WOW! October 29, 2009

It has been a really long time since I posted anything! Well…let’s catch up.

About a month ago or a little longer the “higher up’s” came into my job and told us that they would be closing my warehouse. I can’t say that I didn’t expect this because I did…the signs were there. But with that being said it definitely did not make it easier. October 31st was supposed to be my last day but they came in on the 27th to tell us that the 28th will be our last day. Which is fine it was already happening anyway so we may as well get it over with. We did get a severance package which was a blessing! They didn’t have to give us anything. You have to look at the bright side on things like this. So today is my first day unemployed, and I am still not sure how I feel about it. I know that God will provide so that is not an issue. Don’t get me wrong it is still very scary just because this is something new for us and new is ALWAYS scary. Even when I think about having to go to a new job that is scary because I have had the same one for like 8 years. It is weird because the thought will just pop into my head that I don’t have a job and I am not sure what is going to happen…but just as soon as the thought pops into my head it is gone! I know that is God and He is just saying you don’t even have to think about this I have it covered. So I am not sure what will come out of this but I know that it will be okay. I am a worrier and I am not worrying about this, that is very weird to me. I also have the best people in my life and if I ever needed to, I know that I could call and they would do anything they could for me.

 

Well that is a quick catch up about what has been going on with me. I am sure I will be writing more often seeing as how I will not be working for a while! Maybe I will start exercising…we will see! Off to watch T.V. now!

Weekend Update September 8, 2009

It’s that time again…The good news is there is only four days in this work week because yesterday was Labor Day so I had the day off! Okay so what did I do this weekend…

 

Friday – We had a Luau for the youth! It was a lot of fun! Swimming, eating, fishing and playing games. I played a game of Parchessi and lost but it was fun anyway.

 

Saturday – Went shopping with Tiffany for a little while, then headed back to the house to watch the first Georgia game of the season. Yeah I know…I dont even want to talk about it! They did not do so well BUT there was a lot of bogus calls and flags! Maybe we will do better in the next game, although it is against South Carolina so we will see. After the Georgia game we hung out and watched I Love You, Man. It was pretty funny.

 

Sunday – Got up bright and early and headed to church. Went to lunch afterwards to Shanes Rib Shack…come to think of it I still have the other half of my sandwich in the refrigerator. Went back to the house, Brian and Daniel headed to the race track and Caleb and I headed to my mom’s. Went shopping with her and then cooked out steaks. Watched some of the race and then Big Brother, which I am not happy about and then headed back to the house. Waited on Brian to get home and I guess got in bed at about 12:30, which was fine with me because I was off work Monday. Brian on the other hand was not so I think that he got about 3 or so hours of sleep. Oh well he knew what he was doing when he went, right!?

 

Monday - Caleb let me sleep in a little but not much I think that I was up by 8. We ran a few errands…bank, Waffle House, Wal-Mart, Kroger, went to Walgreens to get his flu shot (I already have mine) but there was a 2+ hour wait so we will  be going back. Took a little nap and then headed to my cousins for a cookout. It was a good time, I have never seen so many ribs in my life and they were good too. I even threw and CAUGHT the football a few times. I do think that my cousin was throwing it a little soft for me though…oh well I still caught it! Then at about 8:30 I guess we headed home. Got Caleb in the bath and in the bed and got ready to start the work week.

Well that was the life of us this weekend! What did you do?

Weekend Update September 1, 2009

Yeah I know it is Tuesday and I usually do this on Monday but well I didn’t feel like it yesterday.

Friday – After work we hung out with Daniel and Tiffany which we haven’t done in a long time and we had tons of fun! We schooled Daniel and Brian in contract rummy, the score was ridiculous we were in the thousands and they were not!

Saturday – We got up and went to the Zoo with Jessica, Kyle, Jordan, and Connor. It was a lot of fun. I didn’t realize that the cost had went up. For Brian and I it was like $41! Thanks to Jessica Caleb got in for free! What we didn’t realize was that it was Georgia Alum day! It took us at least an hour to find a parking spot! But I did get to take a picture with Harry (the mascot)! I will put that pic up tonight.

Me with Harry!!!

Feeding the birds

Great seats

Tired boy!

Busted lip

We left the Zoo and went to my cousin Devon’s birthday party. Had a burger and some cookie cake YUM and then headed to the house. As soon as we walked in the door Brian’s sister called him and told us to meet her at the Dome in an hour. He was like uh…why? She had 4 extra tickets to the first pre season game! So of course we went. It was Caleb’s first game and he did really good. He had cotton candy, dipin dots, and coke! Anything to keep him awake! We left the game with like 8 minutes to go because we were losing and really we didn’t look good at all. Well with like 20 seconds left the Falcons score and win the game! Oh well we got to miss a lot of the traffic at least. I also have pics of the game that I will put up tonight. We had really good seats on the home side 19 rows up! So we got home at about 11 and Brian wanted to bathe Caleb so it wouldn’t have to be done early the next morning. So he did, Caleb wasn’t really happy about it since he had fallen asleep on the way home.

