Weekend with "The Girls"

I just got back from my weekend with "THE GIRLS". We had soo much fun! We went to Ft. Yargo in Winder, GA to scrapbook from Thursday night until Sunday night. I forgot my camera. (I know, I am a scrapbooker how could I do that!! I should be ashamed) This pic was taken with my phone. This is my friend Teresa. We had soo much fun over the weekend. Couldn't we pass for sisters! I have found my long lost twin.

As always it was a ton a laughs. Lauren was as crazy as always. You would need to read her blog about the incident with her pants. She tells the story so much better than I can.

We don't have another weekend planned anytime soon. Lauren starts teaching in February and her weekends are taken. We will have to plan in advance for everyone to get together again. I know we will go to Knoxville in April for the yard sale at Scrapbooks & More.

Phone News!

Well as the pictures can tell ... Katie now has a cell phone. Do you think she is excited? Of course the Princess had to get a pink one.

There is a reason behind getting it. It was just not practical to have a home phone. We were spending $35 a month for something that rang maybe 5 times a month. So we had the phone phone disconnected. So for all you friends and family out there you will need to call Wade, Amy, Katie & Chris on our cell phones. It was only $10.00 more added to the cell phone bill for Katie to have a phone. There are many restrictions to the phone. 1st she can only talk to the people Mommy programmed in her phone. All the family, etc... Also she can talk to friends that have Verizon since those calls are free. 2nd ..No text messaging. I think for a while we will be fine since she does not know how to do all of that stuff. 3rd.. the phone does not go with her to school. She can take it when she goes to the grandparents, aunts, uncles, & friends house but she must keep up with it. If she looses it .. too bad it is gone.

Looks like my little girl is turning into a little lady.

SNOW!!!

Yes!! Snow on New Years Day!! I love it! Katie and I love snow. Mom called about 9:00 saying it was snowing at her house. I thought she had lost her mind. I looked outside and there was nothing. About 15 min later I looked again and it had started to snow. I was just a dusting but still enough to make snowballs from what laid on the porch. Katie got all her snow gear on and went out to play. Wade could not resist going out and throwing snowballs at her. If only we had gotten more......

Christmas Morning

Well I think that Katie had a great Christmas. Santa was good to her as always. Katie is taking guitar lessons now so Wade & I got her a guitar case with pink flames put on it. She wanted the one at the store with red flames but I thought pink ones fit her better. This was the year that she was really into clothes. She loves shopping at Limited Too. She got several game boy games too. Along with a Webkinz. We are very fortunate to have such a good girl that really appreciates everything she gets no matter how big or small.

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas from the family!! Christmas with the Wood's was great this year! We met on Christmas Eve for lunch. We had a wonderful time. We are so glad that Nick made it in town for the holidays. Lauren & John went to visit his family in North Carolina. We missed you guys!

Merry Christmas from all of us!

WOW!!

I am finally getting to go to VEGAS!!! Our friends Edna & Whit found a deal on flights. Only $110 total for Wade and I round trip to Vegas from Atlanta. I am so excited. We leave on Feb. 4th and return on Feb. 6th. I know it is not long but just long enough so that Wade doesn't go crazy. He hates crowds, etc. I think he is allergic to fun.

I cannot believe that it has been since November that I posted. We were so busy with football and school that I just have not had time. The holidays are going to be fun. After Friday I am off until Jan. 2nd. Maybe then I will have time to get caught up on some things I need to do. I am hoping to get my kitchen painted while I am on vacation.

I have lots going on for the new year. Once I get my thoughts together I will get it on here.

I hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Senior Night Football Game

Pics of us at Senior Night. Chris looks like he has lost his best friend. We can never get a smile out of him. He got to be one of the Captains that night at the game. GO BUCS!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Katie decided to be a Midnight Witch. I just couldn't put the black makeup on such a pretty face. Maybe next year she will go back to being a Princess. And yes Katie's hair has gotten that long. There were several people that thought it was a wig.

Our friends Clint, Jennifer & Summer came over a visited before we started trick or treating. They always dress up when they take Summer out.

Katie is 10!!!

I cannot believe that Katie is 10! She is growing up so fast. My little girl is becomming a young lady. These are pics that were taken on 10/17/07 her actual birthday. She wanted to go eat dinner at Ryan's. She had dinner with Nannie, Bubba, Mom and Dad. Her birthday gift from Mom and Dad was guitar lessons. She went on Thursday for her first lesson and did great. She was so excited. On Saturday she had a party at the house with 6 girls. We rented an inflatable and the girls had a great time. There were 4 of them that spent the night. (I am so glad there is only 1 birthday a year.) Everytime I let her have girls over to spend the night I ask myself why I keep doing this. They had a great time!

Scrapbook Weekend!!

Ok this is my most favorite weekend of the entire year!!!! I leave in the morning to go to Gatlinburg to scrapbook with my friends. Thursday through Sunday!!! I am sooo excited. I love going to Croptoberfest. It is such a relaxing weekend. I get soo much stuff done. I enjoy spending time with my girlfriends and getting to scrap. I will post pics of the weekend next week.

Funny for the day..

Ok some of you may know my friend Lauren from ATL. She is crazy. She is always suprising everyone and doing crazy stuff. Well this time she got it. Katie and I drove to ATL today to suprise her. She had no clue it was great! The look on her face when we pulled up was priceless. She has been under a lot of stress lately with getting her basement finished. Katie and I went down to help her out for the day. She has a GREAT new scrapbook room! I LOVE her shelves. I ended up scraping paint off windows and hanging her curtains. Everything is looking good. Our friend Teresa came down today to spend a couple of weeks with her. She is going to help Lauren go through all her stuff and get organized. Maybe they will come to my house and help me. My scrap room needs major help.

