I'll say I'm 30..........

My 30th birthday was last Tuesday......and I'm okay with that. I've been okay with that. Actually last year I was ready to skip 29 all together and move on to 30. Maybe I just didn't want to post-pone the inevitable, or maybe I was just ready for the next chapter in my life.




I think over the last couple years I've really grown as a person, as a mother, a wife, a daughter. The last couple years have taught me a lot about life. I'm not perfect, but I feel like I'm becoming a person who I'm proud to be. I still make mistake, I'm sure I always will, but I've learned that you learn from them, you apologize for them, and you try not to repeat them.


I'm happy with the direction my life is going and who I'm becoming....and I'm happy with everything I have accomplished in life so far..... I'm truly happy ......




And I truly believe that 30 is just a stepping stone.....from where we've been to where we are and to where we are going......


But let's not discuss 40 just yet.................



I've got 10 years to make peace with that......


For now enjoy some of the things I truly believe!


And mottos I like to live by.......


And teach my children.........


And share with my friends......

Thanksgiving..........Through Pictures

If only you knew how many pictures like this that I take before I actually get a shot that has three smiling faces!
Or like this.....
We had a great Thanksgiving Day, with family and friends........We started the day off going for lunch at my Aunt Margaret's ( My mom's family). The food, oh the food! It's awesome!
I think Aaron's favorite part was playing football out in the yard with the boys.....Cody and Dalton were more supervising Aaron and Grant though...

Mom, you just said don't get muddy, you didn't say I couldn't get grass stains.........
"Puh-lease, try not to hit your sister in the head with the football.......I don't care if you were just passing it!"
Nope she's not crying she's tougher than that, she just got something in her eye!
Okay I'm taking a break..........
As Mom tells Dad that this would make a really cute picture if Aaron would have had a haircut! lol
You just can't appreciate this picture unless you look at it up close.....it's the way he's holding his leg up, pulling back the ball, and most importantly...it's all how he's holding his tongue.....
And he launches it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here I'll give you something to take a picture of!
This was the final result!


Then after we left my Aunt Margaret's we come home and have everyone over for Thanksgiving dinner at our house......





And what's Thanksgiving with a little bit of wrestling.........
I'll save you Savannah!!!!!

And Here Starts Thanksgiving through Brienne's pictures!
Unsuspecting Beth.....
That must be where Aaron gets the tongue thing........
Uh oh Savannah and Aaron are trapped!!
Kevin and Paul horsing around....
Savannah wants to play too!
Beautiful Rosalind!
Brienne needs a little bit more practice on the unsuspecting shots!

My mother would kill me! lol
Amy...........the best lip purser in the family hehe she loves me!
Jim......need not say more!
That would have been an adorable pic if Brie had either zoomed in on Nathan or zoomed out a little to include Mom Dillard.



Look at little Rye Rye.......he's getting to be such a big boy!!

I take it she didn't let Larry know she was taking the picture...

This picture of Brie's I'm very proud of she did a great job....I think it helped she had such a good photogenic subject as well.....

This is about the only time I come out from behind the camera......if one of my children ask to take pictures.....
I honestly think I could have fallen asleep at this point.....I think it was partially turkey coma, and partially I just don't have my strength back 100% yet.....I just tire out easy...it could also be that neither one of us went to bed til 4am that morning and got back up at 9am....that might have something to do with it! lol


I'll leave it with this.........We had a very wonderful Thanksgiving filled full of family and friends and great food, and tons to be thankful for............Hope everyone else had a great Holiday!

And a special thank you to everyone who made it great!!!

With a Thankful Heart

I love Thanksgiving! Not only is it filled with good foods such as Turkey, dressing, dumplins, pumpkin pie, but it's also a holiday were you think about what you are thankful for!

I have so many things in my life that I am thankful for right now. I have a wonderful husband who is the best man I could ever ask for to have in my life, as well as an awesome father to my children. (And he buys amazing flowers!) I have three beautiful, healthy, happy children who are my life! I have an amazing set of parents, and who are also wonderful grandparents! We also have wonderful extended family!


We have a roof over our heads, and food on our table, and thankfully the economy situation right now has not touched us as badly as others. We have wonderful friends, and great jobs, we can send our children to a private Christian school.



