What a weekend!

This little beauty is what we waited all day this past Saturday for! Isn't she adorable?!!!! This is our newest granddaughter, Allyssa's and Dakota's sister, Reagan Phoenix. Born Saturday, December 29, 2007, at 8:36 pm. Weighing in at a big whopping 7 lbs. and 20 inches long. She is a beauty. Allyssa wants to hold her all the time and Dakota is not sure about her at all!

Christmas came and went in a big blur. Reagan was born and then there was New Year's Day. We ate lunch at Mom and Dad's house. Then we went to my brother, Wayne and his wife Tina's house. Played bowling on the Wii for a couple of hours and then came home. It is time to settle back into a routine. We had Allyssa's 7th birthday party tonight at Natasha and Randy's house. It is hard to believe that seven years ago she was born weighing in at 3 lbs. 7.5 oz. She was 2 months early, but she is a perfect little angel. 7 years old, man the time flies. Been wanting to scrapbook lately and just have not had the time. Trying my hand at artist trading cards now too. Pretty cool and fun to make and the best part is you can finish one in about 15 minutes, woo-hoo! Well, gotta get going. Work tomorrow and it is suppose to be a COLD 16 degrees in the morning. Brrrrrrrr

Migraine, Yuck...

I have had a migraine all day and nothing is getting rid of it. I don't have them enough to have prescribed meds so I take Aleve which I had on hand or Tylenol. Terrible!
Elmo (melmo as Dakota calls him) is trying to be detained by Tinkerbell, not sure where they came in contact with each other in "time" but they now live in the same household. Elmo is Dakota and of course, Allyssa is Tinkerbell. This was at the Fall Festival at church this year. They both were soooo cute!
Now they, or should I say, Allyssa is waiting on Santa since Dakota has no concept of Santa and from last year's santa pics and her meeting him again the other day, she does not want any part of him. Boy she just doesn't know what he can do! Magic, Magic! We watched The Santa Clause 3 the other night. It was good to me, not nearly as good as the first one or the second one for that matter, BUT I liked it because it was a Christmas movie. I like christmas movies. And another reason it was not as good, WHERE WAS BERNARD THE HEAD ELF AND JUDY THE COCOA GIRL?????????????????? I hate it when sequels are made and every one from the prior movies are not in their. Just like Grease, I was not even interested in Grease 2 because Olivia Newton John and John Travolta and the rest of the cast was not in there!!!!!
Work is the same, but I did go over my supervisor's head (since I had already told him the problem and he has known for nearly a year now) and told the VP of Manuf. what was going on. So I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that my supervisor is talking to me alot more, getting me away from demon co-worker as much as possible and was told by the VP that my job was not in jeopardy. Which is a good thing, I think. Of course, you never know what they might do tomorrow, right?
We are still waiting on Little Savannah, who is taking her own good time coming into this world. Actual due date is December 25, but we are so wanting her NOW. All in God's timing of course. Well, guess I had better get off of here and I will try to be a little more consistent with my posting!

Positive Wednesday...

I have been having a little difficulty posting my pictures here of late, so I your not going to see any, duh! Anyway, I watched the DVD The Secret last night and I have been trying to apply it to myself. I have been thinking positive all day long which I should say has made my day better. I have to train myself to think like that all the time which in my case sometimes can be very hard to do! Yes I still have the demon co-worker and yes I still have the stress in my life, but I am coming to realize that there is no one or nothing out there that can help me but myself and if I am happy with myself then I have the first step down pat! Right? Yes I do need to loose weight and I have been my worst critic on everything I do, my teeth are not perfectly straight nor are they pearly white but that is ok, my life is not stress free, I don't have all the money it takes to meet all the monthly bills, but as long as I can be happy with myself that's ok. So with all that said, I feel better!
I went to church tonight and met mom. I went by and picked up the girls and they went with me. Allyssa loves her Wednesday night class and Dakota stays with Mom and me in the nursery since she is too little for a class. Dakota is running around 90 miles an hour AT ALL TIMES. She never slows down. Natasha is dialated 2 cms and has been all week, she does not feel good today. Little Savannah is about ready to come into this great big world, boy she does not know what she is in store for, does she? Of course, God has a plan and she is another part of it. He has a plan for all of us. Allyssa and Dakota are ready for her, woo-hoo!
Vincent is waiting on word of a new job he has applied for at US Food Services. He will be driving a trailer making deliveries, will probably be gone 2 days a week, but right now it is where the money is so GO, GO, GO.
Asheton, my beautiful niece, won 2nd place in her high school pageant over the weekend, woo-hoo Asheton. We are so proud of her.
Well, guess I had better get off of here, I have a couple more christmas cards to hand-stamp and I am running out of time!!!!
L8tr!

