Braxton's haircut

Memaw always does a good job and takes Braxton somewhere to get his haircut. He doesn't like it really really short, so with her help she takes him to get it cut the way he likes it. Thanks Mom, and Memaw as always!!!

Flat Stanley

Braxton got a envelope in the mail today from his great Aunt Rheyma in Pa. for Leah, Stanley will go around with us to some fun places.

Bowling

We also went bowling for Brian's birthday. Brian is the best bowler in our family, he was on a bowling league a few years ago with Icon.

I got a picture of the scoreboard with all of our scores, it was pretty close to our ages. Take a guess to who scores are whose.

Brian's Birthday

For Brian's birthday we went and ate England style Fish N Chips at the Little Taste of Britain. We haven't ate there for awhile so Brian couldn't wait to get his hands on it and start eating.

Afterwards we stopped at the brand new 1960's Iceberg diner for a thick shake. Bubblegum and chocolate delicious!!!!

I decided to do something fun, and it's a way for all of us to get to know Brian a little better. I thought I would use a idea like some of the chain emails that I get sometimes from friends at work. I asked Brian some questions and these were his answers.

1. Where were you born? Easton, Pennsylvania

2. Where did you go to High School? Wiesbaden Germany General H.H. Arnold High School

3. Whats your favorite color? Blue/green

4. Whats your favorite food? Pizza

5. Whats your favorite drink? Pepsi

6. Where have you lived? Las Vegas, California, Utah, Pennsylvania, Japan, England, Germany, Florida, Saudi Arabia,

7. How many siblings do you have? One, a sister

8. Whats your favorite TV show? X-Files

9. Whats your favorite movie? The Green Mile

10. Whats your favorite sport? Football, Baseball,

11. Have you ever been married? Yes

12. How many kids do you? Three, Thomas, Matthew, and Braxton

13. Do you have a nickname? Yes, It's Fatman.

14. What was the first car you owned? 1971 Chevy Malibu

A new haircut

It was time for a new haircut. The Mild to Wild Salon is always great I love that place they do such a good job cutting your hair just right, I like a couple of the girls there they are so fun! Everyone was waiting for me in the car because I just popped in at the last minute, I freaked Braxton and Brian out they had no idea who was trying to open the car door, Taia started barking at me like I was a stranger. That's pretty bad in a good way I guess it was very funny.

"Acting" like Marie

This is for my nieces, and for any poor victims that might choose to read this, yes I am a goof-ball and so is Marie, that's why I like her so much and her dolls. This was just done in fun, I hope  this might make you laugh just a little if not thats okay I had fun doing this.
Marie walks out onto the stage and yells " HELLO! Welcome to the Flamingo here in Las Vegas for the Donny & Marie Show!" (Marie laughs)
"It's good to see you all here! How are you? Well I will tell you all a secret, promise not to tell"

"Well our producer came and knocked on my dressing room door about a hour ago and told me he couldn't find Donny!!

"I thought Oh that's typical Donny knows that drives me crazy so I looked in his usual places"

"YEP HE REALLY IS GONE!"

" I guess we will have to call it the MO show from now on. You know "MARIE'S OWN SHOW"

(Marie laughs) "Did we ever tell you why me and Donny chose the Flamingo Casino to do our shows here. It's because Flamingo's flock in herds of hundreds much like the Osmonds." (she pauses the audience laughs)

(She laughs and cackles) Here's the song that you helped make #1 when I was just 12 years old, that was just last year by the way, (Marie sings Paper Roses) "I realize the way your eyes deceive me....."

" Well I think Donny sweated away from doing the show here at night and doing Dancing with the Stars, he's probably just a pool of sweat water somewhere. YOU THINK?? I better watch it I might be stepping on him. "

The audience starts to applaud and Donny starts to run out onto the stage. Donny yells "Hello everyone sorry I am late. I got caught up in some stuff, yah some personal stuff, (he lets out a sigh)" You know I feel great, I feel like I am twenty years younger, all the hard work doing Dancing with the Stars and the Vegas shows here has really toned me up."

Marie looks at the audience and says "I dont think he realizes that besides feeling good, he LOOKS twenty years old again, we might be signed on again to do The Original Donny and Marie TV show, we should be concerned. Here we go again!! Donny says " Oh Cute Marie, real cute!"

The End!!! (It was fun)

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I just wanted to wish everyone a really great year 2010. I saw some really interesting things out in front of peoples houses.
There's Christmas lights on the bicycle.

