He's here....almost.

Well, it's not lookin good. Keep New Orleans in your prayers. Keep louisiana in your prayers and as you can see by the map much of texas too. seeing as though all of my readers, minus michawn and auny- of course they have family in both states, live in louisiana and texas we can all pray for each other.

Gustav...not lookin good peoples...not lookin good at all.

metal fans and fingers bad combonation...

this is not an actual picture of her finger but close...
Connie sliced her finger this morning trying to turn off our old antique fan....3 stitches....fun. seeing as though we don't have a camera i can't show yall a picture of it. it's not too bad but bad enough...sorry sis:)

Great weekend....great week ahead!

We had an awesome time w/ my parents and sis and her family! of all the days in AUGUST for it to be 80 degrees...Ryders bday party was a swim party and it was cloudy and chilly. but fun was had by all!

my sister, mia, and jules are staying w/ us for a few days. Mia is missin Mattie b/c her first full day was today. Her teacher is very nice and seems to be very approachable. Shook my hand and introduced herself to me personally. very different than last year's experience. Mattie is very excited about the new year, new teacher, and her room is even on a new hall!!!


well, gotta go turn a dining room table into a tent...goin old school...forget those pre-made tents that fold up and barely fit 1 child let alone 3!

cleaning, watching movies, cleaning, watching olympics

that's pretty much what i've been doing this week! Sue, my mominlaw, has the kids for a few days and i've totally taken advantage of this time! it's sooo much easier to clean and organize w/out having to go behind and clean up after the kids.

anywoo, brian and i have gotten to just chill in the evenings and watch movies...and not disney, spongebob, icarly, drake/josh! aaahh so nice.

when they get back, mattie starts her first 1/2 day of 1st grade on friday and my family comes in for ryder's 3rd birthday party that'll be on saturday! that's why i've been cleaning:) new bed times start thursday night...can't wait. i know all my friends already have their kids bedtimes set but things have been a little crazy the past 1 1/2 years. by the time we would get home, we'd want to spend as much time as we could w/ each other so that would lead to late bedtimes. it'll be a different story now:)

better get back to cleanin! oh gotta put my next movie in...

Vaca '08...Pop-Up Camper Style

Lake Ouachita
Lake Greeson


The Good The Bad and The Ugly....those are nice descriptive words for our vaca!

The Good...
1. Spent quality time w/ my niece...Mia!!! She did everything we did...sweat, sweat, sweat! and didn't complain unlike her aunt.
2. Spent quality time as a family.
3. Spent time at the lake.
4. Got away!
5. Learned things about myself.
6. Ryder started putting his head under water! Started going under to his nose then on the last day went all the way under!
7. Ate steak and baked potato all while camping...mini bbq pit and a microwave!
8. AIR CONDITIONING in the camper!!!!!
9. took a boat ride to a island and brian, mia, and mattie went snorkeling.
10.Overall we had a good time. just wish i had evidence of it.

The Bad...
1. Started the trip off 2 1/2 hours late.
2. Got to the site at midnight and sat up our camper at midnight. all while we hushing and threatening 3 little turkeys that were laughing and giggling and hanging out the car windows as we were trying to sat up the camper in 15 minutes instead of the 30 min it usually takes...at midnight and NOT wake up the whole camp.
3. sat up the camper WITHOUT a flashlight or a knife. but we had scissors.
4. decided after 1 day we wanted to move onto another lake WITHOUT reservations in the SUMMER.
5. drove around for 2 hours looking for another lake that wasn't full up.
6. oh and the lakes were like bath water temperature.

The Ugly...
*Left my keys at the first campsite.
*LEFT OUR $300 DIGITAL SONY CAMERA WITH ALL OUR VACATION PICTURES ON IT AT THE SWIM BEACH - this is the camara we had just found after it had been missing for 3 months.
*lost my temper too much and too quickly.

I'm alive...

if anyone is still reading my blog...i'm still here! it's been a crazy summer. lots has happened.

brian is hot! oh i mean he's doin good:)and look at those arms! wowsers! good but tired. our youth ministry has been going strong all summer. we started the first week of june at camp and have been doing something every week except 1 week in june and one week in july. time to slow down. and things are gonna do just that.

Friday will be my last day of working outside of the home. i'll be a "stay at home" mom...whatever that means. i am soooo ready to be home again. i firmly beleive that i was where i was supposed to be for the last year an a half and now the Lord has made it possible for me to go back home. the money will be tight what w/ food and gas prices being so high but it'll always be tight. i wasn't doing much w/ the money i made anyway....gas, babysitters, eating out b\c i was too tired to cook. we just got back from our family vacation. i left my keys at one of the campsites and our beach bag w/ our digital camara in the swim area at another campsite. aaarrrggghhh. very frustrating. good times but it was rediculously hot.


mattie starts 1st grade not this friday but the next. she's not real excited but what kid is excited when school starts. she has lost another tooth...one of her front ones. she doesn't know how to stay at home and play. either she has to have someone over or be goin somewhere. living the life that we live...always on the go...she doesn't know any better. she's decided to take dance/ballet this year. we'll see.


ryder is ryder. he is crazy about camo, guns, animals, and trucks. he loves his big sister. he'll be 3 soon! has a pretty short temper. wow! doesn't quite understand why we have to go to the church all the time...that will soon change since i'll be home more. loves to swim...just started putting his head underwater while we were on vaca.