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Thanksgiving and this and that

Our Thanksgiving was great! We had some friends over and between the two families we had so much food it was crazy. I only had a slight mishap with the potatos but we don't need to get into that. lol Everything worked out and was yummy. After dinner the kids all ran around playing and the grown ups played some Texas Hold'em. I so love that game. I have never played with people before, well I've played with people just not face to face I am an online gal. Let me just say that I kicked butt and it was great!

Rather than brave all of the stores on black Friday we opted to stay home and invite some friends over to play. Much better idea I'd say. There was nothing in any of those ads to get me out of the house on such a cold nasty day. Sunday's ad's however are saving me about $20 cause some stuff I already bought is now on sale! Yay! I will be doing that tomorrow while Kaylee is in school as well as returning the baby doll I got Kaylee that is Spanish speaking only. Yeah.

I ended up sick for most of the girls Thanksgiving break but luckily they were really good for me and helped take care of their mommy since Travis had to work all weekend long. I wish we could have done something a little more fun on their break though. Oh well, Christmas break will be here in a few weeks. This my friends is when the potty training will take place. I am talking hard core potty training there will be no more diapers. I haven't been very consistent with the whole thing which is why it isn't already done I am sure but this is it. I have got to get her potty trained.

My car is fixed! It was making a nasty noise everytime I would hit a small bump or a dip in the road so I took it in today and to my delight it was covered under my warranty so it didn't cost me a cent! I love a warranty!! I thought for sure it would be something stupid that wasn't covered but I was seriously being positive and hopeful. I am trying to be more positive and less stressed about stuff lately and I have been doing a pretty good job. I have lost most of my brain function because of it cause apparently I can't use my brain without stress but whatever, small price to pay for being happy/stress free right! :)

And on a final note Cami got a $70,yes I said $70 hair cut today. Check it out
*Warning* you may not want to take a drink of anything prior to looking at the picture because you may have a small mess to clean up
Kaylee's reaction: "Mommy what are you doing? That's not our dog!"
Mykenzie's reaction: "Oh my gosh! She looks like a rat!"

Welcome Christmas!

We are welcoming Christmas into our house already!!! Our tree is up and is beautiful! Our stockings have been hung by the chimney with care. My new nativity scene is looking nice on my mantle. We just hung out outside lights. I still have some lighted garland to hang inside a little later. I still have most of my shopping to do but I am not stressed about it anymore! I still don't really know what I am getting my kids, I've already bought the things they REALLY want. Kaylee is going crazy for a singing pony. OMG if it wasn't so pricey I'd be handing the dang thing over just to shut her up about it! Seriously she cries every day, several times a day for it. It is insane!! She will be so happy Christmas morning when she opens it up :)

So my house is ready for Christmas and my fridge is ready for Thanksgiving. Travis invited some friends over (I know shocking right, lol). They are bringing some food as well, including the turkey! Yeah baby! I am gonna do a ham and some sides and she is doing a turkey and some sides. Sounds like we are gonna have a TON of food. We will be eating it till Christmas! lol I love the holidays!

Mykenzie the porcupine!

Mykenzie's school play was Thursday night and she did a great job! The play was adorable. I didn't get good pics but I did get it on video. They will also be playing it on our local channel 3 sometime in the near future :)

Kaylee's Thanksgiving feast

Kaylee had her Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday. It turned out that they wore costumes and sang a few songs too, I wish I would have known that so I would have brought my video camera. It was really cute though and she did a really good job. They had little crafts on the table that the kids had made as well as the costumes. Kaylee's class were the turkeys. On each feather they had something that they were thankful for written on them, she had Mommy, Daddy, Sissy and my dog on hers :)

Hmmm....

I have been a total slacker at blogging lately. I have been really busy yet I can't come up with anything to write about. That is just sad. My life has been a bit consumed with finding the materials to make a porcupine costume for Mykenzie's school play next week, but thank God a friend said she would help me out and make it for me. She says help me out I say save my life! lol That was a nightmare and I am glad it is over and I can focus on the fun part of helping Mykenzie with her lines and watching her in the play. Her line is "Thanks for showing up Mrs. Sun, that rain gave us the chills. I'm soaked right to the bottom of my perfect porcupine quills." It sounds like it is going to be really cute so I can't wait to see it. They will do it for the school Thursday and then for the PTO and the parents on Thursday night. The new school has a stage so that will be nice, we will be able to see much better than last time when they were just on the gym floor.

