Weekend of Pumpkins

We started the weekend with pizza shaped pumpkin and then went to a local farm and picked out some more pumpkins to carve and fed the animals at the farm. Bring on the Candy!!!!

I love the color of leaves in the fall, however, I could do without all of the raking. These trees are from our yard.

True Story

Preston and I were on our way this morning to the local mall to play at the indoor kids area when I saw 3 teenage boys jumping a fence out of the corner of my eye. I thought there was no way that they will run across the street because they should know better. Its a busy street with cars going 50 miles per hour and its raining. Apparently they did not know better. I came within inches of hitting them screeching to a halt. I also noticed that they were carrying a lot of electronic equipment in their hands. As soon as they got out from in front of me, I turned around to make sure Preston was OK and that I wasn't about to be hit from behind when a woman from the fence was yelling "stop them they broke into my neighbors house". I called the police to report what I saw and they asked me to stay there to give them directions of where I saw the boys running.
I left afterwards without knowing if they were caught. I feel sorry for the homeowners and I feel sorry that I was able to stop in time, a little nudge from the SUV would of done them some good.

Pictures from the pumpkinfest farm this weekend.

Great buys

Favorite buy this weekend...
Bitten jeans by Sarah Jessica Parker $14.99 at Steve & Barry's. Cant beat that deal and they are very comfortable.

Today is my grandmothers birthday, we call her Mammy. She is 94 years old, still drives, still volunteers every week at the hospital, her church, and is in better health than me. Moral of this blog entry is dont mess with mammy she may be small but she can still kick ass.

Good things...

Its almost the weekend and we are taking the kids to a local pumpkinfest farm on Saturday which has a corn maze, spider swing and animals.
www.pigeonroostfarm.com

I finally got DeSolvIt stain remover back in the house after it was taken off the grocery shelves for a while, (thank you dad and Carol). This stuff rocks and gets out all the stains on my kids clothing...which is a lot and some of it even unrecognizable as to what it is exactly.... YIKES!

My husband bought me Nicholas Sparks new book "The Choice" last night as a surprise so I cant wait to start reading it.

Weather has taken a turn and even though its cooled off ,which is nice, its a bit chilly for Preston and I to play outside with highs in the 50's so hopefully it will warm back up just a bit.

We have 2 people interested in making an offer on the house so we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Its been a year

One of my oldest and dearest friends from childhood was killed a year ago this month on the 13th. Her name was Jennifer McCaleb Unland. Jennifer was driving with her 2 little girls when a car struck and killed her and one of her children in Gallatin TN. Her infant daughter only a few months old at the time survived. I have known her forever, we went to church together, we played together, spent the night at each others house, and stayed in touch as we got older and went our seperate ways.

Getting the news from her mother was the most horrible thing I have ever heard in my entire life and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I fell to the ground and couldnt move. I thought it was a bad dream, it couldnt be true, we had just emailed each other the day before. I have never felt so much pain in my heart before.


Even a year later after saying my goodbyes at the gravesite, after hugging her parents, even after hugging her husband and surviving daughter, Im still not ok. I cry when I think about her and I cant seem to delete Jennifers email address from my yahoo account. It seems to permanent.

I really dont want to hear that "its time to let it go, its time to put it in the past, its time to stop crying over it, she is in a better place". All of that being true but I dont want to hear it, I dont want to think that even though she is in heaven that its a better place than raising her 2 daughters and being with her family and friends. I am grateful for the fact that her daughter Hannah, who also was killed, is not alone in heaven and has her mommy there. I want her back God, I want to get an email from her telling me about her week. I understand about Gods will, I understand she is in a better place, I understand that its part of life but I dont want to accept it sometimes.

I want to be ok with the decisions that life made to take her away but Im not ok with it and not sure that I ever will be. I once heard that God doesn't take someone away that life does. I understand that statement but I wish I didn't because then I would have someone to blame, then I could be mad at someone.

Jennifer you are missed.

Diapers, diapers and more diapers

Preston is refusing to use the potty again for some reason, maybe he just isnt ready yet. He was doing good for a while and then suddenly stopped. Even bribery with M&M's isnt working. While changing his diaper this morning I told him he was a big boy and that he should be using the potty. His response to that was "no mommy, Im a baby " he then grabbed the clean diaper out of my hand and tried putting it on himself.
Ive got my work cut out for me.

Our neighbor made this for Preston out of wood.

Superman doesnt feel so super

My superman isn't feeling so super at the moment. My superman gets tired, needs to rest and has difficulty sometimes just getting through the day. He doesnt want a fuss over him so I hope he knows that even superman needed to rest and allowed others to take care of him. No matter what dad you will always be my superman and the strongest man I know.