~ New Blog ~

I have been working on creating a new blog for my Shaklee business! I think I finally got it underway! You can find it at: www.ecoobsessedmama.blogspot.com I hope you follow along with me over there! I am kicking off by hosting a give-away on Money Saving Madness next week, so you will have to head over there to check that out and her NEW SITE! I will also be doing a 3 part series on vitamins next week! CHECK IT OUT! I'm excited!!

~ Shaklee on Rachel Ray! ~

Check this out! Shaklee's Get Clean line on Rachel Ray! How exciting is that?

~ We are back to RoUtInE! ~

Well, our family is back into the working routine once again! 2010 is off to a pretty good start....so far, but we are only 12 days into right?

It is official.....I am a Shaklee Idependent Distributor so if you or you know of anyone looking for some good stuff, give me a ring! I love their stuff and am completely sold on it! The cleaners clean like no other and don't fill the air with a nasty toxic smell! I am currently working on getting my other blog up and going...... but if you want to check out the products just go to: www.shawnconway.myshaklee.com they are offering a free membership with a 50PV order until January 16, 2009 and free shipping too!

So that is all that is new with us ~ pray that I make it through the next 8 weeks of an internship at work for my Supervisor's certifcate!

I can't sign off without some update of Garrett and Ethan.....they are both doing well! Garrett was excited to go back to school, he LOVES school! Ethan, well he still has his BINK and he still has no interest in the potty, which is OK I guess! He will be grown-up and moved out before you know it .......... the bink and diaper keep him a baby to me!

I hope this finds everyone doing well ~ and healthy!

Shawn

~ Lots of SnOw! ~

Ethan is my snow kid! Garrett definitely is not in favor of snow, just like his mother!
Here is Wallace a.k.a. "Wall-E" Isn't he getting so big???? He is still a little cross-eyed looking! HA!

~ Picture Overload! ~

Someday, I will learn how to put these pictures up in order! aaaahhhh! Scroll down to the bottom of this post and it starts with our Christmas Eve! Ending up top here with our Chrismas with Kurt's family! We had a great Christmas! Here is the picture OVERLOAD that I promised!

The boys on their new 4-wheelers!

Kurt was more excited than the boys were!!!

I guess Santa didn't take Ethan's bink! He must have forgotten it!

All snuggled in their beds.......

~ A New Year, With New ChAnGeS! ~

Looking back at 2009, a tear comes to my eye! It definitely wasn't the best year and I can't say that I am sad that the year is over! I published this on my Facebook status the other day and a dear friend of mine wrote a response to me that I really needed! She wrote: "Shawn, Don't focus on the things in the past year you wish hadn't happened, instead consider all the fun, happy, successful moments of 2009 - our overnighter to Pgh, all the money we raised for autism, all your post graduate work, Garrett's great start in school, Ethan's good health,; and just think - this marks the 1/2 way p...oint of your dealings with DS, KM, and the BIG R!"

A lot didn't go my way in 2009, but a lot did go right as Sarah pointed out to me! I get caught up in labeling the year bad because of the terrible 4 months that we had to watch my grandma suffer through cancer, watch my Aunt Susan battle cancer through treatments and lay to rest my Aunt Mary from her lost battle....but, there were some good things to remember about 2009 as well! To start 2009 off, our family had a very memorable trip to Florida! I worked my tail off to earn my Autism Specialist Certificate and worked even harder raising awareness for Autism with the help of my coworkers Karen and Sarah! The 3 of us walked in honor of Autism and raised close to $1,600.00 to support it! I continued post-graduate work after the Autism Certificate was completed (why? I do not know ~ aaahh!) but will be finishing up my Supervisor's certificate this spring! In 2009, Garrett did have a great start to school! He goes to one of the nicest schools anyone could ask for and GOD has blessed our family that we are able to financially send him there! Of course that can't go unnoticed without thanking my mom and all of you that support us through the SCRIP program ~ that helps TREMENDOUSLY! And to Aunt Connie for the generous donation of Box Tops that she gave Garrett! It all helps us so much! Ethan has been the healthiest he has been his whole life, I think ;) 2009 also brought an answered prayer for my sister-in-law Tiffany. She was hired at Polk and was also able to return to LPN school. The twins had a good year with cheerleading and meeting many new friends. To end 2009, it was a blessing to have my grandma here with us to ease some of the pain that was felt by having my other grandma not here to celebrate with us! So to look back, 2009 was definitely a heart-wrenching year, but thank you Sarah for helping me remember the good times that was had!

I hope that 2010 brings some changes for the good! I am making one change myself, and that is to try and make my home a safer place. Since 2009 was the year of cancer for my family, I am ready to rid the toxins out of my house and to do this I am going to start selling Shaklee products that are much healthier and safer for the home......if you are interested in seeing what I am talking about, you can check it out: http://www.shakleeclean.blogspot.com/ . I am SOLD on their products and hope to support by own habit from them!

I hope this post has made you stop and think about some of the good things that happened in 2009......One I almost forgot was the beautiful wedding that took place in my family! Lots of times we get caught up in the bad things that have happened, when truly we have blessings to be thankful for! Sarah ~ you are a true work in this world! You have lots to dwell on yourself, but you always seem to find the good in every situation! Thank you for sharing that with me :)

~ A Very MeRRy ChRiStMaS! ~

I have been trying to get this up for the past week, but I am having a terrible time getting the photos to load :( SO, I decided to just go without the pictures for now! Our family had a wonderful Christmas! Both boys were so excited for Santa to come! This was the first year that Ethan actually got what was going on and that he was going to get TOYS! We had made a deal to leave the BINK out for Santa, but it didn't happen! I swear he is going to go to Kindergarten with that thing!

Both boys got a ton of great gifts! Ethan's big thing this year is John Deere tractors and trucks of any kind! He got the cutest John Deere tricycle from my mom and dad, similar to the Red Flyer one that my boys had at Rocky's house and he loves it! It has a bed on the back of it that dumps, now we just need the bell ~ ha! Garrett of course, got most things dinosaurs! Dinosaurs, dinosaurs and MORE dinosaurs! I keep thinking "How many more dinosaurs can one kid want?" but he keeps wanting MORE! Both boys got their very own 4-wheelers, which they were very excited about! Garrett has wanted a green "real" 4-wheeler forever and we decided now was a good time for that! He happened upon 2 very nice used ones and figured that way there would be no fighting! Ethan is very much a dare-devil when it comes to stuff like that! His little feet don't even reach the pedal yet! Hopefully by summer!

Our vacation went so fast! New Year's was not too exciting for us! We did the usual go to Red Lobster with my family and then went into Missy's for the kids to play! It was more special this year as my grandma and Aunt Elaine were able to go eat with us! It has been so wonderful having them home this holiday!

Keep a look out on Monday for a picture overload from Christmas! I will load the pictures at work ~ our internet there is MUCH faster! It takes no time at all!