So I posted a few more pics to my Cake Blog...click on the link to the left below to see...

It begins...

We were on our way home from Gymnastics and David informed me that he needs Skechers. Because his friends have Skechers. Here we go... I should have known it would happen, especially with David. This is the boy who talks about owning a Jaguar. Yep...

We were driving and that song 'Dirty Little Secret came on and David said he was singing Dirty Little "Sea Crab" !!! LOL!!!

This is for Mindy...



Now, look closely at the picture...Mindy is on the top row...check out her reaction to who she had to sit by! HAHAHAHAA!!!!! And I am on the 2nd row towards the middle. I was sitting next to the guy I had a crush on, hence the big smile and distance between us! HAHA!!! He is leeeeeaning into his friend away from me!! I probably would have leaned away from him too except for who was sitting on the other side of me!!! HAHAHAHAA! Ahhh, the fifth grade.....Man, I hated that teacher.
(An interesting bit of FYI, the guy on the top row in the OP shirt just got sentenced to life for killing a prisoner that he was guarding at the Wilson County Jail)...

Here goes...

This may be a rather long post, we have been having lots of fun lately and I wanted to post some pics!!


We had Bingo Night at David's PTA meeting. We had pizza and David won some markers and a coloring book!

My friend had a "Passion Party" and I made some little "bustierre cakes" for it! (And some wardrobe malfunctioned ones too!)



We had the Depeche Mode Best Of CD on and the boys were enjoying it!


Just Sammy at play in the blocks!


We went on our Sunday walk last week and had a nice time exploring a new playground around the Lake Tholocco.






And of course Ike Ike had a birthday!

Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!

Nathan brought me home some potted roses, so that they would live (david's choice...and daddy's) and a big box of chocolates....mmmm, I am loved...

I went out and "heart attacked" his car early this morning. I meant to scrape the ice off it too but I forgot...hey, it was 3:45 in the morning! (Why so early you ask? Cause Nathan had to leave for class by 5 and I was up then with the baby anyhow...)

So tonight we made fondue for dinner. It was yummy. Then Nathan went to do his classwork for tomorrow and the boys and I found something fun to play with in the laundry in the hallway...







Yes, that is what you think...we took turns as flies, (no I'm not posting a pic of me with it on my head...), chasing each other around the house and "stinging" and "squashing" each other...
good times.

At first, I thought gheez, do I really wanna post a pic of my boring white ... uh...delicates on my blog...they are so boring, gheez...and then I realized what David was wearing and felt a little better...HAHAHAH! I am sick.

AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

So part of this whole debt reduction, money saving plan is to teach us about certain, I'll just call them "hoaxes" to avoid. Now, I am sure that some people would not consider these hoaxes but in my case, I will call it a big fat stinking HOAX!!! Ugh. Right after we got married a friend of ours set us up with a life insurance salesman who convinced us that by the time we were 65 we would have saved over a million dollars, plus have life insurance in the meantime, if we set up a whole life insurance policy, that would put our money into bonds etc for us until we wanted to use it. WELL. We have recently realized the error of our ways and never more so than right this minute. I am so upset!!!! I feel like we were so ignorant!!! I mean, yeah, at least we had life insurance but come on!!! Nathan has life insurance through the military now so we decided to cash out our whole life policy. Well guess what...we have been paying 50 dollars a MONTH into this thing for the last 8 years (minus a year where we paid 0 because we didn't have it to pay, and it fed off itself) and when I called to cash it out today...it's worth $775.00. NICE! Let's see, I can do the math...$50 times 12 months times 7 years equals: $4200!!!!!!!!!!! If we had just put it into a mutual fund, say at 10 percent, we'd have so much more!!! Ugh ugh and ugh. I am disgusted. I will just tell myself that it was life insurance and I am just getting a refund back now on some of what we paid. Ugh....

I am glad we are learning to avoid these things...


sniff sniff....

I can't help it.

Doesn't everybody love a bad boy...? (I know I DON'T have to tell you who this is...)

Yay for surprises! And not so yay for other surprises...

So Daddy decided to surprise us tonight and take us out to dinner. I have to admit, I was nervous. I figured we would end up at some hole in the wall Korean place but he swore it was a place that had the boys' favorite foods...so he drove and we ended up at...dunh duh dunh...Waffle House!!! LOL!! Yup, they had the boys favorite food! I haven't seen David put away a giant waffle and bacon that fast in a long time! Daddy really chose well and made us all happy. Mmmm, nothing like greasy diner food! Good choice, Daddy! We had so much fun, sitting at the counter and ordering that way. Heehee, simple pleasures. They were so excited when they realized the place was called Waffle House!

And, yesterday, I went out to go to the store to find my front tire completely flat. I hadn't driven it since my trip home. Which was weird to me, cause it wasn't flat when I got home from my trip. Someone was looking out for me. It would have been very scary to be on backk woods Alabama roads in the dark with a flat tire! I am glad "it waited" till we got home! It's just weird to me though that it was so completely flat and I didn't remember hitting anything! So, there went $200 in new tires on a car we've only had for 7 months. Ugh.

Well, this weekend was Obadiah's memorial. It was really ... I dunno. I was just...I dunno. It was wonderful to see so many old friends again and to see my brother and his family. (Thank you, FnJ, for watching my babies!) It was nice to catch up with people and all that but so bittersweet cause it was closure for Obadiah's death too. Donna seemed to be holding it together okay until they took the box with his ashes in it and closed it in the case that they would bury it in. That was hard. I was thinking about Obadiah most of the way home. Mom was probably wondering why I wasn't talking much. But this whole thing has just made me realize a few things about myself and reminisce a lot about my friendships and growing up. I realized that Obadiah was the first "guy" who ever told me he loved me. And when I told him I loved him too he said no, he *loved* me. I remember that night because it changed things between us. I considered him such a good friend and when I said I cared for him like a brother, he shunned me for a while after that. To the point of being hurtful. But then, eventually, that passed and I guess he accepted that I did in fact love him but that I would never love him that way. I dated other people, some serious some not so much. And Obadiah was always my friend. Perhaps he did want our relationship to progress beyond just friends, but he never pressured me after that and seemed content to be my friend. Sherry Williams called and asked me a few of my thoughts about him, as she was asked to speak at the service. I told her that Obadiah was "always there" in my life. Every activity, he was there, even if it was just a broadcast or something, and I knew not many people would be there, I knew that at least he would be. Even if it was just him up in the light booth, he'd be there. He was there at some significant moments in my life. Heck, he was there on my first date with my teenage crush (His Best Friend)! He was in the back seat playing chaperone, but he was there! HaHa! He was there when my brother came home from his mission, he was at my High School graduation, he was at my wedding. He was a good friend to me, always spoke his mind. :) I am sure I tried his patience. I hope he can forgive me for not keeping in touch, for not taking the opportunity. I believe there is a difference in "losing touch" with someone and intentionally "avoiding" someone and I hope I can be forgiven for being stupid.

Don't anybody get all mushy on me, I really am fine, I just have a few regrets that's all....




Now for something funny I stole from Doug: