Turkey day!

Lucky me I got to eat with all these handsome men

( Bryan,Mike, Uncle Matt, Tanner, Tim and Evan )
Tim's I am too full for pictures face.

Dessert!

Evan's feast!

Tanner enjoying his dinner

Okay well I cheated but I still had a great Thanksgiving! We went to the club for a buffett. It was very yummy and I ate too much for sure! I enjoyed a lazy day finishing up a book and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade in my jammas. While it was very nice... I don't know if I will take a break from making turkey and all the fixins again... I did miss the smells in the house.

I hope everyone had a great holiday!

More soon!

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Tammi and the boys

THAT MOM

I always said I would never be THAT Mom. The one that shows up at stores before they open and stands outside to run in and see if "the" toy was on last nights truck. Well, I am officially THAT Mom today. When I said I would never do it.. I did not think about the power of a 6 year old looking at you saying, "It doesn't matter if it is not in the stores Mom I asked Santa for that and he will bring it" Hence, I was at Target this morning with all the other poor saps....waiting for the doors to swing open. There was not any pushing or shoving or anything... but I will admit when I got in there was some running by me... and I tell ya not much gets me to a run these days. All for my boys! I know I owe pictures and I will post soon we are hoping to get our Christmas tree today and I should have pictures to share soon.


*** On another note*** It gets really hard to talk about Christmas stuff when your child can spell... and the bad part is I did not see that coming until he started saying what we thought we were being sneaky by spelling...

I love this time of year!!

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Tammi and the boys !

So VERY Thankful!

Thanksgiving time. What a great time of the year to reflect on all the gifts and blessings that we have in our lives. This has been a difficult year both personally and for our country but we still have a laundry list of things to be thankful for.

First and foremost, I am thankful for my church and my faith and our wonderful loving and forgiving Lord. I am of course thankful for all that we have been blessed with.

I have the amazing love of my husband. With all the ups and downs that life has to offer I could not imagine being on this journey with anyone else. He is my partner and my very best friend. We enjoy each other and just make a great team in every way.

I have these 2 wonderful boys that make life both joyful and challenging. Everyday is a new adventure ( hence the name of the blog) . Tim and I discuss how every night we worry about thier well being and if we are doing a good job in molding them into the young men they will someday be. It is such a honor to be thier mother and get to watch them grow. Motherhood, is the one gift that you never know how much you get from it until you have been given it.

I also have family and great friends scattered around the country. Somtimes I think about what it would be like to have lived in one place all these years. Sometimes we miss being close to family. However, then I think about how I would not have the blessing of this military family all over the country. Where we get to spend holidays together and be there for one another in ways that is unheard of to others. I have asked of my military family favors that I would be hesitant to ask of my own family or the friends that I have known for years in the town that I grew up in. It is truly a phenomenon that is unlike any other and I am truly thankful for the whole experience.

I am thankful for so many other things that I know we take for granted. I am thankful for our home, that we have food and all of our needs met. I am thankful to live in this great nation and as much as I worry about the state of our country at this time. I am thankful for our freedom and I know that it does not come without great scarifices from so many.


I am thankful for all of you reading my blog too.... because I know that you are all family and friends that I love and most of you are reading this because we will not get to spend Thanksgiving with you.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I promise to post some pictures soon :) Maybe of the holiday celebration!


Love to all!

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Much love Tammi and the boys

Sad news

Helen-Marie Lithgow, 68, of Pittsgrove passed away on November 21, 2008 at the South Jersey Hospice Center in Bridgeton. Born in Camden, Mrs. Lithgow was the daughter of Russell & Helen Carr.
She was a member of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in Elmer and had retired from the Law Offices of Daniel Rosner in Vineland. Her family was everything in her life, everything else was secondary. She was a very generous, loyal and kind person. Helen was a collector of "everything", she loved going out to breakfast, especially to the Kountry Kitchen, and she loved her dogs.



Nineteen years ago Thanksgiving will be the anniversary of the death of my mom. Not a day goes by that I do not think about her. Sometimes it is a little thing like overhearing a co-worker on the phone with thier mom asking them a silly question and sometimes it is a deep yearning for her guidance in this world. Either way, my dearest and longest friend lost her mom this week. Her mom was my 2nd mom. I referred to her parents as mom and dad. I feel like her family took me in and made me a part of thier family when I was just a young lost child. I am so sad not only because I know the loss that Donna is dealing with on a very real level but in my own selfish way too. I will surely miss her. She would do anything for anyone and when I lost Wyatt this summer she called and talked to me and cried with me and felt my pain in a way I don't know that anyone else could. It seems that every time this happens to someone we love we are shocked and hurt and bewildered by it. I will continue to pray for my "family" and as we believe, " Where two are three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them" Matthew 18-20. There is not a doubt in my mind that both of these woman are with our Lord right now. I just wish we could have had them here longer. Your thoughts and prayers are always welcome.





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Tammi and the boys

Dayton Bombers

Watching
Evan practicing

The boy

What a cutie!

All geared up to play... I think he is saying ( C'MON MOM stop taking pictures!)

Well it is that time of year! We are in the full swing of hockey and Tanner is LOVING it! Evan cannot wait to play so it looks like next year we will have two on the ice. Here are some pics. It has been a crazy week I am sorry I hadn't posted.

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Tammi and the boys

Blast at boonshoft!!

The children's musuem was a total blast!!! It is by far the best children's museum we have been too!! Enjoy the pics!!

See what happens when Dad's the judge....

Shopping the store...

Maybe Tanner was in jail because of who was on the witness stand.... little brother!

Evan thought the body shop area was awesome!!

The tree house part was amazing... lots of exploring and bird watching!

Tanner compared to a redwood tree.... made me realize I need to take the boys to see the redwoods...so amazing!

Enjoying the large water play area...

Checking out the planets with Dad

Okay that is enough for one post...

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Tammi and the boys!

Happy birthday to Nolan!!!

Happy birthday Dear Nolan!! We hope that you have a wonderful day! We wish that we could be there to share in the fun! Hope to see you soon!!

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Tammi and the boys

Cowboy turkey

Tanner had a school project where he had to hide Tom Turkey so he could avoid being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. We dressed him as a cowboy.

When I told Tanner that I wanted to take a picture of the Turkey we made Evan said " I better get in the picture because I am cute!" ( And humble huh? )

Tanner insisted that he could not be a cowboy without a horse...

Anyway, I have some catching up to do. We went to the children's museum last weekend and it was a blast!!

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More soon!

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Tammi and the boys

My gorgeous neice

I haven't put any new pictures of my neice Anna in a while. She just turned 2 years old. Isn't she adorable?? And look what a cute monkey she was for Halloween!

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Halloween stuff

The kids on the porch ready to go
again!

With Ms. Julie.. last stop of the night!

Before Party with Daddy

Yes I made them pose for these pics... :0)

Sorry so late on these! Thanks for stopping in!

Tammi and the boys!

Sorry!

Sorry I have not posted!! I have some Halloween pics to share of the boys....or beggars night as they call it here. It was the first time that Tanner took off to Trick-or-Treat with friends... it was sad to me but exciting to him!

More to come...so sorry for the slackin' I need to get it together. :)


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