bah humbug!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so I just typed a huge long blog and it wouldn't post, saying blogger was down. I though it saved it automatically everyminute right??????WRONG!!!!!!!!! Can't find it anywhere and I am quite furious at the moment....... I might be back tomorrow to vent again and hopefully this time it will post!!! Growl!!!!!!! Growl!!!! Hiss, hiss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time flies

Boy how time flies! Things have been pretty busy around here. My new job for one and Tim and Amanda are staying with us while house hunting, which by the way they found one and are closing next Friday. Planning for D's fall festival at school, planning B's Barney bday party and who can remember what else has had me so busy. Life itself.
I am liking my new job but still adjusting to the new hours. I go in earlier and work later. Not to mention my first week my hubby was out of town and the daycare called saying Bry was sick and I had to leave early, Dad and Dee helped out but it was still stressful, since new job is come to find out very strict during the 90 probation, oh well. I had to do it.
The boys have had a great time playing with uncle tim and aunt amanda. She goes soon to her first dr. appt here and they will be scheduling her ultrasound. How fun! Will it be a niece or nephew for us? Either is fine, but i'm excited to find out!
The boys are already excited about Halloween. We are going to have a little Superman and Batman! Super heroes, how appropriate:)
It's time to make my to do list again. We have so many projects we want to do around the house and so little time as many of you can relate to. But we have done better in the past by simply making a list to cross off as we go. So my plan is to get the list started this weekend.
Well it seems like I've had so much going on but can't think of much at the moment. I'm still here for those of you who might of been wondering. That's all for now.

The love of my life....

NEED I SAY MORE.........................

I am so blessed, I am thankful everyday for my wonderful husband, andsimply amazing two boyz!!

Thank you

So a GREAT BIG THANK YOU goes out to Dad and Dee. They have agreed to babysit my baby Bry tomorrow. He was sent home today from daycare with runny diapers. D had the stomach virus last week and now I guess B has it. He can't go back to school tomorrow and I am at my new job with a full shedule of patients. Of course my Hubbs is out of town so I called up Papa. He quickly agreed to help out, what a life saver, so that I don't already have to call in sick just 2 weeks into my new job. Between the two of them I think they should be able to remember how to change a diaper :) :) The good news is that B is feeling just fine otherwise and should be an angel for Papa and Grandma Dee. Let's hope so, (so that they will agree to do it again :) )
Only a few more days before my bro in law and sis in law will be official residents here! We are very excited to have them moving here. She is about 4 months preggo and they should have plenty of time to get settled in a new house before baby arrives.
Well just a short post for now. I must go tackle my evening chores and getting ready for tomorrow.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY(NOT SO MUCH) D!!

We had a great birthday party today. Wish Mike's fam could of been here, but at least they'll be able to make it next month for baby B's 2nd bday! To see some pics from D's party just click on this link.Dev's bday pics If the weather is nice we'll be heading to the airshow tomorrow. Well this is short but lots of things to do around the house.....Thanks to everyone for all the great bday gifts for D, and thanks for coming to his party, he loved it!!

Yes it's true

Yes, we now have our very own travel website. It's a business we have decided to try to get into. We love to travel ourselves, so why not get more knowledge and help others travel too! We are very excited about this new venture. I hope that the next time you are planning a trip, hotel, airline tickets, cruises, rental car, vacation packages ect. that you check out our website! Yes, it works just like those other sites like expedia, and travelocity. You can also use any frequent flyer miles or other rewards programs that you are affiliated with. Our first booking will receive a free gift card for $5. Just leave me a comment that you are booking and once the trip has been completed I will mail you the gift card.

Sooooo, we are having a 4yr. old birthday party this weekend. EEEKKKKKK! Boy how the time flies. I am only having a family party this year. D will love the cake I've ordered since it involves his favorite thing....Hot Wheel cars! His bday isn't actually till Mon., so on Monday I am gonna stop by his school and drop off cupcakes and treat bags for the kids. I have tried really hard not to buy all the toys at the store, seeing that Santa will be visiting in the near future!

My last day of work is tomorrow. I have worked two days already at my new job and like it alot. I will miss several of my current co-workers but I will prob stay in touch with those few. I am also staying PRN there, so I might be making appearances occassionally to help out. I am looking forward to my new job. Even though the hours are later, it hasn't been to bad so far because I'm busy and the day goes by pretty fast. I will just have to be alot more prepared for dinners during the week.

