1-11-07

Hard to believe that my little baby Dylan is 3 years old today! He is growing up way too fast! We are celebrating with cupcakes tonight and then Sunday we are having a birthday party. He picked the Cars movie theme. Should be lots of fun!

Today we went to Walmart to get Dylan three year pictures taken. Well, I checked when we first got there to see if there was much of a wait. The photographer was having technical difficulties and said come back in a half hour to see if he was able to fix things. So I said OK. Well, last year when we had pictures taken I was LUCKY to get anything worth keeping, so I told Dylan that if he smiled really good for me then he could pick out a toy. Well, since we couldn't get right in to get the pictures done, I made the mistake of letting him pick a toy first. So we payed for our things and then went back to see if we could get the pictures taken. It was fixed thank goodness! So I let Dylan pick a couple of the backgrounds that he liked. He seemed really excited about everything. Well, we get in the little room and I sit him on the table and he lets the guy get one picture that wasn't very good, and he wanted to get down. He refused to let him get anymore. He was putting his head on the floor. I tried bribing him with everything...Happy Meal, returning the toy he picked out ect. Nothing worked. Then the photographer pulled out a background of Thomas the Train. THAT DID IT!! Hooray for Thomas! Once Dylan saw that he was all for getting the pictures done. Of course we did the rest of the backgrounds BEFORE we did Thomas. LOL So I did get some half way decent pictures. The smiles look a little un-natural, but I was happy to get what I got!

Also, I couldn't believe it....the first gas station I passed on the way to Walmart was priced at $1.99!!! I couldn't believe it. FINALLY under $2 a gallon. Then when I went a little further past Meijer's they had gas for $1.94!! Wonder how long this will last?

1st blog entry of 2007

Happy New Year all! Hope your holiday season was as nice as ours although we did have a couple bumps along the way. The first "bump" happened on Christmas Eve day. My brother-in-law called Alton and was in tears I guess because he was being evicted from his apartment. He had to be out by 3pm on Christmas Eve! So all that day Alton and Bobby moved his stuff into our garage. We set him up a room in our basement for the time being. It's not been too bad having him here because he pretty much has everything he needs down there....bathroom, ect. When my other brother-in-law lived with us he was in what is now Dylan's room, and he had to use our bathroom. I did not like that one bit! The only bad thing we've had to deal with throughout the whole thing is that EVERYTHING he owns smelled like cat urine! He lived with two other guys, and one guy has 9 cats living int he apartment and none were spayed!!!! It's not that the cats actually peed on his stuff, just the stench from the nasty apartment got on everything! So he's washed all of his clothes and put Frebreeze on everything so the smell is pretty much gone--Thank goodness! I just hope that he is able to get on his feet and get his own place very soon! We'll see. He has many problems.

The other bump we had is that one week later on New Year's Eve Alton, Dylan and I all woke up with nasty colds. So needless to say we stayed home on New Years and watched the ball drop in Times Square. I think that was the first time we stayed home and didn't have anybody over for New Years. But we are all pretty much over the colds. Dylan got over his very quick! So that was a blessing. so if you're praying one night and you think of me, send a prayer my way that our guest can get up and on his feet in the next few months! Thank you!!!!

The Polar Express

For those of you who have never seen The Polar Express movie I totally recommend that you do! It is so cute! Especially at this time of the year! I watched it for the first time a few days ago. Dylan loves it, so when they aired it again I recorded it for him. If you have a "non-believer" of Santa Claus definitely let him/her watch this movie! It may just change their mind!

Alton's Work Christmas Party

Yesterday was Alton's work Christmas party. And as usual we went to a comedy club for dinner and a show. But before we go to the show we always go to Alton's bosses house for horduerves and a gift exchange. Well, this year I lucked out a got a good gift...a box of chocolate pralines. But Alton on the other hand was ambushed. These people that he works with are sooooooo raunchy. This is what they did. They know Alton is totally against gay marriage ect. ect. So they made sure that he got a certain gift. This gift included condoms, a bar of soap, and the movie Broke Back Mountain. These people are so dumb!!! I don't know why they can't just buy a normal gift. And some of the other gifts that people received were a porn DVD, and a blow up female doll!!! SO SICK!!! Just so they can get a laugh! I dread this party every year, because it's always the same ol' thing. Of course we are talking about a group of guys, but come on! Be civil for one day of the year when your wives are with you! At least the food and show were good!

Our visit to Santa

Yesterday was our annual visit to Santa at the O.P.C. (Older Persons Center--A place for people 50 and up) with my in-laws. They have an awesome Christmas set up each year for the public. This was our third year going and I think it was the best so far. You would not believe the work they do with the decorations and all the set up. There must have been close to 50 Christmas trees all decorated differently! Not to mention tons of poinsettia plants, Santa Clauses, and other decor. This year to my surprise Dylan would not sit on Santa's lap. So I had to sit in Mrs. Claus's chair with Dylan on my lap in order to get a picture. The previous two years he went right up and got on his lap with no problem. Then after the picture I tried to get Dylan to get his face painted. There was a whole sheet of pictures to choose from, but he wouldn't do it. I even did it thinking once he saw me do it then he would. No such luck! I got a really cute snowman painted on my cheek. They also had a craft table where you could make a picture frame for the pic with Santa. He didn't want anything to do with that either. So I made one. One thing that he was VERY interested in was a train that they had set up. There was a model train club who brought that in. They had a ticket booth where you got a ticket and a conductor's hat. You should have seen this train. It was the length of the whole room, and it was a big room. It had a whole city built around the train tracks too. Complete with a police car that had a corvette pulled over to a farm scene with lots of little chickens all over. It was the neatest thing! Then one of the trains had a camera on the front of it and at a certain point on the track you could stand there and see yourself on a little TV screen. So neat! Trying to get Dylan away from there so that we could go eat lunch was like pulling teeth. He DID NOT want to leave the room. Of course he threw a tantrum and embarrassed me, but once we got into where lunch was he saw there was a high school choir singing Christmas carols so he was interested in that a little. They had brought in food from a Wendy's restaurant that had donated and also had their own food. So after we ate Dylan and my father-in-law went back to the trains while my mother-in-law and I checked out the baked goods that were being sold. I bought some Christmas cookies and a chocolate chip loaf. YUM!! Everything sold goes to charity! I wish everybody could see this! It's such an awesome event.

Hello

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. We did. We were able to spend quite a bit of time with my brother and sister in law, that came from Georgia, so that was nice. We learned how to play a new game that they brought with them called Apples to Apples, so that was fun.

We finally got our Indian summer this week. The weather has been beautiful. Today we are supposed to have record breaking temps. Close to 70. Today the sun isn't out though unfortunately. Then by Friday they are talking snow. Lovely! LOL Yesterday I raked up four bags of leaves, but you can't even tell. Alton has been telling me that he was going to get our lawnmower out and mulch them all up, but he never has. I just wanted to get the stuff around our drive way and in front of our deck up, because the leaves keep getting dragged into the house on our shoes. Then they wind up in the kitchen!

Woes of the holiday season!

Isn't the holiday season supposed to be a happy time of year? This year is already giving me a headache! We are having a hard time dividing our time between Alton's and my sides of the family. I know a lot of people alternate holidays between families, but I am trying to avoid doing that. The hard part is that for each holiday--Thanksgiving and Christmas--we have family coming in from out of town that we want to be able to see. It just seems that on the holiday we are constantly running from place to place that we hardly have a chance to enjoy anywhere that we go. And if we don't go to certain places it just doesn't seem like the holidays. So if anybody reads this and has any suggestions I would definitely like to hear what you do if you have the same situation. LOL

Haircut

Today I got my hair cut. It's been over a year since the last time it was cut. I decided to go to a new girl that my friend is friends with. She did an EXCELLENT job! I love my hair!! I told her how I wasn't quite sure of what I wanted done, so she let me look through a style book. There really wasn't anything that jumped out at me. So she suggested some long layers. So I said go for it. I was pretty much up for anything except short. Now the whole thing is getting it to look like how she did it!!! She blew it all dry and flipped it up in certain places. I hope I can do it. The best part is that she only charged me $20!! Awesome!!

November Already

Can't believe it's November already!! Hope everybody had a fun Halloween last night. We went trick-or treating in our neighborhood. There weren't many people handing out candy, but that didn't matter because Dylan was ready to quit after about two blocks! All he wanted to do was go home. I have no idea why! At the last house that we tried to get him to go to all he would do is sit in their front yard. LOL The people were sitting on their front porch even! All he had to do was walk up and get the candy. He wouldn't do it. So that was the end for us. Maybe next year he'll be more into it. Alton and I were kind of bummed, me especially because Halloween is my favorite holiday. Oh well.

A sickly week

Tuesday morning I woke up to Dylan being sick. He had thrown up in his bed. YUCK!! This is the first time he's ever been sick since he's been born. By Wednesday the throwing up was gone, but it was coming out of the other end very badly! And then come Wednesday night I got the privilege to start the whole process. Today I am felling much better. My body seems to be a little sore from all the dry heaving I've done though. I'm waiting and dreading when Alton gets it. Hopefully he's lucky enough not to get it. We had been at a birthday party last Sunday and I think that's where we got the sickness. My cousin who's birthday party it was is also sick. Thank goodness it's behind us now and we're feeling much better!

