I've been tagged...

I've been tagged by Leigh Ann! It has taken me all night to try to think of 7 random things about myself.. and I am not sure I still came up with a substantial list. But anyway.. here is what I am supposed to do:

List 7 random things that people may not know about you. The rules are to link the person who sent this to you and leave a comment on their blog so their readers can visit yours. Post the rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I am just under five foot tall and I use my kids at the grocery store and shopping to get the things I can not reach. So.. if you ever see a small kid being hoisted up to the top shelf to get a cake mix, macaroni, etc.. that might just be me!

2. I failed my driving test the first time. No... not the written.. the DRIVING! and I am still not the best driver in the world. I seem to get distracted easily.

3. I play fantasy football and I am actually really good at it! I take it seriously and have won the championship twice in the last five years.

4. I enjoy scrapbooking! I have over 17 albums that I have finished and just love doing pages about my kids.

5. I freak out about blood and bones! Yes, I know.. not always the best thing when you work in a hospital and a lot of times in the ER. Under pressure I can usually handle myself.. but when I was first out of school (which was 13 years ago) I would really get sick! I now handle blood a lot better than bones.

6. I play softball during the summer for my church. I play second base and absolutely LOVE it!
7. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the water. Any kind! I like the beach, skiing at the lake, anything. Last summer trying to prove I was still young and agile enough to kneeboard and ski.. I tore my knee up.. so this summer should be interesting. My husband had to remind me that I was 35 years old!

Now to tag people.. I think most I know have already been tagged so if you read this and have not yet been tagged.. consider this your tag! :)

Have a great weekend.

Back at home...

We made it back home today around 4pm so it was a quick road trip but so much fun and well worth the drive. The kids had a lot of fun at the Razorback game. I am not sure who had the most fun. Scarlett jumped, yelled and cheered and engaged everyone around us in conversation. The poor girl beside us obviously did not know what she was starting when she asked Scarlett her name.. that began a thirty minute conversation! It was quite humerous. They both had their pictures made with the mascots (unfortunately the one with the boys did not turn out), Scarlett had her face painted with a pink razorback heart, and Ethan loved walking through the Hall of Fame there at Bud Walton Arena. Ethan is my number one sports fan! He loves all sports and is actually knows a lot about most sports. The kids get the most excited about sleeping in a hotel room! Who would have thought that one small room could bring so much joy. They check out every single square inch of every hotel we ever stay at and inspect everything. We had a great time and are planning a trip back to the Spring Football game. Ethan's first love is football so he is extra excited about that! He will be sad that D-Mac is gone.. but there will be somebody knew to be excited about. He proudly displayed his D-Mac cup.. right above my head! Full of coke, I must have been feeling brave this morning. We drove home trying to make sure we beat any ice that was headed to northern Arkansas but definitely had to stop off at Ozark for Rivertowne BBQ! OH MY! If you ever get a chance to go there I definitely recommend it. It is so GOOD and they have the BEST ranch dressing EVER! We had a huge lunch and enough for dinner tonight. Plus.. I bought a 1/2 gallon of the ranch dressing. You think I could freeze it??? Hope everyone has had a great week! I've been tagged.. so I will post that next! :) I have to think a while about 7 random things about me.

Road Trip!

As I am packing this morning to go to Fayetteville I thought I would leave you with a funny picture and one that makes Scarlett laugh.. which this morning we are in need of a laugh. She does not want to take a shower, pack her bag, stay home or go.. she just wanted to sleep and well I messed that up when I woke her from her nice cozy warm bed and so, like her mother.. she is a BEAR when she is woke before she is ready!

The weather is calling for a possibility of snow in northern Arkansas so just in case we get stuck I am packing for a couple of days rather than just a overnight stay. Part of me thinks it might be fun to be stuck in a nice warm hotel.. last time we were stuck in the ice.. it was on the interstate for 28 hours and that is a whole story in its self. Hope you all have a great Wednesday!

I must go try to convince Scarlett it really is a good day and she will have fun at the basketball game tonight.

GO HOGS!!!!

