Lots of Celebrations

Happy New Year to all... May 2009 be the best year yet!!!

ALSO,

a very Happy Birthday to my best friend Danielle.. I hope this year brings you much health, happiness, and lots of love. I love you very much and wish nothing but the best for you and your family!!!! Have a great day and a great 2009....

Invitations By Heather

For the longest time now I've been meaning to tell you about my friend Heather's Buisness: Invitations By Heather! She is such a great friend and sooooo very talented! Heather recently opened her own side buisness making invitations, thank you cards, personalized labels, bridal & baby shower and wedding favors! Heather has been my lifesaver this past year - designing everything for me and my family! Check out so of the awesome stuff she has done!

First up - she printed up Brian's Surprise 30th Birthday Party invitations(That were a HUGE hit by the way)! Everyone loved them so much and couldn't believe how unique and costum they were. Heather really does spectacular work!

Heather also designed many of the items for my brother's wedding this past May! Remember, the one in Baltimore where I had a hard time with the bridesmaid dress!?! LOL... Anyway, Heather made cute stick on labels for the gift bags when the guests checked in to the hotel! They were so simple, yet cute! And very easy to apply! Very worth it!

Heather also designed my SIL's bridal shower favor which was a Hershey's Chocolate Bar! isn't it cute! And was very yummy!!

This was also the exact invitation(except for the phone #) that heather designed for my brother and SIL's rehearsal dinner down in MD! I looooved the blue stripes and the cute little couple on the front. So modern and stylish!

Heather also designed Brian's Thank You Cards which we are in the process of getting out as we speak! You know men, sheesh! They take forever! LOL.. Sorry i don't have the pictures of them up yet!

I have been sooo happy with Heather and her work I would recommend her to any and everyone! I love her stuff that much I want her to help me design my wedding invitations ( that is if Brian and I ever get hitched, LOL)

So check her out! Maybe your little one is having a 1st Birthday or your cousin is having a baby! Maybe your daughter is turning Sweet 16 or you just got married and want unique Thank You's! Heather will work with you and design the most perfect custom design for your occasion! You won't be sorry! wat are you waiting for go... Check her out!

PS - She's going to be designing Buisness cards for my Blog! How
corny cool am i?

More Bloggy Bling - And I love it!

I recently received this great award from Missy from Bees and Boo-Boos! I love her blog - thanks for passing this award on to me!!

The rules are to pass it on to people who have been following you for a long time and then a new follower from another country. I think I can do that too... So here we go:

Katie from Auburn Kat - she faithfully reads and comments on my blog! I love all of her thoughts!

Tara from Tied Together With A Smile - she shares my love for Grey's Anatomy and always is a faithful reader...

Danielle from New Mommy Rant - she is one of my Best Friends and is the reason I started a Blog.. Reading her's every day made me want to create something of my own. I love you for that - my blog is very theraputic... Thanks Dan - I love you!

Lori from Teacher Turned Mommy... Not As Easy As It Sounds - i love the fact that she was a Kindergarten teacher and I currently am! It kinda puts us on the same page with some of our classroom/school feelings and thoughts. I also love seeing pictures and hearing all about her adorable boys Blake & Colby! Those 2 are so stinkin cute. Check her out!

EP from Stylish Handwriting - this gril keeps it so real! She is a great writer and takes amazing pictures. I truly love seeing a new post pop up on my reader!

Ashley from Our Little Apartment - I love hearing her stories! She started following me early on and is still around giving me good advice! A true bloggy friend!

And now for my "another country!"I pass this award on to
Mozi Esmé
The day-to-day adventures of a 1-year-old American bebe growing up in Mozambique. - Her baby is so adorable! I am a recent reader to her blog - but it is very worth it! She leaves very, sweet comments!

I recently recieved the following award from Lori - thanks, you're the best!

I'd like to pass this award to:

Carmen from La Petite Belle

Christy from Cakerwakers

Katelin from Gorgeous Footsteps in The Sand

Amanda from I Could Be Ordinary

Amanda from The Family News!

