Here's a link to a video clip that I TOTALLY agree with. It's quite humorous!
Merry Tossmas!
.JPG)
July Randoms
5 weeks ago
Friday, December 07, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
It's DECEMBER already?!?!?!
I can't believe it's December already!!!!! Shad and I just celebrated our 7th anniversary, Christopher's turning TWO years old in less than 2 weeks AND Christmas is upon us!!!!!
Football season, for the most part, is done and over with...all except for the bowl game. We were highly dissappointed in UT's loss to LSU on Saturday in the SEC Championship game! It would've made a GREAT anniversary gift! We had it in us to win, but just couldn't pull it off. That seems to be the way UT works. :p
We've bought a few gifts for Christopher's birthday/Christmas, but still have some more to get. So far, from us, he's getting a Radio Flyer tricycle, a TMX Elmo and an Elmo phone. I still want to find a sit 'n spin and some kind of wooden rocking chair for him. I'll probably get a few knick knacks to fit in his stocking as stocking stuffers. He's learning this year who Santa Claus is, but I'm probably skipping out on having pictures done with Santa since I'm sure that would be a disaster.
We attempted Christmas pictures at Portrait Innovations this morning, but that DID turn out to be a disaster. Christopher wouldn't have any part of it. I re-scheduled for later today, but decided to cancel after having time to think about it. If he acted like that in the MORNING, he's surely not going to be any better in the evening! Instead, we're going to attempt a family picture in front of our Christmas tree at home. We've attempted that before when we had Brinkley and it didn't work out too well. Therefore, if it doesn't turn out like I want, our back-up plan is to go to a friend's house and use their fireplace as a backdrop. Hopefully, we'll get some pictures to use on a Christmas card some way!
Other than getting ready for Christmas, Christopher and I have been busy with school. We have 2 more weeks and then have a break for Christmas. Christopher's doing GREAT there and is learning things like CRAZY!!! He's coming home saying stuff that just amazes me! He's saying and recognizing most numbers, letters and shapes and is repeating most words we ask him to say. He's not much with putting long sentences together yet, but can do about a 4 word sentence, so still pretty good.
Mindy (my sister) and I took a quick trip up to Pennsylvania a few weekends ago (November 16-18) for our aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. It was a LONG drive and short stay, but well worth it to see everyone again and be there for my aunt and uncle! Christopher stayed 2 nights with my mom since Shad went to the UT/Vandy ballgame. He had a blast at Grandma's and came home quite spoiled!
Well, that about sums things up around here. I'll end with a few recent pictures of Christopher:
Halloween Costume:
First time using ear phones:
Playing at PawPaw's in his UT orange:
A Temper Tantrum:
Cheesing for the camera in between fits:
Acting so sweet while playing on Mommy and Daddy's bed:
Playing "night night" on Mommy and Daddy's bed:
Picking up sticks with Daddy:
School picture:
Thanksgiving Day at MawMaw and Great-Granddaddy's:
Football season, for the most part, is done and over with...all except for the bowl game. We were highly dissappointed in UT's loss to LSU on Saturday in the SEC Championship game! It would've made a GREAT anniversary gift! We had it in us to win, but just couldn't pull it off. That seems to be the way UT works. :p
We've bought a few gifts for Christopher's birthday/Christmas, but still have some more to get. So far, from us, he's getting a Radio Flyer tricycle, a TMX Elmo and an Elmo phone. I still want to find a sit 'n spin and some kind of wooden rocking chair for him. I'll probably get a few knick knacks to fit in his stocking as stocking stuffers. He's learning this year who Santa Claus is, but I'm probably skipping out on having pictures done with Santa since I'm sure that would be a disaster.
We attempted Christmas pictures at Portrait Innovations this morning, but that DID turn out to be a disaster. Christopher wouldn't have any part of it. I re-scheduled for later today, but decided to cancel after having time to think about it. If he acted like that in the MORNING, he's surely not going to be any better in the evening! Instead, we're going to attempt a family picture in front of our Christmas tree at home. We've attempted that before when we had Brinkley and it didn't work out too well. Therefore, if it doesn't turn out like I want, our back-up plan is to go to a friend's house and use their fireplace as a backdrop. Hopefully, we'll get some pictures to use on a Christmas card some way!
