Guest posting & Happy New Years!

Hey there! Well we are home from the lake and we have a very tired dog. She loves the lake in any state - frozen, freezing, water, sunshine,...

Christmas overload!

Hello! It feels like I haven't posted in for-ever!Christmas comes and goes far too quickly though don't you think?Well we had a incr...

Happy Christmas Eve DAY!

Happy Friday and Christmas Eve day!I won't be posting for the next couple of day so I hope each and everyone of you has a fabulous time ...

Happy the day before Christmas eve day!

Hello! I hope everyone is ready for Christmas. I cannot believe tomorrow is Christmas eve! Holy smokes. Today's post is going to be supe...

Superstar, I mean my brother & Top 2

Before bed last night I checked my email and Jeff sent us these 2 pictures and I love them to bits.They made me miss him ten thousand times ...

The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.

Hello lovelies!Well we had a great weekend!Relaxing and also full of fun. Saturday we went and saw Nana in the hospital before her reconstru...

Christmas Bug

Yes - the Christmas bug hit our blog! This is what happens when Justin can't sleep past 7:30am on a Saturday morning and I can!I woke up...

On holidays!

Today is my last day of work until January 4th!I love my job but... I am very excited for this break. I don't have much planned for this...

Happy Tears

Ok so here is my story I mentioned yesterday that produced the happy tears.I love happy tear by the way. So at school we have this sweet lit...

What I'm loving today!

Oh my goodness this morning has been nothing shy of totally and ultimately crazy.After all the craziness subsided I proceeded to go the kitc...

Top 2: Games!

Today for Taylor's Top 2 Tuesday it is: Favorite games (board games, video games etc): I did a post on this for Favorite Fridays a while...

Monday!

Happy Monday everyone!I hope you are all having a good start to your Monday! First off, I hope you all noticed the work Justin put into our ...

Fun Fridays!

This weekend we have a lot going on but I am looking forward to every minute of it. Today at work we did a Cookie exchange! I agreed to this...

List of 4's!

Kristin tagged me in this "List of Fours" game! Kristin is a super sweet blogger who loves her Frappy like we love our Cruzie! If ...

:::Little bit of love for the brother:::

Well Thursday is upon us. Today I just want to send a little note out to my brother. I miss him and he needs some good wishes sent his way.S...

Lovin' Las Vegas

Well as I said yesterday, we had a great holiday. It was nice to getaway together and enjoy a bit warmer weather too! I arrived in Vegas on ...

Top 2 Tuesday!

Hello! We are back! And we had an incredible little vacation.We enjoyed shows, amazing meals, lots of shopping, many laugh and just enjoyed ...

Day 14 - Oprah's Favorite Item!

Day 14: Oprah's Favorite Things: What item(s) would you want if you were in the audience? That would be a very nice surprise to be in th...

Day 13 - Cookie Recipe

Day 13: Favorite Cookie Recipe For me when I think of Christmas treats I think of Gran/Mom's Shortbread Cookies.Yum. They are harder coo...

Day 12 - Decorations!

Day 12: Show us your decorations (indoor/outdoor) I LOVE our house at Christmas. It is my favorite. So here is the Black household in pictur...

Day 11 - New Years Resolution

Day 11: New Year Resolutions I have never really MADE a New Years Resolution list, I set goals throughout the year but not specifically for ...

Day 10 - Favorite Christmas Songs/Caroles

Day 10: Favorite Christmas Songs/Caroles Growing up one of our favorites was "Six White Boomers" and whenever I hear "Here co...

Day 9 - Holiday Recipe! & What I'm Loving!

Day 9: Favorite Holiday recipe. My all-time favorite baking belongs to family members. They do it best! Gran Christmas Cake. Nana's sand...

Sin City stole my husband.

Is it Wednesday at 6:30pm yet? Justin left yesterday morning for here: He is attending a computer nerds conference  I mean a work conference...

Day 8

Day 8: Least favorite thing about the Holidays There isn't much I don't like about the Holidays. "Holiday" is a great word...

