Thanksgiving Day Is A Happy Day When We Say Thank You God

...Remember singing that song when you were little?!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving holiday! I hope that you get to spend it with the ones you love most!

On a side note...mom and dad CLOSE ON THEIR HOUSE TOMORROW!!! We could not be more excited! It felt like this day would never come, and now it is finally here! Needless to say, this weekend we will be helping them get all moved in, decorated, and celebrating their beautiful beautiful new home! What an exciting thing to be thankful for!

Elf Yourself

Dad made this and sent it to all of his girls....tooooo cute!
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/KKnfyPlQ4rxeFISXv8Ah

My List of Sevens...

I have been a HORRIBLE blogger lately! So, to get back into the swing of things, how about a fun lil' post :) I was tagged by both Natalie and Kendall, so I guess that means I better do it :)

7 Things I Want To Do Before I Die...
1. Be the best wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandma, mother-in-law, friend (and the list goes on and on) that I can be
2. Travel the world with the ones I love
3. Deepen my love and relationship with the Lord
4. Renew my wedding vows with my precious hubby at a destination location (such as Hawaii) :)
5. Own a cute little boutique...It's always been a dream of mine
6. Be more willing and daring to try new things
7. Have no regrets

7 Things I Can Do...
1. I'm a good gift giver and I love spoiling the ones that I love!
2. Organize, organize, organize
3. Eat mexican food almost every single day
4. Shop my little heart out!
5. Sweet Treats...it's horrible, but I love sweets
6. Accessorize :)
7. Look at pictures all day long

7 Things I Can Not Do...
1. Go backpacking with my husband...I can camp with the best of them, but something about having everything that I might possibly need over a weekend on my back is unappealing (possibly because I'm not the lightest packer? hehe)
2. Cottage Cheese, Bologna, Avocados, Milk
3. Travel for long distances in the car (road trips and myself do not mesh well together)
4. Scary Movies...I use to watch them all the time, but they scare the heck out of me now
5. Cook/Bake as well as I would like to
6. Text on my iPhone while driving
7. Blood, Guts, Puke and Injuries (let's all pray for me when I have kids!)

7 Things That Attracted Me to My Hubby...
1. His loving heart, he would do absolutely anything for me
2. How he always always always tells me that he loves me before we hang up the phone or before one of us leaves the other
3. His laid back personality...he has helped mellow me out and has shown me how to slow down to enjoy the little and simple things
4. His smile
5. His cute little tush (or lack thereof) :) It's so cute
6. His love for his family and for mine...I love that he is a family man
7. How when he knows that I am upset, he will not let it go until he has done all that he can to make it better

7 Things I Say Most Often... (ok it was hard to get to 7 here!)
1. Baby/Drew (I use them interchangeably) :)
2. BoBo
3. Love You/Love You Back
4. Good morning/afternoon, this is Jennifer
5. I'm hungry for a sweet
6. I'm tired
7. Oh my gosh!

7 Celebrity Crushes... (aka - ones that I would love to meet)
1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Jon Kate and all of their Eight
3. Jennifer Aniston
4. Matthew McConaughey
5. Tim McGraw
6. Rod Stewart
7. Jessica Simpson

7 People I'm Tagging...
1. The Canady Family
2. The Countryman Family
3. The Gooch Family
4. The Herweck Family
5. The Siegel Family
6. Briffany Pelf
7. Jenny M

Ok, that list was way harder to come up with that I thought it would be!

Happy Friday everyone! I am off to College Station at 4pm this afternoon to spend a weekend with my precious little sister!

Miss You Mom

I got this yesterday while I was out and about running errands and attending a baby shower. The caption with the picture was "Miss You Mom!"

How stinkin precious are my two boys!

Boo!

Have You Ever Gotten A B-I-N-G-O?!

If you know me at all, you know that I am not a Wal*Mart girl, I am a Target girl...always have been...always will be. Below is why. I know the little chart is so not "PC", but it's so true, and I just had to share. If you are a Wally shopper I still love you and seriously more power to ya sister!

