ABC's of Me!

A- Attached or single: attached for 15 years on May 21
B- Best Friend: George
C-Cake or Pie: homemade apple pie please!
D- Day of Choice: Sunday-I need my afternoon nap!
E- Essential Item: my journal
F- Favorite Color: olive green
G- Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: Sour gummy worms
H- Hometown: Athens, AL
I- Indulgence(s): scrapbooking and buying the supplies
J- January or July: July!!! January-we have many family birthdays and the kids are still preoccupied with their Christmas presents to fight! lol
K- Kids: Forrest is 13 1/2 and Sadie will be 11 in June
L- Life is incomplete without: My family, scrappin'
M- Marriage date: May 21, 1993
N- Number of Siblings: big brother Frankie is eighteen months older and lil' sis Mary Kate is three years younger than me, which makes me the midle child!
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples with peanut butter and a little bit of caramel dip on the side. You should try it! Yummy!
P- Phobias or Fears: the evils of this world!
Q- Quote: "When obedience ceases to be an irritant, blessings wil come" President Gordon B. Hinkley
R- Reason to Smile: My beautiful family, Carhartt and Benny, coming home to be a full-time mom in 15 working days, when I'm scrappin'and when sits and listens to me talk all night long!
T- Tag: Anyone who reads this.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I do not like big crowds.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: There is not any fat on lettuce, so I'll go with Oppressor of Animal. My friend thinks of me when she discards her fat from her T-bone. It's not often I eat steak, but when I do, a little bit of fat doesn't hurt!
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I do not like any of them! I have had too many in my 36 years of life, although is was a blast determining the sex of our children!
Y- Your Favorite Food: Bluebell Homemade Vanilla icecream,
Z- Zodiac: Whatever December is. I could care less about this stuff.

A Weekend with Leslie & Reveau

 

Grandma is in the wheelchair with Leslie standing up behind the kids and Reveau is sitting in the chair. Forrest won the marbles game

 

Forrest and Sadie are thinking about their next moves. FOrrest won the game.

 

Forrest with all of his "cool" books he will put on his bookshelf for decorations.

 

Sadie will probably read all of her "new" books. They were bought new by the original owner, right? lol
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Good Ole Country Breakfast!

 

We have a great country store where we buy our gas and our morning breakfast several times a week, which is a sausage bisquit and a Sundrop. The cost is $2.11 They are awesome and worth every cent! I love to take a bite of the bisquit and chase it down with Sundrop. Yummy! We have been buying them for almost three years. I finally asked them the question, "Who is your supplier?" And the answer was SAM'S!
I went to Sam's and bought the same bisquits for $3.88 and the same pre-cooked sausage for $4.50, each having 24 in the pack, and of course a case of Sundrop. We are going to save so much money buying from Sam's. Is this going to break the habbit of buying breakfast at the store? probably not. Our family has a history of going to the convienent store when we are hungry, right Mary Kate? lol

A Visit with Granny

 

 

 

We spent the night with Granny & Grampie Friday night. After we got there, Sadie's allowance was burning a hole in her pocket, so Granny took her to Walmart. She didn't mind Granny spoiling her! The reason for our trip was for me to teach Granny how to post a picture on her blog. I'm very proud of her for blogging everyday and now it's time for her to have an "ncrease in knowledge". After an hour and a half trying to put Picasa on her Apple computer, I gave up and taught her how to post pictures the long way by (I think Picasa is so much easier than from your blog). Granny was able to post a couple of pictures from my instructions, so my mission was accomplished! While we were working on the computer, Forrest and Sadie were downstairs playing. When it was time to go, Sadie was hanging upside down on Grampie's exercise equipment and Forrest was hiding in the bed, hoping I wouldn't find him.

We went to the morning session of Conference on Sunday. We arrived around 9:30 in hopes to get cusioned seating, but had no luck. I think some people must campout in the parking lot to get the good seats or they have no children to get ready! We were able to get good seating in the gym, but it was still noisy. It was nice to see old friends. Besides the talks, that's a highlight of Conference for me!

Smile Forrest, Smile!

 

 

 

 

Instead of "Run Forrest, Run!" I think it is appropriate to say, "Smile Forrest, Smile!" Mary kate wanted to see pictures of Forrest without his braces, so I talked Forrest into a couple of shots in exchange for a few more minutes on the computer. Bribery still works! He would die if he found out the picture of him playing with his hair is posted on this blog! He was showing off and acting like a model and I happened to take the shot! Isn't he handsome? I can't get over how much he has grown in the past year. Before too long, I'll need a step ladder just to give him a kiss!

PS- He got into a little bit of trouble because he was riding his scooter in the carport and spinning out in power steering fliud when Dad said not to. Good thing these pictures were taken before Dad found out!

Help!

I was correcting a misspelled word in my header and when I pushed the save button, all of my page elements from the side moved to the bottom-center of my blog . This happened to me about a month ago and I had to create a new blog. My feelings are so hurt over this. If you know how to fix this probelm, please let me know. Both times this has happened when I wa updating my header title. Thanks!

Kids Helping Dad

 

 

 

 

Yesterday after school, George had Forrest pull out some posts with the Samauri. Not wanting to be left out, Sadie, Carhartt and Benny jumped in with Forrest. It was a sight to see so I took pictures. I can't let this scrapbook moment pass me by! After the posts were removed, George let Forrest take a few laps around the yard. He's really good at driving a stick. George taught him years ago.

Forrest had something to smile about. He got his braces off yesterday morning. YEAH! No more payments, no more headgear and no more rubberbands. We're not out of the woods yet, as he will get his retainer next week. He smiled all day yesterday. After he drove the Samauri, Forrest reminded me that I had told him months ago that when he got his braces off he could try the teeth whitening strips. Both he and Sadie tried them and you know what? They worked! They both had beautiful pearly white teeth!