Kaylee's Thanksgiving dinner at school is Tuesday! Can you even believe it is almost Thanksgiving? We already had Mykenzies yesterday. This year just flew by. I must admit I am getting really excited for Christmas. I can't wait to put up all of our decorations. We are getting some new stuff for outside this year so Travis is excited about that. I have sucked with my shopping. I only have 2 people with a check mark by their names indicating they are done. I have nothing for my kids but I am hoping to pick some stuff up this week. I have a few definite things that I am getting so I need to do it before they all sell out. I was feeling stressed and crazy about not having more done but I am feeling better about it now. I at least have some ideas now and a week ago I didn't even have that so things are moving forward! lol

Mykenzie and I are headed out to girl scout camp in a couple of hours. I must say that I am dreading it. Not cause I don't think I will have a good time but because I have had a looong week and I have been up till after 1am for the past two days in a row which is not normal for me. It was totally worth it though :) I hosted bunco last night and it was soooo fun. I love hanging out with all of my mommy friends, I wish we could do it more often! But tonight I get to hang out with a bunch of 7-10 year olds and we always have a good time and I am sure all of their youthful energy will rub off on me, so I will manage to stay awake. I may be bringing some coffee though! Thank God we sleep in cabins with electricity!! That is my kind of camping :) I have nothing planned on Monday so after we take Mykenzie to school Kaylee and I will be having a day of rest! Perfect. Have a good weekend everyone

Happy Halloween (a couple days late)

We have had a great fall so far. We've been keeping busy with trips to the pumpkin patch, fall festivals and lots of school activities! We carved our pumpkins on Sunday and they were pretty rotten by Halloween!
Kaylee wanted nothing to do with cleaning out the pumpkin and was pretty upset when Travis flung some guts onto her.
Mykenzie on the other hand helped clean out her pumpkin and it was the first time she actually willingly did it!

Trick or treat here is on Halloween night so we went out from about 6:30-7:30 and got a ton of candy and then came home and passed some out to the trick or treaters. Kaylee decided that she was going to be Princess Dora for trick or treat and Mykenzie chose a witch.
They had a great time and Kaylee was really into it this year. Every time she would get candy from someone she would run to us and say "Can I get some more candy!!"

Here are some more pics of the seasons events

Thanks for Helping me Light the Night!

Part of our group of walkers :)


Chandra, Jacy and Barbara


Rain, thunderstorms, hail and tornado watches were in our forecast yesterday. We must have had a lot of people watching out for us including Jenna because all that held off and we ended up having perfect weather for our walk. It was a wonderful way to celebrate Jenna's life and remember her. It was humbling seeing all of those that have lost someone to these diseases and to see all the people who were still fighting their battle. We came together and walked for our friend and with all of our donations we raised over $4000! Thank you to all of those who donated! My friends and family helped me raise $405 for LLS, beating both my written and "personal" goals! You guys are awesome!

We wore buttons with pictures of Jenna as well as Light the Night Blinking Buttons and a sticker that said "I am walking for Jenna". We had a Jenna's Friends banner and carried red illuminated supporter balloons wishing we would have had a white survivor balloon in our bunch with us. Jenna was with us in spirit and I think she would have been thrilled to have us do this in her memory. Janna (Jenna's mom) walked with us and when she wanted to go dance with the band when no one else was, we knew Jenna was there too. We all danced, just our group, people who normally don't dance joining in. We celebrated Jenna's life. We all miss her so much and hope that by our donations we can help LLS get one step closer to finding a cure so no one else has to lose someone they love.

It was too dark for my camera (it sucks) but while we were waiting for the shuttle there were lights on a building so I got some photos while standing in line. Other people took more so I will add them as I get them. Light the Night Pictures

This is the photo we used on our buttons! Silly Jenna!

Finally a picture link

Here are the pictures from our trip to Gatlinburg in case you wanted to see some more. Enjoy them here.

Light the Night Walk

Our walk for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is now officially less than a week away. I am happy to say that today I finally surpassed my goal. Thank you so much everyone who has given their hard earned money to such a great cause. Those of you who still want to donate there is still time!!! Check the links to the left on this blog for the link reading Sponsor Me in the Walk. It is easy to do and will only take 2 minutes of your time. Our team is doing great I can't wait until the day comes and I can give you the final total of what we have all raised but it is looking pretty good so far!

What a View!

Our trip to Gatlinburg was really nice. We got in Monday around 3 and checked into our beautiful cabin with a spectacular view! I turned into my MIL and took a ton of pictures of the same mountains!lol They were so pretty and at sunset, ahhh, breath taking. The leaves were starting to change on the trees and the difference between Monday and Thursday was already amazing. I am thinking if we would have gone a week later the leaves would have been mostly changed and that would have been really nice. But we were happy with the view with our green leaves too! lol

Tuesday we went to the Aquarium. I personally liked it better than the Atlanta one. The girls had a blast and really loved the sharks. I was amazed by the huge turtle skeleton they had hanging from the ceiling!

