30 Day Challenge Day 12

Day 12- bullet list my entire day

• wake up
• make breakfast for fam
• clean up breakfast from fam
• pick up Noel from my mom and dads
• pack for ball tourney
• shower
• get kids ready for ball tourney
• get in car,drive to tourney
• stop at speedway in Auburn for gas,slurpees, and papers for coupons
• get to tourney
• unpack all the junk
• watch game 1
• watch game 2
• play at park with girls
• watch game 3-PS my love ROCKED the tourney and hit 4 home runs pitched 7 games in 2 days and made me SUPER PROUD!!
• pack up kids
• drive home
• start some laundry
• upload pics from tourney
• make dinner with Ike and Em
• clean up dinner
• eat ice cream with fam
•  clip coupons
• get kids in bed
• switch laundry
• facebook
• blog day 11
• blog day 12.
• PHEW.....go to bed!!

30 Day Challenge Day 11

Day 11- put your IPOD on shuffle and write down 10 songs that come up.
1.Kid Rock -when it rains
2.Lady Antebellum I run to you
3.Chris Daughtry- What I want
4.The Fray- Over my head
5.Ruben Vela- El coco rayado( YES I love that one....brings back memories...shout out to Joe and Tricia Gracia!! )
6. 5 finger death punch- Never Enough( that's sooo not mine!! Must be Shane's LOL)
7.Tim McGraw- live like you were dying
8.John Mayer- Daughters
9.Warrant- Heaven
10.Nelly Furtado- promiscuous girl.
Really tho my IPOD is like a mixed bread dog......there is a little of everything. Yup even classical!! LOL

****so I made a boo boo and didnt do enough songs...Thank you Karen!! so here are the other 20.
1.Carrie Underwood-Cowboy Casanova
2. 2Pac- only god can judge me now
3. Zac Brown Band- Chicken Fried
4. T-Pain- Shorty
5.Bone Thugs and Harmony- Fried Day (Friday Soundtrack)
6.Christina Aguilera- beautiful
7. Black Eyed Peas- Boom Boom Pow
8. REO Speedwagon- Keep on loving you
9. The Band Perry- If I die young
10. Bag English- when I see you smile
11. Guns N Roses-Sweey child of mine
12. Chicago- died in your eyes tonight
13. Poison- unskinny bop
14. Kenny Chesney- I go back
15. Jay Z- Young Forever
16. Craig Morgan- Bonfire
17. Kidz Bop- Peantu Butter Jelly time ( LOl)
18. Skid Row- Cat's in theCradle
19. Kix- Don't close your eyes
20. Miranda Lambert- only prettier.,
THere you have it folks 30 sons.
~ Jessi

30 Day Challenge Day 10

Day 10- Discuss my first love and first kiss.
Hmmm, this is going back a LLLOOONNNGGG time! I have been with Shane forever so this is gonna take some thinking.
I am pretty sure I was around 14. He was a friend of a friend, never anyone I thought would be my boyfriend but none the less a cute and super funny guy! We hung out at our friends house numerous times before we became boyfriend and girlfriend. I really don't even remember him asking me to be his GF. This surprises me since I have a really good memory. I remember us having lots of good times and some not so good.I remember always having someone take me to his house (since he didn't live by me). I remember my friend Michelle and I going to his house to hang out with him and one of his friends and almost dying in the snow storm she drove home in. I remember him riding his bike to my house once which pretty much took him ALL day! Like I said we didn't live by each other. I think we dated for like a year or something. It remember it didn't end very well! I pretty much hated him and he hated me. We had the same group of friends so we avoided each other like the plague!! But when you are young and immature things like that seeming don't. I thought it was the end of the world but then again I was like 15ish. Luckily though he can back into my life some years down the road. Not as a BF this time but as a really good friend that I still love to this very day! He is married to an AWESOME lady who I think totally rocks. He is a GREAT dad! I am really happy that he has found someone who is as special to him as Shane is too me!! I am really glad that we can be friends and he knows I will always have his back!! That was my first love...awwww. LOL
Now the first kiss, hmmm I don't really remember my first kiss. I am sure it was sometime around I would say 9th grade. IDK. maybe before. I am sure it was nothing like they make it in the movies!! I mean I can't say then it wasn't a bigger deal but I don't recall anything sticking out in my mind now. Sorry. That one was a total bummer!
So, there you have it....my first love and not so much of the first kiss
~ Jessi