House Guests

A week in pictures.I didn't take as many as I should have I know, but it was a busy week!So here are a few of my favs: Dal cute as Tigge...

Day 5 - Day 6 - Day 7 - WOW!

Day 5: Favorite Holiday Movie/TV Show Special Hands Down: Elf Elf is a movie about innocence, goodness, and Christmas cheer. Some of the gre...

Day 4

Day 4: Tips/Tricks to a Budget Friendly holiday season 1) Make a list. (I love lists and re-do them like 6 times)2) Stick to the list.3) Onl...

What I'm loving!

Well - Yesterday I didn't get to "What I'm Loving Wednesday" and since there is no blog challenge today because of Thanksg...

Day 3 - Gifts

Day 3: Most meaningful gift/best gift you've received.I love all Christmas gifts because I know people put a lot of thought into them an...

Day 2 & Lily

Day 2: Black Friday/General Shopping Tips & Tricks Well....Us CANADIANS don't have Black Friday. Pout. Nor have I ever experienced B...

Day 1: Blogger Challenge

Day 1: Christmas/Holiday traditions One of my favorite traditions is that we sleepover at whoever's house that is hosting Christmas on C...

A letter from Cruz...

Dear Uncle Jeff, It's your favorite niece Cruz here, I have good news! I am coming to visit permenantly! Yes, Mom said yesterday she was...

Lily Bear

Tonight Lily is coming to stay with us for 3 sleeps and 4 days. :) {for my new lovely readers: Lily is our buddy, she is 10, has autism, I m...

So What & What I am loving!

Linking up with Mama Dew for the first time today, her "So What Wednesdays" have me seriously laughing out loud! Love them. SO WHA...

Top 2 and About us....

Today's top 2 over at Taylor's blog is Top 2 Favorite Jobs you've had: {1} Gymnastics Coach. I loved this. I was a competitive g...

Saturday Surprise & Emerson

We had a great day on Saturday.We got up early and moved all our big Tupperware and boxes from the basement and into the storage space above...

Finally Friday...

I don't know why, but this has been a very loooong week with a capital L. You'd think with having Thursday off it would have broken ...

Happy Remembrance Day...

Crosses on Memorial Drive here in Calgary.

What I'm loving!

{1} I'm loving that Nana is home from the hospital. :) And I'm loving all the support my Mom and Dad have been to her this past mont...

Top 2 Tuesday

Over at Taylor's blog the topic is: Top 2 things your thankful for... {1} This came at the right time because today I am SO so So thankf...

Monday, monday...

Well I am in better spirits than my post on Friday, so thanks to everyone for thier sweet emails and comments. MUCH appreciated. I also had ...

Pout

What a busy busy day. I am super-de-duper glad it is Friday. And I am now at home and sweaty from a run with Cruz. It's 20 degrees Celsi...

Thoughtless Thursday & Questions

Linking up for Thoughtless Thursday with Katie today who is 1 week away from meeting her little man Caleb! :)Last night I was looking throug...

:::::What I am loving:::::

{1} I'm loving that Cruz and I are going for a run tonight with my blog friend Leigh and meeting her in real life! Eek I can hardly wait...

Top 2 & More family photos from Whit!

Over at Taylor's blog the topic today is:Top 2 Favorite gifts you have received... Tough one. (1) I'm going with my Education. My Mo...

Halloween at the Black's!

Around our house on Halloween Day... I could not find candy corn ANYWHERE to make the wreath like Leigh's, so I decorated 3 pumpkins ins...

Fun Fridays: Halloween

This weekend I am excited about Halloween!Our friends Dustin and Whitney are having a party again this year and since they moved way way way...

100-Calorie Halloween

Halloween crept up on me this year and I have yet to buy our candy or pumpkins! Who is this girl and where is Alison?...I normally do this w...

Thoughtless Thursday

Linking up with Katie's Thoughtless Thursday. Thought I would share some recent pics of my cousin Logan and her kiddies. Why? Because th...

What I'm loving Wednesday

I'm loving these summer pictures that Whitney just sent me. We had SO much fun this weekend and it just takes me back...Look at that sky...

