tagged again

3 Tv Shows I LOVE to watch:
1. The Office
2. Jon & Kate Plus 8
3. Friends

3 Things I Did Yesterday...
1. Went to work
2. Ate dinner with Katie B. and Melanie
3. Went to Target and bought NOTHING!

3 Things I'm Looking Forward 2
1. Our Halloween party tomorrow
2. Being off for the weekend
3. Sleeping!

3 Things on my Wish List
1. To get a good night sleep tonight and not be woken up by a phone, alarm, or Joe
2. That Obama DOES NOT win!
3. Joe finishing school ASAP

3 People I tag
Katie Bainey
Katie Slade
Dr. J

Blue Angels Air Show

This past Saturday was the day Joe looks forward to every other year. Yes, it has something to do with airplanes and airforce. We got to go with my parents to the Air show and it was as always AMAZING! I still don't understand how you fly 18 inches away from another airplane and do twist and turns. AHHH! As always though they gave us a good show and this year we got to meet them afterwards. Melanie and Adam showed up after they were done and I talked Melanie into getting a picture with one of the pilots. I was giggling like a little girl and I felt SO uncomfortable for Melanie. The pilot probably thought I was a 12 year old taking there picture. I was sad to see it was over and can't wait for the next one. I told Joe for the next one I'm going to give him a microphone and I'm gonna wear a pair of headsets so he can tell me the name of every airplane, what it does, when it was made, and which airplane he'd rather fly. I love my dorky husband! I guess I'm just glad I won't have to worry about him not loving his job someday.

This smile was never wiped off of my dad's face

Joe and I were representing! hahaI couldn't get in a good position to get there faces. Darn!

Race For The Cure

Last weekend my mom and I got to walk in the race for the cure while the boys cheered us on on the side line. It was a lot of fun but I think it'll be my last year to walk it. Little Rock had the biggest turn out throughout the US (at least that's what I've been told) with 50,000 people. It was SO PACKED! After 6 people stepping on my shoes and three of which my shoes actually came completely off and 3 strollers hitting me, we finished the race. I must admit I was out of shape and actually was sore the day after. Maybe that's my body telling me to get my fat butt outside and start exercising again.....Maybe I'll wait a couple more months since it's starting to get cold now, darn!

UH! ARE YOU SERIOUS?

So I finally decided to add more names to my list of blogs and I accidently added two of the same person so I deleted what I thought was just one of them but instead I deleted my entire list! Uh! Talk about frustrating! So I have spent the last 3o min. re-adding everyones blog. So if you don't see yours on mine let me know so I can add you.

Tagged by Katie

8 Things I did today...
1. Woke up
2. Took a shower
3. Drove to work
4. Cleaned and organized another office room at work
5. Brought patients back
6. drove home from work
7. Made and ate dinner
8. Went to Children's to see a friend and her little girl

8 Shows I love (in no particular order)
1. The hills
2. Friends
3. Design to Sale
4. John and Kate plus 8
5. Paris Hilton's new BFF (so dumb I have to watch it)
6. Simple life when it was on, so funny!
7. America's Next Top Model
8. House Hunters

8 Restaurants I love
1. Macaroni Grill
2. Texas Roadhouse
3. Some chinese place in Lexington, I could never say the name right
4. Quizno's
5. Old Chicago Pizza place
6. Smashing Tomato or Pumpkin?

8 Things I am looking forward to.......

1. Joe finishing school
2. Joe getting his new vehicle, his loner right now smells like a bad hotel
3. Joe to join the Airforce
4. Buying our first house
5. Christmas
6. Julia and Jane to have their babies and the 8 other people I know that are pregnant
7. Gaining an extra hour in our day
8. Decorate Julia's new baby boy room

8 things I am wishing for.......

