Aloha Friday - Something to Fill the Time

I'm joining up with Island Life for Aloha Friday again. It's a time to relax and ask an easy question with an easy answer just for the fun of it. So, I don't have a lot of free time and June is going to be crazy busy with everything that's going on... We are getting ready for Vacation Bible School, my husband's grandmother is getting married:), Toy Story 3 is coming out soon, and we have to do a lot of swimming during the summer - so not a lot of free time. But, when my husband is gone to work (for 3 weeks at the time), I like to have something to watch on my downtime and I don't like to channel surf. The NBA playoffs are keeping me busy right now (another post all its own) but I LOVE DVD on TV. I don't have a show right now though having completed Ally McBeal a few weeks ago. So, my question is:

Question: What show should I watch next on DVD?

Answer: Just FYI, I already have Friends, Gilmore Girls, Designing Women, House, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Grey's Anatomy so that narrows down the choices doesn't it? :)

Remembering Thomas

I'm joining up with Jenilee at The Goodwin Family for Wednesday's Walk for the first time in a few weeks. Glad to be back walking down memory lane with everyone.

I have noticed a major shift in interests in the Foreman household over the last month. We are slowly, very slowly shifting away from our obsession with Thomas the Train and all his friends - gasp!! If you've been reading my blog very long, you understand the magnitude of this. We didn't just like Thomas - we LOVED Thomas!! We were Thomas groupies! We took him everywhere we went! We read only about Thomas! We didn't watch anything but Thomas!

And we still like him.... I mean, he's alright.... but we've realized that there could be cooler friends out there. Like Buzz Lightyear and Evil Emperor Zurg AND Lightning McQueen and Mater the Tow Truck AND (yes, to Mommy's horror) Blue - an annoying little dog with an even more annoying owner who leaves blue pawprints all over the place:)

So, while we still enjoy our Thomas push pedal and still have fun with our train table and LOVED our Thomas birthday party (even though Jack was a little under the weather), we don't watch him so much anymore and we don't read about him and we don't go to see him and the biggest change.... instead of taking our trains everywhere we go, we take our Cars and our Toy Story friends. Because of this drastic shift, I thought I would leave you with some of our best Thomas Memories... :)

The Thomas and the Train Conductor fall festival costume (made by my talented husband):

Thomas the Train 3rd Birthday Party with a fantastic cake by Gigi:

Thomas the Train push pedal car - compliments of Santa Claus:

The train table (that takes up MOST of the toy room):

Playing with all our "water friendly" trains last summer (Jack didn't ask for a train ONCE at the beach this year - we had to take them ALL every trip last year):

A little upset about not getting to ride on the blue Thomas train and having to ride in the passenger car Clarabel instead in North Carolina (where we drove SEVEN hours to see Thomas - told you we were groupies:):

Jack and Sir Topham Hatt at the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad in NC:

Thomas and Friends Live:

And one of my all time favorite pictures - Jack and his trains:

So many great memories, but sadly, Thomas was just in our lives for a season. We hate to see him go, but what some fantastic times we had!

The Versatile Blogger Award

Thanks so much to Tiffany at My Crazy Kind of Wonderful for this great blog award!! I'm supposed to tell seven things about myself now so here goes:

1. I have peculiar eating habits. I don't eat meat with the bone in - it must be cooked away from the bone. I also don't like sweets - every now and then I'll have a brownie, but no cake, pie or ice cream for me! Before, you think that I eat healthy I should say that there are only two vegtables I eat:) I prefer white food - I don't know why!

2. I have an addiction to luggage - actually storage units of any kind. I see them and I just think that I really, really need them. My child is three years old and has already had four different backpacks - that's not including his baby bags (there were a LOT more than four of those)!
I'm also addicted to shoes but I don't find that to be all that odd or different.

3. I collect art from other countries - not expensive art or anything that you would find in a gallery, just paintings from other countries. I currently have framed art from: Greece, Ecuador, Venezuala, China, and Honduras. I prefer to visit these countries but some have come from very sweet friends. I'm hoping for a painting from Ireland next and I want to get that one personally:)

4. For those you of who have been reading my blog for a while, you're already aware of this. If you know me personally, you are aware of this, but I've had some new followers lately, so I feel that I should disclose this. I'm a HUGE Alabama football fan!!! HUGE!! Yes, that is the current, reigning national champions, by the way! ROLL TIDE!!

5. I'm a social worker. I have worked in child welfare for almost nine years now (WOW!) and I really enjoy it. I work very flexible hours so Jack B doesn't have to go to daycare all day (and there are times when I would like to stay home with him all the time), but most of the time I really do enjoy my job. I think social work is one of those unique occupations b/c the philosophy of it really does effect the person you become. I changed a lot of my feelings about race, equality, and the value of each life in the midst of becoming a social worker.

6. I just got home from the beach (as you can see in my last post). I love the beach - could stay there all summer,but my husband misses his house:) Plus, I do have a job...see #5 :) Thankfully, we live about an hour and a half from the Florida coast so we get to spend a lot of time there.

7. The most important thing about me: I'm a follower of Christ. I'm a Christian and I try to stay centered around God's will for my life. I believe that life doesn't have eternal meaning if it's not lived for Him. I also believe that when our earthly life is over, all that matters in the decision we made about Christ. My favorite verse is Phillipians 3:8. "Consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ." I believe life in Christ is life beyond compare to anything the world has to offer!

Thanks again Tiffany for the blog award! I loved it!

Get There Fast... And Then Take It Slow

We weren't going to Kokomo, but that's just what we did! We have just gotten home from a week (that's right - seven whole nights!!) in Navarre Beach and it was WONDERFUL! We didn't make a schedule but instead did exactly what we wanted the whole time - which wasn't much actually. We did finally ride some go carts our last night, but other than that, it was beach, pool, nap, eat - every day! I didn't even take a computer with me and that was pretty nice too. We were able to spend some time with good friends and family. My parents spent one night with us and then our great friends, the Fores (and beautiful Ella Charles making her beach debut:) and the Bulgers (with the adorable Piper - my future daughter in law) came for the weekend. It was so nice - the only problem is I now have to gear up to go back to work tommorrow:( But, that's ok, I'll find myself back at the beach soon; I haven't figured out how yet, but I'll get there! I'm just going to leave you with lots of pictures from our week!

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