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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

New Name of Blog and New Button

Well, the remodel of my blog is finished thanks to Bloggy Blog Designz and I am really happy with how it came out... tell me what do you think????

Along with the remodel, you may have noticed that I changed the name slightly... it is now known as The Shewbridges of Central Florida as we are building a house in another town in central Florida and should be moving out of Celebration, FL sometime by the end of the year (I hope, maybe - can I BE anymore indecisive?). We still love this town and will be visiting the town and our friends and coming to the wonderful events that are put on throughout the year.

Along with the new design, is my new blog button.... please grab it and put it on your blog for me. Thanks and have a fabulous week.....

Monday, October 18, 2010

Pardon My Dust

I am very lucky to have Bloggy Blog Designz updating my blog, so things may be a little slow and out of wack or a day or so, so please pardon my dust as we are upgrading.

As this is happening, let me just say that these ladies are FABULOUS!!! If you need to chose someone to redsign or help upgrade parts of your blog, you should really head on over to their site, you will NOT be sorry.

Hope you like the new design.... HUGS!!

Monday's Music Moves Me - A Little Something to Get Your Heart Pumping

Welcome back to our rockin' good meme Monday's Music Moves Me! The exciting music meme that XmasDolly and I are hosting, now along with Larry from Cakeblast and Callie from JamericanSpice. Won't you play along... here are the rules:

First step: You need to run on over to You Tube, (or wherever your find your songs/videos) and get your pick for the day according to the theme. Upcoming themes are over on Dolly's blog on the left sidebar.

Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" button above or on Dolly's right sidebar.

Third step: Dance with (follow) your hostesses (that would be me and Dolly); grab our buttons; then sign the linky, either here or on Dolly's blog - they are linked.

Final step: Start lookin' for a partner and boogie on down to her blog (or his), and say hello by leaving a comment, and tag (follow) her/him. If you've been tagged (followed) be polite, and go on over there, leave a comment and tag (follow) her/him back.

This week there is no particular theme, it's a free-for-all. The song I chose is a bit frisky (PG rating) but it is by one of my favorite singers and one of his more fun songs. I have the CD that it is on and when I play it I find myself singing really loud and "dancing" as much as this crippled old lady can. The video I picked to post also features some of the MOST handsome young men from my favorite TV show: Supernatural, so I really LOVE this clip.

Hope you like it as much as I do, or at least find it fun, funny, or get your blood flowing..... I give you, Bryan Adams singing "I Wanna Be Your Underwear"

Don't forget to link your post and visit the other participants, give some comment love, and follow their blogs. Hope you all have a fantastic week... and if you don't mind, feel free to retweet this post. ROCK ON!! Band

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Bloggy Friends are the Best

I have mentioned in the past that one of the things that I love the most about social networking is meeting people and becoming friends - real friends. Distance and the fact that you have never actually met face to face doesn't make a difference when it comes to friendship in my book (or should I say laptop).

One of the people who I have met through blogging is Noelle of Jumpin-Beans and she has really been a God-send during my son Nikolaus' deployment to Afghanistan. You see, her husband Marc has recently completed his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Noelle was able to give me all kinds of advice as to what to include in my care packages, how to send them, how to keep in contact with Nikolaus, and many other little things.

Not only has Noelle been there for all that much needed advice, she has always been there just to talk when I was depressed or worried or just missing my son. She is just a real sweetheart, always there to lend an ear or give me a pick-up or a cyber hug. Then, out of the blue the other day I received a package in the mail from Noelle, Marc and their adorable son, Broxton. This is what was inside:

They sent me this wonderful key chain just because Noelle saw it one day when they were out and she thought of me. How sweet and thoughtful is that? THAT is the kind of person my friend Noelle is and I just wanted all of you to know that. If you have time, please head on over to her blog and let her know how wonderful I think she is and thank her for her husband Marc's service and the sacrifice that she made being a single mom while he was away. Thank you.

And, thank you Noelle for being my friend. I hope some day that I can be the kind of friend to you that you are to me. HUGS!!!

Cartoon of the Day - Moms and Dads Are SOOOO Different

Moms and Dads seem to have different parenting skills and different priorities.

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'Nuff Said.....

Friday, October 15, 2010

Cartoon of the Day - High School, How Things Change

I just heard on the news today that the teenage girl averages six text messages every hour... boy has high school changed. I remember when I was a teenager I was allowed one 5 minute phone call (land line of course) every hour after school - ONLY after all my homework was finished. Then heaven forbid someone call after 9:00p.m. Can you imagine that.... I must have had the meanest parents in the entire world!!

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Mikk's Kid Krusaders: Mikk's Kid Krusaders Operation Gratitude Drive

Mikk's Kid Krusaders: Mikk's Kid Krusaders Operation Gratitude Drive: "I am so proud to announce that Mikk's Kid Krusaders is coordinating a 'Treats For Troops' drive for Operation Gratitude. Our drive will con..."

