Sleep or No Sleep?

For some reason my body thinks it's funny for me to wake up at 4 in the morning EVERY morning. The worst of it all is that i'm actually comfortable sleeping in my bed I just can't sleep. Poor Joe hasn't been getting much sleep either because I keep wake him up constantly because he has developed the habit of snoring and I don't deal with snoring very well and plus i'm bored.

So I've been completely exhausted by the time 10 am comes around and I have been non functional at work. I'm not a fan of caffeine or carbonation but it has saved my life. Since I can't have excedrin I figured I would turn to Dr. Pepper, well wouldn't you know all they have at work is pepsi products. I even checked two different vending machines until I finally settled with a diet pepsi, except they were out of order AFTER I put my money in so I just went with a regular pepsi. I don't even like pepsi infact, I hate it but it litterally saved my life today. So thanks Pepsi for helping me at work and I'm sure everyone at work is thanking you too.

So I know I never put pictures on here. I'm reminded on a everyday basis that I need pictures on my blog but just so you know I lost my camera charger in November and so haven't been able to. Joe is going to be scanning my ultrasound pictures for me so I can blog them.

Also, we find out Thursday what we're having. I'm so anxious. We're having a little party with close friends and family thursday to find out what we're having. My doctor already knows what we're having and she is ordering a cake for us and she'll show up with it on thursday and announce it to all of us, including Joe and I, with the cake what we're having. Only 2 more days! My doctor has known since last Wednesday so you know i'm dying here. I'll be sure to blog about the party as soon as possible. I guess I should go buy another charger for my camera.

What not to say to your wife

Joe is notorious for not saying the right thing but truly not meaning it the way that it comes out. Thankfully I know that the things that he's saying he's really not meaning rude. Well yesterday was one of those moments that really he should not have said ANYTHING! Thankfully I was in a good mood because I had slept all morning and I was feeling pretty good. He got home from work and we were sitting down eating our lunch. He was talking to me but while he was talking he was looking at my face with much concern. I knew what he was thinking and wanting to say but he was just staring. I was dying to hear what was about to come out of his mouth so I said "Why are you looking at me like that"? His response "I feel sorry for your face, pregnancy hasn't been very nice it". While laughing out loud I had to tell him how rude of a comment that was. His response "Well, what am I supposed to say"? With a stern response I had to tell him "NOTHING".

Updates

I haven't been much into the blogging mood lately. I think about it always but that's as far as it's gone. My sister won't quit bugging me to blog so Aubrey, here's to you.

We have had some pretty exciting things happen to us in the past month. Amy Routt told me about a house in there neighborhood that wasn't up for sale yet but knew that they would be selling it in the future. I called the owners and told them that we were interested in looking at it. They were kind of hesitant but said we could come that next day. Joe and I went over and fell in love with it immediately. It's an older home, built in the 70's and in the best condition we have ever seen. Just a little paint and new flooring and it will be as good as new. We drove by later that even to show my dad where it was and the owners were still there so we stopped for a second time and asked if it was ok for us to show my dad. We got my dad's approval so we knew we had to do something about it. Joe worked all week on getting our loan stuff submitted and a week and a half later we made an offer and they accepted. We will be closing April 30th and we could not be more excited. I don't have any pictures yet but as soon as I get them I will post, scouts honor.