Our Weekend

Alton had the weekend off, so that was nice. Friday night we surprised my Mom with a new dryer. Theirs wasn't working and was like 30 years old so we got her a new one. They were going to try and repair it. My Dad thought he knew what was wrong with it, but he's not really in the shape to be trying to fix a dryer. She was really surprised! We got them to go to my grandparents house for dinner so that's when we got it in the basement and hooked up.

On Saturday morning we had to take Alton's parents to the airport and then
Saturday evening we had some family and friends over to watch the Tiger's game. Alton cooked ham and ribs on the grill.

Then Sunday we went to my cousin's birthday party. He turned 2. So that was interesting with a bunch of little kids running around. For the evening we ordered pizza and watched the Tiger's beat the Cardinal's! So we had a very nice weekend!

Amazed

Once again my son Dylan amazed me. Last night it was close to bed time and he was playing with an old cell phone that is now his. We were just sitting on our bed waiting for Daddy and all of a sudden he punches out OUR phone number and says it at the same time!!! I think we've talked about our phone number a couple of times, but not to an extent that he would remember it! So I told him to say it again and sure enough he knows it!!! I couldn't believe it. So today I asked him to say it again and once again he remembered it. Then I called my parents to ask them if they had been working with him on our phone number and they said no. So I don't know.....Maybe the kid just has a REALLY good and fast memory! He sure made me proud!!

First Snow

You would have thought it was the middle of January here today. It was snowing like crazy and the wind was soooooo strong! And 32 degrees. No accumulation of course, but it did cover the vehicles and the leaves that were on the ground. I am so not ready for this yet!!! I'm still trying to figure out where Summer went!

Baby again.

I don't really know if this is normal or not, but Dylan has went back to "baby talk". I don't know why, but every so often he'll start saying goo goo ga ga over and over. And he expects me to understand what he's saying. This started after seeing himself as a tiny baby on the video I wacthed a few days ago. Kinda weird.

Ever noticed?

It was so funny....Today at the grocery store I picked a ckeckout line that had a young guy working it. So I put all of my stuff up on the conveyer belt and I was standing watching the guy ring it up. Well, my purchase included a certain feminine product......tampons. So he was ringing using both hands and then came time for him to ring the tampons. He used TWO fingers to run them across the scanner and put them in a bag. He put nothing else in the bag with the tampons. It was like he was going to get a disease from them or something. I was cracking up to myself! So next time you have to purchase that kind product and you don't have a woman ring you up, watch how the guys handles it. You might get a real laugh for the day!

Where has time went?

Yesterday while I was looking for a video to transfer the film from my camcorder I came across the video that had Dylan's first ultrasound on it. I hadn't watched in a very long time so I stuck it in. After the ultrasound comes film of Dylan every couple weeks from the time he was born. I was sad yet happy while I was watching. Sad because I miss Dylan gurgling and drooling and happy because he's doing more new things every day. So does that mean it's time to have another baby? LOL And then I came across my sister-in-laws wedding video. I put that in and watched as well. She and Stephen were so happy and excited to start their life together. Who would have thought things would end up the way they are now. Watching those two videos sure made me think how lucky I am to have that on tape and to have the family that I have .

Last Day of Vacation

Today is Alton's last day of his vacation. He is REALLY bumming! He's dreading going back tomorrow! He said he's ready to retire! LOL We didn't really do much all week, but it was nice to have him home all the time. We had such yucky weather all week! I had wanted to take Dylan to the zoo, but there was never a nice warm sunny day, so we didn't do that. We did get him an aquarium though. We set it up yesterday and went and got fish today. He loves it. Back to the ol' grind tomorrow:>(

Autofest Weekend

We are back from our weekend at the Frankenmuth Autofest. We had a blast! It was so nice to get away! The Auto show was spectacular. There were over 2000 classic cars at the show. And by classic I mean from 1973 and older. You would not believe some of the things that people had! There were cars painted with flames on them and then right behind them they had a mini duplicate of the car, only it was a trailer that is hauled behind the car. UNFORTUNATELY I forgot to take both my camera and video camera. So I have no pictures to share. But it is definitely something to see. Alton was in his glory when we heard the horn from the General Lee off The Dukes of Hazard. Immediately we HAD to find where the car was. When we did I thought he was going to go into shock. Owning a General Lee is his ultimate goal. We found out that the owner of this one lives in White Lake. Very close to us, so he said he'd be willing to help Alton restore one if he was to come across a Charger. We'll see. The only bummer of the day(Saturday) was that is pretty much misted all day long. So some people didn't take the tarps off of their cars. It was very chilly. But the weather didn't wreck our good time!

Vacation!!!

Well, as of 8:00 last night Alton started his vacation. He hasn't had a real vacation in a few years, so he is very excited about having the time off. He don't go back to work until next Monday. Today we are heading up to Frankenmuth to their annual Autofest. We've entered our 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass. The dog is at my brother's house and Dylan is staying with Grandpa and Grandma, so we get the weekend away to enjoy the Autofest. We aren't really sure what we will do for the rest of the week. I guess we'll pay it be ear.

9-5-06

Hope everybody had a nice Labor Day weekend. We did. Didn't do anything special, but we got a lot done to the dump truck that we bought. It's for the business that Alton is trying to get going. A hauling business. Like if somebody needs dirt hauled or if somebody want to clean out their garage and needs the junk hauled away. We repainted it and our neighbor did some welding work on it for us. The truck looks 100% better now. It is a little beat up, but it has low mileage and runs great, and for the price we couldn't beat it. Before we had a trailer with side on it to haul with, but then everything had to be unloaded by hand. Way too much work. Now everything dumps out! It's great! So if anybody needs anything hauled, let us know!

Great News!

We got some really good news today. A couple weeks ago before my parents left for their vacation my Dad had his every three month scans to check on his cancer. We thought there might be some bad news this time because my Dad's back has been bothering him some. So immediately we think the cancer is growing. But today he went and got the results from the scans and everything is clear still!! We were VERY happy to get this news!!!

A night out

Last night Alton and I went bowling with two other couples. We didn't know this was going to happen, but about 10 o'clock the light went out and a bunch of disco balls and black lights came on. They called it cosmic bowling. It was pretty neat. We had never done that before. Then along the sides of the lanes they had lights going too. After that we went to a bar/restaurant called Mr. B's. They had a band. We had a late dinner and some dancing. Alton and another of our friends did most of the dancing. Of course the minute a country song cam on Alton was doing his country boot kicking dancing that he always does. People on the dance floor were snapping pictures of him with their cell phones. So if you happen to come across a man wearing an orange General Lee t-shirt on the internet anywhere, it may be him. Plus there were a "group" of men that were checking Alton out also. He wasn't too cool with that! LOL Dylan was with my Mom and Dad so we had to get home to get him in bed. We had a really good time!

About time!

Finally it has cooled off here!! Yesterday at this time it was almost 90 degrees already. Today it is 72 degrees. It's raining right now though. Still very humid, but it's still better then the past few days. Pretty soon I'm going to head over to my parents house and air their house out some since they are on vacation. Hopefully their birds haven't suffocated. The other day when I went there it was 94 degrees in the house. But it wasn't humid like it was outside.

This sucks!

Anybody else tired of this heat we've been having? I am so ready for it to cool down, but it don't look like that's happening any time soon. I hardly got any sleep last night because it was so hot. Our air conditioner keeps blowing our breaker, so it stays on for like 10 minutes and then that's it! Today I've tried everything to see what might be causing it. I turned off all the ceiling fans, lights ect. Still it shuts off! It sucks so bad! I want my air!!!!! I can handle the hotness during the day, but at night who wants to go to bed all sticky.

Our Weekend

This weekend Alton was off, and the weather was BEAUTIFUL for once. Saturday we were outside almost all day. Although Alton was off from his job, all he did was work. He emptied out our "dumpster trailer" and separated all the metal from the wood ect. Pretty boring for Dylan and me, but on Sunday we went to our friends daughter's 2nd birthday party. They had a petting zoo kind of thing there that was pretty neat for the kids. They had goats, sheep, a cow, a donkey, a llama, and a pony they could ride on. They also has a little pen set up that had two pot belly baby pigs, two puppies, and a kitten in it. Dylan was fascinated by this the most. I could hardly get him away from it to see the other animals. All he wanted to do was pet the puppies. And of course I forgot to take my camera! I was so bummed! I thought I put in it my bag, but no, it was on the counter top when we got home! So we had a great weekend! Now we are in store for more heat and humidity. Oh joy!

Hot

Nothing much has been going on here. Just trying to put up with the heat. It's supposed to get close to 100 degrees here tomorrow. YUCK! Today I was close to setting in Dylan's little pool. He didn't seem interested in being in it. I sure was! And tonight we are going to a bon fire of all things. Needless to say I'm sure we won't be sitting too close to it! LOL It will be a good time though.

A Bad Day!

I don't know what had gotten into Dylan yesterday, but he sure made my day awful! It started out that he was just getting into everything and anything that he could, but KNEW he wasn't supposed to. Then if I got a phone call he would really start in because he knew I couldn't discipline him like I would if I wasn't talking on the phone. He also has developed a new fascination with spitting. I don't know if he saw somebody else do it or what. But he keeps doing it in the house! So gross!! And he's also gotten into throwing things at ME. So I got hit in the chin with a metal tractor too. I'll probably have a nice bruise from that. Then to top it all off....I went upstairs to put a basket of clothes away....Come back down and he had went in the refridgerator got the carton of eggs and bombed our carpet and the dog with them. There were probably six eggs in there. So needless to say that was a huge mess to clean up. The worst part was that out steam cleaner was in the attic of the garage and I couldn't get it down! I am telling you if I have another day like that today I will be seen running down the street far far away from this house!