1. A house
2. Our neighbor to stop smoking, I'm getting second hand smoke
3. A big Bathtub someday
4. To fit in my skinny pants again and SOON
5. To be an interior designer
6. Free flights!
7. I want to live on a hill that looks over the city with land
8. A new wardrobe to replace all the clothes i've given away

Tagged by Mom

7 things I can do:

1. I can run a marathon!
2. I can organize and clean like no bodies business and actually LOVE it!
3. I can play the piano, well I can attempt to play the piano
4. I can unpack my house in one day and have everything where it's supposed to go
5. I can smell just about anything and everything
6. I can draw blood
7. I can talk people into doing too many things. Let's just say I have a hard time giving up when I wants something my way and my parents always loved me for it.

7 things I cannot do:

1. I can't play the drums on guitar hero worth a flip
2. I can't drive a standard
3. I can't eat just one or even two scoops of ice cream. I have to have atleast 3
4. I can't stand having dishes in my sink at any time. My dishes have to be done before I can even sit down to eat dinner
5. I can't handle my doors only being opened half way they either need to be all the way opened or all the way shut
6. I can't shower unless there's a see through shower curtain. I watched psycho once and that was the end of it for me.
7. I can't stand unnecessary noises.

7 things that attracted me to Joe

1. His big blue truck! It was hot!
2. His patience
3. His ability to work hard
4. The fact that no matter what Joe tries he will be good at
5. His musical talent
6. His forearms
7. His nose, Joe seriously has the perfect nose

7 things I say the most:

1. SHUT UP! (in a "are you serious" tone)
2. I need a root beer
3. Have you ever had a mammogram, Bone density, or a colonoscopy?
4. Joe!
5. Can you get me a blanket? It's always cold in our house.
6. Congratulations, your having a kid too
7. when was your last period?

7 Celebrity Admiration's (not in order of importance)

1. Leonardo Dicaprio
2. Julia Roberts
3. The kid off of transformers and greatest game ever played
4. Brad Pitt
5. George Clooney
6. Matt Damon
7. Carrie Underwood
8. Meg Ryan

7 Favorite foods

1. Ice Cream
2. Eggplant Parmesan
3. Mexican Food
4. fruits & vegetables
5. Melanie's beef and veggie soup
6. My dad's roast, mashed potatoes, and gravy
7. Hamburgers

and it's a .......................

Since Julia doesn't have a blog I figured I would help her out in letting everyone know what the sex of her baby is. They found out today that it's a BOY! I am so excited for them but I'm starting to get worried for that little boy, two older sisters.....he's bound to be dressed up in dresses and of course make-up will be involved. I'm sure Brooklyn and Courtney are very excited and I know Julia and Nathan are in total shock. I asked her today "so are you going to move the girls in one room?" and her response "oh.......I really haven't thought about it until you just said something.....uh....we were just expecting another girl". Don't worry Jules, I'll definitely be out to decorate another kids room! I love when other people have babies! Congrats Julia and Nathan!

I'm HOME

So I flew home today around 11:00 and it was definitely a bitter sweet situation. I was glad to be home at my own place not living out of a suitcase and being able to see Joe but I really did not want to leave Kentucky! I had so much fun hanging out with Aubrey and actually getting to know Kyle. Kyle and I are a lot alike in the way that we don't go out of our way to meet people and we're both pretty shy to new people but this trip we both came out of our shells, I think it was the rock band that did it. Aubrey and I played, cleaned, organized, painted, and hung pictures in 4 days. It literally was the best week ever. On Friday one of my best friends, Britney, that used to live in Arkansas that now lives in Kentucky, drove down sick and pregnant just to see us. She is a real trooper. We went to lunch and did a little shopping and then hung out at Aubrey's. It was the most relaxed lunch I have ever had. I actually had things to talk about with people over food. It was great! Thanks Brit for driving down! Like I said earlier we tore up some rock band while I was there. I guess I should restate it to, I tore up the guitar! I attempted the drums and pretty much sucked but the guitar......I got good! I thought about buying it for us but Joe would literally never get any school work or flying done.

