Ummm...

Yeah, I know that I haven't posted anything in a few days. It's because I have been spending the time on the computer working on my last assignment for the ESL certificate. I turned my last one in on Monday morning and got it back this morning... I PASSED!!!! :~D I got a 19.5 out of a possible 20 points!!! :~D My final score is 90.5 out of 100 possible points! :~) Yeah, I'm excited about it! Now all I have to do is wait for them to mail me my certificate. I'm going to feel a little weird not having anything to study for when I get off work. Oh well, I'll deal with it! ;~)

This Friday all of Jamey's family is going to a reunion in GA! I'm looking forward to it! It will be fun to go somewhere and meet new people... Not to mention that they will have all sorts of yummy food there. The only thing is that it's on the same day as my Grandpa's birthday and Kannel family reunion. I haven't seen some of my cousins for years now, but we knew and were planning for this GA trip way before we knew that they were going to do something for my Grandpa's birthday. Luckily, my sister will be able to go up and help celebrate. :~)

Tomorrow is one of my co-worker's birthday so I decided to make some peanut butter squares. :~) OK, so I had been thinking about them for a while now... But hey, a birthday is as good an excuse as any to make them! :~) Not that you really NEED an excuse to make something chocolate! :~)

Well, I'd better go see if they have to be cut up yet. That and I need to get going to bed cause I have to work tomorrow from 10-4. Then I have to pack. And get some sleep for Friday's long car trip to GA!! :~D

Last day of June already??

Well, I wanted to get one more post in before July... Yeah, it had to be now! :~) I haven't been that busy the last couple of days. Just been doing my ESL stuff and working. I've decided doing this ESL training that I've learned more grammar than I ever wanted to know. I had to do an activity on passive and active sentence structure... I had to look it up, know the difference between the two and how to change them back and forth. I've been trying to avoid getting this stuff in my brain for so long! ;~) Anyway, I won't be like a grammar geek... I'll always use good grammar, but won't be like a grammar know-it-all.

Yesterday I had a day off, so I went and painted my nails this melon color... It's summery and I like it. I wish I had more bright colors, but I'll make it. This color almost makes my skin look like it has some color to it! :~) I've also been using this gradual tanning moisture lotion. I don't know if it's working or if I am imagining my skin looking like it has a little more color to it. I'll keep using it cause I think it is working... At any rate I have to get rid of the stuff some how! ;~)

Last night Jamey's sister Tabitha and her husband Casey were flying into the Memphis airport. We got to go with Jamey's parents to get them from the airport and bring them back home. The plane was scheduled to land at 11pm. It actually got there at 10:45pm... We got to stay in the airport for about half an hour and watch all the airplanes! I loved it! All the lights, the planes landing, and the noise of the jet engines. Ahhh, the sounds of home! I really miss having that noise and all the lights of an airport just blocks away! :~) Anyway, Tabitha and Casey got here safely and are still trying to adjust to the jet lag...

Today we went to the Pink Palace!! :~D I've never been to the Pink Palace before today and it was really neat! It's a museum with practically everything in it... We went with Jamey's sister Sarah and her group of kids that she works with that have been abused to see all the stuff at the museum. It had skeletons of a lot of things including a hummingbird... That was small! It had a section on cells and what is in them, it had all sorts of animals that had been stuffed and posed in scenes. It had all sorts of rare gems and stones in their raw forms... Of course, it had the required evolution section. They also had a section with moving dinosaurs... The dinosaurs were actual size and made noise! All the kids liked that! The section that really got my attention was the section on when Memphis was just starting in the early 1800s. They had all sorts of trinkets and clothes. They also had a section on early doctor equipment. There was a section on WW l and WW ll, a section on the mid 1900s with more clothes and trinkets and they had a mock up of an old grocery store! :~) I think that's about it for all the stuff that was in the museum... There was so much to see, I tried to see and remember it all but I'll probably remember things tomorrow that I forgot about now.

Unfortunately, we didn't stay in one place long enough to have pics and we didn't take our camera... With the kids, we had to move so they wouldn't get bored and so they could see as much as they could while they were there. After that, we went to the park to let the kids have a snack and play before going home. We had a good day! It was hot, but the museum was really neat!! :~) Maybe next time we go Jamey and I will take a lot of pics to show you! :~)

Two years...

