May be you have noticed - maybe you haven't - but I have posted every day in November so far.
Well I am finally ready to make the committment. November is National Blog Posting Month and I am joining. The deal is you have to post once a day for the whole month!
Wasn't sure I could or wanted to do this so before making a committment and letting you know what I was doing I thought I'd see if I could post here every day for a week - so far so good.
So I am making a committment and letting you hold me accountable (if there really is anyone out there reading this blog - I know you are Tamara and Emily!!)
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Why all the posting?
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Cali's Birthday Celebration!
Cali had a wonderful 20th birthday thanks to her roommates and brothers!
The day started with our family tradition - jumping through the crepe paper streamers. Thanks to Brittany for making sure this family tradition was preserved!

Thanks to Brittany and all your other roommates and your brothers for taking such good care of you!
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
What Makes You Happy?
In Tessa's AP Language class this last week they were talking about Happiness. They were each asked to make a list of things that make them happy.
One thing I have learned about happiness in the past several years is that ....
"Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have."
Not always an easy lesson to learn.
Tessa gave me permission to share her list. You will notice that the first thing on her list is her family - even though it is qualified!
Since her list didn't scan in very well. I will retype it to make it easier to read - in her exact words! She wanted to make sure I didn't change anything!
"Things" that make me happy by Tessa Wilkes
My family (on good days)
Friends (most of the time) when having fun
Christmas season
Hot Chocolate
Music
Favorite movies
Beach
Neighbor get togethers
Good food (most likely my mother's cooking)
Sleeping in my bed, especially with sheets right out of the dryer
Sunny autumn days
New things (temporary)
Achievements
Good news
"Escape" - something that takes your mind off things
Playing with little kids (neighbors)
Dancing
Being outside (good weather, hiking)
Funny voices
Acting crazy
Serving others
Doing things I love
So what makes you happy??
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Rascal Flatts and Darius Rucker Concerrt
Last Friday night, after the Halloweenie Roast, Tessa and Hannah headed out to the Rascal Flatts/Darius Rucker concert. They were pretty excited.
They had an amazing time and here are a few photos from their evening!
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
It's Somebody's Birthday Today
Twenty years ago today - this sweet little baby girl joined our family!! We were so excited that it was a girl!!
The delivery room was full of doctors, nurses, student doctors etc. and they were all cheering for a girl since we had two boys. Yeah!!
We love you Cali!
Check out my birthday card to Cali over here.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Halloweenie Roast
It was a fun party!.
I created a fun Sweet Treat table with a Candy corn Bar, Chocolate Witch fingers, Vampire Blood Soda and Shari brought yummy candy corn.
Of course Jim hung out with his buddy Declan.
It was an evening of food, friends and fun. We really do have the best neighbors!!
And the "Broken Girls" compared wounds! Molly broke her arm playing soccer!
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Cali and her roommates had a fun Halloween.
They started out their celebrating by visitng a local pumpkin patch and picking out some pumpkins for their apartment!
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Viva Las Vegas
Cali has been leaving me messages on my Facebook page asking if I have forgotten about her since I haven't posted about her here on the blog in a while. No, I haven't forgotten about her but we've had a lot going on around here at home.
So in order to make up for my neglect I am going to do at least two posts all about Cali!! We love you Cali!!
Last weekend Cali and her roommate from last year Andrea headed to Las Vegas - where Andrea lives. One of her other floormates went with them as well as Andrea's boyfriend.
They enjoyed a fun and crazy weekend!
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Trick or Treat
Tessa originallly told me she wasn't dressing up for Halloween but I guess she changed her mind. She put together this cute little witch outfit from things we had at home (thank goodness).
Neighbot Brock was part of the Balzer's haunted house and he too was being served up for dinner!!
We didn't have as many trick or treaters this year - I think the kid's in our neighborhood are just getting older and there aren't as many little ones but it was a fun evening. We still had fun handing out candy.
Here's Declan and Joe all dressed up with a friend of theirs!
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