Sunday, August 26, 2007

Back In The Rat Race!!!

Well it feels like forever since I wrote here!!! School's back in and I've been running non-stop it seems like! Well until Friday night! The girls went to my parents for the weekend, and Aaron came home! lol He's been Papaw's buddy last week because my dad has a stress fracture in his foot and he was a boot on his foot and can't drive so he's asked for Aaron's company during the week! So Aaron came back Friday and the girls left.

Saturday we had a really nice day! I slept in cause I wasn't feeling really well and then me and Aaron cleaned the house and went to the grocery!

We went to dinner that evening with James parents and Aaron. Let me just say I love LOVE Kingfish on the river...it's so nice! This pic doesn't do it justice because it's on the river and has such a nice atmosphere!



We had a great dinner and then went out on the deck to enjoy the view of Louisville, for those not familiar with the restaurant it's in Indiana and has an awesome view of the Louisville skyline, at night it's really impressive! These pictures do not do it any justice at all, they've been redoing the whole waterfront so it's beautiful now, and all the lights from the boards and everything at night in person is just so awesome!!!!




Then we went downstairs where they have their outdoor bar with a live band....Aaron loved it and I caught him tapping his foot with the band, he wouldn't take their eyes off of him! He left with my inlaws so mean and James ended up driving around downtown, with the windows down, it was such a nice night, the temps have gotten a little better at night here!

We had a good time just listening to the radio and driving, really in the last year I think I've discovered how beautiful our city really is, some of the neat architecture in the downtown area, I've always been a fan of the Historic Old Louisville too, I would love to own one of those red bricks with the hunter green front door and shutters, so pretty! I think that's partly why I'm a fan of the houses in the highlands too they are just beautiful! Me and James drove through Thursday night after we left the fair alone and then went parking in Seneca park! lol Going parking sorta makes you feel young again! lol

Saturday night we drove through the old neighborhood too...in South Louisville...were we met, were we use to hang out and party. I had some of the best times there, and I probably shouldn't have! lol I miss it some days...well not all the partying, but hanging out with everyone. We use to go to the VFW post on Saturday nights when we didn't have a kids, we started after we had Aaron...and meet up with our old crowd, but they've changed it now, it hasn't been the same the last two years almost! I loved that place! We drove past Saturday night and didn't even recognize half the people out there! I think alot of people quit going there.

We ended the night just coming home instead of going to the movies, we were ready for a few drinks! And some of our friends stopped by and we all just hung out for a while..we had a really good night!

Today has been pretty lazy though I've been doing some laundry and we fixed dinner but that's about it! We've been playing with Aaron most of the day! I think I'm gonna do about two more loads and I'm done for the night! I even read a book today!

I think I'll do some maintenance on BOL tonight and then go to bed early if Aaron will cooperate!

I'll try to write more this week, I know once I get back into my routine with them and school that it will get better, well until basketball season starts and the girls start cheering! But til then I'll try to be good!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Kentucky State Fair!!

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Today we decided to venture to the Ky State Fair with James parents , My BIL and SIL, and my niece. It was sure hot!!! But I love the fair! There is just nothing like it, I mean it's really a lot of nothing but it's just it's the fair!

First when we got there we had to go see Farmer Freddie!!!!!

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Then we went to see the animals! One of my favorite parts is going to see the cows and all their names! I love these cows at fair time!

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And of course the kids had to pet goats

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And Rabbits

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And chickens and ducks, a llama, pigs, I love the animals!

Then we took the kids to ride some rides and a few games.....James won Brienne a stuffed penguin, and All the kids won small stuffed things....I myself indulged in two pineapple daiquiris that were quite yummy!!

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And how could I forget the food!!!!!! I love fair food!!!!! Mmmmmmm.....the smell of corn dogs, pork sandwiches, cotton candy, Carmel apples, Grater Tater, Funnel Cakes, Bratwurst, you name it, they have it and I love it!