Friday night is yet another parent's night out! GOTTA LOVE THOSE THINGS! D has even been asking if he gets to go to the parents night. He really enjoys playing with all the other kids and bigger kids. They usually eat pizza and watch a movie on a big screen with the lights out and eat popcorn. He was still up the last time we picked up at 11pm. What more could a kid ask for? I'm not sure our plans yet. I won't even guess, usually whatever I seem to post that we are gonna do, we don't do that. I do know we'll probably celebrate my hubby's bday early. It's not really till next Fri. but this would be a great time to celebrate since we have babysitters!

My baby B is doing great too! He is obsessed with singing the Barney song. He likes to sing it as loud as he can. Then he will try to sing it with a really deep voice. It is hysterical. He sings all the time. Maybe he'll be the next American Idol. Ha ha.

So I got an Ipod for my anniv, but I've yet to use it. I even bought an arm band for it so I can use it to workout. Although, can't workout if there is no music on it, Oh Darn! :) No really, I am really excited to get some songs loaded on it, I just need some time to do it. With my new job schedule, adjusting and all I haven't had time. This weekend might not work well either with the party and we are going to the Airshow on Sunday, the boys should love it! So....hopefully within the next week I can join the Ipod generation:) Thanks to my honey!

Well, I guess off to bed for now. Thanks to Granny for her pop visit. The boys enjoyed seeing her even though D had a slight tantrum while she was here. That's kids for you, course he was totally fine within seconds and he even forgot why he was mad!

Just a little fun

Stole this off another blogger Susan who
Stole this off another blog...Sande Krieger's

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) JTBeamer
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) CHOCOLOTSA
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) TCAR
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) PURPLEBUNNY
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) LYNN MARIETTA
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) CARTR
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) THE GREEN ZERO
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) PAUL PHILLIP
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) PURE POISON M&MS
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) DIANE CEDRIC
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) UNKNOWN UTAH
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) SUMMER IRIS
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) STRAWBERRY SHORTY
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) BANANA TULIP
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) THE SHOPPIN SUNNY TOUR

How far an imagination can go..

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You have to check out this site, it is too funny!!

Simply Amazing!

So today I was going through some old boxes and found something truly amazing! I found a card someone gave me a long time ago with my name and the meaning of it.

So the meaning of my name is "Noble One" The amazing part of this is that my baby boy's name (check out this link)means "Noble's son" I was truly amazed when I found this card. I remembered what B's name meant and when I saw the card of mine I was truly awestruck. SIMPLY AMAZING!

A fun weekend

Well we had a great and exciting weekend. First, Grandaddy J came to visit and the boys loved playing with him and were very excited when he came with daddy to pick them up from school! It was a short visit but the boys really enjoyed it!

Then Sat. we headed to Nashville to see Thomas. We left B at home with Granny because he was feeling under the weather and we didn't think he would tolerate the trip very well. D loved riding the train and the activities that they had there. Maybe next year we can take both boys. As we passed some old train cars another mom told her son that those were the "troublesome trucks". Well D had to correct that saying" Those aren't the troublesome trucks, they don't have eyes!" That's my boy!! Extreme attention to detail!!:)

Sunday Me and D headed to the hummingbird festival(yes you heard me right)with Dad and Dee. B stayed home with daddy, again a little under the weather. It was very interesting.It was the Annual Hummingbird Migration We saw many hummingbirds, we even got to watch them tag their legs for tracking and I got to feel the hummingbirds heart beat. It was very cool. It rained off and on while we were there putting a little damper on things (ha ha). But then we had lunch at a Catfish resturaunt and then home for the eve. B is still not himself I think he's getting a cold. I hope he is better soon, I hate it when they don't feel like themselves!

I start my new job on Thurs. I am looking forward to it. I won't officially start until the 20th after my last day at my current job but Thurs will be like an orientation.

Congrats to Tim and Amanda for selling their house. We are excited to get them close to us!

