SHE'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Well Mandy had her baby this afternoon at 3:32. She's 6 lbs. 6oz. and is 18 1/2 inches long and has a lot of black hair. Her name is Liberty Joy. It's because Mandy works with some Alzheimer's patients at a nursing home and one of the lady's names is Liberty. She was really enthralled with the baby and would feel Mandy's belly and sing to it and all that good stuff. So she told Dustin about her and he really liked the name. So that's what they went with. I think they're going to call her Libby. Tonight me, Bekah and Paul went to the hospital to see her. She was in the nursery when we got there so we didn't get to hold her right away. But we got to hold her when she was about 4 hours old. I think that's the youngest baby I've ever held. She was so cute. Seriously- some babies are ugly but she's not and I really don't think it's just because I'm biased. She's absolutely adorable. I just want to go back the the hospital and hold her for a really really long time. But I can't. Mandy's doing good too. She's tired, but she's holding up fine. Then we were going to leave and I realized that I locked my keys in my car. I guess I was just really excited to get into the hospital cause my driving was bad the whole way there. But anyways, my uncle Brad (the proud new grandpa) and Paul managed to get it open for me. After "borrowing" a couple antennaes from other people's cars and ripping a piece of rebar out of a crumbled parking block they broke in. It was kinda funny. But now I need to get some sleep. It's been ahwile since that's happened. I just had to brag up the baby for awhile.

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Just so you all know, I really was planning on posting today. Luke's comment on my last post is not what is making me do this. Lesse, what's happened since about a week ago. Taylor invite was great, but I'm not going to say much about it because everybody and their mother's brother has already talked about it on their blogs. It was fun to see Jenae's family and hang out with her mom Saturday night. Monday night Mandy called and said she wanted to come hang out. Dustin has been working third shift, so she dropped him off at work, came here to spend the night and then picked him back up again. She had to get up and leave at 3:45 from our place but I guess she didn't really want to leave him stranded. Then Tuesday night I practiced with a special group that I'm in for the Gridley choir singing thingy. It wasn't my idea for this group and I was kinda complaining to my mom about it. After she got done laughing at me for getting roped into it (seriously laughing, like all out snorting cause she was laughing so hard) she told me to get over my pride and go make a joyful noise. So I guess that's what I'll do. And once we got going it was more fun than I thought it would be. After practicing me and Rebekah spent the night with Mandy at their house. All of a sudden we just all wanted to see each other before she has the baby. Which is tomorrow. She was supposed to be in the hospital by 4:00 today to get induced but she proabably won't get around to having the baby until tomorrow. It's just weird. A year ago we were still living with her. Now she's married and almost a mom. But I'm excited. So that's my life for the past week. The next time I post it will prolly be all about the baby. YAY!!!

The Cow Says.....

There were a few funny things that happened today at work. It was one of those days where it's only 7:15 in the morning and they're already bouncing off the walls. First, you know those toys that we all loved when we were little? Okay maybe I still love them. Anyway, the one with all the animals and the lever thingy on the side? And you pull the lever and it tells you what sound the animal makes that it's pointing to? That was always one of my favorites. Well today I was helping one of my kiddos pull the handle and I decided that the toy has seen it's better days. Because the cow said quack. Then we were out on the playground and one of the little girls had a handful of dirt that she was trying to brush off. She wasn't having much luck so she stopped, looked at her hand for awhile, then just gave it a big lick. Then after lunch we were in the gym. One of the boys was running as hard as he could and ran right smack dab into the wall. He hit his forhead and bounced back a good two or three feet. I had to stop laughing before I went over to help him. Seriously- he was looking right at the wall but just kept going. You really have to learn to find humor in these types of things. Otherwise I would never make it through the day.