I was very very good this year....all I had was 2 small bites of James pork sandwich, 2 bites of Chas' corndog, and two pineapple daiquiris....that's it.... I came home and ate a cup of potato soup and had a sm grilled chicken salad. And it was so hot today I guess I wasn't really feeling it...so that means I've done well on my diet today!



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As we were headed back toward the air conditioning, I happened upon a little pond! Normally I probably wouldn't have paid it much mind...but honestly it reminded me of Hannah...so I decided to stop and take a few minutes and enjoy the pond with the kids! Aaron was in the middle of a meltdown though (and refused his picture) so we trudged on into the air conditioning...which as soon as we hit it I heard Dancing Queen playing for a group that was performing and thought well Hannah really is all around! If you haven't had the chance to meet Hannah... Please enjoy a Hannah story she is an amazing little girl and her wonderful Mama who will share her with you!

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When we got inside we went and stood in line for this HUGE blowup slide and obstacle course that the kids just HAD to stand in line 30 minutes to go through! It was sponsored by the Ky National Guard and they took our picture before the kids went up! Which should be online in 24 hours (I'll show it to you later), after that we stopped at this awesome balloon display and then we met the Looney Tunes Characters, Chasity had to had to see Tweety because he is her favorite and Aaron had to high five them all!

The kids also go to get into a real cop car in the back and front seats, Aaron thought that was awesome and then they had a cute little kids cop car that Aaron loved too.

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It was a really good day! Though toward the end Aaron and me were both very cranky and I was getting impatient (patience is not my virtue) and I was being a big butt and I had that, I really do I hate it when I let my irritability show through to the kids, hate it and it makes me feel crummy! I've been doing a lot of work on me lately...and I've had to cut myself a tiny bit of slack...I don't do it on purpose I don't want to be like that, but I guess that's how my personality is...doesn't mean I'm not working on changing it, I just need to keep trying.

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I guess I've just been thinking and doing a lot of self evaluating lately and I don't like some things and I'm changing them....

Now that we have all gotten home and everyone is settled for the night and the only decision I have to make it curling up on the sofa with James and finish watching this football game or go ahead and get in bed and read a bit...I think that the kids will remember how much fun we had together today and all we did and probably the 10 minutes I was super cranky they will forget!

All in all it was a good weekend!

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Back To School!!!!!!!!!

Today is day too! Sorry I didn't post on day one, I'm just not sure who was more tired...me who was in bed by 9:30 last night or Chasity who was asleep sitting up on the couch when James got home at 5!

They had a good first day, Brie's excited cause she gets to sit by her friends Hannah S and Tete (Really Terrian) in class. And mom is excited cause the bad influence (who Brie just had to be best friends with) is no longer going to the school! Chasity had a good first day too. She said she sits near Lauren, even though Jeremiah and Charles are next too her but that's okay cause she knew them from last year! She's also made friends with Hannah G....who is the new Hannah in her class! Thank God that in each room one Hannah is blonde, one Hannah is brunette! Makes it easy to remember who is who!

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My routine has gotten totally off with the girls back in school! My last two mornings have been a little crazy with me always feeling like I forgot something! This morning I was freaking that I left my straightener on.....I couldn't remember turning it off.....so what do I do but call my mother, who was going to the dentist anyway to go to my house and check and make sure it was off! Yes it was, but I wouldn't have made it through the day without worrying, thank God for retirement! And thank MOM!

This one of Brie is kind of blurry , I think the climate change from outside to inside the school fogged up my lense, and I didn't notice it!
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I'm still just having a hard time fathoming the fact that I have a 4th AND 1st grader! They are growing up way too fast!!!



We've decided to go to Kentucky State Fair on Sunday with his family......So that should be an adventure!!!!! But I'm looking forward to it with the kids!!!

Monday, August 13, 2007

It's that Night~ The back to school night!

Remember this night when you were little, you would lay wide awake in your room thinking about the next day. You get that little twinge in your stomach because your nervous! You can't sleep, how can you sleep tomorrow is the first day of school!!!!! Awwwwwww!!

Okay anyway I'm sure that's what my kids are feeling now , well at least 2/3's of them!