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Itinerary for Brandcation... You are Gonna Be SOOOOO Jealous!!

I'm so excited to let you all know that our itinerary for Brandcation has been finalized and man are those of you not going gonna be SO jealous of me. Believe it or not, all of the places (except one) that we are going to are places that I have never been to in the five years that I have lived here which makes it even more thrilling for me. Are you ready???

I have already told you about the fantabulistic accommodations that Global Resort Homes will be providing for us and the Zip-line and Coach Safaris being provided by Florida EcoSafaris on our first day of adventure.

Next on Friday night after our safari adventure, we get back home to our beautiful Global Resort Home, clean up, rest and get ready for an incredible Sleuths Mystery Dinner show. Then, back home for either movies or karaoke.

Saturday will be another adventurous day... first up an airboat ride through the wetlands on a beautiful wildlife tour viewing exotic birds, turtles and the Florida alligator in their own natural environment with Boggy Creek Airboat Rides. After that we will have the privilege of visiting the Alligator Capital of the World, Gatorland! This is a place that I have always wanted to go to (it is right across the street from our veterinarian's office and I still have never been there - DUH!) and now I have the chance! I cannot wait to take photos, tweet and blog about this experience. Lunch will also be provided by the wonderful people at Gatorland, how cool is that?

After all that, we will head back to the houses to freshen up and head out to dinner for another exciting adventure at Arabian Nights. An amazing dinner show where we will "enter the magical world of Scheherazade, a young girl with a bigger-than-life dream of becoming a beautiful Princess. Two magical Genies take Scheherazade and her guests on a thrilling and romantic adventure filled with music, lights and daring acts where anything can happen, from a square dance on horseback to chariots racing and Gypsies leaping, flipping and dancing on moving horses’ backs!" {taken from their website} Believe it or not, this attraction is right across the street from the community where I live and I have never been there, you'd think I never get out of the house. HaHa

On our final day, we are lucky enough to be able to go as a group to my favorite place in the whole world... the one place on our itinerary that I have been to, multiple times: Walt Disney World... WooHoo!!

I am so happy to be able to share all these fabulous places with these wonderful women and have this most incredible opportunity and none of this would be possible without the main sponsorship of Global Resort Homes Adventures in Kissimmee and these three absolutely spectacular women: Trisha of Momdot, Kim of What's That Smell and Nicole of Good Golly Miss Blondie. Thank you so much to all of you!!

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Monday's Music Moves Me: So Does the Movies!

Welcome back to our rockin' good meme Monday's Music Moves Me! The exciting music meme that XmasDolly and I are hosting, now along with Larry from Cakeblast and Callie from JamericanSpice. Won't you play along... here are the rules:

Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" button (over on XmasDolly's blog on the right sidebar)

Third step: Dance with (follow) your hostesses (that would be me and Dolly); grab our buttons; then sign the linky, either here or on Dolly's blog - they are linked.

Final step: Start lookin' for a partner and boogie on down to her blog (or his - Hi, Larry & Dave), and say hello

by leaving a comment, and tag (follow) her/him. If you've been tagged (followed) be polite, and go on over there, leave a comment and tag (follow) her/him back.

This week's theme is "Movie Title" so pick a song that is also the name of a movie. My choice this week is a song that is by one of my favorite female singers, Carly Simon, and from a movie with Bond, James Bond (Roger Moore - not my favorite Bond, I'll admit)..... "Nobody Does it Better (The Spy Who Loved Me)"..... enjoy:

Don't forget to link up here or over at XmasDolly and visit the other participants and follow their blogs and keep on rockin'.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Happy 10/10/10

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I realized yesterday that today's date would be 10/10/10 and at 10:00 this morning it would be 10/10/10 10:00... pretty cool, huh? I'm sure there are lots of people out there that figured that out LONG ago, but I'm a little slow on the uptake (blame it on my pain meds).

So, in honor of today, I thought I'd list 10 of my favorite things and ask you my dear friends to list them in your comments or even write a post of your own and put the link in your comment and I promise I'll come over and leave a comment for you. You all know how I love to visit you... even if it takes me a couple of days. So here goes:

1. The MOST wonderful man in the entire world, who is my life and heart, Bill.

2. The best children I have ever known... my two sons, Alexander and Nikolaus.

3. My adorable puppies (from L to R) Nano, Mia, Mandie; along with the 3 I am still dog-sitting {really LONG story} Mai-Li, Maila, and Mumbo

4. Chocolate... need I say more?????

5. My bloggy friends that have gotten me through some really difficult times and have kept me upbeat and supported through my son's deployment. (Only 6 more weeks until he comes home - WooHoo!) I was lucky enough to meet a few of these darling people during the Disney Social Media Moms Conference.

Me, Felicia and Crystal

6. The terrific ladies in my book club, with special mention of Beth and Patti, who have been there with me since its formation. They too, have been such fabulous friends and always there to encourage me and lend a hand when I need it or just say the right thing or give a hug when no word will do.

7. The sunshine... it can always make any day better.