4th of July

Hope everybody had a nice weekend. We did. Sunday was my sister's birthday so we celebrated with her at the campground where they were camping. Then after cake and ice cream we went to watch the fireworks that the campground put on. It so awesome to watch them there, because the place where we sit it so perfect! It's almost like the ashes would fall on us they are so close! I love it! Alton had to work a full day Monday and then yesterday we took Dylan to Cook's Dairy. It was his first time being there. He saw some cows and we got some ice cream. He didn't care a bit about the ice cream. He was too busy running around the pavilion that was there and going down the slide that they had. He never ate one bite of his ice cream! Then after that we took him to the park to play for a while. There we saw some ducks. Then we came home for a while had dinner and then went to our neighbors house to sit by the fire and watch their fireworks. We had a nice time!

Kidless

Today I took Dylan to the campground to camp with my parents for a couple days. He will have a blast I'm sure, but it was hard to leave him there. My Mom could tell I was having a hard time so she was like you don't have to leave him if you don't want, but I knew he wanted to stay and I am looking forward to the break. Tomorrow I am going to go shopping for some new clothes. It will be nice to be able to go alone and not worry about Dylan opening the dressing room door when I'm in my underwear! LOL Tonight Alton and I are going to go out for a "quiet" dinner alone. It will be very relaxing I'm sure!

Happy Birthday to me

Yesterday was my birthday. I'm now only one year from 30. It don't feel any different. LOL I had a really nice family get together to celebrate. My Mom made a cake for me. Yellow with chocolate frosting. My favorite! I got a lot of nice gifts also. Mostly money which I plan to spend on some summer clothes and a couple cushions for our outside swing. It was a good day!

Heat on the way

I just heard the weather report and they are saying that the 90 degree weather and humidity is on it's way. I am dreading it! It has been sooooo nice this week with 80 degrees and low humidity with lots of sunshine. I guess it may last all next week. Let's hope not! Alton and I had planned on doing a lot of work outside this weekend since he has the whole weekend off, but if it's that miserably hot, we won't want to do anything we've planned.

Yesterday was my Grandma's 77th birthday. A group of our family got together and all pitched in for her to get glass block windows put in her basement windows. My Aunt had some loose glass blocks from a previous project she had done and put one in a birthday bag and gave it to her. At first she wasn't sure of what it was, but then her mouth dropped open when it registered and she was sooooo surprised! They are getting new siding put on the house, so this will go along really nice with it. She's been saying she's wanted the windows for quite a long time, because theirs are so old. We had a really nice time.

Our Weekend

We had a pretty eventful weekend. Saturday we went to a bowling benefit for a lady who needs a heart transplant. We bowled three games and had some pizza. Itw as fun. We hadn't been bowling in a long time. It was nice to do somethign different. They ended up raising around $13,000 for the lady. Sunday we worked in the yard until about 5pm and then Alton's side of the family came over to celebrate the three June birthdays in the family and Father's Day. It was nice. Then once the in-laws left we had a fire. So it was a pretty relaxing weekend!

6-9-06

I haven't made a post in a while, so I thought I'd just say hi! Not a whole lot has been happening here with us.

An eventful week

We've had a few cool things happen to us this week. First, Dylan finally learned how to make his Power Wheels Jeep move. Santa brought it for him this past Christmas and he had been scared when it moved. Not anymore. He takes off. Now he just needs to learn how to steer it. It's so funny....He puts his foot on the "gas pedal" and starts going, but he turns his head around to look behind him instead of in front to see where he's going. He's ran into the fence, the deck, and a tree! Secondly, my sister-in-law Laurel and nephew Alex came from South Carolina for a visit this week. Dylan had tons of fun playing with his cousin. And he loved has his Aunt Laurel's attention all the time. So we spent the day with them and Grandma Hayes. Once we came home from there I was changing Dylan's diaper and he said he wanted to pee pee on the potty. It's been a feat trying to get him to even sit on the toilet. So I said ok let's go which he usually says no, but this time he went right into the bathroom and waited for me to put him on the toilet. I don't know if it was because he knew his cousin Alex goes on the big potty or what, but he sat and tried to go. Nothing ever happened, but at least we've crossed one hurdle on the road to potty training! LOL

Another gray day

Once again today we had no sunshine. I am so tired of the cloudy, cold and rainy days we've been having. Looks like tomorrow it's going to be the same! On top of that today Dylan and I woke up with a nasty cold. Dylan seems to be feeling better now that he's had his nap, but not me. I even had a nap too. Tomorrow my Dad has to go in for an outpatient surgery on his foot. He was at the foot doctor earlier in the week to have the stitches taken out from the previous surgery and they said he has a piece of skin that is dead and needs to be removed. So it's nothing serious. I think tonight will be a pizza night for dinner since I don't feel good. I know it's not healthy, but it's fast and easy.

A Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mother's who read this blog! I had a great day for my second Mother's Day! It started off with breakfast from McDonald's...my favorite! Dylan also got me a beautiful plant. It looks exotic. It's called a Sun Star and it has bright orange blossoms on it. Very pretty. Then we went to Alton's parents for lunch and then to my parents for a little while. And now we are back home enjoying the rest of the evening....even though it's storming!

Not moving

Well, it don't look like we'll be moving to the house with three acres. The owner of the property called Alton yesterday and decided that he don't want to buy our house now. I don't understand it really. The guy is a supposed millionaire who owns many rental properties. I guess when you buy a property and it's not your primary residence you have to put so much money down and then also pay closing costs. Well, he tells Alton that it would cost him around $26,000 to buy ours so he don't want to do that. Now you can't tell me he didn't already know this. Instead he acts all interested in our house and gets our hopes up for nothing. And you'd think that $26,000 would be a drop in the bucket for a millionaire. So to me I don't think I'd want to do business with him at all anymore. So I guess it wasn't meant to be!

The Garbage Man

Dylan has developed an obsession with the "Gasha Man" A.K.A the garbage man. LOL Today was our garbage day and Dylan was right at the door watching when he came down our street this morning. Then after he is gone and out of sight Dylan has a fit that he can't see him anymore and wants to go look for him. Trying to explain that the garbage man is done with our street and will be back next week is nearly impossible when it comes to a two year old. So he yells and stomps and cries until he finally moves on to something else. I don't know what it is about it that he likes so much. Maybe it's the arm that lifts the can up or just the big truck. It's the funniest thing though. Since you can see the main road from our backyard he's always looking for the Gasha Man when he hears a loud truck go by. Other then that we've had a pretty uneventful day today.

The weekend

Our Anniversary dinner at Olive Garden was really nice! We did have to wait almost 45 minutes to get a table though, but what do you expect on a Saturday night right? The food was excellent! Also over the weekend we found out that we may be moving in the near future. It's a very long story so I'll try to stick tot he main details. Alton has done this man's plumbing for a while, and he said if you ever decide to sell your house let me know first, so he did. The man is also interested in buying our house because he has many rental properties in Pontiac. So he came to look at our house yesterday and it looks like we may be able to buy his! We still have to find out what the payments will be and if we can afford them. The place is on three acres and is in Groveland Township. Dylan would go to Clarkston schools and we wouldn't be living in Pontiac anymore!!! It would be so good. The only thing is that the house needs some major updating, but it would be so worth it to be living back in the country and away from the city! So I'll keep you posted on what happens, but keep your fingers crossed for us!!

Fifth Anniversary

Alton and I made it to our five year anniversary yesterday! Yay! Hard to believe it's been that long already. We're going to celebrate tonight by going out for a peaceful, kidless dinner, and hopefully we'll get a weekend away next weekend. I think since we like Olive Garden so much that's where we will go.

My dad had his foot stitched up this morning and he should be coming home this afternoon. He'll be so happy to get home! He's been bored out of his mind in the hospital.

The man who lives behind us has a Lilac tree in his yard, and that one tree is smelling up our backyard so nice!! I love it! Last night I sat on our swing which is right in front of the tree and just soaked up all the scent! Then once it got dark I went a cut a few bunches and put them in the house, so now the whole house smells like lilac. Alton kept calling me the lilac steeler. I'm sure the man won't even notice. He don't ever do anything with it anyhow.

Dad's surgery

Yesterday my Dad had surgery on his heel and it went really good. They wanted to get all of the infection out of his bone so that it won't keep coming back every few weeks. The doctor said it wasn't as bad as he first thought, but there was definitely an infection there. So he had to stay in the hospital today and probably tomorrow. I guess he's got to learn to use crutches. That ought to be fun. Anyway, and least he's passed that now!

Feeling better

I made my second Avon order yesterday and I am feeling much better about the whole thing now. I found out that I am only $8 away from making my $500 goal for the first three campaigns! That made my day! I'm pretty sure I can get at least an $8 order next time. Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary that my Brother-in-law Stephen was killed in Iraq. I can't believe that time has went by so fast. It seems like just yesterday we were in New York for the funeral. Also Monday marks the one year anniversary of the death of our next door neighbor. That one flew by too. I was talking to his widow today and when she told me that I was shocked!

