Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my Bestest Dearest Friend!

Today my BDF caught up with me in age. I will tell her she is old and she will tell me that I am still older (ooh a week)! :-)

Through the years, through the miles, she remains my BDF and today I want to wish her a VERY VERY HAPPY Birthday!

I love you P! Thanks for putting up with me all these years, even when we hung different political signs in our dorm room windows during the Presidential Election. ;-) A girl could not ask for a better friend, and I am so grateful that God intervened in his mysterious ways and got us together!

He Has Risen!

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believes stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

John 3:16-18

The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

John 28:5-7

Thank You!

Thank you to my dear friend Caffienated Cowgirl... though she is on blog hiatus, she did take the time to surprise me.

I just went to the mailbox and found a package with her return address on it... what did I find inside this package? A little early birthday treat...
Yogurette!

I have been trying to get CC on Facebook for sometime and jokingly told her that if she were on Facebook I could post how lucky I am to have her as a friend, but I can do that here too! :-)

Thank you for thinking of me my dear friend and it is going to take some great restraint not to eat them all at once! But now I must go hide them from Blunoz. :-)

Amazing - Honoring Veterans

My MIL just sent me this today...
A retired submarine veteran honors all veterans nightly with the lowering of the American Flag in his front yard.

Take a few minutes and see what one man is doing to bring Americans together!

They're Cooommmiinnngggg....

The British are coming... the British are coming... well, okay, no they aren't but it is almost Patriots' Day, a little known state holiday in Massachusetts (and apparently Maine and Wisconsin) and the day the Boston Marathon is run... but that is not the point of this post.

Who is coming you ask? MY IN-LAWS are coming! Yes, Blunoz's Dad and Step-Mom descend upon us next week for the boys' spring vacation! We haven't seen them since early September when we breezed into town for Uncle D's wedding and our drive across country. It was sure nice of the Navy to transfer Kevin at the perfect time for that!

So, we have been in discussions of what are we going to do while they are here. Currently on the list of things to see is The Pentagon, Monticello and Luray Caverns. I am sure we will also have to hit a Smithsonian or two and see the Cherry Blossoms. Of course some of this is contingent of Blunoz being able to take the leave he put in for. But we will have fun with or without him. But if anyone has some advice about some cool little known site to see in the Northern Virginia/DC/Charlottsville area, please let me know!

Yes, you hear right! We will have fun, I, Sagey, will have fun with my in-laws with our without my dear husband! :-) How great is that. I am also not stressed about cleaning or making a good impression. They know me, and they still love me (and I can be hard to love)! How many of you can say that about your in-laws? Oh sure, I will probably run around vacuuming and I will most certainly scrub and sterlize the bathrooms, but who cares that there are legos EVERYWHERE? Ahh, life is good!

Grandma feeding the deer in Oregon, September 2009 (picture by ES).
Papa and YB just before Uncle D's wedding (picture by ES).
Yes YB changed his clothes for the wedding! :-)

It's a Decision

So I picked up the latest Good Housekeeping Magazine with Michael J. Fox on the cover. I have always been a fan of MJF but I picked up the magazine because of the quote on the front. "Happiness is a Decision"!

Though I read the entire article I could not find that exact quote, but the gist of the article was that happiness is a decision. You can decide to be miserable or you can decide to be happy. MJF and his lovely wife, Tracy, have decided to be happy. I knew I liked them for a reason. :-)

My last post expressed my frustration with moving and adapting to new places. I don't enjoy it. It always comes with some solitude. I admittedly am not a person who needs a lot of friends. I have my few very close ones scattered about the WORLD, but sometimes you do need to interact with someone above the age of 10 on a face to face bases.

But you know what, life is pretty good. OK life is better than pretty good! I am a glass is half full kind of gal, 99.9% of the time. I had a bought of it being half empty there, but it is full again. The sun is out and the boys are happy. Yes, Blunoz is working a lot, but he is alive. He isn't deployed. Well, OK, so deployment can sometimes be easier because we aren't expecing him home for dinner and finding out at 5:30 that he isn't going to make it. ;-)

So when life is throwing you lemons, please make lemonade. Read that article about MJF and see how even during trying times, life is fun and happy! Let's not pity ourselves, but see the joy in life that God has given us!

Let us ALL decide to be HAPPY!

Wild Olive

So, is anyone looking for a birthday present idea for me? I read about this military wife over at Pioneer Woman. PW said that Stefanie was a military wife who had her own t-shirt business... I was intrigued! I am always curious about what other military wives do since it is so hard to move jobs as frequently as we move. This has been particularly on my mind as I anticipate YB heading off to elementary school in the near future!

Anyway... I followed the link to Wild Olive and was happily surprised to find they are CHRISTIAN t-shirts! So cool!!!

I think my favorites are Consider it Joy and Transform Your Mind, but I do like them all!

I need to get back on WW so I can look great in one of these awesome t-shirts! :-)