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Constipation... Thanks Jo! haha

2012-01-12T18:47:00.002-06:00

To explain the title I will first give you some background info.

This is me about 2 weeks ago on New Year's Eve with my sweetie.

This is not how I want to look anymore, nor has it been for a long time. I always told myself that when I got a classroom job, that I would join a gym with the higher income. Thanks to my insurance, that I usually complain about, I joined several gyms! Their fitness program is dirt cheap compared to gym membership fees and I am allowed to go to any of the gyms on their list. As soon as I learned about it, I was convinced it was for me. I signed up and was ready to go! I just figured I would go to 24 Hour Fitness after school but the little fitness center here in town was on the list too. I decided to try it out and LOVE IT! The lady (that's what I will continue to call her becasue I am HORRIBLE and can't remember her name) said she would be my trainer as well as my nutrionist and I get to pay NOTHING!! Did you read that? NOTHING! I went 6 out of the first 8 days and missed the next three days thanks to STREP! AGAIN! Nobody is happy about getting sick, but I think I was more mad at the fact that I couldn't go to the gym! I love it I tell ya, LOVE IT! Today was my first day back in and I had to take it kinda easy considering I spent the last 3 days in bed, but it felt good to go. I can take Jordan with me and he can play in the kids room, so far he likes it. I usually go while he is in bed though, easier on me and I don't want him to get burned out.

Now to the story...

We went to the gym today and I took Jo with me. The only stipulation of letting your kids play in the kid's room is that you make sure it is clean when you leave. I was helping Jo put a puzzle on the shelf as we were walking out and handed him my water and this is how the conversation went...

Me: Here hold this for a second; but don't drink it, I'm still a little sick.

Jo: (as we are walking into the area where all the other people are) But your aren't constipated anymore.

Me: What? I was never constipated.What are you talking about? (Looking around to see who now thinks I have constipation)

Jo: Huh? You know, when you can get other people sick...

Me: OOOOHHHHH Contagious! Not constipated!

Funny Kid! Hope nobody heard him though!

Posting again before the year is over!

2011-12-28T15:23:00.001-06:00

Well, it's been a REALLY long time since I have posted so I suppose I should do that before the year comes to an end. I never showed you pictures from classroom. I did on facebook, so I guess you could have already seen them if you are my facebook friend. I am having a great "real" first year teaching 3rd grade. My kids are so sweet and really work hard. They amaze me everyday. I do miss teaching the kinder babies sometimes though, I don't know if it is because I miss how well I worked with my team, if it is the age, or the love those babies have for school. My kids really have started to show a love for learning, but it just seems to be in a different way. I absolutely love how independent my kiddos have become. That is something you rarely see in kinder! I got an amazing Christmas card from one of my students that just put everything into perspective. He told me that I was his favorite teacher of all his teachers he has had so far! I can't wait to see how he will grow as a learner and a young man in the years to come. I strive to always be that "favorite" teacher!!! :)

Here are some pictures of my room before school actually started, it never stays this clean. The furniture will be different after Christmas as well. We had new carpet put in over the break and I am going to rearrange and try to fit my old futon couch in there some where. I think my kids would enjoy it.

Jeff and I worked hard on this super cool baseball table!

W had a great Christmas this year, as you can tell from this picture of Jo. I didn't take a lot of pictures because I'm a loser I guess. I do have some from the in-law's house but they are on my real camera and I have yet to get them on my NEW LAPTOP!!

Here is a picture of the totally cool lego table Santa and Mrs. Claus spent loads of time and effort building for Jo while he stayed the night with his Granny before Christmas. I found it in a magazine and had to do it. It can later be flipped over and turned into a desk for Jo when he out grows his legos...if that happens! And now we will finally have somewhere to keep all the legos in one spot!

One of Jo's presents from his Granny and Grandaddy was a season pass to Six Flags/Hurrican Harbor. They bought one for all 3 grandkids as well as one for them. Grandaddy called yesterday to say he wasn't doing anything at work and he was leaving to take the kids to Six Flags. I just couldn't bare to let him take Jo to Six Flags for the very first time without me there to see how he reacted...so Jeff and I bought season passes too! We all loaded up and went out to Holiday in the park for the day. The kids had SO much fun! It was a blast to see Jo's face on each ride. Some were laughing faces, while others were scared out of my mind faces. He was hilarious. He must of been very worn out too becuase he slept in later than ever this morning and has been really lazy today. Maybe we should go more often!

Jo has also started playing basketball this season... That is a new experience for all of us. I like that he is trying something new, but boy do I miss baseball. Which is good since Jo will now be playing on a select tournament team. A student of mine plays on the team and his dad is the coach, he had jo come play in a tournament before Thanksgiving. The team is a 9 year old team so it was also a big change, but it was fun. Jeff is going to be helping coach and Jo will continue to learn and grow with the older boys. We will continue to play in the regular Wylie league in his age level though during the season. We really enjoy that and I know Jeff loves to coach those kids. We aren't the best team...actually that is an understatement, we won 2 games last season; but it is fun none the less.

Well, I know there is more to tell but I need to get off here and finish up some laundry. I will TRY to post more often, but I can't promise anything!

We are loving our summer!!

2011-07-18T21:06:00.004-05:00

Let's start with some fun pool pictures of my boys!

We have had a couple of firsts and a FINALLY this summer!

Firsts:

Jo got chiggers! Yikes, no fun! We went camping for the 4th of July with Jeff's parents and he got a ton of chigger bites.

Jo learned to blow a bubble with bubble gum! They were just tiny little bubbles, but bubbles none the less!

Finally!!!:

Jo can now ride a bike without training wheels!! We were starting to think he would never do it. Part of that would be our fault becasue we didn't let him practice very often. All the house in our neighborhood are front entry and we had a scare when he was smaller of a truck almost backing over him on his bike so we just didn't go that often. I'm a big loser and still haven't taken a picture of him riding but boy is that kid proud of himself! I will take some pictures soon and get them on here.

Other big news:

Luke Riley Thomason is finally here!!! He is so handsome! I just love my little "nephew"!

My crazy boy...

2011-06-28T13:22:00.001-05:00

Yesterday Jo comes in from jumping on the trampoline and says "Hey mom, watch this..." He then cracks his knuckles and DOES A FLIP like he does on the trampoline. My heart jumped out of my throat! I knew once his feet left the ground what he was doing and and how it would end. I tried to stop him... The words couldn't come out fast enough! He did it and it ended as I expected. Him flat on his back on the floor. Jeff and I were both worried he was hurt and started talking to him and then laughing that he ACTUALLY thought this was a GOOD idea! He started crying, he said he was crying because we were mad at him, even though we told him many times we were not mad at him, we were worried about him. He was in fact crying because his back hurt. The whole time Jeff was talking to him we were cracking up. I was so glad he wasn't hurt bad, lord knows that could have turned out really bad. There really isn't a whole lot of padding under our carpet. I felt so bad for him, he really thought he was going to bounce right back up to his feet like he does when he flips on the trampoline. Needless to say, he rested in pain for a little while and we know it is not okay to flip anywhere but the trampoline. I really never thought I had to tell him that... but I guess I did!

Summa' Time!

2011-06-24T12:34:00.009-05:00

So it's summer time and here we are...not doing much!

I got my classroom books all organized, FINALLY! It took a good week and a half and a huge mess. I got my motivation to finish when we were told we were having an open house in a few days. (That didn't go well, nobody came-but my books got cleaned up!).

Check out the mess!

I have been feeling crafty and wanted to make some things for my classroom. I made a sign to hang outside my classroom door, it will have the name in the pink part soon. I showed it to Whitney and she gave me the idea to paint a cork board too! So I made a bigger version to hang on my wall by my desk. I will probably use it to hang family and class pictures up.

Last Friday we got together with a bunch of friends and their kiddos and took over the splash park in Royse City! We had 14 kids all together!

We got to babysit sweet NJ while Whitney went to a workshop. We really enjoyed having her...maybe in the next year we can think about having a sweet little baby... just maybe...

Jordan is enjoying summer too. He really would love to have someone to play with but he manages.

Playing some basketball in the driveway...too bad the HOA won't let us keep it out. Look at his tan little body!

This is his new spot! He even hid from me yesterday. I walked in and didn't see him, just a bunch of toy baskets under there. He hid behind the toys and stayed there for a long time. I started to panic a little because I couldn't find him and didn't think he was under the bed with all the toys! Goof!

Wow! It's been almost a WHOLE year since I've posted!!

2011-06-10T22:53:00.006-05:00

So sorry I let this slip away! My friends Charise and Jamie have both started a blog to keep up with their new adventures in motherhood and it made me remember I had a blog once in a blue moon! To catch up on some things we will do a quick play by play...

October: Jeff quit Rockwall Ford!! He is now an independent insurance agent and we love it. Still working on building up the client base, but he is so happy and has more time to be a happy husband and daddy! He was actually able to coach Jo's baseball team this spring! YOU NEED TO LET HIM GIVE YOU A QUOTE!! jeff@farmnhome.com check him out on facebook

December: Christmas! Fun times!