Actually, it's a little longer than two years since I started this blog! :~) I was thinking about it the other day and thought it was about two years ago. The two year mark was May 11th. Just in case you want to go back in time...

Today I'm trying, albeit not to hard as I'm writing on my blog right now, to finish my third assignment for ESL. This is one that I thought would be easier, however, it has proven to be just as difficult as the other two. Ugh! :~} Hopefully, I will get a good grade on it. I REALLY don't want to have to do it again!

Yesterday I picked up 6 more hours at Peebles! :~) Since I worked for 6 hours I got a break. Jamey came and picked me up and we went out to eat at McD's. I got a whole hour for break, so we took our time! :~) That was fun!! :~) Since I was not scheduled for work yesterday I continually thought that I didn't have to work today. I also went about yesterday thinking it was Thursday for the exact same reason. Luckily, last night I remembered that today is Thursday and I do have to work this evening... I hate forgetting about work! :~o And since I have to work tonight I'll miss softball!! :~( Oh well, at least the money I'll make working tonight can wipe away those tears! ;~)

Last night Jamey's sister Sarah brought home a lot of jewelry!! :~) We split it up and we each have like 50 pairs of earrings now... No, I don't think I'm exaggerating that much! :~o So today I'll have to coordinate my outfit on what earrings I want to wear! :~)

OK, I don't think I can avoid it anymore... I think my ESL is calling to me. Or maybe it's laughing at me, I can't tell! I'll try to make this blog a once a week thing until things stop being crazy... Well, maybe until they start to have some schedule anyway! ;~)

Been a while...

And it's all my fault, I know! :~) Well, I had to get back in the swing of things and to tell the truth I'm not completely there yet... But here goes!

This is a summary of all that happened at lectureship... I'm going to try to get the notes that I wrote, but that will be for another post! :~}

Let's see... Freed lectureship! :~) We got to Jamey's parents house around 5:30pm their time. We left at about 7:30am our time, so it took about 11 hours! We were able to relax on Saturday. The only thing going on then was a dinner with Jamey's family that went really well and we all enjoyed it. We also had a delayed Christmas gift exchange.

Sunday was church. We went to Jamey's parents church for morning service and also went with them to the nursing home service at 2:30pm. We didn't get a chance to have dust collect cause after that Jamey, Jason and I went to Memphis to visit our old church. It was a blast seeing everyone again and we also got to stay for a Super Bowl party at one of the members houses. We had a good time in the sense that we enjoyed it but also were bummed out cause we knew we weren't going to be back in a while. We didn't end up getting home till about midnight! :~) Which, in retrospect, was a bad thing cause we had to get up early the next morning!!!

Monday we - Jamey, Jason and I - started by getting up at 6:30am so we could get a good start on all the lectures. We didn't leave the house till 7:30 and didn't get to Freed till 9. We were able to catch a good lecture before chapel. Then after chapel we were free to go to the dining hall... That was an experience! I had fun listening to Jamey and Jason reminisce about how bad the food used to be and how spoiled the kids were now cause they got pizza everyday! :~) Our schedule was full from then on with lectures and workshops. We got to eat at Bell's for supper which is like the social highlight of Henderson. The food was good, and the service was friendly! :~) We didn't get home until late this night too because we stayed for the congregational singing and the late lecture. I had an absolute blast!!! :~) I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Tuesday was more of the same except for the fact that Jason wasn't with us. I got to sit in on a ladies lecture which was really good and recommended by a friend... That friend was the lady from Memphis that helped me get my driver's license and was someone that I connected with when we were living there. Anyway, she was there at the lecture so I got to catch up with her a little bit. That was the highlight of the day for me! :~) Back to the lecture though, the lady was really interactive with the crowd and spoke on the Psalms... About prayer, praise and getting to know who God is. It was a three part lecture that went on from Tuesday till Thursday. I enjoyed it and learned a lot! :~) We stayed for the congregational singing, late lecture and also got to stay for the chorale. At the end of the chorale singing they invited all the previous members to come up and sing the last song... Jamey used to sing with them so he enjoyed going up and singing!! :~)

