this lady...

is CRACKING ME UP this black friday season!

everytime her commercials come on, i can't help but laugh (like really, really hard). this commercial is my favorite... but she is all over the tv and all over the internet. props for target! shes a funny lady!!

i bet ya didn't know...

i know, two blog posts in one day. i'm making up for lost times. lol

i came across THIS inspiring Library Love Shoot over at Ruffled (one of my favorite wedding blogs) and it sparked my flame (and my memory) of when i used to work in the library in high school. 

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i'm thankful to my parents, they always took us to the local library when my sister and i were kids. i loved checking out books, and sitting in their big oversized chairs and begin to read the next great story. i remember the first chapter book that i read (twice) was called "Wonderful Me"... I was an avid reader of the Christy Miller series and Nancy Drew books throughout elementary and junior high school. once i got to high school i enjoyed reading The Great Gatsby and Fahrenheit 451. A book completely out of my range but I still greatly enjoyed it was Always Running: La Vida Loca. it was on one of my 'shelves' that i had to keep organized. 

i loved cataloging books, and looking at old school yearbooks in the back, and thumbing through all the back issues of LIFE and National Geographic and TIME and Seventeen magazines. ahhh, i could go on and on about my fascination of one time being a librarian. reading is so powerful, and it wasn't until this past year that i remembered my love for it.

just something to share...

touched my heart

i know my heart is sad and struggling. i've tried leaning on God to get me through this, and it has helped tremendously, but there are times when trusting God is hard and seems practically impossible. as often as i feel grateful to God for his blessings and his gifts to us, i also feel distance and disheartened as well. i'm not perfect (and certainly not a perfect christian). but it is truly a 'God Wink' when you're feeling distance from him that something leads you right back to him... something touches your heart and you know, you just Know that he really is there.

my beautiful friend Janel has been posting a Thankful 30 Challenge, and Day 23 has truly touched my heart, right when i needed it most.

a reminder that i need to be in my Bible reading his promises, helping to heal my heart and take away my pain. 

three days til turkey day.

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i'll be honest. i am filled with anxiety about Thanksgiving day this year. the hubs is gonna prepare the bird. i'm gonna make the stuffing. mom and sista are making sides. we are eating at our house this year, instead of my parents. the table will more than likely not be elaborately set like previous years (my mom is a genius when it comes to table-setting). i don't even have any fall decorations up in the house. and there will be a great big hole in the room where Daddy should be. i don't know what to expect, or how to prepare or get through this. one step at a time. one breath at a time.

on a side note, today is the hub's 33rd birthday. such an old man. lol. we celebrated yesterday (going to cabelas... his favorite store). today is back to work, but thankfully it's a short work week. :-)

yay!!

that's my dog

i took a few photos of my dog the other day, and i thought i'd share.

his name is Gunner. we call him Gunner Boy. 

he just turned 5 human years old on Halloween. he's getting so old... see the gray??