Are You Ready For Some Football?

In case you haven't figured this out by now, I LOVE me some football! I am almost worse than a your average man when it comes to watching these playoff games. lol. I also have a little bit of a competitive spirit, so in honor of Playoff time I created a little bracket, with helmets, for your viewing pleasure. My picks are below...I'd like to know yours. Yes, even those of you who aren't that "in" to football...YOU TOO!

Moral of the story...If your reading this blog, POST A COMMENT! :)

Don't worry, my minds already turning on how I can incorporate this into Math next week. Don't be surprised if you see a life sized bracket on my wall next week. :)

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*Da, Dada, Da*
Introducing the 2011 Road to the Super Bowl bracket made by yours truly...

My Picks:
AFC
Pittsburgh and Kansas City
NY Jets and Patriots

Pittsburgh and Patriots

Pittsburgh to the SUPER BOWL! (duh.)

NFC
Saints and Atlanta
Eagles and Bears

Atlanta and Eagles

Eagles to the SUPER BOWL!

Winner of Super Bowl 45...do I even need to say it...


Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow.....


PITTS-BURGH-STEEL-ERS! *clap, clap, clap-clap-clap*

Thailand

In February, my brother-in-law David, and a group of artists from Franklin, TN will have the opportunity to travel to Thailand. They will gather with hundreds of English teachers who live & serve throughout Asia for a week of renewal, restoration and worship. This is such an amazing opportunity for David and I'm really excited for him. They have put a little video together telling about what they will be doing.  I hope you enjoy it! :)



The Story of Journey & Thailand from grateful inconvenience on Vimeo.

Miscellany Monday

Since I'm just sitting on the couch I figured I could participate in Miscellany Monday. It's my first time, but anything random is right up my alley.

{Hibachi}
Totally in love with this local Hibachi place here. I'm not even a big "hibachi type" girl," but man! We love it! We are regulars for the Early Bird Specials. And yes, I'm getting ready to eat my leftovers now. :)

{Monday Nights}
Hellllllooooo Brad. I've taken a few seasons (ok, 3 years) off from watching The Bachelor, but I'm back this season. I like Brad and the fact that he didn't settle with someone he didn't want to be with. I respect his honesty. Um...did anyone just see Madison the vampire girl? YIKES!

{Thursday Nights}
*Fist Pump* I'm ready for t-shirt time!

{Mr. Fix It}

I know S secretly reads this blog when I'm not around so I wanted to give him a quick shout out. (Love you Sweetheart!) He can fix anything...and I mean ANYTHING! He just keeps amazing me at his random skills. So, the garbage disposal broke before the holidays and we just decided to wait until we got back to deal with it. I just knew we were going to have to buy a new one. Do you know that kid got under the sink today, took everything apart and fixed that little sucker. He is the BOMB.com!

Why I LOVE being Harper's AUNT

Being an aunt has brought so much love, joy and laughter to my life. She is just the cutest thing ever! 
I love how her face immediately lights up and she smiles when I walk in the room...
I love all her funny faces. 
I love her high pitch sounds. {screams} 
I love her big bows...and how she's starting to rip them off her head. 
I love her open mouth kisses {mmm...melt. my. heart}
I love holding her in my arms as she falls asleep.
I love watching her learn new things.
I LOVE spoiling her to death!
I am so thankful for our little Harper Elizabeth! We are truly blessed. Here are just a few pictures from her first Christmas. 

 

Merry Christmas

I don't know about you, but this is just my favorite Christmas song ever. How can you not be in the best mood ever and have tons of Christmas spirit after listening to this?!? Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels this way.

I hope you all are having a fabulous Christmas Eve with your family and friends.

100+ Followers?!?

So I was just sitting around wondering about this and thought I would throw it out there to all you blogging  pro's!

How in the world do some of you have so many followers?!? I understand I haven't been doing this for years or that my blog may not be interesting to people other than my family, but man...

If anyone out there would like to share some tips they would be greatly appreciated. :)

Shout out to my faithful 32...yall are the bomb.com!

Make Your Blog Mobile

I learned something so cool today and wanted to share it. Sarah over at Life {Sweet} Life mentioned that you can now change your settings on Blogger to make your blog mobile compatible. When you do this, it is SO much quicker (and easier) to read blogs from your phone. Here is a screenshot of what mine looks like:

It's very easy to do! Here's how you can do it if you'd like.

1. Go to draft.blogger.com.
2. Click on "Settings" in the middle of the page.
3. Click on "Email & Mobile" which is listed in all the tabs going across the top of the page.
4. Under "Mobile Template", click on "Yes, On mobile devices, show the mobile version of my template."
5. Click "Save Settings" and you're done! You're blog should now appear much quicker and easier to navigate when viewed on a phone.