Something that I also got to experience was an open forum... I did not know that there were so many people that could comment on the same topic and say exactly the same thing as the previous commenter. :~} It was interesting and they got into some very controversial stuff. Jamey went up to comment on one of the days and he used something that I had said to him... There was an argument about Christian contemporary music and if we could sing along because these were not Christians that made the music and we should not participate in their false worship. I made the comment to Jamey that if that were true we really couldn't sing almost all the songs in the hymnal cause they weren't written by Christians! Anyway, that made me smile! :~)

Wednesday was a little shorter for the simple fact that it was church night and Jamey's Mom was making some deliciousness that is Louisiana Lasagna! :~p We got to listen to a few good lectures and the open forum then had to leave in order to make it to Jamey's parents house in time for church!

Thursday was a little like Wednesday we got to go to chapel, eat in the cafeteria and hear a few great lectures... However we had to go before open forum because we were going to eat supper with Jamey's family at Shoney's. It was mostly cause Jamey's sister Rachel could only make it that day... We had a good time and I got to talk to his sisters a little more.

It was very difficult to leave Freed on Thursday cause I knew that we weren't going to be going back. I ended up taking quite a few notes while we were there and got the good side of college life. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and got to imagine what it might have been like had I gone to college... Course if I had gone I wouldn't be where I am today so I'm glad I didn't go, but still I couldn't help thinking about it! :~}

Jamey and I also got to go to the book fair that went on all week... It was a good book fair and also a money pit! :~) Jamey couldn't come out of there without spending some money! Hey, when you're surrounded by a lot of great books written by the brotherhood how could you not spend a lot of money? ;~) Another one of the things that I got to do was meet quite a few of Jamey's old college friends and also got to see a few of the people I knew that were going there.

Friday was spent relaxing before having to be on the road for an extended period of time. We just chilled with Jamey's family. We watched some movies and had to pack... I tried not to have our stuff explode all over the floor, but to no avail! So I spent some of the day doing laundry and packing what I could. We definitely left with more than what we came with!!! :~) All in all we had a great time and I can't wait till the next time! :~D

We had a very uneventful trip back and got home in record time. I'm still trying to get back into the schedule that I had for myself before we left... I'm doing well with the meals, it's just the chores that I'm not liking right now! Hopefully this will get me out of the writers block that I've been having. I'll try to write more later... I have ladies Bible study to write about and then just life in general! It's getting late and I have a busy week ahead so I should start thinking about going to bed! :~)

Ok, this will be short...

But sweet! :~) Jamey and I just got back from spending time with his family... We also had a blast going to the Freed-Hardeman lectureship. I enjoyed hearing all those great speakers and I got to take some notes... I'll try to let you in on what it was that I heard and let you read some of my notes! :~) I'm exhausted, we spent all day in the car and tomorrow is church... I already have things unpacked, but I need to go get ready for bed! ;~}

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.

Ahhh... The weekend!

I think I'm over my blahs, I think it had something to do with the hurricanes that are coming through... i.e. The headaches and nasty weather. Jamey loves a nice drizzly day, but when you are from a state that comes third as the cloudiest state you look for the sun shine... So the days that are overcast and rainy are considered normal and oh so nasty! :~)

One of the things that helped the blahs is the fact that I have beautiful purple morning glories on one of the bushes outside!! :~) This is the best I could do with a picture... They were all hiding behind the leaves. They have since gotten more flowers, but aren't they just so pretty? :~) Another thing that might have helped with the blahs is the fact that I got my house all clean and I got to go up to Charlotte NC to take one of the church members to her doctor. I always enjoy a long car ride with good company! :~) In the middle of the month I'll be going up to Greensboro NC to take her to a different doctor and it will be a longer trip... :~)

Jamey's cousin Seth got here about 8pm last Thursday night and stayed through the weekend. It was nice to have someone over. We had a good time just chillin' here and going out doing stuff. We went to the park right near our house and played mini-golf and went to a few stores that were geared for the gamer in you. :~)

Here's a random picture of Munchkin... She loves to be on the sink or counter or dresser or anything that is up high and she's not supposed to be! :~} She is allowed to be on the sink in the bathroom and on my dresser, but she likes to knock things over... Yesterday she knocked over the mirror in my sewing room. Luckily, it didn't break but it scared her silly! I've never seen her fur stand that high before! :~) Anyway, she likes to be up in the sink when I'm washing my hands or in this case putting my makeup on! :~) She loves to lick my nose, so I don't even know why I put makeup on my nose anymore! :~)

