A full week ahead...

Just a quick blurb to say that we'll be leaving for TN tomorrow for the lectureship Freed-Hardeman is having. We'll be staying with Jamey's family so we can get as much time with them as possible while we're in west TN. I'm looking forward to pretending I'm at college for a week. I'm also looking forward to seeing Jamey's family again... Haven't seen them since at least the middle of last year.

We'll be leaving about 7 am tomorrow morning... Yeah, I'm excited to get up that early. Can you read the sarcasm? Anyway, I've been busy today trying to do laundry and pack. The hardest part about packing is that I always have this feeling that I'm forgetting something... And I usually do forget it. What's worse is the fact that I don't remember about it until we're almost there! :~}

I have to put this in here... You know that! ;~) There are some precious pics of my nephew on my sister's blog! :~D Well, I should probably go and get the dishes put away... And then fold what little is left of the laundry when it gets done.

Ohio trip... :~D

Alright, it seems that everyone I know is posting new blog posts and making me feel bad... Just kidding! :~) Though I have been thinking about posting more, I just don't seem to have the oomph to do it. Oh, and I apologize about not having names next to the pics in the last post! :~}

Ok, here's a recap of our trip to Ohio... We got there on Tuesday night and got to visit a little with my family before we were completely exhausted. Wednesday was fun, my Mommy didn't have to work so we went grocery shopping... No, really, it was fun! :~) That night Lydia, Philip, Jamey and I went to a concert in Maumee (about an hour away) that Lydia and Philip wanted to go to. It wasn't my first concert, but it was the first time I had ever seen a mosh pit! That was just a little unnerving for me! We had a good time and they even put on the ball drop in the middle of the concert!!! :~D I was afraid we would have to miss it! After the concert, we got home at about 2am, we found that my sister Sarah, Danny and my nephew Xander were there!! :~) We talked until about 4... That's when we were all getting so sleepy that our eyelids were screaming!

Thursday and Friday were both kinda relax/shopping days. Sarah, Lydia and I went and took Xander shopping with us on Thursday. We tried to school Xander in the finer points of shopping, but he just ended up pooping! :~) Ahhh, guys and shopping! :~) Then on Friday just Sarah and I went shopping... That was fun to have some shop time with my sister. After supper Jamey, Danny, Sarah, Lydia and I went to see a movie at the local theater... We saw Yes Man.

Saturday was bowling day! We hadn't been bowling for a while and we hadn't been bowling with Danny and Sarah since all of us met two years ago! We tried to get in at the bowling lanes in Bryan, but they had a league coming in so we couldn't bowl there... We ended up going to Defiance and finding a bowling place there. We bowled for a couple hours, by the way, I officially stink at bowling! The last game we played we had to do teams and Jamey joked about having to have me on his team! :~) Yeah, we didn't win! After our defeat we went out to Dairy Queen for some frozen refreshment! They don't have Dairy Queen down in SC... So I had to live it up while I was in Ohio! ;~)

Sunday was the last day with my sweet little nephew... I have to say, he loved me! Every time I would say something he would smile at me! :~) Either that or I gave him gas!! :~} Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it!! We had to have church at home (just like the old days back in VT) because of ice. Jamey got to bring the lesson... And here he thought he was on vacation! ;~) After church came beef stew and the realization that they were leaving. So to cope there was lots of holding Xander... Then it turned into not wanting them to take Xander away! However, I didn't have a bag big enough and they took him back with them. Not before we all had a family picture! :~D It was just a little impromptu, but it came out nicely! The rest of Sunday was relaxing...

Which brings us to Monday. Monday was a day for me to visit with some friends that I haven't seen in a while... There was a little hesitation when I went to see people at the nursing home where I used to work. Mostly because I was afraid that one of the sweetest people in there would be gone forever! Luckily, she was still there and sweet as ever! I used to really enjoy spending time with her when I worked there and it hasn't changed. I got some useful information from her before I got married about married life... She and her husband were married for 74 years before he passed away! :~o I had a really good time with her and then I was off to go visit with another of my friends...

Tamra is one of the people that I call my conscience. She was the friend that gave me that valuable advice when I needed it the most and kept me from going crazy when I was still working... I haven't been out with her for a long time, but thanks to the Internet we've kept in touch! :~) We went out to Pizza Hut (where else, really?) and then to Dairy Queen because I needed something else to compete for space on my thighs! I just had such a good time with her... I could seriously unwind and just relax.

