I think this is it

Ok, thanks for bearing with me. I think this might finally be it, but who knows, there's always tomorrow. I can't take all the credit though (I'm just not that creative) After searching on the internet and seeing what I liked, this is what I came up with. Enjoy!

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One year ago

One year ago today we moved into our house. I can’t believe it. Some days it feels shorter and some days it feels longer, but hey we have survived. Not just survived, we have done pretty well.
Marty and I had to laugh because we closed on our house in GA on July 21st and where were we one year later, yep we were in GA. We moved up here to TN on July 22nd, although we had no place to move into, and closed on our house on July 24th. We drove home from the wedding on the 22nd, yes one year exactly from the day we moved. In fact, we even stopped at the same McDonald’s on top of Monteagle that Marty and his group stopped at. It has been a great year full of many ups and a few downs along the way but I wouldn’t change it for anything. Although Nashville isn’t “home” I can’t complain. I promise to take pictures this week of the inside of the house so you can see everything we have accomplished in the past year.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us transition into this stage of our life. We would not have survived if it hadn’t been for you.

Good times

One of our old clogging team members got married over the weekend and we had such a good time. You would have never known that 2 and a half years have passed and none of us dance anymore. We slipped right back into friendships and fun times. We even pulled off a clogging dance complete with bride front and center hiking up her dress to dance (I vaguely remember doing that 7 years ago). I love that the kids were able to see a glimpse into what mommy and daddy used to do. Abby was sitting on the side cheering “Go mommy, Go Daddy” It made me a little sad because clogging was such a huge part of our lives and I wish the kids could have been part of it too. Abby has been to many competitions but doesn’t remember them and we quit before Andrew was born. Hopefully one day we can get the kids into it because some of my most treasured memories came from the group that we hung out with this weekend.

I'm not there yet, but I'm gettting closer.

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Work with me

I'm trying to make my blog more me, but I am not well versed in html or graphic design. So bear with me, there might be many changes in the near future.

Pee Pee on the potty

We are by no means full on potty training Andrew but yesterday he went pee pee on the potty 3 times and a few times the days before also. YIPPEE!! Personally I’m not ready for him to be out of diapers but I’m not going to tell him no when he asks to sit on the potty either. Although, it’s not like he really wants to use the potty he just wants the M&M’s he gets for going. He’s so funny I’ll tell him that he will get a M&M if he goes and he will say “Mommy, MNM (that’s how he says it) first then potty” Sorry buddy that’s not how it works. Abby is all about training him though; she will ask him every few minutes if he needs to sit on the potty. He usually says no but on the rare occasion he says yes, she will take off his diaper and put him on the potty. I don’t know what her obsession with Andrew’s bathroom habits are.
At least it’s a start, we’ll see if he keeps it up. My baby can’t be big enough to be out of diapers. WAAA!

Great surprise

Ok, I just have to share. Marty and I have a wedding to go to next weekend and I had nothing to wear (ok, I probably could have found something) so we went shopping over the weekend. We looked at Macy’s, Dillards and finally ended up at Parisian. I tried on hundreds, it seemed like hundreds, of dresses and I just didn’t feel great in any of them. I try on one at Parisians that I just literally pulled off the rack becsaue I was finding nothing. Well, it ended up being the one that we liked the best. The only problem is that they didn’t have it in my size. The tag said that it was $128.00 but they were having a sale so the price came to $94.00, but the sale ended the next day. They said that they could order one for me from another store. I told them don’t worry I will just get it from their website. Well, their website stinks and you can’t buy anything. We decided to just bite the bullet and buy it, I liked it that much. I call the store and get it ordered. The dress came today and Marty called me to ask if I knew how much they charged me. No, I didn’t ask. I just assumed it was the same price. Well, with the $8.00 shipping from Alabama the total was $42.87. WooHoo! What a great surprise.

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I didn't know grown-ups cry

Poor Abby, we had a bad night last night and after going around and around we finally just sent her to bed. I yelled a little too much and a little too loud and felt terrible for it. I was sitting at the top of the stairs crying from frustration at the situation and guilt. Abby came out of her room and saw me and Marty sitting there; she quietly closed her door and climbed back in bed. A few minutes later she called me in her room to tell me she was sorry and that she didn’t know grown ups cry. Yes honey grown ups cry, often. I had to once again tell her that I was also sorry, wow I feel like I have had to do that a lot lately. I’m glad today is a new day.

