Show me your baby

Isn't she just precious! She is so excited to show us all her baby!!!

...I will show you pictures of mine tomorrow night, except he will look more like a penguin(since he will be all duded up in his black & white suit) than an otter...hehehe

have a great Thursday ladies!

trial run

run? did someone say run?.....I DON'T run, not even if I was being chased by a crazed ax murderer...I would most definitely weigh all my options before I hauled trunk outta there!

{The Fisherman runs all the time FOR FUN and it makes me sick!}

nope, when I say run, I mean trial run for the up & coming Spring social on Friday night.

last night I had Kyle try on everything for a last minute check to make sure everything was
"a go".....and let me just state for the record....

......when I saw my little Bubba all decked out in that suit, crisp white shirt and snazzy red tie, I couldn't help but grab him in my arms and squeeze him tight(all while smothering his cheek with kisses).......

....only to get a "Mawwwwww, your gonna wrinkle it!"

I would post some pictures, but I will leave you in suspense and post them Friday night...pink promise!

Button, Button...who has a button????

And if you do...can I have it???? :O)

I have started adding some of my followers buttons, so if I have missed yours and you want me to display it on my sidebar, just leave me a comment on this post.

Sorry it has taken me so long to get around to this but I promise....slowly but surely I will get there.

Thanks to all of my loyal comment girls and followers....love ya much!!!!!

my lil' friend is here!!!!!

it's here!!! it's here!!! my new lil' friend came in the mail yesterday...{{whoot}}

I spent all off last night getting all my contacts added and downloading all those cool apps....but I still have so many questions and things to try and figure out...whew...it's alot for this Non-techie gal to comprehend!

maybe some of you "more smarter" girls can help me????
How do I friend someone from this phone on face book from a Droid phone???(I apologize upfront to those of you have sent me a friend request...I'm tryin ya'll,bare with me...mkay)

my next questions is, once I download a free music or ring tone app, are the songs free or do I have to pay for them?

PLEASE HELP!!! And if any of you have any other neat tips for me I would appreciate all the help :O)

things I've found in my dryer

Being a mother of a boy, my washer & dryer take a real beating sometimes. Not only do they wash off halacious amounts of mud and "creek stank" Kyle & Chris both love to be outdoors and always feel the need to bring some of it back home with them when they return...thanks boys!


I have no pictures for this post but trust me when I say "just use your imagination on the is one". In Kyles mere 13 & 1/2 years I have washed & dried all sorts of fun & neat things such as.........


fishing lures complete with hooks and metal weights

rubber fishing worms

rocks

sunflower seeds(still in the shell) did you know they bust out of the shell when they get all wet???? YEP....sure do!

a granola bar

a can of dip(wintergreen I might add...it was Chris's...I HOPE!)

acorns

1 trillion tubes of chap stick...{{grrrrrrr}}

an assortment of pocket knives

Chris's debit card...not Kyles fault :O)

the key to the four wheeler

batteries

and enough candy wrappers to wall paper my bathroom



....is it that obvious that I NEVER check pockets before I do laundry?



But I must say, the one thing I haven't washed enough of is money...I barely scrap by enough to by a drink out of the vending machine!

say hello to my lil' friend

this gals is the new Droid Eris...lets call him Hahn's shall we????? lets!...and Hahn's is my new bff...okay he will be once he comes in the mail today and I learn how to turn him on & download apps and all that other cool stuff......I am so excited!!!
I am like a kid at Christmas right now waiting on Mr. FedEx to drag his little butt on over to my driveway with my prize(and one for Mr. Fisherman too...can't leave him out!)...oh, and Bubba is getting a Blackberry. So yes, we are all waiting NOT so patiently!!!!!

Attention!!!!! Attention!!!!!

For those of you who care...You all do ...right?!?

i thought so.......

I am now on Face Book.....I know, I know....save me all the {gasps}.......it took me a while to convince myself.

So you can can find me under Trish Osborne Owens

Send me a friend request (I have an ongoing bet with Kyle since he says I only have a few friends!)......and if you don't want to friend me I understand....I may just have to think twice about letting you follow my blog :O)

Hope you have a great weekend.....I am now off to get a Black Berry (or that's what the peer pressure is telling me!)

whats in a name?

have you ever thought about it? Pondered it? Named your child a certain name just because of the meaning?

Nope not me! I picked Kyles name because I liked the way it sounded ....well, really I picked Kyle but then we could come up with a middle name we liked that went with Kyle, so we bumped Kyle to the middle and then Chris picked out the first name Christian to go with it.

.....so Christian Kyle was chosen....

