recap of the week

Last Saturday:
Watched Michigan lose to OSU :( So sad, but they haven't been playing all season so why should they start now? I was in my Michigan gear from head to toe and so was Jocelyn, but that didn't help them against OSU...next year is our year!

Last Sunday:
Mike worked so we watched church from home.

Monday:
I worked late and then played Guitar Hero World Tour with my brother...and his girlfriend!

Tuesday:
Had a work banquet in Rootstown, so I was out of the office and eating really good food and watching some great entertainment and ended up getting home super late. When I got home Mike and I played Guitar Hero at my brother's house while my brother and his girlfriend were making pumpkin rolls for Thanksgiving.

Wednesday:
Worked half a day so that I could come home and make sure we had everything finished before Thanksgiving. It was grandma's birthday and I hadn't got her anything so we went to Belden to get a Christmas gift out of the way and a new sweater for Jocelyn and found a little kiosk called Santa's Pen, they personalize ornaments while you wait... so we got grandma one with the names of her 4 great grandkids...the newest one is only a month old!

Thursday:
Thanksgiving! Lots of food! Ate lunch at grandma's then went to Mike's parent's house where one of his brother's was eating...spent a couple hours there...came back to my grandma's and had some leftovers...my favorite part of Thanksgiving is the leftovers! Then went home to bed early to get some rest before Black Friday!!!!

Friday AKA Black Friday!:
I was up at 1AM and went back to bed and got up at 2:30. Mike went with my brother to hit the sales in New Phila, so they took Jocelyn. I got up ate some cereal and went to Belden! Went to Aeropostale and the Disney store and then waited an hour in the cold at GameStop! But the good news is that I only have 2-3 people left to buy for and our Christmas shopping is DONE! I then proceeded to work at 7:30 directly from GameStop and worked until 3PM. I got off a little early because my cousins from Michigan were coming in and had actually just arrived before I got off work. Was up late and ended up sleeping at my grandma's house because I was too tired to walk home with Jocelyn!

Saturday(today):
Got up at 9AM because Mike made me...he said everyone else was up and if I was going to spend time with my family I better get up. We sat around had some breakfast, snacked and talked until we decided to go bowling, but first we needed lunch so grandma made up some burgers and hot dogs and we had lunch before heading off to the bowling alley. I bowled the worst ever, but beat Katie by 16 pins! Adam ended up winning which was a little surprising being he had 140 and Mike bowls on a league, way better than that, but he said he was taking it easy on us! It was a good day, ran to WalMart after that to get Jocelyn's new carseat and renew my Verizon plan, with a new Chocolate 3!!!!! Spent the rest of the afternoon transfering phone numbers and setting my phone up! Came home to put Jocelyn to sleep so Mike could get some rest before work and played some Guitar Hero World Tour...I finished the last level and so now I've unlocked some bonus songs...fun fun! Anyway, now I should get some rest, I didn't realize it was after midnight and tomorrow is another busy day!

a look into my heart

Well...we've been looking at cruises and have decided to go to the Bahamas! So exciting!!!! I was actually praying about the cruise before we even won it. Most of you know that Mike and I never got to take a real honeymoon because I was pregnant when we got married, and that things have been really tight financially. It's been stressful trying to balance our time with each other, and jocelyn and work. We really have needed some time away from her, and just a couple hours just doesn't cut it. Don't get me wrong, we both love Jocelyn to death, but we missed out on the newlywed time without a child.

The first year was really rough and we're barely past that, but so many times, life just seems to get in the way and I have to step back and remind myself of the reason I fell in love with Mike. I have taken it upon myself to tell him that I love him all the time. It's just one of those things that help put the choice of love into perspective, because just like everyone tells you, you can't FALL into love because if you do, that just means that some day you will FALL OUT of love. I've told Mike from the beginning that he was stuck with me, but I guess I needed a little reminding from time to time.

It's time to finally go on our honeymoon. We're thinking sometime around May most likely, that way we have some time to save up some extra cash, and we can really enjoy our time away!

I let myself get lazy with my devotions and I have definitly noticed a huge difference in my mental status when I am not looking to God everyday for wisdom and sanity. He is so good to me and it's good to know that all I have to do is run back to him and his arms are wide open waiting for my return. Sunday's message on greed really got to me, and it's not that I'm one to hoard money all the time, but I know that there are areas of my life that really need help. There is money that has been spent in areas that really could have waited, and it's time to buckle down, get my heart in the right place and start focusing on the important things. Pray for me as I begin to change my focus from things in this world, to treasures in heaven.

May God bless you and keep you!

Motion of the Ocean UPDATE

Married Life Live was a blast as always! It's true, they did give away a cruise, and we, Mike and I, unbelievably, were the winners!!!!!!! I was in shock, we can finally go on our honeymoon that we never really got to take! I'll keep everyone posted on what happens, but let me share some pictures with you all for now:

In the atrium with some of the decorations for the night!

Here we are with our wonderful cruise director of the night, Matt Beres.

And here is a snapshot of the voucher, just for those of you that are saying, "No, you didn't!"j

Since it is a voucher, we can choose the trip or vacation that we want to take and use this for it, so excited to start looking at trips. Well, gotta get going and finish getting ready for church...maybe I'll see you there!

motion in the ocean

That's the title for Married Life Live tonight. Word on the street is that they will be giving away a cruise! Quite interesting if I do say so myself.

Anyway, I'll update you all later tonight after MLL...can't wait to go, ALWAYS a good time there!

the weekend is over?

I had such a stressful week last week that I was really ready for a weekend off. However, with Marcy out, and I helping a lot with the schedule, it wasn't really the weekend that I was hoping for. However, I managed to keep enough staff on that I didn't have to go in this weekend. I was crazy, starting at 11PM Friday night when I recieved a call from a nurse, and then the afternoon shift was crazy on Saturday, but it all worked out with many prayers and many phone calls later. It just doesn't seem like it was a weekend. I couldn't take Monday off because there are too many people off, but I'm taking Tuesday, just because I still have to take off a day, and if I don't have some time to myself I'm probably going to lose my mind. I'm sure some others out there have felt the same way. This coming weekend should be better. I have a crop Friday night and Married Life Live on Saturday! I'm really looking forward to both. Feeling a little guilty for leaving Jocelyn with someone else two nights in a row, but it's time for a little break and some much needed adult time outside of work.
I hope to see some of you at MLL, and maybe some of you at the crop! I'm looking forward to getting a lot of work done on Friday in Jocelyn's scrapbook. I ordered some supplies from scrapsupply.com over the weekend and I'm really looking forward to those arriving, I had a lot of pictures in mind, and some festive fall photo ops that will be coming up for everything I ordered.
Too bad I don't have enough room in the apartment to leave scrapbook supplies out when I work on things at home. One day we will move out of this little apartment and I will have a craft room of my very own so that I don't have to pack up my creativity in the middle of a thought, but for now, I just have to deal with it.
Anyways, back to work tomorrow, and if I can make it through Monday, I get a day off...looking forard to sleeping in with my wonderful husband and daughter on Tuesday morning. It's not often that it happens with Mike working nights, but I'm glad to have those times when I can!