Some pics from the weekend

Here are some pics from the weekend. The kids had a great time at Sesame Street! B was only scared for a minute and then he was yelling "HI Elmo" and dancing to all the songs. D liked it too and of course we had to get some popcorn. We were able to talk the kids out of one of the $8 Elmo head balloons! Bry loved baby Adam and acted like he was the babysitter. He was so cute.... All the boys really loved playing at the waterpark. Mom had decided to make a suprise visit over and just barely caught us leaving the neighborhood so she joined us at the park. It really exhausted the boys and they went right down for nap when we got home and we had to wake them up at 4pm, they were still knocked out from all the excitement! Dad and Dee came by on Monday for a cookout and the boys had a good time playing trucks with Papa. The girls from STL were as fun as ever, as you can see they are cuttin' a rug at Linda's poolside!! Linda made a great tomato pie(sounded wierd to me but actually tastes great!) that I'll post the recipe later.
CONGRATS TO ME!! I got a new job! I am so excited. I am turning in my two week notice tomorrow. The new job has NO CALL!! They are only open Mon-Fri with no weekends or holidays, yippee!! I am also getting a raise and they also have other great perks! I will be working 32hrs instead of 18......but I will still have one day off during the week so I am happy about that. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
Congrats to Teri and James on the arrival of their new baby girl!! 8lbs. 10 oz! Pretty good size, good thing the twins didn't weigh that much each... ha ha. I had to tease her though about the mini van thing....I guess if three kids means getting a van then count me out for sure, ha ha!! Look out Susan....three means a van!!!???????Congrats on the news of a baby boy! Love the name too!
Well that's all for now. We are going to Nashville this weekend to see Thomas the Train, the boys will enjoy it I know! I'll post pics when we return. Hope everyone enjoyed the long holiday!

Happy Weekend

Wait??? Is he doing a kid 'n' play move????? Hee hee!!

Anyone for a Conga line??

D and a few of his friends..

I am so excited that it's the weekend and I'm actually not on call!!!! Yesterday I stopped by D's school at lunch. they were having a Hawaiian luau day, it was really cute and the kids seemed really excited.

Then I headed to Linda's house because our STL friends were in for the weekend. We had a great time lounging in the pool, eating snacks and drinking of course. Donna made an absolutely great drink, orangetini I think. I'll have to get the mix recipe from her. Then Linda made a to die for tomato pie. I'm not the greatest lover of tomatoes but this recipe was great!! I'll post soon as I get it from her. Her homemade chicken pot pie was delicious also. They are in for the weekend but yesterday was the only day I could hang out with them.

We have friends coming in town today to stay with us. They came to visit not long ago and are coming back so we can take their 3 boys and our 2 boys to Sesame Street Live! I can't wait to see how the boys react to Elmo and all his friends. It should be alot of fun. I'll post pics prob tomorrow or so.

We hope to take their boys also out to our favorite water park for a little water fun before they head back home tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Oh happy day!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US........HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNNIIIIVVEERRSSAARRRRYYY TO US......
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today is our 10 yr anniversary! We are going to spend the day together, with a trip out to the casino's for lunch, maybe some shopping(i hope!) and then a few rounds on the slots! Wish us good luck to hit it big...ha ha! I don't usually have that luck except for last time when I won $200 bucks! A girl at work won 10K (yes, 10 thousand dollars!!) just the other day. Of course I have no idea how much she had to spend to win..
Today also means only one month till my baby D, now getting to be big D will 4 yrs old! wow, how time flies, I can't believe it! I look forward to having a little party for him, hopefully Mimi and Grandaddy J will be able to make it up for it!
Well off to spend the day with my honey of 10 yrs!!!Time does fly, it doesn't seem like it's been that long, it has been wonderful. He is a wonderful man, partner and daddy. I look forward to spending the rest of our hopefully long lives together!

Belt testing!

D had his belt testing tonight and did wonderful. He wasn't as timid as I thought he might be. He was so excited to get his new belt. B was happy too and wanted to join in the fun even though he is too little. He did give out a big TKD yell while everyone was quiet. He got a few giggles for that!

Mike did great too. We didn't get to stay for the whole testing, it was getting to late. But now he's only two belts away from black belt! Time for me to find time to get back in TKD so I can get my black belt too! When we quit we were only one belt away at our old school. You have to kinda regress a little at a new school, but the let you catch up pretty quickly! Congrats to my boyz!!!!

Check out our front door delivery..

Hey, look what was on my front door mat, two adorable bunnies. One was perched so sweetly on the doormat and the other was more on the defensive. They were so cute, they even let me take a few pics.. I tried not to scare them off because last year we had a baby bunny that got scared and ran from our flower bed to the neighbors back yard. Needless to say I cried like a baby...they have a golden retriever and he got the bunny and played and I think even ......well you get the idea. So I made an effort not to scare these off into forbidden territory!! Just had to post these adorable pics for you!