....whatdaya think?
......I love the way it sounds(however as Kyle got older it took a lot of convincing to get him to understand that his real name was Christian!)

But this post is not really about given names, but about nicknames. If you have been a loyal reader or follower of my blog you now by know that my crazy son has a nickname.....do you remember what it is?????hmmmmmmm??????

It's Bubba
That's right ....ya know, like the big ole' red neck boy that lives on a farm down the dirt road kinda Bubba!

To be be honest I don't know how it came to be, but I have called him Bubba since the day he was born. After a few weeks of me calling him bubba it began to stick and soon the hubs started to call him that too....then his grandparents...then, when I put him in an in home daycare, that lady began to call him bubba too.

Now it is just a habit, and one that I am trying hard to get away from(since he will be starting high school in the fall) and it's not going to be too cool for your mom to call you bubba, which by the way I have been known to yell loudly from the bleachers at any given ballgame! (watch that ball bubba, hustle up bubba, get a hit now bubba...and sometimes I have even heard mothers of some of the other boys on the team cheer loudly for him and call him bubba too)

But you know what the funniest part of all this is????? When you call him by his nickname....he will answer you every time!

So, did you give your child a nickname? Was it a planned name or just happened? Did you have a nickname as a child?

nutin much

thank goodness it is Thursday and the weekend is almost here. I really don't have anything major to post today. We have stayed pretty busy on the ball field and I am trying to pull together the last minute detail on the Kyles Spring Social. for next Friday night.......we still lack one red tie ( i hope to knock that out this weekend)

If you remember, the break down on the prices for the social we could have spent around $250.00 (with tux rental & getting a stretch Hummer) but here is the run down so far.

New Black suit $30.00
Tickets $16.00
Wrist corsage $10.00
Shoes $0 (gonna wear his dads)
Pictures $0 (gonna take them myself at a near by park before the dance)
Dinner @ $20.00 (the kids want to go the local pizza joint here in town)
Ride $0 (one of the grandmothers is letting them use her white Escalade)

This $76.00 total is much better...no?!?

Stay tuned for pictures. I can't wait to see my bubba all decked out & lookin sharp in his suit.

Well thats all for now, SO ready for 5 o'clock to come cause Mr. Fisherman comes back home tonight!!!!!! Little does he know I have tons of yard work planned for the weekend...hehehe!

look up there......

up there... in the bar above this post...see it?

it says MEET ME and OUR STORY

yep, click on those if you want to learn more about me and how me & the My Fisherman came to be.

if not, and you don't care then continue on with your day and I will be marking you off my Christmas card list..........

the scariest thing i've ever seen!

see I told ya!



Scared the crap out of ME(and I was riding in the back seat!)



don't worry guys you don't have to call the law on an under age driver. We live on a private road and to be honest, he really knows what he is doing!

tug-o-war

First you climb a tree and find a huge stick.

Then get you opponent all rilled up and ready to pull!

I don't know about yall but my money is on the dark furry one!

see!!! I told ya which one to put your money on!

keeeeeepppppp pullin'

and then the tired boy gives out and guess who wins????

is that the face of a happy winner or what??????

"momaratzee"

"Hey Kyle, look at me and let momma take your picture."

"say cheese!"

cheeeeeesssssseeeeee......

"k, mom thats enough. Your making me miss my monster truck rally"

"No, seriously mom....that's enough...put that thing down and GO AWAY!"

It's my BLOGVERSARY!!!!

So it is here...{[see me do my happy dance}}}
Today is my 1year Blogversary!!! When I started this blog one year ago I did it just for fun. I never imagined that I would have met so many new friends all across the US just by doing this......WOW...and not to mention win a few Awesome giveaways too!
I just want to say THANK YOU to each one of you for putting up with me over this past year...I know some of my post have been long and just ramblings with a bit of Kyle humor thrown in for kicks & giggles.
So I raise my glass and toast to you ladies...

{{{cheers}}

here's to YOU wonderful ladies...thanks for finding Me & My Boys in this BIG blog world!

And please stick around, there will surly be more to come.

Blessing to you all~

a view from Kyles lens

The other night I was downloading all the pictures from my camera and came across these pictures that Kyle had downloaded from his Pixflix thing(Christmas gift). I swear he has file after file of pictures


Getting ready to enter the house.

This is Chris(the one in the yellow hate) at a trailer fire. Why Kyle was so close to a burning building to get this shot is still in question! I think this one was actually taken before the one above (sorry I have them in the wrong order!)

Burnt trailer..total loss.