January: I was blessed to be able to teach kinder for a friend of mine while she stayed home with her beautiful new daughter! It really made me feel great that she requested for me to teach in her classroom while she was home. I really felt like her class was my "first" class. I had a blast despite a few tough kids.

March: Jeff's Birtday!
Baseball Season Started! Jeff got to coach, finally! we only won 2 games of 11, but our last game really showed some improvement in our team! Most of the kids want to return to our team next year so we hope to have more time to practice, learn and grow as a team.

We put our house on the market!! We really need/want to be back in Wylie. We spend so much time there; I work there, Jo goes to school there, our families are there, friends are there, baseball is there... tell your friends about our house here is our listinghttp://www.2817spencercir.cbapex.com/

April: Jo's Birthday! We had another successful party at the park in Rockwall! Love cheap, fun days for the kids!
When Whitney came back to her classroom, I moved over to another kinder class for a teacher on bedrest. I finished the year with them and learned a lot this semester!

May: Birthday for me!! The day before my birthday my principal texted Jeff to see if we were in wylie and we were so confused. After he told her no, she called me and told me she forgot to tell me happy birthday. (I wasn't going to be at school the next day on my birthday) I still was confused becasue she had in fact told me happy birthday. She then told me she knew I would have a tough day the next day and wanted to give me something good to hold on to... her exact words... "Heather Buckley, I am officially offering you a third grade position at Birmingham next year!!!" I cried and screamed, then looked across the table and Jeff and he too was crying! What great news! We were getting really worried I wouldn't get a job with the crazy budget crisis in education right now! Yay! I'm really going to be a teacher!! For Real!
Staci and I also had our annual birthday getaway in May! It was fantastic. I really enjoy having this time with Staci Bo! Best massage of my life!

June: Summer Time!!!!!!! I love it! A lot of my summer will consist of working at school but hey-I have a classroom!! I'm teaching in August!!
Jo was retested for GT (gifted and talented program) this year and got in! He was super excited and so were we. Of course we knew he was a smartie pants, but now the school does too! haha!
Also, our sweet 'nephew' (Luke Riley Thomason) should be here soon! I can't wait to meet him and spoil him rotten!!

Phew! That was a lot!

Just have to share...

2010-08-23T22:12:00.004-05:00

After an extremely busy day in Kindergarten with Whitney, I was pretty whooped tonight. I was ready for bed but Jo was NOT! After getting up for oh...I think the 2nd time, I was getting a little frustrated and told him to get back in bed. This is what you would have heard at our house tonight...

ME: "Get back in bed, I love you GOODNIGHT!"

Jo: "Goodnight, I love you"

Me: "I love you too, now go to sleep!!"

Jo: "As soon as I wake up in the morning, I'm going to tell you I love you mommy!"

Me: *with a soaring heart and a tear in my eye* "Me too buddy!"

Boy, I am blessed! Thank you Lord for an amazing life! I don't think I give You the glory enough!

Say a prayer for a more peaceful day in Kindergarten tomorrow!

P.S. Here is a couple of pictures of Jo on his first day of 1st grade! I will have to take a picture with his teacher tomorrow, I was way too busy to remember to do it today!

Love watching what He has planned for me!

2010-08-05T09:15:00.003-05:00

The Lord has been working in some mysteriously cool ways in our life lately!

One amazing piece of news is that I will be teaching kindergarten from January to April all on my own! YIKES! A dear friend of ours (and Jordan's Kindergarten teacher last year) is adopting a baby that will be born in November (and we are so excited, she is going to be an amazing mommy!) She wants me to cover her class for her while she is home with that sweet baby for 3 months! We found out last week that it is approved and I will get to do it! I'm so excited and honored for the great opportunity and also that she has that much faith in my teaching skills! I told her that it was just so wild that for the past few months, my heart has really been pulling towards kindergarten and it scared me senseless, now I know why!

Another great thing is that the woman from the college emailed me again to tell me that my Educational Aide Exemption will be granted in the fall! That is great news, still kinda stinks that we have to pay for the summer classes by taking out a student loan, but every little bit helps!

And lastly, I was asked to teach the 2 and 3 year old mission friends class at church yesterday! I feel like it was God's way of saying "You said when you finished school you wanted more responsibility in the church...HERE, HAVE IT!" I'm going to tell them that I would love to be the full time teacher in the fall, but see if they are open to the possibility of me bailing for a few months when I'm teaching kindergarten...just in case I get exhausted come Wednesday nights! But I'm going to try!

Okie Dokie, that's all of my news for now!

Let's get this off my chest...

2010-07-02T10:59:00.002-05:00

So my friend Sam has become a super blogger while I...haven't posted in how long?! hmmmm

While reading up on her blog today, I decided to join in and link up to Living in France for F Bomb Friday.

I have been in a particularly bad mood for a week or so thanks to Texas A&M Commerce. Why, you ask? I have been taking classes to finish my Elementary Education degree for 7 years now! Seven! I know! As I posted before, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I will finish in December of THIS year! Since attending Commerce, I have been able to get my tuition paid in full by the state of Texas because I am an elementary aide in Wylie. It has been such a blessing...until now! I filled out all the needed paperwork and sent it in just waiting to see my tuition balance go back to $0. I'm still waiting...It ain't happenin' no more. First, I get an email saying I forgot to fill in one of the questions on the application. Done. Check it off the list, I fixed it and sent it back. Not an hour later I get a email that is titled "Denial Letter". I went through all the emotions possible at once; confusion-that couldn't be right, laughter-haha she's kidding, anger-what the crap? Why?, and sadness-wow, I'm going to have to pay for all of that myself? GET A TISSUE, THIS GIRL CAN'T STOP CRYING! Poor Sam was on the phone with me when I got the email and I am pretty sure I completely cut her off in whatever she was saying to have my own pity party. Sorry!

What I have come to learn from this so called "financial aid advisor" from the college is that I was denied because my husband made a whopping $3,000 more last year and it put us over the limit that deems us needy. It just makes me so mad because Jeff gets paid by commission, so we never know what his check will be each month. Way to go Honey, you worked your butt off and look where it got us...DANG!

So anyway, here it is a week or two later and I'm still pretty ticked off about it. I thought maybe if I blogged about it, I would get it off my chest-so thanks for that!

If you need to vent and get it all out...write your own F Bomb and link up with Mimi.

Jo's Birthday Party in Pictures

2010-04-12T10:39:00.006-05:00

Start at the bottom and work your way to the top....I forgot how blogger adds photos backwards and really, there are far too many to fix it! As you can tell, this picture is from the end of the day when nobody wanted to go home!

"Hiking" in the frisbee golf course.

The Buckleys

The Carters

The winners... :(

And we were the losers. We played the boys in washers and I talked so much smack in the beginning of the game that it came back to bite me at the end of the game...

Uncle Jay and Aunt Reese

Cute boys!

Aunt Jen

Taci Bo!

Love this one of the boys playing!

Mrs. Weir. The three boys are her current students, the sweet little girl, will be hers next year for sure!

Blowing out the candles!

So many presents!

The giant frisbee got stuck on the roof of the bathroom and John gave Jeff a "boost"! hehe

He was so in love with the cake

The boy was so excited all morning, he counted down the hours and then the minutes!

Do you see that?!

2010-03-26T18:54:00.002-05:00

It's the light at the end of the tunnel! And I can now see it!

I have signed up for my last 4 college classes! I can't wait to graduate! As long as I can pay for summer classes, I will be graduating in December! If not, we might end up having to push it back to the spring, but I'm praying for a way to pay! Just wanted to share! Thanks for everyone that has helped and supported me through this very, very long journey!

Dear Someone...

2010-03-25T13:32:00.003-05:00

Since I am home for the day, I thought I would join the cool kids like Sym and write letters to to people that will probably never see them, but it gets things off your chest! It was quite fun, I might have to keep up with this!

Dear Teenage girl working in the registrar's office at Commerce,

I believe I was very nice and patient with your ignorance until the 4th time you put me on hold to go ask someone the answers to my questions. I admit it was my stupidity for clicking the add button for Anatomy and Physiology before realizing it was II and not I (but in my defense it was 12:30 this morning); but you my dear girl, should not be answering the phones if you do not know how it all works to begin with! Oh well, I didn't need your help anyway, I cheated the system and got the dreaded class dropped. But I guess the joke is really on me...I have to drop another class for a summer session I don't plan on taking; therefore I have to do it your way...Such is life!

Love,

Frazzled College Student,

Heather

Dear little Brother In-Law,

I'm sorry you are going through some tough stuff with your girlfriend right now, but OH TO BE THAT YOUNG AND CAREFREE AGAIN! Remember you are only a freshman in college and you have lots of life to live! I do like your current broken up with girlfriend, but I want you to experience life to the fullest. So go live it!

Love,

Your big sis in-law living life through you sometimes,

Heather

Dear Rain,

You do help the Earth so much...but we are quite tired of you in Texas! It was such a tease for you to disappear over the first part of spring break, but now you are back and we don't like it! It makes the days long and gloomy.