The outlets were a total bust! The Old Navy is no longer an outlet, apparently they have done away with those. There were no good deals to be found. I could have spent a fortune at the Bombay outlet though! Part of me wants to go back and buy the things I wanted but didn't get. I am dissappointed in myself for not buying at least the hall table I wanted. I was trying to be good! lol

We went to oober gatlinburg. The ride up was really nice, beautiful view. The black bear habitat was pretty neat too. We had a bear that was posing for us and then another that kept doing this trick that apparently he knew was funny. I felt really badly for them though, they looked really sad and not in the best conditions. They said that they were born in captivity and couldn't survive in the wild but still they had the saddest eyes. Since none of us can ice skate we skipped the rest. It was pretty run down we thought but the tram ride was worth going on.

I think that is about all we did other than go out to dinner several times. We just hung out at the cabin and played pool and hung in the hot tub. It was a nice trip. Mykenzie was bummed once she found out about Dollywood. She wanted to go so we told her next time when she was bigger and could ride more stuff we would go, that perked her up! lol Not sure how soon we will go back but we had fun and are really glad we went :) I am working on putting pics on shutterfly now so hopefully I will have a link soon.

Here's to You!

Ok, so this is totally out of character for me but Jenna would have done it so I am gonna suck it up. I wish I would have been smart enough to do my hair and makeup first but I am in lazy mode so it isn't gonna happen. She looked better in it than I did anyhow! :)

Today marks 3 months. 3 months since this world lost a wonderful person and all who knew her lost a wonderful friend. I just wanted to feel close to her today so I am wearing her shirt. I haven't been able to bring myself to wear this particular one yet, because it brings back alot of memories, good ones though. But it seemed like today was the day. Miss ya chickie




From Jenna's Blog, Thursday October 19, 2006



Today I went with Jacy, Chandra and Barbara and got myself a ton of new things! It was so nice to just pick out what I wanted and get it! I got myself 4 new pair of earrings at Dillards. Three bras and 5 panties at Victoria Secret that ACTUALLY FIT right! Who knew where your gals really belonged?! LOL

3 pair of jeans and a TON of shirts at Old Navy. I also got the kids a few clothes too. Here are a few Pics. I'm too lazy to put them all on and take pics... I figure you'll see them as I wear them in pics. I wish I had other hat options instead of this one hat. Once it cools down I can wear my beanies. I kept joking with the girls today that I was going to walk into a salon, rip off my hat and say, "What can you do with this?" LOL Of course as joke, since I'm basically bald except in the back and sides! LOL

The Rockledge, FL stalker has been found!

That's right people, I have been searching and searching to find out just who has been reading all of our blogs from Rockledge, FL. I have spent alot of time thinking about who in the world would visit all of our sites. Well the mystery has been solved folks. I am confessing here and now that I am indeed the Rockledge, FL stalker! I have no clue why I show up coming from Fl but indeed I do. There ya have it, I solved the case. Who would have thought the answer was right here in my own house! Now I wonder who is out there from Texas. One thing I know for sure, It isn't me! lol

5 days and counting

Our trip to Pigeon Forge is just 5 days away! I have spent the past 2 hours online searching for things for us to do while there and I stumbled upon OUTLET MALLS! Woo Hoo!! I didn't know there were outlet malls there! I am really excited now! lol I have no clue what else we are going to do. I know we will make stop at the Aquarium, the girls will love that. And if you spend $150 at the outlet mall you get a free adult ticket! LMBO I have been reading reviews of different things and thank goodness I did cause alot of things I had on my list of possibilities everyone who reviewed them said they were awful! Seems like most people think the best places are the aquarium and the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, which is awesome cause the park is FREE! Which means, oh yeah baby, more money for the outlet mall! My name is Jacy and I am addicted to shopping! So anyone been to this area before? Got suggestions for fun things to do? Any good shows? We are skipping Dollywood but I was considering the Dixie Stampede. Not sure yet. The cabin we rented looks like it is gonna be beautiful with a spectacular view. I hope I am right about that and the pictures aren't lying to me! We are so excited for our mini get away. We will be there October 1st and check out on October 4th!

Me and My Gang....