During my trip I think I amazed Aubrey and Kyle with the amount of milk I drink. I litterally had probably a gallon and half while I was there and that was being gracious. I still owe them a gallon of milk. Thanks Aubrey and Kyle for allowing my stubborn, pushy, and determined self to come visit you and take over your house. I hope you guys love it! I didn't take any pictures because I wanted Aubrey to be able to post them because she definately has a place to show off and be proud of. I did learn on my trip that Aubrey CAN decorate. I walked in and her living room was all done up so cute. I was so proud of her. Now I also learned that she is very easily distracted.....whether it's dancing, cleaning, or reading her journal she some how kept finding ways to get out of cleaning out her 2nd bedroom. No worries though, I would get her back on track and we did in deed get it cleaned out (thank heavens). I hope to be able to go back and visit many more times!

Good News/Bad News

Good News: Joe got a promotion at his job and he now the new salesman which totally fits Joe! He no longer has to be in the office and he gets to go out and try and get businesses to rent penske trailors, tractors, and trucks. The best part of the promotion is he gets a NEW car! Yea! They get 3 choices: Impala, fusion, or escape. There no toyotas but we won't be paying for it so we don't care. Joe ordered himself a white ford escape today.

Bad News: Since Joe is getting a new car we have to sell one of our vehicles and it came down to the truck! We are not that happy but we do what we gotta do right? I just keep telling myself "no worries, we'll get another one someday". Anyway, if anyone is looking for a sweet truck let us know cause we have one for sale!

Good News: I flew in to Kentucky today to spend the rest of the week with Aubrey! So far we have eaten at an asian restuarant that was really good and chillin at her place, which by the way is way cute and smells great! It's very fall like in her home and outside. It is so cold here!

Bad News: Northwest charged me $15 dollars to check in my one piece of luggage. I was confused and had to argue with the girl but I didn't win she told me the only free thing I could take was a carry on. What are these airlines coming to? Then I had to fly in a NASTY plane to memphis. Seriously instead of leather it was clothe seats, I felt like I was sitting at one of the movie theatres in Conway. Then on my flight to kentucky I seriously think I got a frost bite on my toes and feet and I even dressed warm! When I got off the plane and walked down the baggage claim I couldn't feel my feet until finally after about 15 min. my feet started tingling while my feet regained there heat. Don't worry though, it ended up being worth it when I saw Aubrey pull up to pick me up. It was definately love at first sight. hahaha boo!

3rd c-section and now a pro

I watched my 3rd c-section today but today was a special one because it was twins! Nichole and I have wanted to watch twins be delivered forever now so when we knew about the one today we jumped on it like white on rice. At 11:30 Dr. Lawrence got called over to the hospital STAT! So she ran over there and Nichole was bummed because she thought she wasn't going to be able to watch it until she got a phone call from Dr. Lawrence saying "if you want to watch this you better get over here now"! So Nichole came and got me and told me to hurry so we ran out of the office to the hospital. The whole time we were getting so nervous because we didn't know what was going on. Once we got out of the elevator we started running down the hall. We couldn't help but laugh at ourselves for running but then we both felt like we were "real" doctors!

When we got over to labor and delivery we suited up and headed into the room where we were greeted by Dr. Lawrence. She didn't have the concern in her voice as she did when she called and she said everything was fine the moms heart rate was just going down. So they got everything ready and then the dad came in and they told him not to touch anything blue so he put his hands next to his side like a little kid and walked in and almost ran into the "blue" table with all the sterile instruments! Everyone was yelling at him not to touch it and at that point Dr. Johnson was in the room and grabbed him by both hands and escorted him to his wife and made him sit down. He was so nervous it was cute! So they preceded with the c-section and delivered the twins, a boy and girl. After wards we told Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Johnson that we ran down the halls to get there and that we felt like doctors. They obviously laughed at us and then we proceeded to tell Dr. Johnson that we were pro's and could definitely do her next c-section! So let us know when your ready Dr. J...........p.s. I love my job!