Love,

Missing the sunshine and 70 degree weather,

Heather

Go check out this give away!

2010-03-16T10:14:00.003-05:00

Hey guys! My totally awesome friend is hosting a give away on her blog. If you are into movies this is the perfect give away for you! On the 15th of the month she will post a line from a movie and you have several ways to enter in the give away! You can always do like I did and google most of the answers! I knew one of the answers, but the rest came right off the internet! Gotta love the net for that!

The quote this time is "Happiness isn't happiness without a violin playing goat."

So go check it out!

Do I? or Don't I?

2010-03-15T12:24:00.003-05:00

We stopped by Dad's house last night after dinner so that Sarah could get some clothes to stay the night. We ended up staying a couple of hours and helping with some of the cleanup help from the remodeling. Dad is fixing up the house and is spending quite a bit of time doing it (I know I probably would have given up long ago). He scrapped the popcorn off the ceilings and retextured them this weekend.

Jo wanted to help so bad so he was handed the mop. My first thought was "hey, if he is somewhat good at it, I can let me do it at home every once and a while". He started out really trying, even opened the pantry to get the floor in there...but then...he found it fun to try and get Bree with the mop instead. Like she said "he mops about as good as he rakes". I didn't get any more pictures, but he had way more fun with the squirt bottle. I'm with Jen...next time we hide the squirt bottle!

So, will I let Jo mop the kitchen at home...The jury is still out!

Silly Boy...

2010-03-14T13:48:00.003-05:00

The other night Jeff and I were cleaning the kitchen and living room while Jo was eating some dinner. We had the music turned on and were moving right along. Okay, let me be honest with you, I WAS CLEANING, JEFF WAS SINGING most of the time! Big shocker I know! I threatened to turn the music off so that I could get some help and as I did, The Chair by George Strait came on so my sweet hubby and I danced in the kitchen. Jo thought this was the most ridiculous thing he had ever seen! I'm not sure if it was the fact that we were dancing, or if it was because it was in the kitchen...

Another story for ya:

This morning Jo wanted someone to get him some cereal and he came up with a plan on how to decide who. Remember when we used to play Any, Many, Miney, Mo? Here is how his new song goes...

First, Second, Third

Elementary Nerd,

High school Turd,

You just said a bad word!

Where do kids get these things anyway?!

Snow Day!!!

2010-02-21T17:00:00.004-06:00

I know it was over a week ago, but we had "snow" much fun I forgot to post the pictures!

Soni was say "Sowee" for throwing slushy snow in Jo's eye.

"Hey! You cheaters!" Sam and I were loaded that basket full of pre made snowballs so that we could finally whoop the kids, but they caught us!

Diving in the snow!

Crazy!

Jo, right before I smashed his face in the snow!

Wanna see my rock?!

2010-02-19T16:30:00.002-06:00

My assistant principal started this "You Rock" award this year. Each week we are to nominate coworkers that we think "rock" for whatever reason. The teacher with the most nominations that week wins the rock! We have a weekly assembly on Friday mornings and we play the "We will, we will, rock you" song and the kids really get into it. This week I WON! I felt less like rocking though because I was not in the assembly to even hear my name being called! haha I had just finished up my duty in the cafeteria at the breakfast tables and walked into the work room to eat my orange. Luckily, one of the teachers had seen me in there so when my name was called and they were looking for me she told them I was making copies and she ran to get me! At any rate, it made me feel pretty special to get nominated for doing a good job. So I really owe a big thanks to my coworkers that nominated me, I will have this crazy cute rock sitting on my desk for the week!

What do you all think of this?

2010-02-12T12:09:00.002-06:00

19%...I think more like 98%!

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Geneology - Genealogy software

2010-01-10T22:29:00.005-06:00

It has been a loooooooong time since I have updated you all on the happenings around our world. I'm sure I will skip a lot, but I'm going to start at the beginning of Christmas Break.

Sarah stayed with us for the first 5 days. Jo loved it, I loved it, I hope Sarah loved it! We attempted to make a gingerbread house, but we decided it looked more like a barn! But hey, for making it from scratch, not kit at all; I think it turned out great! Jo added army tanks and Jeff added some suicidal gummy bears; I think he just wanted them to fall off the roof so he could eat them first!

I took Jeff and Cam to Cowboys Stadium for a tour as one of their Christmas presents. I think I enjoyed almost as much as they did. It was really cool. Here are some pictures of the boys.

We hosted Christmas Eve with Jeff's mom's side of the family at our house for the first time! It seemed to be a success. Our house is a bit smaller than Jeff's parents, but that just meant we all had to stay in the same room and actually talk to each other! I stressed a little (okay maybe a lot) because they all showed up an hour earlier than I had told them and I was just getting started on cooking.

Jo wasn't very specific with what he want for Christmas, he wanted "every boy thing; no girl toys". Santa brought him a basketball goal. We have only had nice enough weather to play with it once since Christmas though. And "Santa" forgot the antifreeze for the bottom where you put the water, so guess who has to suffer and park in the driveway?! If you guessed me...you got it! arg!

And here is my little stud with his mp3 player. He liked it so much that he opened presents with it going. Too Cute!

Well world, I have more I need to catch you up on (like Jo's first school/family dance), but that will have to come later. Hope your Christmas was filled with as much love and fun as ours was!

Tiny Bit More Give Away

2009-11-29T23:12:00.003-06:00

A super cute friend of mine started a business and is hosting a give away on her blog Tiny Bit More You should totally check it out! She has some really cute things for kids and has also started with adult clothing!

Have to Share

2009-11-18T20:15:00.002-06:00

I have sooooo many things I need to get caught up on for you guys, but I am so busy with school that it isn't going to happen...I do have to share this one quick thing...

Tonight Jordan went and dug out a t-shirt from his pj drawer that was too small. I told him to throw it away and his response was...

Jo: "Mom, when we have a baby, they might want to wear it."

Mom: "If we have a baby, we can buy it new clothes."

Jo: "Not if, we will have a baby one day."

Mom: "Why do you say that?"

Jo: "Everyone has a baby one day!"

Mom: "I already had a baby one day."

Jo: "Another baby...Everyone has more than one baby."

Then 30 minutes later when I put him to bed, as I left his room he says "Mommy, I really want to have a brother."

I really need to hurry up and get finished with school...my boy wants a baby! HeHe. I just thought it was so funny how he kept saying when WE have a baby.

Kids are funny!

And the Winner Is...

2009-09-11T20:26:00.003-05:00

I could not bring myself to draw from the names that entered in my give away, so I let Jordan! Nothing like letting a five year old give away money!

Drum Roll Please

.............................................................

Amanda Yocum!!

Be looking for your $15 gift card in the mail!

Those of you that entered but didn't win, Perfectly Spaced really has the best prices around. You can't get anything better and you can choose a design from the site, or create your own custom order (without an extra charge). Be sure to get in contact with them for all your vinyl needs!

My First Give Away!!!

2009-09-05T10:04:00.009-05:00

Hey guys! You have got to check this amazing website, http://www.perfectlyspaced.com/ , for all your vinyl needs! You can order right from the website OR you can create your own! If you have a favorite quote or saying you want done in vinyl you can contact the designer and she will come up with as many samples as she can to please you!

All you need to do is comment on this post or send me a message on facebook and I will add your name to the drawing for a $15 gift card from Perfectly Spaced!

Comment by Wednesday, September 9th!

It really is a great way to spruce up your decor! I have several already and intend to get more!!

Here is my latest from her catalog of ideas:

I fully intended for this to go on the wall above my bed, but when I held it up infront of the bed to center it, i loved it on the black headboard! Jeff might think I'm crazy!

This is in Jordan's bedroom:

My kitchen is decorated in coffee, I love this one!:

Another great thing about vinyl is you can use it for anything! As well as personalize anything!

I gave this as a wedding gift last year. It is a three tone vinyl design with a monogram "B" in cream behind the "forever and for always, no matter what" in brown, along with wedding rings in silver.

The Joy of Boys!-The Journey Home.