Avon woes

Today is the last day to get the orders in for my second Avon campaign, and it sure isn't half as good as my first. I guess I thought that I would get the same amount of orders as last time, but I don't even have half. For the next campaign I really need to hang some books on some mailboxes and try to generate new customers. So yes it is mainly MY fault that I don't have many orders. My goal right now is to have at least $500 in sales in my first three campaigns, because then I get acknowledged at the next sales meeting and receive a pin for reaching that goal. I'm pretty confident that I will make that goal, but we'll see. I may come up just short. Other then that there's not a whole lot happening here.

4-20-06

Well, we had a really nice Easter. The Easter Bunny was very good to Dylan. We had a brunch with Alton's parents and then later on went to my grandparents house for dinner. We had an Easter egg hunt for all of the great-grandkids. We hid the chocolate foil wrapped eggs and plastic eggs that had money in them. Dylan made out with about $15.00! I had taken a bunch of change to put in. The weather could have been a little better, but at least is didn't rain and ruin the egg hunt. It was kind of funny....I kept thinking how I used to do the egg hunt at that same house and now my child is doing it! Sure did make me feel old! Other then that we've just been enjoying this awesome Springtime weather we've been having. Dylan's been riding his bike, blowing bubbles and writing on the driveway with his chalk that the Easter Bunny brought him. My tulips are in full bloom! The squirrels didn't get any of the bulbs! They look so pretty! Yesterday Dylan took his first fall of Spring. He went up the deck stairs to get his cup of juice, and I don't know if he missed a step or just lost his balance, but he fell down the steps and hit the cement face down. He had a big ol' goose egg on his forehead. Today it's nice and purple. Poor guy. I was surprised though that he didn't cry more then he did. A few seconds and it was over.

Crazy week!

I don't know if it'd Spring fever or what, but Dylan has been giving me a run for my money this week! He's learned how to open the refridgerator, so he wants to be in that non-stop. He just opens it and then stands there wondering what to get into. Then yesterday....I had been doing a crossword puzzle on our front porch over the weekend.....Well, the weather was warm so I had the door leading to the porch open....guess who finds the pen in the magazine where the crossword was. D-Y-L-A-N! I was upstairs putting towels away. When I came back down Dylan had taken off his pants and had written ALL OVER both of his legs! I couldn't believe it! I don't know if he was trying to be like Alton and have a tatoo or what. DUMB ME for leaving the pen! I never even thought about it. Live and learn right? Then when I was brushing Dyaln's teeth this morning I saw that his two year molars are starting to come up, so I'm waiting for the crabiness to start. We are going to see the Easter Bunny tomorrow, so hopefully that will go good! Wish me luck!

4-2-06

Today started out with a really nice breakfast at the Old Country Buffet near our house. We went with our friends Bill and Melissa any their daughter Reagan. Reagan is six months younger than Dylan so they get along perfectly. The breakfast went surprisingly well. Usually Dylan does terrible in a restaurant. He always want out of the high chair to run around the place. But today was totally different. I don't know if was because It was first thing in the morning or what, but he ate and behaved great! We were surprised! After that we made a trip to Toys R Us to check out the swing sets. We'll be getting Dylan one soon. We having a hard time trying to decide on a wooden or metal one. I know they don't make things anything like they used to, but growing up we had a metal one, and it lasted WITHOUT a bit of rust for like 20 years! There was nothing wrong with it when my Dad took it apart. Everybody had just outgrown it. It was great. But then they got the cool wooden ones that have like a little clubhouse type thing on them and a big slide. Of course there is a BIG price difference too! So we'll see. Got to do a little bit more thinking on it. Then we came home and Alton started a fire outside to burn some of the junk wood we have. It was a chilly day, so it felt good by the fire. Of course Dylan wouldn't come anywhere near it to warm up. All he wanted to do is ride his bike. If the sun had of been out it would have been a perfect day weather wise. I had Alton get our Easter decorations down for the attic in the garage so I decorated a tree in our yard with the little bright plastic eggs and our front porch railing. They look so cute. I had forgotten all the cute Easter stuff I had, because it hasn't been out in like three years. I just haven't decorated. So we had a really nice Sunday!

Working woman again

As of today I now have a job again! I am an Avon Representative! So let me know if you need any of our product!! My Aunt has been the Avon seller for the longest time and decided she didn't want to do it anymore, so I am taking over. I am realizing though that I really need to get out and get some clients if I want to be able to MAKE any amount of money. Right now I have my family and friends, but I can't depend on them all of the time. I have my first sales meeting this Wednesday, so that should be fun.

3-25-06

Last night we went to the movies and saw Failure to Launch with Matthew McCaunahey and Sarah Jessica Parker. It was a very cute movie. We went with another couple and of course both men thought it was a "chick flick". I suppose it was, but as much as they would hate to admit it.....they liked it as much as me and my friend. I definitely reccomend it. After the movie we had dinner. It was really nice!

The Mr. Potato Head Glasses

I think at age two Dylan is already wishing he wore glasses. It's the funniest thing.....When he got up from his nap this afternoon he decided he wanted to read a book while I was online for a few. So he went and got a book and the bag that has his Mr. Potato Head in it. He needed me to open the bag (it's a ziplock) so he brought it to me. He dug through the bad to find the Mr. Potato Head glasses. Most of us know how tiny those are right? Well, he sat down on the floor next to my chair and I looked down at him and he has the glasses on his face. They are too small to fit like a normal pair of glasses where they sit on the bridge of your nose, so he hooked them onto his cheeks, and the part that you're SUPPOSED to look through were at his mouth. It's the funniest thing!

Winter is back

We went from 70 degrees on Monday to 35 degrees today. Winter is back. We are supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow starting tomorrow afternoon. Can't say that I'm surprised. Hopefully my Tulips don't freez to death. I will be very bummed! Not very much has been going on here.

Robin's Back!

I was so excited today to see my first Robin of the year. Now I really know that Spring is about here. It was a really nice day today. Got to 56 degrees and for most of the afternoon it was sunny! My tulips are starting to come up in my flower beds too. I hoe it's not too early. This is the first year of having anything like that in my flower beds. Dylan was happy to be able to ride his bike today for a little bit. Hopefully tomorrow will be an even better day. They are saying it will get to 65, but there is a chance of rain. Hopefully it holds off until the evening. We don't really have anything planned for tomorrow except going to Sears to see if I can find a new quilt for our bed. Our is falling apart, and we have some gift cards from Christmas to spend. I wanted to wait until they got the new spring lines out. I hope we can find one to match the green paint in our room.

Spring on it's way?

I was watching the news this morning and the weather forecaster says that it may reach 60 degrees here on Saturday! Could Spring be here two weeks early? That would be wonderful. It is supposed to rain sometime during the day, but who cares! I just want to open my windows and get some fresh air in this house! What I'm NOT looking forward to in the mud and dirt getting tracked into the house. Since the garage was built the yard is in a terrible state. We'll probably have to put some sod down once the weather does change for good. Can't wait to let Dylan get outside and ride his Jeep that Santa Claus brought for him! Plus I'm looking forward to seeing how many of my tulip bulbs come up that I planted in the Fall. They are my favorite flower! Hopefully the squirrels didn't dig them all up and eat them! I will be VERY upset if they did!

3-2-06

Today was my lovely yearly visit to the gynecologist. That's always fun right? Actually I don't dread it as much as most people. I love my doctor. She makes me feel really comfortable. Looks like I'm healthy, so that's good. Of course except for my weight, which I am currently trying to decrease. I did lose ten pounds over the past year! Whoo-hoo! We had a nasty freezing rain storm last night. The main roads were pretty much clear, but the side roads are terrible. Dylan stayed with Grandpa while I went to the doctor, and when I went to pull in their driveway I slid right past the driveway. LOL Oops.

2-21-06

For the past threes days and well into the night we have been working hard on our basement putting a third bedroom in. We wanted to get in by today because we had our house appraised today. I went downstairs with the lady and I asked her about the room being a third bedroom. She says it don't count as a third bedroom. My heart bounced clear down to my feet I think. I said it don't? She says no, but they give credit for it as a finished part of the basment. What a bummer! She said even places that have a kitchen and bar kind of area in a basment don't count as a second kitchen. That's crazy I think!

My Dad is home from the hospital. He came home Sunday. He was getting so tired of staring at the four walls of the hospital room! So he's doing good!

2-16-06

My Dad wound up in the hospital again on Monday. He just wasn't acting right when I was there on Monday. To make a long story short it ends up that he has an infection caused from his open sore on his heel that he got when he was bed ridden for so long. It still hasn't healed all the way. Today they were mentioning that he may go home, but it wasn't for sure. He says he's ready! LOL Other then that there really hasn't been a whole lot going on.

Diaper Dilemma

It started on Sunday during Dylan's nap. He learned how to take off his diaper. When I went to get him from his nap he had his socks, pants and diaper off, and had peed all over his bed. I thought great. Well, on Tuesday morning he did it again while I was putting some clothes in the washer downstairs. I'm not sure if he just likes being naked or what. LOL Well, the third time it happened was Tuesday afternoon, only this time it was much worse. I was upstairs putting clothes away and I could smell that he had pooped all the way upstairs. As I was heading downstairs I was thinking oh no!! Well, I was right. He had taken his poopy diaper off. He had it all over his clothes, under his finger nails, on his face. It was so sick!!! So needless to say I had to give him a bath before I could put him down for his afternoon nap. I friend of mine says that it's a sign to start potty training when they do that, but I'm not so sure. I try to put Dylan on the potty and he's terrified. So any advice you have will be nice!