At the scene(Kyle was on top another tanker to take the shot)

Another trailer shot...can you tell what Kyle wants to be when he grows up????? hmmmmm...I'll give you one guess.

A picture of his pride & joy, his Honda Rancher 350.

Picture of Engine 1 named in honor of a fallen firefighter that died 2 years ago this August. Kyle really took a liking to him.

The engine back in the bay all cleaned up and ready for the next call.

Rescue truck.

and last but not least another shot of his pride & joy!

And there you have it, the world through Kyles eyes. Trust me, I know how simple this must seem, but that is how Kyle is. Nothing is complex in his world. Everyday just consist of mud, dirt, lights & sirens...it always has, and it always will.

my proud momma post

Tuesday Kyle was inducted in the National Junior Honor Society, for those of you with a clue, this is a HUGE deal! You have to be nominated by your teacher and your school and it is not only based on your grades but good citizenship and community involvement. Kyle was on of the five 8th graders enducted!!!!...{{Super proud momma moment!}}


This is Kyle signed the register after taking his oath {sorry they indoor pictures are so blurry and that you get a good view of some dad's nappy head blocking my shot!!)

Waiting in line to go up on stage.

This was taken after the ceremony at the reception....notice his super cool sash. He also got a NJHS lapel pin and certificate.

Kyle and Morgan at the reception{{sidenote:they are BF/GF again...who knew???}} however he is still taking Carely to the 8th grade social in 2 weeks...I dunno, don't ask me...I'm just his mom!

just cause dad took it

I found this picture while I was going through all the pictures on my camera last night.
Chris took this of Kyle last week while they fished down at the river and I LOVE IT!
My little Bubba is no longer so little{{tear}}

off to live another day

I forgot share this story with all of you last week. Last week while Kyle was off for Spring Break(and staying home by his self during the day) he decided he would go down to the creek. This is a very common thing for Kyle. I swear the child would sleep in his tent on the creek bank every night if we would let him! Kyle and Chevy love to be down at the creek in the mud, digging and seeing other animals and splashing around and playing in the mud, skipping rocks and playing in the mud...oh, did I already mention the mud? Sorry, just had to get that point across. I am seriously thinking about installing an outdoor shower because most days he is too muddy to even walk through the house to use his shower!

Anyway I get a call from Kyle that went something like this.

Kyle "Hey mom Chevy & me are down at the creek digging another creek (yea, follow me here, mmkay!) and all the sudden I heard a bull frog....and when I turned around there was a HUGE snake, bout 4 feet long (moms heart then stops) and he had that bull frog in his mouth and he was just a hollerin'....so I went over and chopped the snakes head off and he let go of the frog and hopped back into the woods to live another day.

Mom "kyle you have got to be careful down there! There are snakes everywhere! Your Daddy told you to be on the look out for them."

Kyle" I was...I heard the frog!"

Mom "what in the world did you cut the snakes head off with?"

Kyle "duh...the shovel...what else did you think I was using to dig a new creek with!"
(I could tell he was rolling his eyes just like his daddy by hearing the tone in his voice)

........uh....stupid me!

Show some "Bubba Love"

Sorry the pictures are SO small but they were taken from my "fantabulious" cell phone! But since he is just too cute I had to share them with you guys anyhow.

Nothing like the love a boy has for his dog!

Texting on his phone...as usual!!!

Climbing the cliff at the river behind our house, sure hope he is checking for snakes!

And this one he says is part of his "workout" yep chin up on a tree...leave it to Kyle!

Back in the swing of it

Boy, this morning was tuff! I have SO enjoyed the past week with Kyle on Spring Break. It was wonderful to have a leisurely morning to get ready, iron clothes and make coffee and head out the door ahead of schedule....and leave Bubba fast asleep in bed....ahhhhhh...pure bliss.

Well NOT this morning...it was back to another crazy morning in the Owens household. Drag Kyle out of bed by his toes, make breakfast, make lunches (for him & me) make coffee, dose out med's(allergy and ADD/ADHD) iron shirts, find gym clothes, dig around in Kyles book bag only to find the letter from school that says the National Junior Honor Ceremony is tomorrow...and then to top it off Kyle decides he needs to pull a tooth this morning!!!! What's up with that? I thought he was done loosing teeth( I think I may have to Goggle that and check) other wise he just pulled an adult tooth and that adds one more to the list of 4 teeth we are already short...GOOD GRIEF!!!!

So really I think Spring Break SUCKS! By the time I get back in the swing of things and into my routine again school will be over...I think they should just call it quits and end the school year now......any takers????

ME ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!