We got the girls stuff all ready for their big day tomorrow! Brie is now entering 4th grade and Chasity will be in the 1st! I can't believe I have two kids in elementary school already!!!! When did that happen!! Give me a couple more years and I'll have all three of them in there!

The girls were getting really excited when we put all their stuff in there backpacks and labeled everything with their name on it!


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They also already decided they are taking lunch the first day, guess the hot dogs didn't sound to appetizing to them, that or they want to try out their new lunch boxes!

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I did get the girls a little surprise for the girls for their first day!!!!! Tinkerbell purses the girls just loved them!!!

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Well Mommy better get to bed she's got to get up early to get the girlies off to school. I'm sure I'll be back tomorrow with lots of pictures!

Sunday, August 12, 2007

A Nice Weekend!

It's been just a whirlwind since Friday!! I had work as usually then I had to rush home where James was bringing home our new couch and then heading off to the school for the girls orientation as well as running to my bunco games afterwards!


Back to the couch I'll say the couch is new to us, my Aunt and Uncle were getting a new one and asked if we wanted their old one. Well Sure! We'd been wanting to get a new couch but I was holding James off until Aaron was about 5, so that way it was at less risk! Anyway it's an awesome couch and I love it!

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Aaron seems to really be sold on it too! He's using it to it's fullest!

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On another note I did want to keep our old couch and put it downstairs, it was an awesome couch to sleep on! BUT, when we tried to get it into the basement we couldn't even get it down the stairs it was so big...so right now it's sitting in my backyard....yes I know and I don't want to hear any hick Kentucky jokes, James said tonight he feels ghetto! My dad is suppose to take care of it for me sometime this week.

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Our garden is about done! Things are starting to die off, we didn't do well our tomatoes this year, but it's a live and learn experience, we thrived in zucchini though and did pronounce 1 good size watermelon!

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Aaron is the child that is back home! Well he did beg last night to go to stay the night with Granny and Papaw so we dropped him off about 8:30 last night and then we went over to some friends house to have a couple drinks and just hang out! The Strawberry Daiqueries really hit the spot! And then we got Aaron back first thing this morning when he woke up!

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We've had a nice afternoon and evening , the heat has let up some so we spent some times in the backyard tonight! James even put some water in the pool and him and Aaron had a water fight. I think Aaron won, because James was wetter than him!

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This was James form of outside air conditioning!
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And why do I feel like it's too early for the leaves to have started to turn already! Before we know it it's going to start getting cold outside! Honestly Fall I think is my favorite time of the year, I use to have a hard time deciding between spring, summer and fall, but I associate more fun things with Fall....

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Aaron's been so fun today this weekend, he's really been listening well and been a good boy! He's getting so big I was just watching him tonight, he's a riot....tonight after he took a shower he goes I need my comb and brush please, it's blue. So I got him that and had to take a few pictures and then he goes, "Um could you please stop that"....well he was at least polite about it, but he already is getting tired of mom and the camera!

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Well I guess I'm off to the couch to snuggle with my boys! The girls will be back home tomorrow and I'm sure I'm in for a busy day because they start school on Tuesday! So tomorrow night will be preparing to get ready for their first day of school. I am just in awe....my kids growing up way to fast!

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Ho Hum Thursday!!

Well needless to say a clean house is over rated! I mean seriously! I'm always saying when the kids grow up then my house will be clean....and yeah it will, but it will be pretty boring too! Mon-Fri I don't go out and do much usually just because I work all week and by the time I get home and get dinner ready there is not much left. But this week since I haven't had kids, I still didn't want to go out and do much. The temps are into the 100's here and humidity is not good, so I'm hibernating. Plus the past two nights James has had a side-job so I've been home alone and bored out of my mind, I've cleaned, I've washed, I've read, I've played on the computer!


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Last night even though it's been so hot, I decided I'd fix James dinner at 10pm when he got home! NOOO I am not that doting wife! lol Just ask James...most nights if he works late, I will throw him a few pot pies in the oven...or leave him a plate of leftover...but normally me and the kids eat and then he's on his own. But since the kids weren't home and I didn't have to feed and get them to bed...I felt like being nice!