2-6-06

Well, Friday night went pretty good even though it was Superbowl weekend! My friend Melissa had made us a reservation at an Italian place in Detroit called Roma Cafe. The food was awesome. When she had talked to them on the phone Thursday they told her that they would shuttle us to and from the concert also! BUT when we got there and talked to the driver of the shuttle he said he wasn't working that late and that he could only drive us TO the concert and we'd be on our own on the way back. He had told us that there would be TONS of cabs on this one side of Joe Louis Arena. So we said OK, that will work. Well, the concert was really good. Kid Rock went non-stop for almost three hours! The only time he stopped was to get a drink and wipe himself off. Then he was back at it again. So it was good! During the concert though, there were four guys behind us and one was so drunk that he lost hi balance and fell head first into Alton's seat. Of course we were standing, but he still about knocked Alton into the row in front of us! He was begging Alton not to hit him! LOL So we and his buddies helped get him back into his row. Then we all started cracking up! It was funny. So the concert gets done and we are trying to get outside. It was like a herd of cattle. I thought for sure there was going to be a stampede. I don't know if everyone was trying to get out the same door or what, but it was crazy. Finally we get out. And we start looking for the "tons of cabs" that the driver had told us about. There was not even one cab in sight!!! Ya, there were tons of limos and busses to pick people up that had previously arranged it, but not one cab. So we just start following the crowd. There were a bunch of people looking for a cab. We come to the end of the road we were walking on so we asked a police officer where we might find a cab. He directs us up a sort of side street to another road. I was getting a little freaked out. Wondering around Detroit at midnight is not good. So we walk and walk....No cabs anywhere. Then we come to a casino that our friends are familiar with. They said let's go there and they will get us a cab. So we head that way, and almost when we're there here comes a cab. Thank God he stopped and he took us back to get our car! The ride into he cab was interesting too. I thought the side of the car where I was sitting was going to fall off! LOL It was making some pretty weird sounds. Almost like the tire was going to fall off. So we made it to get the car and then made it home in one piece! I felt bad for my parents who were babysitting. We didn't get home until like 1:30 am and then they had to get up early to take my brother to work. I never dreamed we'd be out so late! I don't think we'll go to another concert at Joe Louis!

The Big Concert

Yes, we are crazy!!! We are going to go to Detroit tomorrow night to see Kidd Rock at Joe Louis Arena. I'm beginning to wonder if we are sane. Superbowl weekend and we are going to go to Detroit. LOL My friend got the tickets a month ago. Little did we know it was Superbowl weekend! HOPEFULLY everything will go smoothly. We do know that they have reserved three big parking lots just for the concert, so parking shouldn't be an issue. Then we have to get on a shuttle to take us to the Joe. Yes, it ought to be interesting! Wish us luck!

Weekend news

The news from the weekend is that there really isn't any. LOL I did have a girls night out on Friday, so that was nice. We went to a restaurant that had just been remodeled so we went to see the updates. It sure looks different. For those who live by me I'm talking about the old Orion House on M-24. It's now called Christi's Bar and Grill. The food was excellent! They have a much bigger menu now....Much more variety. They do still have their famous pizzas and bread sticks. We pretty much went there too just for the bread sticks. Then they come with a really good garlic dip! YUM!!! I want some now! Nothing really went on Saturday. Alton had to work. Sunday we went to Best Buy so that Alton could spend a couple gift certificates they he'd gotten for Christmas and his birthday. He got a Rolling Stones CD and a Dr. Dre CD. Yes, he listens to a WIDE variety of music. LOL I know those are one extreme to the next right? LOL

Today Dylan has discovered flushing toilet paper in the toilet. Before he would just flush the toilet and slam the lid down. Today while I was reading my email he decided to go in there and unload half of a role of TP and put it in the toilet. Then when he saw me coming he hurried up and flushed it! I thought for sure the thing would be plugged, but it all went down. Alton would have had a fit! LOL The last thing he wants to do when he gets home is more plumbing! But I guess some things just can't be helped right?

Ebay

Have you ever tried to win an auction on Ebay before? I have been trying to buy an item for two weeks now and keep getting outbid at the last minute! It is so frustrating!! Sometimes I wonder if the thing is rigged! LOL

Our Weekend

We had a really nice weekend. Saturday night Alton and I got away for a few hours. My Mom babysat for us and we went to Greektown in Detroit for dinner. We went to a place called The Parthenon. Greek of course. It was a neat place, but I don't think I would go back. They server an appetizer that is goat cheese and they light it on fire when they bring it to your table. I don't know how the waitstaff hold on to it while they light it! We were like five tables away from when they lit one and we could feel the heat from it! How do they have it right in their hand? LOL I ordered a Gyro sandwich, but I was so worried about telling the waiter no tomato that I forgot to tell him I wanted chicken instead of the traditional lamb. So I got lamb. First time I've ever ate that. It was ok as long as I didn't think about what I was eating. LOL After we ate we went across the street to the casino. I didn't gamble at all, but Alton played a couple slot machines. She won $18 on one and then cashed out. Big spenders huh? LOL

Sunday we had a nice day of going to the grocery store and then just hanging out at home doing pretty much nothing. We haven't had one of those days in forever! It was nice.

The weather

I have never seen so much rain during the Winter as I have this 05-06 year. It's been close to 50 degrees for the past two days too! You would think it was maybe late March early April here! We have no snow what so ever except maybe a pile here or there from the plows. It's been yucky and muddy for so long now. I almost would rather see the snow covering the ground! What is going on? LOL

2 years old!

Yesterday Dylan officially turned 2 years old! Where does the time go? He growing up sooooooo quick! Since we already had his birthday party we took him to McDonald's for a M & M McFlurry. We brought it home and put a candle in it and let him blow it out. He was very happy!

A good weekend

We celebrated Dylan's birthday this weekend. I had the family over for cake and ice cream on Saturday. His real day is Wednesday though. It was nice. I'm thinking maybe Chucky Cheese for next year. LOL I don't know though...We'll have to see if he ever gets on the mechanical pony at Meijer's first. I've tried to put him on it periodically and he is terrified of it. Then Sunday we got some stuff done around the house. I got a really nice wooden filing cabinet for Christmas, so I transferred all of the stuff from my rickety metal one. Got to burn quite a bit of old stuff..Like old tax documents, check stubs. That stuff sure does pile up quick. Then we got Dylan's new toy box in the house. It's been sitting in the garage since Christmas. It's so much better then his old one. This one has a lid so you can't see the mess anymore. Plus we got a few other repairs done to the house that have needed to be done for a while, but have been put on the back burner. Other then that it was pretty relaxing!

Crazy week

This first week of January has turned out to be a bad start to the new year! I have two Aunts in the hospital, my Dad hasn't been feeling so good, and yesterday my brother was on his way home from work and he was hit by a drunk driver and totaled his truck! What else is going to happen to this family this week? Thank goodness my brother made it without a scratch. It's just a bummer about his truck! I just hope that they will pay it off for him and he can find soemthing lese that he can afford!

Happy New Year all!

Can you believe that it's January 2006 already? I can't. In just ten days Dylan will be two whole years old! Hard to believe! Our New Year's Eve was pretty tame. We went to some friends of ours. Decided to spend the night so that we weren't putting Dylan and us in danger by driving home at 1am with all the drunks on the road. Needless to say we didn't get to bed until almost 2 am to begin with and then Dylan woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep. He did not want to sleep in a pack and play I guess. I kept laying him back down and winding up his musical bear, but it didn't work. And OF COURSE Alton is sleeping like a baby through all of this! So finally I woke him up and told him lets go home, but he didn't want to do that. So Alton put Dylan in bed with us. He fussed around and wanted to play. About daybreak he finally decided to fall asleep. So we did get a couple hours if Z's in. What a mess. Never again! So we got up and came home just long enough to unload the car and then we were off again. We went to Alton's parents house for lunch to celebrate Alton's Dad's birthday. Came home after that and tried to get Dylan to take a nap. You would think after being up most of the night he would be dead tired. NOT! He wailed for about a half hour until I gave in and got him up. I am praying he don't do that when we put him down for the night. We had a little burst of energy so we took down the Christmas tree. I'm glad that's done. Tomorrow I will get the rest of the decorations down. I still have lights in the windows and a few other things. Shouldn't take too long. Then the house will be back to normal. I can't wait.

Here and gone

Another Christmas here and gone in what seems like only minutes! It takes so long to get ready for this big day, but it goes by so fast! We had a really nice Christmas as usual. Santa was VERY good to all of us! Dylan especially! It looks like Toys R Us moved into our living room he got so many new toys. His favorite seems to be his big Power Wheels Jeep. It even has a real working radio in it! He also likes the new puzzles and other trucks that he got too. I really need to go through his toybox now and get rid of some of the things that he really don't play with anymore. I know you're supposed to do it ahead of Christmas, but I never thought to do it. Alton's boss gave him Christmas Eve off, so that was nice. He was wishing he had the day after Christmas off, but I guess we can't have everything. It sure was a busy few days.

