Stories of our Kids

Our neighborhood does not have city sewer, we have septic tanks..........that need pumped from time to time. The last time a septic pumper truck was here the wind was blowing in the direction of our house, and the house having their tank pumped was the one across the street. Today one showed up in the neighborhood. When Zach saw the truck, he said, "OH NO, there's the stinky, peepee truck." That really made me laugh.

Tonight I took the girls grocery shopping with me. We buy most of our groceries at a little store called ALDI, and only go to Wal-Mart upon necessity. Tonight Wal-Mart was a necessity. We were looking for chalk for school all over the store. We couldn't find it anywhere, but we did get side tracked looking at toys. I noticed that Brittany acted like she needed to go to the bathroom, but she said didn't. Of course, after she got done playing, she needed to go really badly. We ran to the back bathroom only to find the cleaning man waiting to clean the ladies side. We ran to the front bathroom and parked the cart full of groceries. After we finally got out of the bathroom, I went back for my cart, only to find that it was gone. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. What can you do but start all over?

Here Comes the Competition

Now that I've wasted a whole lot of time looking for pictures to go with this post, I think I will just have to write this with no pictures.
Some time back I wrote about a new shopping center coming to town. We are finally getting some stores that most places have, but we don't. It caused our local mall to get in a tizzy. After it lost a law suit to not let the new shopping center into town, the mall decided to bring a stupid looking theatre into the front parking lot. The outside of the mall is now being repainted, and the inside is getting a complete face lift including new floor tile, lights, paint and whatever else. Now if it can just get some stores in there....
Target is one of the stores in the new shopping center. As of right now, the only similar store we have is good old Wal-Mart. Spencer and I noticed that it now has a new, more modern looking paint job on the outside. The other night we went in there, and they are laying wood floors down, and now have modern looking display racks for the clothes. We started talking about how Target must have Wal-Mart a little scared. Then we started noticing that almost all the existing shopping centers in town are renovating with at least paint on the outside. It's amazing how a little competition can make a whole town straighten up its looks. Hey, maybe we'll even finish painting the outside of our house soon.........just to keep up with the crowd. :)

Family Fun 8

For family fun we went to Spencer's grandparents' house. They are starting to get to the point where they can't do as much as they used to. I think they get kind of lonely sometimes. Their house was full of energy last night though. The kids got hold of a Dirt Devil playset and "mopped" the bathroom. The floor was almost in the flood stage before we stopped them.

So, What Have You Been Up To?

I haven't really written about anything that has been going on lately, so I thought I give you all the exciting details. OK, so they may not be exciting, but it's your choice to read this........or not.

Two weekends ago we went to help distribute information and literature for a new church starting in the Raleigh area. It was a nice, cool morning, and we passed out over 300 pieces of information to that many houses. If you would like to see the website for the new church it is http://sendingthelight.org

This last Friday and Saturday night Spencer's dad, brother Cameron, and Spencer were asked to take admission for a local rodeo. Of course that meant that we went to the rodeo for two days. It was fun though. The second night our group kept getting bigger and bigger. We would run into people we knew, and people would run into us, and we all ended up sitting together. One girl from our youth group was there who had never seen a rodeo. She kept me cracking up. She felt so sorry for the "poor" animals, and wouldn't look at the bareback riding, or bull riding. She said that she would go to another rodeo though.

Sunday we went to eat at Cracker Barrel for lunch. That was a treat since we usually eat at home. They had a 70% off sidewalk sale. :) Spencer's dad said that my mother-in-law and I looked like we were trying to put out a fire while shopping. They had such good deals, we could not decide what to get! Zach also decided to start witnessing to people. He just started asking this man if he was saved. The man said, "Yes", but when Zach said that if you're saved you get to go to heaven, the man said, "I hope so." Brittany chimed in "If your not saved, you go to hell." I think that was a little disconcerting to the man. It's really convicting to have your son witness so boldly.

Sunday night we did the regular Pizza Inn routine except that Sierra's diaper fell down and she left a log on the floor in the playroom. Nasty!!!!! After we got that straight, she got three fingers stuck in the hinged side of the playroom door. It scared everyone, and we thought she would have bruised fingers at best and broken ones at worst. It turned out she has no marks whatsoever.