That Short Chick from Late Bloomer's Revelations

Anna from My Sweetest Dream

Sarah Elizabeth from Jacks, Yurman, & Bobby Brown

I could serioulsy go on and on! I love everyone in my reader! I am blessed to have such a great group of Bloggy friends! Love you all! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

xoxox

~Dana~

Off To AC

I am off to AC for the night with Brian and our friends Erika & Steve.. I am sooo excited.. We are staying overnight at Tropicana Hotel & Casino.. We have tickets to see The Dark Knight in IMAX!! (I hear it was even better in IMAX, YAY!!) And then we have 8:30 dinner reservations, followed by a night a drinking, laughs, gambling, and plain old fun with good friends!

In the morning we are going to get roomservice breakfast and head home because Monday finds me back at work... Eeckkk....

This really is my last weekend of complete freedom.. I can't believe that a new school year is here - I soooo thought I'd be in a different situation!! Hopefully some time soon!!

Wish me luck - maybe i'll hit it big on the slots and can take the year off to find a new job - lol -YEAH RIGHT!!! I'm not that lucky...

Gotta Love Eliza!!

Celebrating the 4th was fun! Danielle, Pete, Brian, Heather, Alli and I had a nice, relaxing 4th of July! We had a BBQ, made soda, laughed, and enjoyed being together.. And Hey, it's always a great time when you get to see Eliza.. Check out some cute pics of her below.....

Uncle Brian just looooves his niece!

Nice Afternoon

I had a very nice afternoon!! Met my Mom, Danielle, and Eliza after work.. Danielle and I had to get our dresses altered for our friends wedding that we are in, in the end of June!! Then we went back to my mom's house for dinner... It's so great getting together with my mom and friend!! Couldn't ask for a happier time! I absolutely adore Eliza - I love showering her with kisses and hugs!

Thanks for a great night!!

P.S. - Happy birthday to my brother Chris!!

Girls Night - Girls ONLY!!!

As I get older I notice I become more and more busy..

I have a boyfriend to take care of, work to do, papers to grade, meals to cook, dishes in the sink, laundry to wash, bathroom to clean, bed to make (please - someone stop me)

So as I was saying - as we get older we get busy and tend to forget the important things in life - we forget to make time for the important things in life.

I have 3 very special friends, and like me they have a TON going on.

Danielle - married - just had her 1st baby - a beautiful girl named Eliza, sometimes we refer to her as the "peanut." And she is also a fellow kindergarten teacher. And there is Heather - married - she is busy with work, her side buisness, her niece & brand new nephew, and she is busy with anything having to do with a baby! And then there is Erika - engaged - she is busy planning her wedding and working hard in 2 different schools!

We all seem to get stuck in our routines - which is normal (especially since we are such busy people).

Tonight, Heather's husband had a 30th BDay party at a Strip Club and it was a boys ONLY party.. So we decided to have a girls ONLY party @ my house.. (minus Danielle because the "peanut" is sick and in the hospital!! (We really missed you tonight Dan, hope Eliza is feeling better)

We had so much fun talking, laughing, eating, drinking, and reminiscing about college times! Just us girls!!

I know that I am guilty of hanging out with my boyfriend on weekends and not going out of my way to make more "girl" time, which I think is extremely important.. If it was New Year's I'd make a resolution to take time out of my crazy, hectic schedule to hang out with just the girls. I wouldn't let so much time go by before the 4 of us get together for a girls night...

So I dedicate this to my girls!! I love you all very much - I think of each one of you every day and you are always in my heart!!

To EJ, Dan, & Heather:
You're...My Friend,my companion,through good times and bad

my friend, my buddy,through happy and sad,

beside me you stand,beside me you walk,

you're there to listen,you're there to talk,

with happiness, with smiles,with pain and tears,

I know you'll be there,throughout the years!

Thanks for a great night.. We'll do a make-up soon Dan!!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our lunch date in April!