365 Project

I love pictures. That’s all there is to it!  I want to get better at photos, especially get some better photos of me.  Yeah I guess you can call me vein if you want.  I’m not trying to be.  I think it’s more self-conscious.  All summer long I have found different blog posts about taking your own photo or doing a 365 a day project.  And yes 365 photos of yourself is a lot!  And I tried the whole 52 Photo challenge and have had difficulties, but I’m going to try this whole photo a day for a year thing and see how it turns out.  I put it off all summer waiting for January 1 so that I could do it January 1 through December 31.

Here are the links I’ve found:

Self Portrait Photo Recipe

Self Portrait Tips

365 Project

Self Portraits

365 Project

And while I’m at it, I’ll finish out the year with the 2012 Photo challenge that I kind of failed at, but here we go 🙂  Bring on the New Year!

Here is the 2012 Challenge:

Jan 01 Newness

Jan 08 Cold 
Jan 15 Tired

Jan 22 Breakfast 
Jan 29 Macro

Feb 05 Sleep

Feb 12 Body Parts 
Feb 19 Romance

Feb 26 Spirit 
Mar 04 Vegetables

Mar 11 Underneath 
Mar 18 Spring

Mar 25 Planning

Apr 01 Fools 
Apr 08 Excitement

Apr 15 Work

Apr 22 Growth

Apr 29 Trees

May 06 Mother 
May 13 Up

May 20 Annoyance

May 27 Temptation

Jun 03 Looking in

Jun 10 Party

Jun 17 Father

Jun 24 Swing

Jul 01 Lighting Experimentation

Jul 08 Red, White, Blue

Jul 15 Family

 

Jul 22 Summer/Winter

Jul 29 Time

Aug 05 Water

Aug 12 Shadows
Aug 19 Peace
Aug 26 Defeat
Sep 02 Sunset
Sep 09 Spice

Sep 16 The Kitchen

Sep 23 Autumn

Sep 30 Tools
Oct 07 Colors

Oct 14 My Neighbors

Oct 21 On The Shelf
Oct 28 Memories

Nov 04 Texture
Nov 11 Wind 
Nov 18 Music 
Nov 25 Gathering 
Dec 02 Beyond Reach 
Dec 09 Smiles 
Dec 16 After 
Dec 23 Winter/Summer 
Dec 30 Oldness

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful New Years Eve/New Years and we’ll see you back here next year!!!!   

Happy New Year!!!

p.s. Don’t forget about the 2012 Review Extravaganza review!!  You still have time to link up and we’d love to review with you!

Garfields Restaurant & Pub

Once Thanksgiving hits our days spiral fast toward the end of the year between parties and trips and work in general.  Yesterday, hubby and I had a free moment, a breather if you will and we decided to spend the entire day together doing nothing.  Well seeing what sales were like after Christmas but pretty much, doing nothing and just spending time together.

We are probably two of the most indecisive people you will ever meet, especially when it comes to going out to eat or even what to eat at home.  Neither of us usually care and we can always find something to eat just about anywhere.

We were driving down 7th Street in Joplin throwing out all the different restaurants we could eat at when I suggested Garfield’s. We realized right then that in the 3 1/2 years we’ve been together, we’ve never eaten at Garfield’s together; it was settled.

As a little kid, I used to love to eat at Garfield’s.  So much so that it was usually my restaurant of choice for birthdays.

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C25K Update

Week 1 – Gotta start somewhere!

Week 2 – Trying to look tough

Week 3 – Gotta love my tall socks, but I’m still gun shy, my heels hadn’t completely healed yet either.
Week 4 – No one ever said I was a fashion guru…

Week 5 sucked for running.  :(.  We only got 1 run in out of 3.  I’m not giving up though!

Week 6 – That’s what he gets for putting it out there… plus we haven’t seen his butt in a while 😉

Week 7 – Didn’t see nearly as much pavement as it should have, but the shoes did get some lovin’s still, plus new shoe laces in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness!

Ok Week 8 went better.  We’re getting back in the swing of it again!

Ok so cold weather and I don’t really jive!  I still think I’d like to see a really good snow just because if nothing else the earth/ground could really use it!  Snow brings great nutrients to the soil!  Ok now is time to get back on the band wagon and run again!  Please keep rooting me on because I need it!

Review Extravaganza – October-December 2012

Oh. My. Gosh.  Can you believe that December is almost OVER???  Where did the month go??  Just seems like last week was January 2012!!

This is the last week to participate in the Review Extravaganza and earn points for some hot gifts that equal over $300 in prizes!

I have enjoyed meeting new people every week and seeing what your lives have consisted of in 2012.  There have been highs and there have been lows, but it’s sooooo great to experience this with all of you!  And a super special thanks to EmmyMom for allowing me to be part of this extravaganza!

This week’s theme is October through December, so grab the button and get to linking up and remember as always to visit all the wonderful hosts of this fabulous review!  (just click on their names) Emmy-EmmyMom; Lourie-CA Girl; MiMi-Living in France; Mrs. Match-Date Girl Diaries; Janette-Johanson Journey.


If you’d like to check out
          January-March
          April-June
          July-September
Please by all means click on the links, but now let’s kick this party off right with October-December!

October – 
I tried to start a link-up where everyone could find people close to them, but it didn’t really take off.  darn!  

