Because I haven't posted in awhile....

Ok so some people (Leah!!!) are wondering why it has been so long since I have blogged and to be honest I just have not had the time...Things are crazy at my house and work well its always crazy at work!!! Gage is keeping us very busy with baseball and he was just asked to be on the select baseball team again this year and he is super pumped about that...They are having their first practice tonight but unfortunately he is very sick right now so we aren't letting him go....He tells us this morning "I want to (cough, cough, cough) go to (cough, cough, cough) practice today...." Needless to say we are on his s*it list because we aren't letting him go to the 3 + hour practice...He needs to rest but doesn't understand that..Anyway, Gage has hit 6 home runs thus far and there are 3 games left so hopefully he can get to 10! We are so proud of him...So we had Renly's 4th birthday party last weekend and the weather was terrible so EVERYONE was in my house...Those of you who know me know how I feel about people being in my house...To put it mildly I was NOT thrilled that everyone ended up in the house...However Renly had a wonderful time and she got a lot of neat stuff so that made it ok!!! We had family pictures taken two weeks ago by my wonderful friend LaRae and I will post those shortly...Brady is busy farming of course and getting ready to put cotton in the ground, planning on having the most cotton we have ever had and he is venturing into new territory and planting sesame so that should be interesting...Can't wait to see what that ends up looking like in the field....I am heading to Orlando, FL next week for a Department of Defense Security Conference with one of my coworkers so I am looking forward to that...Got my script for my drugs to knock me out on the plane so no worries there...Poor Penny will probably have to carry me off the plane...I think that about wraps things up...Pretty much all we are doing right now is baseball, baseball and more baseball....Busy, busy summer already...Gage's schedule is booked till the 2nd week of July...How does this happen when he is only 8!!!

Ladies Trip to Dallas

These are my very aching feet after a long day of shopping...I had to buy these flip flops at the Limited Too Store (for those of you with no kids that is a little girls store, I was desperate)

This would be Amy and JJ before we started our shopping at the mall..

Me and Amy at Joe's after a very long day..

Amy shortly after arriving at the hotel..

Me and Amy at the Cheesecake Factory

Me at the hotel shortly after arriving

I know, I know I haven't blogged in awhile but things have been a bit crazy around my house....I took my best friend of 33 years, Amy to Dallas for her birthday and a dear friend of ours , JJ (well know she goes by Jennifer) from high school flew in from New Orleans to help us celebrate. We had the most wonderful time, although the most exciting thing was watching Amy drive...I am still trying to figure out why she doesn't go home the same way she comes in...I enlightened here that there is a shorter way to go home instead of driving all the way through downtown Ft. Worth, can you say nightmare! So I am posting a few pics from the trip..

We are heading to Midland tomorrow for the Girls Regional Basketball Tournament where our Lady Haws will face Shallowater in the first round of Regionals we are hoping to be there on Saturday for the final game as well and more hopeful that we will be traveling to Austin next week for the State Tournament but only time will tell...Wish our Lady Hawks Luck...

Lasik Update

It has now been a week and 1.5 days and my vision continues to improve...Still having some issues with driving early in the morning right as the sun comes up and then at night with the halos but it is only a matter of time before this improves as well...I am still trying to get used to being able to get out of bed and see and not having to fumble with my contacts for 20 minutes every morning...Man it is great and of course like Brady I wished I had done it many years ago...Happy seeing!

The Deed is Finally Done....

So after many many years of contemplating Lasik, I finally went and had it done yesterday.....It did help that Brady gave me a swift kick and said "go, go and do it!" After spending the first three hours with the doctor and having my eyes, numbed, un-numbed, dilated, un-dilated, numbed again and unnumbed, I finally am able to see without corrective lenses!!! It was an experience I must say....They bring you into this laser room at your said time, mine was 2:15 and they lay you down, and then proceed to numb your eyes yet again! Then the doctor says don't react to any noises as you start hearing all this equipment in the background, oh yeah right like I am not going to react to that then he tells me don't mind the smell, as I start smelling the flesh of my eyeball burning off and I am like ummm yeah ok, I won't react to that.....Given that I have been through this whole laser thing before when I had my tattoo removed the popping noise that the laser makes didn't bother me but I can see why it would bother some people....All and all I am very pleased with the results, currently seeing 20/25 due to my extremely dry eyes which I didn't know I had until yesterday. He told me that I was NOT the ideal type to be in contacts and that could explain all the problems that I have had for the past 15 years of wearing them!!!! If you are thinking of doing it, do it, it is very worth the money......Like Brady I wished I would have done it when he first told me to do it 3 years ago. Happy Seeing!

Peanut Butter Jelly - RIP October 2008 - December 2008

So we arrived home late on Saturday after a wonderful Christmas with family only to find that our new puppy Peanut Butter Jelly had been run over....The sheer disappointment on Gage's face was enough to break any mom's heart...And poor Renly she really doesn't know what is going on other than Peanut is now in heaven with Bebo, the first puppy we had this year that I accidentally ran over..Our only guess is that one of our hunter's accidentally ran over him...If only they would have moved him off the road so that Gage and Renly wouldn't have seen him...I am sure that is a sight that will forever be embedded in their head as it will mine...So Gage and Brady had the task of digging a hole in the freezing cold yesterday and laying our precious Peanut to rest down by our barn so that we can go and visit him ever now again...We are done with puppies for awhile...My brothers yellow lab is currently pregnant with pure bred yellow labs so I am guessing that he will give the kids one...

