Happy Holidays With Miriam's Family!

Nathan and I are home again after spending 4 days with my family. We had a great time eating, playing games, decorating cookies, visiting, celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday & Christmas on Friday and just spending time together. My family is scattered through the U.S., so our get togethers are few and far between. Our family has grown by 3 this year, my twin nieces and Nathan.

Teenage Girls!

I think I am getting old! On my way home from work today I saw something that just wanted to shake my head at. As I move slowly in heavy traffic on I-270 this afternoon I saw a car full of high school girls. They first got my attention by zooming by the lane next to me acting as if they did not know the lane they were zooming in was going to end about 100 yards ahead.
Though I'm sure teenage girls are fully capable of missing the several signs that warn that the lane will be merging and ending up ahead. As they passed I got a look at their back window that had been written on by window paint. Ahead they stop because there is no where to go, but turn their right signal on and giggle about being the fools that are breaking in line about 10 seconds too late.
I go on driving for a while, then all of the sudden they passed me from the left lane where I could get a good second look of the back window. I think harder about what it says and am amazed they would think this was a cool thing to have written on your back window. It was obvious this had been written a few days ago due to the rain spots and dirt over the writing on the back window. The window says, "I'm too sexy for my shirt....but I'm not too sexy to be a junior!"
What do you all think of this? What would your reaction have been if you saw this on the back of a teenage girls car window?

Premiere Week

Last night began Fall Premiere week on all of the television networks. Normally I would not be very excited about TV, but over the past year or so I have become hooked on a few TV series. I have three shows that I am planning on watching this week.

Monday night....Heroes


Tuesday night....House


Thursday night...The Office

I am most excited for The Office party on Thursday. I'll post with my reviews of prmiere week on my next post. I hope everyone enjoys this week of TV!

just for fun

So, My sister sent me this on the email and usually I don't like forwards, but this one was fun to do.

This is pointlessly fun for those of us avoiding doing anything productive.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Princess Sonata

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Vanilla Oatmeal Raisin

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) Msmi

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Green Turtle

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Elizabeth Peoria

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Smimi

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) The Red Amoreto Stone Sour

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Edwin John

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) Happy Raisinet

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Rose Neil

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Page Paris

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) Spring Daisy

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Raspberry Shorty

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Coffee Cake Oak

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) The Wii Sunny Tour

Cheers to Sarah! Cheers to Wineries!

Happy Birthday to my friend Sarah! We all had a wonderful time celebrating your birthday spending the afternoon drinking wine at Sugar Creek Winery in Defiance, Missouri. We had a bottle of their Raspberry Patch and a bottle of the Boone Country White. Both were quite tasty!


This is my friend Sarah (old roommate) and her boyfriend Matt (friend from college), yeah I fixed them up!


My friend Brooke is so thoughtful, she prepared all the food while Sarah, Matt, Nathan and I picked out wine. Not to mention she drove us all to the winery and back. Though, I'm not sure what Brooke is doing in this one?!


I am definetly giving Nathan a strange look in this picture. That blue bottle is the Boone Country White, it went very well with our meat, cheese and crackers.


This my friend Brooke and I, check out the view behind us. It was beautiful!


Nathan and I, can you believe we will be married a half a year in less than a week!

I look forward to a few more afternoons this Fall at the wineries.

Painting Pottery

Last Saturday Nathan and I went on a date to paint pottery. This is something I had always wanted to do with him when we were dating, but we never got around to it. Nathan had only ever painted pottery in school, so this was his first experience and my third. It took us several hours and I even had to go back the next day to finish mine (I guess I am very attentive to detail or just a slow painter). We painted each painted 3 tiles that we are going to use as coasters.
Here are all of our new coasters, handmade :)


These are the three tiles I painted.


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