Our new little dog....

So I finally found Renly a new little dog to replace the one that I accidentally ran over...I have been searching and searing all over this state and even in other states and dogs are just ridiculously expensive..My cousin Krystal help me locate this little guy and I am so exited..We are picking him up next weekend. He is coming all the way from Austin but his current owners have a deer lease in Bronte so we are going to met him and take our new puppy home. Gage is very excited and loves the dog, Renly tells me she doesn't like him because he has to much white on his face, she is 3 how does she notice these things....Women!

The Final Tea Party Dress

The shoes......

The dress.....

So some of you know I finally broke down and ordered the most beautiful little girls dress I have ever seen in my life....I bought Renly some shoes on Friday not really knowing if they will work with the dress since I haven't gotten it yet but they were on sale at Dillard's so I thought well if they don't work I will just return them....Should have never shown them to Renly because ever since she put them on she won't take them off....She loves them, she thinks she is a princess when she has them on...Guess we are keeping them regardless if they work with the dress or not!

Not the Final Round

We got a letter on Saturday that Brady wasn't chose for the final round of the Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher contest but we know all of the couples that were chosen and they are all great farmers/ranchers.....So best of luck to the three of them....

First Loss of the Season

Gage and his team lost their first game of the season on Saturday but I must say the team that they played was good and Gage had a wonderful game....He was so excited that he got to play defense he jumped in there two time in a row and got the quarterbacks flags he never had a chance to throw the ball...Good thing because when he did throw it he always threw it to the same kid and that kid was fast....Oh well his team will come in 2nd and still make it to the playoffs....We are proud of him no matter what!

Gouda anyone

On our ladies trip we had a discussion about cheese and my cousin, Ginger, mentioned something about Gouda cheese being really good....So I am in Sam's today to get some gum yes gum, I chew lots and lots of gum...Anyway I was walking past the deli section and saw some Gouda cheese....I read about it and it said it was a buttery tasting cheese that is perfect on sandwiches, crackers, etc...Now I can't stand the hard cheese's, I don't even care for cheddar cheese...My favorite cheese is Muenster, I could eat that cheese all day long...Anyway, I brought the cheese in the office and could not wait to try it fearing that it was going to taste like poo and I had just wasted $6. But to my surprise it was really good, not better than muenster but pretty darn good...Good job Ginger for helping be broaden my horizons!!!

Renly's Tea Party - Dresses....

My favorite out of the three that I bought, they have it online in red and black and I was going to order that one till I decided to order the one that she is going to wear.
My least favorite....
Renly's favorite and it is a beautiful dress but nothing like the one I ordered her....I can't wait...

I went to Dillard's yesterday at lunch in search of the perfect dress for Renly's first Tea Party....I found three and thought I would let her choice the one that she wanted.....She chose the brown one, never would have thought that is what she would pick given that it is not fluffy at all....Not that it matters, I am taking them all back because I decided to buy her the one I found online yesterday morning but really didn't want to spend that much $$ but I just couldn't stop thinking about it....I hope it is as pretty in person as it is in the pictures....Next up the perfect shoes....

Toughest opponent yet....

Gage's football team is playing their toughest opponent to date on Saturday...Both teams are 5-0 and someone is going to be going home with their first loss...It should be interesting...Gage played so good on Saturday, he almost caught a pass to score a touch down but the ball was wet and it slipped right out of his hands, maybe next time! Will keep everyone posted on how they do on Saturday.

Renly's First Tea Party

My mom and I are taking Renly to her first Tea Party on November 9th...So I am on a mission to find the perfect little dress and of course shoes to match....All those of you that know me know that I research things to death until I get so sick of looking I finally just buy it, this is no different!!!! I will post pictures of her in the three dresses that I bought today...Not sure if we are keeping any of them but I needed a starting point..

Tests that were supposed to be so simple turned into an all day event....