I'm now 13 weeks and still going. It's been a rough journey but I think we're all making it. Joe and I were sick a whole week in February and that was nothing fun. I told Joe I would rather die then to ever feel like that again. I was the fortunate one that couldn't keep anything down and ended up in the hospital with an IV. Thanks to my AMAZING doctor, she got me right in and she even drugged me up with some phenegran. Let's just say, I forgot pretty much everything from that day I was so drugged up. Joe's birthday was that thursday that we were out sick. Poor guy had the worst birthday of his life but my dad made it special and picked him up an Old Chicago pizza and made him his favorite, white cake with chocolate icing. Thanks dad! My pregnancy sickness is off and on. I thought I was getting better but these last 5 days have kicked my butt. Somebody please tell me this is all worth it. My mom told me she was going to tape one of my ultrasound pictures on the back of the toilet so that everytime I throw up I'll remember what I'm doing all this for. I told her nope..... The perks of working at my job is I get to do an ultrasound every week. I wait till Friday when we're all done at work and then I go in and see my little baby. I love watching it move. This past Friday I watched it for awhile and I think it's gonna have my personality, save us! It kept hitting itself in the head and then at one point the umbilical cord was in it's way and it totally moved it out of it's way as if it was bothering it. Then it kept falling asleep on me so I would try and wake it up by shaking the probe on my belly and at one point it totally punched up at my belly as if it was telling me to leave it alone. Poor thing...

Today is my dad's birthday. We celebrated with a few gifts, dinner, and cake. You know the same ole same ole except for the fact when we went to light the candles on the cake we couldn't find our matches so we were tearing the kitchen apart until we found ONE match. We tried striking it on the grout on the tile and other things and it would work so my dad seriously opened the closet to the furnace and lit the match with the pilot light. Talk about desperate! I suggested for them to just call the greens and get a match but NO!

For his birthday we're sending him to a St. Louis Cardinals game sometime this year. We told him he could choose which game. I'm excited for him go. Joe will have the pleasure of taking him and he's already planning on all the food he'll be eating. I told him we may have to take a loan just so he can eat at the game. Joe loves to eat! lol.

Tutu's for Tuesday

I came across a blog about a month ago where I was introduced to a sweet 2 year old named Tuesday that was sent home to die because her cancer had taken over and chemo was no longer going to help. She died 2 or 3 days later. I was so upset that I wanted to share her story with others. I told a girl at work, Becca, about it where she continued to follow the blog as well. She came attached to this little girl and her family without ever meeting them and is now donating her time and money to make Tutu's for Tuesday where $5 of the proceeds will go towards research. I tell you this so that you might help with the donations and plus you'll get a way cute Tutu out of it for any little girl you might know that loves to dress up.
You can order them through this www.TutusForTuesday.etsy.com

If you would like to read about Tuesday http://www.half12.blogspot.com/ (beware, you'll need a box of tissues)

I do everything my older sister does

1. I wish I could go to lunch with my sisters at least once a week
2. I'm really in the mood for warm weather and a beach
3. I'm addicted to blogging
4. My bed and toilet are my best friend right now
5. I hate school and I know I should go back
6. I only finished a term in college, that's not even a whole semester. Does that even count?
7. I met Joe when I was 15
8. I can't explain things to people to save my life
9. My hands sweat really bad, especially when I'm nervous or think about putting lotion on during the summer
10. I love wearing sanuk's (it's a shoe/sandal)
11. I love going shopping with other people for them. There's nothing more fun then spending other peoples money.
12. I love buying people presents and want a BIG reaction out of them when I give it to them. I will literally ask at the least 15 times if they like what I got them if they didn't give me a good enough reaction
13. Sad thing is i'm bad at giving reactions when people give me things.
14. I had a paper route from the age 9 to 15.
15. I was grounded for a month(from literally everything! tv, friends, music, etc...) for not getting home in time for my paper route so to get back at my dad I would play tennis by myself in the garage and hit the inside wall to the living room so my dad would hear it and get on his nerves. Little did I know, my dad can't hear and it didn't bother him one bit.
16. I don't like hugs and the only hugs I give are to my sister to bother her and course Joe.
17. I love that my husband is a pilot and is going to fly big planes some day.
18. I love having family around, I wish we all lived closer.
19. I love being a part of a big family.
20. I think there's nothing cuter then to have my 4 year old niece call me and have a 20 min. conversation about life. She is the smartest little girl I have ever met.
21. I'm not a fan of Obama and I wished McCain would have won.
22. I wish I had something sweet to eat right at this moment.
23. There's nothing more exciting to me then to see my sisters face when I give her all of my clothes I don't want.
24. My dad is my hero.
25. I can say I ran a marathon with my dad and finished at the exact same time with my dad.

