Friday, February 29, 2008

Dr. Randy Pausch - from Oprah

This vide0 is very inspiring expecially if you have children. Take 10 minutes of your time to watch this, you will feel inspired.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Best Shot Monday - Innocent Joy

Here is my Best Shot of the week, a picture of the 2 most important people in my life...my husband and my daughter. They mean everything to me. As my blog title indicates this blog is innocent joy and these are the two people that create most of my innocent joys.
Over at Mother May I, Tracey asked the question, What sentiment does your best shot stir up?
This picture can summed it up in one word: LOVE.

Want to see more best shots?
Head over to Mother May I, for more Best Shot Monday's!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Theme Thursday - Pure




Does it get any more Pure than this?

Check out more Theme Thursday over at The Land of K.A.

Happy Valentines Day!







Happy Valentines Day to my beautiful family. I love you both more than you will ever know. You guys are my world and I would do anything for you.

Love, Me


Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Wordless Wednesday - Butterflies








I know this is supposed to be wordless but, I need to give credit to my husband. He took these pictures while he was in Florida.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Tag: Six Unimportant Things About Me

I just got tagged from Lynn. I've never been tagged before so hopefully I do it right, here we go!
Here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
Let your tagger know when you entry is up
  1. I like to watch reality shows, Biggest Loser, John & Kate plus 8, American Idol, Little People Big World are some of my favorites.
  2. I can't stand it when the driveway has any snow on it, I'm always outside cleaning off the driveway. My husband thinks I'm a little obsessed with it, he could be right...
  3. I like to participate in Meme's, especially Wordless Wednesday & Weekend Snapshot
  4. I love to find shop on Ebay, possibly a bit of an obsession.
  5. I'm listening to Alicia Keys "As I Am" cd, so far so good : )
  6. My 2 favorite movies are "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Steel Magnolias"
I am going to tag the 1st 6 or so commenters on my last entry: willthink4wine, sandy carlson, Steve and Emz Journey, Soliloquy, Life Through a Lens, and Liza

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Weekend Snapshot - Beautiful Girl





I was playing with the camera and Kylie was willing to let me take her picture. This was the best one. I just love it!

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Ash Wednesday


So yesterday was Ash Wednesday, Kylie and I attended Mass last night as you can tell by the above picture. Kylie was so proud of her "Father, Son, Holy Spirt" (her cross) that when she accidentally rubbed it off she was devistated. She was getting tired, Mass was at 7 and 8 is generally her bedtime, and she was trying to lay in my arms and she rubbed her head against my sweater. When she did it I told her to be careful because your cross will wipe off. I had no idea how important that cross was to her. She almost started crying about it, so I told her that when Mass was over I would try to get her another one. That seemed to make her happy. So when Mass was over we waited for Deacon to finish talking with the other parishioners and we asked for another one since hers accidentally was wiped off. He was more than happy to oblige, matter of fact the cross he gave her was much larger and darker than her original cross.

This morning Kylie was looking in the mirror and noticed that her cross was starting to wear off. She said "Mommy look at my Father, Son, Holy Spirit its going away." I told that that is what happens. She was really upset about it, so not knowing what else to say I told her she needed to talk to Jesus about it. She said, "No you talk to him". So I told her I would see what I could do about it. That seemed to satisfy her.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Congratulations Greg, We are SO proud of you!!

Today Greg passed his checkride to become Captain on the ERJ 170 airplane. He is officially type rated on the ERJ 170/190 airplane.

Kylie and I love you so much and couldn't be more proud of you. This was one of your personal goals, and now you have achieved it.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Stylin'

Today I asked Kylie if she is going to go to school tomorrow. This the dialoge that resulted from my question:

Kylie: Yes, and I'm going to wear my pink flower headband! (She was so excited, her face just lit up when she said this)
Me: Ok that will look very nice
Kylie: And they (her friends) will say I'm Stylin'
Me (laughing): stylin' huh
Kylie: Yeah, and Mommy that means I'm pretty.

Apparently she feels the need to explain what words mean now. I sometimes feel like she is a sixteen year old in a three year old body.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Monday, December 31, 2007

I Understand Completely...

We were swimming at the YMCA today and I was helping her put on her bubble so we could go swimming. I was telling her how she doesn't have to worry about going under the water (this something she worries about) because the bubble will help her to stay above water and while she is swimming. Before I could finish she looked at me and said "Mommy I understand completely, I completely understand, just don't worry about it" while looking down and shaking her head. It was like can you stop trying to explaining already and just go swimming already????

It just just too funny, but are 3 year olds really supposed to be talking like this?!?

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Happy Birthday Jesus



The above video is from Kylie's preschool Christmas progam. I thought it fitting to post it today, to remember the true meaning of Christmas. The birth of Christ.

Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family, we love you.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Too Much Little Einsteins

For Thanksgiving Kylie and I flew to North Dakota to visit my parents. Daddy couldn't come because he ad to work over the holiday - that kind of stunk since we don't see them that often. While we were taxiing to the runway Kylie said "When we gonna take off?" "Pretty soon, we have to get the the end of the runway" I said. "No, Mommy were just driving on the road."

When Daddy dropped us off he told Kylie to make sure that she waved to him since the airplane flies almost directly over our house. So as we were taking off Kylie yells in her loudest voice BYE BYE DADDY!!! ...It was 7 AM, I'm sure everyone that was trying to sleep was more than impressed with her.

As the airplane left the ground Kylie looks up and says "Activate the lights Mommy and Activate the air! Pat your legs faster!" I really think she has watched waaaay to much Little Einsteins. Then she looks at the clouds we were flying through and says "How are we gonna get through these clouds, this is badiculous (ridiculous)."

She was so proud to be able to sit in the seat with her booster seat. I was so relived that she sat as well as she did, I was a little worried that she wouldn't sit good or that when we got to North Dakota she would think she was too big for the booster seat in the car. But that didn't happen either.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Jesus and God

Kylie and Daddy were talking about who loves who more, this is the conversation:

Kylie: I love you this much (with arms spread as wide as she can)
Daddy: I love you as much as the whole world
Kylie: Well, I love you to Jesus and God

Does it get cuter than this? When Greg told me about this conversation I thought it was so precious.