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I will be thinking and praying for all those that were and are affected by 9/11. These are truly admirable, noble people. 9/11 was one reason my husband decided to serve in the Marine Corp and I thank God everyday for him and our troops and there incredible desire to serve and willingness to put our freedom in there hands. They are truly amazing.

I think that day will forever be etched into everyone's head...we know exactly where we were, who we were with, what we were doing...and even though we were all over the country....the time seemed to stop and everyone seemed to have the exact emotion of shock and sadness.

I think this quote and the thoughts of 9/11 truly have me thinking. We are just a small part of this world, but there is never a moment that we can not do something extraordinary for someone or something. A chance to be noble and admirable is what we should strive for.

This weekend I am going to strive to make some sort of difference to someone or something (whether big or small) to show my appeciation and love for our country and all those we lost.

XOXO

Reality Check

Back to reality on this rainy Tuesday….Vacation was absolutely amazing and much needed. After such a stressful couple of months at work I was  beyond ready for Vacation.

We left on Saturday during the crazy hurricane and drove the entire way through it…..my husband is crazy :)
The weather was beautiful! We went to the beach everyday and then went out every night. We were about 20 minutes from South Carolina so we hit up Myrtle Beach 3 nights and then the other nights we stayed a little closer to home.

I only have one picture from my phone so that is all I can upload today, but I promise you will see a few more pictures in the days to come.

Coming home is always bitter sweet for me…..I love the beach, sleeping in, going out, getting tan, shopping, shopping, shopping, and not having to think about work---but I always miss my puppy…so much that I cry when I have to leave him (sad! I know)

I am hoping soon we can actually find a house or rental that allows my fur baby because then I would never leave :)

Oh and on a very happy note…I hit my 100 lb loss so on vacation I bought my reward. Brand new Coach purse!!!!

I am in love….now I am ready for the next milestone (hmm what to get?)

FYI: this picture does not do the purse justice

XOXO

Friday Favorites

T.G.I.F

This week has been incredibly long and today will be a another crazy work day--trying to get everything finished before I leave for VACATION! it will be simply blissful to have a week off without work!!! My workload just keeps increasing so this will be amazing :)

Here is my quote for the day! I have this quote hanging in my office and I absolutely live by it.

Have a great week everyone!!!

XOXO

Shakedown

So we had a little earthquake yesterday and it was just a little scary. I was working and my entire desk started to shake and some of my cute little pictures fell from my shelves. I am pretty sure if that never happens again…I will be just fine…. (California, you got that…we are just amateurs on the East coast). I think our entire office jumped out of our chairs and gathered together to talk about what we were doing at the exact moment when it happened (kind of similar to that car accident skit by Dane Cook)

Apparently we did not follow proper protocol and were sent an e-mail about what we should do in the case of an earthquake (ummm this hasn’t happened since the 90’s here so chatting about it seemed pretty logical at the time…opps!)

So after this quake occurred…the phone lines went crazy and my facebook notifications and work e-mail were off the hook with updates and new e-mails. Anyways, my brother sent me this e-mail today as a reminder of the events of yesterday.

Too funny!

Well besides the events of yesterday…the weather is absolutely beautiful and I would much rather be outside right now :(

Hopefully the hurricane stays in the ocean (fingers crossed) we leave for vaca in 3 days!!!!!!

Manic Monday!

Such a manic Monday…not even joking. It is waaaay too hard to go back to work after the weekend and this particular Monday is just crazy.

I mean if I have to go back to work…it would be nice if there was like ice coffee (grande -sugar free vanilla- regular coffee- with extra ice) waiting for me at my desk or something :) Wow I guess I need to stop dreaming…this girl works by herself…no assistant yet ever!….I guess that would def. explain all the paperwork on my desk.

So the weekend was very low key for us. We went to dinner with my family on Friday night, did some grocery shopping, took Bentley for a couple long walks, went to the dog park twice, played board games, cleaned the apartment, and had some much needed QT with my husband…it was a perfect weekend.

Just one picture from this weekend….this was after our long walk on Sunday morning with Bentley. It looks like he is smiling from ear to ear -adorable-

Thank God for beautiful days with my beautiful family!!!

XOXO

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Isn't this so true....I mean as a child we dream of our future and all the things we think should make a "happily ever after", but somewhere in the middle of growing up, love, and heart break we realize the most important thing in life is being happy for ourselves and after that our very own "happily ever after" comes into play in the strangest of strange ways. We find our soul mate, we succeed in our jobs, we travel the world, we have a family, we help those in need...and all because we let our own version of "the perfect ending" play out for us...not someone elses cliche fairy tale.

XOXO

She's on Fire

The concert was a-mazing….Train and Maroon 5 were both great.

Loved being with my cuties….we danced, partied, screamed, sang…it was crazy!

After the concert we decided to do a little haunted car ride and went to gravity hill. Gravity hill is a hill in PA where you start at the bottom and it pulls you up the hill with the car in neutral…it is really creepy (apparently there is science behind this, but to me it is beyond creepy).

Soooo, there is this whole story that an accident with a bus load of football players happened there and every single player died. Apparently the ghosts of the football players are trying to push your car away from the accident scene….crazy stuff because it worked...our car went completely up the hill backwards in neutral!!

They loved it! I haven’t been there since high school so it was fun to go back.

Anyways here are some pictures from the concert!!!! We had a crazy amazing time!

Husband and I

Maria and I

Haley and Maria

Girls <3

Singing/Screamo :)

XOXO!!!