Thanksgiving, Husbands, and husbands putting dryer sheets up their noses...

This Thanksgiving equals awesome! I got to see my family whom I haven't seen in months. what I love most about it is that we all come together and there is no fighting, it is just love and plain silliness. With my family, if you know them, you know what I mean. Ca-ra-zzzyyy. But that's what I love most about it. We can act foolish without feeling foolish. :)

Another great part about coming home is that my mom immediately let's me do just about any decorating I want. The interior design of the house, her office, Christmas decorating, etc. And I love it! So we made a few more plans on painting the kids bathroom and started Christmas decorating. So, fun! My sister and I even got to decorate the tables for Thanksgiving...

If you look closely, you may recognize some of the center pieces.....not ringing a bell? Let me help, bells were ringing the day we used them. You got it! Best day of my life, my wedding.

Speaking of weddings, we are coming up close to our one year anniversary. I know right?! so excited. It has been one heck of a year. I can see what they mean by the first year being the hardest, I may have to agree with that, but I'd say that ours went fairly smooth compared to how it could be. I can deal with that. :) It has been a wonderful year and the only thing to make it better is having Christmas be a week later. :) Something I just have to share is the response Richard gave to a question that I just about cried over it was so sweet. My best friend Britney, had a family foundations class assignment. She asked five questions to married couples at different stages in their marriage. One within their first year (us), one couples whose been married for several years, and another later in their marriage. One of the questions asked was "How would you express your degree of love for your spouse now as compared to the day you were married?". I happened to see Richard's responses before I sent them off in the email, (of course I looked, I'm a curious person) his response was so adorable. His reply was, "My love for Janie has grown from the time we were married, I loved her for what I had seen and the little I knew about her. I now know her better and have come to love the person she is and not the idea of who I thought she was." Umm, adorable right? I am grateful Britney had that assignment. You know that they love you, but you like to hear it anyway. :) I just had to share. I loved that response. I feel so incredibly blessed to have Richard as my husband and who loves me for me.

One thing about Richard that makes me laugh is that he does the strangest things without thinking about it. The one I'm thinking of in particular happened to me today. I came home from class to find Richard on the couch watching a tv show of sorts. I came to sit next to his horizontal body. I picked up a dryer sheet that had somehow gotten stuck to the edge of the couch, and promptly tossed it in his face. I like to be obnoxious what can I say? I started to pet the cat for a minute before turning around to watch the show with him and started busting a gut. In that short amount of time he had taken that dryer sheet and shoved it up one of his nostrils and left it there. Ha ha ha! Where did that come from? Do all men try to find things to shove up their noses? Peas? Beans? Dryer sheets? I asked why he did that and of course he says, 'I don't know, I just did it.' I will never understand but it was the funniest thing I had seen all day. I don't know where I would be without any boys in this world to make the women laugh. I think it would be a sad and boring place. I love the boys in my life that make me laugh especially my darling husband who tends to make me laugh on a daily basis. :)