Other than getting ready for Christmas, Christopher and I have been busy with school. We have 2 more weeks and then have a break for Christmas. Christopher's doing GREAT there and is learning things like CRAZY!!! He's coming home saying stuff that just amazes me! He's saying and recognizing most numbers, letters and shapes and is repeating most words we ask him to say. He's not much with putting long sentences together yet, but can do about a 4 word sentence, so still pretty good.
Mindy (my sister) and I took a quick trip up to Pennsylvania a few weekends ago (November 16-18) for our aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. It was a LONG drive and short stay, but well worth it to see everyone again and be there for my aunt and uncle! Christopher stayed 2 nights with my mom since Shad went to the UT/Vandy ballgame. He had a blast at Grandma's and came home quite spoiled!
Well, that about sums things up around here. I'll end with a few recent pictures of Christopher:
Halloween Costume:
First time using ear phones:
Playing at PawPaw's in his UT orange:
A Temper Tantrum:
Cheesing for the camera in between fits:
Acting so sweet while playing on Mommy and Daddy's bed:
Playing "night night" on Mommy and Daddy's bed:
Picking up sticks with Daddy:
School picture:
Thanksgiving Day at MawMaw and Great-Granddaddy's:
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Time to Catch Up!
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been keeping super busy! Here's how my schedule basically looks:
Monday - my only consistenly free day in the week
Tuesday - preschool from 8:30-2:30
Wednesday - work church nursery for a women's bible study in the morning from 9-12, back to church in the evening to work the nursery for evening activites
Thursday - preschool from 8:30 - 2:30
Every 2nd and 4th Friday - work childcare for MOPS from 8:45-11:45.
Saturday - UT Vols football games
Sunday - church in the morning and evening (work the nursery for evening activities)
Of course, the rest of the time, I'm dealing with Christopher and then family time in the evenings.
Today is the 1 year anniversary of Brinkley's death. :( I thought I'd have a more difficult time than I actually did. It's been a lot harder for me with the anniversary approaching. Last night was hard and I cried some, but I kept pretty busy today, so didn't have much time to dwell. I've been having some thoughts lately of getting another dog. Christopher's proven that he would do really good with one. Plus, I still want him to grow up with a dog. It's mainly Shad who's still dragging his feet. I do still have some fear of something happening to that dog, so am not pushing the subject now.
Like I mentioned above in the schedule, we keep busy on Saturdays with the UT Vols football games. I decided to go to the one yesterday against South Carolina even though it was a late game (6:45 pm central kick-off). I would normally stay home because of Christopher. However, we decided to spend the night at my dad's. He and my stepmother babysat Christopher while Shad, Richard and I went to the game. Boy, was it worth going to!!!!! We ended up winning 27-24 in overtime!!! We really didn't deserve to win since we played like crap, but a win is a win...especially against Spurrier!!! Next week is homecoming against Louisianna-Lafayette. However, my dad and stepmother won't be available to babysit, so I'm staying home. I was already thinking about skipping it since it's only homecoming and we've got 2 more weeks of home games right after that plus 1 more week before the end of the season. I'll have plenty more opportunities to go again.
Friday was Shad's 32nd birthday. He's been dreading birthdays for the last couple of years and this one was no exception. To top it off, he had a crappy day at work. It started off by him spilling coffee on his computer, which proceeded to display fireworks! Thankfully for him, though, the on-site repairman was able to fix it. Hopefully, it's still working when he goes in on Monday! We've sorta been celebrating (his birthday) over the last week or so. Last Friday (October 19), we took advantage of our church's Kids Night Out and dropped Christopher off for a couple of hours while Shad and I had a date night. We went to dinner at Fuji's (a Japanese hibatchi restaurant) and then to browse the brand new outdoor mall, The Avenue. On his actual birthday, we just did our usual Pizza Night at home since we went out the week before. I gave him two out of three of his gifts: a round of golf and an oversized blanket (to use while watching tv). Unfortunately, the blanket wasn't really any bigger than the ones we already have, so we're returning it to Old Time Pottery. I'll let him pick something else out instead. His third birthday gift, a pair of Bolle sunglasses, have been ordered and should arrive sometime this week. We didn't really do much celebrating on Saturday like we'd planned. We were originally going to tailgate in the park before the game, but since Shad didn't want to do the cooking (he's the only one who knows how to use a grill) and because of the drop in temperatures (not horrible, but a little chilly), he chose to eat at Moe's on the strip by the stadium instead. It was really yummy! We still had some time to chill and ended up hanging out at Moe's for quite a while and watched Georgia beat Florida. That helped UT out tremendously!
