Happy 1st "Gotcha" Day Hershey!

One year ago yesterday I took a chance and made mad dash to the Lumpkin County Humane Society and brought home this sweet boy!

Each year on the puppies 1st birthday/"gotcha" day we celebrate with cupcakes. When Chloe had her first birthday we celebrated with pink frosting... this time Hershey had blue frosting and the girls had yellow frosting. They were quite happy with their treats!

Happy 1st Gotcha Day Hershey!

Snowed In

Well the weather men were correct! I spent most of Sunday evening in denial thinking we were not going to get any snow. I looked outside at 11 pm and absolutely nothing...at 11:30pm 2 inches of snow! I am getting cabin fever from being stuck at the house. I have worked from home the past 2 days because the roads are so bad. The snow has a 1/4 inch layer of ice on top of it. Hershey is none to happy about going outside and I have let Chloe out only twice because she will get lost in the snow! Here are a few pictures....

Book Review #1

I just finished reading "The Third Secret" by Steve Berry. It was a good book and fairly easy to read. If you like the DaVinci Code then you would probably enjoy this book. It takes place within the Vatican and its main characters are the Pope, his Papal Secretary, and a few other important higher ups in the Roman Catholic Church. While this was a fiction story there is A LOT of fact in the book. It references John Paul II and other past Pope's. The story surrounds the apparitions of the Virgin Mary that took place in Fatima in 1917. The story line surrounds this apparition and reveals that there was more to the third secret that John Paul II revealed in 2000. This is the fiction part... or is it? The only negative comment I have is that the book sped up and slowed down quite a bit so by the end I was just ready for it to end but over all it was a good easy read!

Happy New Year! (5 days late!)

So as I began to think of the new year starting and the fact that I am turning the big 3-0 in just 17 very short months I thought I needed to get back on the blog band wagon. Mostly to hold my self accountable for my goals/resolutions that I am making. I thought about doing 30 before 30 but I knew I would probably not achieve that many items...that and I couldn't think of 30 things! So I am just going to randomly set goals for myself over the next year and a half starting with these:

1) Let go... reduce my control. Let things just flow. I love to be in control and know how everything is going to flow and end. I think that I would gain so much from others and learn a lot if I just let loose a little and let everything go with the flow.

2) Attend church service (not just Sunday School Class) 3 out of 4 Sunday's each month.

3) Be on time! I am a notorious 5 minute late person!

4) Be financially more stable.

5) Replace my roof.

6) Teach Chloe to be a more sociable dog. (And Hershey too!)

7) Read 12 books in 12 months and write a blog review. I have almost finished my book for January so I will post a review soon.

8) Blog more often! This will help make me remember events and things I have done!

I am sure there will be more to come but this is a good start!

Is anyone out there???

Knock, knock...??? Is anyone still out there? Ha! I know I disappeared but life has been super busy! Who's hasn't right?

Let's see, last time I posted it was fall and Devin was having a good football season. Well all the boys ended up having pretty good seasons. Madison and Devin's teams made it to the first rounds of playoffs but unfortunately lost there. Madison won the Allstate AFCA Goodworks Team Award and will be presented an award at half time at the Sugar Bowl. (I think that was a great way to end his last year of football!)

My church group is awesome! We have done so many fun things and I have made some great friends! I am now in charge of the activities for the group and that keeps me fairly busy and stressed but I do love doing it.

Mom is busy as always with the nursing home! I went to play Santa's elf for Christmas Eve but our regular Mrs. Claus fell and broke her arm so I filled in!

Oh, and I cannot forget to mention that we had our first WHITE CHRISTMAS in 128 years! It has snowed before on Christmas but never accumulated. I was staying at my parents house so I did not get a picture of my house but here is one of theirs! This was around 5 pm...

And this was around 8 pm...

The Boys of Fall...

If you know anything about my family at all you know we are HUGE football people. I was the only girl for 12 years and if I remember correctly I used to be the football! When I was little my cousin would come home from college with his football buddies and there are pictures of them helping me hunt Easter eggs! Anyways, almost all of the boys in our family have played football in high school/college. Each year for the past several years my mother and I have made our pilgrimage to watch Madison and Landon play either high school or college ball. Devin has now joined the ranks and is turning into one heck of a player! We are very happy that they live much closer and that we are able to catch more of his games.

We sure are proud of #88 Devin O'Connor!!! GO CANES!!! GO BIG D!!!

Life

Life is what happens when you blink your eyes, two months pass, and your sitting on your couch at 11 o'clock at night saying "Whoah, I haven't posted anything on my blog in 2 months!" Yes, I have been a busy little bee. I have joined a new church and am LOVING going to Sunday School with people my age. I cannot remember how long it has been since I was in an actual Sunday School class...probably middle/high school. We stay very busy with activities. From Braves games, to tubing in Helen, pool parties, hiking trips, and next weekend is a rafting trip on the Ocoee. (See, I told you I was a busy bee.) I finally got my deck rebuilt. It looks AMAZING!!!! Now I just need to do a little....errr LOT....of landscaping and my back yard will be in tip top shape. For the 4th of July I head up to my Aunt Nancy's house on the lake. I spent 4 days laying out on the dock and you can barely tell I was in the sun! It was an eye opening experience when my 16 year old cousin (who I changed his diapers and was at the hospital the day he was born.) drove us to get fireworks. I really can't be that old! The puppies are doing well. I have been transitioning them from being in their kennels all day to staying out in the living room/kitchen area. They are doing well so far with that and I feel much better knowing they have room to play and stretch. And finally, work is still going well. I like my job and we have been super busy with fiscal year change. I hope to do better at posting. Maybe even get some pictures up!