So this great chick Adriana, suggested this awesome marinade!!!


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And it's great!!!! James really liked it! Though I think my choices for what went with it could have been better. But we had zucchini in the fridge that I needed to fry from the garden and I didn't want it to go bad so I fixed that, and broccoli. I think though that I might fix some rice next time and maybe try dicing up the chicken and fix it with some pineapple and possible green peppers! We will definitely be trying it again!

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Just got off the phone with the kids for tonight! I asked Chasity if she was ready to come home and she said not yet! I will get to see the girls tomorrow night for there orientation, but they are then staying at my parents til Monday morning. Aaron will be home Saturday morning though. This doesn't happen very often that all three of them are gone for this long, and can't you tell it's driving me nuts!

Chasity said she'd been playing with Adam all day (the little boy who lives next door to my parents (though honestly him and his family are like family) and wanted to call and tell me. She's so funny on the phone, every other time I say something it's WHAT? Cause she's busy paying attention to other people who are there! Aaron had to talk too, he wanted to tell me her hurt his finger on the picnic table and there was a little blood, but he said he'd be okay. He's getting so big!

Tomorrow is a busy day, work as usual (though Friday's are our easy days) then I have the girls school orientation and then right after that I have my monthly Bunco with the girls...so I better get to bed!

Just ending with a random shot from last Christmas of me and Brie...

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

My True Loves Name

Your True Love's Name Is

James T.


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Well I haven't talked about the love of my life yet! Isn't it amazing when the kids are staying at grandma and grandpa's that you don't even know what to do with yourself since you have free time! Me and James have spent a lot of time together these past two weeks....the kids are back at their grandparents getting in there time that's about to go away with school starting. I often times get aggravated at James, just little petty stuff, nothing really important, and sometimes just because he knows how to push my buttons and does it for fun sometimes....but in all reality I can't imagine my life without him. I mean I honestly just can't envision not having him around. He's become such a big part of my life and I can honestly say I'm more in love with him than the day I married him.

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He's such a great dad, and a wonderful husband! I get so frustrated with him sometimes because he's so short on talking about how he feels and things, that occasionally I start to wonder if he really does care....then he'll do something so teeny tiny, and probably he thinks isn't that significant, which means more to me than all the world!

I remember one morning I went out to my car to go to work, and yeah on numerous occasions I hadn't gotten in my car to find that he left me flowers or a card, no occasion just because....well this particular morning I got in my car and he had picked flowers out of the front yard...and on a scrap piece of school notebook paper, he must have found in my car, and with a pencil no less...he wrote a note "A little something to remind you of me while I'm gone" Love James "Sorry, Spur of the moment"

I remember that morning he'd been hurrying try to get ready to go out of town on a job, BUT he was thinking about me!! That meant so much, to this day I keep that piece of folded up paper in my wallet, and if I ever start thinking he just doesn't care, I get that out and read it. He's not a man big on alot of words, but he has an amazing heart. And that heart is what I find myself falling in love again over and over again!

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I have a friend that once was telling me how I had the perfect marriage, we never fight, we never argue....well we do....I guess one we just really don't broadcast it....but even though we fight passionately , we love passionately too...we don't hold grudges....I might get so ticked off at him and explode, and go into one of my tirades one minute....by in the next minute he'll make some stupid joke or do something silly and I'll just start laughing and of course we are kissing the next.
It's not to say we don't have problems, every relationship has problems, we've sure had out share, and rough patches....but one thing I can count on is that if we can just get through that rough patch, even if it seems like it will never end that we can make it!

I had a quote on my myspace page "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

I honestly and truly believe that quote! I can't tell you in how many instances I have fallen in love with him again! When each one of our kids were born, when he does something so small, just a nice gesture, occasionally with a sweet kiss. My heart still melts every time he kisses me on the forehead, I literally could tear up!



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So Now I will stop gushing cause I need to go frost some cupcakes for work tomorrow and wake my sleeping beauty up off the couch. (Snoring is not really becoming of him)

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