36 is going to be great!

My birthday was Friday the 13th and for the first time in a long time, I wasn't afraid to start a new year, especially on a date like that! My 30s have been quite a roller coaster ride so far. I feel like this year I finally get to ride the carousel! It has its ups and downs but at a much slower and more manageable rate. I think I've earned enough life lesson credits to get off the crazy loop to loop and enjoy the scenery for awhile.

All I really wanted this year is some family time and no cooking pass! Since the crazies come out for the one date a year on Valentine's day we try to go out a few days before. We tried Applebee's again. Our last attempt after Christmas did not work out so well. Brady and I didn't get to join everyone else. Somehow the stars and moon aligned and we were able to get in some fun family time. It was even kids day so there was a balloon lady there which resulted in a deafening experience for Marty and the people behind us. If it can pop, Brady will figure out how to do it!

On Friday, Marty stopped at Wegman's for already prepared dinner! WooHoo 2 no cooking nights! We had another fun night of trying to figure out Wii Fit and seeing what our fitness age was. Oh Joy! Unfortunately, the new Wii fit is not working correctly so we need to send it back and that means our fit ages have to be wrong, too;) The Wii has been such a great way to spend family time together. the girls love to race Marty at Mario cart and I have been playing Animal Crossing with the girls, creating our town of McGuire! Beating the cabin fever feeling around here has resulted in many hours of Wii!

For the 20 somethings

dear under 30 way-freakin spoiled don't know what hard is crowd . . .

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
With their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning 

. Uphill... barefoot... 

BOTH ways 

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
There was no way in heck I was going to lay 

A bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it 

And how easy they've got it! 

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of 
Thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
Childhood, you live in a darn Utopia! 

And I hate to say it but you kids today you
Don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the darn library and
Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue (some of you have no idea what that is - you are probably googling it right now)!! 

There was no email!! We had to actually write
Somebody a letter, with a pen! 

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to 
Steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! 

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! 

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
Were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! 
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school,
Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
Just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! 

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video or Wii
Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
Like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You 
Actually had to use your I mag ination!! And there were no multiple levels or
Screens, it was just one screen
Forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting
Harder and harder and
Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! 


You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what was 
On! You were screwed when it Came to channel surfing! You had to get off
Your butt and walk over to the TV to change the Channel and there was no
Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
On Saturday Morning. Do you Hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
For cartoons, you spoiled
little brats!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
Something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that! 

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
Today have got it too easy. 
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted
Five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd 

Get your free coffe on Wednesday!

Free coffee at Panera all day WEd. January 28th!

Hugs!

True love

My crazy boy. He decided today he would let me take his picture. I was setting up for a photo shoot with my neighbor's newborn and he wanted to sit where the baby was going to sit. And since he was just in a diaper, he was doing me a favor testing the lights! It was short but just long enough to get a few cute ones!

Handy Manny

No job too big for this guy! He asked me for a pen and I watched him stick it behind his ear just like his buddy Manny. 

It was a good try!

Daddy was cleaning up his new "Man Area" (Sorry I didn't mean to make up fall over!) and decided to take his computer apart and clean the pieces inside only to discover that he bent something and that was the end of that. If you are a follower you will remember that Brady broke the door awhile back- well, that part is now fixed! It just doesn't turn on! To make a long story short, Marty went out to invest in a new one but Brady got his Handy Manny tools out to give it another try at fixing it! RIP Mr. Computer! (We all secretly belive that it wasn't an accident, but we'll never know;)