Nanny's 80th Bday Party

I surprised Nanny this past weekend by showing up for her 80th Bday party, that Aunt LeighAnne,Aunt Kelly, Aunt Linda and my dad,Doug, threw for her.

Nanny had no idea that I was coming for her b-day party. She had told me about it a couple weeks ago while we were chatting on messenger. I was originally going to send money for it but an opportunity came up so that I could go..so I jumped on a plane Friday am and headed to the wilds of West Virginia.

I meet up with my dad in Morgantown and followed him up to my Nanny's and he told her that he brought a vistor with him and when she saw me she couldn't believe that I was there. When she mentioned her bday party to me she thought for sure that their was not possible way that I would be there cause of getting married a little over a month ago. She said that I really made her day.

Nanny's party was held at the Moose and she had a great turn out. Nanny was so Happy that her family and friends came to help celebrate her 80th birthday with here. The food was great and everyone had a great time!!!!!

I want to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Aunt Leigh Ann, Aunt Kelly, Aunt Linda and my dad for throwing Nanny her party. If it wasn't for all their hardwork there wouldn't have been a party!! THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

We're MARRIED!!!!

It's done!!!!!!! We got married on Friday April 4th, 2008. A few things went wrong but it happens. Nothing that we didn't get past!!!
Everyone had a GREAT time and it was great to see family that came from all over to spend our special day with us.
I haven't gotten any pictures from guests but here is the link to look at the professional pictures.

www.semick.com

go to portriats and then choose Daryl and Danielle.

Enjoy!!!

Bridal Shower

My friends Daisy,Anna,Nina,Terry,Jenn, Diva, and Molly threw me a bridal shower on March 8th. I have such wonderful friends. I got a lot of nice things from everyone who came but the girls told me that I had to share them with Daryl.

One of the games that we played was Buzz Word Bingo and the ladies at the shower had to basically pay attention to what I said and if I said any words on their sheet, they got to cross it off. Well Diva would try to goud me into saying words so I had my fun with her. I would say every thing else except for the word she was looking for. I think I had more fun at that game than they did......

I remember when....

I remember when it was safe to go to school and you didn't have to worry about another student bringing a gun to school, to "settle" a problem or to take innocent people out just cause.
It breaks my heart every time I read on-line about the needless shootings that are going on all over America. My heart breaks for all the victums family and friends who are left behind wondering why did this person do this and did they even know my child, or was my child unfortunaltyly in the wrong place at the wrong time. But their children weren't "really" in the wrong place, they were in their classrooms trying to better themselves, get an education that they could take with them for the rest of their lives, something that they were paying for and what their class schedule told them to be on that particular day. But because some person decided that today was the day that they were going to go into a classroom,lecture hall or a cafeteria and just start shooting. That person took away everything from those students they killed and their families. The shooter took away their firsts, their first job after college, their first glimpse of their future spouses, their first kiss as a married couple, their first born child and so many more firsts.
My heart also goes out to the shooter's families. Most of the time their child was over all a good child. Now they are left behind wondering what could they have done to prevent this, did they do something wrong raising them and a general why? While they too should be dealing with their grief and trying to mourn their child they too have lost, they will be pursued and hounded with all theses questions from every news source out there, who found out where they live and they also will have to go thru hours of talking to law enforcement agencies from all over.
Every morning I worry about my brother and sister who are in college now. My brother jokes and says not to worry..his school has had it shooting(Kent State) but I still worry and pray that they will be safe during the day and that they will make it home from school but it starts over again the next day.
When will our schools be truly safe again...like when I was a child?

True Friends

Daryl and I had gone out to breakfast a couple of weeks ago and we ran into one of my co-workers and we joined them for breakfast.
We got on the subject of friends and my co-worker says that he bases "friend criteria" on this...If he were stuck on the side of the road at 2 am and he called someone to come and get him..that is a True friend.
That got me thinking and it's true. People that we call our friends..how many of them would come get you at 2 am..no questions asked???
I know that I'm that friend..I've proved it many..many times. But for me...there are few that I know that would get out of bed at 2 am. Looking at that has put a lot of things in prespective for me.
A true friend will be there for you no matter what. Will accept the friendship as it is..not what they can get from you. Won't get mad at you because you don't share their opinion but will love you because you have another opinion. Yes true friends get mad at each other but true friends have no problems saying their sorry if they are wrong and you will say your sorry if your wrong.
Now how many true friends do you have??

Manners

What has happened to them? Let me set the stage if I may.....

I work part time in a bar and yes I am there to take care of the customers but that doesn't give them the right to be rude...

I grew up showing respect and always saying yes,please,thank you, may I, yes ma'am , yes sir..you get the picture and if I didn't my mom would give me that look and I straightened up real quick.

And what gets me is the customers that I mostly serve are from the generation that it was all about manners!!!!!

How hard it is to say Thank you or please or may I instead of get me this or get me that. Or how hard is it to acknowledge a job well done. It doesn't have to be with money but a kind word works the same. Even though I am there to serve you and bring you whatever your little heart desires..it would be nice to hear THANK YOU!!!

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year to the three people who read our blog..... :-)

I can't believe that 2008 is already here. 2007 just flew by too quickly. I had many exciting things happen to me in 2007. I got engaged, got a my dream car..2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP(which also was my engagement present from Daryl) got to travel to California,Maine and Michigan. Got to see lots of family members and be able to introduce Daryl to pretty much all my family.
I was truly blessed in 2007 and hope that the blessing continue in 2008.

I really don't make any resolutions because I am notorious for breaking them. I'm just going to keep on keep on cause whatever I'm doing seems to be working just fine.

May all your wishes and dreams come true in 2008. And I hope that everyone is as blessed as I am in 2008.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!