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.

Good things

• Dinner with the in laws on Saturday and political talk didn't take over the evening.
• We have an open house on Sunday and hopefully we will sell the house.
• My dad and step mom are coming to visit Friday
• Prestons tantrums seem to be calming down and he is really interested in learning his ABC's.
• Nicholas Sparks new book "The Choice" comes out today.
• Weather in the evening has cooled off and we are back to taking walks after dinner.

Little Stinker

Im ready for my diaper change...and its going to be a stinky one.

Toddler lyrics

Preston's favorite song..

Preston loves to jump on the trampoline and sing his favorite song Ring around the Rosie
His rendition of the song goes something like this "ring rosie ass's ass's fall down".
I think I like his version better.

One of those days

It has started off to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Preston woke up early this morning and climbed into bed with us which meant that no one got a full nights sleep...again. The AEP meter reader got an earful this morning from some crazy lady wearing her pajamas ...ok the crazy lady was me, but he deserved it. I will tell you in a bit. And to top it off Preston is refusing breakfast and instead has asked me for a popsicle every 2 minutes. You'd think he would get tired of hearing the same answer "no you cant have a popsicle for breakfast". Nope, apparently he doesn't get tired of it. We settled on crackers and cheese...hey atleast he is eating something and it does contain calcium.

Ok back to the American Electric Power company (AEP). The meter reader that reads the meter in the back of our yard continues to jump our chain link fence coming in and leaving. Never mind that we have a gate, never mind that I have called to complain for the past 7 months, never mind that Ive spoken to managers, supervisors, and numerous customer service associates. Apparently the word isn't getting to the meter reader who still jumps the fence. I don't even jump my own fence so I don't want a stranger jumping my fence. If the meter reader was to break our fence guess who is responsible for that....yep we are. This fence is our only way of keeping the wild ones in (kids), this fence is the only thing between Preston and the busy street that he is amazed by and doesn't pass up the opportunity to toggle it with one foot on the driveway, one foot on the street. This fence is the only thing that keeps Preston from chasing dogs, firetrucks and who knows what else down the street. Its one thing for us to break it but its entirely another thing for someone else to break it. After seeing him jump it once again this morning I marched outside in my pajamas with my crazy morning hair and told him to stop jumping my ____(insert bad word) fence. I let him know that Ive complained numerous times and pretty sure he has been told not to do it so why do you continue. Ok are you ready for this, this is his answer. "Ummm ok". Thats the answer I got. The crazy lady wearing her pajamas must of scared him so much that the only answer he could give me was Ummm ok.

After going off on the meter reader, coming in to realize that my pajamas had cheese on them, seeing my hair for the first time this morning in the mirror...yikes, calling AEP once again to complain and getting the same answer "it wont happen again" and me giving them the same answer "Ive heard that before and I dont come to your house and jump your fence so dont jump mine"......I gave into the popsicle so for breakfast this morning my son is eating cheese, crackers and a popsicle.

Id move to Australia, but Im pretty sure they have days just like this as well.

(Best book in the world for adults and kids...Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No good, very bad day. by Judith Viorst)

Labor Day

This Labor day we did some yard work, ran errands and took Preston to a local church festival. They had rides, live music, games, food and fireworks. It was a lot of fun.

Double the Trouble

Like father.. like son.

Poster child for hooked on phonics??

Prestons vocabulary for the week....

Ina wing=I want to swing
oooookie-=cookie
buice=juice
pay=play
ruck=truck
oww=cow
peas=please
tank u=thank you
pane=plane
oon=moon
ent=ant
ibokeit=I broke it

He's not perfect but in our family who could tell!!!

You too can go from this ↑ to this ↓ with a little bit of hail damage and a whole lotta home insurance.

I want one

Preston says "I want one" when he wants another mighty magic minis popsicle. Here is how the conversation went last night.

Preston- Mommy I want one
Mommy-No, you have already had 2
Preston-I want one
Mommy-No, you can have another one tomorrow
Preston-Daddy, I want one
Daddy-No, what did your mommy say
Preston-I want one
Daddy-No, you cant have another one
Insert puppy eyes and bottom lip out
Preston-Daddy see my booboo
Daddy-You have a new booboo
Preston-yeah
Daddy-Ok you can have one