I Heart Faces ~ Week 18 ~ "LAUGHTER"

This is my 1st time joining i heart faces it seems like fun and I have nothing to lose.

I just love this picture of my girls and their two little friends. They have so much fun together and I think this picture shows pure enjoyment and laughter!

Little Turkey Hunters

Shawn is bound and determined to make sure his girls are into hunting just like him. Honestly, I hope they do enjoy this hobby with their dad. However, the first time their dad actually "gets something" in front of them, not really sure how they will react! But, ya never know they might like it. Me, I just don't get the whole "hunting" thing, but I didn't grow up with it either!

He took them to Mountain Gander as Chloe calls it to buy new camo for the 1st day of Turkey. They did go hunting for about 45 minutes in the woods behind my moms house. Shawn said the girls were very good, they whispered in the woods and even practiced their turkey calls! But 45minutes was their limit, they were done after that! At least it's a start. And they did look so cute!!

Kayla, Chloe, and Shawn

Kayla (doing a ballet pose, that fits, right??) and Chloe looking at her silly sis!

A new job, SAHM!!!

After working for the same company for almost 15 years I am being let go. I'm in the travel industry (corp. travel to be exact) and work for the largest travel company in the world, however with the economy, corporate travel has really dropped off. Since last year our call volume has dropped over 60%. There are 12 people on my team and we knew this day would be coming. For the past six months during work I've been reading, blogging, scrapbooking, watching movies and playing games. Every now and then there would be some real work to do. I wasn't the only one doing all that stuff either. Everyone was! Management decided to reduce our staff by 1/2. In the back of my mind I knew I would be going, but in the back back of my mind, I thought maybe not, maybe I'll get to stay. They annouced their decision last Wednesday, I was told I was one of the ones impacted. I guess because it was kind of expected I wasn't too upset. My last day is Friday. Although I will miss coming to work everyday and seeing my co-workers who are really my friends, I've known some of them forever! I am looking forward to staying home with my girls. My company is generous enough to give me a decent severance package that will allow me to stay home for about 6 months without any financial impact. It will definitely take some time to get used to being at home, but it will be good. I just have to figure out how to be a sahm!!!! My goal when the girls start kindergarten is to work at their school in some capacity. That way, I can have the same hours and days off as the girls. Granted the pay will stink, but Shawn is willing to take on more hours to make up for it. So it's all going to work out great, I hope. I'm looking forward to my first summer home with my kids!!! I can't wait to go to the pool and the park. I can't wait to actually have time to make dinners and clean my house without being stressed out!!

What they say..

Last week I was rushing the girls, as usual to get ready for school and

Chloe says - "mom, hold your corn"
Me - excuse me?
Chloe - hold.your.corn!
That phrase compliments of their dad, not sure where the heck he got it from!!

Then I was putting her coat on and
Chloe says - Arrgh, my sleeves all jacked up.
Me - Okay, I'll fix it.
Chloe - Arrgh, my other sleeve is jacked up.
Me - (thinking - I better quit saying jacked up)

Later that day we were driving to the vet and Chloe sitting in the back seat
Chloe says - We're going to that place that has blue and white, oh, my bad, white and uggg, I keep messing up, red and white strips on the roof!

Honestly, I didn't know what she was talking about. Then we pulled up to the vet and next door is Rita's Italian ice and it has red and white strips on the roof! Who knew....my bad!!!!!

Wordful Wednesday - Best Buds!

Recently Shawn took the girls to the Zoo. He said they spent most of the day holding hands. That is so sweet. I love that they love being with each other. It seems they are involved in a little conversation too. So cute!

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Pay it forward...

I go to the same coffee place every morning before work. This particicular morning I was 2nd in line waiting to get my fresh brewed java. There was a man in front of me who was ordering 1 pound coffee and some other stuff. He looked back at me and said are you only getting coffee and I said yes. He told the girl to add my coffee to his bill. I told him he didn't have to do that, but he said he wanted to pass on some positive mojo. So since he did that, I put my coffee money in the tip jar. He said...see it worked!!!

Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do random gesture for a stranger and make their day! He made mine.

Wordful Wednesday - Snowbunnies!

The girls love playing in the snow. I have to admit I think I had as much fun as they did. I forgot how fun sledriding is!!!!

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Have a great Wednesday!