Top 2 tuesday!

Today's Top 2 is: Halloween or Fall crafts/decor/party ideas!I love Halloween. I could buy and buy and buy Halloween decorations but I h...

Wonderful Weekend

As I mentioned on Friday, Saturday morning we went out with one of our best friends Whitney who just happens to be very talented behind her ...

Fun Friday

Morning!!! I am very excited to share 2 things for Fun Friday today! {1} Our school WON one of the $25,000 Imagination Playgrounds from Kabo...

Thoughtless Thursday

{1} We went over to our friend's Blake & Karen's on Saturday night for an impromptu dinner & games night. One of their dogs ...

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

Today for the first time I am linking up with This kind of love for What I'm Loving Wednesday! I'm loving that my brother made the M...

Top 2 Tuesday

This weeks Top 2 Tuesday is: Old Pictures! I love this one because I LOVE pictures. They are ALL over my house and struggle to find room for...

The Justin

I got thinking...this blog really wouldn't be here is it wasn't for Justin. He started it up after we had a wedding blog to keep our...

Fun Friday

First of all we received the BEST news from Nana's surgeon yesterday. The cancer had shrunk drastically as they had hoped with the chemo...

Thoughtless Thursday: Thanksgiving at the lake

Amazing. The weather was beautiful. "Dad can you please find my ball. It sunk." This was at 7:30am when Cruz needed out. Justin go...

M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i!

And I can spell it backwards for some strange reason.ippississimAnyways that is where my brother is right now.Mississippi Surge.He'll kn...

KaBoom!

Our school is nearing the end of a very important contest!This summer, KaBoom! teamed with Parents magazine to give local playgrounds a chan...

Fun Fridays: Ryan

For Fun Fridays I am going to chat about a little man. While Jeff was at college in Geneseo he made a lot of new friends, played a lot of ho...

Brother :(

Dear Alaska Aces. It was not nice of you to make me cry at work today when I got Jeff's email. (I couldn't help it!!!) I didn't...

Thoughtless Thursday: Engagement Photos

 Linking up with the wonderful Katie for Thoughtless Thursday today:  Today I decided I would share some of our Engagement Shoot photos. We ...

Alaska

As I have said before my brother Jeff is in Alaska right now trying out for the above hockey team.They told Jeff they would put him up in a ...

8 Questions!

Jen over at A Girl in Pearls & A Boy with Toys tagged me in a little 8 Question game so here goes! Thanks Jen.Rules are I answer her 8 q...

Miscellany Monday

{one} I love fall. Especially when we have beautiful days like this past Saturday and this afternoon. Perfection.Although it was rainy this...

Fun Friday: E & C Shower!

I had been looking forward to throwing Crystal's baby shower for months, approx 10! :)Thankfully I am one prepared girl because this thu...

A thoughtless Thursday: The talent Mrs. Whitney

 Linking up to the fabulous Mrs. Fulmer's blog today! Our great friend Whitney is super talented with her camera. Last September we went...

Garage Update!

The garage is now a garage. All 4 walls and a roof are done.A HUGE thank you to Justin who worked endlessly on this task.The roof was comple...

My new accessory!

Accessorizing is the key to a great outfit. Now all you ladies out there don't be too jealous of this new beauty. I can hear the oohhhs ...

An Anniversary and a Bon Voyage!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD. This is what 30 years looks like!  30 years ago today. Some oldies because I love oldies.  And couple newbies...

Jillian, 5 days too late!

So we all know I have been waiting for-evvvvver for my Jillian Micheals DVD to arrive.....Well it did.On my birthday. Super duper. {insert e...

Pout fest

this girl here, yeah the one with one good arm...yeah, she is frustrated! today has been a rough day. i'm tired, very sore and did i men...

A thoughtless Thursday picture post!

It's my birthday! I am this many: Now on to a post of random pictures I have found that make me smile so I hope they brighten your day t...

Thumb Conundrum!

