I'm an optimist. I love being positive. Check this out. Yesterday I worked in our other building for work with our clients. I was dying to go out to lunch. My buddy Rose was going tanning and I didn't really want to do that at all. So I asked Stephanie, who's like 34 weeks preggo if she wanted to go. She was all for it. I mentioned to her that I smelled someone's lunch not too long ago and it smelled soooo good. She said it was her appetizer (breakfast) and she had fries and a grilled cheese sandwich and now she was ready for lunch an hour later. OMG!!! Now you must be thinking, this chick has to be fat. Not hardly. She's 34 weeks preggo, not a spec of fat on her body, her stomach from the baby is huge (all baby!!) and she doesn't even look preggo in her face. I can't believe she eats like that and doesn't gain and ounce. I'm SOOOO jealous.

So one more friend joined us for lunch and Stephanie drove. We drove right by my mini-van and I pointed out to the girls, hey look - 'That's my van -----Um, with the flat tire'. Yeah, I had a flat. No biggie. Will take care of it later.

We went out to Big Boy. We ate. I had an awesome salad, a burger and fries. Then we went back. I called AAA to change my tire to my spare. They came about 3pm. Then I left work an hour early to go get our tire fixed. The first place wanted $21.50 to patch it and they had an hour wait. NO way!!! That's way too $$ and I didn't have an hour to wait. I had to go get Joey. So I went down the street to a mom and pop tire place. They plugged my tire for $7.50 and put it on my car, put my spare away and the tools. What a great place!!!! I love those places that are family run!!

So the moral of the story is, I could have been ticked off about the flat. Instead I was THRILLED I found out about it at lunch time so I had some time to call AAA to put my spare on and to go get it fixed. I might not have been as happy about it if I found it as I HAD to leave to pick up Joey. I was fortunate for sure! My friends were saying they would have been upset about it all during lunch. I figured why be upset about something that already happened. Get it fixed and get on with life! :) I'm glad that I could plug it and didn't have to buy a new tire. I found out I ran over a screw.

Joey is more amazing every day. He says everything now. Today we were playing and he closed the door and left me in the room and said 'Night Night momma. See you later'. He's saying sentences! He loves going up and down hills when we drive and saying, 'Up hill', 'Down Hill'. He runs up to me with two trucks and says 'Green Blue Green Blue' and hands the green truck to me and he keeps the blue truck. He knows almost all of his body parts.

This week we went to the playground one day and to the ice cream place another. He loved both. When we went to get ice cream the moon was out and he kept pointing to the moon and saying 'moon'. It was so cute. I love spending time with him with just me and him after we get out of daycare. He loves his daddy so much and is always with him, so that this is our time without daddy.

This is really funny. We keep telling him there is a baby in my tummy. He lifts my shirt and pokes my spongy tummy. What a goofball!!!!

Here are two photos of Joey above. One shows our new/old couch. We got a couch off freecycle a few weeks ago and it's comfortable and very long. Both Joe and I can sit on it at the same time and stretch out! Here is Joey and Alex our cat LOVES Joey. Aren't they cute?

Both photos were on 3/5. We still had snow in our yard that hadn't melted. It was packed down snow so when we pushed Joey down the hill in our back yard, he went flying down. It was so cute. The snow FINALLY melted on Tuesday this week when it got close to 60 degrees. I opened our windows and aired out the house. I LOVE the smell of outside air coming in the house!!!!!

Hope all is well with you guys! I hope you post a comment so I know you were here and how you are doing. If you don't have a blogger profile, post as anonymouse and sign your name in your message. Kara and Leah, I hope you make it here! :)

This pretty much says "ME" to a T. Those that know me will probably agree with most of these statements!! I believe that luck plays little part in what happens in your life. You need to work hard for what you want in life. Of course, the unexpected happens, but in my opinion, everything happens for a reason, and even in sadness, it may take a little while to find out what the meaning of that event was. I'm an optimist as well. I'm very analytical. I don't care about style too much, just functional things :)

You are a Dynamic Analyst.