Happy 30th bday DAD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! Hee-hee, 30 huh? those were the days right?! Had a great birthday dinner with Dad , Dee and her mom, daughter and grandson, Jen and Bucky joined us also. Our camera taker must have already had a drink or two, but at least we are all in the picture!(barely). Mike and D weren't able to join us, Mike's grandad is in the hospital and they went down to Mobile to be with the family. I am on call (yet again!) so B and I were unable to join them, but we did get to spend time with Dad and the family, so that was good!

Finally got a few pics of the birds that perch and snack on the Black eyed Susan's outside my kitchen window. someone told me they were Finches, not sure though. Dad and Dee enjoyed them so much the bought some flowers for themselves, hopefully they might get a few birds too!

One of our tin foil barbs died! It happened right after I painted the kitchen a new color, he must not of liked the new paint! D hasn't even noticed yet, I am very suprised. I had to throw him in the pond though, he is too big to flush! I am worried about the other one now though, we have always had the two and I've been told they like to be in pairs, we'll see. I don't know the life expectancy of them, we've had these about 3 yrs. They were just babies when we got them and they grew quite big as you can see!!Well I think I might turn in for a early night, I am feeling a little under the weather, my sinuses are acting up. Happy weekend to everyone and again Hope you enjoyed your birthday Dad!

Painting.....????? Again...!!!!!

So everytime I do a paint project I always say I'll never paint again myself, that I'll hire someone(which we did 1 time and it was wonderful!). Well here I go again. I am in the process of repainting the kitchen. So this is how the story goes...Friday eve we spent part of the evening shopping. We have been wanting a new kitchen table for some time and also some bar stools for our island bar. Well we finally found both! The table (click this link to see the table)is nothing like I started out looking for. But I love it. It's black with chairs that have burgundy, gold and dark green stripes on the seats. The colors match our home colors well. I bought some new paint of the color we already have throughout the house to start doing some touch ups from the kiddie prints. Well also I had picked out a gold color(that I saw in a room at work) and I was going to repaint(ha) the bedroom. I had previously tried to pick a gold color and we ended up with French's mustard yellow in the bedroom. Well as it turns out I've decided to paint the color in the kitchen and it will go well with our new kitchen furniture. I will have to paint in sections due to my limited free time, but I'm excited believe it or not to be painting. I have only done some of the trim around the baseboards and door frames but the color is looking wonderful! I hope to have it done before the new table arrives in about 10 days or so. I am actually getting better at painting although I can't say it's one of my favorite things to do.

We enjoyed a nice weekend although the temps were in the 100's. Our date night went well with dinner at the Thai resturaunt, furniture shopping and browsing the book store before time to get the boys. Sat am I was up before the sun and headed to mom's for the yard sale. We sure had some early birds show up but the first customer spent $25, yippee! It went very well and we sold alot of stuff, I can't believe all the people that were out in the heat but hey we sold our stuff. We have decided to do one more this coming Sat. We had so much stuff that we didn't get it all out, so we'll do it again. MOM, I don't have any of your 35 cents either!! ha ha!! We made quite a bit of money, although mom was mad that I made almost twice as much as her. Hey, I sold alot of stuff!! :)

I spent the late afternoon watering all the thirsty plants. The boys love to help me, but get soaking wet in the process. But they didn't mind, seeing that it kept them cool. They are so cute going around and using their little watering cans to water the leaves and mostly grass and most of all their own shoes, but hey they are helping right!

Today we got up late, a little tired from the overeating of mexican takeout and two margaritas each! We packed up a picnic lunch and headed to the water park. This was daddy's first time to go with the boys. WE had a great time, it's wasnt' too hot as long as you were in the water occasionally. That place has become one of my favorites spots, and D loves that we take a picnic lunch. Everytime we get there he plays for only about 5 minutes and then he wants to eat his sandwich! It was alot of fun. Then home for naps, while I did the painting. It was a nice weekend just doing things here and there. Back to work tomorrow, which is another long story in itself.
Oh well, back to the last of the laundry and settling into my PJ's. Oh yeah, and Debi, I'm glad to know you're out there!! :)

Fun day out

Today we went to a new place that just opened by us. It's kinda like Chuck E Cheese, but since it's new we were the only ones there!! It was great, like our very own play place. D had a great time, he especially loved the race car game that we probably played about 10 times or more. We even played all 100 tokens that we had!! I thought surely we'd have about 50 left over, ha I should have known. It was alot of fun and D got to pick quite a few little toys with his tickets, we made sure to pick out the Bubba teeth too!!

