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By The Social Frog, on March 9th, 2010
It’s hard to believe but our little Cecilia is officially 1 years old today!
When we picked her out of the pack she was so tiny, her eyes still closed. She was a runt too. Over the next weeks before we took her home she turned into a poofy fur ball and the cutest pup ever.
This is what she looked like when we brought her home.
Too cute!!!
Over this past year she has really grown and become a member of our family. She is sweet, really smart and LOVES to play. She will play 24/7 if you let her. I actually have to put the toys up at night because she would rather play than sleep.
Today I will be baking her a special “pup cake” to celebrate and some doggie ice cream & I am sure she will be pleased with the new toys we have bought her.
Here she is now, a picture I took a few days ago.
She is so beautiful and I am so happy to have her in my life.
By The Social Frog, on March 6th, 2010
This Weeks Theme Is: Foreign
Hubby & I at a Brazilian Steak House in a foreign country. I visited him in El Salvador while he was on a 6 month deployment in October 2009.
By The Social Frog, on March 5th, 2010
Today we had brunch & a movie date, hubby & I. We have both been looking forward to Alice In Wonderland since we heard about it over a year ago.
I love any movie Johnny Depp is in, he is quirky and odd. I personally don’t care to much for Anne Hathaway, I know people love her as an actress, me…not so much. I find her a little lack luster, especially in this movie.
We saw it in 2D, I am pretty sure we did not miss out on much with the 3D. It was a vibrant, brilliantly colored movie with endless eye candy.
It did have some humor in it but not many people in the theatre laughed, although we went to the earliest showing and so there were not many others there at the time.
I thought the story flowed great and I love all the randomness of the conversations, it kept me guessing what was coming next. It had a little darkness in it, nothing that I would think would bother a child but of course there was a lot of “Off With Their Head” talk going on.
I don’t think it will win any awards but it was fun and most deffinetly worth seeing on the big screen.
By The Social Frog, on March 3rd, 2010
Well, I am “back” and my blog is now up. I did not end up moving my blog and decided to stick with Wordpress. I guess I like headaches and hours upon hours of things to fix,lol.
You may notice there is nothing here at the moment, there isn’t. My XML file became corrupted at some point and then I was having issues, decided to scratch Wordpress and move along.
Fast forward to 2 days ago when I thought I was ready to start again, my plans did not work out and so I am back using Wordpress, I like being able to do my own thing anyways.
So have I mentioned that I had to copy & paste every post I’ve ever written since I started blogging in 2007…Yeah, it took me a long time. Honestly, there are posts missing. Some I lost doing previous Wordpress upgrades and this time I did not copy any Meme’s or picture posts. None of my older posts contain pictures due to how I had to copy and paste everything into notepad.
So back in January I did have a XML file with almost all of my posts and it somehow became corrupted and is now useless to me  So now I have the job of manually putting all of my old posts on here…In the meantime I will continue to blog.
I’ve missed blogging, the blogging community, my friends and reading others blogs. So bare with me as I fix up my new place and add my old posts. It will take some time though. Not sure if anyone needs to update the RSS feed or not, would not hurt to check. My link is still the same so if you have me on your blog, all is well.
Now to change this theme around 
By The Social Frog, on January 4th, 2010
Every time I log into my Wordpress Dashboard I always have “Wordpress (Whatever Number) is available…Please update now!!!!
It gets annoying when you have to manually update it on your host server. So I’ve been holding out for a while now. It is now up to Wordpress 2.9. Will Wordpress 3.0 come out as soon as I upgrade? Most likely.
So sorry if it gets really messy around here for a few days or so, maybe longer, things always go opposite as planned when it comes to Wordpress & me.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Wordpress but I do think there are to many updates to often which is a pain if you do it all yourself. Plus I recently got a new laptop and am now working with Windows 7, so I have a lot going on.
I know Christmas is over and my blog has not changed in a while. I have been trying to hold out as long as possible and now is the time to start fresh, so don’t mind the mess.
By The Social Frog, on January 3rd, 2010
21 hours is really a long drive, especially if you try to drive it straight through. But who in their right mind would do that you might ask…Well my hubby of course!