Tuesday was the last day we were in Ohio and Jamey, Lydia and I went to Defiance to shop. Lydia wanted to go to the "mall" they have there... It really is a sad little mall, but hey, it's good enough. We spent all day out shopping and having fun. I really enjoyed going places with Lydia... I get the feeling that she misses not having sisters around anymore! :~} Then when we got home we had to pack to get ready for leaving.

We left about 7am on Wednesday morning. We finally saw some snow when we left... It snowed from where we were in Ohio all the way down to TN! :~O Oh, and I couldn't help myself with the water tower that says "y'all" on it! :~) We got back home about 9pm and were completely exhausted from travel! We were also shocked by the fact that there was a tree in our front yard. It fell over earlier in the day because the wind was just that bad! :~O

Anyway, that's our trip to Ohio... I still have to get back in the groove of doing things again! :~p Which includes but is not limited to cleaning and doing dishes! :~}

Happy New Year!!!

I know that it's been a while since I wrote on here... I've been having a blast with family and getting all the packing and unpacking done! :~) I have pics, so hopefully you will forgive me for being so tardy about writing lately! ;~) The first one is when Lydia, Philip, Jamey and me went to a concert on New Years Eve. The rest are of my visit with family and getting to know my new nephew!! He loves his Aunt Priscilla... He smiled every time I would say something to him!! :~D Anyway, I'll post more about my visit over the next couple of days, but for now... Here are the pics!!! :~D

Yes, I'm still here...

I know it's been awhile since I last wrote... We have been a little busy. Jamey did another wedding yesterday! It was a small affair and it was an outdoor wedding... It wouldn't have been so bad had it not been about 40 degrees outside at the time! :~o I was even wearing my warm dress and cape! Everyone was all bundled up and I was loosing feeling in my feet, but it was a lovely ceremony and it didn't last all that long. After the wedding we went to the reception which was inside... So we all warmed up! :~)

I have been trying to clean my house more regularly, but today I felt kinda lazy so I relaxed and did nothing... I was relaxing and watching a movie in our bedroom and when I came out there was Jamey cleaning the kitchen and doing the dishes! :~) He did that so I could relax today! I might be just a little biased ;~), but I think I have the best husband! :~D I also recently started to toilet train Munchkin... I can't wait until I don't have anymore litter to clean up! :~) Just in case you're curious I got the info I'm using from this website.

Jamey and I went on a trip up the mountains to enjoy the fall colors and I took my video camera with us... There are too many pictures to put up here so you can see them on Photobucket. The weather was just perfect and the trees were gorgeous! And the view from the mountains... The pictures just don't do it justice! :~) It was one of the last times that the leaves were actually on the trees! Anyway, we made a day out of it and it was one of the best times! :~) Right now the computer isn't doing what I want... Photobucket isn't letting me put the pics up right now. I'll try to put them in tomorrow! :~}

One last thing... If you want to see one of the cutest nephews in the world check out my sister's blog! :~D

Ode to Frank Mills

If there was one album that took me back through the years of my life it would be Frank Mills Sunday Morning Suite. I have very scattered memories... From doing chores to the music when I was little, to listening to it constantly when I was a young teenager on a Walkman. Most times the cassette tape would get lost and wouldn't be found for awhile... I'm sure it was just it's defense against being played to death! :~) But whenever we could find it, it generally got played at least once... Mostly by me, cause I loved it! I've been looking for that album for the last year and a half... Hoping to find it so I can listen and be taken back every now and then, also so I can share it with my kids. Yesterday Jamey went to a new thrift store and found it! :~D It's a record, so I can play it on Jamey's new record player (which I'm doing right now!). Someday soon hopefully Jamey will be able to put it on a CD so I won't wear out the record! :~}

Well, last time I wrote it was before my birthday! I had a really great birthday... Jamey got me balloons and he made me do a scavenger hunt for my presents! :~) That had to be the most fun. Other than the shopping of course! ;~) He made me a chocolate cake and gave me some candy... But the biggest present came in the form of a video camera! I love it! It's a small one and it's so cute, if such things can be called cute! I've used it a couple times, but the most it will get used is when we go and see family! After the presents were opened I got to go shopping and couldn't find a pair of trouser jeans anywhere until I went to Target. Those ones are nice... Then I went to Kohl's and found some. So now I have a couple pair... They're nice cause they look like straight leg jeans on me. After all my shopping we had a lovely dinner at Olive Garden. We had a gift card and decided to use it on my birthday.

I also got some fabric at Hancock's. It's a beautiful purple plaid and I made it into a jumper... However, when I wore it I stressed the seams! :~o So before I wear it again I'll have to take out the seams and add a strip of fabric to it so it won't rip on me! :~) I don't have a pic of it right now, but when I get done fixing it I'll be sure to take one.

