Heading to Tennessee

I am headed to Tennessee today with my dad to see my pawpaw. Pray for safety and for our time with him to be a blessing. Will update when I get back.

Girls Night Out

I am so thankful for my closest friends (some of which were not in on this latest venture). We had so much fun going out and celebrating Jamie's birthday. I don't think I have laughed like that in a long time and I know I haven't had that much fun in a long time. Cara, Jamie, Caitlin and I went to Margarita Grill and had some chips and salsa, tacos, nachos and of course, some a.w.e.s.o.m.e. margaritas!!! I love you girls!!! Thanks for the laughs!! WOOHOO!!!!

Bowling (First post of hopefully many to come)

Not sure if all of you know or not, but you can sign up for bowling for your kids to get 2 free games of bowling a week!!! You can go to www.kidsbowlfree.com and it shows you the list of participating ones. However, Oak Mountain Lanes in Pelham is doing the same thing but you have to sign up through their website which is www.oakmountainlanes.com

Anyway, my friend and I took our kids bowling and we had a blast!!! The kids did great and even Graci enjoyed it. (Now please, I am not sure who the person is on the video talking because they are MIGHTY country, so please forgive them (wink wink)) Believe it or not, Payton came in first out of the crew and Graci even beat her big sissy!! Sissy is going to stick with gymnastics :)

Wordless Wednesday

Pool Time Fun at Nana & Paw's

Pray for My PawPaw Please....

I have so much I am trying to organize and upload and try to remember what I wanted to say but this takes priority over that all right now...

Please pray for my PawPaw, Dale Roberts. He was diagnosed with lung cancer on March 5, 2008. He has been fighting this battle very hard and has been doing a good job until now. The cancer is taking over. He isn't in any pain but they think it might have spread to his brain. He is falling a lot and cannot get up to go to the bathroom now and is having trouble feeding himself. His weight has dropped to 123 pounds from his normal weight of between 225 to 240. This is my only granddaddy. I have always been close to him and I love him soooo much!!! He lives in Shelbyville, TN with his wife, Jere, who has been a rock during this time. She loves him so much and I am so thankful that they have each other. Pray for her. This is her soul mate and this is hard on her too. Pray for peace about everything. Pray for strength. Pray for my daddy, Richard (he has both parents still living). Pray for PawPaw that his mind stays clear.

I am so thankful that last year I was able to go and see my PawPaw be baptized after finally committing his life to Christ after so many years. (see this post) At least now I know where he will be spending eternity. I am just not ready for him to go right yet.

Pray that I can work out the details so I can go up and spend the day with him this next week. I really need to go soon and I want to be able to spend some time with him, just holding him and hugging him. I need this before he does pass.

I think that is all for now, but I would appreciate the prayers.

Aggravation!!

Where in the world have I been?? I didn't realize I have been neglecting my blog as much as I have. So much has happened in the past few weeks I really don't know where to begin. I need to post pictures of graduation (emi's), end of year parties, sprinkler fun with the cousins and friends, our house freshly painted, how big my dog has gotten, and on and on.... guess I better get on that today... that is after I finish the dishes, the clothes, the cleaning, playing with children, grocery list making, playing with children, cleaning up after children, you get the picture (hopefully for real soon). Guess that is where I have been :(

Not Me! Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I most certainly did NOT...

* Do a diaper check on my 2 year old with my finger while at her sissy's gymnastics to find that the poop had gone up her back and then all over my finger. I did not then proceed to carry on the conversation with the other moms while playing it cool. I did not then go to change her in the car and only have 1 wipe to clean up all that mess. Not me!!

* Drive almost the whole way to my daughter's school (and actually on time) to hear her say "mommy, i don't have any shoes on"... to only have to turn around and go home and then back to the school. I did not curse under my breath and I did not lose my temper. Not me!!

* Crawl in the back of my surburban while at the park with all my children and use the potty I have in the back because my bladder would not allow me to walk all the way across the park to the actual bathroom.

* Put a pair of off brand spanx on so I could try and hide all the rolls coming out of the top of my pants and declare that I could still fit into a pair of pants that most certainly would not have fit without the aforementioned fake spanx :(

NOPE, NOT ME!!!!!