My Family

This my family, my beautiful family. There is no other family I would rather belong to and no other family I would rather call mine. This is my family that I am so thankful to have.

My parents have a love that is like no other and I can only hope to know the same love someday.

My sisters are beautiful and no matter what happens, they will always be my sisters and I hope that they know I love them dearly.

My nieces are two of the most amazing girls that I know. They are both so smart and so beautiful and have the world their hands. I love those girls more then they know.

No matter what challenges we may be facing, I love my family.

The Mr.

For obvious reasons, the first person that I am most thankful for in my life is my handsome boyfriend. In the short 2 years that we have known each other, he has done so much for me. I can not even begin to tell you what all he has done or even how much it means to me because there are not enough words that will amount up to it.

He loves me when I don't think I deserve to be loved, he makes me laugh, even when I don't want to laugh, he is always there to lend a helpful hand or to give helpful advice. He loves and enjoys my family and most importantly loves to spend time with them.

There isn't anyone else I would rather spend my time or hopefully the rest of my life with because he gets me, he understands everything about me and yet still loves me.

I am so thankful for my Mr.

Tis' the season...

I'm not talking about Christmas here, I'm talking about the season to be thankful. Where the little things matter most because pretty soon I'll be surrounding myself with family and friends for the Holidays, and all those little things seem to stick out a lot more during this time of the year.

With that, my goal from now until Thanksgiving is to post once a day with something that I thankful for. Hopefully by doing this, I will be able to remind myself everyday of why I am blessed.

Stay tuned for future thankfulness and goodness!

Life Today....

I hate that feeling you have when you know you're about to get sick but your body is just taking it's sweet time. Over the last week I've been really tired, waking up with a sore throat, a constant headache and just feeling really blah all together. I just wish if I was going to get sick, it would just happen. I really wish I could just crawl back into bed and sleep it off.

With this new blog, I've been obsessed with finding or even creating an amazing blog layout. I found one that I really really liked but I wasn't going to pay $25 bucks for something so simple and easy to make so last night I ended up making one that looks like it and I LOVE IT! Maybe that's why I'm getting sick? I've been staying up to the wee hours of the night working on this stuff, but it's so easy to get wrapped up in it, playing with the fonts, colors and background!

Fall weather has finally arrived and I couldn't be more excited! Fall is seriously my favorite time of the year, I love everything about it. It makes me feel warm and cozy! I feel like I could sit here with a book, sipping on a cup of hot tea, a Pumpkin Spice Latte or even a Salted Caramel Mocha (my fall options are endless) and just soak up the cozy feeling. If I were to do that, I'm sure I would eventually fall asleep and waste my day, but nothing is more relaxing then that!

I've been working at Starbucks since May and at first I wasn't too sure about the store I was at, it was a really rocky start. Over the past two months I've really started to feel like I have finally found my place in the store, I truly love the people and the customers I work with everyday. I recently met with our District Manager and at first I wasn't too sure I liked how the conversation went but after recapping and reflecting, I realized he was challenging me to be a better Shift Supervisor and a better partner. He reminded that I was a huge part of the store and challenged me to hold myself and other accountable for their actions. It couldn't have been a better conversation and I needed to hear everything he had to say. Since then, I've been able to meet with my Store Manager and express my feelings about the store and my role there. It really has been a great experience and I'm excited for what is to come! It's always a good feeling when you enjoy what you are doing and can take pride in it.

With the death of Steve Jobs (which The Mr. & I are extremely sad about) I've been reading many of his quotes and some of them are so touching and moving. My favorite quote so far related to me so much and how I've been feeling about work lately.

Decorating for Halloween!

Fall is my favorite time of year and I love to decorate for it! Ever since I was little, we would always decorate for Halloween and we would go all out! It was something we did as a family and a lot of the decorations we had for years. I'm sure my mom still has some of those decorations. I asked The Mr. last night if he would get the Halloween box down for me and while he was at work today, Halloween/Fall exploded all over the house. I'm planning on going to Walmart and the Dollar Store over the next couple of days to buy a few more things and then I'll be all set! Happy Fall!

Sign hanging from the wall

Banner hanging from our sliding glass door

Can't forget about my Fright Night Scentsy Wamer

Second Scentsy Warmer

Front door with homemade wreath

Right after I put the decorations up

Front window at dusk

Front window at night!

I went outside and took a picture of the front window a few times during the day, I could not wait to see it all lit up!

Duplex Pictures for Ivonne!

Please note that this was a post from my previous blog and just transferred it over. I know it is past July and we are already living in the duplex! :-)


The Mr. and I stopped by the duplex this evening and we were able to get some pictures! I'm sure the workers are so tired of seeing us but they are always so nice and always let us walk around and view the progress. They did confirm that it would be done the first part of July! I'm so so excited! Enjoy the pictures!

The front of duplex

Garage

View from doorway

Dining Room

Kitchen 

Living room view from dining room

Master bedroom closet

Master bedroom bathroom

Master bathroom shower

Master bathroom bath

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 2 closet

Guest bathroom

View from far side of the complex

Backyard (fencing is not finished)

Side of the duplex/entry to the complex

I'm so in love with it! I hope we get amazing next door neighbors!

New Blog

I love everything about blogging; reading them, commenting on them and of course writing them. I loved my old blog and I knew people read it, even those who I didn't want to read it. Overtime, it turned out that the majority of my readers or "reader" was someone who wanted nothing to do with me but would frequent my blog just to find out what was going on in my world. I'm not normally a really private person and I'm not sure why it bothered me so much, but the reader said a lot of hurtful things about me, so it really bothered me that they continued to come back and read up on me. Eventually I got really turned off from it and stopped blogging. A lot has happened over the past couple of months and I haven't blogged or posted pictures of it because I didn't feel like it was "my blog" or "my area" anymore. So with all of that, I just decided to start a new blog. It's going to be plain and simple, something that I'll be able to share my thoughts, stories, pictures and dreams on.

So, if you followed my other blog, please visit me here as I won't be posting there anymore. I don't think I'll be deleting it, I would like to keep some of the posts, but I do not want to move them over to keep me from being found by unwelcome readers.

Here's to a new blog filled with dabs about me!