts wrapped, Christmas cards sent out and dozens of goodies baked weeks before the big day, but this year i wrapped everything a day or two before, i didn't get ANY cards sent out and i only baked one batch of cookies (i didn't even make fudge which is my favorite)! I think one thing that was different this year was the fact that I had to miss 2 different family Christmas's (because of working retail)! And then on Christmas day it didn't even feel like Christmas because every other year since i can remember after the morning rush of opening gifts we would get ready and go to my Grandma's house.....this year she had it a week earlier :(

The only time I felt the Christmas spirit was first thing Christmas morning. The boys were so excited and Ty passed all the gifts out. Every time Ty would hand Dillon another gift Dillon would shake it next to his ear and then guess what it was. I couldn't quit laughing. He was actually a pretty good guesser or maybe i was just a bad wrapper haha. Anyway here are a few photos from our Christmas!

'Twas the night before Christmas......

'Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch

The pond was froze over & so was the branch.

The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.

The kids were all home on vacation from school,

And happier young folks you never did see-

Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.

Then suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,

There came a surprise that gave them a shock!

The power went off, the TV went dead!

When Grandpa came in from out in the shed

With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.

"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.

"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.

Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."

"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,

And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."

The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.

Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,

Uncased his old fiddle & started to play

That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.

Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew

Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.

They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"

Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.

They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,

And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.

They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,

The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.

Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;

And when the kids wakened, the power was on.

"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"

Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.

Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,

He had pulled the main switch - the old Son-of-a-Gun!

-anonymous

Happy list

I saw an article about which states were rated the happiest and found it very interesting that Indiana is rated #48! And also that Tennessee is #4 is not surprising....i have always wanted to move there ;)

HAPPIEST RANKINGS
The state-by-state list (including Washington, D.C.), from happiest to least cheery:
1. Louisiana

2. Hawaii

3. Florida

4. Tennessee

5. Arizona

6. South Carolina

7. Mississippi

8. Montana

9. Alabama

10. Maine

11. Wyoming

12. Alaska

13. North Carolina

14. South Dakota

15. Texas

16. Idaho

17. Vermont

18. Arkansas

19. Georgia

20. Utah

21. Oklahoma

22. Delaware

23. Colorado

24. New Mexico

25. North Dakota

26. Minnesota

27. Virginia

28. New Hampshire

29. Wisconsin

30. Oregon

31. Iowa

32. Kansas

33. Nebraska

34. West Virginia

35. Kentucky

36. Washington

37. District of Columbia

38. Missouri

39. Nevada

40. Maryland

41. Pennsylvania

42. Rhode Island

43. Ohio

44. Massachusetts

45. Illinois

46. California

47. New Jersey

48. Indiana

49. Michigan

50. Connecticut

51. New York

Blue man group

I posted a link of a video from Blue Man Group. I saw them in Chicago several years ago and they were amazing! A friend of mine suggested going to a show a few months back and now I'm really, really wanting to go again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RamNJn9jXk