Weekly grocery list

3 boxes of cereal - $7.34

2 gallons of milk - $6.83

eating for 2 every two hours - priceless

Wow!

So mom made dinner tonight.........it was really good but my mom had to go so far to get a "wow" factor out of Joe and I. I walked up to the table and looked around and in a glass container was something yellow with shredded something in it. I just looked, and then I looked again until my mom said "it's jello with shredded apples". I honestly thought it was too much butter with shredded hashbrowns floating in melting butter. So then my mom explained to Joe and I how when she was a kid they invented jello recipes and she was trying to be creative tonight, yes she was born and raised in Utah, can you tell? We just went along with it until my mom went as far as to tell us that when she was a kid they would put cheese in their jello. I had to tell her that was not normal and then the next thing I knew my mom was throwing shredded cheese on her lemon/shredded apple jello. Let me tell you, she definately got the "wow" factor out of us! I told her I was blogging about it right then and I got up and here I am. So while as I was logging in to post my entry my mom says "I guess it was carrots instead of cheese". I rest my case mom. Thanks for the good laugh.

What is that smell?

For days now every time we open the fridge we swear something has died in it! We have all smelled it except for mom, which is weird because she usually has the strongest smelling nose. Anyway, I've pretty much stopped opening the fridge or I would prepare myself by holding my breath, grab what I need, shut the door, and RUN! Well, GOOD NEWS! My mom just found the problem. I was sitting here reading blogs when I heard her say "I think I may have found the dead smell in the fridge, I think it's the brocolli." She asked me to smell but I told her to take it to Joe instead. So she walked back to the office to ask Joe and I was sitting her all nice and cuddled up on the couch I smelt it! Yes, that's how bad it is! All she had to do is walk walk by me. Seconds later I heard Joe saying "uh! That's it!" Needless to say, my mom decided not to cook the brocolli (thanks heavens) and the dead smell is gone. Yea! Mom saves the day!

sad but true

On Tuesday on my flight home I had to fly from Vegas to Atlanta, yes I am aware how long of a flight it was, to be exact it was a 4 hour flight. I was dreading it but I knew I had a good book, sudoku, and much needed sleep that would occupy my time. When I got on the plane I was glad to see that it was leather instead of the nasty disgusting clothe seats that I had on my way out and then I was happy that I had a window seat. I sat down all situated and comfortable and waited to see if I was going to be crammed in my seat with someone next to me. Lucky only one person sat down and he was on the isle so there was a seat in between.

Now here's the sad part, the guy sitting next to me was middle eastern. I know I shouldn't judge and I know it's bad to judge but that day I was judging. So we got in the air, I got my book out and was reading. All the while I was watching this man next to me in the corner of my eye. He seemed nervous about something and I think that's why I was freaking myself out. I really thought I was going to die that day. He kept shaking his legs really fast and kept leaning foward and then back and then forward and then back, then he kept grabbing for things in the seat infront of him. Mind you, this was a 4 hour flight so he was probably just bored, but I thought otherwise. I was really trying not to pay much attention to him but I couldn't help but notice him.

At one point he reached down into his backpack, which I was watching very intently, and he pulled out a little notebook and started writing in it. At this point I really thought it was over for me. I thought he was writing his last goodbyes and then we were all in for it. After he got done writing he got up and started walking to the front. You guys this is how retarded I am, I actually sat up in my seat and leaned over to watch him and see if he was "actually" going to the bathroom or if he was going to the cockpit to take over. Not only were my hands sweating from reading my intense book but they were sweating even more watching this man and thinking I was going to die.

