My new best friends...

The story of my life right now...applying for jobs. CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and Indeed.com have become my best friends over the last few weeks. I have been applying for a job a day (or so it seems) for the last several days. I am praying a door will open up soon and I can get back to work.

I have been trying to keep myself occupied at home with cleaning and organizing; but I am running out of these type of things to do. I have also been trying to make it to the gym to work out since I have free time and really have nothing better I could do for myself than to get healthier. I have also been trying to catch up on scrapbooking (when I get in the mood to be creative). I have been finding things on Pinterest that I think would be fun and creative to make either for my house or for friends and family...however no job equals cutting down on non essential spending. Hopefully when I get a new job I will be able to find the time to do some of these projects.

So basically this is the story of my life right now : - )

I did have a very fun and family filled weekend the 13th-15th celebrating my birthday with Mom, Dad, Julie, Adam, Luke and the hubby. The ladies went shopping while the gents went to the movies and then we met up for dinner at Sonny's BBQ in Nicholasville... It was so YUMMY!!!

I can't wait to celebrate my sister's b-day in February in Columbus!!

The craziness that is my life...

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. A lot has happened since then. We celebrated Christmas in Ohio with my family (which was awesome---pics and a post to come in the near future), I found out that the company I was working for is downsizing and my position had been eliminated (effective immediately), and now I am studying for my PHR certification exam (which is Jan 13th) and applying for jobs as much as I can.

Yesterday was my 28th birthday... nothing different about turning 28 from when I turned 27. I did feel like a very special woman yesterday though. All the birthday wishes from friends and family on facebook, two dozen roses (1 dozen from my parents and 1 dozen from Jason), phone calls from my family singing happy birthday, a red velvet cake from my dear friend Erin and several cards. All made me feel so very special!!

Today, I have an interview at 2:30pm with Hunter Manufacturing located here in Lexington for an HR position. I am a little nervous, but pray that God will ease my nerves and allow me to be confident in my interview.

Tonight Jason and I will be going out to dinner with Chris and Erin (as we have the past few years) to celebrate Chris's birthday (today Jan 5th) and my birthday (yesterday Jan 4th). This has become a fun tradition since my family is not close by to do what we traditionally did on birthdays (go out to dinner at the birthday person's choice).

I think today will turn out to be a wonderful day... will need to put my nose to the grindstone tomorrow to get reading/studying done for the PHR exam.

Say some prayers for me today and continually that God will open doors and bless me with a job opportunity. Thank you all!!

Have a blessed day!!!

In the Christmas Spirit...

Well I have been in the holiday spirit the last few days. I have made sure we have all of our holiday shopping done and all presents wrapped. I have also been making some goodies to take with us to Christmas with my family in the next few days. I thought I would share a couple pics of the delicious things I made...

I used vanilla almond bark to cover the pretzels and then used red sugar glitter to cover them

These are crazy cake cupcakes (see my post on Jason's birthday cake for description of cake) & homemade icing sprinkled with crushed candy canes

I also can't pass up the opportunity to share a picture of my cute little fur baby with her new Christmas present toy (it has a place to put an empty water bottle in it--she loves to chew on bottle like that)...it is perfect for her!! She got it a little early because she went to the groomer yesterday (which she hates) and we wanted to give her something to be happy about rather than mad at us for taking her there.

Love this little puppy so much...she is so spoiled!!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!



10 Days till Christmas...

I love when so many stores have such great sales going on for Christmas and the Christmas money I still have left to buy said sale items. A couple months ago I went shopping at The Limited with some friends and one of them had a coupon and there were some shirts on sale...So of course I found a couple (well one type of shirt but in two different colors) and got them. Well of course I have come to love these shirts. So when I saw that The Limited was having a FRENZY sale yesterday and said tops were going to be 50% off I knew I needed to get more of them in other colors. So you can only guess what I did...bought that same shirt in the rest of the colors I didn't have ( hehe). So you can see how cute, comfy and able to wear with so many different styles this shirt is here ya go

I am looking forward to getting these shirts soon!! Now back to Christmas...I have all of my shopping done and I am so ready for some time off work and time with family in Ohio!!

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

Happy Holidays Everyone!!

Christmas with the Tucker's...

Well this past weekend Jason and I went to Benton to celebrate Christmas with his side of the family. We got to enjoy time with all the family not only for Christmas but also to celebrate Trent's 3rd Birthday. We all had a wonderful weekend and I thought I would share some pics from the weekend with you. So here ya go...

We are now looking forward to Christmas with the Hodge's soon. And since I am done with pretty much all my Christmas shopping I am very excited!!

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Christmas Shopping

Well it is December 5th and I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done. Just a few loose ends to tie up and we will be good to go. Christmas celebrations for us have already begun...last week I went to Nashville/Goodlettsville, TN for my company holiday party. We had dinner and a game at Amerigo's in downtown Nashville. The food there was good...definitely left full...however I do wish I had had the chance to get some San Antonio Taco Co. while I was there. Oh well next time I am in town I will definitely hit it up. We played a survivor game and my team won!! It was nice to get to see my coworkers since we only see each other like 2-3 times a year. Next on the list for Christmas events is Christmas with the Tucker's this coming weekend. We will be spending time with Jason's side of the family for the weekend. Excited to see the kiddos and the adults too!! Then we are off for a couple weeks and then we head to celebrate Christmas with the Hodge's. So looking forward to all this time with family!!

By the way...since Jason has been able to use his Christmas/birthday gifts since this past spring he gave me part of my Christmas early...

It is the start to the Willow Tree Nativity set I have been wanting for a while...I love it!!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful start to your week!!

Happy Holidays!!

It's the Holiday Season...

Well Christmas has come to the Tucker house. We decorated the house for Christmas yesterday and it looks so pretty. Here are pictures of the house and the Christmas decor...Enjoy!!

My advent christmas countdown and new holiday warmer (the advent is stocked with F.S. Chocolatiers candy)

This is the bow I made last night after getting done decorating to put on the tree

My favorite Christmas decoration of all...my tree skirt made for me by my mom and grandma

And finally Jason's favorite thing we put up each year...

The Lipscomb Bison tree...can you tell where we graduated from?

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!