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Oh, Hi! Who am I and why have I taken over some lady named Jenn's blog? Well, who the hell knows. Maybe, just maybe I had a wild hair up my ass today and decided to do something about this thing called a blog that I'm apparently no good at keeping up with lately. My bad. Seriously. I suck. 

No more empty promises of me swearing up and down that I'm going to keep this thing up. I really, really want to though. Every time I say things slow down, they speed back up but I think I've figured out this thing called time management. Who would have ever thought that would be in my vocabulary? Not me! 

Maybe I can finish out this craptastic, but somehow great at the same time year, with like 6 posts. That would be totally awesome of me, I think.  What do you think?

My world? What's going on in my world? The business we started in April is going great! Once we found our rhythm with our normal, day jobs then the business has seriously been great. I couldn't be happier. 

Per the usual, we spent the summer on the lake. But... the difference this year is that we didn't spend it on my in-laws boat. We spent it on our own boat! Best purchase of the year goes to this!

It's a 33' cruiser. Love that we can sleep, cook and entertain on the boat. Not to mention, Josh was pretty awesome and surprised me by naming the boat after me. :) Love him!

What else? Oh, it's Thanksgiving week. Where the hell has this year gone? Can someone please answer that because I'm confused. But...since it's Thanksgiving week that also means it Black Friday week. For the last 3 weeks, I've been stalking the Black Friday websites desperately patiently waiting for the leaked ads. It's bad, ya'll. My mom & I have a bit of an obsession. This year though, oh this year it gets worse. We are actually going out on Thanksgiving Day. What has gotten into us?  I'm going to need energy drinks by 10 a.m. Friday and I'm not even allowed energy drinks because of my heart condition. Maybe I'll borrow my brothers camel back and pump myself a continuous stream of Mountain Dew. That may work!

I'm going to get back to work today but I'll leave you with cuteness overload. This is Josh's cousins little girl, Callie. 

Last month we participated in our first Down Syndrome Association Buddy Walk. Let me tell you, we had the absolute best time! I have never seen so many smiling faces in one place.  I sincerely look forward to many, many more Buddy Walks in our future. It was so very rewarding!

Hope everyone is well and I look forward to seeing ya'll again...soon! 

Hi!

Well, it's definitely been a while since I last wrote. There has been so much going on in my world. From starting a new job to starting a business to ripping floors up on a whim and putting down hardwoods to welcoming my little brother, Matt, home from war.

I have literally been exhausted. At some point 2 weeks ago, I pulled a 20 hour work day while Josh pulled a 24 hour work day, slept 4 hours and then we worked another 8 or so. I have felt like I've had no time for anyone or anything. Finally, things are starting to be ordered chaos where we can still find time to relax and now that I'm finally settled into my job at my father-in-laws business, I find myself with some free time during the day where I can hopefully start catching up with everyone again.

Speaking of my father-in-laws business, I'm the office manager here. I love it. I get to interact with so many different people. The other day, I got to do a walk through of the warehouse with someone. I love doing those. I should probably learn my lesson though, these shoes don't exactly like the walk through the warehouse as much as I do. Next time, a shoe wtih less than a 4" heel will be worn. :)

I'm honestly hoping to get back into the swing of blogging. I have so much that I want to tell ya'll about including doing a post on my brothers homecoming. For now though, I have to get back to work.

I hope everyone has been fabulous! Hope to be back soon! :)



I spent the better part of my life twirling a baton. It has made me the person I am today. 18 years now. For 18 years, I have had a baton(s) in my hand. Whether it be 1, 2, or 3 batons, fire batons or even knives. I've competed individually and as a team. I've been from one part of this country to another and met 1000s of other ladies like myself who had a passion for twirling. I've competed on state, regional, national and international levels and I've had the opportunity to spend the better part of my twirling career on a team that brought home gold at nationals 12 years straight. We were unstoppable. Seriously. 

 

This is, by far,  in my opinion, the best routine that the twirling community has ever seen. It was a tribute to the events that happened on 9/11/01. I haven't seen this routine in years. I sat here with goosebumps and tears in my eyes when I saw this a few minutes ago.  

 

Encore- Team USA 2002

                                

Here's another from the group that I twirled with. We were definitely screwed out of this division win. 

 

I'm sure as we search more on youtube, I'll find more videos to post. :)