200th Post!!

WOW! I can't believe it! 200 posts on my blog! This blog started out as just a way for me to get my feelings out. Now it is growing into so much more! I have lots of bloggie friends and gain more all the time! I am so grateful for this platform!

So, this calls for a celebration! This celebration is in 2 parts.

The first part is a new Blog Award!!

 

I have some amazing bloggie friends! So I just wanted to share some love with them! Check them out!

Kelly @ Welcome To My Insanity

Kelly @ The Pursuit of Mommyness 

Jen @ After The Alter 

Lynne @ Jaygirl Dialogues 

Amy @ Silent Ranks

Kelly @ While I'm Waiting 

Katie @ My Life As A Wallace

These are some awesome girls. I love them all!

Part Two: A Giveaway!!

For those of you who don't know, I am an Avon Sales Rep. So, to celebrate my blog, and promote my Avon business, I am hosting a giveaway! You will have from today February 9th - February 16th (my one month anniversary!) to enter to win a surprise gift bag! The main way to enter is to leave a comment on this post saying why you love my blog!

You can also enter by:

• Publicly become a Google Friend of Sarah Ruth Today, and then comment telling me. (Look to the right side bar and click the word FOLLOW)

• Follow @sarahruthtoday on Twitter and stop back to let me know that you are.

• Tweet about this giveaway, then copy and paste the link in a comment. You can copy and paste “I just entered to win a surprise gift bag @sarahruthtoday You should too! http://bit.ly/WOUvy Please RT!”

• Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment here with a link to the post.

I hope you all enjoy this celebration!

Much Love,

First Doctor's Visit in YEARS!!

I haven't had medical insurance since I was 19 years old. Now that I'm married to a soldier, I have medical insurance again! Which is so good! So I went to the doctor last week for the first time in YEARS! Since it was the first time I had been there, we just did a few things. Like they took my temp, blood pressure, etc. The dr asked me questions about my health problems. I told her about my constant menstrual cycle. She told me that from the things I've said, she thinks I probably have PCOS. That is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, for those of you who don't know.

What is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)?

Polycystic (pah-lee-SIS-tik) ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a health problem that can affect a woman's menstrual cycle, ability to have children, hormones, heart, blood vessels, and appearance. With PCOS, women typically have:

• high levels of androgens (AN-druh-junz). These are sometimes called male hormones, although females also make them.
• missed or irregular periods
• many small cysts (sists) in their ovaries. Cysts are fluid-filled sacs.

I have a few friends that have PCOS and I have talked about the symptoms they have and I thought that I could have it. Thinking you have it and having your dr say that you have it are completely different things.

Getting home from the doctor's office, reading over the symptoms and complications of PCOS, I started to get a little emotional. This is one of the leading causes for infertility. Not everyone that has it, has trouble with getting pregnant. But not being able to have kids has always been my big fear. Now it just feel like it has come true.

My husband and I aren't planning to have kids for a couple of years anyways. If I'm not able to conceive, maybe we should start saving money for adoption now. We decided a while ago that we wanted to adopt no matter what. I'm still hoping it's not our only option for having children.

Thankfully I have a built in support group! Outside of my family and friends, I also have a handful of friends who have PCOS. They know what it's like, they know how I feel. I am so thankful for them!!

Much Love,

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I hope you all have a very blessed Thanksgiving! Remember to be thankful!!

Much Love,

Share The Love!

My future cousin-in-law (and former roommate!) Amanda has a blog. She has one follower. ME! She needs some love people!! So please hop on over to My Random Craziness and leave lots of comment love!! She's great!

Amanda

Amanda and her fiance (MY COUSIN!!) Eric.

Much Love,

Things I Love

*Update* Since my beloved best friend pointed something out that I didn't mention, I am not changing this list to 101 Things I love.

101. PINK STARBURST!!! (Which is in the bottom picture. LOL!)

My new friend Brittany inspired me to do this post. I admit, I took some of the things from her list. But I love those things too!! LOL!

These are in random order. (As in, the order they came to my mind!)

1. Matthew

2. My family
3. My friends
4. My pets
5. Sweet tea
6. Target
7. Wal-Mart
8. Lane Bryant
9. Shopping

10. Planning
11. Naps
12. Catching up with old friends
13. Decorating
14. Grey's Anatomy
15. Sleeping in
16. Reading
17. Scrapbooking

18. Facebook
19. Clearance Items
20. Bargain shopping
21. Food Network
22. Trying new recipes
23. Pentel R.S.V.P. fine point pens
24. Movies
25. Going to dinner
26. Strawberries

27. Anything pink
28. Anything purple
29. Spending time with my friends
30. Massages
31. Lists
32. Wii
33. Wii Fit
34. Chrome cologne
35. The smell of freshly cut grass.
36. Front porches
37. Flip Flops
38. Nashville

39. Reading blogs
40. Traditions
41. My Grandma's Macaroni
42. Girl talk
43. Going through the car wash
44. Chocolate ice cream
45. Photography
46. Kisses on the forehead

47. Cuddling
48. Holding hands
49. Country music
50. Christian music
51. Sunglasses
52. Laughing
53. Texting

54. Daisies
55. Daffodils
56. Irises
57. Coffee
58. My cell phone
59. Brown eye liner
60. My hair straightener
61. Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks

62. Babies laughing
63. White fluffy clouds in a blue sky
64. Dr. Pepper
65. Shopping for scrapbook things
66. Taking pictures
67. Making stuff
68. Planning my wedding

69. My church
70. My "adopted" family
71. Magazines
72. Cute coffee mugs

73. Whole grain tortilla chips *YUMM!*
74. Living vicariously through my friends
75. Panera Bread
76. My pink water bottle
77. My Coach purse

78. My Louis Vuitton purse

79. Libraries
80. La-Z-Boys
81. Yard sales
82. Chocolate cake
83. Foreign languages
84. Clawfoot tubs

85. Swimming pools
86. College-ruled notebook paper
87. Photobooths
88. Movie ticket stubs
89. Bare feet
90. Cathedral window quilts

91. Crushed ice
92. Bluetooth headsets
93. Open fields
94. Finger nail polish
95. Acoustic guitars

96. Thrift stores
97. Christmas trees
98. Disney World
99. Baby clothes
100. Thoughtful gifts



Much Love,

Weddings

So my beautiful Forever Friend Katie got married this past Saturday. It was such a beautiful ceremony. I couldn't be happier for her.


I did the photo guestbook for Katie. I took pictures of everyone as they came in, and they wrote messages to the Bride and Groom on 3x5 cards colored in red, black, and silver. It's going to be really unique when the guestbook is done.