30 Day Challenge- Day 9

Day 9- What I hope my future will be like.
I dont really know why they chose to have this as a topic after the 10 year thing....most would say 10 years from now is your future....anyhow. I hope that my future is filled with all the people I have in my life now, of course I am always open to new friends, hopefully some nieces or nephews. I hope that I can celebrate the fact that I don't have to raise money for Cancer research anymore because we have found the cure!! I hope my family and I are all healthy. I hope can retire before I am 90. Ohh and I also hope I am a multimillionaire so I can help all my family retire before they are 90. I think that covers it!! Whooooo hoooo I finished Day 9 before day 9 is over!!!!!! ;0)

30 Day Challenge Day 8

Day 8- A time when I felt most satisfied in my life.
Hmm, I don't really know if I can narrow this down to just ONE time....I have had many. The day Shane asked me to marry him, when my kids were born, when we bought our house......how do I pick just one. I guess for me it is all those little times when I just sit and look at Shane and my kids and think about how much I love them all!! We aren't the richest people in the world but we have each other. Cheesy I know but it's true! Some have all the money and things but aren't truly happy! The times when Shane and the girls are wresteling on the floor and all 4 of them are lauging. A passing look or inside joke between Shane and I. Those are the times when I feel the most satisfied with my life!!

30 Day Challenge Day7

Day 7- My astrological sign and do I think it matches personality.
So I am a Pisces. They say Pisces are "Mysterious and alluring individuals, most Pisces are extremely talented, but even though they are gifted in many ways, they still manage to spend most of their lives battling "confusing" conditions."

I guess that is me....I don't really put much thought into the whole astrology thing. I don't really think I am mysterious. If you know me you know pretty much everything about me. I don't hide who I am. So, I don't know. I am kinda torn on this one.........oh wait I am supposed to be. That is what my sign says. LOL.

30 Day Challenge Day 6

Day 6- 30 interesting things about me
Yikes!! This is going to be a hard one. I had this done once and it only saved till 11 and then would not let me edit it to do the rest. So, now I am starting over i hopes I can remember the 30 I had. UGH!
1. I LOVE being part if Relay for Life!! I actually wish it was my everyday job!
2. I would someday like to see a cure for Cancer and I will do everything in my power to help.
3. I count hitting a homerun in high school softball one of my best accomplishments.
4. I LOVE reading!! although  I don't get to do it as much as I wish I did.
5. I can't wait for the next Twilight movie!!
6. I also can't wait for Water for Elephants! I loved the book so I hope the movie doesn't disappoint!
7. I have a tattoo....would like another as well.
8. I love Winter!
9. Did I mention how mad I am that this didn't save the first time???
10. I have a brain full of music.
11. I know a little about a lot of things.
12. Someday I would like to take a trip somewhere warm and tropical with Shane and some of our friends...I am hoping this happens sooner rather than later but at least before we are all old and decrepit.
13. It really bothers me when people say ohhh you kids were soo good. Really?? Where are they when they are with me??
14. I am really annoyed that  my graduating class has not got together and had a reunion! We have been out of school for 15 years,people in our class have passed away. Does this not bother anyone else? I mean do we really hate each other that much that we don't even care to see what everyone else is up too?
15.I am entitled to say that last comment because I have been working with 2 of my classmates to try and get one started. SN-I was not the class president or even on the student council for that matter.
16. I secretly resent the fact that my husband plays ball and I can't anymore! I mean really he never played till he met me! LOL
17. I am very thankful for my relationship with Holly! She will forever be my bestie
18. I am not a huge fan of chocolate but I love skittles and starbursts!
19. I love people watching!!
20. I sing in the shower and the car!
21. this is getting really hard.... I am seriously having to think!
22. I am not scared of spiders, bugs or snakes.
23. I am know as the spider lady at work because no one else will get close enough to kill them!
24. Have only been to Cedar Point once and I rode 1 roller coaster.....yup only one...a kiddie one!!
25. I am really proud of my bother. He has turned out to be a really good guy. I love his aspirations and I know he will be whatever he wants!! SN- Him and Shane are pretty much attached so I really don't have a choice!
26. ahhhh 4 more to go!
27. I can still throw a mean fastball!
28. I love America's Funniest Videos!!
29. I am a reality show junkie....yup I admit it!
30. I am sooooo glad this is over...and it saved this time! LOL