2009-08-11T11:35:00.003-05:00

We took a mini vacation this past week to surprise my dad's parents for their 50th anniversary. I will blog more about that once I get my pictures put on the computer! I just wanted to share our "oh so fun" trip home yesterday.
It is about a 12 hour drive from Des Moines to Wylie, which is where we needed to pick up the dog and drop off my sister. We left fairly eary but not too early and then stopped at Micky D's to get some breakfast and the HyVee so I could finially buy a hawkeyes shirt, so that got us a little bit of a later start. Still not too bad. We make it out of Iowa just fine and coming through Kansas we are watching the lightening ahead. Yep, we are heading right into the storm! Ok, a little rain never hurt, we will just have to slow down a bit. A LITTLE RAIN?! NO! It was insane! It was raining so hard you couldn't see out the front or the passenger side, semi trucks and other cars were pulled over under ever bridge we passed...we continued to drive. Then Jo decided he needs to pee...we are all encouraging him to "wait", "hold it just a little longer until we find an exit"! At this point we are driving 20 mph and still can't see. The poor boy is shaking he has to go so badly and of course, I'm sure the rain isn't helping! Jeff pulls the car over and informs Jordan and me that I will be taking him to pee on the side of the road! In this crazy storm! Remember when I said you couldn't see out the passenger window... the wind was blowing so hard it felt like the car was going to tip. Jo freaks out, much like I did when I found out! So Jeff finds a Sprite bottle that is half full (or half empty...it's up to you). He rolls his window down to empty the bottle and tells Jo to "pee in the bottle". Well, as you can imagine, he thinks that is hilarious! Picture it...he is standing in the front seat with me, pants to his knees, bottle in hand and mom is hold a towel under "just in case". He actually does it! He peed in a bottle for the first time in his life! Is that a milestone that mom's want to remember? (I'm sure there will be many more to come as he gets older and starts having his own road trips.) Any who, I think we are home free...until...HE DROPS THE BOTTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep, you read that right, he dropped the bottle! I guess he thought I had it, I thought he had it; when really neither of us had it! Ok, remember now, we are in the middle of no where with a crazy storm. Luckily I had the towel and that was my way of cleaning it until we could continue on our drive. Jeff tried to drive a little more to get us to a store and throw out the floor mat but that was not happening, we had to pull over yet again. This time we searched the sky for Dorthy and Toto. I was trying so hard not to let the kids in the back know I was scared out of my mind that we were going to blow away! Jeff couldn't take it anymore and decided to drive some more. I think we went 20 mph or less all the way out of the storm. Finally we found a Wal-Mart and were able to throw out the towel and floor mat and buy some carpet cleaner, deoderizor! We hit a couple more storms on the way, but nothing like the first one!
We finally made it to Wylie at about 10:45 last night.

Funny Boy

2009-07-31T09:40:00.002-05:00

For those of you who haven't heard about our plumbing issue yet, I need to give you the background story about that before I can tell you how funny Jo is. Early this week Jeff was showering and the drain started backing up. He tried fixing it many ways that night, Draino helped but the toilets still weren't flushing right. Thursday Jeff's dad came over and snaked the drain. Jeff was standing in the yard and kept hearing this "dink" "dink" "dink". If finally dawned on him what the sound was...

Another flashback here...Our trees decided to die on us this year and the dreaded Home Owners Association told us it was city ordinance that we have 2 trees in our front yard and if we didn't we would get fined each time they came out. So we got the trees dug up (thanks to Jeff's brother) and planted new ones. They were on sale! That made me happy! After Jeff got the trees planted he ran to the hardware store to get stakes so the new trees wouldn't blow away, the Royse City hardware store only had metal stakes...

--Is it clicking for anyone yet? YEP! The "dink" sound was the stake! Jeff drove the stake through our sewage drain!

So on to the story. Jeff thinks he found a way to repair the drain without replacing the whole thing and digging the yard up! He was out there working on it last night, laying face down in this nasty sewage whole with Jordan standing over his shoulder the whole time. Jeff said it was the cutest thing, he just kept questioning him and giving his thoughts on the situation. Here goes...

Jo: What is that?

Dad: The drain where all the nasty water goes.

Jo: Eww Daddy that is gross!

Is that my diareah?

I would NEVER do that!

Dad: You might when you get older and have a house.

Jo: Nope, I'm not doing it.

Dad: What, are you going to make your 5 year old son do it?

Jo: No!

Dad: Your wife?

Jo: No! Well, yeah, I will make her do it.

Dad: I don't think she will want to dig in the poop water either.

Jo: Too bad, she is going to have to.

I know he had a few other funny snipits in the conversation, but I wasn't out there to hear them. This is me retelling what I remember from Jeff last night. We laughed for a good 20 minutes at our son!

I had no idea this happened until I started telling Jeff how funny it was when Jo came running int he house yelling "Daddy said I could help, I can help, I can help! I need to get him a screwdriver from inside the house! I need a screwdriver cause I can help! I think I saw one on the counter! Let me go get it! Mommy, is this a screwdriver? I get to help!" He was so stinking excited that he couldn't slow down!

Our 4th of July!

2009-07-12T18:19:00.005-05:00

This year to celebrate the 4th of July we spent most of our afternoon outside with the Carters. The kids played on the Slip-N-Slide and sprinkler while the adults played some washers!

Peyton cracked me up all day! He did the silliest things!

Andi had a little too much power in her slide this time! Too funny!

Cameron made the mistake of starting to push the kids down the slide and got stuck doing it for a while!

Papa Jim, Jordan has a new Texan phrase we need to share with you...While zipping down the slip-n-slide he yells "This is DAARRRN TOOTIN' FUN!"!!! For those of you that don't know the background to why this is so funny to me, I will share the story. I was the first one of the family to be born and raised in Texas, the rest of them are from Iowa. I have always been teased for my Texas twang! One day I told Papa Jim that it was "daarrnn chilly" outside. That is been a phrase the whole family continues to use! I Love that MY son has the same twang I have!

After we played in the sun, we dryed off and grilled some dogs and had a picnic in our backyard. Harley really liked the droppings when we finally let her back outside!

Soni had a great time playing on the slide!

After dinner us big kids played another round of washers. The first game was boys against girls, the next game was Buckleys against Carters. Sam and I had our own little competition going to see which one of us would be able to get the most points. Sam kicked my butt! Not only did she kill me in our competition, she is the reason her team won, she scored nearly all their points! She was quite proud of herself and did a little happy dance in the back yard! Too bad I didn't catch it on video!

I hope everyone had as a great of a day as we did! God Bless America!

A long awaited update in pictures....

2009-06-22T11:20:00.012-05:00

We went camping as a family for the first time! It was so much fun! We borrowed my dad's camper and spent the weekend out at Lake Lavon. Cam Cam came by the last day to play washers and get his scrapbook I made him for graduation. We can't wait to go again!

Jordan had a friend stay the night for the first time after we went to the Rough Riders baseball game with his tball team. The kids got to go out on the field before the game and get announced and then run around the bases at the end of the game. When it came time to run the bases, Jordan and Ashton went out and ran from 1st to 2nd, 3rd and then home plate. They were all supposed to be done when they got home, but Jordan didn't realize this and went running on to 1st again. He did this 2 more times until finally the girls standing at home had to block him and lead him up the stairs to me. I was trying to yell his name, Jeff was trying and so was Ashton. As he was running around the second or third time he was hold his chest b/c he was out of breath, but just kept going. What a ham!

We went to the first event at the new cowboys stadium! It was amazing! George Strait, Reba, Blake Shelton and Leann Womack. We had a great time and the stadium is fabulous!

Spring TBall-Pirates

I DON'T!!!!

2009-05-02T23:37:00.002-05:00

We were driving to Granny's Thursday afternoon and I was too busy thinking about all the crap I have to get done to realize what song was on the radio until I hear Jordan's comments in the back...

This song was playing and Jo yells, "I don't!!!"
Me: "You don't what?"
Jo: "What he wants to do."
Me: "What does he want to do?"
Jo: "You know!"
Me: "No, honey I wasn't listening"
Jo: "Kiss a gir, I don't want to do that"
Me: "Ohhhh, okay."
Jo: "Except you mommy."
Me: "Why b/c I'm not a girl?"
Jo: "No you are a girl. I don't want to kiss a girl I don't know like he does!"

Too funny!

Jordan's Birthday Party....little late I know!

2009-05-02T23:18:00.004-05:00

Jordan's party was nearly a month ago but, here are the pictures! It was Nascar Race Day so we rented out a building here in town and I taped off a race track for the kids to race their big wheels and I borrowed some scooters from coach for the bigger kids! Jordan got some great stuff from some great friends! Thank you to everyone!

I really hate the way the 8's on the car turned out, but other than that I was proud of my first Nascar cake!

Let's go racin'!!!

Jeff wanted to play with the big kids! Too bad he LOST!!

Jo just wanted money to buy his Wii and cars! lol (by the way, he ended up with enough to buy the Wii)

Sarah and Hayley!!!

Sorry...

2009-03-19T00:34:00.002-05:00

I know I haven't posted in a LONG TIME...but I still don't have time to sit down and catch you up! I do have to share this stinkin cute experience at teeball yesterday. It was not my kid, in fact, we have only had 3 practices so I don't even know the kid's name, but it was funny!

Our coach is extremly organized and a great coach. He has two assistants and breaks the kids up into groups and rotates them after the first couple of warm ups. One of the warm ups was game where the kids get in a line at short stop and he hit a ground ball to them. In his words "if you field the ball cleanly, you get to go back to the line; if not, you have to sit out." The first kid steps up and coach hits the ball. The kid catches the ball and yells..."IT FEELS CLEAN!" So stinkin cute!!! I guess the coach didn't realize he needed to explain the phrase first!

Anyway, that is about all I have time for tonight...or I guess this morning. I'm tired and need to get to bed. I will get some pictures posted soon and play "ketchup" again!

P.S. Wish Jeff a Happy Birthday on Friday!

P.S.S Jordan isn't crying at teeball this season...well he cried a little today, but not about teeball. I sent him to go get a ball and somebody took it from him. All was good in a minute flat...nothing like his frist season of teeball! Pray it stays great!