Cast Off Today, Yippy

Renly gets to say farewell to her bubble gum pink cast today....I can only imagine what is going to fall out of it when they cut it off she only stuffs rocks down it everyday at school....I will post pictures tomorrow of her free arm!

Getting home late....

I normally pull into my drive at 5:00 or 5:30 at the latest so I was already not very happy when it was dark (6:15) yesterday...You see we put our Christmas tree up on Sunday and then we put all the ornaments on it on Monday and I started a new family tradition last year...I take the kids to Hobby Lobby and let them pick out 3 ornaments that they can put on the tree...Well Renly bugged me all night on Monday that she wanted more ornaments so I told her that I would take her to Hobby Lobby after school on Tuesday to pick out her ornaments...Now you must keep in mind she is 3 and she is very well how do I put it, picky...So you can only imagine how long it took her to pick out her ornaments when there was 6 aisles of them...Lord have mercy! But we got them picked out well we ended up with 6 rather than 3 but she was very happy...She even told me she wanted to pick one out for my very dear friend Amy and she took her dear sweet time picking out the perfect ornament for Amy...I can't wait to give it to her because she will know that it was picked by Renly and she can treasure it forever!! This little adventure that was supposed to take oh maybe 30 minutes turned into a 2 hour event, I can only imagine what she is going to be like when she gets older....Lord help me!

Peanut strikes.....

This is the shirt that Ginger got and after talking to her at Thanksgiving I am so glad I ordered it!!!!

So when we went on our ladies trip to San Antonio, I convinced Ginger to purchase this very very cute top from The Buckle, as you all know this is one of my favorite stores to shop in...Had they had my size that day I would have bought the same top but they didn't but ever since then I have been thinking of that darn top...Last week I was doing my normal routine and looking to see what was new on their website and I saw it on there and I just decided I needed it along with a new pair of jeans and two other tops!!! Well I didn't need them I just wanted them! As you all already know my jeans are like my children I just love them and I am very protective of them so imagine my surprise when I drove up to my house yesterday and saw this gray looking thing in the drive and about 4 feet away another darker looking thing. It was already dark when I got home that is another story that I will share later! But as I pull in and notice these two things laying in my drive I have no idea what our new Beagle, Peanut has drug up to the house and as I am about to get out of my car I remember that my order from The Buckle was suppose to be delivered today it was at that point that I realized that gray thing was my order from The Buckle and that darker thing was my very precious jeans!!! Needless to say some very foul language started coming out of my mouth as I am searching for the shirt that I so desperately wanted is no where to be found, the other top that I order was still in the bag but the one like Ginger's gone...That was the whole reason I got on their website that day and ended up ordering the other items so I was not a happy person...As I pull into the carport with my shredded Buckle bag, jeans and other shirt I am cussing at my little dog but how was he to know that it was like chewing up hundred dollar bills! I decide to scour the yard in hopes that just maybe he drug my top out there and sure enough it was laying in the yard, no plastic but not a tear or rip on it...Good Dog!!! The remaining top is being delivered at a later date so I can only imagine what that gray Buckle sack will look at!!! You would think that the UPS driver wouldn't lay something at the door with a little puppy running around oh well everything turned out and that is all that matters if it hadn't we might have had a Beagle for sale!

What a busy week.

I went out of town on my first business trip that required a plane ride...I left last Wed and returned on Friday, flew to Charleston, SC with my boss....Met with the corporate folks and hit an Irish pub....My kind of trip! On Saturday we went to what was Gage's last football game of the season and my best friend brought or new puppy to us....Renly decided to name him Peanut Butter Jelly, we are calling him Peanut but she uses his full name! Sunday I took Renly to her first tea party...That was a holy nightmare and probably a one time purchase...She is not a girly girl and does NOT like to get dressed up...Her dress was absolutely beautiful but of course as soon as the tea party was over she wanted it off and wanted back in her comfy clothes! Can't say I blame her but it kinds of broke my heart knowing what I spent on it...She is going to wear it again for her Easter Dress so at least it isn't completely wasted...Monday I decided to stay home and get some things done around the house since I had been gone for 3 days...Gage and I were outside playing tennis and Renly was being the normal wild child that she is and was spinning around and she fell and fractured her wrist...After 2 days and going back and forth from one doctor to another and getting xrays we finally got a cast on it yesterday and she hates that too! I am finding it is hard to please this child, not sure where she gets that from! However I took her to Target and of course she found two new Barbies that made everything ok!!!

Halloween

Brady and I took the kids on a Hayride and Trick or Treating on Friday...I had to help with Gage's Halloween Carnival on Saturday while Brady was doing PR work with his deer hunter's....Yes he skipped out of helping me at the carnival...I rushed home to watch the remainder of the UT game only to see the Raiders win, kinda of disappointed but it was a good game..I am getting ready for my business trip on Wed and I am starting to freak out because I have to fly, I HATE to fly, hate it....To make matters worse Brady won't be with me! As I was packing yesterday I came to realize that I am fat....Jeans that I wore last year to Vegas yeah well I had to suck it in to even get the dang things and then after looking at my butt in the mirror I came to realize that maybe I had eaten to much Halloween candy so I am back on my exercise regiment today which I have been slacking on....Karee and I start Yoga tomorrow at lunch so I am excited for that but the other days I will drag my butt to the track and do what I was doing before so maybe just maybe I can get skinny for our trip to Corpus Christi in December....Wish me luck.