Because of all the stomach issues that Brady has been having his gastro doctor advised him to get a colonscopy done. He scheduled it for last Friday. He sends me to the pharmacy to pick up this list of stuff he is suppose to take before this procedure is done, so I drop off his prescription with the pharmacist and I return about 20 minutes later with everything on the list but the prescription. So I proceed to the counter to pick up what I am thinking is a bottle of pills only to find that it was a big gallon of stuff. I looked at the lady behind the counter as if she was crazy while I proceeded to say "Holy crap!" The lady in line behind me starts laughing and says it really isn't that bad and I proceed to tell her that, that was not for me! I begin my journey home to deliver all of the items to Brady so he can begin this nasty process of drinking all this liquid. I must say I am not looking foward to ever having to do this after watching him drink that gallon of stuff and then a bottle of liquid laxative and spend the entire evening in the potty...What fun is that!
His appointment was at 8:15 on Friday so we promptly arrive at 8:15, write a very large check and then sit and wait and wait and wait some more. Finally after an hour they call us back. Brady woke up with a pounding headache and of course he was starving because he couldn't eat anything after midnight. So we go back and they do the normal stuff you do before surgery and then we wait and wait some more....Brady wanted me to go and get his oil changed and his pickup washed so I finally said I am leaving I will be back later....An hour later my cell starts ringing just as I am walking back in the surgery center...The doctor tells me that he didn't see anything abnormal on the large intestine but because of Brady's symptoms he wants him to go to the hospital and have an upper GI, by this time it is already 12:30 and I am starving so I can only imagine how Brady is feeling...He comes out of his deep sleep and his head is still pounding only to find out that he can't take anything because we have to venture to the hospital for another test....He was not a happy camper....He gets dressed and we drive downtown to the hospital, go to registration, write another big check...It was a spendy day...And then walk to radiology where we wait, wait and wait some more...Now all of you that know me can only imagine what I am thinking at this point, I am not the most patient person on earth! Finally they call him back and an hour and half passes by and I don't hear anything from anyone, finally a man comes out and tells me I can go back and sit with him...Well I am thinking that he is done only to find out that now they have to take xrays every 30 minutes, so I go in to this massive xray room and Brady is laying on this xray table still with his pounding headache and stomach growling...He falls asleep on and off and I finally told him that I could not sit in there any longer I was literally going out of my mind....So I went walking around the hospital and got a soda and a healthy Butterfinger to eat....I make my way back to Radiology hoping and praying that he is done....Nope sure isn't, so I sit there and wait and wait and wait, nothing for 2 hours not even a peep from anyone....Every time that door would open to the radiology rooms I would look and hope that it was Brady walking out only to find that it wasn't Brady walking out I would turn around and proceed to say alot of fowl language to myself...Finally the xray lady comes out (note it is now a lady because they had a shift change, yes he was there that long!) and she could tell that I was very annoyed, I mean VERY annoyed. So she showed me the pictures and what they were waiting for, Brady had to drink this really thick liquid, I mean the cup felt like lead and before he could leave it had to reach his large intestine well by this time it is still sitting in the same exact spot as it was 3 hours ago! I looked at that xray lady and said are you freaking kidding me that could take forever....She was not sympathetic at all...I told Brady I had to get out of there so I left and went shopping....An hour later he sends me a text message and says come get me please, so I am thinking oh thank god he is done....Nope I get there and he is still in his hospital gown and I look at him and say WTF! He said I have to wait for her to come back and tell me I can go....I said well why did you tell me to come get you, I was shopping for gosh sake...So finally at about 5:15 he is allowed to leave...We immediately went and picked up Renly and went and got a very large ribeye at Texas Roadhouse....What was suppose to be a very simple thing turned into an all day event...The surgery center nurse told us when we left there to go to the hospital oh it will only take an hour, an hour my ass...

Feeling a bit better today....

I decided I needed to come to work today since I will be at the surgery center most of the day tomorrow with Brady....Feel fine until I eat and we all know how much I love to eat so I am fighting a losing battle here....Hopefully I will be better by Sunday since it is our church festival and I have to work and it tends to be an all day event!!! If you guys don't have anything to do on Sunday come out and enjoy the fun and games at St. Ambrose in Wall....

On a side note, I am sick to death of listening to these politicians, I am ready for the election to be here and over with just so I don't have to listen to them anymore.....Starting to get on my nerves.

Gage wins 1st Place for his Fire Prevention Poster

I picked up Gage from football practice on Tuesday and he says nothing all the way home and as soon as we walk in the door he says "I won first place for my fire prevention poster!" I was shocked and had no idea he had even done a poster, back when I was in school we had to do those at home but apparently they do them at school now a days, good thing because I am not the crafty type! Anyway he won $3 and he was so proud as were we!! Brady normally judges the contest so I figured that he had already seen Gage's poster but he didn't judge this year so we are both patiently waiting for Gage to bring the poster home so we can see his little creation!!!

Being Sick is NO fun at all

Well I am at home today with something, not sure what. Have been waking up with a killer headache since Sunday....Stomach is a mess, as soon as I eat anything its almost immediately nauseated. Yuck, I wish this bug would leave my body because I am not a person that likes to be sick.....

Renly's new necklace

Renly girl with her new necklace....She was so proud of it! She said "Thank You Mommy it is so beautiful!"
Renly again with her new necklace....