Emotional Health

Emotional health is a big, BIG part of being physically healthy. Read that last sentence again. If you are not emotionally healthy, you will not feel good physically. I recently read an interesting article by Dr. Ted Koren, DC. Here are some thoughts from the article.

Emotional health is dependent on being connected to yourself and to others. The more connected you are to yourself, the more you can connect with others and the more fulfilling your connections (relationships) will be. The more good relationships you have in your life, the more happiness, joy, hope, optimism, and vitality you will have. You will feel and be healthier, live longer, and you will recover more quickly from physical and emotional traumas.

Are you emotionally disconnected? Do you hold pockets of unresolved anger, fear, resentment, pain or other emotions locked up in your body and mind? Whatever the cause of those bottled up emotions, whether it is abuse, conflict with others, etc., these trapped emotions keep us from living fully in the present because some of our energy is still living in the past.

Past traumas and fears can manifest as physical ailments and emotional stress. They disconnect us from our deeper selves. When we are out of touch with our emotional wellness, our intuition is
clouded, our life's purpose is confused, and we have difficulty forming healthy relationships. All of this can lead to disease.

Just as toxins can build up in our bodies from our physical environment, so toxic emotions can build up inside of us and make us just as sick, if not more sick. Make it a goal to rid your body and mind of toxic emotions, feelings, and beliefs. A good book to read on this subject is: FREE TO LOVE, FREE TO HEAL by David Simon, MD. You can heal your body by healing your emotions.

I came across this on the Internet, and copied it on to my blog. This was very interesting to me, and important because sections of this pertain to me.

All decorated for Christmas

I re-did this post, so you can ignore this if you would like. This is our cute village in the living room. The big church we have had for years, we continued to buy more additions a little at a time. Most of the little houses are candy decorated, all of the trees and people are new this year.

I loved this wreath at Lowe's, I had my heart set on it, I checked and it was way cheaper and better quality than at Wal-Mart

Braxton's 14th Birthday

It is so hard to believe that it was 14 years ago when we brought this little guy home from the hospital. He has always been such a blessing to me and Brian, and I knew before he was even born that he would be perfect to me. He is nice to everyone and is well known for that with his friends.

We had Grandpa, Memaw and Tim over for a big dinner and cake-and-ice cream on Sunday.

On Monday was his birthday officially and I wrote on the Compass windows Happy Birthday so when we went about our day , we went to the movies for his birthday to see New Moon finally and ate out afterwards, it was his choice of restaurant.

My friend at work gave me a big pink bag, a lot of boxed candy, and a movie gift card for Christmas. She's pretty smart for thinking that because we were planning on going to the movies ahead of time. I thought that was way cool, we were all set to carry all the goodies in the theater. I might make it my tradition from now on with my bag. Happy Birthday Braxton!!

My recipe for any good relationship

Communication
Understanding
Sensitivity
Speak emotions out loud
Compliments not Criticizm
Patience
Forgiveness
Humor
Trust
Thoughtful
Easy to talk to, great listener/want to be around

These ingredients are important to me. Mix them all together, a good and delicious Relationship with someone else. If one or many are missing, start all over again relationship tastes really icky. No good!

Christmas 2009

On Christmas eve at Mom and Dads house we had a talent show this year that was different. All the grand kids organized it and it turned out really good. Braxton played a card game called Blink for his talent, he is good at this game. After high school I crotchet a lot of baby blankets, that was my talent.

Brian's talent was catching quarters from his elbow.

The grand kids performed a commercial They sang "found a peanut"

Braxton's present from Colt: Rangers Apprentice

Brian got a web cam from my mom and dad. That was the neatest thing about Christmas this year, on Christmas Eve we chatted via webcam with Tyler and Tiffany and saw Nicholas, and on Christmas day via webcam with Brian's family.

On Christmas morning I got a pair of Shape Ups. They are fitness footwear they are so cool, I am way excited.

Braxton is wearing his new pajamas from Memaw and Grandpa. He got a Harry Potter snuggie from Santa. Mom and Dad and Tim came over on Christmas morning and had breakfast with us.

Me and Brian are wearing our new pajamas. Everyone got new pj's this year, we all opened our boxes with new ones at the same time it was the funnest part on Christmas Eve.

This is for Brian's family back in Pennsylvania he wanted to show his computer.