29 for Alton

Today is Alton's birthday! He is 29! Hard to believe we are getting so close to 30! We'll be having cake and ice cream for him tonight after he gets home from work. Hopefully they will let him get out at a decent time!

Almost done shopping

Yesterday I got the majority of our Christmas shopping done in two stops. I was happy! Now I have to come up with an idea for my Grandparents who always say they don't need anything, and Alton. Usually Alton is so easy, but I'm having hard time this year. He says not to get him anything too! But you know I have to get SOMETHING! The rest of the people on my list will be getting money. Since they won't tell me anything to get they can get it for themselves. Sunday Alton and I are planning on going for Dylan. Last year I did most of the Santa Claus shopping, but Alton wants to be a part of it this year. I'm glad. Dylan sure don't NEED a whole lot, but we'll see what happens. Alton wants to get him one of the ride on Power Wheels. I'm hoping we can find a Bigfoot one. That's what I always wanted when I was younger. My brother and I were both promised one form one of my Uncles, but we never got it. Christmas sure is coming fast! Now I gotta get wrapping!

Looks like Christmas

Today we went and got our Christmas tree. WE were supposed to go to my Aunt and Uncles house to cut s fresh one, but we were never able to get a hold of them, so we ended up going to Home Depot like we did last year and got one. It's really pretty! It actually looks Christmasy in our house now. Today I finished putting up some lights in the windows. I'm done except for putting tinsel on our tree. I also went to the grocery store today. I didn't go Friday because Alton had me paranoid about getting myself stuck in the the new snow, and I wasn't about to go on a Saturday again!! So I went today and it was great! I think I might go on Monday's form now on. It wasn't crowded our busy at all! I did a little Christmas shopping online today too. So two more people down about 20 to go! LOL I'm on a role now!

Snow, Snow and more Snow

Last night about 8pm it started to snow. It was really coming down by 11pm when we went to bed. We were warned that we'd get between 4 and 8 inches. I think we ended up right in between with about 5 inches. Not too bad. The weather people made it sound much worse then what it actually was. My Mom was happy, because they closed the schools and she didn't have to go to work. SNOW DAY! LOL I found out this morning that Dylan remembers how to get out of his bed. Yesterday for nap time I had no problem with him staying in his bed. I had thought that the only reason he got out the first time was that he had stood on his bumper pads that were still in the crib and that gave him the height that he needed to get his leg up to get out. I took the bumper pads out and he was still able to get out this morning on his own. So now, do I convert the bed to his toddler bed, or leave it how it is? Advice anybody? I'm afraid that if I convert it to the toddler bed than he'll never stay in.

What a day!

The day started out as normal, but by lunchtime I was ready to pull my hair out! Between Dylan getting into EVERYTHING that he knows he's not supposed to and the dumb dog whining and crying and getting underfoot, I thought I was going to go insane! I guess the "terrible two's are upon us, because Dylan's behavior has been terrible lately. He gets into the stuff that he's not supposed to just to get under my skin I think. When I ask him to stop doing something he just does it more or harder then he previously was. OOOOOOOHHHHHH! I hate not being listened to! That is the worse thing! So FINALLY nap time rolled around. I was soooo looking forward to that. Well, I put Dylan down about 2:30. Three o'clock got here and he's up there crying. I knew he hadn't been to sleep yet, so I lay him back down and covered him back up. It was really quiet for about an hour so I thought he went to sleep. Well, all of a sudden I hear this loud thud upstairs. So I went in the kitchen and turned on the monitor. I could here some rustling around, so I didn't think anything of it. I just thought he was playing in his crib. Sometimes he gets his Ocean Wonders aquarium off the side of the crib, which I thought was the thud. During all of this I had been on the phone with my friend. So I continued talking to her and I had my back facing the entrance to our kitchen. All of a sudden I hear HI! Dylan had gotten out of his crib all by himself!!! I couldn't believe it. So now I'm wondering if the nightmare is beginning of him not staying in his bed when he's supposed to. I sure hope it was just a one time thing at least for a while. I thought we at least had one more year until he started this! Oh my goodness! HELP!!!

I hate grocery shopping!!

Is there anybody who enjoys going to the grocery store? If there is I really wish you could tech me to enjoy it more! LOL I usually go on Friday every week. Well, I made the mistake of going on a Saturday. NEVER AGAIN! At least until after Christmas. It was such a ZOO!! I shop at Meijer. Love to go there because I can get everything in one shot. Well of course today I really needed to return our cans and bottles. I get to the bottle return area and there is only ONE can machine working out of like 7. And of course there is nobody around to get help to get more going. So once that was done I start my shopping. I always start at the front where the deli and produce are. Well, Alton is picky about his lunchmeat so I MUST get it from the deli. Well, guess what, there's a long line there too! I almost said forget it and went to get Oscar Meyer, but I knew he would be complaining so I waited. So on I went dodging people and finally get to the check out. Can you believe that I walked right up to the register without waiting in line for a second. THAT was amazing! The best part of the whole shopping experience! Then I had to put everything away....I hate that too! LOL

Visit with Santa Claus

Today I took Dylan to what is called the Older Persons Center...OPC for short. It's a place in Rochester Hills, MI for the 50 and older crowd. You have to be a resident to be able to go there....Which Alton's parents are. The place is kind of like a rec center for those of that age. They have a track to walk, an exercise room with all the latest equipment, a library, cafe...That kind of stuff. Well, every year they put on the most awesome Christmas display. This is the second year that we've went. Well, Santa Claus was there. I thought for sure that Dylan would rant and rave and want NOTHING to do with Santa. Well, he surprised the heck out me....He loved Santa!! When Dylan first walked up Santa had his hand up to give Dylan a high five, so Dylan slapped his hand no problem. Then I put him on his lap to get his picture taken...He was fine! Didn't think a thing about it!! Sure was the total opposite of what I thought! So cool! The only bad part was that Dylan turned his head right when the lady snapped his picture. So after Dylan got his candycane we had lunch and then went for storytime in the library. They read Polar Express. He wasn't all that interested in that though. This weekend that they put on is so much fun for the kids! And the adults too. The decorations are beautiful! There must have been a hundred Christmas trees...All decorated differently. They had face painting too, but Dylan didn't want to do it. Sure does get you into the Christmas Spirit.

Happy First Day of December

Can you believe that there's only 24 more day until Christmas? I can't! I did do a little shopping today though. Got two gifts. Yipee! I'm on a role now. Actually it's much better then usual, because we usually don't start shopiing unitl we get Alton's Christmas bonus which is like two weeks before Christmas. So I'm ahead this year! LOL Anyway, Happy December!

Funny

Yesterday I took my Dad to his eye doctor appointment so he could get some new glasses. He hasn't had a new pair in six years according to his chart there! It was so funny though. I was trying to get him to get a different kind of frame then what he already had. He was trying on all these weird frames. It was hilarious. In the end though he ended up getting something pretty much the same as what he already had. They are a different color though so there is some change. LOL

Have you ever had a day where you significant other is just being out of the way nice? Well, I had one of those days with Alton yesterday. It was one of those rare days where he was actually home before 8:00 in the evening. He got home by 6:30...I didn't even have dinner done yet. Well, while I was finishing up dinner he wanted to get in the shower....so I dais go for it, but take Dylan in with you so I don't have to give him his bath later....Usually there's some complaining when that is asked of Alton...Not one word last night. He just said ok and preceded to get Dylan all excited about getting his bath. THEN, after the bathing was done he helped me put dinner on the table. Usually he will just sit down and wait while I get the dinner plus Dylan and my drink and the bib and all that stuff. He helped so much!!! It was very strange! Not that I'm complaining or anything! It was great! It just makes me wonder if there's some ulterior motive here. LOL

11-28-05

Would you believe it got to 62 degrees today? Here it is almost December and it's 62. CRAZY! I don't ever remember a time when we've had such a nice Fall season. Unfortunately it's not going to stick around. It's only supposed to get to 47 tomorrow. Oh well. Didn't do anything fun today. I washed all of our bedding...yee haw!! LOL Actually I'll be saying that when I get into the bed tonight. I love the feeling of clean sheets and blankets. Weird? It's just the best! And it smells so good too! The only bad thing is that it took ALL day to do. Takes forever for the thick blankets and pillows to dry. Oh ya I forgot to put this in my previous entries....My cousin put highlights in my hair on Friday. It looks so good! It's kind of a carmel-blondish color. I had been wanting to have it done for so long, but I just didn't want to pay out the $80 to get it done. She lives in Grant, MI and my Aunt, Uncle and her were down for Thanksgiving and she said she would do it so I took her up on it. She's going through cosmetology school now. Alton sure was surprised! He loves it though! So thanks again to you Heather!! I really appreciate it!

A great Turkey day!

Well, as usual the food was delicious on this Thanksgivng Day! And I'm sure we all ate way too much. The dessert I made called Cafe Ladyfingers was a big hit. If anyone wants the recipe let me know. It's sort of like Tiramisu. YUMMY! Well, hope everybody else had as good a day as I did!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We will be spending it with family. Today we are getting our first snow storm of the season. We are supposed to get one to three inches. The roads are wet right now and there is a little starting to accumulate on the cement, but really I think it will melt. It was kind of funny. When I let the dog out this morning it was snowing already. He got on top of the picnic table and was barking and nipping at the snow. It was so funny! That dog drives me crazy most of the time, but he was so cute when he was doing that!