30 Day Challenge- Day 5

ok, so I am a few days behind....being alone with your 3 kids and working will do that to ya!
Day 4- A time when I thought of ending my life.
Honestly I can say I have never thought of ending my life. I don't honestly think that there is anything worth taking my life over. Who am I to decide to take away a mother, wife, sister and friend from the people I love? When I die is not my decision. It's God's. God only gives me trials to make me a stronger person and they have! I am sure some of you will say that I have never had anything really bad happen then. Not true. I just choose to see these things as lessons and experiences not reasons to end my life. God says "in all things give thanks" so to mean that means that there is rhyme and reason to everthing that happens to me. I am to give thanks and learn from these things and go forward not stop where I am. I would not be where I am in my life had I had no trials at all. My only wish is that people who were thinking of ending their life would know that there is help. I wish that they would just see what impact their decision is going to have on everyone around them. ~ Jessi

30 Day Challenge Day 4

Day 4- My view on Religion.
Well, I am am believer in God. There have been many times in my life when I don't know where I would be or how I would have coped without religion in my life. I thank my parents for instilling in me the importance of  a relationship with God. I hope that by living my life as I am that I am teaching my children as well that a relationship with God is important. I like the fact that Shane has come to like attending church with me as well. Before it was mostly my idea for us to get up and go to church but now he is usally the one "rallying the troops". He has found that he really enjoys the people we see there and he LOVES our Pastor.....shout out to PJ!! I am glad that thru me and my family he has found his way to a place where he feels good about his own walk. To me God is the only God. You may have different views and that is fine. I will hear what you have to say but it won't change my mind. Thank you God for all the blessing you have given me for without you I would have nothing!!

30 Day Challenge- Day 3

Day 3- my view on drugs and alcohol.
So, I guess I don't have a strong feeling on drugs and alcohol. I am not the one to stand on my soapbox and preach about much.I am not a all a fan of drugs!! I don't like how they change people and ruin lives.I have never really seen what draws people to them. When I have ever been around or seen people on drugs I was not at all impressed. I always thought it was kinda stupid but then again I am not a follower by any means and sometimes I think people who do drugs are. They like to be involved with what everyone else is doing. I do love the show intervention tho.
I think that alcohol is OK in moderation. I do think that it can be addicting and dangerous. I don't think there is any reason to walk around and act a fool! But then again that has never been me. I don't look down on people who drink, to each their own I guess.  Drinking and driving totally gets me going! I don't see any reason to get behind the wheel of a car when you have been drinking, period. bottom line. I would have a really hard time being a judge in a courtroom with a drinking and driving case. I just find it inexcusable.
There you have it peeps. My views on drugs and alcohol.

30 Day Challenge Day 2

Day 2- where do you see your self in 10 years.

OK,10 years huh.....hmm lets see Noel will be 22, Jayden will be 18, and Kaylin will be 13.....WOW. That is a little bit scary!! Almost makes me want to cry! Hopefully I will be as healthy and happy as I am now with a little more financial status thown in. I hope the Noel is loving college and Jayden is thinking of where she wants to go for college and Kaylin is just getting used to being a teenager. Again...I can't even imagine them being this old!! It seriously makes me sad!! I see myself settled and content since that is how I feel now and I hope that never changes. Maybe if I am lucky I will be a milllionaire with not a care in the world but one can only wish.

30 day challenge

ok, so one of my FB friends (thank you Fawn Wirtz) is doing this 30 day blog challenge. I decided I should just get on the wagon and hope that it will encourage me to blog more often. So,here goes nothing.

Day 1: your current relationship
well my current relationship is the same relationship I have been in for all of my adult life. But yet it is amazingly different than it was in the beginning. We were 2 crazy teenagers back then! Well Shane more crazy then myself but that is a WHOLE different story. LOL.
 I met Shane when I was 16 (I think) a crazy guy at a Bullock Creek basketball game. I had a BF at the time but we were on the outs. A couple weeks later I started hanging with Shane and then not too long after that he broke my heart (jerk!! wink,wink). It was about 2 years until we talked again Shane had to call my house and say he was someone else for me to answer but, we have been inseperable every since. We have 3 beautiful girls.We have been together for 14 years and married for 8 this Spetember.
on a real note though I would not change where we have been and where we are for the WORLD!! It makes us who we are! Shane is my rock and always has been. Whenever I am down he picks me up! I love him more today than ever and I hope that continues on for years and years to come!! You are my BFF Shane Kraus and I thank you for that!!
There you have it Day 1 of my 30 day blog challenge in the books....stay tuned for the next 29!! :0)
~Jessi