Life's Little Blessings

So today we started the day off with a Character Breakfast.  Normally this be the one with the Princess' but they weren't available today, so we had a variety of characters.  While we were waiting for our table we took a few candid picture ops.                               Daddy and Eva in a carriage                                Mommy and Eva standing by an old car                              What pretty girls When our table was ready the restruant we were able to get a family picture done and the background was Cinderella's castle.  I...

Happy Birthday Jim and Karen!!! Today is both my wonderful and amazing husband Jim and my sweet and funny sister-in-law Karen's birthday. I hope you both have a wonderful birthday celebrations.

So today is our FIRST family vacation and many people will say that it wasn't because unfortunately we had to leave Maggie behind.  We took Eva to see Mickey and all of the Princess'.  Of course we would have loved it if our Maggie could have come with us, but she is still too short height wise for many of the rides and we thought it wouldn't be fair for her.  So she got to spend 6 full days with just her Grandma Kathy, which she has never gotten do since she was born. Our flight out to Disney was at 6:10 am and we got to our hotel at about 11:30 EST.  We wanted the first flight out there, so that way we could see one of the parks that day.  We had 5-day park hopper passes and including the water parks.                                          Eva's FIRST airplan...

I finally got a job today after 2 years of looking.  I have enjoyed spending the past 2 years with my daughters and watching them grow, but I really want to be helping others as well.  I am going to be a care giver at the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Lombard at Fountian Square.  I am going to start of part-time which is perfect while I am going to school full time, but I have availablity to grow and advance in the company.  I have already gotten my physical done and the first dose of the hep B shot, next is getting the background check done and then I will be able to start my training.  I am so exited that I will be able to help support my family again.  Eva is upset with me working again but I know she will be fine with soon.

Jim and I have been throwing the idea around about going a vacation together at the end of Feb early March, when we got our tax return.  We were thinking between going to Hawaii or Amsterdam.  So the other night Jim was talking to a rep from Apple Vacations and he said that he wanted to go somewhere where there are things to do because sitting on the beach.  The rep was telling him about this place where you can go hand gliding, take a helicopter ride, go to see coffee fields and much much more.  The hotel room she recommend had a ocean view and its own hot tube on the room's balcony. We continued to look at different things that we could do and other hotels.  Trying to make sure that we get the best buck for our money.  Then Jim started to look at going back to Walt Disney World.  We found it to way cheaper.  So have decided that we are going to go to Disney and we are bringing Eva with us.  So it will be our FIRST FAMILY VACATION....

Today Jim and I took the girls to see the new Disney movie "Tangled."  They absoluately loved it and I have to saw it was very cute and funny.  It was their first time ever at the movie theater.  We got them a BIG bucket of popcorn and BIG cup of Sprite.  Maggie was sitting on the edge of her seat watching the movie with one hand the popcorn bucket and eating, she never took her eyes of the screen.

So I saw this idea on a friends blog and thought that this was an excellent idea, so I did one of my own.  My friend made a "2011 To Do List," and her thinking behind putting it on her blog was that way she can be accountable for completing the tasks that she put down.  She can up with 27 different things that she wants to do, and she used the 27 because she turns 27 this year.  I am going to use the number 30 because I am turning 30 this year but I think I ended up with way more.  Some of the things are long term but my goal is get them started or more completed than what they are right now.      2011 To Do List: 1. Working out more regularly and Eating Healthier 2. Finish Eva's and Maggie's Birth to Age 2 scrapbooks 3. Finish my Wedding Scrapbook 4. Read 10 books, not including school books 5. Go on vacation with my hubby 6. Go to the Shedd Aquarium with the girls 7. Go to the Field Museum with the girls 8. Take the girls to see D...