I've decided!

2009-02-19T19:49:00.003-06:00

My family needs a Wii! I know what you may think; it is just a gaming system really and we have a PS2 from when I was in high school that still works, Jordan has the original Nintendo that Uncle Jay and Aunt Reese gave him, oh and Jordan got a Nintendo DS from Nana and Staci for his 4th birthday! But really we NEED a Wii.
My sister stayed the night with us and brought along her Wii last night...yes it is very portable! Although, she did totally forget the actual controllers you kind of have to have to play the dang thing; but it was okay, Cameron from next door saved the day!!! He brought over not only his controllers, but I pleaded for him to bring his Mario Kart game and wheels too! OH MY GOSH!!! WE NEED A WII!! I say this for my physical and emotional mentality! It gives you a great workout, that's the physical part...But it was also the most free fun Jeff and I had together in the longest time! Not to mention, I was finally able to beat him in bowling in our lifetimes! Just because it was not real, does not mean I did not beat him!!! And of course I had to do my little happy dance every time I did good! We laughed and laughed...my poor sister shut the door so she could get some sleep around 10:30 but ya know... We just had too much fun and I think we NEED one!

Rants and Raves for the week so far!

2009-02-10T18:12:00.002-06:00

Let's start with some good stuff!

I took Jordan to builderbear (build a bear) for his Valentine's present and he had so much fun! He named it Jo =) I will take a picture of him and Jo when he gets feeling better and post it.

We ate a Texas Road House Friday night...great food! One of our favorites, if you haven't been, you need to try it!

We went to Ashton's birthday party on Saturday. Ashton is Jordan's new sitter's son; they are the same age and get along really well!

Cam Cam's baseball team had a dinner, silent auction and live auction event on Saturday that seemed to earn them a lot of money for the season! We had a good time and Jordan was very well behaved!

Now I need to rant...

Jordan has the flu! Not fun!

When I went to fill his tamaflu at CVS they let me turn it in and go home to wait 3 hours, just to find out they were all out of tamaflu and have been all week! Wonderful!
Walmart did have Tamaflu for $75!!!!!!!! My gosh! This sucks!

It is bittersweet that I am home for at least 3 days with Jo, but I have no more days at work so I am getting docked and his Valentine's party is Thursday, don't know if we will be able to make it =(

The stupid campus bookstore at Commerce had their shelf labeled wrong for one of my classes and I bought the wrong book. I had a quiz due Monday night and realized I had the wrong book on Sunday night!

I went to explain what had happened to the bookstore manager and she was a word I should not post for the world to read! I wanted to hop over her little desk and beat her with the unneeded textbook! But I didn't, instead I had to sell the book back for a measly $24 when I bought it last week for $115. Then I had to turn around and buy the right book for $105. Don't you just love that? ARGGG

Jordan's fever got up to 104.5 last night and Jeff and I were freaking!

The President's speech thing last night ruined the dvr recording of The Bachelor so now Sam and I will have to watch it on the computer with no skipping commercials!!!

Let's end with some more Raves...

The girl working the counter at the bookstore felt bad for me and gave me $20 pay for the book. I felt bad taking it, but she says she understands this stuff isn't fair and she does it all the time.

Sam and Aubrey have been real helpful with the stupid fever issue and have been super sweet calling to check on Jo the past couple of days.

Mrs. Kayla, the new sitter, is too sweet. When I called to let her know Jordan had the flu she told me that the kids had already decided they wanted to make brownies when Jordan did get to come back to make him feel better! Isn't that just so sweet!?

Sorry this post was a little different that normal, but that is what has consumed our lives this week! 12 hours of school and 40 hours of work just doesn't leave me much time to post, but I will try! We will be started teeball again this season so I will have some cute pictures to post then!!

Fire Me!

2009-01-25T17:19:00.010-06:00

Okay BlogWorld...I need to be fired! I haven't posted since...BEFORE Christmas! Let me fill you in first by the few pictures I might have taken...

Christmas 2008
Here is the big bed Santa brought and built for him!

I know you have all be just dying to see THE froggy tent that Jordan was obsessing over before Christmas!! Here it is...it took up the whole living room!

Check out his face when he saw it! Priceless!

When he saw the Hulk Hands he said, and I quote "Look guys! I got something I didn't order!" Yes, now Santa takes orders! Yep, that is my greedy child! He shows the signs of the "only child syndrom".

Sad day at the Buckley house turned it to a cute picture day for Harley and Marley. We had Jay and Reese, Kevin and Jamie and Cam Cam and his girlfriend Paige over to watch the Cowboys' last game. Had they won, it would have been their ticket to the playoffs, but that didn't happen. Anyway, Jay and Reese had been in Wylie for a week so the dogs were with them when they came. Harley is so scared of other dogs it is ridiculous! Here is Marley (who is 1/8 of Harley's size) trying so hard to play with Harley. The pictures turned out cute!

This New Year's Eve I FINALLY GOT TO SEE MY MAN...CHRIS CAGLE!!! Every year, for the past 3 years, I have wanted to go see him at Billy Bob's! It was great! Jeff and Jay were so sweet, as soon as we got there, they took us out to the crowded dance floor (if you know them, this doesn't happen often!). Jeff kept turning me around and round so I could see Chris Cagle!

So since New Years I had decided not to take classes this semester b/c of the lack of money. I was however going to be a TA for my science professor from last semester. When he found out I wasn't taking classes, he informed me that I could not TA. Crap! I was going to make $600 doing that! Well, to make a long stressful story short...he found me some scholarship money!! Not only did I get signed up for classes and it will get paid for, being his TA will count for the second half of the course I took with him last semester and I will get paid! YAY! God is good all the time!

Well that is the short version of the last month! I will TRY to post more often, but no promises!

Holiday Baking...Jordan style!

2008-12-23T22:58:00.003-06:00

Jordan and I made some goodies for Christmas tonight!

I love this one...he looks like he got caught licking the mixers!

Cookies for Santa!

Yeah! Sprinkle Time!

Hello again!

2008-12-22T10:19:00.006-06:00

So I have been crazy busy the past week or two! Just so much to get done before Christmas! Since I last posted, we babysat Soni while the Carters when to build a gingerbread house at the school. I just thought it might be easier for them to help the other kiddos if they didn't have to hold Soni the whole time...and I love keeping babies!! We also went to Matt's birthday party. Matt was one of the students I spent half my day with last year, while doing inclusion in Debbie's class. Matt means the world to me, and Jordan too! We had a good time and I can't wait to go see him over the break! This weekend we drove to Houston to watch the WYLIE PIRATES play in the State Championship! Yep, we packed up at 7:45 and headed for a long drive to Houston. I was in the front with Jeff, Larry and Carla (inlaws) were in the middle seat and Jo was in the very back. Jeff almost ruined my big suprise for him the night before! I was waiting for him to fall asleep so that I could shoe polish the car to death! I planned to completely deck out the car with Pirates and what not. Well the guy wouldn't just go to sleep! He was too pumped up to sleep! Finally I told him I had to go get my contact solution out of the car. Poor Cameron was kicked to the couch so we could have his bed, so he was still awake and came outside to help me. I forgot all my ribbons I was going to use on the door handles upstairs with Jeff so that didn't happen! But I didn't get all the windows done and Cam put the flag on the car. When we went out to get in the car the next morning, Jeff's reaction was "Holly cow! The shoe polish fairy visited! Cool!" He walked all around the car and thought it was cool. Except the dang cheap stuff ran with the morning dew. We grabbed a towel and when we stopped for gas, the windows were dry so we could clean up the mess and redo the writing. When we got back in the car, Jeff says "I feel so much better now that our words are fixed!" He wanted all the other Wylie people on the road to see us! haha! It was a pretty cool drive when every couple of miles you saw another car that was all decked out for the Pirates! We would either honk or wave or both! It was fun! Too bad the Pirates lost...the offense just really sucked it up. Deffense did great! But they needed help from the offense to win the game! Jordan and I had fun, he would ask me all kinds of questions throughout the game and I would teach him about football....yes, me! Can you believe it?! I hope I didn't screw him up! haha! We stopped at this amazing tex-mex place called Cafe Adobe in the Woodlands on our way home. That was our Christmas present from Larry and Carla. Works for us! Give us food and we are happy! Larry and I decided we need to make another trip out there just for the food! Jeff not so much, poor guy drove there and back and was so tired. We didn't help much when we all feel asleep on the way home!! All in all it was a good day--minus the Pirates and the Cowboys losing!

Last night we had Christmas with Jay and Reese. They came out to Royse City and we exchanged gifts and Jo and Jay played all night! Jeff slept on the couch! ha! We have a tradition that every year we buy each other a game. We used to play games all the time, but since they moved to Fort Worth, it has been difficult. But they will be back soon! They got Jo a racetrack and a dart nerf gun. I think Jay had more fun then Jordan! haha! It was a good night!

Well that is the "ketchup" version of what has been going on! We hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! If I had gotten my act together, you would have gotten Christmas cards from us, but I didn't so here it is!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HEATHER, JEFF AND JORDAN!