Brady bought Renly some beads way back in April when we went to this huge flea market and I just got around to making her a necklace yesterday. I have been telling her and telling her to that I would make her one and she finally made me do it yesterday! The flower beads are the ones that Brady bought her and she wanted the other beads on there too, I wasn't so sure about the two together but it really turned out so cute...She had to wear it to school today, I hope it makes it home in one piece....

Pumpkin Carving Time....

Me and the Kids...Brady took this picture and it is really fuzzy for some strange reason!
This is about as involved as Renly got....She is actually eating for a change and notice her shoes...For some reason she always picks these two shoes to go together, not sure why because she is a fanatic about things matching...
Renly sitting on the pumpkins....

Brady, Gage, Renly and Scrappy with the pumpkins
Renly and Gage doing a silly picture....
Gage and Renly with the pumpkins
Renly giving Gage a smile....
Gage with his silly sunglasses that he won at the festival....

Gage cleaning out a pumpkin
More cleaning, Renly refused to put her hands in the pumpkin
Me carving away on my pumpkin
Our pumpkins, I have since cleaned all the marker marks off of them so they look much better now.....Gage is on the right mine is on the left, you can't see all the little dimple like things on the cheeks, those were a pain in the butt, I broke two carving tools trying to do them...
The skull pumpkin, Brady did an awesome job....

Brady carving away on the skull pumpkin

We decided to carve our pumpkins after we got home from the Olfen Church Festival on Sunday....Course I had printed off tons of patterns to use not thinking of how difficult they all were...Brady is none to happy with me I guess he realized that they were all pretty difficult! Gage chose a skull pattern and I chose a more simple one so I thought. Gage also decided to carve just a more traditional pumpkin and Renly well we didn't get around to carving hers, we ran out of time!!! We promised that we would do it on Monday and well that didn't happen either, maybe on Wed.....

Could not be more proud of my Hubby....

Brady entered the Texas Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher contest back in August. This contest involves filling out page after page of questions pertaining to your farm and the way that you farm and what you have accomplished since farming....We got a letter in the mail on Thursday saying that he had won the Tom Green County District slot....I was so excited for him. He entered last year but was not chosen so it made it even more special not to mention this is the last year that he can enter, I guess after you turn 35 you aren't considered young anymore, who would have thought!! Anyway so now he moves on along with the 12 other district winners and the judges will chose 3 final candidates and the winner will be announced at the State Farm Bureau Convention in Corpus Christi the first week of December, which we will be at!!! The winner receives a FREE Dodge Pickup (not that we are a Dodge family but anything free is always good) and free use of a Case tractor (we are so NOT a Case family we own only Green paint but its free) for a year and numerous other prizes. Wish him luck....

The Market Craps AGAIN

Geezzz just when I thought the market couldn't tank anymore than it did last week I found that that was in incorrect assumption. Closes down 678 points, not good, not good at all.....Makes me want to go shopping!!!! Course I checked BKE stock and it was one of the few stocks that closed in the green, wonder if it is because I was there at lunch today!!!!

A weekend filled with lots of fun and even more laughter......

Ummm yeah this would be Amy trying to hide her phone.....

Me and My Two Favorite Friends....

This is pretty much what we saw all weekend.....Amy texting away....

Me, Ginger and Amy, we were laughing at something, I just can't remember what it was! Ready to head to the house.....

Me and Amy with our dessert, I had to jog/walk 2 miles at lunch to try and work this off!

For some strange reason, Ginger did NOT think that I needed this hat...

Three of my favorite people in this world, Amy, Lynna and Ginger

Me and my oldest friend and my favorite cousin....

I just love this girl too....

Striking a Paris Hilton pose!!!

I just love this girl!!!!

The Valet took this picture and did not do a very good job!

Lynna, Amy and Me before heading to San Antonio

We had a wonderful time at our spa weekend in San Antonio. The hotel we stayed in was amazing. The room was not all it was cracked up to be but the hotel setting was beautiful....I think the next time we go we will go back to our usual, Hotel Contessa!!!

Oh and it should be noted that the hat I wanted was really cute!!!

Spa Day is nearing.....

So tomorrow is the day I leave for my spa trip! I am so darn excited. I can't wait to spend time with my two best friends and my cousin whom I never get to see. She is actually in need of a spa weekend more than me after the week she has had, hang in there Ginger the weekend is very near! I am all packed and ready to go!

Yoga

My good friend Karee and I have have decided to sign up for the ASU Continuing Studies, Yoga on the Go class starting in November. I must admit I am rather excited about it, Yoga is something I have always wanted to try but with kids running around while you are trying to get in your zone it just isn't possible! This class is at lunch 2 days a week so it will be perfect. I can't wait and who better to go with than Karee.....