Day 14 - Health

Day 14 is all about HEALTH!

I'm grateful to be pretty healthy. Tilted uterus and all!

Day 13 - Decoration

I'm grateful for DECORATIONS!

 

Seriously, we are SO close to having the basement finished that I can't stand the excitment!

Anna has had her pricess stickers on the wall since we painted.

 And that was last Spring!

Day 12 - Weather

I'm grateful to live in Utah where we get to experience the changes in the weather with each season. The snow really makes it begin to feel like the holiday season.

Day 11 - Stranger

It only makes perfect sense to have Day 11 of gratitude be dedicated to a stranger.

See, it was a stranger who called me after finding Bear laying down in the middle of her neighborhood street.

WHAT?

Oh you didn't hear?

Let me back up and tell you about the EXCITING Saturday we had!

Chris had planned to take Bear pheasant hunting. Bear was acting skittish that morning for some reason and when he opened the back of his Jeep for her to climb in, instead she took off sprinting up the road. Apparently she really didn't want to go hunting (who can blame her? It was cold and snowing).

So with it being early and snowing, Chris was able to track her in the snow all the way to the top of our neighborhood. But then she must have crossed Gordon Ave because he lost her tracks. I get a call at 7:45am with him saying "we have a problem". I IMMEDIATELY think "it's that damn Jeep. Something happened...how much will THIS cost?" Then he tells me Bear took off.

I hop in my car and spend about 20 minutes driving the neighborhood, asking people out if they've seen her. Nothing. I head back home, grab the girls and we spend another 45 minutes weaving in and out of the area looking for her. Nothing.

We get home and I just start crying. I've had her since she was a puppy. She was MY first baby. She was my kid before I had kids!! I love that big lug of a dog.

A few hours later I'm in the basement painting and my phone rings. I could feel it in my bones it was someone calling about Bear.

"Um, I think I found your dog, Bear"

YES!! Someone had found her. Laying down in the middle of the street, most likely cold, tired and hungry. I hop in the Jeep and the gal directs me to where she is at. The neighborhood just west of our church. I pull up and Bear is sitting on the sidewalk. She recognizes me and that big tail start wagging! I must have looked like a crazy dog lady. I'm covered in paint, my hair is a smell and I'm sitting on the sidewalk hugging this dumb dog!

I thanked the gal repeatedly and offered her a reward. She declined and said "when we drove up, my son said "mom is that dog dead?" because she was just laying in the street".

She could have easily ignored Bear and drove around her. But she didn't. She stopped and called and I'm so very, very thankful.

Bear is such an important part of our family. I couldn't imagine life without her in it.

Day 10 - Technology

Day 10, TECHNOLOGY

This post brought to you by Blogspot, on the Internet, created from my laptop, while watching Comcast TV (Ute's game to be exact!!).

I'm thankful that technology helps me keep in touch with friends who have moved out of state.
I'm thankful for the technology that allows me to catch up on my Days of Our Lives every evening.
I'm thankful for the technology that tells me when I need an oil change in my car.

I could go on and on about all I'm thankful for when it comes to technology, but I really need to check my Instagram account off my Galaxy Notebook...

Day 9 - Traditions

Traditions.

I should save this for the new tradition my family is starting for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but I will save that for another gratitude post.

This tradition is the every-other-Friday lunch I have with my mom.

My mom doesn't work those Friday's and since I have a pretty lax work schedule when it comes to lunches, my mom and I meet up and have lunch together. Sometimes it quick like Cafe Rio, other times we sit at Chili's or Red Robin. Heck sometimes we even hit a few stores up after!

Since we live in different cities, counties actually, it's our way of getting together and catching up. I'm thankful that I get to have this time with my mom.

I think it's a pretty fun tradition.

Day 8 - Food

Day 8 is FOOD and what a better day to post!!

I attended a Recipe Exchange party at my neighbors house last night. I would love to post pictures about what I ate...but I ate IT ALL!

Even the leftover soup I took home to share with Chris...I ate while helping Anna with her spelling words last night (it really is yummy Shari).

I ate fresh homemade sour dough bread.
I LOVED Sariah's awesome artichoke dip.
I scarfed down TWO different kids of pumpkins bread/cookies.
I nibbled on a cheese ball (which was quite yummy for having so few ingredients).
I had some rice sausage dish, that I didn't think looked like much, but man it was GOOD!!
I even had a chocolate cupcake with a GREEN BEAN baked inside. That was quite the laugh at the party!

There was more. And I tasted it all. There wasn't a single thing there that I wouldn't make again. Well I could skip the green bean IN the cupcake, but I'd totally eat the cupcakes again.

I am grateful that I was invited and that I got to spend an evening with a great group of women. And I'm grateful that I walked away with a dozen new recipes to try out!!