5.11.2011

PB&J or Beans and Rice....

We will have to be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner at home until next paycheck BECAUSE Ricky got us tickets to the Grizzlies Game this Friday!! Wooo Hooo! Granted we would probably have a better view at home than where our seats are, but it's all about the atmosphere! I'm excited and its a bonus as in a date night for us. We just had to pay a small arm for the tickets but we got them.

All heart grit and grind! Let's go Grizzlies!!!

5.04.2011

Sucess!

And another camper has been born! We are so excited to announce that Amber LOVES to camp. We went camping this past weekend to Enid Lake with Ricky's family. They have a camper and we have a tent. There were a few concerns going into this of how things would work but that's why we just went for a weekend to have as a test run before we headed to the Smokies. Which we will be doing later in the summer! I'm so excited about that!! We haven't been camping in the Smokies in about 5 years!! I've have missed it!

Anyway, back to Enid. We didn't know how the sleeping would go at night. The first night we were there was rough because Amber didn't want to sleep since it was all new and exciting. We brought the pack n play but she immediately started crying when we put her in it and she saw us laying beside her. (She has never been a fan of the pack n play) Well if we were indoors somewhere I would have let her cry a little longer but when you are camping in a tent and it's 9:30 at night you don't let a baby keep crying if you can at all help it. So we took her out and laid her down with us. Well she didn't fall asleep until 11!! She kept whispering to us and being all wiggly. It was just exciting for her. Also we had a hole in our air mattress so we all couldn't get comfortable because as the air went down we had to change positions. On top of that Seminole was pacing back and forth and wouldn't settle down to sleep. We took him out twice thinking it was because he needed to go to the bathroom. Finally around 3:30 in the morning, yes Ricky and I were still awake, I said why don't we just let the air out of the mattress. At this point our feet were above our heads! :) Amber thankfully was fast asleep! We let the air out and we all finally went to sleep but "miss I love camping" woke up at 6:30 when the sun came up. So Ricky and I got a grand total of 3 hours of sleep that night. We managed Sat. and didn't really get that tired. We realized in the morning that Seminole hadn't had any water since we had arrived camping and he was just really thirsty and that's why he was pacing. By Sat. Amber took a 2 hr. nap alone in the tent and then she was asleep in my arms around the camp fire by 8:30. Praise Jesus. We also borrowed some mattress from family friends that were camping with us as well. We all sleep great Sat. night!

When we pulled into our driving Sun. evening and Amber saw where we were she immediately started crying! We couldn't figure out what was wrong. I even put her in the bath (which she LOVES bath time) and she cried all through bath time. So we concluded that she loved camping and was sad to be home :)



4.16.2011

The Hunt

Amber went to her first Easter egg hunt today at Freeman Bartlett Park. We have had such a nice warm week but today it was FReEZinG!! On our way there my car said 48 degrees! And just two days ago I had Amber in shorts!

Amber was in the age group of 0-3 year olds. So of course the eggs weren't really hidden they just threw them all over the ground. I was explaining to her what we were going to do and she was actually like she was ready to go them, I even had to hold her back a little. Then when they said we could go I had to practically push her out there. It was cute, she didn't realize that she could actually keep the eggs. She eventually got the hang of it but by that time most of the eggs were all picked up. So this time next year hopefully she will really know what to do :)


4.09.2011

Favorites right now...

I thought I would share some of my favorite things currently with you.....

I am currently addicted to the tv show called Army Wives. I had never seen it before and I saw it on netflix and decided to watch an episode and I was instantly hooked.



I got a Starbucks gift card from a friend! (Thanks Annie) It's loaded with 50 bucks! She got 3 free ones from her Uncle and decided to share the wealth. I have been enjoy my Caramel Frapps. from there!



 I have been drinking coke and its like I totally forgot about Cherry Coke and the other day I was at the store and saw it so my fridge is stocked with Cherry Coke now! Yum!


The people in Hobby Lobby must think I have nothing better to do than to hang out there! I have been a TON lately!



I had a Scentsy party and got lots of stuff and I'm so enjoying my scents!

Ok I'm sure I'm not the only one that Blog stalks :) There are several blogs that I love to look at and the people have no clue who I am!