Life With The Lipman's...Lately

Here is an update, through pictures, on what's been going on lately...

Bekah's Senior Homecoming was a few weekends ago...she looked just beautiful!

I know we had already been once, but Julie and Blaine snagged us some free teacher appreciation state fair tickets, so we went and made an afternoon of it! I sure do love a fletcher's state fair corn dog and root beer! (though my tummy does not love me for it afterwards!)

This past weekend Mellie and Sean had BYX formal...here are a few pictures I borrowed from her to share :) Such a good looking couple! They are so so so precious!

On Saturday we went to the pumpkin patch with the Chamberlain's and had a blast...I think Julie and I decided that that is going to become one of our many Lipman/Chamberlian traditions! We have yet to carve our pumpkins, but once we do I will post some pictures! After the patch, the boys went and rocked it out at Edge Fest and the girls went shopping :)

Our sweet little Bo is just doing wonderful! We love him to pieces and can't get enough of his precious little personality. This is what he does when we try to fold laundry...he grabs a piece of it, takes it for his own, and then looks up at you like it was always his when you try to get it back! haha

I found a pair of black flats....I'm actually wearing them today with some black pants and a cardigan...what do you think of the shoes??

We found out that mom and dad are going to close on their house the day before Thanksgiving!!! SO exciting! I know what we will be doing that weekend! :)

We need to go vote vote vote!!! Have you been?!

I hope that everyone is having a fabulous Tuesday!

Trick or Treat

Jessie sent this to me in an email...it made me laugh, so I thought I would share. Hope it makes you smile too! :)

Home Is Where Your Story Begins

As promised, below are a few pictures of mom and dad's house in development! Isn't it beautiful?! Such an exciting time!!!

Monday Monday

I was tagged by sweet Kendall...and this was a fun way to help pass this never ending Monday afternoon! :) Enjoy!

What were you doing 10 years ago?
10 years ago I was finishing up my first semester of high school! Oh my word that makes me feel so old!!! I would have just gotten my drivers permit, so I'm sure I was begging my parents to let me drive everywhere! I'm sure I thought I was too cool for the world, and can I just say that I do not miss being in high school and all the drama that came along with it one bit! haha

List 5 things on your "to do" list today:
1. Trade in my Blackberry (that I just got on Saturday) for an iphone...Drew got an iphone and even though I had convinced myself that I didn't "need" one, after playing with his, I have decided that I "want" one...really bad. :) So I need to head back up to AT&T for a switcheroo this evening.
2. Pay some bills, yuck
3. Watch Jon & Kate Plus 8, One Tree Hill, and The Hills
4. Laundry, another yuck...it's just never done...not something that you can check off your list because there is always more piling up...I like to check things off my list
5. Get caught up on emails

Favorite snacks:
I'm not a huge snack person...but if I do need a snack I usually head for:
Apples or Strawberries
Popcorn
Gold Fish
Honey Wheat Pretzels

What would you do with an unlimited supply of money?
Wow, where do I even begin?! I would pay off student loans, buy a big beautiful house and furnish and decorate it to the hilt, trade my Honda in for some type of fabulous SUV, buy my husband the F-150 4x4 (and whatever else he needs it to include) that he is dying to have, pay for the rest of Mellie's school, buy my parents house that they are building so that they can retire faster, give money to several charities (which I would have a difficult time deciding between) and give money to our church, go on a major shopping spree, travel the world with the ones I love...oh I could really go on and on with my unlimited supply of money in my little dream world :)

Where have you lived?
Carrollton, Texas...College Station, Texas (whoop!)...and now Dallas, Texas...with a hopeful future move to Frisco/McKinney, Texas :)

Where have you worked?
High School: Armstrong Relocation
College: Armstrong Relocation and Mohawk Moving & Storage...I had the pleasure of not working while I was down at A&M :)
Post College: Northwestern Mutual for one long year (haha), and now I work for Tenet Healthcare which I absolutely love!

Who are you tagging?
I am tagging Jen Canady, Rach, Em, Natalie, and Nicole.