Monday all of the kids had fevers and runny noses, and some of them are still recovering.

Tuesday I was supposed to take Zach to the allergist for a follow-up visit. I lost my set of keys about a month ago and forgot to get a key from Spencer. He had to drive home from work only to find that the said key was not on his keyring. Since I drove last, I must have had the key last, so I turned the house upside down looking for it. I even thoroughly cleaned and rearranged the kids rooms and still no key. I ended up rescheduling the appointment, and still had no key when Spencer came home at the end of the day. As I was cleaning up the supper dishes, Spencer showed me the key. I HAD given it back to him after church Sunday night. He found it in a pocket of some of his clothes he had folded and put back in his drawer. Boy, was I relieved.

Nothing exciting has happened today, and maybe I can get the rest of my housework done.

This Blog Needed Some Pictures, so I Overloaded

Zach and Brittany at Disney World

Me with Tweedle Dee, Dum, and The White Rabbit

Brittany in Minnie Mouse's House

Zach was so happy to see Mickey

 

Hi, Y'all!

, Mike, Amy, and Kids

Sisters, Lynlee and Courtney and Lynlee's Kids

 

Some Pics I'm Supposed to be Putting a CD for a Bunch of People

DJ, Emily, and Baby Josiah

Michaela and Brittany

Mark and Davida and Family

Courtney

 

Some pictures from the Tennessee HS reunion

 

  

 

Papa and His Grandkids

 

Family Fun 7

We live outside the city limits and do not have the privilege of trash pick up unless we pay a fairly steep fee. Therefore, we take our trash to the dump which for us happens to be the county landfill. At the landfill, they have a little building called the Swap Shop where people can drop off good items that other people may want. At the end of the day, if the items have not been taken the man at the land fill puts them in the actual trash. Spencer has collected some impressive items from there such as a toy box, lawn mower, a leap pad plus writing, and best of all a few weeks ago he got a portable ping pong table complete with paddles, balls, and net.
We decided to try to teach the kids to play ping pong. OKAY, they are still too small, but they enjoyed trying. Toward the end, Spencer and I played each other. I used to play ping pong quite a bit my Freshman year of college and could put up a pretty good fight until I lost, but it is amazing how much ability you lose when you have not done something in a very long time. The first time I went to serve the ball, I completely missed. Oh well, by the end of the night I was starting to get back into the groove of things.

Interesting But Not Necessarily Necessary Facts

Did you know............
Not all chiropractic is equal? There are over 20 techniques of chiropractic medicine. This could explain why some chiropractors work for some people and not for others. One chiropractor I know went to chiropractic college in Canada. When he needs adjustment for himself, he refuses to go to a chiropractor who does not use the same methods that he was taught in college. There are only two chiropractic colleges in the US that teach what he was taught in Canada.

Not all legal guardianship is equal. There are three types of legal guardianship. One is to take charge of someone's finances. One is to take charge of someone else's estate. The last one is to take care of someone else's health. The first two carry a financial charge to obtain. The guardianship to be in charge of someone's health care is free.

Anyone else have some interesting facts?

Ow! My Fingers!

Yesterday, Spencer went fishing all day with a man from church in a river they call Alligator River. I worked in the front yard for three hours cleaning up limbs, pine cones, pine straw, and stray grass. We have rocks for a border around some trees and the grass had grown up between them. My project for the last few weeks has been to pull the grass up around the border so it won't look so bad. Well, I was almost done when I started getting a blister on the knuckle of my right middle finger. I decided to to use my left hand instead. When I reached into the dirt, a root of the grass cut into the fingernail of my LEFT middle finger and tore some of it off. It really stings. Hope that it grows back soon!


This is a picture of our house. We have since changed the colors to light gray and a dark but bright cobalt blue. We also now have those rocks around the trees and bushes too.

Family Fun 6

We played one of Zach's games called Whack-a-mole. We thought about going out and playing in the rain, but then thought "Maybe not!"