Wayback Weekend...Sentimental Saturdays! :)

I too have started going through old pictures and thought since my everyday life does not have enough for a blog filled weekend I would post some "wayback when" pictures or Sentimental Saturdays. :) I found some pictures of hubby and I from 1995! I laughed and told my friend, Abby, the other day.. "WOW, 13 years ago.. who knew!!!??". We had been dating almost a year when this picture was taken. I remember six months into the relationship I was going to go home to Nashville, TN with him to see family and friends and just prior to leaving he told me "... we will go on this trip and see what happens..." I don't really think either one of us thought this would be a lasting relationship. He kept hanging around and I kept accepting and almost six years down the road he proposed! I remember being so excited! I was so ready to actually start planning the wedding I had already had planned for years! So, marriage.. how hard could that be!!! This picture was taken as we were leaving our wedding. I was just so happy to be married and so excited to go on our honeymoon! We went to Montreal Canada and LOVED IT there! I think that was the first time I had been away from home and not gotten homesick. Somehow being with him there it felt like home! It was so great!!! Two months in we find out we are having Ethan and were very excited but we were still dealing with learning to live together and be married. A lot of adjusting was going on in that first year of marriage!

SO... two kids, almost eight years later we are still adjusting but it is getting better everyday. Hubby balances me out! He analyzes everything.. I am impulsive! He is my rational thinking! How great is that! :) I laughed at the beginning of this year and said"... new year, new beginning" and I was serious about becoming a little more in line with his way of thinking. So far I think I have done very well! :) BUT.. I think he would have to admit how boring his life would be if I wasn't still a little spontaneous! He has to have some surprises from me.. just good ones! :) August 2007

Showin' Some Love...

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! We had a lot of fun, it started Tuesday with our party and I guess it will not end until next week when we go to the Razorback game, which was a Valentine for the whole family! :) Wednesday night Scarlett and I had a date and went to see the Broadway play "ANNIE". It was a lot of fun, and she came away with the fact that Annie had FAT HAIR! It was definitely a little over a four year olds head.. but she sat up and paid attention when they sang and when Annie returned with curlie hair after being "spiffed up".

Valentine's Day started off with a BANG! Ethan learned, or at least I think he learned, that maybe a six year olds stomach is not supposed to hold a 1/2 pound burger. He ate one AGAIN.. but this one did not quite settle in well on his little stomach. He was up sick at 3:30 am!! and again at 4:30 am!! Nothing like being woke up to the noise of "ralph and earl"! ha! and laundry at 3:30 am is not my idea of a good time! We laughed because seven years ago on Ethan's first Valentine's day he woke us up that morning with the same surprise! Nothing like greeting my Valentine first thing in the morning under those circumstances! Thank goodness it was not, or at least does not appear to be a stomach bug; just a case of the eyes really are bigger than the stomach.

That afternoon we went shopping at "Lads and Ladybugs" a boutique for little kids and they were having a 75% off sale! I took my mother with me.. I know when to take the mom shopping! Big sale, means lots of things for me and her to buy! Unfortunately, their clothing stops at size 4T, so nothing for Ethan but Scarlett got some of the cutest things! Everything was marked down so much! I got the cutest winter coat for $24 (or should I say my mom bought it for Scarlett) and this Anavini smocked dress! HOW CUTE IS THAT! I got it for $16. Sure it is a size 6 months but it will make the best shower gift for somebody! It was too cute not to get! If only my baby was small enough to wear that dress. :( Oh well.. wishful thinking!! They grow up TOO FAST!!!

We had decided just to stay home and have a nice quiet dinner with the family. My sweet husband showed up with a dozen roses for me and of course something for the kids. They had wondered all day "what daddy would bring them" and he did not disappoint! More Disney Cars for Ethan and a purple princess phone and dress up jewelry for Scarlett! I normally do not have anything for him, but this year I surprised him! He had been wanting the Towncraft box set, which is a documentary about the music scene in Little Rock in the nineties! I was able to buy it without his knowledge and surprise him! Brownie points for me! We had a great Valentine's Day and I look forward to many more to come! I love ya, honey! and I am sure we will have fun at the Razorback game next week!

Hope you all had a great day, too!