Sorry it's been so long

I'm really not trying to make up excuses as to why it's been so stinking long since I've posted anything but I've just been really busy. I have stuff going on every night last week and this week and I just have been putting this off. But I've had a great time reading all the comments about the Christmas tree.
Anywho, I hadn't really been looking forward to this past weekend. I wasn't not looking forward to it, I just wasn't excited for it. Friday night some Roanoke people came down to Morton which is a very rare occurence. We had supper at The Brick Oven and then went to the Pumpkin Fest for a Pumpkin Pie Blizzard. Good stuff. Me and Erin decided to split a BBQ chicken pizza cause they're pretty big. We could only get a 12 inch. So we got it and were pretty excited cause we really like BBQ chicken pizza. But it was disgusting. Something about the sauce was weird. So that was kinda dissapointing. I hate spending money on stuff I don't even like. She spent the night and then we went to the parade on Saturday before we went back to Roanoke and ate at my aunt's resturant. (I never know how to spell that word so don't worry about it if it's wrong.) Then we had to go to the fellowship hall to set up for the elderly supper given by the young group on Sunday. It was a blast. All the old people were absolutely hilarious. Me and Amy Hohulin snagged the table full of single girls (most of them were over 80). We didn't actually talk to them a whole lot but it was really fun just watching them interact with each other. They were just like us only older. Making fun of each other, talking about clothes, talking about boys (not that we would ever do that)..... it was a lot of fun though. But I was glad to get home and go to bed. Me and my brother had stayed up talking until 2 am Saturday night and missed out on our Sunday afternoon naps because of the supper. That was another highlight of the weekend. Getting to talk to him for that long. Then last night we had Mandy' baby shower at my parent's house. She had so many presents that they were overflowing out of the living room to where I couldn't even open the front door all the way. It's crazy to think of her and Dustin being parents. Whoda thunk? But I'm getting pretty excited for the baby to come. Except sometimes I think I got jipped on the whole relationship there. I mean, how much fun is it to get in a baby's face and be like "Hi punkin who's your favorite double first cousin once removed?" Seriously- between living with Mandy for two years and Dustin being more like a brother than a cousin..... I totally got jipped.
So that's my recap of the past few days. Sorry it's not too exciting. Have a lovely day today!

Suggestions?

Anybody have any good ideas on what we can do with our Christmas tree? Yes, we still have it outside in the back of our duplex. I'm sure the neighbors are horrified. We'd like to get rid of it before this Christmas so we can get a new one.

I hate coming up with titles

Just a little update on my life cause it's been a few days since I posted anything. Friday night was the Purdue sing. It was good, but it's getting the point where a lot of people I know have moved on and are no longer around so I didn't know near as many people as I used to. But the singing was really good. I love going to singings where even though you sing at the top of your lungs you still can't hear yourself because everybody else is doing the same thing. Got up Saturday about 11:30 after going to bed at 4:00. I didn't do much that afternoon except mess around on the computer and scrub the bathroom and kitchen floor. Fun stuff, huh? But then that night was the Jr. High Girl's Camp reunion in Gridley which was a lot of fun. A few of us counselors from Roanoke were all carpooling and had a few Roanoke campers along with us. And I just had to think "Oh to be 14 again." Looking back at how cool and smart I thought I was at that point in my life and seeing the girls in that stage now just really made me smile. I won a prize at the reunion which was a pumpkin that had been used for decorations. So nothing to exceptional but I am now proudly displaying it on our front porch for all to see. Except that it's kinda hard to see because it's pretty small. Oh well.
Yesterday at work we had all the kids down ready for nap. They were settling down and we were just getting ready to shut off the lights and put them to sleep when the fire alarm went off. One of the 3 year olds decided to pull it on her way inside from the playground. So we just used it as our monthly fire drill. Hopefully next time she gets the urge to pull it she will chose a more convenient time. Then today at work I was cutting out a picture for my fall classroom decorations (not paying as much attention to the kids as I should have been) and a girl walked up to me with her bloomers in one hand and her diaper in the other. Whoops. But thank goodness I caught her before she did anything on the carpet. Things could have been bad. But they weren't. Just funny.
Now I'm going to try to make a chicken pot pie for supper. I don't even really like chicken pot pie that much. But last week it sounded really good so I got all the stuff for it. Now it doesn't sound that great anymore but I already have everything so I guess I'll go ahead and make it anyways.

Side note

It is still cheaper to buy one gallon of gas than it is to buy one pack of cigarettes. Gas: 2.93/gallon. Cigarettes: 3.54/pack. As of 9/8/05. And also today is my cousin's birthday. Happy Birthday Jodi!