We got a new dog… who sadly was stolen from us a few weeks later. I know she was stolen because after a week she came home and someone came and stole her again… I can’t explain it :(.

Tbug shared some Tbugisms…. although she may not know she did… lol :).

Hubby and I used up my vacation with a trip to Kansas City where I learned what my calling should be... definitely something to do with food or being a food critic.  Hey if I wrote a cookbook, would you buy it?

My daddy had a birthday and I finally fessed up to a prank I was playing on him.

You learned a little more about 17 year old me….

And I showed you all how to open mouth and insert your foot because people aren’t always in your head to know what you’re thinking.  I promise Earl, I still thought those cookies were awesome and didn’t know such a thing existed!!!!

Tbug rode KG for the first time and we actually got Dill Pickle up on a horse by himself and excited about it.

And we kind of rounded out the month by hubby washing my car keys for me.

November –

My hubby Turned the big 3-0 on the first day of November.  The weekend prior we threw him the best surprise birthday party!

I pondered why I hide my blog from people I know…

Tbug got to spend an extra evening with us for her daddy’s birthday and then we went to breakfast before taking her home.

Tbug got to go to the AQHA World Show for the first time.

I shared funny Sonic conversations….

We ate Bacon Wrapped Turkey for Thanksgiving!! Oh yeah!

We had Thanksgiving at the Shack and then the next few days we created a blog called Tuesday’s at the Shack.

We finished out the month decorating the Christmas tree and Tbug helping me wrap Christmas presents.

Oh yeah and we can’t forget about the Letter D!!

December –
We took my Mother-in-Law to see the Showboat Branson Belle.

I told you what I thought my husband would miss about me, btw an update, he said he’d miss a whole lot more than that.  awe, he’s a keeper!!!

I shared the Farmer Style video.
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I recapped my the year leading up to my 2nd year of marriage in days….  btw, people have asked how I do this.  I sit down with a calendar and count days…. yup 🙂

I had a goat ornament show up on my tree….. I still think it’s cute but I still don’t want goats!

The remote got lost in my Make-up drawer….

We went to Ft. Worth BABY!!!!!  That’s what we kind of wait all year to do!

Tbug took over one of my Christmas traditions of making and delivering Christmas cookies

I did my first ever baby photo shoot for some friends.

And then there was Christmas!!!  This was a fabulous Christmas is all I can say!

And I think this song is great sentiment!  Brad Paisley 364 Days to go!!
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Now remember, you have until Wednesday January 2nd, 2013 to link up in case you’d like to include your New Years post!!

One addition they’ve made is to make some 5 goals/hopes for the new coming year.  I think my goals will be a work in progress!!!
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Johnny Carino’s – Joplin, MO

Two Monday’s ago, wow that seems like a long time ago! Tbug had a school Christmas program.  First off I should mention she goes to public school now so with knowing everything about public schools and God being removed, it surprised and shocked me with the mention of Jesus Christ in some of their songs.  Way to go middle town America school districts!  I love it!

Anyway, moving on… on our way home from her school program we decided we needed to grab a bite to eat because it would be really late when we got home anyway.  Hubby decided we should go to Johnny Carino’s since we’d both been craving Italian.

On Monday nights they have half price family sized meals.  How cool is that?!?!  Half price Family sized Appetizers too.  Even better!

I also saw this… holy cow, I so need to try this sometime!

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Slug Bug

Memorial Day weekend of this year my friend’s daughter Moo taught Tbug the slug bug game.

y’all remember the slug bug game right?  Where you see a Volkswagon Beetle and you yell the color and slug bug and slug the person sitting next to you while saying No slugs back!!

Well Moo and T (her brother) can’t slug anyone because T would slug his sister too hard so she taught Tbug just to say it.  Well we allowed Tbug and Moo to slug each other as long as it wasn’t hard.  We also had to add the verify rule because then Tbug wanted to “make them up.”  If no one else saw it, the slugger got slugged back 3 times.

Anyway, jump forward to this time of the year and Tbug spent the day with my dad running errands one day.  I guess they were driving along and out of nowhere she yells “{insert color} slug bug no slugs back” and supposedly slugs him.  How hard, I’m not sure because I wasn’t there… but still to listen to my dad talk about it is hilarious.  Just had to share and give your kiddo’s ideas :).  Spreading the wealth, ya know!

Happy Thursday!!

And to all a Good Night

So I’m a little sad today because Christmas is over.  I LOVE the sight of the pretty Christmas tree and the pretty presents that lie underneath the tree just brighten the room!  Granted I could leave my tree up for a while, nothing says I need to take it down, however it just isn’t the same.  I love the thought of giving gifts and seeing the expressions on people’s faces when they receive what I’ve gotten for them.

Christmas Eve we spent with my mom helping her prepare appetizers/meals for mom’s side of the family Christmas while my dad drove Tbug around to deliver Christmas cookies.  We had Hot Artichoke Dip (which in her handwriting we all swore said Not Artichoke dip), Cheese Dip, Chili Verde Soup, Mexican Lasagna, my grandma’s Corn Casserole and a bunch of other goodies! (more…)

Christmas Cookies

 

I just wanted to drop in and say I hope you and your family have a….

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And share with you the:

Christmas Cookie Rules…

1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.

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