Alright so Saturday started out to be a great day. Mom and I spent most of the day with my little Emerson and Crystal while the boys froze t...

Cruz's Baby Book

Good morning lovelies. Thanks for all your well wishes. Surgery went well on Sunday, working on a post to update you. So that should be up s...

Frustrated...

Did you know that you could cut your thumb so badly that you would require surgery WITH a plastic surgeon to repair your severed tendons AND...

Birthday Mom and LOL rocks!

First and foremost....Happy Birthday to my fabulous Mom! I have said it before and I will say it again, she is the perfect example of what a...

A little brag session is all I got.

I thought it was about time for a little post just to brag about how super duper our girlie Cruz is.Lately it seems like our 16 month old pu...

Wanna play Dad? AND Workout and Wellness Wednesday Kettlebell Edition

Cruz loves to play. As soon as Justin walks in the door from work, she automatically runs to her toy basket and brings him something to thro...

Top 2 Tuesdays!

Over at Taylor's blog the top 2 Tuesday's topic is:Top 2 things you want to accomplish before the end of the year. 1. I want to be b...

Miscellany Monday

Happy Monday. And by happy I mean tired, sore and raining. Yes I am sleepy and it's raining, that doesn't help. I just finished week...

Request for wedding hair photographs

A friend of Justin's at work Kevin is getting married soon and his bride-to-be Courtney has requested pictures of my wedding day hair. I...

Last 'sorta' summer lake weekend...

 We had a super weekend at the lake for September long weekend. I can't believe September long weekend has come and gone. Where did the ...

Workout and Wellness Wednesday: Slacker Edition

I am feeling like a pretty awful blogger lately. But it has been a crazy first week back at work and I am slowly getting back into the swing...

Fav Fridays

This week's Favorite Friday topic is:Piece of Jewelry You Own! This would be easy if I could have 2 favorite! Clearly I am brutal at jus...

Workout and Wellness Wednesday

  This Workout and Wellness Wednesday is all about wellness.And by that, today I mean making your heart smile.These pictures make me happy.M...

Friendly workout competition & Turbo Fire

So last night as planned I started Turbo Fire. It was...interesting.Lucky for Justin he was downstairs working out too while I tried this an...

Emerson meets US!

 The Dick Family On Friday night Justin, Cruz and I packed the car with dinner and welcome home gifts and headed over to meet Emerson. I was...

Favorite Fridays

This week's Favorite Friday topic over at Jen's blog is:Summer Moment! This is a very tough one. I have had an ah-mazing summer.So I...

Thoughtless Thursdays - EXCITEMENT!

 Most importantly - Did you see my last post.... I'm an Aunt. I can hardly contain my excitement before I get to speed my car as fast as...

Auntie Alison is on cloud nine!

I AM AN AUNTIE!!!!!  It's a GIRL!! Emerson Elaina Harley DickAugust 25th, 2010 8:22pm 6lbs 14 oz Mom and Baby are great! I danced aroun...

Ants in my pants I'm gonna be an AUNT!

I cannot sit still. This morning at 11:09am my SIL Crystal sent me a text that sent me into a tizzy. It read: "I'm in labor :) and ...

Workout and Wellness Wednesdays

 I love me some peanut butter! Unfortunately since I work in a school taking it for lunch is a no-no. Pout. So I love a simple PB & J or...

Have I mentioned?

Miscellany Monday

(one) We are almost done the garage pad to the stage that the cement guys can come pour the pad. This makes this girl very happy! Justin and...

Favorite Fridays! Chick Lit!

This week's Favorite Friday topic is:Book (Genre: Chick lit!)What's your favorite girly book / quick ready? I love a quite funny, gi...

Workout and Wellness Wednesday: Food for thought for dogs!

 This girl is confused. I was so excited to post this for my Workout and Wellness Wednesday and there you have it.  Yesterday was Wednesday....

Alaska will be chanting his name in no time...

We found out last night that my brother has been offered a hockey try-out in Anchorage, Alaska!Whoop whoop!He is super excited and we are ov...

Turbo Fire it up!

