We all have much to be thankful for...

I AM THANKFUL:

FOR THE WIFE

WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT,

BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME,

AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

FOR THE HUSBAND

WHO IS ON THE SOFABEING A COUCH POTATO,

BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME

AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS.

FOR THE TEENAGER

WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES

BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME,

NOT ON THE STREETS.

FOR THE TAXES I PAY

BECAUSE IT MEANS

I AM EMPLOYED .

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY

BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE

BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG

BECAUSE IT MEANSI HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK

BECAUSE IT MEANS

I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,

WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,

AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING

BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME .

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING

I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT

BECAUSE IT MEANS

WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. .

FOR THE PARKING SPOT

I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT

BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING

AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION.

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL

BECAUSE IT MEANSI AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH

WHO SINGS OFF KEY BECAUSE IT MEANS

I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING

BECAUSE IT MEANS

I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES

AT THE END OF THE DAY

BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN

CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFFIN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS

BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM ALIVE.

Live well, Laugh often, & Love with all of your heart!

10 Things...

Ok, here's what ya do. Copy this and paste it into your own post and change my answers to yours! Then tag anyone whose answers you think you'd like to see!

10 Kisses
1. Do you remember the person you first kissed? Yes
2. Have you ever kissed someone you weren't dating? yes
3. Ever kissed an ex after you broke up? Yes
4. Have you kissed anyone in your top friends list? Yes
5. Ever kissed two people at once? Nope
7. Ever kissed someone younger than you? Yes
8. Older than you? Yes
9. Have you ever kissed someone you didn't like? No, I don't just give kisses to anyone.
10. Ever made out with someone who was a really bad kisser? Yes. - Who? Evan

10 Facts
1. Full Name -- Callie Michelle Allen
2. Nicknames - Cal, Bestie, Baby, Girl, Wife
3. Birth place -- SLC, UT
4. Hair color -- Natural? Brown, but I just dyed it Red!
5. Natural hair style -- Naturally Kinky-Curly
6. Eye colour -- Blue
7. Birthday -- Jan. 20th
8. Height -- 5'1"
9. Favorite color -- For the time being, Green
10. Status -- Married to the Love of My Life

10 Things About Your Love Life
1. Have you ever been in love -- Yes
2. Do you believe in love at first sight -- I haven't experienced it, but I believe there are people who have
3. Have you ever been hurt emotionally -- Who hasn't?
5. Have you ever broken someone's heart -- I don't know about breaking a heart, but I hate to admit that I have hurt someone emotionally
6.Have you ever had your heart broken -- Yes
7. Have you ever liked someone but never told them -- No, I'm too honest
8. Are you afraid of commitment? -- Depends on what I'm committing to...
9. Have you ever fallen for your best friend? -- No
10. Have you ever had a secret admirer? Not that I know of... If I knew, it wouldn't be very secret now would it? :)

10 Choices
1. Love or lust:- - Love
2. liquor or beer - - Liquor
3. Cats or Dogs - Both!
4. A few best friends or lots of close friends?-- Best Friends
6. Friends or Family -- Both are family, friends are the family you chose to have.
7. Wild night out or romantic night in -- A wild night out!
8. Money or Happiness -- Happiness
10. IM or phone -- Phone

10 Have You Evers?
1. Been caught sneaking out -- Nope
2. Purposely hurt someone -- Never
3. Done something you regret -I look at my mistakes as learning experiences and that way I don't have to regret them, I appreciate what I've learned from them.
4. Bungee jumped - - No, and I never will!
5. Been so embarrassed that you actually cried -- Yes.
6. Skinny Dipped - - Every summer at our cabin. He he!
7. Gotten stuck in an elevator -- Not that I can recall
8. Wanted an ex bf/gf back -- Yeah, even though I knew it was completely wrong.
9. Cried because you lost a pet -- Yes, I get teary-eyed thinking about it.
10. Wanted to disappear --Yes

