Yes, we are still in Indiana. Can you believe it? No one has killed each other yet, and I don't think we are getting on each other's nerves, too much anyways. :)
We've been having a lot of fun just hanging out. Mom and I have been doing a bit of shopping and scrapbooking. While the boys are either playing outside, playing the Wii or just having a ball with thier cousins. DJ has spent the last 2 nights there actually. Tonight we are spending the night with Aunt Nicole and going to see the free movie tomorrow morning. Will probably pick up the girls to hang out with us.
Since my last post Mom and I took an adventure along with her long time friend Cathy. We drove down to a B&B in Kentucky for a scrapbooking weekend with some of our SBO Sistahs!!! We had so much fun visiting with everyone and getting great new ideas to scrap with. Thanks to Celeste, we all made a bunch of cards to send to Bruce to pass out to his guys to use while they are over there. I think there ended up being about 40 cards or so. I also managed to get a few layouts done too, I need to take pics so I can post them in my gallery at SBO. It's always a good time when we get together. I'm sure we get a lot more giggling and laughing done than actually scrapbooking, but hey it's totally worth it.
While we were away Dad and Dan took care of the boys for me. So sweet of them. Dan actually took Adam and DJ out to the girls house to take care of thier horses while they were away for the weekend. Adam loved getting up early and helping Dan get the horses out and take care of cleaning up the stalls and feeding them. He can't quit talking about it actually. DJ got to do the not so fun job of cleaning up after the horses, he hasn't said too much about it since. :) Jack had a great time with Dad it seems. He loved having papaw all to himself. They ate out all weekend, and went to play Putt Putt and went to church together, where Jack as always, made quite an impression. As he does everywhere he goes. :) After church they drove out to the cemetary so they could visit Uncle Jack's grave, which little Jack had requested to do. Dad said he was a bit emotional, but they prayed over his grave and then went on to visit other family members, like my grandmother who passed away before I was born.
All in all it was a great weekend had by all!!!
Since getting home from there we've just been staying close to home, other than our shopping trips, and our visits to Mexico for margarita night of course. :) This past weekend we did go to my Mom's family reunion. I know she had a great time visiting her aunts and cousins, but the more we go it seems the less people we know. Mom made the comment if all of us hadn't gone, which was 10 there wouldn't have been too many people there this year. It gets smaller and smaller that's for sure. It was nice seeing the aunts and uncles I do know, and got to visit with. We did miss seeing our cousins Little John and Jess though!!! Maybe next time!!! :)
Last night we went to Mexico for the Mariachi band, I took Adam and Jack and they really enjoyed it. It was a bit loud though, so funny. Jack asked if they knew any Elvis songs, sadly they did not.
I haven't downloaded my photos the past few weeks, but I will and then I will post some photos from the summer.
Take care and I will see all my NYer friends soon!!!
Jul 29, 2008
Jul 16, 2008
July 16,2002
That is a date I will never forget. It's the day that we went from being a family of 4 to a family of 5 with the birth of our little man Jack. When I first found out I was pregnant just 4 short months after giving birth to our second son Adam, I was not real excited about the impending arrival of this new little person in our home. Six years later and many many many laughs I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world. He has brought so much joy into everyone's life that knows him. You can't spend five minutes with this kid without smiling or laughing. God must have known our family of 4 wasn't quite complete. Here is a pic of Jack, that is just so Jack.
This particular date holds another special place in my heart. As I was going in that morning for my scheduled C-section. My dear friend Dorothy was going into the hospital as well, for a kidney transplant. Dorothy was my boss at The Mulberry Bush, a daycare I worked at in Clarksville. You couldn't ask for a better boss than "D" as we so fondly refer to her. :) Not only was she my boss, she was a wonderful friend who I still call my friend to this day!!! "D" had problems with her kidneys for a long time and they were getting to where they weren't functioning that well at all. Her amazing husband Gregg was her living donor. That is one loving husband!!! We used to joke all the time about "D" and her kidney transplant, and no one had a better sense of humor about it than she did. Her and I would joke about it all the time. To the point that some of the other employees didn't think it was a laughing matter. But that is typical Dorothy style to laugh it off. I love that about her. My favorite memory of her is at my last Christmas Party right before I left Ft Campbell and we were all opening up our gift exchange presents and I was Dorothy's secret santa. She was so suprised to find out that I'd had her. We had to give gifts the whole week before and some of the gifts I gave her was a can of kidney beans, a pill box (for all her pills she has to take for the rest of her life) and some other gifts that were funny and light. Dorothy got the biggest kick out of all those gifts and thought it was the funniest thing. For her final gift I'd given her a scrapbook with a poem that I had written to her and I can't remember everything I wrote in it but I know the final lines on it were something like this...
" July 16th was so wacky and wild, you got a new kidney, I got a new child"
The look on her face was priceless. She was crying and I was crying. I literally left from that party and drove out of town for our next duty station, so I was a mess. But before I left, Dorothy, Patty and a few other girls stood up and sang me "That's What Friends are For" I will never forget as long as I live how sad I was to leave Clarksville TN. I know that people there loved me and they knew how much I loved them. It was our very first duty station in the Army and one I will never forget. That is because of the amazing people I met there like Dorothy!!!
I love you Dorothy, even though we don't see each other very often and don't talk all the time!!! You will forever be in my heart and every year when we celebrate Jack's birthday I will always be thinking of you too my friend!!!
Happy Birthday Jack!!!
Happy Birthday to Dorothy/Gregg's Kidney!!!! :)
This particular date holds another special place in my heart. As I was going in that morning for my scheduled C-section. My dear friend Dorothy was going into the hospital as well, for a kidney transplant. Dorothy was my boss at The Mulberry Bush, a daycare I worked at in Clarksville. You couldn't ask for a better boss than "D" as we so fondly refer to her. :) Not only was she my boss, she was a wonderful friend who I still call my friend to this day!!! "D" had problems with her kidneys for a long time and they were getting to where they weren't functioning that well at all. Her amazing husband Gregg was her living donor. That is one loving husband!!! We used to joke all the time about "D" and her kidney transplant, and no one had a better sense of humor about it than she did. Her and I would joke about it all the time. To the point that some of the other employees didn't think it was a laughing matter. But that is typical Dorothy style to laugh it off. I love that about her. My favorite memory of her is at my last Christmas Party right before I left Ft Campbell and we were all opening up our gift exchange presents and I was Dorothy's secret santa. She was so suprised to find out that I'd had her. We had to give gifts the whole week before and some of the gifts I gave her was a can of kidney beans, a pill box (for all her pills she has to take for the rest of her life) and some other gifts that were funny and light. Dorothy got the biggest kick out of all those gifts and thought it was the funniest thing. For her final gift I'd given her a scrapbook with a poem that I had written to her and I can't remember everything I wrote in it but I know the final lines on it were something like this...
" July 16th was so wacky and wild, you got a new kidney, I got a new child"
The look on her face was priceless. She was crying and I was crying. I literally left from that party and drove out of town for our next duty station, so I was a mess. But before I left, Dorothy, Patty and a few other girls stood up and sang me "That's What Friends are For" I will never forget as long as I live how sad I was to leave Clarksville TN. I know that people there loved me and they knew how much I loved them. It was our very first duty station in the Army and one I will never forget. That is because of the amazing people I met there like Dorothy!!!
I love you Dorothy, even though we don't see each other very often and don't talk all the time!!! You will forever be in my heart and every year when we celebrate Jack's birthday I will always be thinking of you too my friend!!!
Happy Birthday Jack!!!
Happy Birthday to Dorothy/Gregg's Kidney!!!! :)
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