I just have so very many things to be thankful for in my life, and I think it's a good thing to set back and reflect on those things once in a while. It reminds you when you are having a bad day, that you do have so much going for you, you can't let a little bad get you down. I'm also thankful that even though it's not always as much as I'd like....I am thankful that I am at a point in my life where once in a while when someone needs it I can Pay it Forward.

I'm even thankful for all the small things like Mexican food, hot chocolate, wine, pictures of my kids so when I'm old and senile I'll remember what they looked like (lol), my camera, candles, and many many more!

From our house to yours......I hope you all have a very wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Day!!!

Another Part of Hubers........

Tractors...........Aaron loves this part. I think it might be his favorite......They have several different real size tractors set up attached to some of the wagons with pumpkins.


They leave them there so the kids can climb on them and play to an extent.....
It makes for a great picture op anyway!

And I couldn't get Aaron out of the seat!
Chasity wanted a turn.........
She's country girl at heart!
But um, Aaron couldn't quite let go......
And I couldn't get Brienne in the seat....too big for such things, can you imagine!!

I Admit It............

I have this graphic on my My Space page, and it's true, I am spoiled. Very very spoiled.

But that's not a bad thing right? I don't think so.....I was taken very good care of last week after having surgery and I'm sure spoiled by him. Am I thankful for it, hecky yes!

Now in the same breathe, he's equally as spoiled as I am.......now not last week, last week was all about me, but now that I am starting to get better he knew what was coming. I'm off work for 6 weeks so that means, good meals every night, the house will always be clean, he'll have baked goods, his laundry will always be done, I won't be complaining I have too much to do....he knows....

And it's not just while I'm off work either......he knows even when I'm working he still gets spoiled, maybe not to the same extent but none the less he does...

And yeah I hear it from my friends about how spoiled I am....."oh my husband would never do that", but then in the same breathe...."If I did that for my husband he'd think he got a new wife"............To me it's give and take.........WE SPOIL EACH OTHER.

Huber's Orchards and Farm

We have taken the kids here every year for as long as I can remember to pick their pumpkins and do other such things. The kids love it, James loves it, and I love it........there are parts of course that each of us enjoy more than another, but never the less, it's a fun family thing that we all look forward to every single year!
Pumpkins are a BIG part of Huber's Farm. Just look at the punkins!! They are so pretty, and bright, and big, and I love to get on the wagon and go out and pick my own! And find the perfect pumpkin!


Here we take a wagon ride by tractor and head out to the fields of pumpkins to find our perfect one!
We went early enough this year the majority of them are still on the vine, and ripe for pickin'!

Here my family starts pondering their pumpkin choices as mom snaps away behind the camera!!

Looks it's Mom!!!!! With a gawd awful snarl on her face! (See it's better when I'm behind the camera) I'm sure one of the kids were doing something, or maybe it was the sun, my week of morphine and percocets last week has taken away some of my memory I fear...though small minute things, I'm sure if I hadn't had that morphine pump, I'd be able to tell you why I snarled....can't now though that will forever be lost!
Oh look Aaron has that snarl too....I'm going to say it's the sun....( I don't care if I did have one sun glasses)


You think it was me or the sun wearing them out????
I'll go with the sun again! lol


See I don't always snarl....I smile

I'll have more to come.....there is just too much to put in one post, it's overwhelming, it's always such a great day!!!!

Where Have I been???

First off horrible pic of me, but it says something about that point! lol I was tired and wore out and trying to get everything in my life organized!

So much has gone on over the last few months, and honestly I had been feeling horrible! This past Tuesday I did what I thought would take care of part of the problem, in turn I found out that what I did might actually take care of the whole problem!

I went in on Tuesday to have a partial hysterectomy, which was suppose to take care of the condition I had Adenomyosis which was causing me to have horrible periods, with stomach and back pain. In having this done I also found out that I had endometriosis, so it seems now that that might be the cure of everything! Only time will tell.

So now I'm off work for the next 6 weeks and honestly I plan on spending quite a bit of time on my blog! I've neglected it in the past few months and I so miss it!
Here is an updated picture of the kids from the pumpkin patch!
Aaron at the girls fall festival at school....
Chassy B at my nephews birthday party.....

And Brie at same said bday party........