15

Maybe it is a theme for the day, but I just read on someone else's daily Thanksgiving about friends.
My life has gone in many different directions with friends, but the one thing that has never changed it what and how much I learn from my friends...... from being a better mom, to more fashionable, more spiritual, I could go on and on.
I know that some friends are lifelong friends and some are not, some friendships that end might be a blessing in disguise and some friendships are just blessings.

I guess I will get on my little soapbox about being friendly, and please understand I don't do these all of the time either, but here we go.
If you see someone in the store, why pretend like you don't see them, why is it so hard to smile and wave?
If you see someone at church why is it so hard to pay someone a compliment?
When walking down a hallway with someone you don't know how come it is hard to say Good Morning or hello and smile?
Even if you don't say something to someone you are walking past, how about a smile?

I learned a really good lesson once at work, as the passengers were deplaning a was standing there with a straight face saying goodbye and thank you and a man walked up to me as he was about to walk off the plane and said something to the extent, that "it wouldn't kill you to smile". I will never forget that. EVER. I think about that a lot and the way our body language and words affect other people.

Some of us have lots of friends- some of us have a few friends-some of us want more friends and some of us feel like they don't need friends,  I know I have felt all of those feelings but the feeling today and many days is I am thankful for every one of my friends, each has more positives than negatives and I know that my friends make me want to be a better person and I would be sad if they didn't know that I was thankful for them.

14

Today is another lame post without a photo but maybe with some background music to get into the spirit of the post.
I am thankful for music, it has always been a big part of my life, and is not as big right now as I would like it to be.
I would have music playing all day if I could get away with it.

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.

6-

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.