Grab My Button

Button, Button...who wants my button????

Please take my button with you when you go.

It's over there...do you see it??? On the right sidebar????

Yep, that's it...just click on that code and take it with you (cause you know everyone wants to take a souvenir home from their trip to the beach!)

~Under Construction~

Hold onto your bloomers ladies....I am revamping my site once again (and when I say ME, I mean Stephanie)

Bare with us as we work out the final stages and such...oh this is gonna be so much fun...LOVE IT...LOVE IT...LOVE IT!!!!

Maybe while she working on my blog she can give my hips, thighs and put a nip & a tuck too...hmmmm????...that way I look as hot in person as I do in my cartoon form :O)

Summer Must have's

Since it has already hit the 90's here in North Carolina, I thought I would share with you some of my ultimate summer must haves. If you are an avid reader/stalker you already know how much time my boys & I spent at the beach and out on our boat. So here are some items I never leave at home.

This baby right here is Nutri- Vitamin Spray from Aloette. It is made for 100% pure pharmaceutical grade aloe. I use it after tanning or boating and it is the best thing EVER invented for sunburn(it is also great when you put in on after shaving to reduce redness and razor burn)

I love my(or should I say Kyles) IPOD. We have over 1000 songs downloaded and it goes everywhere with us.....we are a family that loves our music (country, big hair bands and all the old school mixes too)

I love my Chapstick w/ SPF. Chris always puts at least one tube in my stocking every year at Christmas and it will last me until the next Christmas. Nobody wants burned lips!!!!

This is another MUST have. I started using this product last summer. It is Avon's Skin-So-Soft body gel. You can use it after you shower and it doubles as your moisturizer and bug repellent all-in-one(since we do live here in the South and raise mosquito's big enough to tote a small child off into the night!!!!) It also has a very soft wonderful scent!

I LOVE all of the body mist by Victoria Secret but this is my FAV! It is called Sexy Little Things. I usually switch to the body sprays in the summer because they are lighter and not as heavy smelling as perfume.

And last but not least...and definitely not forgotten...my flops!!!! Not only flops, but Rainbows flip flops. Never leave home without them!!!!! The match everything(even cute summer dresses and skirts paired with a short jean jacket) I have to say that flops and purses are my #1 fetish. I hate for my feat to be covered....it drives my INSANE! I hate socks and slippers...my feet gotta breath, so as soon as the temps rise above 50 my toesy's come out!

Hope you guys enjoyed my list...no go get some of these for your self!

My Daily Dozen

My friend Cathy over @ Tales of the TCKK Family has be doing this fun game for a while now. So today I thought I would join in on the fun and play along.

1. Define a great relationship.
Having total trust in your spouse. If you don't have that, there is NO relationship!

2. What is the last food or drink your purchased trough a drive-through?
Breakfast this morning at Chick-Fil-A

3. What is your favorite breed of dog?
Well a Chocolate Lab of course!!! I would love to have a Great Dane but I don't think I could afford to feed it!

4. If you moved to another state, besides the one you currently live in, where would you move?
South Carolina or back home to the Bluegrass state of Kentucky!

5. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
I guess less spankings...I know I deserved them but man they hurt my feelings and my butt too!

6. Who is the funniest person you know?
That would be Kyle, hands down! That boy cracks me up everyday. You never know what is going to come out of his mouth.

7. Did you get enough sleep last night?
Nope, never do!

8. What is the first thing you thought about this morning?
What the heck is that beeping noise.....oh, it's the alarm clock!

9. Grilled or Fried?
Depending on what it is. The hubs grilled steak is the bomb and I love fried chicken too.

10. Are you afraid of the dark?
Nope, I love for the room to be pitch black when I sleep and have passed this trait onto Kyle.

11. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up.
I wanted to be a jockey or a Veterinarian(when you grow up in KY everyone wants to be a jockey)

12. If you had one word to describe yourself what word would you choose?
strong willed(oops that's two)

Bling Toes!!!

Nothing like a little ***bling*** on your toes to make it feeling like spring!

and my rainbow flops help too!!!!

What would you be?

What would you be?

If I were a month I would be November.
If I were a day I would be Friday.
If were a time of day I would be sunset.
If I were a planet I would be Venus.
If I were a sea animal I would be a dolphin
If I were a direction I would be South.
If I were a piece of furniture I would be a beach chair.
If I were a liquid I would be sweet tea.
If I were a stone I would be a sapphire.
If I were a tree I would be a Cherry Blossom.
If I were a tool I would be a hammer.
If I were a flower I would be a Peony
If I were an element of weather I would be wind.
If I were an instrument I would be a fiddle.
If I were a color I would be pink.
If I were an emotion I would be pure bliss.
If I were a fruit I would be a strawberry.
If I were a sound I would be laughter.
If I were a body part I would be hands.
If were a bird I would be a hummingbird.
If I were a smell I would be clean laundry
If I were shoes I would be flip flops.
If I were a season I would be fall.
If I were a song I would be "How Great Thou Art"

What would you be?