10 Preferences In A Partner
1. Smile or eyes-- Smile
2. Light or dark hair -- Dark
3. Hugs or kisses -- Gotta have 'em both!
4. Shorter or taller -- Taller
5. Intelligence or attraction -- He doesn't need to be Albert Einstein or anything but I like smart guys
6. Romantic or spontaneous-- Gotta have both!
7. Funny or serious -- Funny, but serious when they need to be.
8. Older or Younger -- Age is just a number
9. Outgoing or quiet -- Outgoing
10. Sweet or Bad -- Sweet

10 Lasts
1. Last person you were on the phone with -- My mama!
3. Last person you hung out with -- Artie, Brittany and my hubby
4. Last time you worked - - Yesterday
5. Last person you tackled -- Couldn't say...
6. Last person you IM'd -- Don't know
7. Last person you texted? My mama
8. Last person(s) you went to the movies with - Hub - Friday the 13th! Fantastic!
9. Last person you shared a bed with -- My Hubby
10. Last person you were in a car with -- My hubby

10 Are You's?
1. Missing someone right now? -- Yes, my sis
2. Happy? - Yes!
3. Talking to anyone right now? -- Nope
4. Bored? - - No
5. German? - - Don't know
6. Swedish? - -Don't know
7. French? - - Don't know
8. Italian? - - Don't know (as my hubby says, "I'm American, I'm a mutt, I've got a little of everything in me probably"
9.Your parents still married? - - No, but they are both getting married this year
10. In love with someone right now? -- Yes!

10 Minutes
1. Thinking about? -- being cold!
2. Are you eating? -- Not at the moment
3. What are you listening to? -- Boston Legal
4. What were you doing an hour ago? making cupcakes
5. What are you wearing? -- black sweat pants and my "I'm not Irish, but kiss me anyway" shirt
6. Are you cold? - -YES!
7. Are you excited? --I'm looking forward to the baby shower for Dara and Brittany today
8. Are you upset? -- No
9. What is your current mood?--Content
10. Is anyone going to reply? -- who knows?

I tag Brittany, Alexis, Dara and Face!

For you, Face! :)

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, and enter yours. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real, nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You must put the first answer that comes to mind! You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name twice for the boy/girl name one

1. What is your name: Callie
2. A four Letter Word: call
3. A boy's Name: Cooper
4. A girl's Name: Claire
5. An occupation: CNA
6. A color: Cerulean (it is a color, by Crayola, it's blue and it was my favorite when I was little)
7. Something you wear: camisole
8. A food: cantalope
9. Something found in the bathroom: conditioner
10. A place: Couer d' alene
11. A reason for being late: caught a cold
12. Something you shout: Crap!
13. A movie title: Chicago (I know it was a play first but it's a movie now too)
14. Something you drink: Cozmopolatin
15. A musical group: Cranberries
16. An animal: cat


Ok so I tag Brittany, Alexis and Lisa

Praise the Lord!

I had a great night tonight. My church dedicated our new building and it was a party! We had a wonderful worship service with communion and then we played music and danced the rest of the night! Besides being so much fun it is so amazing to be a part of this church. My church has been meeting, growing, and surviving through the Grace of God for almost 20 years now. I became a part of it (much to my dismay at first) about 11 years ago and I'm so grateful for it. My church is truly my extended family. I was so overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude for all that I've been through with my church. I remember when we got the permission to meet in another church's fellowship hall, and that was pretty great. I remember when my dad was the head of the building committee and headed the building campaign to get our very own building to worship in. With the help of many people from many religions all around the Salt Lake Valley we got our building up. It's where I met some of my dearest friends while writing scriptures on the framing wood and concrete floor before they were covered and placing each and every stone on the outside with our very own hands. We've come so far from meeting in any building we could to having our own small building out in a field to now having our building with the sanctuary and the new building that is our fellowship hall (that isn't just a hallway) with lots of new rooms for the kids and youth. This church has come so far and has been such a blessing in my life and I'm truly honored and overjoyed to be a part of it. Praise the Lord!

Yay Green!