Sunday – We got up early and headed out to church. Daniel was preaching and he did a very good job! After church we were packing up (as we have to do every Sunday) and Trey was pushing Caleb around on a dolly/cart thing (as he does every Sunday). Well this time Caleb was lying down and when they went over a bump Caleb’s two front teeth went through his bottom lip! Of course he was crying and bleeding, when we finally were able to wipe it off it  looked like he had two holes in his lip. I have a pic of this too. He cried for a long time until I went in the store to get Motrin and came out with M&M’s too! Candy will do amazing things! It looks tons better now, it is already starting to go away. After church we went to lunch and then went home. I took like a 3 or 4 hour nap with it raining outside! It felt great!! When I finally got up Brian went to get us dinner and I didn’t leave the house. It was a great Sunday!

I think that is it. If I think of anything else I will add it…I will also put pics up tonight.

Pre K update August 25, 2009

I haven’t been able to talk to Caleb’s teacher really because she has the bus duty in the mornings so when I drop him off she isn’t there. Well last week I slept a little late one morning so when I dropped him off she was there. She told me that he is doing really well. She said that after the first week of having time out twice he hasn’t had it since. She said that he really didn’t care too much about learning until she told him that he would be able to read to his mama and now he is all about it. He is the first one to sit at the table to get started and the first one to get finished, he doesn’t like to be last. She said the only thing that she has a problem with is getting him to hold his pencil right. In the 3 year old class they did work but they did it with crayons so now he has to get used to writing with a pencil. I can already tell a huge difference at home too. Like with cleaning, he used to always say that he needed help but now he will go in there by his self and clean his whole room. He is also getting better with listening. Of course he has his moments but they are getting to be fewer of them. Oh!! He is also pretty much writing his name!! He also told me last night that we lived in Georgia and Granny and Nanny lived in Alabama. I am so proud of what he has learned already and of how smart he is!!

Weekend Update August 25, 2009

As you know Caleb turned 4 on Thursday, and my mom turned 53. So on Friday we went to dinner to celebrate. My mom wanted to go to Longhorns so that is where we went. Not to much to say about that I guess…it was a good dinner.

Saturday was Caleb’s party. We got up early and started cleaning the house. We had a bouncy thing delivered that Caleb didn’t even want to get in because he said that it would collapse. The adults had fun though so it wasn’t a complete waste of money. He had a TMNT theme birthday party and even though they are still pretty popular it was hard finding stuff for it. Daniel and Tiffany wanted to do the cake (too much Cake Boss) and it turned out really good! It tasted really good too!!! There are pictures below. He got a ton of Transformers, should have just had a Transformers party. There were lots of people at our house but the day went really well. Now we dont have to worry about another one for another year.

Sunday we went to church, had nursery with just Caleb so we played! Came home took a nap and then went to the best small group! Had lots of fun!!

TMNT Cake

Caleb is 4! August 25, 2009

Well on 8-20-09 Caleb turned 4! I still can’t believe it seeing how it seems like it was yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital. So we took him to the nearest Brookestone that we could find which was at Phipps to get some Eco friendly frogs and a snail. He wanted pizza yet again so we went to the food court since we couldn’t afford anything else there and we ate dinner. Then we headed to pick out the frogs. They put the frogs in a box and sent us on our way. On the way home we stopped by Wal-Mart, I put the frogs in the floor board and we went shopping. We came back out I picked up the box and the  bottom fell out!! Water started pouring out (stinky water). Luckily we get it back right side up and the frogs survived. Needless to say we had to clean out the aquarium once we got home. I do think that the frogs we picked out are a little psycho, I fed them today and one frog had the other frogs arm in his mouth and wouldn’t let go until I beat on the side of the aquarium! Anyways the frogs are still living for now…maybe they will kill themselves before too long the way they are acting. There is a pictures below…Oh there names are Spongebob, Patrick and the snail is Gary. Wonder where that came from.

A Day To Remember August 20, 2009

This day 4 years ago our son was born! I remember it like it was yesterday…

 

On August 19thI was so ready to have the baby already!! It was hot, I was huge and I was ready to just get it over with! So we went to our friends Matt and Heather’s apartment and walked. I am pretty sure that we walked way over a mile. So Saturday August, 20th I wake up and my water broke!!! Brian was working at the apartments then and was working this Saturday so I called him and was like yeah my water just broke! He was like uh…okay I will be there in a minute! On the way to the hospital I called my mom and said Happy Birthday, she was turning 49 that day. (Side note for the longest time I thought that she had turned 50 that day! ) So we get to Henry Medical Center and they do a test to confirm that it was my water that broke and not pee, like I wouldn’t know the difference!! It was my water but I wasn’treally ready even though my water broke so they made me walk. I had to walk up and down the halls and at this time they were re doing the hospital so I had to walk like on the ICU or CCU, not very uplifting. So I walk for probably and hour or more. By this time most of our family is there and apparently the walking helped because I am hurting at this point! They finally let me lay down and give me some kind of pain medicine in my IV and Phenergan. The pain medicine really did nothing, the Phenergan just made me not throw up everywhere! It is really funny to hear Brian tell the story because I don’t remember a whole lot. He says at one point I jumped out of the bed and told him I was going home! The pain medicine didn’t do much for the pain but apparently put me out of it. So we got to the hospital at like 11 and it is probably 4:30pm now. So the doctor comes in checks me and says that I am at a four so it will be a while longer so she is going to go home! At this point I ask for an epidural and they tell me that they will tell the doctor. Probably about an hour later I keep telling them that I feel like I have to use the bathroom so they come back in and check and I am already at a 10!! Needless to say the doctor didn’t get back in time so a mid wife had to deliver him. Also I did NOT get my epidural! So I start the process at about 5:30 and he was born at 6:10pm. Everyone always ask me if it was as bad as everyone says…I know that it was painful definitely but I really do not remember the actual pain and that was with no epidural. I think that God has a way to make that not be the part that stands out the most. If it was so bad then everyone would only have 1 child! So that is my story. I could have went into more detail but I will spare everyone. It was a very chaotic day but it was the best day of our lives!