April Fools on ME!

I think the people at McDonald's decided to make me a part of their April Fool's joke this morning. I stopped off to get an oh so yummy Mocha this morning and when I went to take the first sip, the Mocha spilled all over me, the seat and the console.....and it was HOT! And When I say spilled, I mean spilled! I just assumed the lid was not pushed down tight, so I pulled off and grabbed up all the napkins I had stashed in the glove box and went to cleaning up the mess...and ME!

Once I took my hand sanitizer and napkin "bird bath" I went to take another sip before pulling back out onto the highway.....and dagnabit.....it did it AGAIN! It poured out ALL over me!!! At this point I want to flip down the mirror to see if I have a huge hole in my lip that I may have not have noticed this morning...nope, no hole...so what gives!!!!

So, I decide to take off the lid and assess the situation. There it was.......a huge hunk had been ripped away from the top of my cup then lined up oh so perfectly with the part on the lid where the coffee comes out......VERY interesting!

Coincidence???? I think not!

~We have a winner~

Attention ladies!!!!

I am pleased to announce that we have a winner for my $25.00 gift certificate giveaway to The Vintage Pearl!!!!

I am so excited, I must say the response I had was HUGE, so thanks to all of you who played along.

And the lucky lady who will walk away with $25.00 to spend is..........

......................................hmmmmmmm....................................

did you hear how pretty the weather is going to be this weekend in North Carolina?

Did I tell you guys that we went and picked out Kyle suit for the 8th grade social this past Saturday? No, I forgot to tell you. Well, we started out a TJ MAXX, and..........

....what?

what did you say?

oh, I was suppose to be announcing the winner for my giveaway????

oh, that's right, where was I???

let's see....let me dig WWWAAAAAYYYYYYYY down to the bottom of my blue plastic bowl full of names here (yep, cheap plastic bowl, I roll large ya'll)


{{{{{{drum roll please}}}}}}}}


And the lucky lady is........

Becky @ http://www.becky-inthetrenches.blogspot.com/


Ya-HOO.... Congrats girlie...... You deserve it!!! I can't wait to see what you pick out.

Please send me an email to claim your gift certificate.

Words you don't want to hear

Me "Kyle are you getting ready?"
.....silence......
Me "Kyle!" (this time with a firmer tone in my voice)
.....silence......

I then decide it would be a good idea to lay my curling iron down and go see where he has wondered off to when he is suppose to be in the bathroom getting ready for school.
The light is out in his bathroom...hmmmm..I stand a listen...silence again...no TV noise...no cell phone vibrating...no music....nothing????

Me "Kyle!"

Kyle "ma'am"

Me "where are you? You need to be getting ready for school!"

Kyle " I AM! I'm ironing my shirt"

........everything in the world comes to a screeching halt!
I bet all of you felt it...right???...about 6:40 this morning...yep, thought so!...............

Welcome to my mornings!

Fun #10 picture game

I saw this game on another person's blog last week...don't remember who...or where...cause I stalk so many...hehehehe!

But I thought it was a cute idea. All you have to do it go into My Documents, open up your saved pictures and pick your 10th picture. Then do a short post with the picture and tell us the story behind it...who...when ...where...why....ya know...the normal stuff.

If you want to play along let me know so I can drop in and check yours out!

This is a picture of Kyle(of course). It was taken 2 summers ago at Top Sail Beach. Kyle and Chris where digging in the sand to find sand fiddlers(I guess the fish love them, but I think they are GROSS!) and away he ran to show me the "big catch of the day"

SEEEEEEE MOM!!!!!!

Boy he sure has grown alot! He doesn't even look anywhere close to this anymore...{{{tear}}}

So now it's your turn to show me your #10 picture......I'm waiting...{{tapping foot}}

Don't forget about my GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Don't forget to register for my giveaway....times a waisten' ladies!!!!
It ends Wednesday so time is running out!

Here how to enter...

Just leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
Become a follower or already be one (1 entry)
Visit The Vintage Pearl and tell me your favorite piece (3 entries)
Blog about my giveaway (5 entries)

Good luck! I will announce the winner on April 1st!!!!