A new name for Dylan

We've decided that Dylan's new name should be MIMIC. This child repeats and does everything that we do as of the weekend. When anybody clears their throat, coughs, sneezes, or laughs he does the exact same thing! The first time that he did it I thought he was crying. This was his imitation of me sneezing. He uses a really high pitched voice so that's why I thought he was crying. But he bends from his waist over as far as he can....that's when the loud noise starts.....then as he's coming back up he's got his hand over his mouth and does the fake sneeze. It's really hard to get how funny it is from me telling it the way I am. I wish everybody could see him. It's hilarious! My kid is such a ham!!!

Criminals from Pontiac??

This is unbelievable really. Never in my life have I been pulled over by a police officer, but that changed this week. My day was going as normal as usual. It was a rainy and dreary day, so I thought it might be nice to get out of the house and go to the dollar store to see if they had any Thanksgiving decorations left, since I only have one turkey that hangs on my front door and a few window clings. Well, I ended up finding one decoration so we left. Since we were out and near the road that would take us to where we used to live in Davisburg I thought we would drive by our old place. It's a nice drive and I like going out there anyhow. So Dylan and I were driving along minding our own business. Well, we came around a curve and there was an Oakland County sheriff waiting to pull onto the road that we were going on. I was hoping he would pull out before I got to him, but unfortunately he didn't. He chose to pull out behind us. So because I knew he was following me I was very careful to go the exact speed limit. Once you go up the road a ways it goes from 50 to 35 MPH. I ALWAYS get paranoid when there is a cop behind me as do most people, so I figured I would turn off onto this side road to let him pass me then, I would continue on my way. Well, I turned and then I was looking in the the rear view mirror waiting for him to go by. Well, it ended up that he followed me. Then two seconds later he had his lights on pulling me over. I was so freaking out!! The only thing I could think of was that he saw something wrong with my car, since I knew I didn't break any laws. So he comes up and asks for my license and all that good stuff. Then he says "Don't you live in Pontiac?" I said "Yes". So he says "What are you doing out here?" For those of you who don't know the area Davisburg is only like a 20 minute drive from Pontiac. I said I used to live out here and I was just going to go by my old place. The whole while I was thinking.....is it a crime to drive into another city and I didn't know it? But of course I didn't have the nerve to say that! So he says "What year is your car?" I said 2004. He says oh I thought it was newer than that. I'm thinking what does it matter! So he says I just thought it was a little strange that someone from Pontiac is way out here. Then he says I guess you two don't LOOK like burglars. Then he asked if I picked Dylan up hitch hiking....He thought that was funny! I just couldn't believe this was all happening. He was an older man, so maybe he was bored and wanted something to do....I don't know. Later on I was thinking thank goodness this guy was honest and not one of those people impersonating a police officer, because I was on a deserted dirt road where nobody would have heard a thing or seen a thing. My one friend told me I should call and find out what was really going on and why he really pulled me over. My Dad said maybe there was a car like mine stolen from Pontiac and he thought I was trying to hide out with the stolen car. I don't know but it was weird! What a day. I guess I'll have to stay in Pontiac where I live. NOT!!! LOL

Another windy Sunday!

We've been under a wind advisory all day again today. We haven't lost power yet...knock on wood....like we did two Sundays ago. Hopefully our luck continues. It was warm enough for Dylan and I to play outside for a while today. Alton got called into work unfortunately. Some Big Boy was messed up and didn't have any working bathrooms. He was bummed that he had to go. My car is actually parked in the garage as we speak! LOL The drive way has be asphalted and everything is out of the way and my car gets to spend its first night inside. I'm so happy. We had dinner at my Grandma's tonight with my Mom and Dad and sister. It was nice. Other then that nothing too exciting has been going on. That's a good thing!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody! We hope you have a really fun night tonight trick-or-treating! Dylan is going as a cute little cow. We had a really nice day yesterday! It was almost 65 degrees! A beautiful fall day, so we went to the Cider Mill! The cider and doughnuts were yummy as always! Dylan had his first pony ride. I never in a million years thought he was going to stay on the pony, but he LOVED it! He had the biggest smile on his face! Every time we go to the grocery store and he sees the pony in the lobby and he points to it like he wants to ride, but then I put the penny in and he wants right off. After that we went to lunch, came home put away some things for the winter, ate dinner and then carved out pumpkins. Last year all Dylan did was cry when we tried to get him to help clean out the pumpkins, but this year he was willing to help. He didn't want to get his hands dirty though! LOL He kept putting the spoon in thinking he was helping, but every time the spoon came out there was nothing on it! LOL We had fun though!

Update on my Dad

Well, my Dad was told he would come home today, but then they decided differently. I guess while he is at the hospital they might do the skin graphs on his old bed sores that have never healed up. It will be such a blessing if they get him in to do it! Other then that he is doing very good. Feels much better, but is anxious to get out of the hospital. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

A scare.

We had a scare with my Dad over the weekend. Earlier in the week he had said his back was bothering him, and all I could think of was that the cancer is growing. Well, Sunday he was feeling fine in the morning, so he and my Mom rode with my cousin up to his Mom's house. Well, while they were there my Dad kept sleeping on and off and then he slept most of the way home. It's about an hour drive. They were no sooner in the door and had his coat off of him that the vomited all over. Then he started talking off the wall about weird things. My Mom took his temperature and it was 104 degrees. So then she was really worried. So, she called my Uncle who is a nurse to get his advice and also the Hospice nurses that had taken care of him before. Both pretty much said the same thing....That they should get my Dad to a hospital and that it sounded like some kind of infection somewhere. So come to find out he has a really bad urinary tract infection and the wound on his heel that has never healed fully might be infected. At first they thought he might have diverticulitis (sp). That would have been really bad, because sometimes that has to be corrected with surgery and that's the last thing my Dad needs. So he is still in the hospital. His fever is down and they have ruled out the diverticulitis, so that's good. He's hoping to come home tomorrow, but who knows what will happen.

Fall Cleaning?

Is there such a thing as Fall Cleaning? Like Spring Cleaning? LOL Well, I had a Fall cleaning day today. I had started out just dusting, but then I just didn't want to stop. I got me a bucket and water with some Murphy's Oil Soap and ended up washing all four of our ceiling fans off, all of my shelves and pictures and then the computer desk. My oh my was my water black after that! I guess I never realized that there could be so much dust on a ceiling fan after it had been moving all summer long! LOL Doing those were a bit of a challenge with Dylan into everything as usual. With me being up on a chair to reach the fans he knew I would have to keep getting up and down, so I think he was being extra curious. I was waiting for him to pull the bucket of water over when I wasn't looking, but thank goodness that never happened! After the cleaning spree Dylan took his nap and I got some reading time in!

My 10 year class reunion

Saturday Alton and I went to my 10 year high school reunion! We had a really good time! Alton wasn't all that excited about going, but there turned out to be some people there that he knew from the two years that he went to Pontiac northern. They combined the two high schools together for the reunion. It was nice! There were people who never gave me the time of day while we were in school coming up and asking how I was and what I was doing right now and giving me hugs! Amazing! Everybody looked pretty much the same except for a couple. There was this one girl who was a total tomboy in school. She used to be a little chunky and had really short hair. When I first saw her I couldn't place who she was. Then it dawned on me who she was. Now, she is very thin with long hair. And she was dressed in a pink skirt and blouse with very high heels! I was so shocked that it was her! LOL There were a couple of girl that I had hoped would be there that weren't, so that was a bummer. Then after we left the reunion another couple and us went to a restaurant/bar to meet up with my brother and my cousin and their group of people. Needless to say I had a little too much to drink and ended up paying for it the next day! It was a blast though! I'm really glad that I decided to go. They say they will have another one in five years. I hope they do!

Summer gone?

Well, I wonder if today was the last day of warm weather we will have until next year. Earlier int he day when I was online my weatherbug temp was 77 degrees now it's 61. Sure did cool off fast! The weather men were actually right this time. I wonder if this week was our Indian summer. It sure was nice! Today was pretty uneventful with exception of me taking my dad to get his prescription filled and to get a referral for a doctors appointment that he has next week. Other then that it was just a normal day!

Garage building--How Cool!

As of today we have a garage!!! It's so exciting! I couldn't believe it, but the builders showed up at 7:30 am and were gone by 3:30pm! They had it up in no time! Tomorrow they are supposed to roof it and put the siding on. Then all that's left is the garage doors and openers. Alton loves it to death. He hasn't even came in the house from work yet and he's been home almost two hours. He's got his truck lights shining on it looking at it! LOL He's wanted this garage for sooooo long! It will be so nice this winter not having to scrape snow and ice of the car!

End of Vacation

Well, today is the last day of Alton's vacation. It's been so nice having him home all week! It's been a very eventful week too. We got the garage started, we got a new truck, and my Dad drove for the first time today, just to name a few things. That was a sight to see!! Back to the ol' grind tomorrow. YUCK!

Great to be home!

