How does everyone do it?

OK I am absolutely exhausted! I feel as though I have not stopped for 2 weeks now. This is the first time I have had a few minutes to write. We have been on the go and I have not been home to get anything done. I cannot even remember the last time I cooked a meal. I know we have been eating out all the time. I have been throwing laundry in as I am breezing in the house so I have clean clothes but... they are all piled on the pool table.. (thanks Edna..you warned me).

I just feel like I am going to loose my mind. I am at my wits ends. Which by the way does not take long to get to. I have been in a horrible mood lately and have snapped at everyone. I finally got some sleep this weekend. Maybe that will help. Vacation is only 2 weeks away so hopefully I will get some much needed rest.

Well got to run Katie and I are headed back to the pool. It thundered earlier and we left. No thunder is over 45 min so I think it is safe to go back. I need the relaxation!!

Bloggin

Ok I have realized that this bloggin stuff is hard. With the summer here I am soo busy. Also with getting the antique booth I have been to auctions at least 3 times a week. I didn't realize this hobby would turn into a full time job. I got my first check from Knitting Mills (where the booth is). But to my dismay the only person that sold anything was my sister inlaw. But on a good note on Monday I sold 1 possibly 2 items. Hopefully I can find my nich. I just don't know what sells the best right now. Our booth is a hodgepoge of items.

Well I have to run. For some reason the laundry fairy does not stop here anymore and do my wash for me. It is amazing how many clothes this family wears.

Exhausted

The weekend has finally caught up to me. I am tired of auctions and junk. Tomorrow I have a baby shower at work and then Friday is Open House at work. I will be there from 7 AM to 9 or 10 PM. Oh and Saturday is my neighborhood yard sale. Maybe on Sunday I can get some rest.

Antique Booth

I am sure that you have all been waiting to see the pics of the booth. Well wait no more here it is....

Isn't it great! I am auctioned out though. We were at auctions this last weekend from Friday - Monday. On Monday we went to two that day. Hopefully we made some money over the weekend to make up for what I have spent.

Auction Crazy

We have been busy this week with loading in our Antique Booth. I have been cleaning and repairing furniture that we have gotten. I am on my way down there today to put more in that we bought last night. We are heading out again tonight to another auction. There are 3 more between now and Monday. Hopefully this little venture will be lucrative. I will take my camera and get a picture of the booth. It is called Wood Brothers Antiques.

Wedding Photos

Yea! It is over!! The renewal of wedding vows for my inlaws was today. I am exhausted. I was up until 2:30 am putting together a CD to use at the wedding since we were unsure about the piano player. You all know that after doing all that work she did show up today. But better to be safe than sorry. I got up and to my brother in laws this morning for his neighborhood yard sale. I made a purchase by myself and the guys were pleased. I got at table & 4 chairs for $35.00. Anyway I think I am pulling a Lauren and digressing again...

The wedding was beautiful. As you can see by the photo. Don't we all look gorgeous!!! After the wedding we had to go to my nephews graduation. I am just now getting home. I am loading the pics to Walmart.com so I can get them printed tomorrow. If I don't it will be days or weeks before I got that done. Who knows I may get creative and do them a wedding scrapbook. (Note: I have not even done my own so no one needs to hold their breath on this one.)

Guess what I did?

Well I made the plunge. I am now the proud owner of a booth at Knitting Mills Antiques. Wade & I along with his brother Jeff & wife Laurie are going to fill it up. This way we can get rid of all the junk we buy at the auction. We LOVE the auction and the thrill of buying a bargain. But I want to try and make some $$. We are going to try it for 6 months and see how it goes. Who knows we may not make a dime. But you don't know until you try. I am excited. So that means we are going to be busy the next couple of weeks going to auctions and buying stuff.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I know you are reading this and thinking .... did you loose your mind. An Anniversary and Mother's Day all in the same weekend! My mother has been saying this for 11 years now. Don't ask me why I picked the day before Mother's Day to get married. Hind sight I guess I could have picked another day but I wanted to get married in May and that was the only weekend available. (ok so I don't remember for sure but it sounds like a good answer.) Sorry like my friend Lauren I am digressing.

Mother's Day this year was spent getting up and going to church with my mom. After church we went and had lunch at Ryan's. We met my in laws Lynne & Billy there also. We had a nice lunch. After lunch we headed back to our house for a photo op and change clothes and then we went to Lowe's. We picked up mulch and a few plants and went to mom's house to work in the yard. It is amazing what some weeding and a few bags of mulch will do. The yard looks great! So now that I am exhausted I am going to bed and get ready for the week ahead.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! (to me)

Friday May 11, 2007 Wade and I have been married for 11 years. Can you believe it? Who would have thought it would have ever lasted this long! LOL. Wade really put some thought into our anniversary. He brought me flowers to work on Friday and planned our whole evening. We had dinner at Hennen's. By the way it was FABULOUS!! After dinner we walked around downtown and stopped at Ben & Jerry's for ice cream. We were going to take a carriage ride but because it looked like it was going to rain there were not any carriages out. We ended our evening at the hotel room that he had reserved. I was soo impressed that he did all that just for us. So ok he has brownie points for a while...

Whew!

Boy has it been a whirlwind of a week. The weekend has gone by just as quick. The plan was to get up on Saturday morning and go to the yard sales and then head up to Tansi. Well it was such a yucky rainy day we hung out at home. We got up early today and headed up there. We got a ton of stuff done. We got 10 bags of mulch put out, the water turned on, the air conditioner put in the window, cleaned the bathrooms & the kitchen. Oh and I also vacuumed the whole place. It is ready for us to go up for Memorial Day weekend. I am pooped now. I got home and put clothes in the wash. Why is a woman's work never done?