The weather was a balmy 100 degrees too!!!! So we spent hardly a second more than necessary outside!

Thanks to Dad for the extra weight watchers books and stuff, I hope to buckle down seriously again next week, you know it's a rule that you can only start on Mondays!

Having a garage sale with mom on Sat. I hope it's only about 95 at 6am so we won't be too hot!! Ha ha, I think we have picked the possibly hottest weekend of the year so far to have a garage sale, but we'll see if anyone bears the heat for our junk, I mean goodies!!

Another date night tomorrow night. The school is having parents night out again, bless them! We won't be early birds this time! We are making plans for the entire evening, dinner prob at the great Thai place again, then some furniture shopping, and then to a movie I hope, not sure which one yet, but as little as we know what's even playing we'll prob just pick out of a hat. Happy weekend to everyone!!

My picks for the finale of so you think you can dance...........I think the final four will be Danny(of course that little cutie), Neil, Sabra( I love her name!!, she's great) and the final girl.... a toss up for me, maybe Lauren. She has really come out of her shell lately! The other girl, who's name has escaped me at the moment, she's starting to annoy me a little. So we'll see, I didn't vote, so I'll just wait till Monday and see the results....outta here!

I forgot all about it!

As I was going through the linen closet to seperate out things for potential garage sale or pass down baby items, I came across this beautiful quilt that Dee made for Bryson when he was born. I had forgot all about it! Shame on me! Of course as soon as I saw it I knew I had to put it on his bed. It goes well with his room decor also. Thanks again Dee and sorry I had forgotten about it, it got put up with alot of other blankets and got hidden away. But alas! I am now going to get great use out of it!!

Finally caught up!

So, little to my hubby's knowledge I went to Walgreens online and downloaded the 337 pics that I have taken and not printed since Christmas. What a relief that I am finally caught up, now just to put them in albums. He was not happy to see the boxes of "did we need all those printed?" pics on the table, but hey what's done is done right?! :) I have decided to be more selective of what I scrapbook in the future; if anything? Not sure yet, I just don't have the time and all alone is quite boring! Missing my scrappin' STL chics! If I could finish Bry's 1 yr book, it might be a miracle, considering I am at his 1st Christmas when he's 2 months old! Yikes,, but it's my mission to get it finished eventually.

Zaxby's chicken by us had Elmo up there for kids night. I decided to take the boys, B was pretty scared of Elmo in person but Dev was so happy to see him. I was prob the only parent there without my camera(shocker I know!) But I had left it in Mike's car and he went out of town with it:( I did manage to take a pic with my camera but not sure yet how to get it off of there, if I figure it out with my braniac hubby then I'll be sure to post it! But D is a little to observant my little almost OCD child. He wanted to know why Elmo had a zipper(it must be the little Elmo from TV.. he says) Then he is puzzled why Elmo can't close his mouth(you know, it's how the people see out!) I was afraid he'd see the eyes looking around, but thankly he did not. And as we were leaving, Elmo's furry feet had emerged one shoe! He saw a black shoe and was not happy that Elmo had shoes on(He doesn't wear shoes.. he says, Then he tells me that someone's daddy is in there!!) I just kinda shrugged it off and and away we went. When he told daddy the story of seeing Elmo he didn't mention all the quirks he observed so I guess they didn't harm his idea of Elmo just yet.......

My schedule at work has changed and boy does it have me confused! Needless to say I'm none too happy, I also have been having to take alot of call all of a sudden that the other's can't, it's not fun. In the scope of things, I left work at 3:45 today, picked up the boys and at 4:38 on our way home I get a call that I have to go in to work for a patient(EEEEEKKKKKKKK!) So I take the boys home and all the round trip get to work at 6pm and finally roll back into the garage at 7:15. Not the way I have wanted to spend the previous 2 1/2 hours that's for sure. And I have Sat and Sun to look forward too also. Hopefully things are going to be worked on and fixed soon at work, something has to change that's for sure!

I'm not sure what's up for the weekend with scorching temps with no outside activities in sight since we might melt you know, so we must be creative. We'll see what I can come up with to entertain the boys at home, since we cant' just take off somewhere since I'm on call !!UGH!!!!

Guess that's all for now..... Happy TGIF to everyone