Dear Santa....

2008-12-13T11:51:00.002-06:00

So... everytime we asked Jordan what he wanted for Christmas he would say "Cars and a Froggy tent". Of course he had the wish book for WalMart, Target and Toys R Us. He would go through each book and check the age, the price and how much you save if you buy it; if he liked it, he would circle it, if not he would put an X on it. But when you asked him and when he saw Santa on the train he wanted Cars and a Froggy Tent. Aubrey helped me find this crazy Froggy Tent he wanted so badly one night when she, Sam and I went shopping. I was giddy, b/c I found the 2 things he desperately wanted!!! I was on top of the world, b/c I knew Jordan would be so ecstatic.......I made the mistake of asking if he wanted to write a letter to Santa...Here's how it goes...
Dear Santa,
I want a Black(he made me capitalize it b/c he likes the 2 humps better) Spiderman car, a froggy tent, a skate board truck with an arena in it, a hot wheels track, another Legos lightning with doc and king. I also want the race track that goes with them. I want a Mickey Mouse race track set and a Mickey Mouse Club House with the persons, I mean characters (I promise, I didn't correct him! Too cute!). I have a lot on my mind. I want more DS video games and Wii video games just for when I have a Wii.
I want to know everything about being Santa Clause. What do you have to do when you are Santa? What does rudolph do everytime he has a shiney nose?
I have been a really good boy this year!
Love,
Jordan
Well Crap! He wants a lot now! hmmmm...

Chuga Chuga Choo Choooo

2008-12-06T10:41:00.002-06:00

Santa came to Wylie on the Kansas City Express last week! We went, stood in line for an hour and a half! But we really enjoyed it!

Jordan says this is Thomas the Train dressed up as a candy cane!

This is Katy, they were in line in front of us. She told Jordan she loved him! It was pretty cute!

"Santa, I want cars and a froggy tent"

The last post about Twilight..........for awhile......

2008-12-03T19:51:00.002-06:00

For those of you who didn't know...Aubrey, Sam and I went with some of their friends to see the midnight showing of Twilight on the 21st! We met up at 8:30 and went to dinner at Chipotle and headed off to get some cheap candy for the movie. We made it to the theatre a good 2 hours or more BEFORE the movie was to open. There weren't lines outside so we were really thinking we were good on time, until we got inside! There were 2 or 3 different lines. Ours ended up getting to go in at 10:30, well that is when we realized we were going in...and the theatre was nearly full at 10:30!!! We ended up having to sit in the 3rd row if we all wanted to sit together. Sam called her mom to let her know she could give her a full update on what the inside of Bella's nose looks like!

I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't love it either. I knew that it wouldn't be anywhere close to how amazing the book is, so I wasn't disspointed. I would go see it again if someone wanted to. I think I would love to watch it from the middle of the theatre!

Here is the group minus Sam and me. Sam was hiding from the camera and I was taking the picture!

Sorry Sam, this is the best we got...real flattering of the both of us huh? This was before all the "fun" began

Our first music program...a bit of a late post!

2008-12-03T19:44:00.003-06:00

Here are the pictures from Jordan's first music program! He was such a ham. He danced his little booty off!

Check out his face while he is wiggling his bum!

Here are the few pictures I took Tuesday morning...

2008-11-16T21:49:00.002-06:00

I guess you can call us true fans!

2008-11-11T17:26:00.004-06:00

So I have told you about the Twilight series that most everyone I know has read or is now reading. Well the first book, Twilight, is coming out in movie on the 21st of this month. I found out, from Charise, that Rob Pattinson who plays Edward, the main vampire in the story, is in town TODAY at the Hot Topic at the Galleria in Dallas. In order to get in to meet him you have to have a wristband. But they went on sale this morning at 6 am. Ok now to the good part...I went! Wait, don't get too excited, I didn't end up getting a band to meet him this afternoon. It was insane! I should have gotten one but there were phsyco people that took off running too early and pushed all us good people out of the way! My friend Amber and I drove to Dallas at 1 am and stood outside under the overpass for I635 across from the mall. We stood from this time until 6:20 this morning! It was crazy I tell you! When we got there, we were probably about 50th in line and only 500 got in. We were a shoe in! Even when it got messy and people were pushing forward we were safe to get in. This really was a team effort...Sam kept Jordan this morning so that I could do this crazy deed to get the both of us bands to come back to meet the guy that we don't really even like! haha It just seemed fun! Thanks Sam, YOU ROCK MY SOCKS! LOVE YER GUTS! Charise and her friend showed up and stood in another line to try and get us tickets. Amber and I had to hold on tight to each other to not get split! We ended up getting pushed out from under the overpass, which was alright b/c it made us move further up! But...at 4 am it started storming again...NOT SO GOOD! We got in an umbrella with two girls in front of us but it only kept our heads dry, we were SOAKED, STANDING ON A STREET CORNER, IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS! Sounds nice huh?! The police kept telling us that if you were running or pushing or anything you would get arrested and put in jail for 12 hours! We were on our best behavior! But when they let the STUPID PEOPLE FROM THE HILTON HOTEL LINE UP BEFORE US....THE HUGE MOB WE WERE IN TOOK OFF RUNNING AND ALL HOPE WAS LOST. =( We ended up getting up through this CRAZY mob and to the front again. I was almost face to face with a security quard for him to count me in the door and the Hot Topic manager comes over to tell the mob that "ALL BANDS ARE SOLD OUT! THERE ARE NO MORE BANDS TO BUY" I was so upset! All that suffering in the horrible weather for 5 hours and no sleep last night FOR NOTHING!!! But I do have to say, it was an experience I have never had, and I don't regret being a silly girl and taking a chance for Amber, Sam, Charise, Amanda, Candace and me to get in to see him! I was planning on surprising Staci with the shirt I was going to get autographed for Christmas. Edward is her FAVORITE character from the book! I think it would have been AWESOME!

But...Amber and I made the news!!! here is the link! After I watched in on the net, it was on the T.V. like 3 more times, and it didn't cut me off on the T.V.! haha Crazy Stuff I tell ya!!!
http://www.wfaa.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=302291&noad=yes&shu=1

2008-11-06T19:29:00.003-06:00

I have to share this video with you! These are some of my friends at work! I so wanted to be in the video but I was out sick with Jordan that day... Aren't they fun?!

Here is the original they went off of...

What in the world??

2008-11-04T15:02:00.002-06:00

Saturday I talked Jeff into taking me to dinner and to see Fireproof (GREAT MOVIE BY THE WAY!!!) and we ended up being an hour early for our movie. We were walking around waiting and decided to sit and wait. We were sitting by the exit of the theatre and at one point you see a group going out the exit and before the door closes...2 teenage girls and a little boy come running in the doors. The girls are probably about 13-15 if that and the boy I would say was anywhere from 7-10. The girls are dressed very raunchy, showing their stomachs and short shorts. Each have a red bandana hanging out their back pockets. First I think..."Wow, sneaking into the movies and no regret" b/c they all walked into Highschool Musical 3. I complained to Jeff about the poor kids that are living this lifestyle, and then....The 2 girls come out of Highschool Musical and leave the boy their by himself. So not only did they sneak into the movie, but they left this young boy (who looks very tough mind you) alone at the theatre at 10 pm so that they could go do who knows what!!!! I just feel so sorry all them to have such lack of morals or for that fact parents to keep up with them. I'm sure the parents left the girls in charge and this happens all the time for this family. I just hate to see it. People shouldn't have kids if they aren't going to teach them right from wrong and take care of them. Believe me...if you had seen these kids, you would feel the same way...they are neglected. ARGGG
Ok, I'm going to step off that soap box for now! Thanks for listening and please pray for the many children that have to live this lifestyle!

Cute Jordan Moment!

2008-11-03T08:18:00.002-06:00

Jordan has been complaining that his toe hurts for the past couple of days, but I couldn't find anything wrong with it. Finally I decide to look at his toenails...He had the beginnings of an ingrown townail. I cut it out and everything was fine. I told Jeff about it and that I cut it out, and Jordan says "You cut out my ANGRY TOENAIL? Wow!" =) Too cute!

Trick or Treat!

2008-11-01T09:36:00.004-05:00

Here is the toolbox cake I made for Mandi's grooms cake! Thanks to Sam and Aubrey for coming over and waiting until 10 to watch Grey's!! And the extra hands for support!
OH and thanks to Cameron for mirror imaging the logo for me and bringing it over! You rock!NANANANANANANANA My Batman!!!

Aren't our kids cute!?

YEP! The cutest kids on the block!! Glad we have such great friends!

Let's Catch Up!

2008-10-26T12:15:00.009-05:00

HMMM It's been a while! I have some pictures from the past month to share with yall! My friend Jamie asked me to be in her wedding next year! I got to go dress shopping with the bride, her Daddy, her brother and Charise. Her dad was so excited he bought her the pink tank top and a hat that says "father of the bride". He was so pumped that he forgot to take the tag off the hat at first! Too cute!