It’s always an uncomfortable drive, not much space and 3 dogs in the back seat and me who can’t seem to stay awake anymore on long drives, I have been “trained” to fall asleep to the lul of the car.
So this usually leaves hubby with the driving. I honestly don’t intend on sleeping all the way, it just happens. On the way to Maine we planned that I would take over some of the driving so hubby could get some sleep as well, the best of plans seem to always get changed though.
We ended up in a blizzard. No way I was going to drive in it, I was all for stopping for the night. We tried to find something open, nothing available because every other human on the road was getting off of it. So that meant we were trekking on. Let’s just say I kept my eyes closed for a good 6 hours, not wanting to see anymore cars off the road or crumpled from an accident. We made safe though.
So coming home of course I am sick as a dog and drinking Nyquil to try and survive. I knew what we were in for, a long haul home and the start of the trip was to be in the middle of a snow storm, perfect…
I tried to stay awake as long as I could, for moral support for hubby. Around 9am I was zonked and did not sleep the night before, Nyquil in hand. I slept & slept & slept. Before I knew it I had been sleeping for like 10 hours or something close to it.
It is now Sunday morning, 12:30am and I can see my poor, sweet hubby getting road weary and I watch his eyes and I wonder how much longer he can handle driving. I offer to drive. He was not so sure about it since he usually always drives while I sleep and being sick he was afraid I would fall asleep. I was more worried he would fall asleep driving.
At 2am I took over driving. We had about 6.5 hours left to drive. I drive for just about 5 hours before I started feeling a little tired. Hubby had gotten some good sleep and he took over for the last hour & a half. I am glad I was able to actually help drive this time.
We made it home around 8am, ate breakfast and took a nap. It is nice to be home but I really miss my family.
By The Social Frog, on January 2nd, 2010
It’s hard to believe that it is time to go back home. It feels like we just got to Maine but it always feels that way, never enough time.
I have had an amazing time here with all of my family. So many of you I did not get to see but really wanted to. I have found it is very hard to visit everyone plus have enough time with immediate family.
A reason for not getting to see everyone as well was because I was sick almost the entire trip and so I missed out on getting to meet a cousins baby and being able to spend more time with my Grandparents.
I did get to go sledding with a lot of my family and it was fun watching Daniel try to snowboard! I don’t think being out in the snow helped my cold any but it was so much fun. Daniel & I sled down Forside Hill together, that was a blast.
Christmas was different but brought back so many memories from growing up, all of my siblings around and my Dad handing out gifts one by one while we all watched the other open. It was fun and I am glad I got to be there with everyone.
I got to meet my sister’s baby Madison who was born in May, she was so cute, a very smiley baby!
I am sad to leave but I know it is time to return home. Lot’s of great memories were made, tons of pictures taken and I look forward to sharing them!
By The Social Frog, on January 1st, 2010
Happy New Year to you & yours! I do hope that this coming year is the best!! Spending time with all of my family this evening, playing games, laughing and just being.
By The Social Frog, on December 31st, 2009
I have been out of the blogging loop for a little while here. So much has been going on since October.
I am currently on Christmas vacation in Maine, visiting family. The internet has not been my friend since we got here as well.
My blog is a little bit of a mess right now and I can’t do anything about it because I need reliable internet and a few other things.
I am still blogging and have much to share with all of you but it will have to wait till we return back home in a few days.
I am sorry to all of my readers, if I still have any at this point. I will be back and blogging once I return home.
All is well with me aside from being terribly sick and tired, the cold Maine weather will do that to those who are not used to the harsh winters.
As I write this post the snow is gently falling and I am sad that my time with my family is coming to a close. It has been nice and it has been good.
Happy New Years Eve To All!
By The Social Frog, on December 13th, 2009
I was lucky to get tickets to go see Holiday Pops at the Jacksonville Symphony.
Over the weekend Daniel & I both got sick, him more so than me, so I was pretty sure we would not end up going.
My hubby being a wonderful guy, even while feeling sick, still took me & I am really glad we went.
