Simple Pleasures

One of the fabulous blogs that I read, Kelly's Korner, is having a McLinky Doohicky thing today about the "simple pleasures" in life. I thought I would join in on this one! :) I'm a RN in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit...so sometimes I HAVE to focus on the pleasures of life...it's how you deal with the saddness. Don't get me wrong, we see tons of stuff that does great, but hey...it's life...there ARE bad things. ANYWAY...tangent. I thought I would share with my 3 readers some of my pleasures, they may not all be 'simple' but these are MY pleasures nonetheless.

• My life...I love it, I'm greatful for it, I have to constantly remind myself to thank God for all that he has blessed me with.
• My hubbs...The love of my life (on most days anyway...haha j/k Craig!). I don't know how I got so lucky! He is sweet to me beyond words! Thanks Craig!

• LOGAN BROOKS MAYO - this is our sweet, hilarious, wild, bull-headed, energetic, red-headed, brown-eyed 2 y/o little boy! LOVE HIM! We celebrated his 2nd birthday in October!
• Painting! It makes me HAPPY! I'm not a pro or anything like that...just L.O.V.E. to do it. Arts, Crafts...Any of that mess really.
• Getting in a WARM bed on a COLD  night! Oh how I love it to be cold in the house and snuggle up in your soft, cozy bed Whew! Heaven.
• Candles....smelly ones (good smelly obviously, not bad smelly! :)  )
• A good book in a hot bath with a great glass of wine.
• The way that Logan smiles at our pets. I know that I remember thinking that cats & dogs were just the coolest when i was little (don't get me wrong, still love 'em), but it is just fun to watch his eyes light up.

• The smell of fresh cut grass in the summer
• Hanging out with my wonderful friends (this is a truely missed pleasure right now because of grad school!)
• Margaritas
• Fresh Flowers in the house!! Wish I could afford to have fresh cut flowers all the time, everywhere!
• A Silent Night
• Sleeping in in the morning!
• A 'squeeze' (hug) from Logan followed by a kiss & 'I love you, mommy'...seriously? Does it get any better?
• The smell of coffee in the morning. I don't really drink coffee much, but when my mom is here she makes it.... I'm tempted to make coffee every night, set the timer...just so I can wake up to that smell!
• Holding Logan when he slept. He doesn't let me do this anymore, but I loved it.
• Rain at night. I LOVE to hear the rain fall! I'm a sucker for bad weather, not terrible...just bad.
• A clean house :)
• Phone calls from my mom at all times of the day! Love you Mama!
• A great day
• a good blog
• blog hopping
• PHOTOSHOP!
• Did I mention Logan? :)

What are your SIMPLE PLEASURES?? :)

Picture for School...

Okay, so most of you reaing this all know that I'm knee deep in the pits of school...And its all online! How gross is that? Anyway,...This semester they decided it would be a great thing for us to have to posts pictures of ourself. I don't know about you, but I don't have just a ton of pics that I want to post of JUST ME anymore....once a kiddo comes...they are always in the pics. Also, I don't think I have EVER had a ton of pics of JUST me anyway.... So I searched through all of my pictures and couldn't find ANYTHING that I could even crop for school. So Logan & I had a small photo shoot in my bedroom at the beginning of the semester. It was fun. Here are a few pics from that interesting little self shoot. This was all off of the timer on the camera too....try doing THAT with an impatient, hard headed, red headed, hiLARious, wants to hold the camera 2 year old! :) Whew...

And then then, the one pic for all that....JUST for school...humph...

how silly looking!? It says, Yes...I took my crazy pic in my room....just for you fools to know what I look like....someone that you will never know in your life....take an online class with....SURE....here I am!?

But moral of the blog....Photo shoots with your 2 y/o are FUN! :)

Big Boy Bed

Logan has officially moved to the big boy bed! We had NO intention of moving him out of his crib anytime soon. Then we decided to let my brother & sis-in-law use his crib for thier new arrival. I love love love for family stuff to get passed around. I think it is so awesome for several members of a family use the same baby furniture over and over again. It makes it all the more special to me....ANYWAY....So since Koen will be here in late February/early March I suppose it is time for Logan to get his bootay out of the crib. I mean, he is only 2 years and 3 months old... ;) Most kiddos are in a real bed by now, but hey....we're slow. So here are a few pics.....


We placed the bed against the wall the first night, because I was worried he would fall out....it is such a long way to the ground you know!

This is how it looks now...I decided he won't fall out! ;)



The first night on his way to sleep. He is actually in the dark here saying...."Mommy, I smiling, take picture" or something like that...

Few New Paintings

I have no time to paint, but I sure try to make time when I can. It is such a stress reliever (if there is such a thing in my life right now) Anyway, Here are a few new ones.

This is one for the mother-in-law...She likes flowers....



Here is one that I'm working on. It is a guitar (obviously), but it is not finished.


Something simple for the bathroom...



This one is a redo, or simply a touch up of an old one. It's hanging in our dining room.




One over the couch in the den...did this one over the Christmas holidays. Not to sure that this one is gonna survive yet (survive means not being painted over!) Actually...today when I walked passed it, decided it is gonna die...totally getting painted over! Too Dr. Seuss-ish for me. However, I do love love Dr. Seuss....just not hanging in my den!

Speaking of Dr. Seuss....here is a good one from him

"Be who you are & say what you feel because
those who mind don't matter &
those who matter don't mind!"

Every Second Counts!

I am now on the home stretch to GRADUATION! Words cannot express how excited I am that we only have 3 semesters left and you can see below how many days until we graduate!! I will have this timer posted on the top of my blog from now on, so that I can remind myself how little time I have left! WOO HOO!


I am Counting Every Second!