Merry Christmas!

So we had a wonderful ice storm on my birthday to celebrate my dreaded 30th...

But the night before, we decided to round up the kids and get a family picture taken...from the photo, you can see how well that went! Ha ha!

I hope everyone enjoys the Christmas Holiday and stay warm!

Happy Thoughts

Ok, so I have been reading my blog and it is kind of depressing. I thought I would change the layout to be a little brighter and happier to look at. By the way, Michelle...how did you get your cool background?

Let's see...we live in Waukee now. Our house still hasn't sold up in Manchester so we are trying to figure out what to do since it costs WAY too much for 2 house payments.

Brian is doing well at his job with Energy Doctor and has also started working with another company called Vemma. www.myvemma.com/drvemma is his website. They sell an energy drink called Verve that is packed full of vitamins and gives you an energy boost as well and it is supposed to kick Red Bull's butt. They also have the regular Vemma which is chalk full of vitamins. I personally tried it and was getting a very bad cold passed on from people at work but started taking it and it stopped it from going any farther and got rid of the cold right away. It is amazing stuff. It helps with your digestive track, heart, immune system etc...

The boys are doing well. AJ is in 2nd grade and does very well in all of his subjects but the best in math and reading. Gavin is the same too with those subjects. They are very smart boys and will go far in life if they apply themselves. Chase is doing good too. His terrible twos seem to have stuck a little but he is also very loving. And he like to pick on Desi our little rat treeier but she puts up a good fight...

I am doing good at my job at Fed Ex as well. Kicking butt and taking names... :) j/k. I really like my job.

Nothing else really. Just living life and taking what comes at us...

Later.

I had something here, but took it off...

Will it ever end???

Why does addiction have to be part of my life? I am not the idiot who gets addicted to things. Just everyone else around me. I get so frustrated when people make choices that affect my life and my children's lives. I've had to deal with everyones various forms of addictions throughout my life. When will I ever get a break????????

Twilley Family Reunion

So we had this family reunion... in Alabama. Enough said.

Ha ha! It had all of the elements of a great family get together. Alcohol, fights and hospitalizations. What more could you ask for.

Gotta love your family. ;)

If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.

OK. So I have this wonderful mother in law who has chosen to have alcohol run her life.

It is sad because she really is in the best time of her life. She is single, all of her kids are grown, she could travel, she has time to visit her grandkids any time she really wants to yet she chooses to sit at home and drink her life away and complain about how bad her life is and how no one loves her. Blah blah blah. She did it to herself. She chooses to go to the store and buy that bottle of vodka. She chooses to sit at home on her chair and sip away at it all night until she gets all liquered up and around 7pm she then proceeds to call people and ask them why no one wants to see her.

Let's see, maybe because every time she makes plans with people she backs out on them or she ends up finding a reason to get mad at the person and make up some lame excuse like she has to clean her apartment. How can one person have that dirty of an apartment? She doesn't. She just wants to hide in her little apartment and drink and complain.

She wonders why her life never changes. Well, as my title of this blog says, "If you do what you always did, then you will get what you always got." Whoever wrote that is a genius. It is so true. If you don't change the problem, you will never change the outcome.

She had a chance to fix her life too and she blew it. She was in rehab for 11 months out of her life. What a waste of the taxpayers money to pay for her rehab for her to only go back to drinking.

I have enough on my plate with having 3 boys, a husband, school and bills to have to add the stress of her calling EVERY night, yes EVERY night, like clockwork and bringing me down. I like to be around positive people who can uplift my spirits.

So to all of you out there, if you drink, don't call me and whine about how your life sucks, because you can change it. Get off your butt and do something about it.

Just had to vent... :)

Welcome to our family page

Well, I saw a friend of mine had this site and it looked pretty cool. Thought I would give it a whirl. I've always wanted a site for just our family give updates on so here it is... enjoy!