Reasons the Month of June Will Be Awesome

  • My birthday on June 18
  • My sister Meredith’s birthday on June 18
  • My parents’ anniversary on June 5
  • It’s SUMMER!
  • Family trip to Arkansas
  • Time with people I love
  • World’s Largest Swim Lesson
  • Finishing the next to last class for a certification I want
  • Warm air
  • Planning more summer vacations
  • Nights on my patio
  • Outdoor swimming
  • Tan lines
  • Tank tops
  • Green grass & growing fields
The sunset reflected in my porch door
The sunset reflected in my porch door

Twenty One Reasons to Smile Today

  1. Because you woke up this morning
  2. To cheer up someone else
  3. When you think of someone special
  4. Your best childhood memory
  5. Libraries are full of free books
  6. When you hear a child laugh
  7. Because there are green trees and smiling flowers on this planet
  8. The night is full of stars and moonlight and lovely silence
  9. It’s scientifically proven to elevate your mood
  10. Beauty is everywhere if you look hard enough
  11. You have internet access
  12. You will probably eat a meal today
  13. Most likely more than one
  14. Sunshine
  15. Late spring smells like rain and earth and allergies
  16. When you go on a walk
  17. When you go to your job
  18. When a complete stranger smiles at you first
  19. Because life is too short to spend in a foul mood
  20. Because today is an opportunity to do something you’ve never done before
  21. Because you choose to be happy

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Famous People Born in May

  1. Tim McGraw
  2. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
  3. Bing Crosby
  4. Audrey Hepburn
  5. Adele
  6. George Clooney
  7. Johnny Unitas
  8. Harry S Truman
  9. Billy Joel
  10. Kenan Thompson
  11. Salvador Dali
  12. Tony Hawk
  13. Stevie Wonder
  14. Mark Zuckerberg
  15. Emmitt Smith
  16. Liberace
  17. Jill Duggar
  18. Tina Fey
  19. Malcolm X
  20. Dolley Madison
  21. Mr. T
  22. Apolo Ohno
  23. Drew Carey
  24. Queen Victoria
  25. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  26. Helena Bonham Carter
  27. Wild Bill Hickock
  28. Gladys Knight
  29. John F. Kennedy
  30. Benny Goodman
  31. Walt Whitman

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A LIST in pictures – Cancun, Mexico

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The view from our balcony — Moon Palace Resort, Cancun, Mexico
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The 4 of us at the beach the first night we got there
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Sandbar
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Birthday boy’s flaming shot of… we don’t know what
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Katie & I at the Foam Party
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Katie’s cartwheel!
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LeAnn & Trent dressed for dinner
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Turns out Katie & I both have an irrational fear of the same thing.
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My Swim with the Dolphins selfie
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All 4 of us in the Premiere beach seating area
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One more ocean off my bucket list!

Stuff I did in April

2-7 – Went to Cancun, Mexico
9- Attended Premier whiskey tasting event at brand new Whiskey Acres Distillery
15- Paid my taxes
18- Celebrated Caleb’s birthday (which is on the 19th)
25- Healthy Kids Day at YMCA & promo for “Swim with the Mermaid” event

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Moon Palace Resort, Cancun

Tuesday Twos-day

  • two of a kind
  • tea for two
  • two shakes of a lamb’s tail
  • bicycle built for two
  • two by four
  • two step
  • two is company
  • two peas in a pod
  • a one, and a two…
  • put two and two together
  • catch 22
  • two cents worth
  • goody two shoes
  • two heads are better than one
  • two wrongs don’t make a right
  • take two aspirin and call me in the morning
  • terrible twos
  • kill two birds with one stone
  • two can play
  • two to tango

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Reasons Why I Still Have a Christmas Tree Up in My Bedroom

  1. I never bought my 2014 annual ornament to represent my year and if I take my tree down before that happens, I will lose it (once I eventually buy it).
  2. All my favorite ornaments that remind me of the places I’ve been and the people I love still make me smile every time I look at them.
  3. It is covered in blue lights and sparkly blue snowflakes and glittery silver balls and that make me shiny and happy.
  4. It is something tall in the corner of the bedroom which is aesthetically pleasing.
  5. Green is a sign of life.
  6. It’s a pretty nightlight.
  7. I like it and I don’t want to take it down.

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Friday the 13th

1/13/2012 – Cruise ship Costa Concordia wrecks off the coast of Italy
3/13/2009 – “Saw – the Ride” roller coaster opens at the Thorpe Park amusement center in England
4/13/2004 – Famous chef Julia Child dies at the age of 91
10/13/1989 – Dow Jones Industrial stocks take the 2nd greatest plummet as of that time
6/13/1986 – Twins Mary Kate & Ashley Olson are born
10/13/1972 – A plane crash sets off an epic tale of survival & rescue, eventually retold in the book and movie “Alive”
2/13/1976 – Figure skater Dorothy Hammill wins gold at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
9/13/1940 – Five German bombs destroy the chapel at Buckingham Palace
6/13/1930 – England’s first nudist colony officially opens
7/13/1923 – California land developer Harry Chandler unveils “HOLLYWOODLAND” sign
1/13/1894 – America’s first patent for an accordion is filed
7/13/1832 – American explorer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River
11/13/1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes his famous line “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

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