~Always Remember~

~Whenever God closes a door, he always opens a window. And when the window is shut and you think there is no other way out, look for the small crack with the light shining through. You just have to fall to your knees to fit through it~

Why I need a "Teen" Sitter!!!

Some of you with small children have not reached the point in life where your kids are old enough to be left alone and you still have to find a sitter or after school care, but let me tell ya...it is wonderful....or so I thought!

Kyle had an "early out" school day yesterday, which means that school lets out at 12:30 for some stupid reason I have yet to figure out.

Anyhow, back to my story. When I get home I failed to notice(BAD MOM) that Kyle had the back tire off his 4 wheeler! I know, I know...how in the world does a mom miss seeing something like that, well let me just cover myself by saying that I park my truck in the first bay of the garage and the 4 wheeler was in the 3rd bay hiding between the boat and Chris's truck...so there!

I must say that after the initial shock wore off I was very impressed! Now keep in mind Kyle is 13 years old is about 5'4 and weighs 93 lbs soaking wet. So I was a tad perplexed as to how this child was strong enough to lift the 4 wheeler high enough to place it on a cinder block and a 4X4 block of wood....not to mention loosen and remove the bolts(which I was later told were technically called LUGNUTS...whatever!) and then remove the back tire all by his self, shoot I get worn out just thinking about it!

Without thinking, the first words out of my mouth were "does your dad know about this?"

and after that the conversation when like this....

Kyle" no"

Me "well why did you take the tire off?"

Kyle "my barring was stripped"

Me "your who, was what?"

Kyle" the barring, ya know in the shaft (takes his hand and wiggles this metal thing at me) this right hear...see?????"

me "oh, I guess"

Kyle " so I had to take the tire off so I could check it out and see if it was just stripped or broke"

Me "well how in the world did you get the 4 wheeler jacked up on the cinder block and get the tire off all by yourself?"

*****Note to self: this is not a good question to ask a child with ADD & ADHD*******

**I think I should have changed clothes, made popcorn and settled in with a warm blanket first**

***also keep in mind that this is no small 4 wheeler but a HUGE Honda 350****

Kyle " well I had to back it in, then got the cinder block in the right position, then I had to use the lift jack and ........................

after that, everything I heard seemed to be spoken in pig Latin cause I didn't understand a word that came out of that child's mouth!

I swear if I would have had the camera to take a picture of it you guys would not believe your eyes!!!!!! This boy had the 4 wheeler(and not the smaller version of one) just perfect,all lined up and centered on the block, tool kit out, lug nuts removed, tire off, and rigged up extension cords with lights...the whole nine yards!

When you leave Kyle unattended you never know what is going to happen. Don't get me wrong, he is a good kid, he just loves to work on things and get muddy. I guess he is just being a boy.

I don't know about you guys, but I now terrified of him getting a truck in 2 years!!!!! I can just picture coming home one day to a huge 4X4 truck all taken apart and up on block in my yard....good Lord, what will the neighbors think!

New York City here I come.....again!

Yep...I am heading back to the Big Apple....again.....this will be my 4th time in a year....whew!

Anyway, I thought I would mention this to my North Carolina blog friends to see if any of you would like to hop on the bus and join me....hmmmm....maybe???

If so, just shoot me an email or leave me a comment with your email address and I can give you more details about the trip. Trust me, if you go, you will have a wonderful time...its a BLAST!

Oh, just in case, here are a few quick details on the trip.

We will leave on Friday night at 10pm May 14th from Smithfield, NC. Arrive in NYC around 8am Saturday morning. You can shop, sight see or take in a show...do what ever you want to do all day...as long as your little hinney is back on the bus at 10pm Sat. night. The cost is only $85.00 per person and well worth it!

So, if you want to join in on the fun let me know!!!!!

Why didn't I think of this?????

This cartoon just tickles me to death!!!!!!

You know I am all about saving some money and since I will be turning 35 this year and things have already started heading south for early retirement I will have to run this idea by "my girls" and see what they think.......

..........who knows maybe I will start a new fashion trend on the beach!

BIG SECRET-Update

So I have left you guys to ponder and wonder all weekend what my big secret is all about.

First off, lets get one thing straight right from the get go shall we???

I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!!!!!

whew....now that I have said that, I can move on to the real news.

In honor of my 1 year Blogversary(can you believe I have been doing this for almost a year???) I wanted to do something neat, maybe a giveaway of some sort...but just what should I do????

Then it hit me...why not do this????

That's right girlie's!!!! I am hosting a giveaway!!!!! I have feel in love with everything on her site and I just love the piece I had her design from a giveaway I won. I get so many complements from people when I wear it.