Jordan's preschool had a Daddy and Me Rodeo at the beginning of the month. Jeff took a couple of pictures. Jordan talked about it for a week! Mom was jealous because Jeff got to go to the first event at Jordan's school...I PACK HIS LUNCH EVERDAY!!! I GET HIM DRESSED! And Jeff got to go?! I'm over it! Really I am! That's okay, b/c his Halloween party is next week and I am co-room mom!!

Stephanie and Nick got married this month. Jeff works with Stephanie. The wedding was beautiful and after the reception, they invited us to Southern Junction. The first picture is the awesome frame Sam made for me and I bought it from her Etsy shop. You should check it out... http://evenlyspaced.etsy.com/ Aubrey also has an etsy shop, but I don't want to post the site yet, b/c I want to buy something on it for Mom and I don't want her to see it! haha! They both have some really great personalized gifts!

We had our last tee ball game of the season yesterday. Jordan was perfect! We were so happy! I have to explain the last picture...The coach will sometimes move the tee so the kids can step on home plate when they get a run. If the coach forgets...Jordan will pick it up and step on the plate and then set it back down! Isn't it cute!?

After the game we told Jordan we would take him somewhere fun if he didn't cry...Carla, Jeff's mom, had told us there was some kind of carnival in Wylie by the junior high, so we decided to take Jo there. It was called Convoy of Hope, when we walked in the handed both Jeff and I a yellow ticket for free groceries. They told us "Overr there was free hot dogs and ice cream, over here is the free kids zone, up there is free health care, hair cuts and clothes and at the very end take your ticket to the blue and white tent for your free groceries." We had no idea what was going on, we just assumed we would let Jordan play for a bit and go through the free groceries and pick up a few things and go home. When we go to the free groceries, they gave us each 8 bags of groceries...we left with 16 bags of groceries and 3 bags of hotdogs and buns! It was crazy! We had to get 8 green bags and 8 red bags. Each colored bag had about the same items in them, so we came home with: 8 cans of salt, 8 cans of pork and beans, 8 cans of veg-al, 8 cans of spagetti sauce, 8 cans of diced potatoes, 8 boxes of HoneyMoon ceral, 8 jars of hot sauce, 8 boxes of mac and cheese, 8 boxes of granola bars, 16 differnt kinds of noodles...a whole lot more but I can think of everything right now! We have groceries for the whole neighborhood! I made Sam come over and get some! I guess we will both be taking some to work. There is so much that we don't have room in our pantry! I was putting dishes away and opened the cabinet for bowls and found pork and beans! Oh my, how long will this last?

Well...

2008-10-10T20:11:00.002-05:00

It's been a week or so since I posted. A lot has happened. I was sent, rather driven, home from work last Friday from work b/c my blood pressure was too high. The only time I had blood pressure issues was my last month of pregnancy. NO! I AM NOT PREGNANT! So I went home and Sam came over to "heathersit" me while Jeff and Jordan when to the big exciting Wylie Pirate game. All weekend my blood pressure was high. It was never under 140/90. So I went to the doctor on Monday. It wasn't high then! haha That's how it always works. Thanks to Sam for watching Jordan for me. He did blood work and all that turned out to be okay. My cholesterol is a little higher than it should be, but they aren't worried about that. They decided that it is either stress induced or hereditary. I had to start meds that make me feel crazy. I hate them! I can't focus on anything. Like right now, I should be working on homework or school work, but I'm not! I will probably stop working on this and go do that in a few minutes. That is how my life has been this week. I now know what it feels like to have ADHD. I feel for those poor kids that have it. It also made me fell like my body was dragging. It is like two extremely opposite feelings at the same time. Not Fun! Well today I called to tell my dr. that my blood pressure had leveled out on the low dose of the meds and told them how it makes me feel. She said she would talk to the dr. and call me back. She called back right away and said...STOP TAKING THE MEDS!!!! I was jumping for joy in my classroom. Melodie, one of the teachers I share a room with, was laughing at me! She said to see if my blood pressure goes up without the meds and if it does she called in water pills for me to start taking. Don't really know what they are, some have said they are like a diaretic, so that won't be such a bad deal! hahahaha She did tell me that they won't have any side effects! That is awesome!
Not only has this been going on with me, but I had to take Jordan to the Dr. b/c I thought he might cough out a lung...He has RSV and there is nothing to give him. His body just has to work through it. Poor baby. It makes me feel so bad for him when he starts that nasty coughing.

Whew...What a week! I will keep ya updated on the blood pressure thing!

Cute Jordan moment: (mom told me to blog about this one!)
Man! There are so many lately. It is official, Jordan has gotten too smart! No really, he has!
He was sitting in my lap this afternoon at mom's house and started his nasty coughing. I said to mom "We really won't be going to t-e-e-b-a-l-l tomorrow." And she said "and not the g-a-m-e tonight right?" Jordan was quite for a minute and said..."But I really want to play in my teeball game tomorrow." WHOA!!!! This kid scares me. There was nothing said before about teeball or games or anything. SO NOW I CAN'T EVEN SPELL IN FRONT OF MY KID TO HIDE THINGS!

It's October

2008-10-01T17:50:00.003-05:00

Well it is October 1st if you didn't already know that! Today is mine and Jeff's 9 year anniversary from the last official time we started dating! Does that make sense to all of you! TEE HEE! We were "boyfriend and girlfriend" when we were younger b/c it was cool to have a boyfriend. We "went out" in 5th grade and 7th and 8th and broke up and started "going out" again freshman year...and here we are today! I love him still! haha

I guess I can take some pictures of our old pictures and post them! Don't make fun!

This is us at our first highschool dance...It was not our first dance together, our first one was in 7th grade and we got a limo...yes I was/am spoiled!

This was the homecoming dance...I think the only year we went b/c they were lame! Freshman year of highschool...man, I guess I was kinda cute then braces, big bangs and all!

Same weekend and I look totally different! haha! Look at my mum freshman year...I said I was spoiled right!

Needless to say, I still love my husband! He and Jordan are the lights of my lives and I know I don't tell them enough!

Where have we been????

2008-09-21T18:20:00.002-05:00

Well, life has been pretty crazy since school started back up. I had to go back to work and then a week later back to school and two weeks later Jordan started preschool! You know that though. I have four classes this semester so when I am not at class I am doing homework. I am missing my family. I see them, but don't get to spend as much quality time with them. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have such a wonderful husband. He really takes care of things when I get busy and stressed.
We also started fall tee ball so we are very busy this fall!

Last week I spent all my free time making homecoming mums to try and make a few bucks. I only had 4 days to get 4 of them finished so I was up at all hours of the night...and usually kept Sam up with me!

Jeff and Jordan are having a great time going to the Wylie football games on Friday nights. This is giving me some time to rest, do homework or hang with the girls. I should be doing the first two but haven't yet! I choose to go out with Sam and Aubry and this past week Staci! It has been great. I hadn't seen Staci since we went to the circus this summer, so that was some much needed time together!

Last night we started game night with Sam and Cameron. Aubrey and Jared couldn't join us this week b/c her parents drove into town. We had too much fun and we can't wait to do it again! No picutres...I'm a loser! Sam and I discovered that Jeff and Cameron were seperated at birth and it is quite scary! But fun!

The kids were really good, they were a bit hyper considering I brought Starburst and Sam bought M&Ms! They had a good time. My son is a bit strange but I knew that! Around 10 pm we started telling the kids NO MORE CANDY! Sweet, sweet little Peyton, with his adorable "I didn't do it" face kept sneaking some M&Ms. A little bit later Dylan figured out what was going on and came to get a handful. He was directed to put them back, he put all but 2 back and took off running saying "I got one for me and one for Jordan". It was the sweetest thing ever!

Proud Mommy moment:
Jeff and Jordan were at the football game this week and the letters S T O M P came up on the scoreboard. Jordan tells Jeff "Daddy, that says stomp" and starts stomping his feet. Jeff asks him how he knows that and he says "Because I know that stop is S-T-O-P and I saw the M, so that makes STOMP." Yep, that is our 4 year old reading! GO JORDAN!!

Well...he is all grown up, I guess!

2008-09-02T20:37:00.003-05:00

So...Jordan had his first day of preschool today! He was so excited! Usually I can't get him out of bed in the morning and today he jumped up yelling about how excited he was about going to school, he needed his back pack and lunch box and the whole shabang!

Here he is before we left the house. He still had to wait a couple hours b/c preschool doesn't start until 9:15 and mommy has to be at work at 7!

As Jordan drops my hand he says, "I'm a big boy now mom, I know where my class is." *Mom feels like she was kicked in the gut!* --Memaw laughs!

Standing in front of his classroom!

Here he is putting his luch box in his cubby!

And hanging up his back pack!

Sitting at his table...so excited that he didn't even bother to turn around and wave goodbye! =(

Jordan and Mrs. Pam

Oh that sun is bright!!!

Who had more fun?

2008-08-23T10:47:00.004-05:00

Jordan got a slip and slide from Uncle John John for his birthday (in April). We just opened it last week! HA! My question to you is...Who had the most fun?!

He does it backwards!

So daddy wanted to show him how! lol

Go Daddy!