Weekend Update August 17, 2009

Well its that time again…it’s Monday which means I need to give a weekend update.

 

Friday – We went to my parents in Peachtree City and ate at Chili’s. Love their 2 for $20 deal!! So good!! Caleb stayed over and we headed home. Went to a late night showing of The Time Travelers Wife. It was pretty good, very confusing. He wasn’t just traveling forward it was backwards and all around so I was like HUH? half the time! I am proud to say that I didn’t really cry but my eyes did water…maybe that’s because I was confused.

Saturday – We had our mystery trip for the youth group. We went to the Mall of Georgia and hung out all day. Walked around and mostly window shopped, did buy a couple things. We saw GI Joe and if anyone knows me they know that I LOVE Channing Tatum!! (Yes I do have a husband and yes he does know how I feel, thank you! Plus it’s not like love love!) So of course I thought the movie was very good, a little more Sci Fi than I thought and if I would have known that ahead of time I probably wouldn’t have seen it…wait yes I would…but I didn’t know that it would be so Sci Fi but it was and it was really good still! We left there, dropped the teens off and had all intentions of picking Caleb up but when I called he said he wasn’t coming home, surprise surprise. So instead we went to LaParilla with Daniel and Tiffany and paid cash! They were having peoples card numbers get stolen there, but the food is so good! We then went to Target and got a few things for Caleb’s birthday and then to Dick’s Sporting Goods and Brian got some new shoes, again. We finally headed home, watched an episode of True Blood and then hit the bed!

Sunday - We got up bright and early and headed to church. We had a very good crowd, very exciting!! After church we had a lunch in our honor!! The church was honoring the youth leaders! I have never felt so loved and appreciated, it was truly amazing!! They did a low country broil. Again anyone that knows me knows that seafood is not my favorite, but I went in with an open mind and was pleasantly surprised!! There was corn, potato’s, shrimp, sausage and CRAB LEGS!! There was also numerous sides and desserts. It was so good I cant say that enough! I even liked the shrimp!! I have tried shrimp every way and don’t care for them but this was really good and of course the crab legs were awesome! Then everyone prayed over us, again just an unbelievable feeling! OH!!! Also at church our Bestest Friends announced the big secret that they are adopting!!!! So exciting! I wasn’t going to cry because I didn’t want Tiffany to cry but then Daniel cried and yeah I lost it!! I am so excited for them and excited that we will be with them through this journey!! Amazing!!

 

Man now that I have written it out it was an awesome weekend!! The best in a very long time!! This week will be just as good I believe. Thursday is Caleb’s 4th and my moms 53rd birthday! Now I am on a mission to find these frogs at Brookstone, they were at The Mall of Georgia but I forgot to go back and get them after the movie!

Big Brother August 14, 2009

I know that I haven’t posted too much on BB but I was soooo happy over what happened last night that I have to! So Lydia and Russell were on the block, I really don’t care for either of them but there are others in the house that I like less. So last night right before the live eviction Julie asked the house guest if whoever had the mystery power wanted to use it to stand up. Jeff stood up!! I was shocked I really didn’t think that he would use it. – The mystery power is that he can take one or both nominees off the block and replace with who he wants. – Well he used it!! He took off both nominees and replaced them with Natalie and Jesse. Both of who I really cant stand!! Natalie more than Jesse, but still I would have been happy to see either of them leave. So they vote and Jesse gets voted out! I am just happy because those two have thought they have been running the house and bullying everyone so I am just glad to see that little alliance split up! I don’t think that it will help Jeff in the long run but we will see. I think that all the girls are going to side with each other and vote the guys out one by one.

Private Resort??? August 12, 2009

Yeap that’s right!!!! I just booked our shore excursion for when we port in Cozumel!! It is a Private beach resort, they only allow 100 people a day so you don’t have to worry about being all crowded! You get a 3 course lunch, all the free drinks that you can drink no matter what you want! We can stay there all day if we want. I am like heck yes! This is awesome! A cruise is all about relaxing so this is going to add to it even more! I am really excited now I can’t wait! I can’t believe that it is like SIX WEEKS away! Time sure has flown!!