Gorgeous Day at Work

What do you do when it's gorgeous outside but you have to stay inside and work?

I will tell you that I am ridiculously unproductive.  I find everything but work to do.  I do get some work done but I get distracted very easily.

It doesn't help that today is also dip day.  Dip Day is a great day!  But it makes for not a very productive Becky.

Anyway, on this very unproductive day we learned that Amanda could not fit through the crack between the cubicles and the wall due to too much Dip!  Here is a picture for proof:

You also get a cute picture of my nephew Harrison!

Pictures

November 9

I'm so thankful for pictures.  For the ability to take a picture and then have it printed and framed.  Or heck not even framed.  I love how I can see a picture and I'm instantly back in that memory.  I have pictures of me with family and friends all over my desk.  It keeps me sane during those long days.  I have a wall of just candid pictures in my living room.  I'm really bad about putting new pictures up on that wall but that wall is amazing.  

I have pictures from college up there, that immediately take me back to the amazing cruise I went on for Spring Break with my 3 best girl friends in college.  

Not the picture I was thinking of but it works!

 

Or this picture on my desk of KT and myself at the Metrodome celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1987 World Series. 

Or this picture of my cousins Abby and Ciera and myself at a minor league baseball game in Savannah, Georgia, on the first of many family vacations.

 

Pictures make me happy!  Pictures show outsiders the people you care about.  I love them!

Finally Caught Up

November 7

I'm thankful for my job.  I'm thankful for the challenges it brings me almost everyday.  I'm thankful for the friends I've made through my job.  We are going through a re-structuring right now and there are a tremendous amount of headaches associated with that.  I'm trying to stay positive about it and remember that there are people who do not have a job and desperately want a job.  Maybe blogging that will help me remember it better?!?!?!?!

November 8

I'm thankful for the best family in the world.  I know I've already been thankful for each individual person in my immediate family but I'm incredibly thankful for my extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) as well.  We are a very close knit group on both sides of the family.  I love it.  I can't imagine life without my amazing cousins.  I love that I have cousins that are my age as well as way younger (like 1 year old).  I also love that I have aunts who I can call at the drop of a hat just to chat or to cry or laugh with.  Aaron says he's never met anyone who is this close with their extended family, but I wouldn't trade it for anything!  Sure it makes life holidays a little difficult to plan but it's worth it in the end!  The thing that I love the most is that we are all over the country but still find ways to connect and stay in touch!  I hope my kids are lucky enough to be close with their cousins and maybe even my cousins' kids!

Whole family on my Mom's side

A good portion of Dad's side