Our Body Museum

This past weekend was the last weekend for the "Our body museum" in hot springs. It's a display of dead human bodies that they have been preserved and they show you the different muscles, bones, and parts on your body. I have been wanting to go ever since I saw the billboard in California this past summer so I finally convinced Joe into going. So Saturday we drove down to Hot Springs. It was so amazing! I love learning about the human body. There is nothing more interesting to me. I really went into it excited but I was extremely nervous at the same time because I mean seriously it's dead bodies on display but once we got in it was nothing like I expected. There were probably 7 bodies total just out in the open with no glass or ropes that had charts next to them showing you where each thing was on the body. Then they had the each part separate in glass boxes. They even had on display two different lungs, one healthy and one with cancer from smoking. They also had an esophagus that had cancer also. I hate to say it but it was so cool! It took us about 45 minutes to walk through the whole thing. I was pretty bummed because they wouldn't let you take pictures but I totally understand there reasoning. After we walked through that part of the museum we went and explored the rest of the museum which was pretty cool. They had tons of hands on things that were very educational. I was getting frustrated towards the end because I was tired and hungry and Joe had to go to EVERY SINGLE STATION and touch EVERY SINGLE DISPLAY! I seriously felt like I was with a 5 year old. It was cute but not so cute when your tired and starving. We had a blast and we totally recommend it to all of you if it's ever offered in your area.

Welcome to Tuf Nut Apartments/Loft

I have been harassed for WAY too long so here you go Anya and Katie! You guys are driving me crazy! I haven't posted pictures of our new place because I wanted to paint first and so that's exactly what we did this past weekend. We finished up last night so here the pics. Enjoy......

This is our form of a pantry. It obviously works for us

This is the view we see out our living room window, the long trailor looking building is the clinton library. This is the hallway to get to our place.So here they are, they're not really in order but you get the point. We absolutely love our choice of move and we love being making our apartment our own. Feel free to drop by anytime, we love visitors and there are great places around here to hang out. Oh and just FYI, I wouldn't have painted the brick normally but it was already painted white when we moved in and white obviously is not my favorite color.

FIRE! FIRE!

So as I was comfortable laying on the couch stalking people on their blogs while Joe was taking a test online I all of the sudden see our fire alarm in the apartment flashing. I thought I was seeing things until Joe said "Celeste what'd you do?" I had to get up from my comfortable couch with my cell phone and laptop in hand, just in case the sprinklers above went off, I looked out in the hallway to see if anyone was leaving and I kept hearing peoples doors shut but I never saw anyone and then the sirens in the hallway started going off and it just kept getting louder and louder so I shut the door. I then grabbed my keys, incase we did have to leave, and waited for Joe to finish his test. He was being timed and was only on question 22 of 55 and he was trying to finish before we went downstairs. So I just kept opening and shutting the door trying to figure out what we should do until finally the last time I opened the door I smelt it! I decided to put my laptop down and I made Joe leave his test and we headed downstairs. We joined everyone outside and watched the fireman arrive and go inside to find what was going on. Of course, laughter was my only emotion at this time and I was laughing the whole time and taking pictures with my phone. You should have seen these firemen, they were all decked out with axes in hand and everything. Well after about 15 fireman going in to investigate they came out with much disappointment on there faces and kindly told us it was burnt toast. All Joe and I could think of were the people in their apartment trying to fan out the smoke while everyone else was downstairs. All I know is I'm glad it wasn't us and especially glad that the sprinklers didn't go off because we've been worried about those boogers ever since we moved in.

On the better side of things we are all settled in our apartment and we absolutely LOVE IT! I'm not gonna lie it was hard for me for the first couple days because we went from 1400 sq to about 925. I lost my linen closet and my walk-in closet but now that I have readjusted I totally love it! The location is great and is very close to the interstate so my drive to conway everyday is a breeze. We also live a block away from all the restuarants in downtown so we walk to eat on the weekends.

Good News

We found out today that we were approved for our apartment and we can begin moving in tomorrow! Since it's been raining for 3 straight days now we won't actually move until Friday so if anyone gets bored and wants to help Joe will be moving all of our stuff up stairs and down a long hallway Friday around 3, haha totally kidding. Anyway, I'm ready to get this show on the road and become a "true" city girl! We are so excited!