Well, it's bedtime, so time to end for now. I'll try to post some pictures sometime soon.
Monday - my only consistenly free day in the week
Tuesday - preschool from 8:30-2:30
Wednesday - work church nursery for a women's bible study in the morning from 9-12, back to church in the evening to work the nursery for evening activites
Thursday - preschool from 8:30 - 2:30
Every 2nd and 4th Friday - work childcare for MOPS from 8:45-11:45.
Saturday - UT Vols football games
Sunday - church in the morning and evening (work the nursery for evening activities)
Of course, the rest of the time, I'm dealing with Christopher and then family time in the evenings.
Today is the 1 year anniversary of Brinkley's death. :( I thought I'd have a more difficult time than I actually did. It's been a lot harder for me with the anniversary approaching. Last night was hard and I cried some, but I kept pretty busy today, so didn't have much time to dwell. I've been having some thoughts lately of getting another dog. Christopher's proven that he would do really good with one. Plus, I still want him to grow up with a dog. It's mainly Shad who's still dragging his feet. I do still have some fear of something happening to that dog, so am not pushing the subject now.
Like I mentioned above in the schedule, we keep busy on Saturdays with the UT Vols football games. I decided to go to the one yesterday against South Carolina even though it was a late game (6:45 pm central kick-off). I would normally stay home because of Christopher. However, we decided to spend the night at my dad's. He and my stepmother babysat Christopher while Shad, Richard and I went to the game. Boy, was it worth going to!!!!! We ended up winning 27-24 in overtime!!! We really didn't deserve to win since we played like crap, but a win is a win...especially against Spurrier!!! Next week is homecoming against Louisianna-Lafayette. However, my dad and stepmother won't be available to babysit, so I'm staying home. I was already thinking about skipping it since it's only homecoming and we've got 2 more weeks of home games right after that plus 1 more week before the end of the season. I'll have plenty more opportunities to go again.
Friday was Shad's 32nd birthday. He's been dreading birthdays for the last couple of years and this one was no exception. To top it off, he had a crappy day at work. It started off by him spilling coffee on his computer, which proceeded to display fireworks! Thankfully for him, though, the on-site repairman was able to fix it. Hopefully, it's still working when he goes in on Monday! We've sorta been celebrating (his birthday) over the last week or so. Last Friday (October 19), we took advantage of our church's Kids Night Out and dropped Christopher off for a couple of hours while Shad and I had a date night. We went to dinner at Fuji's (a Japanese hibatchi restaurant) and then to browse the brand new outdoor mall, The Avenue. On his actual birthday, we just did our usual Pizza Night at home since we went out the week before. I gave him two out of three of his gifts: a round of golf and an oversized blanket (to use while watching tv). Unfortunately, the blanket wasn't really any bigger than the ones we already have, so we're returning it to Old Time Pottery. I'll let him pick something else out instead. His third birthday gift, a pair of Bolle sunglasses, have been ordered and should arrive sometime this week. We didn't really do much celebrating on Saturday like we'd planned. We were originally going to tailgate in the park before the game, but since Shad didn't want to do the cooking (he's the only one who knows how to use a grill) and because of the drop in temperatures (not horrible, but a little chilly), he chose to eat at Moe's on the strip by the stadium instead. It was really yummy! We still had some time to chill and ended up hanging out at Moe's for quite a while and watched Georgia beat Florida. That helped UT out tremendously!
Well, it's bedtime, so time to end for now. I'll try to post some pictures sometime soon.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