So now it's YOUR turn!!!!!

The lucky winner will win a $25.00 gift certificate courtesy of Erin @ www.thevintagepearl.com.
You can spend it any way you choose. She has so many beautiful items it will be hard for the winner to decide....TRUST ME!


I will make it very simple for you to win. Here is all you need to do.

1. Comment on this post & leave me your email address (1 entry)

For EXTRA chances...and we all loves those.....

2. Be a follower or become a new one (1 entry)
3. Visit The Vintage Pearl and let me know your favorite piece (3 entries)
4. Blog about my giveaway (5 entries)

Please post each entry under a separate comment so I can keep track of them.

I wish you all the best of luck!!!!!

The winner will be announced on April 1st....
but I promise it won't be a joke!

~I HAVE A SECRET~

....now that I have your undivided attention......let me start by saying I have BIG, HUGE, exciting, earth shaking news!!!!!

{{cheers, whoops & hollers from the crowd}}



.....okay, well mabe not that big.......



I am so excited I could almost pee my pants!!!!!



But ya know what?



the only bad part is.....................



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I just can't tell you yet!!!!!!!!!



{{boos, hisses and mean faces from the crowd}}



But stay tuned, I promise I will tell you soon....I've never been good at keeping secrets!!!!

Not a good morning!

If the rest of the day is going to be as bad as this morning has been I am calling it quits and going back to bed, pull the covers over my head and not come back out.......EVER!

At 7:43 this morning as I was almost pulling into work I get a text message from Kyle. First off that is not a good sign since his skinny little butt should be already on the bus and heading toward school.

The message says, just as Kyle typed it "mine as well go ahead and b grounded"

hmmmmmm.....that's an interesting text...............

Mt first thought is that he missed the bus and that I will have to turn back around and driver 30 mins back home gpick him up and drive him to school...... instead I text him back and asked "why?"

A minute or two later a new text comes in and says:

"I let Chevy in the house for like 5 mins while I got ready and I told him to stay on the tile while I went to get my shoes and when I came back I was lookin at the tv while I was walkin and he was on the hardwood and I bumped into him and he slid and scratched the hardwood"

At that moment my heart starts to pound hard in my chest and I am sure I had smoke coming out of my ears! He knows better than to let a 115lb Chocolate Lab in the house!!!!!! I am sure I now have a huge crater dug out of my hardwood the size of the Grand Canyon!

But being the great mother I am all I ask is "r u on the bus!?"

Kyle "yea, am I in trouble?"

Me "turn your ph off and we will tlk about this ltr!"

As I head into my office still fuming I get another text.

"so am I in trouble"

let just say I didn't respond to that one and at this point he is much safer in the public school system than to be within arms reach of me!

2010 Census

Have any of seen this thing yet???

Ours came in the mail last night and Chris decided he would go ahead and "knock it out" while I was finishing up cooking supper......

.......BAD IDEA..........

For those of you that don't know, the hubs has very little patience at times, but I wasn't gonna argue with him and decided I would let him go ahead and play 20 questions with the government......hehehe!

Q#1 How many people live in yout house as of April 1st 2010?

Chris "well first off it's not even halfway through March!"

Q#2 Which type of home to you reside in ?

Chris " well why in the world does it matter if I live in a house, trailer, hotel room or cardboard box!"

Q#3 What is your phone number?

well folks this is when things started to get ugly....Chris was not happy about putting our phone number on the from. He hates telemarketers, political calls and not to mention we have a non published number due to his job and having people call our house with threats (yep, we have even had people pull up in our driveway to confront him more than once for stopping someone in their family)

Next the form wants the names, birthday, age and race of every person living in the house.....(at this point I thank God that we aren't Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger with 19 kids!!!)

This is when Chris gets ticked again....if you remember back to an earlier post of mine Kyle brought home a form from school requesting the parents to complete the childs race and sign and return it to the school. Well Kyle forgot to give the form to us and had to have silent lunch. Chris saw red to say the least and added a nice little note to the bottom of the form when he signed it that said Kyle is still as white as he was on the first day of school when we filled out the first 50 billion forms and he was pretty sure he was going to stay that way all the way through 12th grade....let me just say it wasn't pretty folks!

When he finished the cenus I told him to leave it on the counter so I could "check over his work" before sealing it up and mailing it. It was so funny to look at each question and you could tell by the sloppiness of each X he made on the blocks that he was getting more irritated. The first question there was a nice nea perfect X....by question 4 the X was sloppy,misshaped and had grown to the size of my finger nail.