Life is always an adventure!

Well yesterday Wade called me from work saying that he was having problems breathing and his arm was numb. I immediately left work and went and pick him up and we went to the ER. For Wade to ask to go to the doctor I knew he was sick. Long story short... after being in the ER from 11:30-5:30 and 1 xray, 1 cat scan and 2 breathing treatments later... he has a bacterial infection in his lungs. They have him on an inhaler, steroids & antibiotics. The doctor said he should be just fine. Next time his sinuses start draining he will listen to me and take some medicine. That is what they think caused the infection. Men... what do are we suppose to do with them?

Is there a DOCTOR in the house!!

Ok all you moms out there. Here is a tip that may save you a lot of heartache. ALWAYS check the seams on a stuffed animal or doll before you put them in the washing machine!!! As you can see Katie's build a bear has an open wound. I came home from an auction tonight and Wade yells at me from downstairs to come and look. I come down the stairs and he asks me what are we going to do about this. Is there a doctor that can fix it. The bear even lost the heart they put in there. I washed the bear last night with a load of towels. Wade had come down to change them over and found this. He took everything out of the washer and piled it on the sink. He cleaned out the washer and walked out of the laundry room for me to perform surgery. FYI... they put a whole lot of stuffing in this bear. It is everywhere. I am having to shake off the towels into the sink and put the stuffing back in. After that the towels will go back in the wash and maybe all the fuzz will come off. I am hoping to get it sewed up and Katie be none the wiser. I hope this piece of advice will save someone else from having to do open butt surgery on a bear.

Right after all this happened I had to call my friend Lauren. She proceeds to tell me to get off the phone and get my camera and post on my blog. I hope she realizes that not all the crazy stuff happens to just her.

DECKTOPIA

I am so tired of working on this deck. Why do I feel like this thing keeps getting bigger and bigger! Ok the 1st picture was taken about 1:00 TODAY! The last picture was taken at 7:00 TODAY! Wade, Chris and Uncle Jeff and me worked hard to get all that done. I am hoping we will get even more done tomorrow. I hope the weather holds out a little longer so that we can enjoy it a while longer. Katie got in the pool this afternoon. The pool temp was about 79 degrees. Just a little chilly for me but she didn't seem to mind.

Katie's birthday is in October. Maybe everything will be finished so that we can have everyone over and cook out and have cake on the deck.

Pool Update

Ok here is the latest pics of the pool and the deck. My friend Lauren made me go out just now and take these pics. As you can see Wade is building the portion of the deck where the hot tub is going to sit. Another pic is of the frame work of the new stairs. One is of the pool and the new deck. Finally the finished screen porch. All freshly painted. For now this is all the deck we can afford. We are going to put is all the way around as the money is available. It gets us started. There is enough room for several lounge chairs. It is at least ready to use tomorrow for our cookout.

Football Time in Tennessee

Well it is at least football time at Boyd Buchanan! Chris is a Senior this year. I can't believe it! Where has the time gone. This is Chris at football camp a couple of weeks ago. What happened to the little boy who sat in the floor and played with hot wheels. It is hard to imagine that our little boy is becoming a man. Time sure flies by. Live every minute like it is your last.

The Back Yard

WOW! Why do we always take on these BIG projects. Why can't I ever do something simple? The backyard is a mess. We had / have a goal of having the deck completed by Monday. We do have the screen porch rescreened and painted. The door needs to be put on. The base of the deck is done we just need to screw in the deck boards. We probably would have been on schedule but the rain the past two afternoons have messed that up. Hopefully we will kick butt on Saturday morning and be ready to use the pool on Labor Day. Maybe mother nature will hold out for us.

POOL IS IN!!

YEA! The pool is in! We filled it all day yesterday and all night last night. I turned the water off this morning because if I had left it on all day it would have run over. I have about 3 more inches to fill and it is done. We are soo excited. Katie is ready to jump in tonight. Now we have the deck to build. I will post some pics soon.

Life in the fast lane...

Why does my life have to be soo crazy? Well Katie, mom and I got back from our trip to Jacksonville for my cousins wedding. We had soo much fun. It was great to get to go to the beach two times in one year.

Looking at the pictures that I took I cannot believe how big Katie is getting. She will be 10 in just a couple of months. Tomorrow is the first day of school. I can't believe she is going to be in the 4th grade. Where has all the time gone?

Well things are progresssing with the pool. I have a huge dirt mess in my backyard right now but hopefully by next weekend there will be a pool in its place. As always this week is going to fly by and I am not going to be any further ahead. My house is a disaster area. I need a maid! But like my friend Lauren I would probably clean for the cleaning lady and that just does not make any sense.

I think there are more important things than an immaculate house. Like spending time with your kids. The housework will still be here when they are gone.

POOL NEWS

Ok it is official. My husband is trying to kill me. It is not a quick death noooo it is slow and painful. We came home from work today and got started on the yard. Our friend Clint came over to help Wade and I. Without him we would still be out there. We got the fence taken down and the shed torn down. I also got the yard sprayed for ants. (per the pool people) The tree company will be here in the morning to start taking out the 8 trees that need to come out. I should have taken a before pic tonight before it got dark but I forgot. I will try to get one in the morning when I leave for work. I know it is going to look like a disaster zone when I get home tomorrow.

The pool is scheduled to be installed the week of August 6th. At least we may get 4-8 weeks out of the pool before we have to close it down. Wonder how long it is going to take to fill it up and get warm? Oh YIKES.. wonder how much my water bill is going to be?