You are an Analyst

• Your attention to detail, confidence, sense of order, and focus on functionality combine to make you an ANALYST.
• You are very curious about how things work, delving into the mechanics behind things.
  Along those lines, how well something works is usually more important to you than what it looks like.
• You find beauty and wonder mainly in concrete, functional, earthly things.
  You are very aware of your own abilities, and you believe that you will find the best way of doing things.
• Accordingly, problems do not intimidate you, as you believe in yourself.
• You trust yourself to find solutions within the boundaries of your knowledge.
• You don't spend a lot of time imagining how things could be different—you're well-grounded in the here-and-now.
• It is important for you to follow a routine, and you prefer the familiar to the unknown.
• You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.
• Generally, you believe that you control your life, and that external forces only play a limited role in determining what happens to you.

You are Dynamic

• As someone who is DYNAMIC, you do not have a hard time meeting new people, and you have a bunch of close friends.
• You are not overly concerned with what others may think about you, which leaves you free to be thoroughly involved in the world around you.
• There are those who find being around people exhausting—but not you! Interacting with others, whether at a party or in conversation, gives you energy.
• You have a strong sense of what the world is like and how it should be.
• You have enormous respect for those who have earned their success, and have little patience for those who try to bend the rules or ride on the coattails of others' hard work.
• Believing in the importance of integrity and hard work doesn't stop you from believing that people will do the right thing—you know that people are good at heart.
• You sometimes have trouble understanding why others feel the way they do, but it doesn't stop you from having faith and trust in those around you.
• Part of what makes engaging with people so interesting for you is that you occasionally learn something new about yourself or about a problem you're having when discussing things with others.
• Your strong worldview leads you to believe that people shouldn't rely on their emotions so much when making decisions.

See my report below! I guess that would explain why I'm I'm a computer/systems analyst! LOL

My Personal Dna Report

See, photos from my parents house! These are from 2/14. We brought Joey over to my parents house so we could go out for dinner at one of our favorite places - called Tomato Brothers. They have the best italian food. Joe was already dressed up from work and I just had on something that fit at the time (hehe). So see the photos below.

We finally finished the closets! YEEHAW! I will take a photo when they are completely filled up but they are up, in studs on the wall and look 100% better! We already loaded up the one side with Joe's baseball cards and my scrapbook albums. The other side is just misc for office type stuff since we have no other room in our house. Our house really didn't come with storage! I'm so happy to finally start getting the house in order. I freecycled a bunch of stuff again this evening! Yay!!

I forgot to update you on Joey. He's doing so well with his colors. He knows blue, green, yellow, red, orange and purple very well. He counts to 10 and then a few others above that he jumbles but he's trying. This weekend we took my minivan in to get maintenanced and he was in Joe's car behind me. He said to Joe, 'Mommy, where ARE you?!'. Joe laughed so hard and had to call me to tell me. He's starting to form sentences and it's so cool. He also tells us to 'Be Careful' all the time - something we often say to him.

Today it finally WARMED up to 45 degrees. Yes, that is warm for Michigan right now. We've been in 20's and 30's lately! We are geeked about this weekend - it's supposed to be near 60. I guarantee that everyone in Michigan will be wearing shorts. It's actually quite comical. Anyhow we took Joey outside twice today and he loved to just get out of the house, as did we.

We went to my parents house tonight and had a full dinner, which included ribs, which we great. Greg, my brother, was there. It was a nice family dinner. Afterwards we had apple pie. It was nice. We took Joey outside for a long walk around the yard and he ran and ran around. He loved being outside, as much as we do.

I hope to update again later this week, especially since tomorrow I should get the results of my car maintenance and Tuesday is my next ob appt. Until then, take care!

AND I saved the BEST for last. I love easter - you know why? Cadbury eggs ROCK!!!! My dad is such a sweetie. My mom and I love them so when he ran to the store to get my son some ice cream, because Joe and my dad ate the end of it, he got us some cadbury eggs. Here's to cadbury eggs - the best easter candy ever!