Today we got back from Georgia, and I am so glad to be back! Dylan did REALLY good on both of the flights. He even slept for a while both times. The only time he really got a little anxious was whe we were buclked in and just sitting on the run way waiting to take off. He sure did better then I htought he would! As for the wedding....Dylan didn't do his duty as ring bearer. I think that with the tux that he didn't like and not having a nap he was just being non-cooperative. Then to make things worse he kept me from being able to see ANY of the wedding. He wouln't sit on my lap, or anything. He just wanted to run around and play. Our hotel room was really nice though. I'm just glad to be home!

Not much new.

Nothing out of the ordinary has been happening with us. Just waiting on getting our loan so that we can get our garage started. It sounds like maybe we can have them start it next week sometime though. I will be so glad when it's done and Alton can stop fretting about it all! Only about a week left and Dylan will be going on his first plane ride to Georgia for Brian and Amy's wedding. This ought to be interesting. I hope he behaves and isn't one of those nightmarish kid plane riders that people sometimes talk about. I just hope he will sit on our laps and not want to get down and run up and down the aisle of them plane. At least it's only about a two hour flight.

A Nice Weekend!

We had a really nice Labor Day weekend. Alton had two whole days off in a row for once! He didn't end up getting called in for a change. We really didn't do a whole lot except hang out at home and relaxed a little. We did have to make a trip to The Home Depot to get some parts for OUR plumbing, but other then that we didn't leave. I told Alton just to leave our plumbing problems for the time being and enjoy his plumbing free weekend. Our bathroom sink hot water faucet drips and our toilet runs. So hopefully he will get to it this coming weekend. Now we are trying to get the last minute things taken car of so we can leave for the upcoming wedding in Georgia. We have to get a car rented, and I have to check on some things regarding Dylan. Other then that I think we are ready! It should be fun!

First Day of September!

Can you believe that it's already September? I sure can't. 21 days until we leave to go my brother-in-law's wedding in Georgia. It seems like yesterday we were saying only three months until we go! Time sure does fly! I'm not ready for Winter though!!! So is gas $5.00 a gallon where you are yet? We are up to $3.19 here so far. This is so ridiculous! I keep telling Alton that he's going to have to start driving our Malibu instead of his gas guzzling truck! We'll be broke trying to keep gas in that thing! I wonder if it will ever go back down. They say we need to start using less gas to get it to go down, but how is that possible. People HAVE to get to work and other places. I guess they could car pool. If you think about it, say a prayer for my Aunt Anne. The doctors have found a mass on one of her ovaries. They are doing a bunch of testing today. They're not sure if it's cancerous yet or not. But they know for sure that she will more then likely have to have a hysterectomy. I don't know what it is, but my family has been having so many tragedy's lately. My Dad is doing great though. He went to see a rehabilitation doctor yesterday. He didn't really tell him a whole lot except that he needs to see a plastic surgeon so that they do some skin graphs to cover up his open wounds that haven't healed properly. So anyway that's some good news.

Kinda boring.

I haven't written all week because there's not been a whole lot going on. Yesterday was a little stressful though, because my father-in-law who works for Farmer Jack's found out he may not have a job soon. I guess the company want to get out of Michigan for some reason so another company is looking to buy them. Since they are Union there is going to be a vote to lower pay and lose overtime on Sundays along with other things. Well, the overtime is what makes it possible for my in-laws to make it on a weekly basis. So without it they are wondering what they will do. The vote is on Monday. Even if it doesn't pass eventually something will and they will be losing. I asked why are they wanting to take things away if they are going to sell and the reason is so that Farmer Jack looks more appealing to another company. If the employees have less perks then I guess it makes it more appealing for somebody to buy. If this sounds confusing it is! LOL I don't totally get it myself. So anyway let's hope that everything works out, or we are going to have houseguests living with us, because they won't have anywhere else to go. Not only will it be uncomfortable, but as much as I love the in-laws they will drive me insane. LOL

SURPRISE!!

Yesterday we had a surprise birthday party for my Dad. His birthday is actually today though. He sure was surprised!! I thought he had caught on, but he swears he didn't know a thing. We got him to come to my house to see my "supposed new screenhouse". LOL NOT! I don't even own one! This birthday was extra special since according to all the doctors he was never supposed to be on this earth to get to 55. The party turned out great, except for a little bit of rain. Just enough to mess up all the decorations outside. Then it cleared up. There were about 50 of our relatives that came. I was a nervouse wreck though. I just wanted everything to be perfect. Plus Alton was working so I pretty much did everything by myself. My sister helped some too though. It was a nice day!

Our family gets smaller.

It's amazing what goes on in one part of your family that is never told to the rest of the family. I guess my Uncle who is my Dad's brother has been having tons of problems for some time now. He had lost his job, so he was in financial turmoil. Didn't tell his wife anything about losing his job, so she thought everything was great. Plus I guess he'd been drinking a lot. He'd be drunk when my Aunt got home from work. And on top of it all he's threatened to commit suicide more then once. Well, Tuesday night he carried out his threat. He had been out on the patio at their house and I guess was going to do it there, but my Aunt got him to go back into the house. She called 911 and in the meantime my Uncle left the house. The cops caught up with him and he pulled into an apartment complex. The police told him to put his hands in the air. He did with a gun in his hand and then he put it to the side of his head and pulled the trigger. He lived to make it to the hospital but was brain dead. So they waited six hours to re-test for brain activity and there was still none. So today they will be removing his organs so they can be donated because he wanted that. It was on the back of his driver's license. Then he will be taken off life support. I guess my Aunt had tried and tried to get him to go get help and he wouldn't do it. He didn't want any of the other family to know about any of it either. It makes no sense not tell your family. The ones who will be there for you and give you help! It's so ironic too that here my Dad is fighting to keep his life and then my Uncle goes and takes his own. This is the first time I've ever known anybody who has done this and it is a very hard thing to understand. I know many people do this, but I can't imagine life being so bad as to want to remove yourself from this earth. In my eyes there's nothing that can't be fixed. I wish I could have known what was going through his head. So today I say goodbye to my Uncle Ron.

Date Night!

Well, Alton and I had a date night Saturday night! My grandma and grandpa watched Dylan. It was so nice! The plan was that we were going to see The Dukes Of Hazzard movie with Alton's partner from work and his wife. I wasn't all that thrilled about going with them, because they aren't exactly the type of people I would like to associate myself with. But anyhow. Alton got home from work and said they weren't going to go! So of course I was elated! So we went and had dinner and saw the movie. Dinner was great! The food was excellent. We ate at a restaurant in the mall right across front he movie theater called The Thunder Bay Brewing Company. Thunder Bay is in Northern Michigan fro those who don't know. I had a BBQ pulled pork sandwich that came with cole slaw and french fries! It was soooooo good! I loved the BBQ sauce they used! Not real spicy not too sweet! Alton got steak and mashed potatoes. He liked his too. The only bad part is that we kind of had to rush to make it to the movie on time. So anyway about the movie! SO DUMB!! This coming from a person who grew up on the Dukes of Hazzard series. I loved that show. We even own the season 1 and 2 DVD collections. But there was not much of a storyline at all. Mainly there were just a bunch of car crashes and a scantily dressed Jessica Simpson. So I would advise you to wait to rent it, or wait for the TV debue! LOL The worst part about the whole Dukes thing is that it's got Alton wanting to buy a 69 charger painted like the General Lee. Oh my goodness. Let's hope that don't happen!

Biting

Well, I got a big surprise when I picked Dylan up to put him in his high chair for breakfast yesterday morning. He bit the heck out of my back! I had called him a couple times and he never came, so I went into the living room to get him. I was trying to play with him, so I picked him up and slung hi over my back like a sack of potatoes, and he just decided to have a bite. Oh my goodness that hurt! It brought tears to my eyes. So I slapped his mouth. I don't know what it is with him, but he's been pinching and biting a lot lately. Hopefully this is just another phase like the screaming phase that he went through a while ago. The only stumper to me is that I'm the only one he does this to. He's never bitten Alton once. How does that saying go..Never bite the hands that feeds you? If only Dylan knew!

Busy Weekend!

Both Saturday and Sunday we had kiddy birthday parties to go to. The one Saturday was great! It was for Alton's bosses little girl who turned one year old. There was a Strawberry Shortcake pinata that Dylan loved hitting. They actually pulled the plug on it during Dylan's turn so he won the prize for "breaking the pinata", which was really nice. It was so funny! Dylan had a blast hitting that thing! Most of the kids were way too small to ever really break it open themselves so Reagan's Mom helped. And it wasn't filled with a bunk of candy either. The kids got bubbles, fruit snacks, animal crackers, and nutri-grain bars. I thought that was a really good idea. Dylan really can't eat hard candy but he loves all the other stuff that he got. Then the party Sunday was at a beach area. The actual party part was nice, but after that everybody went into the water and Dylan didn't want to have anything to do with that. Even with his Daddy he was terrified. The wind was blowing pretty good so there were small waves hitting the beach. I guess that might have been what he was afraid of. I even was picking up the mud and showing him how to build a sand castle, but he wanted nothing to do with it. So Alton took a dip and then we left from there and enjoyed the rest of the day at home. Every weekend in the month of July we had something going on. This month I'm hoping we can relax and not have to be running all the time on Alton's only day off. I can't believe that it's August already! This summer has went by sooooo fast. But don't they always. I have even seen winter coats out already in the stores. Not looking forward to that!!