Luckly he just went to the bathroom and came back and sat down and then started shaking his leg again and then writing in his book. I was relieved that nothing happened when he sat down but then I started thinking that maybe he put a bomb in the bathroom and it was only a matter of minutes before the plane blew up. So here I am thinking of all these scenarios when all the while this guy was probably just bored from being on the flight and nervous to see who was meeting him at the airport. He finally fell asleep and I finally told myself that I was being rude for judging him and proceeded with my book.

As you can see we safely landed with no highjacking or bombing and I lived through my 4 hour flight. I'll be more careful and maybe more discreet next time I'm on the plane with someone suspicious.

Fun Trip

I realized it had been like 5 weeks since I blogged last so I figured I would write about my trip to St. George. I left last Tuesday and flew out to to Julia's to decorate the babies room and to celebrate Brooklyn's birthday. I had tons of fun! I painted the babies room blue and then did a green and tan border around the room and then in only 4 of the squares I did my first art project that I was pretty dang proud of. I didn't have my camera with me but you can check out the pictures from Brooklyn's birthday and the babies room on julia's blog www.thejandnboonefamily.blogspot.com .

While I was there Julia was put on bedrest so I got to play with the girls a lot. Courtney was able to get to know me better and Brooklyn as always was so stinking cute! Monday I wanted to get a few things done while I was there so I took Brooklyn out with me shopping and I got to spoil her with whatever she wanted. Her new favorite thing is Mac and Cheese, which I thought I liked until I made it for them and then I wondered how I ever liked that stuff. Well when we went shopping it was past lunch time and so I promised her something to eat and I realized that target had a little restuarant there and I saw that she could get a mac and cheese happy meal. I opened it and almost vommitted it was the nastiest looking mac and cheese I had ever seen but she absolutely loved it and then we got home and she obviously didn't have enough and asked for more so we made her another batch. I'm telling you that girl can eat some mac and cheese.

I left on Tuesday and was sad to go. Thanks Jules and Nathan for letting me come out! Secretly I was wanting Julia to have her baby while I was there so I could see him before I left but I know it's better for the baby and Julia that he didn't. She's 33 and 6 today which is the furthest she's ever gone so we're praying for 2 more weeks!

update

I thought I would update everyone on our offer on the condo. We put in an offer Tuesday night over the phone and he said he would get back to us Wednesday morning. Well Wednesday morning passed and so did Wednesday night and we never heard anything! I must remind you that this is a for sale by owner and I'm not sure this owner is wanting to sell his house. Well finally this morning at around 11 he called Joe and counter offered ours. Again might I add, I don't think this guy wants to sell his house. Well we didn't like his offer and counter offered back. Take that seller! Anyway, we were hoping to hear from him tonight but I knew that would be wishful thinking so it'll either be tomorrow unless he decides to keep going in his own time frame and make us wait until Monday to find out. Regardless we'll let you know either way as soon as we find out.

The update on our Apartment is we had another smoker move in last weekend I guess since that's when the smell started over again. This time it's 10 times stronger and it was litterally filling our home with it and Joe and I both had massive headaches to the point that we had to leave our home. I expressed my feelings to Joe about the situation and Monday he called the apartment complex to complain. They apologized and offer to lend up an air purifier. I appreciated them trying but seriously I pay WAY too much to have to either sit in my house with my sweatshirt over my nose (which I ended up doing all day Sunday) or even have an air purifier in my home. She then nicely added that the air purifier would help drown out the noise. Really? Well today I got home from work and there was a note that was dropped off to us and everyone else reminding them to keep the noise level down (as I lay in here in bed listening to my neighbor next door watch her old timey christmas movie) and to not smoke excessively in the hallways. I had to laugh out loud because they really are trying to help us out and I know the letter was written because of our complaints. Oh well, hopefully it'll all be over with soon.

Lastly the update on Joe's schooling is that he is just finishing up with his last test. He had a VERY important, let me say that again, he had a VERY important test that he had to take that was actually due today. Funny how things like that work out right? Well he didn't get it done and I can't completely blame it all on him but if his proffessor doesn't let him extend the time then instead of Joe graduating in May like we hoped it probably won't be until next December. Let's just say if that is the case there will not be a very happy wife in this house. He is working hard to get all of his work done and so far is making really good grades. I married me a smarty. Somebody has to have brains in this family.