RUNNNN! Daddy is chasing me!

Ok, you have all the proof now...you decide!

Issues...

2008-08-21T22:08:00.001-05:00

Jordan: "Daddy, you have issues."

Jeff: "What? No I don't."

Jordan: "Yes, Daddy, you have some issues."

Jeff: "Jordan, you don't even know what you are talking about. What does that mean?"

Jordan: "You have problems."

WOW! Great laugh for the night!

Last playgroup for the summer...=(

2008-08-11T10:56:00.004-05:00

Jordan and I have had such a wonderful summer with the Carters and the Crookstons...we hate that it has to end! Thursday was our last playgroup before I have to go back to work, so I took some pictures! I do have to say that this has been the best summer we have had since we have lived in Royse City. Sam and Aubrey are the best! We are going to have to make sure still get together during the school year!

Some of the kids stealing Soni's puff snacks! Poor Soni was taking a nap and couldn't even beat the kids up! haha

Jordan in Aubrey's chair...don't tell!

Uh oh! Jordan started it!

Now look what you have done! Ha! They are so cute!

Tate! He is so sweet!

Cartoons before lunch!

Such fun!!

2008-08-11T10:09:00.005-05:00

Saturday Jordan and I went to the circus with Staci and Nana (that is what Jordan calls Staci's mom, she is like a Grandma to him! They spoil him so!) We had a blast! Nana had to have spent her life savings because I spent mine and I didn't spend nearly as much as she did! We all took pictures, but mine were a little too close to Jordan since I was sitting next to him. I will post the few good ones I have. When I get the pictures from Staci I will post more!

Jordan and Nana with his sword! Don't ask how much it was!!! I'm telling ya...don't ask!

Jordan and Staci!

Intense! We were in the 3rd row!!

Jordan with his hat (came with the $12 cotton candy!) and his snow cone. Of course he wouldn't eat the snow cone b/c all the juice was at the bottom, so we threw the ice away and this is what we had for $15!! It lights up! He is actually drinking his milk in it this morning!

I just love how excited he is! A clown threw a whole bucket of confetti on us!

I love Staci! The world wouldn't be the same without her!

I wish I knew what Jordan and Nana were so excited about, such a cute picture!

That's my boy!

Cute Jordan Moment:

We are in the car on the way home from a baseball game probably and this song called Buttonz came on the radio. Jordan says "I like this song" I asked why and he said "It's funny" again why? "The sandwhich part". At this point I am totally confused, so I listen a little better to the song. Here are the lyrics:

I'm telling you loosen up my buttons baby

But you keep fronting
Saying what you going to do to me
But I ain't seen nothing
The way they sing Saying what it does sound like sandwhich!
I thought it was too funny. And now any time I hear that song, that is all I will hear!! It is now the Sandwich song! It's a good thing I didn't like this song b/c it wouldn't be the same. But since it is a stupid song to begin with...it works for me!

More...

2008-08-04T21:42:00.006-05:00

After Sam and I dropped Aubrey off to read Saturday, I stayed over at Sam's for a little while b/c the kids were playing. You have to see the cute picture of Jordan and Andi! I swear we did NOT pose them. I said "stand by Andi so I can take your picture" and this is what we got!! Isn't it sweet!?

Cute Jordan Moment:
We went to the Ranger game with Jason and Charise last night. (We buy a packet of free and half price tickets and such ever year) Anyway, Jordan and Charise were stealing the dot race "coupons" from each other and have too much fun... Charise told Jordan that the police were going to come get him for stealing her coupons. He says..."But police don't get good people and I AM GOOD PEOPLE!" It was pretty funny!

Then the wind picked up and trash was flying every where, on the field, in the sky, EVERYWHERE! Jordan puts his hands up in the air and says "It's a trash miracle out there". It was the wierdest comment of the night...just had to share!

We were a bit excited!!!

2008-08-04T21:05:00.005-05:00

I will start by saying...if you have not the Twilight series...you must!!! Staci has been trying to get me to read Twilight for at least a year now, finally she bought me the book and said I had to read it. Through the first chapter I was cursing Staci in my mind, second and third chapter came and I couldn't put the book down. I finished it and the next two books in my first 6 days of summer! Then...I had to sit and wait until August 2nd for the fourth and final book to come out. In the meantime, I learned that Sam and Aubrey too loved the books. I think we spent the majority of play group talking about the book like they were real people. We are nuts, I know! Aubrey bought the book that had the "Team Edward" iron on in it so she made a shirt. So Sam and I made a shirt Thursday night(we were up until 1 in the morning working on them...and kept her husband Cameron up too. Poor guy had to work the next morning). Saturday morning we were up and out of Royse City by 7:59. We went to pick up another crazed friend, Jennifer, and were on our way to Garland to get our books (that we called and reserved just incase!). We were the first ones there and were a bit dissapointed at the turn out. But of course the "real fans" were at the release party at midnight...in costume! So we aren't that bad are we? Just look at the picture to judge for yourself!

That is all of us that met up and then went for breakfast!

I had to be in the middle because Aubrey is "Team Edward" Sam is "Team Jacob" and I want them both to win! So I am "Team Ed-Jake". We are cute, I know!

Here is the back of our really cool shirts that Cameron had to help us make!

So Aubrey was done with the book by like 10 that night. I just finished today, and I haven't talked to Sam today to see if she is finished. She has 4 little ones to take care of, so not sure she has had a lot of time!

I will not give any hints about the ending...I want you all to read the series!!!

Go Rangers!

2008-07-29T17:51:00.011-05:00

Last night we went to the Ranger game (the lost) with The Carters and The Crookstons. Jared got us all tickets for $3, we are thankful for that since we are so broke right now! We sat way up high, but they were really great seats behind homeplate. Jordan liked that he could see everything. The kids seemed to really have a good time, even Soni. Either that, or Cameron did a really good job of hiding her crying on the other end of the row! I took some pictures of the kids...
Dylan and Jordan both make the "smile too hard" face!

Mommy and Jordan!

Soni likes Cracker Jacks too!

Andi's foam finger!

Dylan made his own "foam #1" finger! And one for Jordan too...that is a peanut shell!

Baby Tate!

Noah and Jordan chatting during the game!

This is about the time the blue dot fell down...Jordan was NOT HAPPY! Sam on the other hand is clapping in the back! haha!

Peyton got a second wind after nearly falling asleep on Cameron!

Soni looks so cute!

Rally Hat!! It didn't work...we still lost!

Oh good I found a couple...

2008-07-28T09:58:00.007-05:00

Here are a couple of pictures that I did take of Jordan with his buds at the library! I'm not as much of a loser as I thought! hahaSo you can't see their faces, but the three kids sitting in front are, Jordan, Andi and Noah.That's Sam and Peyton!Soni is so sweet!That's Tate...isn't he cute? Run Tate, Run! Everytime we go to the library, he likes to run from Aubrey!

Jordan had an issue making a "girl necklace" during craft time until I told him that he could give it to someone. Of course he wanted to give it to Staci, not his mommy!

Andi, Tess, Aubrey and Noah working on their necklaces.

For my dad!

2008-07-27T20:16:00.002-05:00

I just had to share this one for my dad! Jordan loves to pick up Papa's paper in the mornings when I drop him off before work. Today for some unknown reason there was a paper thrown in our yard. When we got home from the grocery store Jordan saw it and got so excited, "We have paper like Papa, I have to get it!!" I thought it was sweet.

Papa and Jordan reading

New to this!! Here we go...

2008-07-27T12:56:00.000-05:00

So...my friends Sam and Aubrey have been talking about blogging and I thought I would start something new! I think this will be a great way for family members that aren't close by to keep updated on things in Texas!

Jordan and I have had a wonderful summer so far. We are very sad that it will be over soon though. We have been spending a lot of time with our neighbors, The Carters and their friends we were introduced to, The Crookstons. The Carters have 4 children, Andi-5, Dylan-4(next month), Peyton-2 and Soni-8 months. The Crookstons have 3 children, Noah-5, Tess-I think 3, and Tate-1. We love going over to Aubrey's house for playgroup on Thursdays. Wednesdays we go to the library with the whole bunch and then to McDonald's to play! It can be a little hectic lugging 8 kids around the big town of Royse City, but we do it! haha! I am going to be very sad to see the next 3 weeks of summer slip by =( Of course I have been a dingbat and not taken many pictures with Jordan and his buddies! He has always loved Andi and Dylan, but now Noah is a new buddy he always talks about. You would think AndiDylanandNoah was one word!

Here are some pictures of Jordan with Andi and Dylan last summer...I know I need to take some! I will!

Cute Jordan moment today...
We were playing Go Fish! and we were only saying the letter on the card instead of Ace, Jack, Queen and King. Jeff asked Jordan for an Ace and after telling daddy, "GO FISH!" he asks for a Quess(not sure how to spell it) but you get the concept right, like ace with a q. I thought it was extremely cute, just had to share!

Here are some pictures I have taken of Jordan this summer!

Swimming at Debbie's!Gettin' ready at Memaw's

First time fishin'!

Jordan had a blast at VBS this summer!