Today we've been putting out fliers for our upcoming gospel meeting. I thought it might be cooler! It is September, right? Oh well, we survived... Sometime later in the week maybe I'll start sewing again. I got some patterns for long sleeved shirts and dresses... Some for $2 and some for $1 and am looking forward to making them and actually having more than 2 winter dresses! :~) Don't worry, when I get them finished I will post pictures! ;~)

For whatever reason the computer won't put this sentence and the last paragraph the proper space from the previous paragraphs... Ugh, computers! :~}

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...

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! :~)

Company for the Weekend...

Well, I survived the weekend...

Friday night after Jamey got home from work we went out to eat at the Red Sun Buffet, my favorite Chinese restaurant, and then went out and took Seth on a tour of Memphis. We stopped at the place Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and then drove past Beale Street. Since it was about 90 degrees outside and Friday nights are always crowded on Beale, we decided to just do a drive by. We got home about 9pm and Jamey and Seth stayed up till about 1am talking.

Saturday we all got up a little before 7am cause we had to be at Sarah's apartment to help her move out at 8:30. When we got there most of the stuff was already moved downstairs. Only the real heavy stuff was left. It only took about an hour to get things moved, then it took another hour to situate everything. We left at about 11:30. Since we were in Henderson we had to have a drive by tour of Freed-Hardeman college. It's not incredibly big, but it looks nice. On our way back home we stopped in Jackson to look at some stores... Yes, I was with two guys and they stopped at a comic book store. We all checked out the GoodWill and a bargain basement place in Jackson. I had to stop at the Hancock Fabrics to take advantage of some sales. We didn't get home till about 3pm. It was a lot of fun though. We didn't have time to take a nap before we had to get showered and dressed for a singing thing his parents were doing that night with their church. His mom had some finger food made for the event and it started at 7pm. Everyone ate before they sang, so it took a while to get to the singing. I enjoyed it, it reminded me of my family getting together and singing. Jamey led quite a few of the songs. We ended up doing that for about half an hour before everyone had to be somewhere. We didn't have anything going on, but we couldn't stay too late cause it takes an hour to get back home. After we got home Jamey, Seth and I stayed up talking till about 1am again.

Sunday morning it was tough getting out of bed! I made waffles for breakfast. Seth decided to stay until after church, luckily the preacher that was preaching was one that keeps you awake. After the service the three of us and about 12 other people decided to go out to eat. We went to a place called O'Charley's. It's a nice place and the food was great. One of the things I noticed about it was it played oldies over the radio. The thing that wasn't that great was the service. Our waitress was mad about something and she took it out on us. We think it was the crowd that upset her cause she rolled her eyes when we mentioned how many would be coming. I understand about having a large crowd come into McD's and being mad, cause there it's the speed that counts, but at a sit down restaurant? Not only that but her tip was guaranteed! Yep, they had a service charge on the check. What a rip off! I can understand giving a tip, but being forced to pay one? Come on! Well, she didn't get any tips from our group other than the service charge. We got home and Seth left for Texas. He might come back in a few weeks, on his way back to Kentucky. I didn't get to do my shopping Thursday cause of the doctors appointment, so I had to do it Sunday afternoon. I went by myself, cause Jamey wanted a nap. I got home and we had to go to church. They were having a going away party for the family going to Hungary, so we stayed for that. When we got home from church there was a football game on TV, so Jamey watched that while I took a nap on the couch. I was so tired that that nap didn't interfere with me getting a good nights sleep later! After that was done, we went to bed. With Seth here we didn't get a lot of sleep, so we went to bed slightly early last night. :~)

I must have been exhausted from the weekend, cause I didn't even notice when Jamey turned off the alarm this morning. He got all ready for work without waking me. I usually am kind of a light sleeper too. Well, I have to tidy up my house after that weekend, so I better get going!

Three's Company...