So as you all can see, I'm done with sappy V-Day and it's onto to awesome St. Patrick's Day. Don't get me wrong, I like Valentine's day just fine. In fact, we had a great V-day this year. My bro-in-law's awesome girlfriend and I made a delicious dindin for our guys! It was fun. We dipped strawberries and made pasta with a homemade alfredo and I made Max and I lobster tails and Brittany made Art halibut. And for dessert we had chocolate mousse pie! Yum. But as much fun as is was, it's not at the top of my list as far as my favorite holidays go; so bring on the green! :)

I know I was born to do this.

Had a really, really, really hard day at work last week.  Hardest day I may ever have in my career and I'm not even a nurse yet.  And it was an event that some nurses that have been doing nursing in Labor and Delivery for years have never experienced.  I couldn't be more grateful for the team that was on that night; the Doctors, RN's, etc.  I wish things had worked out differently but they didn't and we all have to accept that.  I pray that all the others that were there that night are coping and I pray for the family of the patient.  We don't have all the answers but this did bring me comfort in an odd way.  I have always said, even in my essays for nursing school apps, that even after the longest night of the hardest shift that I still want to come back to work for my next shift.  And guess what...  I still do.  Even after this I know in my soul that I was born to do this job and I still want to go back to work tomorrow night.  

Self-Shot Family Photos

Me and my awesome sis, Laura.  She's one of my best friends.

Three generations of strong women

My sis, mom and I.  And for some weird reason, it always ends up that I'm on mom's left and Laura's on mom's right every time we take a picture like this...

Me, my hubby, my gma, mom, Larry and Laura

Mom & her soon-to-be hubby, Larry

My sis, Laura, Max and I

So these are being posted a bit late but here they are. We decided to do some family pictures while my sis was in town for Christmas because we haven't had them done since before I got married. We tried to get a lady from our church, who does photography, to shoot them for us and then I would take the raw images and enhance them on my computer myself. But when I called her to make sure she was still coming, she didn't answer or call me back. So I decided to set up my tripod and try out my camera timer and shoot our family photos myself. And guess what... They turned out pretty good. So here are a few of the images; my family shoot that I shot. :)

A Historical Day!

I just wanted to say that I'm so excited that my birthday this year will go down in history. Not because it's my birthday, but because we'll be swearing in the first African American President! I am excited to see what Barak Obama is going to do with this country and I love that I'll be able to tell my kids and grandkids that I remember this day in history; and it's my birthday to boot! Best Birthday Ever! Go Obama!

My New Year's Resolution

So my New Year's Resolution is different than it has been in other years.  It's usually to get in shape and lose weight and I have a specific number I want to get to on the scale and all that.  This year I want to get my LIFE in shape.  I want to do more than be physically healthy.  I want to be healthy emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically etc.  I know I won't be able to accomplish all of this every day, but I'm taking it one day at a time.  I don't have specific numbers I need to get to or certain deadlines to meet.  I just want to focus on being the best me I can be every day.  I want to be better today than I was yesterday.  I want to take care of myself so I can  be a good wife, daughter, sister, friend, student, employee, etc.  I know this will take work but I'm up for the challenge.  I hope you all have come up with what you resolve to do this year, even if that means resolving to not set a specific, cliche resolution. ;)

Another New Year!

Well, yet another year of my life has flown by even faster than the last.  I'll be 23 in 10 days and I can honestly say that I am very happy with my life.  Tonight I went to the bridal show with my dad's fiance and I told her the same thing.  Everything is good right now.  Both of my parents are happily engaged, (yes, Mom and Larry got engaged on New Year's Eve, their two year anniversary and my dad is engaged to the Love of his life too, Mona) my sister is the happiest she's been in a long time and has a great boyfriend that adds to that happiness and Max and I are happy and healthy.  I am just so blessed.  There isn't anything I'd change.  Max is busy with school again and I'm getting my application together for nursing school hoping that THIS time I'll get in...  I'll be sure to post the results of my application at the end of March/beginning of April!  So keep your fingers crossed until then and check back!