Thirteen things that make me smile :-)
1. Watching my kids play together.
2. Knowing that God is with me every step of the way.
3. My family.
4. My puppy Jack.
5. Sunsets.
6. The Beach.
7. My silky blue blanket.
8. Pink
9. The Christmas Season.
10. Clean Sheets.
11. My sexy Hubby.
12. Candles
13. Smell of fresh cut grass.
Sorry i have been AWOL from the blogworld... there has just been so much going on in my life and i haven't taken the time for me.... you know how it is... kids, hubby, dogs, school, soccer, church... and so on and so on..... really no excuse for it but i just haven't made time for ME!!! Blogging is ME time.... i really enjoy it and don't do it nearly enough. i haven't even take time to read lately. oh the HORROR!!!!!
My sister let me borrow the new Paula Deen book so I'm really excited to get a chance to read that!!!
Kids are back in school and things are going well on that front. Hunter is now in second grade. He likes his teacher and i like her too. She is younger and does things differently so that's a good thing. He had a few people in his class from last year.
Summer is in the seventh grade this year. Am i getting old or what?? She is doing well. She is working really hard to get good grades. Brett told her that if she made A's and B's for the semester he would buy her an ipod! She really is excited about that. And she is a really good kid despite her mouth sometimes.... typical teenager!!! She loves to be with her friends....
Oh and her friends call me the "cool mom". Imagine that? Me? the cool mom? I'm not sure why, but hey id rather not be the "mean mom". ha ha ha! I love her little best girlfriends. they are soo sweet. they practically live at my house. one lives in a house diagonally to the right of us and on lives diagonally to the left of us. so they are constantly walking back and forth.... GIRLS!!!
Hunter started soccer last night and he starts RA's(missions class) at church tonight. It is so nice to get back in the swing of things from summer time.
AWANAS starts Sunday night at church. i am teaching the kindergarten class. Pray for me please!!!
Brett and I have an anniversary coming up on the 19th. I'm sure we aren't planning on doing anything special because Brett is going to be in a wedding in October and we will be going out of town for that for four days. Should be fun. I gotta find something to wear...... several things!!!
I promise to be more faithful about blogging!!!!
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Well things only went from bad to worse!!!! My last post was about my car dieing, so it was a bad week. It only got worse.....
I was soooo excited on Sunday because we were leaving for vacation to go to Orlando. We get the van all packed up and ready to go. We are literally backing up out of the drive way on our way about 2 pm and the battery light comes on in the van. UGH!!! SOOO, we pull back up in the driveway and Brett goes inside to call our mechanic. We had shut off the car and I tried to crank it up again and it wouldn't. The mechanic comes to the house and tests the alternator that we had replaced on Saturday and apparently it was bad!!!!! We weren't going to be able to get a new alternator until Monday and get it fixed until Monday night. We sat around the house for a couple of hours trying to decide what to do...... we FINALLY decided that we would take Brett's car.
We unload the van and put everything in Brett's car. Put the turtle on the top, get the luggage in, get the kids settled in and we are on our way! YAAAAY! We get about 15 minutes down the road and I casually ask Brett if he has our resort conformation and Sea World/Busch Gardens tickets. Um NO!!! We turn around and head back to the house to pick these things up! We pick them up and head back on the road. YAAAAY! We are traveling down the road having a good ole time. We stopped at McDonald's and got something to eat.
About 11PM we stop to get something to drink and for a potty break. I decided to drive for a while so Brett could sleep. I'm chugging along and jammin to the radio and i notice that the temperature gauge is starting to go up. It slowly creeps into the red. So i pull off the side of the road and we sit there for a little while and let it go back down. We head off again and after a few minutes it starts to go up again so i start driving a little faster to get to the exit ramp. As i am pulling off of the exit ramp the car. shuts. off!!!!! GREAAT!!!! I let the car coast as far as it would and pull way off the road. We have previously had overheating problems with his car and if it would sit for a while it would always cool off and do fine. SOOOOO, from about 12 midnight we(Me, Brett, my two kids and my inlaws) are sitting on the side of I-95 in the pitch black dark. We call a wrecker to come and tow the car for us, we waited for about and hour and 10 minutes. It was 2:30 by the time the guy came. He was nice enough to take the kids and the inlaws to the nearest hotel for us and then return to pick Brett and i up along with the car. We finally get settled into the hotel around 3:30 AM Monday morning. We all crashed and decided we would figure out what to do the next morning.
Fast forward to Monday morning. Brett and I get up and he goes out and the car wont crank. We called the wrecker again and he took the car, Brett and I to the garage. We waited around for a little bit for them to check the car out. There was a walgreens across the street so we walked over there and got something to drink. While there the guy from the garage called and said that he couldn't fix it and that he said he thought it was a head gasket. Which is what we already had fixed on his car. Poor Brett was losing it at this point. All we could think about was that we were stranded in Florida 400 miles from home, no car and no way to get our kids to a vacation. VERY STRESSFUL!!! We decide to leave the car there at the garage and we walk back to the hotel. I think it was about 3 miles. Maybe a little less. It was really hot!!!
Brett's sister and brother and his family decided that they were going to come and get us. They arrived early Tuesday AM about 1 i think. Darlynn brought her suburban and Brad brought his truck with a car trailer. We picked up the car and headed home. After a few stops and some food we finally got home about 6:30 PM tonight.
I am very sad that we didn't get to finish our vacation but i am thankful to God that we all made it home safe and that we have family and friends that we can rely on. So here we are at home with 2 broke cars, just trying to calm down and laugh at the situation. That is a very hard thing to do.
Hopefully the week will get better!
So this really had not been a good week for me. Monday night my tooth broke. Tuesday night the battery in my car died. On Wednesday we got a new battery to replace the old one. Ok, so we got the car fixed! WRONG!!!! On the way to the dentist on Thursday to get my tooth fixed(no dental insurance so it wasn't a pretty thing) my car died AGAIN!!!!! We thought maybe it was the alternator but we had it checked at the auto store and they said it was fine. I'm really not sure whats going on with it. It is at the shop to be looked at, but the guy cant look at it until Saturday.
We are SUPPOSED to leave for vacation to Florida on Sunday. Our plans are to take the kids to Universal Studios. That is the plan anyway. I think i might go crazy if we don't get to go! I *REALLY* need a vacation.
Sorry for the downer of a post i just needed to vent!!!!
My baby boy Hunter decided that he wanted a "fauxhawk". Not sure you can see it by the picture but he has some hair on the side hence the "fauxhawk". Yes, i am crazy!!!! ha ha ha