I am a planner. I can't help it. I always have to have a plan. A list. To know what's to come. Just how I am. On Friday I lost my gr...

Favorite Fridays

This week's Favorite Friday topic is:Way to De-Stress! This was a tough one for me because I don't do a certain thing to de-stress n...

Thoughtless Thursdays & Great news

For the best news of the day! Nana met with her Chemo doctor yesterday and he has take her off chemo completely! Whoo hoo! He says that her ...

Workout & Wellness Wednesday

I can't believe it's already: This is my last week off before I conquer 2 camps at the zoo with 2 of my fav kiddies and then back to...

10 days at the lake in rewind...

As always we had a great time at the lake. Rewind to July 31st.Regatta Parade.Nana, Justin & Cruz. Spectators. Cruz lovin' the carpe...

Fat free, calorie free is the way I roll....

  Well I have yet to get organized and upload our holiday pics so I decided to share with you some delicious recipes from the weekend. And b...

Happy Friday! It made my afternoon just now when I realized I won Taylor's giveaway from Modern Bird Studios!Check these out! "Mode...

Thoughtless Thursday!

We are having a fabulous week at the lake. Weather is great. Company is perfect. View is undescribable. We just got back from wake surfing, ...

Workout & Wellness Wednesday (WWW)

Hey everyone. To start off WWW I just have to say that I am SO excited that I ordered this:  before we left for the lake and and I am hoping...

Annie Afalin

Here are some pictures of my 4 days with Logan and her kids. I love them to pieces.  Logan is Super-Mom, she's got a cape hidden under h...

Rippers

Happy Birthday to our sweet Ripken.She is 15 years old today.She is the sweetest dog I know. We picked her up at a farm. Mom was a chocolate...

Favorite Fridays!

  Well I am home! It is nice to be back but I already miss being 'Annie Afalin', hanging out with my cousin, playing with the girls ...

Busy 2 days and Workout and Wellness Wednesday

Baby baby baby... That's right! I just can't get enough of little Dal and the 2 girls. Mayela was up at midnight awaiting my 9am arr...

Camp fire scent is my new perfume!

We had a fantastic weekend camping. We had perfect weather and tons of fun.We had a little trouble finding a site but eventually ended up at...

Fav Fridays! Soy what?!

This week's Favorite Friday topic is: You Fav Healthy Snack!  So hard to choose but I will have to say EDAMAME (soy beans). Yum! I l...

Thoughtless (and random) Thursday

Today was one. of. the. longest. days. ever. Wow. It was a toughy but it's done, I did it but I am spent. We have 1 more day to go. I...

Workout & Wellness Wednesday

Justin and I caught a few minutes of some new show where you have the answer questions and put up prized possessions on a conveyor belt, I d...

Top 2 Tuesday and the Zoo

This week over at Taylor's blog The Undomestic Momma her is:Top 2 things you want to purchase: 1) Our forever house Don't get me wro...

I heart my family

One year ago today Cruz came to her forever home. She went from this:  To this and we couldn't love her more! As promised - here are som...

Fav Friday, the Rodeo & a BABY!

Happy fabulous Friday! This is the first time I have participated in Favorite Fridays over at Jen's blog A Girl in Pearls & A Boy wi...

Vacay Part Deux

 July 7This morning Justin fixed his shifter cable and then we headed to Mount Washington for Justin to ride again. Once we arrived, Justin ...

Vacay Part Uno

July 1 - Canada Day!Left home and drove to Golden where we met our group for our white water rafting trip on the Kicking Horse River. They p...

8 things

So I have started working on our vacation post but it is taking far too long and when I saw this on Ally's blog I thought it looked fun....

Home again home again jiggidy-jig!

Hello everyone!Hey everyone! Yes we are back!We had an ah-mazing trip. Every day was just great and we had so much fun together. I will get ...

Count down to Road Trip Adventures!

I am too excited for words. Today is my last day of work before summer holidays. The life of a teacher cannot be beat! AND Justin and I leav...

10,000 what?!?