Lookouts Game

Well we went to the Chattanooga Lookouts game on Monday night. Katie won a ticket at school for being the most improved. I got the box seats that my company has so that we could be more comfortable instead of sitting in the cheap seats. Well our surprise the seats were GREAT! We were right behind home plate. We got to see all the action. We also were sitting around all of the scouts for the other teams. It was really neat. The weather was so nice. We actually enjoyed our night out at the ballpark. We only lasted till the 6th inning. Katie had already eaten ice cream and was ready to go. We figured she wouldn't make it. Anyway she had to get home and get ready for bed.

WOW What a Week!

Yikes! I knew this week was going to be crazy and it definately was! This is the first chance I had to get on the computer. I had 6 groups in at work this week. Monday thru Wednesday I got home late. So with my week being so busy I have spent today doing laundry. I am still waiting on the laundry fairy to come over and help me out but somehow it never happens.

I did get time yesterday to go over by Scrapbook Heaven and pick up Lauren goodies that she purchased over the phone with her gift certificate from the yard sale. Can you believe that woman thinks that I am going to make sure that bag of goodies gets to her? Possession is 9/10 of the law right? Just kidding Lauren.. I will try to get your stuff in the mail this week.

Katie won a ticket to the Lookouts game at school about 2 weeks ago. She is the most improved in her class. The prize was the ticket. I got extra tickets from my work so that we can all go. The game is on Monday night. She keeps reminding us that the game starts at 7:15.

At school on Friday Katie participated in the Run-Walk- A-Thon. She got donations from the family. You could pledge a specific amount or so much per lap. It seems she only ran/walked 9 laps. So.. this time I would have got out much cheaper if I had pledged per lap. Hey you never know. Last year she ran/walked over 40 laps.

Well I gotta run the dryer is buzzing.

Great Weekend!

What a great weekend!! I went shopping at the scrapbook yard sales at Scrapbook Heaven & Scrapbooks & Moore in Knoxville. I got some great buys. It was so good to get to see Renee, Melanie B, Melanie L, Kay and Lauren. I think the overnight trip refreshed all of us. You know some time you just need some girl time. We even talked about when we can plan to do it again!

While I was gone to boys (AKA Wade & Chris) had some guy time. They went to the dirt track races on Saturday night. They are soo excited about working on the car. They have spent the whole day today out in the garage working on it.

Katie came home from Girl Scout Camp. She had a blast. I can't wait to see the pictures. She got to go out in a canoe and also got to ride a horse named Traveler. She said the only complaint was that she had to kill a bug.

Looks like we are all refreshed and ready for the week ahead. Monday through Wednesday at work for me are going to be hectic. I have 6 groups of people that will be in town during that time. I will just take it one day at a time.

What Wade's Been Doing

Wade has been busy working the yard lately. He has put in a pond. It looks soo good. It is still a work in process. He still needs to add more rock and Katie has to pick out the fish that goes in it. I just bought some plants last night for it. The rest of the yard is looking great too. We actually reseeded the lawn this year and have kept up with the watering. I am so proud of him!

KnoxVegas!

Well Katie is off to Girl Scout Camp and she is thrilled. This will be the first time out of town this long without me, Wade or family member. She has everything packed already. So since she is leaving... I did not want to stay home with the boys. So... Lauren is coming up from Atlanta tomorrow and we are going to KnoxVegas!! Saturday morning is the Yard Sale at Scrapbook Heaven. We are going to stop over at it in the morning and then head to Knoxville. We will go to the Yard Sale at Scrapbooks & More in Knoxville and then over to the Love Crop to scrapbook the rest of the day. We are going to spend the night and hang with the girls in KnoxVegas!

What A Weekend!

Well just when I thought it could not get worse it does. I caught Katie's stomach bug. Yep I was up Sat night/Sunday at 2:30AM praying to the porcelain god. I guess only one good thing has come to all of this. Yep..I have the cleanest toilets of anyone around. I have spraying almost a whole can of Lysol around everywhere. So far Wade has dodged the bullet on this one. (insert devil laugh). I hope he does not get it. (LOL)

Another good thing is that while I had free time on Friday staying home with Katie, I got all the invites done for Lynne & Billy's vow renewal. YEA!!!

Well Katie is going to Girl Scout camp this weekend without me. I am kind of sad but I am also glad I don't have to go. She is sooo excited about going. She is going to get to ride a horse. I will let you know how it goes.

Friday the 13th!!!

Yikes!! I had actually not even thought about today being Friday the 13th. It hit me this morning when I got to work. My freaky Friday started off at 1:30 AM with Katie getting sick. I thought it was just something she ate. But after throwing up 3 times I knew something was not right!! Just when I thought that was it...NO... the cat started throwing up to !! Needless to say after being up till 3 AM cleaning up and 1/2 can of Lysol, we were all ready for bed.

We all got up fine this morning.. tired but fine. Katie was feeling better so I sent her to school. Well.. that did not last long. The school nurse called me at 11:30 to come and get her that she was not feeling well. Come to find out they sent over 100 kids home from school yesterday. There was a note sent home.. that of course I did not read. Seems like there is some kind of stomach bug going around.

So..Katie and I are at home today. She is in the bed watching cartoons and I am in my scrap room working on invitations for my inlaws renewal of wedding vows ceremony in May. I have close to 100 of these gems to get done in less than 10 days.

So that is my next adventure....

First Post

Hello... this is my first post. Not only that but my first blog. I have always wanted to try this so here it goes.