Hi...

It's been awhile since I have been on here...sorry...just have not felt up to getting on the computer. The holidays always adds extra stress on me not that I don't have enough...but I am trying to do better. Trying not to worry about the things I cannot change or do anything about anyway..that is hard to do.
Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had a great time at Mom and Dad's house. The meal was scrumptious. Everyone was there except Wayne and his family who were hosting his mother-in-law and a special friend and Tina's grandmother.
We went shopping on Black Friday. Went to Kohl's first, that was a total disaster. The checkout lines were wrapped around the inside of the store on both sides going in opposite directions. We very nicely scooted out of there without a thing and then headed to Walmart. There was not a whole lot there either that I was interested in. We left there and went to Haywood Mall where Mom and Deborah found some things that they wanted. Me? still nothing. It is not so much fun when you don't have children to shop for. I do have Allyssa and Dakota and maybe the new little one but I have not decided what to get them. I had better be making my mind up pretty soon though or it will be too late!
Went to the dentist with this tooth that has been nearly killing me for the past 1 1/2 months. Final result, a root canal that has to be done the end of January. Since the dentist needs to get the pre-estimate from my insurance company to make sure they will pay for it, in the mean time I have pain medication and an antibiotic to take. More medication, just what I need....but at least the pain will be subsiding, woo-hoo. There is nothing, well maybe a couple of things, that I can thing of that the pain is worse that a toothache!
Well, guess I had better get going. Work at 6:00 am, yuck!

When can I eat you....

This seems to be what Miss Kitty is thinking in her mind. Elliott of course just wants to aggravate her, peck her nose or try to pull her hair out. Just like siblings! Miss Kitty is a good sport about it all. She is the oldest animal member of our family. Then she acquired a brother german shepherd Hanzo who is 8 months old and looks like he is full grown and then she acquired brother or sister Elliott (assuming he is a boy). They both aggravate her. Hanzo has to chase her every time he comes back in the house.
We are getting ready to head to "our" lake house to winterize 2 jet skis for the winter. The lake house actually belongs to a customer of Vincent's but we have spent so much time there this past summer that we kinda of "inherited" it for our own. Pretty neat, huh and we have to house payment!!!!!! This is going to be an 8 hour job and of course my loving dear husband wanted to get an "early" start so we could get back before dark!!!!! Here is is 11:00 and we have not left yet. Lateness not on my part of course, I have been ready since 10:00. So I have been looking at my favorite blog site right now, lovelife. Kal is just so down to earth and you never know what she is going to write about, mostly her work, but it is interesting.
It has been a while since I have posted due to several different things. I did post the sunday we got back from the beach trip, a long one. But of course, I hit the wrong button and POOF! it was gone and I did not feel like retyping all of that at the time. So I will try to give little bits and pieces of it in the next several blogs. The weather was beautiful while we were down there. We had a great time with my brother Wayne and his wife, Tina and their daughters, Courtney and Lauren, both of whom are teenagers. Mom and a friend of the family, Alpha, ended up down there at the same time so we had dinner with them one night. Well, gotta go for now. Grab my coffee and head out the door, FINALLY!

18 hours and on my way.....

