Payback

This day has been a long time coming... It's the ultimate payback!!

 

For those of you that know my husband, you know that he can fall asleep absolutely anywhere at anytime.  He likes to play this game at night where he says "watch this" and he's asleep within seconds.  Sometimes I wish I had that capability, but most times not, since it creates the opportunity for some embarrassing pictures.

 

So without further ado, I present to you... the many places Jason has fallen sleep:

 

 In my parents basement on the sectional after Thanksgiving dinner

 

 At the cabin on the porch

 

 At Gammy's House

 

 At Grandma's House

 

 Closer Up At Grandma's House

 

 During the Family Ocean City, Maryland beach trip

 

 On Grandma's Porch

 

 Closer Up On Grandma's Porch

 

 Outside Grandma's Porch... man, he must have been tired this day ;-)

 

 At Gammy's House

 

 Easter at Grandma's House

 

 On Grandma's Living Room Chair

 

 During Christmas at My Parent's House

 

 During the family beach trip to Ocean City, New Jersey

 

 Actually on the beach of Ocean City, New Jersey

 

 On the Way to an Eagles Game

 

 Again in Gammy's Living Room

 

 On our living room/foyer floor after a long day of baseball

 

 In the car

 

 On the way back from our honeymoon

 

And finally, on the couch at the beach of OCNJ again

 

I realize that this opens me up for cruel punishment, but that's okay, I'm willing to take the chance.  A special thanks to my sister, Meghan for helping me compile these pictures, and I'm sure all the many pictures just like them to come in the future!!



Top 5 Pictures- Talia

 I have the cutest little cousin, Talia who is full of energy and it has been so much fun watching her grow up!  She is very close in age to my other cousin that I posted about, Keyon, and I decided to use her as the Top 5 Pictures of the day.

 This is from the annual beach trip in June of 2007

 

Making goofy faces at Grandma's house in the summer of 2007 

 Christmas 2008

 

Christmas 2008

 

At the cabin for the Fourth of July, 2010

 

Now she's grown up so much!!  I can't wait to watch her grow up even more and watch her play ice hockey since she can hold her own when playing!!  Love you Talia Ruth!!

 

Friends may come and go, but family is forever!!!

 



Thankful

I have turned into a baby.  It's that simple.  The older I get, the more emotional I seem to be, against what I would prefer in some cases.

 

A few weeks ago, the Kadence Jae Foundation decided that some of us would walk in Kadence's memory in the Four Diamonds walk in Hershey tomorrow.  We set a goal of $500 and members quickly joined our team.  We had no idea how much other people would donate, but we knew we as a foundation wanted to give a generous donation, so we were hopeful to get the rest of the total from donations from our loved ones.

 

The Four Diamonds Fund did SO much for Ryan and Felicia when Kadence was sick from helping with bills to gas cards to meals at the hospital, and we as a foundation figured it's the least we could do to walk to raise money for them.  We hope that by walking and raising money that they can help other families like they did so graciously for ours.

 

I have amazing family and friends!  From a college friend, to a friend from high school, to aunts and cousins, we not only met but surpassed the goal of $500 that we set as a group.

 

I am proud and absolutely blessed to have such great people in my life!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart to my Mom, Emily, Stacey, Aunt Amy, Aunt Beth, and Kate.  I can hardly see through the tears to type my thank yous out, but you will never know how much I appreciate you and am thankful for you. <3

 

Top 5 Pictures- Grandparents

We have been blessed by some awesome grandparents, so I thought I would post about them tonight.  We are lucky that many of our grandparents are still with us, and we get to spend time with them pretty regularly.  We definitely miss our far away grandparents, but have an awesome time when we are together with them. 

 

On my Dad's side, my Gram has supported us through many sporting events and occasions. 

 Here she is with my at my college graduation from Shippensburg in 2010

 

Here we are at our wedding in June of 2011

 

 This is her husband, my Grandpa Barton, who unfortunately passed away when I was little

 

On my Mom's side, we have my Gammy and Pappy.  Pappy also unfortunately passed away last year, but we got to spend lots of awesome memories together.

This was my college graduation party in 2010

 

Here we are at our wedding in June of 2011

 

This is my Mom's Dad, my Grampa, who is also known as The Italian Stallion

 Here The Italian Stallion is during a beach trip with his Stallionettes

 

 Here is a picture from our wedding in 2011

 

 Dancing with Grampa

 

When I married into the Kelly family, I also got to spend time with two great women.  My Father-in-law's mother, Nanny, who unfortunately passed away shortly into our relationship, and my Mother-in-law's mother, Nana.  Nana lives in New York and although we don't get to see her as much as we'd like, we love spending time with her when we are able to!

 Here is Nana with us at our wedding in June 2011

 

Friends may come and go, but family is forever!!

Advocare 24 Day Challenge

So I finished my second 24 day challenge, but this time I did it with some family members so it was a lot easier and more fun!  Mom, Dad, Jason, Meghan, Karli and I did it together.  Lauren also did it, but she was a few days ahead of us!

 

I am very proud to let you all know that the 6 of us lost a total of 53.5 pounds and 61 inches together!  How great is that?!?!

 

We are feeling awesome and have tremendous amounts of energy!

 

If you need a change, the 24 day challenge may be for you!!  We LOVED it!!!