We're moving/We moved

I put as my title "we're moving" but the funny thing is that we don't know exactly where we're going still. We had to have all of our stuff out as of yesterday so everything is packed away in our penske truck just sitting until we find a place to stay. We are at my parents house right now but only for a few days. We started looking at the Little Rock area last week because we figured with Joe being in school and with his flying we should probably live closer to his job so that he'll spend more time doing his schooling instead of driving everyday, which means I get to commute. I look at it as, it'll give me something to do instead of being bored while Joe's doing school work.

We did find a loft apartment in downtown Little Rock that we're looking at. We have to turn in our application on Tuesday so they can do our background check, scary! Hopefully everything will go through. This is our first experience at an apartment so we don't know what to expect. Joe went and checked it out on Friday and it's an old factory where they used to make farmer clothes and they turned it into apartments. Most of the apartment is original brick wall, which I love, and the best part of it all is I CAN PAINT, what little sheet rock exists. I'm really excited. It's about 2 blocks away from the river market and there are tons of little restaurants and shops that we will be able to walk to. I told Joe I'll feel like a real city girl! Wish us luck!

I'll post pictures if /when we end up getting it.

Aubrey's wedding

On August 1st 2008 Aubrey and Kyle were married in Salt lake City. They had a really pretty wedding and reception. I wish I would have taken pictures of there reception but I was too exhausted by that point that I didn't care to do anything but sit. We did get to see a lot of old friends from Arkansas, Wyoming, and Utah. Hey, I guess that's what weddings are for right? After there wedding they went on there honeymoon to mexico. I think they had a good time until the last night they both got food poisoning and ended up in the hospital and had to fly home to Utah sick as a dog. Happy Honeymoon! Joe and I left in the penske truck the day after the wedding to drive all of their belongings to Arkansas. That was a very eventful trip. Nothing beats going 30 in a 70 speed zone trying to go up mountains. They ended up picking up the truck when they came to Arkansas for there last wedding reception and headed to Kentucky where they now live where Kyle is going to law school and Aubrey is playing house and finding a job. Good luck to them!

Really?

For fun I am constantly looking at homes. No we aren't looking for one, but I'm always amazed with how ugly people decorate and I like finding the most awkward but unique houses. Today I came across this one and nearly died laughing. I mean seriously, would you really put your house up for sale looking like this? Let me know what you think..........
http://arkansashouseview.com/viewhome.asp?MLS=10181768

Dang Birds

So if you ever read my survey I mentioned in there that I had a new fear of birds. I wouldn't say I'm as scared as Kathleen but I just don't like them. Well there has been this possessed bird hanging around our house. Joe said a couple of weeks ago he was just staring out the window and this bird just kept watching him. So Joe being the little kid that he is just kept walking back in forth in front of the window to see what this bird was going to do. The bird eventually flew up to the window and pecked on the window 2 times and then flew off. And then every time we pull into the driveway it's always on the roof watching us. Well on Thursday I took the day off and I knew that the lawn needed to mowed but I really didn't want to do but around 11:30 I got the urge to just go do it so it would be done and Joe wouldn't have to do it when he got home. So I mowed the front and then I went on to the back. Well there is one tree in our backyard and to mow around it you have to duck and mow underneath. Around the 4th time of me going underneath that dang bird freakin pecked on my head twice in the same spot. I was startled when it happened and I just put my hand on the top of my head and looked back thinking "what the heck was that?" There was no tree limb hanging down or anything so I know it was that dang bird! When I got inside I called and texted everyone I knew, including Kathleen, to tell them about my bird pecking experience. Now at least once a day I tell Melanie and Joe "A bird freaking pecked on my head"! We all still laugh about it but I wasn't laughing when it happened.