Open mouth, insert leg

So Friday night at my suprise party they brought out a few presents for me to open. Beks told them that just being there with them was a good enough present (which I agreed to) but they apparently wanted to get me something anyway. You know you when you get a gift you kinda feel it a little and try to guess what it is? Well the first one I knew was a candle. The second one I knew was a bag of candy, but the third one I was clueless. I opened it and the picture on the box was one of those things that is filled with water and oil, tinted blue with dolphins swimming it it. Something to represent the ocean. I asked if that's what it was, because if it was I wasn't going to open the box and get everything out. Somebody said no it's not. And I was like, Oh good. So it's not one of those presents where you're like oh- thaaanks. But you really don't like it, you just pretend you do. So I proceeded to open it up to see what was really in the box........... whoops. That's really what it was. Needless to say, I felt like I did more than put just my foot in my mouth. But we all had a good lllllooooonnnnnnggggg laugh about the whole thing.

Wow, Wow, Wow

Okay, Deep breath...... So Saturday (the 3rd) was my birthday. I was kinda bummed out because Bekah and Jenae were both going home for the weekend and Meika and Julia were both working that night. My brother was going to Oregon and even my parents had made plans. I was like, seriously people, I know it's only a birthday but you could at least pretend you wanted to celebrate it with me. So my cousin Erin was getting a group of people to go out to eat at Olive Garden and then we were going to go to a young group girls night afterwards. So I was okay with that and I was starting to get excited about hanging out with a few of my friends. Thursday night Beks made me my favorite- chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and sprinkles- because she wasn't going to be around on Saturday. I went to bed around midnight and the next thing I know Beks is waking my up telling me that she has something to show me for my birthday suprise. I was pretty out of it, but I was also pretty compliant considering the time and that I had just got woken up. I made a stop at the bathroom where the clock said 5 am and I was like "Am I going to have time to get a little more sleep before work?" She said yeah, here's you flip flops and glasses, let's go. So I followed her, the whole time being completely bewildered. We were driving down the road and I was throwing every idea out there trying to guess what was going on. By the way, the clock in her car said 4 am and I thought that was a little fishy the it was different from the bathroom and so I looked at my phone and it was 2AM! I finally guessed that we were going to Erin's but the best I could come up with was a suprise birthday breakfast, which I really wasn't too excited about. We got to Erin's where I found out that Bekah wasn't really going home for the weekend. They were suprising me with a trip to Florida! I was hoping to go down over Labor Day weekend anyways, but it just wasn't working out because people couldn't go. Beks had packed for me while I was sleeping and had all my stuff in her trunk. And she did a very good job too. Every time I thought of something, convinced she would have forgotten it, she whipped it out. So we're on the way to Sarasota, Florida- one of my very favorite places in the world- and they won't tell me a thing. I didn't know who was picking us up, where we were staying, what we were doing that night... nothing. Our good friend Jeremy was at the airport to pick us up and they informed me that I had all day to pick whatever I wanted to do. We hadn't eaten lunch so we went to Applebee's and then went and hung out at the beach for awhile. We were really close to Millie's house (who is another good friend- all us roommates stayed with her last October for a few days) and I wanted to stop by to say hi and clean up before we proceeded to our evening plans. Which I didn't know what they were yet- I had been informed that everybody was busy and I wouldn't get to see anybody until Saturday sometime. So after a little convicing we went to Millie's. It's always good to see her and to talk to her. She is a very amazing, wonderful, inspirational lady who always has something encouraging to say. Then we left to go check out some shops and while we were there Millie called to see if we wanted to go back to her place for supper. So we did and lo and behold guess who really didn't have plans? Everybody! They all showed up for a suprise party for me. We ended up staying at Millie's which was the plan all along, but they had me convinced that we were staying at a Holiday Inn. Another thing I wasn't too excited about. I thought of all the people we know and could have stayed with, WHY IN THE WORLD ARE WE STAYING AT A STINKING HOTEL?!? But anyway, there's a lot of detail I'm leaving out. So much went on- so many lies to cover up so that I would be suprised about so many different things. They fessed up and told me everything they lied about. It was pretty funny. It meant so much though. I can't say how much it meant. Between everybody here at home that made plans, bought tickets, got me off work and everything else, and everybody down there who planned everything for me, it honestly nearly brings me to tears when I think of how much they did for me. I have some awesome friends. I feel like I kinda jumped around a lot so you might be a little confused, but I went to bed last night at 3:15 and got up and 4:30 so I'm running on not much sleep. So I'm gonna go take a nap know, but I just had to tell everyone about my great weekend and my awesome friends.