12 on the 12th--December Edition

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1. I took this screenshot on my phone when I got up for the day 8 minutes before my alarm!
2. I was ahead of schedule so I had more time to eat my toast and watch The New Adventures of Old Christine (I love that show, so funny).
3. Family scripture reading, notice how it looks like Whitney is sleeping.
4. Coke run on the way to work.
5. Getting work in the dark at 7:15am.
6. Whitney usually stops by the office at lunch time to see if I have anything she can talk me into taking her out for lunch or if I have any treats.
7. I love having the garlands and bows on our fence at Christmas time.
8. Good mail from the hospital with the results from the previous week's Mammogram.
9. Landon and Whitney babysat the kids next door as an act of Service but Landon had a basketball game during that time so we brought 2 of the 3 kids with us to the game. It was hilarious and exhausting. 
10. Landon looks huge these days (that's his goal) and it's weird to see all these high school boys morphing into big men.
11. Randy and I watched Survivor (we love that show).
12. I manage to read 3-4 pages before falling asleep each night even though the book is so good.

I can't believe I've completed another year of 12 on the 12th grids! This is my 4th year in a row and I love it. Now that I've finished this year I can order my 8x10 grids to put on the wall in our hallway. 

12 on the 12th--June Edition

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1. Another beautiful, summer morning.
2. Robyn's girls spent the morning here while she was at work.
3. I took Whitney to spend the day with Tess and Megan at the waterpark.
4. I stopped at TJ Maxx on the way home.
5. Sweet nectar.
6. Chalk art by Landon, Olivia and Ashley.
7. The new glasses I bought at TJ Maxx.
8. An email with attachments for Girls Camp--details, details.
9. I love having flowers on the table, these are from our RS garden party.
10. Reading in the cozy.
11. Landon having his Scoutmaster's Conference (before leaving on a hike) the last signature he needed before turning in his Eagle Project Workbook, woohoo!
12. Camp Night activity.

Consumed

Today was so busy at work (we were covering for the attendance secretary while still doing our job) that I only managed to consume the following...

44 ounces of Coke (which took way longer than usual to drink)
1 Rice Krispie Treat
1 Mini bite-sized Butterfinger
1 Handful of popcorn

Shockingly I'm not shaky, nor do I have a headache...I'll never understand.

Five for Friday

1. This is a shot of our table (my parents gave us their old one so our vintage yellow one has been retired) last week when I was working on my talk one morning. It pains me a bit now because I gave up Coke last Saturday...oh how I loved that relationship, but it was getting to be the boss of me.

 2. One evening last week, Landon and his friend Hunter made paint out of corn starch, water and food coloring and painted this Y on the driveway, not too shabby and I was thrilled that it had nothing to do with a screen!

3. Our friends Matt and Pam were in town from Chicago and stopped by unexpectedly on Sunday night. It cracked me up that Randy plopped down on the loveseat next to Matt--I ended up with the full sized couch all to myself.

Pam sat in the blue chair across the room. It was good to visit with them again, when we were all young married couples we used to hang out constantly.

4. We had a big Court of Honor Tuesday night which meant I was up to my eyeballs getting all the awards ready. I finally tackled the project of putting Landon's merit badges on his sash with Gorilla Glue! I had Goggled it and found that as a possible option (though it shows through on the other side) and it worked great!

5. Landon officially started football practice this week!! This is big news for us. We had to buy football cleats, a mouth guard and a practice shirt (on top of getting all the official equipment a couple weeks ago). He's loving it and walks with a bit of a strut when he's all decked out.

6. I met Amie for lunch on yesterday because we hadn't gotten together for a couple weeks. It turns out she's leaving for California next week and then I'll be going back to work (sigh) so we were lucky it worked out!