Miracles never cease to amaze me!

Miracle #1

Well, I must say while I really wanted the Giants to win the Super Bowl when I made my post yesterday, I don't think I really believed that they would The Patriots had been so dominant all season. It was a great game I hate when the super bowl ends up being a total blow out what is the fun in that.

Miracle #2
My husband actually cleaned out our Utility room on Sunday morning. Now I know have been singing my husbands praises but I must tell you some of his downfalls, he is human and a man after all. My husband is not a neat person and I am total neat freak. Just think of Monica on Friends I am not quite that bad but I understood her excitement when something was clean and tidy. We live in a nice sized house and 5 years ago when we moved in if you would have told me that I would have it filled, I would have said you are crazy. No I am the crazy one because it is full!!! The Utility room is the place we put all the stuff that we don't know where else to put. Here are some examples, tools, deep freezer, the Chrsitmas decorations, the Halloween decorations, the big boxes of stuff we buy from Costco, crap that my husband has kept for 20 years .. I think you get the picture. Well here our utility room before the big clean of 2008 not bad but certainly not the picture of neatness.


And here is the after..... We have I kid you not almost a 1/3 of the 3 car garage now full of stuff to be hauled away this Wednesday by the trash guys. I was giddy with excitement!


I know that the pictures don't show the same before and after but you get the idea. I am not totally sure what sparked his desire to clean, my guess he was looking for something and he figured why no get rid of stuff since he had it all torn apart, plus he knew I would be furious if he had left it all torn up. Regardless I am happy ..... I love miracles!

Welcome back..... and surprises galore!

Ok I am back and boy does it feel good to be home! I have a feeling this is going to be a long post because I have a lot of ground to cover so bare with me :)

I arrived home on Wednesday night, the kids were super excited to see me and I had lots of hugs and kisses from them and hubby too! Thankfully Dan was starting to get over his illness and the kids remained healthy during my absence thank goodness for small miracles.

I decided that I would work from home on Thursday so I could drop the kids off and pick them up. So I get up like any other regular work day so I can get my workout in before the tribe gets up. I go down to my workout room and what do I see!!! A brand new treadmill!!!! Talk about shocking I thought for a minute I was in the wrong house, I went bolting up the stairs and woke my husband up asking what that new treadmill was doing there?? He said he had it delivered while I was gone because he knew I wanted to vary my workouts. We have an elliptical machine that I use religiously already. Plus he said that this way we could both do a cardio workout at the same time. I think he has seen the results I have gotten (10lbs total since Jan 1st) and he doesn’t want to be shown up. So the past 2 days I have run 2 miles on it and I LOVE it. Again I have the best hubby in the world. However I did question him at length as to how much it was because I know what we paid for that elliptical 4 years ago. He said he got a great deal at Costco and it was under $1000, .and as you can see it is pretty big and pretty much gym quality. VERY COOL if you ask me!

Speaking of Costco I after I picked up my daughter from school yesterday I went there to pick a few things that I knew we needed. My daughter loves going to Costco first because you can eat your way through there and second because she loves their pizza. So as we checked out she asks me if we can sit down and eat a slice, I’m thinking man it is 2 hours till dinner time, but what the heck! So I get her a slice and if you have been there you know they aren’t small slices. Well she devoured it, and I have the picture to prove it. She is a sloppy mess but she was in heaven!

Lastly, I received a very un expected surprise this morning when I logged on to my Blogger I had a message from Melody at Pennies in my pocket I won a Custom Blog Design by RS Designs. Go check their designs they are very cool. Also be on the lookout for my new Blog design!

Well I think that about covers it! Super Bowl Sunday this weekend I can’t wait I love Super bowl munchies, the commercials oh yeah and the game :)