Oh, if you want to see some of the cutest pics of the most adorable nephew... (I know, I'm bad) Just go to my sister's blog. There are too many now to be able to copy and paste onto my blog! :~) Not that I'm complaining about all the pics! :~)

Last Saturday we had a yard sale... Not a normal yard sale, it was in front of one of the local Wal-marts! Yep, Wal-mart and the Children's Health Network were selling spots in front of Wal-mart for whatever you wanted to put out there... We did a yard sale. There were a few spots that were just selling things they made and there was also a Pampered Chef table. They had food there too, the proceeds from that also went to the charity. It was pretty neat cause we had so many people stop and look around... I mean who doesn't go to Wal-mart? Sure it was kinda cloudy and drizzly, but we had quite a few people buy our stuff. Jamey sold all his stuff and I sold some of mine... Mine was all clothes anyway. What we didn't sell we took over to Goodwill. It was fun, we had to take Shorty with us and he got most of the attention!

This Sunday is Jamey's birthday. However, we will be doing stuff on Saturday so he can just chill. I tried hard to find the lemon cake mix for his cake... I don't know why stores don't have at least some sugar-free cake mixes! I was able to find it last year at a drug store, but this year I couldn't find it anywhere. I called every place I could think of that might have it, but no luck. Ordering it on-line would have cost a lot! Finally, I remembered one of the members at church makes the greatest cakes and sugar-free stuff you've ever had! So I called and asked if she had a sugar-free lemon cake recipe. She did and she gave it to me on Wednesday! YAY!!!! :~) I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to make Jamey his Lemonade cake. Now I don't have to worry about finding a lemon cake mix ever again! Oh, and for those of you who have tried to make a cake sugar-free from a cake recipe that has sugar in it... Add 1/2 cup dry milk and 1/2 tsp baking soda for every cup of Splenda used and the cake will turn out fluffy. If you want anymore tips you can visit the Splenda site.

I'm Back... And I wrote a Lot!

I got to drive all the way up to Greensboro NC yesterday... A three hour trip that is tedious in and of itself. This trip however, was made even more difficult with inclement weather. About an hour into the trip I had to slow down to 50 in order to see things ahead of me... It really didn't worry me as this was the kind of weather that I drove going from Memphis to Nashville when we were moving... That and I had the constant spray from the moving truck that Jamey was driving in front of me. Anyway, I focused on the car in front of me... We made it in the time we figured and the trip back was uneventful.

I love to drive but I don't like to drive in nasty weather when not everyone has their headlights on! Not only is it kind of silly not to put them on but it's dangerous. I could barely see the road let alone the cars that actually had their lights on. I'm glad I was able to do it though cause it gave me some experience... Now the only weather I have to conquer is snow! I'm a little wary of that though as the last time I tried to drive in new snow I almost hit a stop sign! :~O

Alright enough about me... I'm not going to write a lot about my nephew as my sister has put more pics of the little guy up on her blog and I don't want to take away from her blog. That being said I can now dispense with the gushing! :~) Of course I'm not biased in any way ;~) but I have to say that he is one of the cutest babies that I've seen! I can't wait to see him in December! He looks like he is getting bigger every day... And he might have a little bit of blond hair.

Munchkin is out and about today. I've been keeping her in the bathroom at night so that nothing will get broken at night! :~) She meows for me a lot. She is very personable for a cat, course we never had indoor cats in Ohio. She seems to have taken to a frog I got at Claire's recently. She plays with it and drags it places she goes. I'll try to get pics of that but it might be hard, the only evidence that I know she has been playing with it is it's conspicuous presence in other parts of the house! :~) Right now she is dragging it like it's her kitten.

Shorty is finally figuring out that he has to bark to go outside and that outside is the only place to go to the bathroom. It won't be long before he can be out all day! :~) He's growing a lot. He's now up to around 12 pounds... He won't get too much bigger.

Birthday season is upon us. What I mean is this... My brother Ira started it by having his birthday this past Sunday. I'm the next in line with a birthday in October, then comes Philip in November and to close out the year is Sarah in December. Lydia's is in March so by next spring we will all be another year older. I'm not looking forward to mine this year for some reason. I'll be turning 24 and for some reason that sounds old to me. I'm no longer in my early 20s I'm in my mid 20s. Oh well, time marches on! :~)

One last thing before I give your eyes a rest... I didn't mean to make this so long, but I'm glad I got back to actually writing something longer than a post-it note! :~) The gospel meeting here went very well. Jamey preached on the different things we do in worship. Sunday morning was Communion and Jesus' death on the cross. Sunday night was prayer. Monday night was singing and Tuesday night was giving. Quite a few people from the neighboring congregations came and Tuesday night we had 80 people. :~) Everyone thought that Jamey did an exceptional job!