4th of July

I failed and didn't take any pictures of the 4th but we had so much fun. Melanie and I both took off work the Thursday before to enjoy a 4 day weekend and to get things ready for our exciting 4th or boating and fishin! When Joe got home from work Thursday night we ate dinner, packed up the truck, picked up Adam, and headed to Melanie's parents house to spend the night. The next morning we woke up, ate a dang good breakfast, packed up and headed out to lake Quachita to do us some boatin and fishin! I haven't been fishin since I was probably 11 and I love it so much so I was extremely excited. Well on the way to the lake I realized that I had left my fishin license at the house so we went to wal-mart to try and get another one but I didn't have my drivers license either so I just decided to fish anyway because I did have one just not with me. When we got the lake and got the boat off the trailor Joe couldn't figure out how to turn the boat on. (Were not that dumb, it wasn't our boat so we had to figure everything out on our own). Joe was right in the way of everyone trying to load or unload and again couldn't get the boat started so he had to pull out the ore and paddle to shore. Melanie and I were laughing our heads off. We wish we would have had our cameras but Adam had just left with the truck which had our cameras.

Once we got out on the lake it was so pretty. It was busy but the nice thing about that lake is it has a bunch of coves that you can go into and be on your own. When we first started it was so blasted hot outside. Seriously, outrageously hot and unbearable so we decided to take a dip. I was the only smart one to bring a floaty so I obviously lasted longer in the lake. Since it was a fishin boat though it was pretty funny watching everyone trying to get back into the boat. Melanie won the prize for most uncoordinated. After our dip we decided to pull out the fishin poles. While we were working on getting them ready we noticed that it was starting to get cloudy and looked like it was going to storm but we didn't care we were determined to fish. We started fishin and it started raining, so we moved and tried again and again it started raining. Except, for this time there was lightning and thunder right above us so again we moved for our 3rd time. We finally got to a spot where it looked like the storm had past and we were able to fish for a good while. Joe came the closet to catching a fish. He was reeling it in and the last moment the fish unhooked itself. We all said none of us were leaving until atleast one of us caught one but the storm came back and with a vengeance so we had to head back with no fish. We loaded back up and headed home. Even though we didn't catch anything we still had alot of fun.

When we got home I gave the boys haircuts and then we all got ready and my awesome parents had gone to the store for us and came over with all the food and we had our own little bbq. My dad picked out some mean burgers and they were amazing. Joe, Melanie, and Dad got there brauts and I got my guacamole that I love so much now. My mom made a way good fruit salad (I was making it but I was scaring Mom and Melanie with the way I was cutting the fruit). After we ate we grabbed some big blankets and headed over to the country club and sat on the golf course and watched the firework show. I have never like firework shows but for some reason this year I really enjoyed them. My favorite were the goldish sparkly ones. I'm not a fan of the colored ones. When the firework show was over just layed on the golf course until the sprinklers came on. We had perfect weather that night and I was the only fortunate one not to get eatin alive by chigers.

It's the new Celeste

This is kind of following my previous blog. I have been told my whole life how picky of an eater I am. I haven't ever really cared until Melanie moved in with us. She seriously likes the nastiest things. Well I realized that a lot of the things I was saying I didn't like I had not actually tried most of them so here lately I have been trying really hard to try EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. We started out with guacomole. I had tried it before but didn't like it, but when I was in California I thought I would give it another try and now I pretty much can't stop craving it and I try to eat it at least once a week. It's pretty much the best thing I have ever had. Then I tried Mahi Mahi at a restaurant here called mickey's. It was really good. The next thing was egg plant which I ended up Loving! Then I tried Talapia (fish). It was pretty much amazing. I don't know if it was because of the fish or because Melanie smothered it in butter and Parmesan. Either way I really liked it. Then we went to a hibachi grill and I got the guts to try a California roll. My whole family is OBSESSED with sushi and Melanie too so I thought eh what the heck I'll just try it. It took me about 2 minutes to contemplate on what I was doing and then I just stuck the whole thing in my mouth because that's what I was told to do. It was pretty much the nastiest thing I have ever had. Uh, the taste is beyond describable. I can honestly say that I hate California rolls. That same night I got a piece of shrimp with my meal so I thought instead of giving this to Joe I'm just gonna try it because the only shrimp I've tried is cocktail shrimp and I didn't like that. But this one was marinated and cooked and it was REALLY good. I can say that I don't like biting into it. It kind of makes me sick thinking about it but the taste is really good. Anyway, that's all I've tried and that was in almost a period of one week so I thought I did pretty good. I'll keep you updated on more things that I try.