This time tomorrow night we will be at the beach. I cannot wait. This little beauty in the picture (Allyssa) will not be able to go with us. In fact, she does not even know that we are going. If she did, she would have a fit. We did not tell her for that very reason. She is escorting Braydon, (the little boy in my previous posts that likes her and aggravates the mess out of her) at his homecoming football game. And if she knew we were going to the beach she would say FORGET THE HOMECOMING GAME, I am going with Papa and Nana! She loves the beach. This picture was taken during her first beach trip in February, 2005. Then we went back in July of the same year and took her and Natasha with us. Natasha was pregnant with Dakota at the time. She is now pregnant with Savannah Rayne (I hope that is the way Natasha decides to spell it) due December 25.
Not much going on here. Today was Vincent's 50th birthday. We didn't have the big celebration yet, #1 because we are leaving for the beach tomorrow and #2 because money is playing a big issue right now on everybody's part. So we are celebrating his birthday within the next 2 weeks, birthday cake and all! He had a great day. A bunch of people either called him or texted him wishing him happy birthday and he received 2 handmade birthday cards. One from my Mom and one from the church we are attending at the present time. They both are beautiful.
We took Hanzo to his temporary home until Monday. He is staying with the guy who has a german shepherd from the first litter of Hanzo's mom. Hanzo is the second litter. I really miss him. Hope he is doing ok.
Talked to Wayne and Tina who are already at the beach and they said the weather was nice right now. Hope it stays that way. But even if it don't I am going to be in RELAXATION mode. Atleast until Sunday when we come back. Just a short trip.
Well, gotta go get started packing and yes it is 10:00 PM and I have not done it yet and we are leaving when I get off of work at 3:30 tomorrow.......what am I waiting for....I need to get going!

High on the Feel Good Ladder....

Today was a really good day on the "feel good" ladder. If every day could be this good or better! I had a couple of things on the back burner that were kinda in limbo and still are to a certain point but I am a little closer to reality. Biggest one is that we may have found some land in Marietta, SC, about 3-5 miles northwest? of Travelers Rest. There are still some nuts and bolts to finalize: price, how much (between 2-5 acres), etc. but at least it is in the works. We haven't told anyone about it because everything is not ironed out yet. What the overall plan is is to pay the land off then build a house on it. Not sure what size or plans for the house right now.
Had a good day at work. I mentioned yesterday about wearing the one ear plug in my right ear, right? Well, it was not working really well and I mentioned it to one of my co-workers, who politely told me that I was suppose to pinch it together then roll it between my forefinger and thumb then insert it in my ear and then it explands (ever so gently, remind you) to the contour of my ear. What a great big difference that made. Of course, I totally felt like an idiot because I have been walking around with the ear plug poking half way out of my ear and I thought that it was because they are initially ordered for the guys in our buffing department because of the noise and they have BIG EARS!!!!! Yes I have to laugh at myself which I do rather frequently nowadays!
Would it not be nice to be as carefree as Allyssa is in the top picture? I took this picture at Dakota's birthday party. Braydon, Randy's nephew, who is about 5 years old was keeping the football from Allyssa and she, being the sweet little angel that she is, just turned around and ran back to the swing as if she did not have a care in the world, except of course for "a little boy who likes me and is trying to keep the football from me, because I am a girl and he thinks I cannot throw it"!
Then there is Dakota and Allyssa (anxiously waiting for her piece of cake). Allyssa eats just the icing off the cake and now Dakota is doing the same thing.
The picture of Dakota running.....well, she had just received this Elmo plush blanket and she did not even get it unfolded before she took off at a big run to Allyssa's room, turns the tv on (because she knows that is what Allyssa does when she goes to bed) and jumps on the bottom bunk bed and lays there!!!!! Everybody else is wondering what she is doing. She is such a baby doll. She finally came back in to the living room to open the rest of her gifts. If it was clothes she would look at them, drop them and head for the next gift until she opened a baby doll, or walmart stroller or her last gift was a Radio Flyer Tricycle from Papa Bob and Mema Linda.
Well, I am out of time again.....