So the concert was Friday night and I know you are all on the edge of your seats dying to know how it was. Well it was freaking awesome that's how. Did you think I would say anything different! We ate at Chili's before we went and were still sitting there at 7:30, the concert was at 8! lol So after I went in the back to find our waitress so we could pay we high tailed it out of there and only missed a few songs in Jason Aldean's set. He was good too. I really enjoyed dancing like a fool by myself to "Johnny Cash" and "Hicktown"
Then out came Rascal Flatts kicking off the concert with "Me and My Gang" Great way to get us rockin. They had a stage set up in the center of the arena (I want to know where it was last time cause we would have been soooo close to it) and they all sat there and sung songs that weren't released as singles but were on their albums, not the ones I would have chosen but still I like the songs and then they sang one from the upcoming album (in stores tomorrow). The songs are all really good but it was a long stretch of slow. Then Joe Don for some reason played "Somewhere over the Rainbow" on electric guitar. I love the song, it was a pretty cool version, but I really didn't see the point overall and could have done without it. Last time we went he sung "Friends in Low Places" during his "alone time" on stage. Much more interesting. They sang the song "He Ain't the Leavin Kind" off their Me and My Gang album and at the end brought out members of the US Marines. It was really nice. When they finally got to "Stand" it was much harder than I thought. I honestly thought that I had spun the songs to see them in a positive light so I wouldn't get sad at the concert. Well, that didn't happen. To my happiness Chandra was boo hooing right along with me which then made Barbara start too. Who would have thought she'd have been the stong one! lol I am sure there were many people who thought we were insane but that song means alot, what can you do. Jenna was definatley missed but I couldn't help but feel like she was with us!
The concert I went to 2 years ago was better but this one was still awesome! My pictures are awful though. UGG. I guess I should just be happy I got some since I got none last time. After the concert we went and kept the Melting Pot open till all hours of the night, I am sure they were thrilled! lol It was yummy though :) Thanks for a fun night girls! Here are the rest of the Pictures.

Time to fess up!

I have this new sitemeter on my blog, which isn't doing what I actually wanted it to do but it is giving me interesting info! Some of that is WHERE people are who are reading my blog, as in City and State. I must say that ALOT of these places I have never even heard of so now I am more curious than ever to who actually reads this blog. I write dumb stuff for myself forgetting sometimes that it is available for all to see. Now I want to know who all is seeing it. Don't worry I will continue to write and bore the crap out of you! LMBO I am just easing my curiosity! Even if I don't know you I want responses. Seems like alot of people look at this thing but not alot are commenting! Now is the time, time to FESS UP if you are indeed a lurker on here! :) It is not hard to comment people so I want to see some names in the comment section of this post! I love it!

Take Me There!

To the Rascal Flatts concert that is! I love their new single Take Me There and can't wait to see it LIVE! We now have just 4 days left till the show! Time has flown by this time and I can't believe the day is almost here! Jason Aldean is opening for them and I really like his music too so it will be an awesome show. Hope our seats are as good as we think they are! This time my camera is coming with me! I can't wait!!! Oooh and their new cd comes out in 8 days!! (the 25th) Click here to watch the NEW video for Take Me There :)

Hello Fresh Air

Our weather here has been beautiful!! I am so excited to have my air conditioner off and my windows open! I do think that by doing this I am messing with mine and Kaylee's allergies though. It seemed that we were never going to get a break from the 100+ temps we were having but it is official and fall weather has arrived. I have already been eyeing the mums and pumpkins! I can't wait till the pumpkin patches start opening in another 2 weeks! I bought Kaylee's Halloween costume 2 weeks ago and Mykenzie has filled me in on who she wants to be and surprise it is another Disney Princess! Kaylee is gonna be Princess Dora. Princesses are cute but I would love if they would pick something else for a change! I hope that these temps last for a long time before winter starts setting in, I don't like to be cold but 60 in the morning and ending at 80 is PERFECT!!

No more hospitals!

Both Coby and Ryan are home and doing well! Thanks for the prayers :)

Prayers

Please take some time to stop and pray for Rachel's 9 day old baby Coby. Rachel has been my best friend for 27 years (our whole lives) for those who don't know. Coby is in the hospital today with meningitis. The doctors aren't sure if it is viral or bacterial but they are treating him as if it is bacterial just in case. He will be in the hospital for at least the weekend. The doctors say that he is eating well and his fever has gone now so those are both very positive signs. But meningitis is scary enough in an adult let alone a 9 day old newborn baby. I know they would appreciate any prayers they can get for him. Say one for Rachel and Jacob too, I am sure they are scared out of their minds right now.

As if having Coby in the hospital isn't bad enough, Chandra's son Ryan is also in the hospital today with low oxygen levels. Pray for him that he gets better quickly and gets out of there. This unfortunatley has happened before with him and it isn't as bad as it has been in the past so that is a good sign but I am sure some prayers surely can't hurt.