Posting Comments Without Google Acct.

Hey, I have heard from some of you that you check my blog and I assume that many of you don't post comments because you don't want to set up a Google account. There is a way to post comments without setting up an account. To post a comment, click at the bottom of the post that says # Comments. On the next screen there will be the comments already posted and a box on the right to put your comments. Fill out what you want to say and if you want me to know it's from you put your name at the end of your post. Then click on the "Anonymous" circle.  Click "Publish Your Comment" and you're done.

In the same avenue, if you're worried about having to sign up for something by subscribing to get e-mail updates when I post, there's no signing up. You type in your e-mail address, you will get an e-mail asking to confirm that it was sent to the right address and that's it. You won't get mail from them, just from my blog, and you only get mail from me once a day, even if I post 5 messages in a day. If I don't post anything, you won't get a message at all, so I won't fill your e-mail with junk mail, I promise:)

Hopefully I'll see some of you out here more. I know you're there ...I'd love to have conversations with y'all:)

Christmas with the Kantors

So I know it's late January, but we had one last Christmas celebration this weekend. We always do Christmas in January with my friend Katherine whom I've known since pre-school and who has been one of my best friends since around 5th grade. Although we don't see each other enough (she lives about an hour North of the cities) we have remained close all these years and her second daughter Abby is my first Godchild.

Here are pictures from our Christmas. (Nothing says Christmas like lunch at Space Aliens!) In the picture where Roo is wearing the paper crown, that is Abby with her. Abby and Kenzie made us all crowns as part of our gift! Kenzie is the older girl in the pic with all three of them and Katie/Katherine is in the pic with Kenzie and her pillow:)

Thanks Abby, Kenzie and Katherine of course Jason (sorry, Jay, you didn't make any of the pics!) for the bath gel and lotion and for Riley's baby doll. And thanks to Debbie for Riley's book, she loves them!!! It was so good to see you Debbie!! Hope Grandma Mary is feeling better!

1 word - PHENOMENAL

OK, it's a little late...almost 11:30 p.m., but I just got home from the Martina McBride concert and I HAD to blog about it. The opening acts were just so-so, but let me tell you that woman can sing! She gives me goose bumps and she makes me cry! She opened with "Anyway" which is a powerful song, but it also has special meaning. It was the song they played at Tori's funeral and it just made me sob at the concert! It's really a beautiful song!!! I cried more than once during the concert...she's just amazing (and no I'm not pregnant so don't blame the hormones!) She has a song called "Concrete Angel" that is one that gives me chills and she even did some "old school" country stuff that was beautiful. I don't know what else to say about it. THANKS JOSH for taking me for my b-day. It was FANTASTIC!

Green Super Bowl

Oh, I was looking up some Game Time info about Super Bowl and I found a fun link on the site that has interesting facts about recycling, check out the AZ Super Bowl site. Did you know that recycling one aluminum can can save enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours?

Save A Tree- Have Some Coffee

Ok, so I used to be strictly a White Hot Chocolate or Carmel Apple Cider girl on visits to Caribou/Starbucks etc., but I'm starting to try to like coffee lately (Loaded with sugar please! ie. Turtle Latte/Mint Condition/Wild Cherry Mocha etc.) And I'm using a lot of waste products that I feel guilty about on my green kick.

While on my b-day weekend up north, I found a solution to at least part of that problem. Obviously using a reusable coffee mug is one way to reduce waste...but what about the coffee sleeve they put on your cup to keep you from burning your hand. Yes, they are often made from recycled material, but what if you could eliminate it altogether!?! I found a product that I love and it makes a GREAT gift too. Hip Grips are fashionable and reuseable AND they have a pocket in them perfect for adding a gift card to your favorite coffee shop:) Caribou Please!

After I post this, some of my fave pics of Riley are going to bump to the next "page" so if you haven't visited in a while, please check out the "older posts" at the bottom of the page. I know that I sound like a crazy mom who is obsessed with my kiddo, but I just love the pics of her in the purple hat and sweater...sorry, forgive a crazy mother, ok:)

Birthday etc.

Ok, so here are some of the pics I promised, post b-day. The picture of Riley and her Grandpa Mark is from last weekend when Mark and Linda had my parents over for dinner. Then there's a picture of Riley and Zack "squishing" Grandma Trish and a pic of my sisters and I with our kiddos. Those last 2 pics were taken at lunch to celebrate Meg's and my birthday last Thursday. 

I have to say thank you to everyone too...Between Christmas and my birthday I feel VERY spoiled. I got everything I wanted and then some! THANKS to everyone! 

Oh, and if anyone has sewing tips, I'm gonna start pretending I can sew, so HELP! I have a new sewing machine that I'm dying to try out:) (I can hear my friends now...boy, is she old, she's got a sewing machine???) I'm especailly interested in learning how to quilt and hem stuff...I have a quilting "instructor" that is one of my parent's neighbors, she's really fun, but she's moving away soon so I need back-up! Or if anyone wants to take community ed lessons with me, I'd love to do that too! Ok, this is getting long. 

Quick Thought of the Day

You know you're the mom of a toddler when you go to empty the lint trap in the dryer and find leftover easy-mac!