Here We Are

D Day.  Yes it is finally here.  I will be heading to Dallas this afternoon.  Should be a fun night with the family starting the celebration of Sarah's Birthday.  TreyBaby is getting her a cake.  I hope she won't be disappointed by the little present I made.  I gave her a camera for her real present but gave it to her the last time she was here so she could play with it before we went to Vegas.  Well that and then there is the whole old camera story with Mia.  I posted all about it and the next time Sarah is here I really need to get a picture of her and Mia with each one of them holding "their" cameras.  That would be a great picture for a fabby scrap page to go with the story.  Back to the present here.  I did show the little present I made to Kimmy last night who said it was pretty cute so I think Sarah will like it.  I will post a picutre here after she gets it cause you know if I post it now she will no doubt decide to check my blog and poof there goes the one little surprise up my sleeve.  So photos have to wait.
Seems it took me forever to get my stuff together this morning.  I did do my exercise routine and then it went downhill from there.  Well not really down hill just took a lot more time than I thought it would.  I left about 30 minutes later than normal, it is raining and so the traffic sucked and I had to get gas.  I actually think I remembered almost everything.  Forgot to grab my pocket change I wanted but that is really no biggie.  I have my Vegas money, debit card, credit card and checks so  am really good to go.  I just have to get to Dallas.  Driving is not my favorite at all but I am leaving early enough to take my time and I believe driving away fromt he worst of the weather. 
OK so now to get some work done which will make the time go by faster.  Talk to you later.
Have a very very wonderful Thanksgiving.
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November 19, 2009

Good Morning Thursday.  I am so thankful for yet another beautiful day with cool weather and a job to go to and no traffic on the way.  I love that I am 15 minutes from home and do not have to deal with freeways and for the most part no traffic. I am grateful for Martiza and love the day she comes to clean.  Such a wonderful feeling to walk into the house and smell the clean and see everything so nice shiney. 
My guest bed is packed.  LOL  I have clothes laid out and will finish up the last things tonight and get it packed in the suitcase.  I will head out for Big D tomorrow around 2ish from work.  I am so EXCITED and so looking forward to the next week.  Fun family time.  Just the best of all worlds.  Spending three days in Vegas and then coming back to Thanksgiving.  Nothing and I mean nothing could be better.   Well maybe that trip to Greece....Nope not even that.  We are going to have so much fun and so much laughter.  It is what we do.  Yup a great time to be sure. 
I will be taking my computer but honestly do not know how much I will be posting.  Just have to see how it goes.  Check out my facebook and when I win the big slot machine pot I will post a picture.  LOL  Until then....
For each and everyone of you, have a very happy Thanksgiving.  I know you have so much to be Thankful for and it is a great time to stop and reflect on that.  My friends with health issues and family members with health issues are on the mend and my thoughts and prayers are with you, my buddies who have gone through such changes in life and continue to do so...hang in there you will get through it and I am sending all the prayers your way I can.  My family that I love more than life itself, I appreciate each and everyone of you everyday.
Talk to you soon.  Now back to work.
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I have said it before but today it just needs to be repeated.  I am so very grateful and thankful for a good nights sleep.  I was so very tired all day yesterday.  Now I know I ate something bad and that was part of the problem the night before but I have not been that completely exhausted in a long time.  I got into bed at 8 last night set to watch Dancing with The Stars and fell asleep during the first commerical.  I woke up once during the night when Appie started to act up.  I am not sure why but there are times that Appie applys more pressure and she does that it always wakes me up.  Now she adjusts automatically to apply the pressure for what I need at any given time.  So for whatever reason she thinks I need more and maybe I do I don't know.  What I do know is that it wakes me up.  Sometimes I can adjust the mask and all is good and I can go right back to sleep and sometimes I just have to take it off.  Last night it was about 2:30 and I had to get up and go to the bathroom and just did not put it back on.  I was sound asleep when the alarm rang at 4:30.  I felt well rested though and got through my exercise program and felt really good and feel very well rested now.  So I am very grateful for a good nights sleep and I beginning to realize how one bad night can effect me.  I am also feeling today that my exercising (now into week 3) is making a difference.  YEAH.  I am thinking of taking a couple of the videos with me and/or getting my sissy to tape a couple of Gilad for me there.  I don't think I want to skip a whole week.  Now that is something huh.  It just makes a big difference to able to get up throw on an exercise bra and go for it.  It is really doable. 
Just in case you don't realize it....2 DAYS TILL VEGAS BABY!!!!!!!!!!  I just can't wait. 
Just  2 days and my baby will be 30.  That is even more amazing to me than anything else.  Where did the time go?????????

VEGAS BABY- 3 Days

It is getting closer and closer and I am getting more and more excited.  Just the getting away and being with some of my favorite family makes me so happy and so thankful. 
One of the baby books I made was for one of the guys here that just had his baby.  He went on and on about and that makes me so happy.  I didn't feel it was my best ever work not that they would know that but just the same.  I can't say how much I love it when I have given a scrapbook to somebody knowing there is nothing that comes close to it that anyone else can give them.  It is just a one of kind sort of thing and I have found that people just love it.  Makes them feel good and special. It is an amazing feeling.  The other observation I have made is that the males seem more touched and pay so much attention to the little details throughout.  Just a funny observation on my part.
I do have a confession to make.  I have not done my pages in my thankful book. I did do some for the very first day and then nothing...nada I say.  I would forget about it and then just flat did not want to do it.  I have been taking my pictures so I can add to it and do it later on but this now the 3rd year I have made a Thankful book and done nothing with it.  Maybe it is time to admit I am just not going to? LOL
OK back to work.  Long day today.
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Quick Pictures

The cutest kid around.

On the left is Mara (Megan's daughter) and Samantha (Megan's Cousin). Samantha is just a darling and I is always so nice to Bubbe.

This is Megan's Mom and her two oldest granddaughters.  Mercy hates taking pictures and I am always giving her a hard time cause she is not in the pictures with the grandkids.  Mariah is on the right and is Marsha's daughter (Megan's sister)

Need I really say anything about this kid.

These people have from the very beginning gone out of their way to include me in the family.  I am so grateful that they have a strong sense of family which is very much like my own.  As big as they are, there is always room for more.  Louisa (Mercy's sister) is the one whose property the campout was held at.  Families brought tents, hot dogs were grilled and marshmellows were roasted on a camp fire.  I did not stay to camp (those that know me can stop laughing right about now).  My idea of camping is to rent a motor home.  But it was fun and I am thrilled they all think of so much of me, they always invite me along.