Cookies, Card and Friends! Happy Valentine's Day!

Today we had a Valentine's Day party for our friends. We decorated cards, and cookies and had lots of fun! Davis and Karlee's mothers could not stay so thank goodness for Ms. Abby for helping me out! Abby and I have been friends for over twenty years, and typing that makes me feel very old.. but don't worry Abby you will catch up with me this weekend! :) Abby has a almost five year old little girl named Maddy and my son Ethan just LOVES her! In fact when I mentioned the party and that they could invite some friends over, Maddy was the first name that Ethan mentioned. That incited a mini riot at my house since Maddy is Scarlett's friend and she was on "her list". It gave me a glimpse of how things would probably be at my house in another ten-twelve years. Well, today Maddy gave Ethan a Valentine's card and Ethan just tucked it away but after they left, he showed me the card and was all smiles and told me she "made" it just for him! I didn't have the heart to tell him that Scarlett and I got one too, so he now thinks he is number one on Maddy's list as well.
This is a picture of the kids decorating their cookies. I think I had seven different colors and we used paint brushes to paint the icing on the cookies, that worked really well. We had sprinkles and sparkles and all sorts of decorations. I think the kids ate the cookies as fast as they made them. I also had a table set up for the kids to make cards. That was a lot of fun! Cleaning up all the glitter has proven to be the most fun. :) In fact I just had to pick a piece of glitter off Ethan's eye lid.. how does it end up there???? I think everyone had a good time. I know my kids did! This may have to become a annual event. I even managed to get a card or two made myself. After the last child left and I had picked up the living room to atleast presentable I called hubby and let him know it was safe to return home. :) I did get the kids still long enough, or most of them still long enough for a picture. Karlee had already had to leave so this is the rest of the crew. Looks like I caught Ethan in the middle of saying something. Whatever it was it had Fletcher's attention. Hope you all have a wonderful, chocolate filled Valentine's Day!

I have a Wall of Fame Child!

This weekend was pretty boring! I work weekend option so that I can be with the kids during the week and I dread Fridays! Mostly people look so forward to their weekends but not me! I know that I will at be work all night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. During my slow times I go to the nursery and rock the babies.. how fun is that!! I just love being over there in the nursery (when the babies are healthy and I am there simply out of choice) . Tiny babies that are just seeing the world are so precious, until there is fourteen of them crying at one time and that is my cue to leave! ! It definitely makes me want to come home and hug and kiss on my kids even though they are not really babies anymore. Do you ever stop referring to them as "your babies"???

On Saturday night we had some friends come up from Russellville for dinner and we went back to Cheeburger Cheeburger. We love that place! Ethan wanted to try the 1/2 pounder and have his picture made and be placed on the "Wall of Fame". I forgot all about that and being that he is "my baby" knew there was NO WAY this small child would be a 1/2 pound, 10 oz to be exact, burger. So I ordered him the kids meal. BIG MISTAKE! He devoured that burger in two minutes and was then ready for his 1/2 pounder. Reluctantly we finally gave in and ordered him the "big burger". The waitress seemed shocked when she asked if we wanted a to go box with it or if he was going to eat it there and we answered ".. no he is going to eat it here". We laughed with her and said "we knew he would only eat a couple of bites but he wants to try". Well, I guess fifteen minutes is about enough time for a Cheeburger Cheeburger kids meal to empty from a six year olds stomach because when the 1/2 pounder came it took less than ten minutes and it was GONE!!! Every single last bite GONE and he did not look the least bit uncomfortable. So, at the age of six he had just eaten more than his daddy! That scares me... I am not sure we will be able to afford the grocery bill for these two when he gets "older and eats like a man"!!!

The hoopla over eating the 1/2 pounder was what Ethan wanted. He had his picture made with the big burger, signed it and placed it on the wall of fame. I should mention that Ethan had a lot of motivation from Carter, my friend Kelly's eight year old that finished off the 1/2 pounder prior to Ethan! So, there stands Carter and Ethan side by side on the Wall of Fame at Cheeburger Cheeburger. If you go eat at Cheeburger Cheeburger take a look at my wall of famer son! :)