I still have that sewing to do... I plan on working on it this month and having it done by the time my birthday rolls around. Kinda like a birthday present to myself! :~) I picked out 2 shirts and 2 dresses for the colder weather. Tomorrow I have to clean... Jamey doesn't care whether or not it's really clean but I always feel really good when the house is spotless! :~)

More pics... :~)

I'm feeling a little blah right now... Again! :~p The tropical storm is giving me a headache and I found out the other day that we aren't going to get any kind of rainfall from it! :~O We need rain too.

I got some itch stuff, cause I now know the joy of having a lot of fire ant bites. I got them while helping pull weeds over at the church building... I didn't have gloves, I don't really like them, you can't seem to get the weeds out as well. Now I'll wear them! :~}

Jamey's cousin Seth is coming over this Thursday and probably staying till the weekend... We are also going to have Monday football at our house tomorrow, so I have to tidy up the place a bit. :~} Well, since I have that I might not get on here for a few days...

So here are more pics of little Xander to show off! :~) I tried to talk to my Mommy tonight but they went down to Rising Sun, IN to see him! :~) I wish I could go... My time will come! ;~)

Pictures!!!! :~D

Yep, they're home from the hospital and my sister sent these...



Isn't he cute? I know I'm just a little biased but come on, that face is adorable! :~) The first family picture! :~)

Don't you love how peaceful he looks... And how about that yellow hat? :~)

Introducing... My nephew Xander Scott!

I got the call this morning that my sister was in the hospital enjoying the calming effect of an epidural! :~) She started early labor Tuesday night and made it till early this morning with little to no medication. However, they started her on pitocin which drastically increased her labor pains so the epidural was a necessity.

I'm not sure on the time he arrived, but it was sometime in the early afternoon. He weighed 7lb. 2oz., and is 21 in.! A long little guy! :~) My sister thought that he'd weigh more than that, but I'm glad that he didn't... It might have been harder to have him. Anyway, he has dark blue eyes, and from what I'm told he's got some big eyes! :~) He has some light brown hair... Although, Danny's family has some blondes that started off with darker hair and we have some toe heads in our family. I have to say, if he has straight hair that will look just a little odd with his parents both having very curly hair! :~) My sister said that he wasn't very interested in crying, just wanted to look around. :~) I'm soooooo excited!!! :~)

Waiting for the pictures of the little guy will be almost as hard as waiting for him to arrive! :~) As you can guess I'm going to be a very gushing Aunt. I'll be just a little sorry for Xander when I get to be around him, cause his Aunt Priscilla will spoil him! :~)

Pictures...

I know it's been a while since I posted... My reason for not posting is not a very good excuse no matter when it is used, I just had the blahs. I haven't felt like doing much lately and the fact that we had company this past weekend didn't help... Just gave me an excuse to postpone writing. Anyway, I still don't have all the blahs gone... So I'll leave you with some pictures that I've taken over the last month.

This is Munchkin being cute and sitting on the window sill in the living room. She fell off once and hurt herself, not bad, but she still likes going up there.

This is one of the baskets that I had one of my friends at church make up for my sister's baby shower. The teddies and the blocks I made. Then we have the Graduation bucket also put together by my friend. She did such a good job! :~)

I made my new nephew a sling and a nursing blanket! :~) I'm so looking forward to seeing the little guy and I hope that he'll get a lot of use out of these.

Then there's the pics of my curly hair... I sponge rolled it and those sponge rollers get really, REALLY small. I hadn't done it in about 3 or 4 years so I had forgotten how much length it takes off. Needless to say, most people thought that I got my hair cut! :~) I wasn't a big fan of the do until later in the day when it relaxed a little.

We had a really good time with Sarah, Tabitha and Casey over the weekend. We went over to Jamey's Grandma's house for Friday and Saturday morning. We came back to SC Saturday afternoon and took in a few sites. After which we played a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit! :~) They stayed till after church Sunday night... It was really neat to have them here. Tabitha and Casey are going over to China to work, so they won't be able to be around here for a while. After they left it was weird... You know that whole let down after a great visit with family.

This weekend there is going to be a wedding... Jamey will do it and it will be his first wedding, so we're excited about that! :~)