So if you haven't completed your 2010 Cenus...good luck to you and I hope you have plenty of patience!!!

My North Carolina Life

WOW!

Has it been that long already????

It sure doesn't seem like 13 years have gone by, and so quickly they have faded into a memory pushed back in the file cabinet(somewhere in the dusty back corner of my brain).

...but if my fingers have done the math correctly(and I did recount twice and carried my one) it has been 13 years since we packed up the truck and car(complete with crib, highchair, enough clothes to get us all by for a few weeks and a zip lock bag full of passies) and hit the road to move here to North Carolina.

Kyle was a mere 7 months old and as long as I kept the passies coming every time he threw one toward the back window or onto the floorboard he was a "happy camper". Our move happened fast by Army standards...Chris was given an Honorable Discharge a going away dinner and a plaque and we were off to begin our new life in NC.....all the while praying the Army would not screw anything up while packing an moving the rest of our belongings(I tend have a slight OCD when it comes to packing. I like to do it myself, that way it is done right & I know where everything is...for instance...MY SHOES?!?...but more on that later)

I thought moving to NC would not be any different than coming from Georgia or South Carolina but boy was I wrong! The small one stop light town we moved to was a HUGE shock to me....not to mention the town had no Daycare Centers, only "at home" childcare...hmmmmm????

I have learned so many things since I have been here.....

Like how fast I learned to drive with one hand at the top of the steering wheel, because everyone you pass coming the other direction is going to wave at you.

Or how you need to allow extra time for tractors, plows and combines when you go anywhere.

That the trunk of a car is called the "boot"

How every sentence ends with "Sir" or "Ma'am"

They will have a Pig Piggin at the drop of hat(birth, death, graduation, marriage,homecoming)...if it happens to ya...a pig is gonna die!

That everyone older than you is addressed as "Mrs. So & So or Mr. So & So"

And that the Volunteer Fire Dept. whistle will wake you and your toddler out of a dead sleep at all hours of the night...and then blow again at noon to signal the farmers it was time for lunch!

Also, you could come home on any given day to find that "some kind neighbor" has left you a watermellon, a basket full of corn or even a bottle of homemade wine!

I have to say, that after living here for 13 years I still learn new things all time time about "life down South". I love it here, it has become my home. I will always be a "Kentucky Girl" at heart, but there is no doubt,that the remainder of my life will be lived out here in North Carolina.

Oh, and if your wondering about my shoes???? I finally found them while putting up the Christmas decorations....yep...they had packed my shoes with the Christmas stuff...now why did I never think to look in that box?????

Warming it up

Nothing like a new page layout that brings a little water & sand your way, huh?
Can't wait til I can head on down to the beach, set out my chair, grease up with oil and soak up the sun rays....ahhhhhhh........

Letter to the teacher

To Kyle's Teacher(no names will be mentioned here)

I understand you are concerned with Kyle's diarrhea of the mouth (which is what we call his never ending ramblings around our house) during your class time. However, what I don't understand and agree with is the fact that you never gave him a verbal warning to stop his behavior. Instead, you move him to another seating area and proceed to complete a written write-up that is to be sent home and signed by me and returned to you for his file. Any logical and half way intelligent person would review the form for errors before neatly folding it and placing it in a sealed envelope(complete with scotch tape and your initails over the seal to deter any grubby hands from tampering with the eveidence!). Let me just state for the record...not that I am trying to do your job, but next time, you may want to fill in the blank where it says DATE and if it's not too much trouble, sign the BIG fat blank at the bottom where it reads TEACHERS SIGNATURE!!!!

Oh, and by the way, you may want to bring it someones attention that if the parent is required to sign the form it would be great if there was a space provided for that too...just sayin. But until then, I just scratched my initials at the bottom. And do I get any extra credit for adding the date too?

Signed,
Love seeing my tax dollars at work

well now that's just GROSS!!!!!

I would love to say that Chevy was the one who drug this little finding up from the woods...but nope....it was Kyle. I swear that boy can find the most gross things and bring them home for "show & tell"...pay no attention that my son's hair is so long he looks like Cousin It!

He was so excited to show us his treasure. If you look close you can still see some of the deers skin stuck to the skull....{{{gag}}

Now he has to show me all it's teeth...nice Kyle! And Chevy has to show his too!

And now he tells me to get a close-up of the hair still attached around his eye....{{{double gag}}}

Now, go put it back in the woods where you found it (cause I'm pretty sure Santa is missing a reindeer)and come back to the house so I can hose you down with bleach!!

I swear that boy will pick anything up!