The ah-mazing Lindsey over at Total Lindsanity has inspired me yet again. When I first read her post on the 10,000 Swing Challenge I thought...

Cutie pies and a steep climb!

 Last week my cousins oldest daughter Mayela graduated from preschool! She sent me these pictures and they were too cute not to post! I love...

1 YEAR!

Happy Anniversary to us!The day I become yours, 365 days ago, was THE best! This year has flown by for us. On one hand, I can't believe ...

Kananaskis here we come!

I'm so exxciiiiited! Justin and I are heading off after work to the Kananaskis Lodge for our anniversary weekend.Our 1 YEAR is on Sunday...

Weally good Movher

Happy Thursday everyone! I have nothing exciting to say or share today other than I cannot wait for it to be Friday at around 4:30pm.How abo...

We saw a BEAR!

Just kidding. We didn't but it got your attention right!We went on a hike though!That's right myself, 3 students and my co-teacher h...

Sugar Doll AWARD!

Yes - you read that correctly. ME Alison received a blogger award from the uber sweet Katie over at This is Katie. I could hardly believe my...

Wedding and a PERFECT day at the lake.

Happy Monday! We had an incredible weekend. Saturday morning was beautiful at the lake. Sun was shining, birds were chirping and the lake wa...

Happy Father's Day Pops!

Happy Father's Day to the greatest Dad EVER! He's the coach, the Mr.-Fix-It, the man who always has to be doing something. He's ...

Happiness 8:00am-3:30pm......

What a difference a year makes! Last year at this time I was down right grumpy at work. Counting down the days until I was off before the we...

For Justin

 Megan Fox is on Justin's celebrity crush list.I thought she was good in Transformers and think it's sad she has been replaced becau...

Thoughtless Thursday: Gramma's Spa Services

Cruz is a spoiled girl. 2 days a week I drive her up to my Mom and Dad's and she spend most of the day with Gramma. My Mom really should...

Autism

My mom photocopied me an article from our local paper last Thursday about a new study done on autism. I am always interested on anything the...

My new workout!

I always love a new workout. When it comes to working out I have to change it up everyday or I get bored. Lately though I have been addicted...

Summer wine deliciousness & SUN!

Yes that's right - we had SUN! ALL weekend! It was heaven. We definitely took advantage of it. Some of my inside jobs did not get done b...

I see sun!

I am so thankful it's Friday. It has been a long, busy week and the weather did not help any! The sun is out right now and the sky is bl...

Thoughtless Thursday!

Thoughtless Thursday time! My blogger friend Katie who started Thoughtless Thursday posted the cutest video of her yellow lab Koda doing the...

It's your Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Mother-in-law Debbie! We love you and hope you have a fabulous day and even better year!

Wishful Wednesday!

Since I am totally new at this 'blog world' thing I decided I would play along with my blogger friend Kelsey's Every Wednesday s...

Brotherly love and a family tattoo!

For a couple years my brother and I had talked about getting a tattoo together. Then around this time last year we finally decided on one th...

Sunshine = Smiles!

This weekend was a blast. I love being at the lake so that always helps anyways but we had a fabulous day Saturday. The guys left around 1 f...

DIY Earring Holder

Well it's a beautiful day at the lake, a little windy but I am not complaining! So....as of yesterday all my earrings used to hang in a ...

Finally Friday :)

Happy Friday everyone. Yeah! We are heading out to the lake after work. Cruz got a head start as I dropped her off at my Mom and Dad's o...

Thoughtless Thursday...

This post is going to be a little of this and a little of that.  Mom forwarded me some of Jeffers grad pics so I thought I better share, mos...

Dinosaurs at a wedding...

Another thing I loved at our wedding! We asked Jeff (my brother) and Crystal (Justin's sister) do a reading at the ceremony. Luckily the...

Our Wedding - 339 days ago!

There is nothing on our blog about our wedding so I thought since our 1 year Anniversary is coming up at the end of the month I would do a p...

Cruz's birthday and a sick snowy day!

Well the day started at 5:15am when the alarm went off because Justin and Jeff headed out to Jasper for Steve's Stag. I was so thankful ...