Another Friday and another post... Is it just me or does the week evaporate away like all the water in Memphis' 100 degree weather? I don't know if I'm going to post a whole lot this time cause it was just a normal week. Well, normal for me anyway. :~)

Monday I was in a hormonal mood so nothing of value got done this day. All of you women know what I mean... For some reason putting food on the table for supper was about all I could seem to accomplish that day. Jamey even brought home chocolate and that didn't help my mood. It seems that Mondays are the worst cause I feel alone most of the day, cause I have spent the entire weekend with Jamey. I don't know if I've said that before, but it's always true on Mondays.

Tuesday was a little better. Jamey's cousin, Seth, was supposed to come, but was having car trouble so it was delayed until Wednesday. That was extremely good for me, cause I hadn't done a blessed thing to clean up the house Monday and it was too much to do in one day. Yes, I have this problem sometimes, it's called being lazy... I know it's gotta have a medical name, but I can't think of what it should be called right now. We had to go out to get some supplies for the house for when Seth came and as we were about to pay for our stuff I saw Jane Eyre on the shelf... Call me old-fashioned, but the old black and white version with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine is the only one I really like. So I had to have it in the movie collection in with all the action movies.

Wednesday Seth was delayed another day. Which I didn't mind, cause I still had things that needed to be done. Like watch Jane Eyre that I got the previous night. What? ;~) We were also supposed to have John come over and spend the night, but his wife wasn't feeling well so he decided to go be with her instead. So one more night of just me and Jamey. :~)

Thursday Jamey and I had doctors appointments in the morning. It was nice cause Jamey took half a day off. Course that half a day was spent in the doctor's office... For some reason they needed my blood so they could give it tests to make sure it is ok for me to have. I have never had my blood drawn before and I thought it would hurt... The finger prick they give you hurts worse than poking a needle in your arm. Anyway, our appointments were for 9am and 9:45am and we didn't get out of there until 11:30am. Since Jamey didn't have to go into work until 1pm, we got to eat lunch together. :~) After Jamey got home we ordered pizza for when Seth got in and waited. For the pizza and Seth. For some reason the pizza boy forgot that Jamey had ordered a Pepsi. So he had to go back for it! Seth didn't arrive until about 7:30pm. It's fun for me to watch Jamey interact with people that he knows well. I mean, he interacts with me but it's not the same. This way I could just observe him. They talked about guy stuff and I decided to go do some of my stuff. They ended up talking until about 1am!

I felt sorry for Jamey this morning cause he didn't get that much sleep. My sister Sarah woke me up this morning talking about wedding things... I think what she is planning to do sounds really pretty. Right now Seth has gone to see if he can find that game store Jamey told him about last night, and I'm just chillin' waiting for Jamey to call me on his lunch break. Tomorrow morning we are going to go to Henderson and help Jamey's sister move into a better apartment. That should be fun!

Home movies and other stuff...

Here it is... My cell phone! :~)







I love it, I was able to be at the grocery store and call Jamey! :~) I know that this is common for those of you that have a cell phone... Which was the entire population of the world except me. Until now! Cell towers beware, or those of you that are on my contact list! :~) It has become my new best friend! Now for the rest of the happenings of this past week...

Tuesday was a day at home for us. John was supposed to come that night and sleep over but he didn't come, so we just hung out and did nothing... One of my favorite pastimes! :~)

Wednesday we went to church. John was there and he, Jason, Jamey and I all went to IHOP after service. Yes, I went to the International House Of Pancakes! I, however, did not get pancakes. In fact, none of us got pancakes. Jamey ordered chicken fried steak which ended up being chicken fried chicken! Oh well, he ate it. Our waitress was a little TOO happy to be working at IHOP at 8pm. It's nice to have someone that is cheerful, but if you're that happy about working that time of night... You have no life, trust me I know. Anyway, after the IHOP experience we all went to our apartment and just hung out for a while.