We did it!

So it took us a week and a half but we finally made an offer tonight and we'll find out tmoorrow morning whether or not there going to except it. Wish us luck on our first place!

Joe's my Hero!

Ok so we just got done showing our apartment to a couple and I don't think there all that interested but they asked about above noise and we couldn't help ourself but to just say "it's normal apartment living noise.....". What do you expect I have to get outta of here. Well after they left our above neighbors decided to watch a movie FULL BLAST! It was so loud that we could identify the movie to be star wars. I finally jumped up about after 30 minutes of listening and told Joe to get me out of here. As I was waiting for Joe to get ready I decided to check my e-mail and my blog of course to see if there was anything new happening. All the while I kept hearing someone pounding on something and then realized it was joe with a paint extender stick in his hand hitting the ceiling. I couldn't help but laugh but had to tell him to quit after about 50 hits. So then I went about my business only to hear another awful pounding and then I heard "can you turn down your movie"? Joe had gone out on our balcony and was hitting there medal balcony with the same stick as before. HAHAHAHA! I love my husband. They were polite and finally turned it down. Afterwards he wished he would have said "and can you take your heels off while your at it?" It was funny and I had to blog about it before we went out. Happy Friday everyone!

I shouldn't, but I'm too excited

Joe and I have decided that renting isn't the thing for us. We have ABSOLUTELY loved living in Little Rock! We have loved the location, our ward, and just being close to all the cool stores and living the city life all together. The drive really hasn't been bad and I can say with much pride that I have not ONCE complained or infact said anything about my drive. But, and yes there is always a but, we HATE apartment living! haha! Neither one of us have ever had to live in an apartment besides our 3 months in college which we don't even remember anymore. I will admit our apartment is sweet but the noises aren't. Since it's an old place there's no insulation so we hear EVERYTHING! When I say everything I mean, construction workers, walkers, drivers, movies, late night events....., blow dryers, our neighbors above us water running through there pipes, high heels that are constantly going back and forth back and forth, and our neighbor above us using the bathroom. So yes, it pretty much comes down to the people above us drive us insane!

So how did this all came about? Well, we have just been looking at other apartments around Little Rock until Monday I was at work and a co-worker was talking about a house she saw for sale and wanted me to check it out so I told her to pull up the site for me and I'd look. It was way cute but way out of our price range but then I started looking at the sight and found this and instantly called on it and arranged to see it that night. We loved it and I have been bugging Joe about it all week! I'm definately having bitter sweet feelings about the whole situation but I think Joe and I have come to a conclusion. We are going to be putting an offer on a condo in Conway that we have absolutely fallen in love with. No I don't want to move back to Conway but yes we would like to own our own place. We hope all goes well and if not that's fine too we'll just find another awesome place. Thankfully we only signed a 6 month lease which ends the end of February but that's just not soon enough for me so we asked and were told we could sell out the rest of our lease. So off we went to putting an add in the paper and lo and behold we have someone coming tomorrow to check it out. I just pray he doesn't hear all the noises and if he does I hope they don't bother him as much. Even though Joe and I are young we have figured out that we're a bunch of old married hags. Anyway, we're excited and I know I shouldn't really post this until we know for sure we're getting it but i'm too excited and I want everyone to see what we MIGHT be moving into. Wish us luck!

Here's the site to check out the place
http://www.adverwise.com/Space.aspx?From=Featured&ID=1243

Funny story........