Happy Birthday Cruz!

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole". ~Roger Caras Already in love!  don't know how it happened but ou...

Wowzas!

Justin and I watched the Biggest Loser finale last night and every time it amazes me. I was rooting for Michael so I am glad he took the top...

Sunshine-y Day!

Since we didn't have much sun this long weekend I was more than happy to enjoy it today. This afternoon I took my guys golfing for our l...

TGIF and a long weekend!

Today I am looking forward to this guy: Going here with the fam: Seeing this (all weekend please!): Doing some of this: Maybe seeing some of...

A lover-ly weekend!

I feel like we have been spoiled with good weekends lately! So lucky! This weekend I did a lot of thinking of my brother - how grown up and ...

2 of the best!

This post is dedicated to 2 of the most important guys in my life. My husband and my brother. Today is Justin's 29th birthday and I am s...

Sleepy Thursday!

This is an old picture that Justin snapped on his cell of Cruzie and I snuggling/napping on the floor (looks like she opened her eyes just a...

Another weekend bites the dust!

We had another great weekend fly by.Friday night Justin played video games with 2 friends at our place (& looked after the dogs; Mom ...

Shout out to the Mothers!

Happy Mother's Day weekend Mom and Debbie! I am a lucky girl this year as I have 2 special ladies to recognize. My Mom. It is hard to pu...

A weekend in review...

Happy Monday! This weekend came and went entirely too quickly but it was filled with Cruz time, family, friends, a shopping trip and great w...

Happy Friday!

Countdowns...

16 days until my wonderful hubby's birthday! 22 days until my BROTHER comes home! 23 days until May Long Weekend at the LAKE! 31 days un...

My Mom and Dad ROCK!

This past weekend was a good, yet busy weekend. Saturday morning we did our ritual Starbucks run (Justin always has 1 of 2 things and all I ...

Typical Jeff

I swiped this picture off Jolie's facebook (hope you don't mind!) and I just had to post it. This picture is just SO typical Jeff. I...

Our Cruzie

We just love her to pieces! She makes us so happy and keeps us laughing all the time. She is such a good little girl and we just feel so luc...

INSANITY - yes it is...

While Justin and I were stuck in Hamilton for 24 hours we watched the infomercial for a program called INSANITY. It is from the same company...

About me!

So, I saw this on a couple of blogs and thought it would be fun. My lunch hour flew by while doing it so it was time well spent! I Am - comp...

I love my husband...

Left for work and saw this... Sick of the snow, love the man. xo

Quote of the day

I have one guy in my class that LOVES shoes. Not his own shoes though, mostly mine. Every day I can count on him commenting on my shoes. Yes...

Brother!

I'm jealous! This past weekend Jeff and Jolie were in New York City and at Jolie's home in Orange County, NY. They saw a New York Ra...

Pink!

Justin's Mom bought me these beautiful pink roses yesterday "for all you do"! So thoughtful! I just love having fresh flowers ...

Time with the boys!

Justin and I love hanging out Colton and Keenan and it gives their Mom and Dad a much needed night out! This week Carolin and Kevin checked ...

Spring Break (for Alison, not Justin)! Did I mention Justin had to work...! :)

"The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. if you have these...

Cruz goes Mountain Biking!

Justin has been lucky with the weather the last couple of weeks and has been able to get out to the mountains to go biking. This week none o...

Our last trip to Geneseo!

We had a great 4 days in Geneseo. I can't believe Jeff graduates in May! We will miss the Dr. Seuss tree... Jeff's team had 2 intens...

Babies joining the family!

I love babies and I am so excited that both Logan (my cousin) and Crystal (Justin's sister) are expecting! I also have a close friend Vi...

Some pictures I didn't want you to miss!

Cruzie is growing up! She is a very smart girl and catching on to most of the tricks Justin has been trying to teach her. Right now she love...

Welcome Back!

On my lunch hour I follow a few blogs and it got my thinking about our blog that Justin started in the summer. I asked Justin to show ME how...