Thursday I got up and actually started to function. Usually I just sleepwalk through making Jamey's breakfast and lunch. I had to wake up... This is the day I get the car! I went to class as usual, then went to the store to get groceries. I've come to realize this, that Wal-mart is not always the cheapest place to get stuff. Also that I need a very large piece of paper to keep track of rising prices, cause they seem to change every minute. Why does it cost a dollar and a half for eggs? Did the chicken join a union? What about cows? Are they on some sort of milk strike? Why is beef so expensive? Do we have to pay the family of the cow that gives us hamburger? How much longer before I'll have to go to work just so we have enough money to be able to put food on the table? Uggg! Not to mention gas in the car. I had to get gas while I was out, too. Right now I'm wishing for the days when it was just a little over a dollar a gallon. I hate myself for thinking 2.68 is not that bad. To make all things in the world better I bought chocolate chips and when I got home made cookies. Yummy! :~p

After I picked Jamey up from work, we went to his parents house for dinner cause his aunt was there. We had a good time, his aunt is a very sweet lady. She is younger than my mother-in-law, but looks about 10 years older. And like me, looks almost nothing like her sister. Her and her husband had one of those personality quizzes. Jamey and I took it to find out if our personalities are compatible. Luckily, we are a good match. I hope so! :~) I don't know what we would have done if we found out we weren't a good match... Oh wait, we wouldn't have done anything! :~) It was fun though. Apparently Jamey and my personalities are not that common. Which, for my family, is good news. I also got some more silver ware and a pretty container from other aunts. It was really fun going and spending time with his family.

Today I'm posting a little later than usual. I spent some of the morning watching old home movies of Jamey's . Watching them reminded me of my old home movies... Ahhh the memories. I love to look back and see what I thought was cool at one point, but then when I think of former birthdays on camera I think of fast forwarding through endless minutes of chewing dinner. Some very funny scenes happened during supper, but for the most part they're very boring. Not to mention some are down right embarrassing! :~) Yeah, anyway... Time to put those gems of old memories back where they were.

First Concert!

What a fun filled weekend! It started Friday night with Jamey taking me out to eat. We ended up going to the pizza place where the Church youth group (about 10 kids) was enjoying pizza before a fun filled evening of laser tag! It was so encouraging to see a youth group that wasn't Baptist having a good time. After the pop and pizza we went to the $2 theater and saw a movie that both of us had been wanting to see. I love that theater! It's cheap enough for us to go to every once in a while.


Jamey made me breakfast like he usually does on Sat. morning, then he went through his cds and I tidied up the house. We went grocery shopping later in the afternoon and got my pantry all full! :~) We went to Aldi and spent as much there as we did on gas the previous night! The only difference is that we won't have to spend that much on groceries for a while, can't guarantee that for the gas! After shopping we came home, changed and left for the concert. Got there a little early, but were able to check out the local color on Beale St. and saw Elvis! :~) When it was time to go to the concert there was a disappointing number of people there (about 20). You'd think that with Day of Fire there would have been more people than that. There were 4 bands up before DoF,and only a couple were any good. None of them I had heard of before! During a break Jamey bought me a Day of Fire T-shirt! When DoF came on stage Jamey and I moved up to stand next to the stage. Got to show the lead singer my shirt (which I had put on 'cause I was cold), and when he was pouring water for the band to drink during the concert, he poured one for me too! :~O The good thing about the small crowd was that it was a little more personal. During one of the songs the singer let Jamey sing the chorus with him! I think Jamey was in heaven! Even though it was a small crowd, the band was persuaded to sing one more song after they were done with the scheduled music. They were really great guys. After a lot of good and deafening music, the drummer threw one of the drum sticks at me. Wow! Jamey informed me that he's been to a lot of concerts and has never gotten the drum stick! Unfortunately, they were shutting the place down before we were able to get any autographs or pictures with the band. My next concert will have to be REALLY good to top this one! :~)


Sunday we went to Jamey's parents Church. I made green bean casserole for Sunday dinner, and Rachel brought lasagna. Even though we told her not to, Jamey's Mom made deviled eggs. We had a tough time keeping his Mom out of the kitchen, but we did it! While we were waiting on the lasagna to cook, his Mom found his Dad's wedding ring. Jamey put it on and it fit perfectly! It looks so good on his finger, and it's gold so it matches mine! :~) After the meal was nap time. Since Jamey and I had a late night Sat., Jamey was dead tired! While he napped his Mom got out some beads and I made a choker and anklet out of some of them. We stayed for evening service and then came home. I'm really blessed not only to have a very sweet and kind husband, but also to have wonderful in-laws! :~)


I'll try to post every Monday and Friday. Tonight we'll probably be going to church for dinner. It's called Mondays for the Master, and this one is the last one till fall.