Happy Thanksgiving! Our thanksgiving fun started yesterday when Aubrey, Kyle, and Derek came in. We had to keep up the tradition with going out to eat at fish house and this is where our funny story begins. It all started when we ordered our drinks and our waitress brought our drinks out and I was the lucky one to be handed the drinks. As I saw her hand around the glass that I was about to grab I noticed an awful looking bandaid that looked 10 days old. I wanted to pass out there but I figured I wouldn't make a seen so I nicely grabbed the glass from her hand AND THE BANDAID TOUCHED ME! I then turned to give Joe his drink and grunted and then turned back and she was trying to hand me another drink. So there I am staring at the nasty bandaid thinking "please don't touch me, please don't touch me" and I slowly went to grab the other drink and it happened AGAIN! Uh....I just wanted to die right there. I suprisingly chose not to make a scene and went on with my dinner trying not to think about.

So if you think that was bad the story only gets better. Throughout our whole meal we noticed that our waitress was losing her voice and towards the end of our meal our waitress asked if any of us wanted refills and a few said yes and a few said no and then as she was walking off Derek asked her nicely "how did you lose your voice?" And she answered a little too honestly with "Oh I developed a virus within the last 24 hours" We all just looked our drinks and our food that she had breathed on and then Aubrey looked back at her and gave her a look like "why are you here" It was so funny!

Now it was time to get our check and as our waitress is picking up our plates she asks "do you guys have any coupons or are any of you special enough to get a discount?" We all looked around confused and she then asked again and my mom said "no but you can give us one if you want" and the waitress replied with "well are any of you special or over 60"? hahahaha, she just told my parents they looked 7 years older. It was so rude! After she left we started laughing.

I hope everyone has a good thanksgiving and I hope everyone eats as much as I will be. My mom is in the process of making her 8 pies right now as we speak!

Why I love living in Little Rock

Almost everyday I am asked the question "how's the drive"? And to much of there amazement I say great, not bad. If you know anything about Conway and Little Rock most people live in Conway and drive to Little Rock for work and very few, me, drive from Little Rock to Conway which in my case I definitely have the better end of the deal. You see one of the big reasons we moved to Little Rock was so Joe would no longer have the commute he has because he was coming home everyday with so much anger from just the drive that it was really starting to get on my nerves. And Joe developed a little word called "road rage". I have always thought Joe was a good driver but ever since he started commuting he is so mean to drivers and he thinks that everyone is a bad driver and he will yell at them for the dumbest reasons and then I yell at Joe for yelling at them. It's a whole process and I'm trying to break him of it.

Anyway, back to me and my commute .....Every Monday through Friday I drive 30 min. to work and 30 min. back (obviously) and every day I laugh while passing the oncoming vehicles because they are at a stand still for absolutely no apparent reason. I have never understood traffic and I still don't understand it because seriously there really isn't any need of it. You are at a stand still forever and then all of the sudden no one is infront of you and you all the road in the world to yourself. Well the other day I got my camera ready and I knew I was coming up on the traffic. As soon as I pass visions (I have to pick up my check before going into conway) and make the turn onto the flats it's like BAM, cars! I love it as I keep on with my 75 mph!


If you click on the pictures and make them larger you can see the line of cars that are backed up! No wonder Joe hated driving to work and back everyday!

We're BFF with BARBIE!

I know Melanie is going to kill me for this but I have to brag that I know BARBIE!

A few months ago Melanie applied for some job and some how ended up being barbie. I don't really know the whole story but the funnier part of it all to me was that my mom was trying to get Aubrey to do this weeks before I found out that Melanie had applied and got the job.

Joe and I were fortunate enough to have Barbie "Melanie" work at the wal-mart that we shop at in North Little Rock. We showed up today to see her and we had to look all over for her until I saw her sitting in a chair taking pictures with all the little kids. I did what I do best and bent over in laughter. I think I was laughing harder at the fact that she is a PERFECT barbie! We hung around for the rest of her shift and even got to have lunch with barbie after wards and do a little shopping. We definately miss living/hanging out with Barbie.