My babies the fish

I am so proud of my babies, they have turned into quite the little swimmers. We go swimming often at Applebee’s. What you ask? There is a local hotel here that has a Applebee’s attached to it that we frequent often, hey Tuesday night kids eat free (and it come with an ice cream sundae) One night after eating we went wandering through the hotel and found an awesome indoor pool. It’s huge with a hot tub as an added bonus. Marty went to the front desk to ask if they had any sort of membership (believe it or not but many of the hotels do that around here) and they said no, but just come and swim anyway. Twist my arm, the kids get to swim and I don’t have to put sunscreen on them. What could be better?!?
At the beginning of the summer Abby was very hesitant about going under water. She has never liked getting water in her eyes. So we decided to use the best teaching tactic, praise the younger brother. You can throw Andrew in the water and he comes up laughing. He wears arm floaties and does such a great job “swimming” He will get out and jump in all by himself. Well, Abby was not going to be out done by her little brother. We bought her goggles so water won’t get in her eyes and she hasn’t turned back since. Once she realized that Andrew was getting such a hip hip hooray for going under, well she wanted to do it too. She will now jump in with or without her goggles, touch the bottom of the pool (well as far as her float will allow her) and bounce back up. I am so proud. She still has to hold her nose though, baby steps.
Andrew just cracks me up; he couldn’t care less if water gets in his eyes. He will put his little head in the water and kick and kick. Poor thing goes backwards half the time. Last night we noticed that he swims underwater with his eyes open, not a care in the world.
It is so nice going to the pool knowing that the kids are going to have fun. The plus to that is that they also wear themselves out in all the fun. Double bonus.
I promise I will get video one day.

Things that go bump in the night

Count them, not once but twice. That’s how many times Abby has ended up in our bed this week. Abby never sleeps with us, never. The first time was on Tuesday. She woke up having a bad dream, the forest was dark. Well yes honey the forest is dark at night. I settled her down and thought she was going to sleep. Well, she then called again. This time it was because her bed was making noise. Again, well honey if you didn’t sleep with 3 baby dolls, 12 stuffed animals and a blanket then maybe there would be enough room for you and you baby’s head wouldn’t have to knock into the wall. Marty took care of it that time. Then we hear her door open. We were very excited because we thought she was going to the bathroom on her own. She always calls us to take her to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We were wrong; she appeared in our room wanting to sleep with us. Hop on in honey. She did it again last night but it was because we had a pretty bad thunderstorm that woke her up. Ever since a thunderstorm snuck up on us while we were at the park, she has been terrified of thunder. Hop on in honey. Our bed gets pretty full with 2 adults, a dog and a child. I would love a king bed but our room just isn’t big enough. I love snuggling her but I’m ready to have my bed back.

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Priceless

Cost of gas to get to Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00

Lunch on the way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.00

Number of times "are we there yet?" is heard . . . 10 +

Hotel, massage & a night alone with Marty. . . . . PRICELESS

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7 years ago this Saturday

Hole in one

Abby chose putt-putt for family night last night and we had a blast. Everyone except for Marty got a hole in one. Yes, you read that right. Everyone except for Marty. Sorry babe. That includes Abby and Andrew. Mine was talent (yeah right) but the kids’ was purely luck. Andrew was the first to get a hole in one. We were playing a hole that you pick the left or the right hole and either the ball goes down one level or it goes all the way down to the green. Andrew hit it into the right hole (all you had to do was barely tap the ball and it would go down hill right into the hole. Once we get to the bottom green, we couldn’t find Andrew’s ball. We looked all around in the grass and the woods. We weren’t even thinking to look in the hole. But that’s where it was, sitting pretty in the bottom of the hole. Abby’s hole in one came a few holes later. Abby approached the hole in typical Abby fashion and whacks the ball. It bounced off one rock, bounced off another rock, skipped over the water and rolled right into the hole. Marty and I were ducking the whole time because we thought we were going to get hit by the spastic ball. There was a group in front of us that saw the whole thing and they all cheered for her. She was so proud of herself. Another successful family night.

Happy Day!

Jason Aldean, Sara Evans, Little Big Town, Montgomery Gentry, Sugarland, & Carrie Underwood
That’s who all we are seeing tonight and I can’t wait. We have a songwriter friend (the couple that we swap babysitting with) that has weekend passes to the CMA Music Festival but he can’t use them so he gave them to us. They called this morning to say that we can have the passes if we want them, um yeah. They just had their third baby last week so we weren’t going to ask them to watch the kids but luckily some other friends said they would help us out. I love Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood, what a great treat. Are you jealous?!?

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