I was not sure what to expect as I had never been to a Symphony event around Christmas, always wanted to though.
It was very relaxing, entertaining and a little comical as well. The audience was included in some things during the show which added some fun to it.
The Jacksonville Children’s Choir sang along with the Symphony as well as an adult choir.
Old Christmas songs as well as new songs filled the evening. There is nothing like going to the Symphony to hear music in a different way. I love how I feel like I am actually immersed in the music.
The night ended with a Christmas son Sing Along which was nice to hear everyone singing and smiling.
A nice ending to a wonderful weekend.
By The Social Frog, on December 11th, 2009
We have our Christmas Tree up, it is the smallest tree I’ve had in my life but it fits our Christmas this year.
This Christmas Tree can be planted and can grow up to 15 feet tall! We were food shopping last week at the Whole Foods Market when we saw the tree, it came as a kit, with lights and ornaments!
I would have posted about it sooner but as most of you know when I went to visit my husband overseas in October, I had my camera stolen out of my luggage on my way out of the country he was in.
Happily, today my new digital camera came So now I can take pictures again. The weather has been chilly this past week and I imagine the same for this coming week but we will not get snow, one of the major downsides to living in a state such as Florida.
It has been wonderful having hubby home, we have been doing some fun things since he came home last week. We have attended a Christmas play, saw the Nutcracker ballet last night and this weekend and coming week we have more fun things going on!
By The Social Frog, on December 10th, 2009
I honestly have never been to or seen any form of the Nutcracker in my 30 years of life until tonight. My husband had seen it in the past as a child, school functions gave him the opportunity.
When I was young the only kinds of field trips we took were to Apple Orchards and the Plymouth Plantation, the arts were not a big thing for our school I suppose.
As an adult I take great pleasure in all kinds of arts. Tonight we were given the opportunity to go see the Nutcracker Ballet and I was so happy & it was nice that hubby was able to go with me.
It was at the Historical Florida Theatre, downtown Jacksonville. It was actually a lovely old place, our first time there.
We had nice seats, the place was pretty packed as well. There were many families there and kids. At the opening scene I decided to look around and what I saw were happy little kids, smiles as wide as they could be. Magic and wonder filled them.
It was a wonderful performance although we got some what annoyed by some other guests whom thought it was okay to clap for every little thing done on stage which interrupted the performance and made me enjoy it a little less.
I can not say anything bad about the ballet itself, it was done well and I was entertained and I look forward to seeing the Nutcracker again next year, wherever we are.
By The Social Frog, on December 7th, 2009
Today my brother Danny is 23! Boy do I feel really, really old!
Happy Birthday!!!!
By The Social Frog, on December 5th, 2009
I had gotten tickets to go see “Clay County Christmas” at the Thrasher Horne Center For The Arts at the St.Johns River Community College in Orange Park. I was not sure what to expect but I heard good things from several people whom had gone in the past.
Daniel had just got back a few days ago and so I thought it would be a perfect start to our Christmas season.
This was by no means a “professional” production but for what it was, it was done very well and was very entertaining. The production featured over 200 locals who are into the arts either acting, singing, playing instruments.
It was a mix of Christmas music, some acting and at the end, a stunning Nativity that was done in a way that I had not experienced before. It was nice to hear the traditional music of the season as well as some with a twist. However, I was very disappointed with the soloist whom sang “White Christmas”, they could have found someone better.
We both enjoyed our evening out, and if you happen upon it next year, give it a try.
By The Social Frog, on December 2nd, 2009
It was very rainy and I was afraid his flight would be delayed. There was talk of possible tornados and high winds as well. Luckily the heavy stuff kept away till after he landed.
I thought I got there early, as I sat down to wait, they opened the hangar doors and as that was happening I caught the glimps of the tail end of a plane. They said “They are here”!
I got giddy knowing I’d see him soon. The rain poured down. It took what seemed like forever for him to escape the plane. Pure joy ran through me as we hugged and kissed. Time stopped for a few minutes.
I am so happy to have my best friend back home with me!
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