Soaring Wings Half Marathon

Last year I found out about Conway sponsoring their first half marathon and I was all about it until I ran my marathon and learned that I hated to run, haha, I really don't hate to run, the marathon training was just too much for me. Well my dad and I agreed that we were going to do it together like we did the marathon. Months went by and October was getting closer and I still had not even attempted to start training. So one sunday afternoon sometime in September and nicely asked my dad if he had signed up for the race yet (hoping he hadn't) and the ever so wonderful words came out of his mouth "I decided not to run it". I felt like the biggest weight was lifted off my shoulders. 1. because I no longer felt guilty for not trainging and 2. I know longer felt guilty for letting my dad down. I then went on through the rest of September and most of October. The week of the race was approaching and I knew that in 2 days the race was going on and I had a little bit of guilt but not as much because I knew that my dad wasn't doing it either until I recieved "the phone call". I had been out shopping all day having the time of my life and noticed that my dad had called and left a message but I figured that I would check it later. Well later came after my wonderful day of shopping.......I held down one to listen to my message thinking "oh my dad called to say hi" but instead I got "Celeste, I went into to work early today and well.....I decided to run the race on Saturday and I signed up today" WHAT? 2 DAYS BEFORE THE RACE? (that was my reaction when I heard the message) Can I just tell you what words really wanted to come out of my mouth? No I can't tell you because people do read this. I was more then beside myself. So what else was I to do but call my dad?

Ring....Ring....Hello?

ME-DOUGLAS L. MARTINDALE!!!!!!!!!

DAD-HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE(if can only imagine my dad giggling like a litte girl because he knows that I am NOT HAPPY with him)

ME-What do you think your doing?

DAD-Well? (aubrey and mom you know EXACTLY how he said that too)

I could go on but I won't. I'll just make it short and sweet, I was not nice but I came to terms that my dad was in better shape then me and I was just jealous! Oh well, I was/am proud of him and I was able to go (2 days later) and cheer him on. I even got to run the last stretch with him , which was funny because some girl actually thought I had ran the whole race in jeans, a sweatshirt, and converse, now that would take a REAL runner hahaha. I was glad I was able to attend because I know he would have never missed one of my races. I could always count on him to be on the side lines cheering me on when I was really wanting to die! Thanks dad and Congrats!

All I have to say is not many people can say they were able to cheer on their 56 or 57 (I can't remember) on crossing the finish line after running 13.1 miles? Actually not too many people can say they were able to run a full marathon with their 55 or 56 (at the time) year old dad and cross the finish line together and finish at the exact time.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I will start out by saying that Halloween is my least favorite holiday but it's fun to get together with friends and family to celebrate. This year we went over to Katie and Colby's to celebrate where we met up with David and Valerie. We had chili for dinner and then Katie made dirt cake that was REALLY good. Katie got all fancy on us this year and decorated her house all Halloween like and even got all crazy on us by putting gummy eyes in our dessert, the boys had fun with those.....me on the other hand had to turn my head in order to keep my dinner down. After we ate we headed over to the Lorimers where they go all out for Halloween with a spooky set up for trick or treaters. They knew I was scared of pretty much anything and had fun chasing me with their scary masks, and when I say scary I mean SCARY! When the trick or treaters stopped coming we went inside played a little rock band and then headed back to Katie and Colby's for a movie. I didn't even make it 5 minutes into the movie before I was gone! I was so tired! It was definately fun and definately one of the better Halloweens. Thanks Katie and Colby!

I'm so excited!

The one down fall about our apartment since we've moved in was a smoker three doors down from us. You could literally walk around the corner and then BAM you got hit with the awful smell of smoke and then the same thing happened whenever we would open our front door to leave and even just walk by our door inside. Finally a couple of weeks ago I figured out which apartment it was with my dog sniffing nose. Well today on our way out to church we came to the great surprise of seeing that our smoking neighbor was MOVING OUT! I was so happy I can not even explain to you how excited I was. When we got home we saw that he was all done moving and let's just say I sniffed the nice CLEAN air all the way down our hallway to our door! Can I just say this might be one of the best days of my life.......