10,11,12,13

Wow, I am a little behind...not that I am not grateful but a little busy. We had an awesome anniversary weekend this last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We got an awesome hookup to stay up at Stein Erickson Lodge in Park City, Utah. It was nothing short of amazing, it is the only 5 star hotel in Utah. It is a little hard to get used to the amazing treatment, the only valet parking, the bellmen desk, concierge, the turn down service, the papers on your door, I could go on and on.
Our anniversary was on 11.11.11 this year, our original plan was to go the 11state which is New York btw, but we decided to save some cash and time with black Friday less than 2 weeks away.
Ben commented on facebook at 11:11 am we had been married for 11 years but at 1:00pm we were married for 12 years.
The kids stayed at Grandma's house, she is probably home right now passed out on the couch. They had a great time and didn't want to leave even when we got there.
Friday night, we went out to dinner and hung out at the hotel.
Saturday we went to see a movie and not a cartoon movie or rated G. (Tower Heist, pretty good and funny)
Sunday we went to the Stein Erickson Brunch, if you have not gone and need to add something to your bucket list or need a gift for the person that is hard to shop for, treat them to that. It was so AWESOME and hopefully someday will be able to take my Mom back up there for watching my kids for the weekend.

It was so fun and really nice to be just hang out with Ben and be able to talk to one another, without any interruptions.

9

 I am thankful for the desire to keep learning, in my patriarchal blessing it mentions to keep learning and luckily I like to learn new things. Sorry about the self portraits, but this is a tutorial I found that I wanted to use on a scrapbook page I was doing and practiced on some of my photos (photos taken by Jeni Boston).

A list of things that I would love to learn more about....

Cake Decorating

Photoshop

Jewelery making

Cooking classes

Speaking french

I would love to go back to school and take psychology classes and or nursing classes.

History classes

There are so many to list, but that would be a good start.

7 and 8

I wish I had a great photo to post with my daily thanksgiving post tonight but I don't. What I am thankful for today and everyday is my mother. She is an amazing person, she says how she feels, she wears her heart on her sleeve, she has unbelievable compassion for others, she is a work horse, she loves her grand kids, she loves her children, she loves to garden, she has a weird obsession with tilling, she is so generous with her time and money, she laughs at herself, she loves to decorate for Christmas and thinks it is important to still put up Christmas lights for her grand kids to get excited about when they come over. I am happy for her that she gets to slow down here soon with all the retirements benefits kicking in and can't wait to spend more time with her.

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After a recent incident I am especially thankful for the safety that I have been blessed with throughout my life.

A few examples of scary things that have happen that could have been much worse.

~I saw a train accident right in front of my car when I was in high school, the lady that was hit had both of her legs broken.
~I was in a roll over crash in 1999 a few months before I got married, we hit a patch of slush, and started to slide we were headed straight toward a semi truck, who was honking at us to get out of his way, the very last second our car slides into some mud and rolls three times.
~When Ben and I were dating and before I worked for the airline, I rode the bus up to Ben's hometown, to make a long story short, there were two buses traveling through Ben's hometown and they gave us the option of getting off of the bus we were on and going to the other bus. I got out of my seat to go, walked to the front of the bus, saw an empty row and stayed on the bus I had been on. I didn't know this until I saw Ben, but that bus in front of us was in a head on collision with a semi, and the driver was killed and many passengers were hurt really bad.
~Ben was in a horrible wave-runner accident that was very bad, but could have been worse.
~Last night on my overnight in Oklahoma City, there was an earthquake nothing major(5.6) but it was still unnerving and makes you think about how much worse things could have been.

5

Today I am thankful for my job
 well my second job. I love that
I was just in the right place at the
right time.

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  I will make this short and sweet because there are some people I know who don't like it when people get to mushy on blogs about their spouse. (I might be one of them, depends on the content though).

I have blogged a little too much about Ben for his liking anyway.

Here are some things I appreciate about him.

 1. He will watch Anderson Cooper with me.

2. He doesn't say "we'll see or relax" as much as he used to (because I asked him to:)

3. He likes me for me. 

4. He doesn't usually complain about things that I do.

5. He is kind of disappointed when Alivia leaves to go to sleep overs and her Grandma's house when it his weekend off.

 6. He is SO sweet to our primary kids, especially a little girl Jessie who comes into sharing time every Sunday crying and grabs her from her mom and sits her on his lap.

7. He laughs at my attempts to be funny.

8. He likes whatever I make him for dinner and hardly ever has requests, just goes with the flow.

9. He likes the music I like.

10. When he is excited, happy or has interesting news, I love it when he calls me to tell me.

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Today will be a little homage to some of the many small things that I am thankful for but don't necessarily want to do a whole post about.

1. Target (duh right?) it has been an great company to work for and I never get bored to just go stroll through the store.
2. My memory foam pads (2of them) that are on my bed, oh how I sleep so much better in my own bed than hotel beds.
3.A new moisturizer that I found, (it's a little pricey) but I recently bought a trial size and it was nothing short of A-mazing!! It is made by a company by Philosophy and is it called Miracle worker.
4. Costco.
5. My car, I am glad it gets us to and fro.
6. Lotion and chap-stick, I would be a crackly old more wrinkled person without it.
7. Sunglasses, I might have a small addiction to nice sunglasses??
8. Crushed ice, seriously I love that small little "half chewed" ice.
9. Humor, my life would be SO boring without it.
10. Cafe Rio.