pumpkin patch

i got up this morning at 3 in the morning by the sounds of "mama".... got her back to sleep but couldn't get myself back to sleep.. maybe it is because echo is gone from LOST or i was really excited about going to the pumpkin patch... not sure...

got some really good photos of jameson...and the cute one of david too.. i had so many i couldn't afford to get them one hour.. so will get them on saturday..

just one more lost episode before the long break..... sorry but i am a totally loving lost... and there will be nothing on i love more than lost for a while... it comes back in feburary.. what to do... i asked david for xmas that i wanted the season 1 and season 2 of lost or a dvr so i can record and go back to see what i missed in the show.. there is always something you miss the first time..

happy halloween and happy birthday rachael

so much going on .. cole came home sick, halloween parade, work, dinner, getting something to put candy in... and rachael's birthday.. so happy birthday rachael...

posting some quick photos before LOST comes on tonight.. then tomorrow is the pumpking patch.. can't wait.. i have been working so hard lately i am looking forward to a little hayride... and a pumpkin too... it should be fun....

cole has the funny skull teeth in.. they look really gross.. cole is jack sparrow. and jameson is little red riding hood.. ..can't wait to scrapbook these..

it's raining it's pouring...

Thank goodness it is raining.. we really need the rain right now.. i know it is not the best time to rain but i will take it anyway i can.. you should see how low the pond is..it is pretty low.. the geese can sit on the bank and not even be in the water.. i haven't seen that happen in quite a few years..

so thursday richard helped carve the pumpkin for the kids.. and it is a pretty pumpkin. he does a great job every year with the pumpkin.. i like the old school type pumpkin myself.. maybe that is because i didn't get to do that kind of stuff when i was a kid.. then lillian cooked a great dinner shrimp creole, and i really like it lillian so keep cooking it!!! i asked david to go get it so we could have it for dinner tonight.. then i went and scrapped at the store till midnight.. now i can't sleep so i thought i would post these pictures for everyone...

i made my christmas cards already and they will ready to mail around christmas time.. so now i need to do cole's birthday invitations.. and then onto other things i have to do during the christmas season..

so jameson is doing better.. thinking i might not need to take her out in this weather tomorrow.. so we will see what the weather is like to go to the pumpkin patch, she is dying to go to the pumpkin patch.. also the DAWGS play tomorrow and i got all the food to eat while i watch the game.. i just forgot the cocktails.. . but i didn't forget the black olives will probably need them for tomorrow.. i do have faith though..

later dawgs..

Gitty up Grandpa

I entered this in last month and won 2nd place.. i am pretty proud of it.. i love the pictures of grandpa and jameson playing horsey..

so jameson is sick with a cough and a fever today. so don't have alot of time.. and my puter is messing up too..

It is Cooold here.. and the leaves are falling it is really pretty, just wish jameson felt better we could go outside and play in the leaves..

well gotta go for now.

later dawgs.

some layouts i did yesterday..

this one of janet is my favorite.. i had been wanting to use that picture on something for a while so i found the "look" i was looking for..i am thinking about sending it to jennifer but i just can't let go of it just yet... the second one is jameson at the pool.. love the picture.. and the third is the kids together.. they are the sunshine in my life.. had a great time yesterday got a lot of things done.. i can't tell you though....christmas is coming SOON...i don't remember if i said this yesterday but i really am looking for a small easel for the kids if anyone know where i can find one.. okay for now this is it.. i will post my others tomorrow.. the one i won with i will post tomorrow that is of grandpa and jameson..

later dawgs..

what is going on

so i got up this morning at 3:30 and i cannot go back to sleep.. i woke up to jameson crying.. saying "i want my daddy".. i think she was having a bad dream or something not sure but now i am wide awake... and cannot go back to sleep.. and i am going to the scrapbook store all day today for classes.. all day yes all day.. from 9 in the morning till 10 tonight.. maybe that is why i can't sleep cause i am so excited about getting some stuff done for christmas..

well we went out to the pumpkin patch and they were closed they are only opened on saturdays so i guess we will have to go next weekend hopefully... before the florida and ga game.. jamesons daycare is going in november and if we just can't go i think i might check him out of school that day and take him with us.. that is if we don't get a chance to go before then...

david killed 6 racoons the other night and now we have those nasty possumms.. so last night david came in my scrap room and said "cole you wannna see a possumm" cole says "yeah yeah" so he looks out the window and it is eating the cat food.. cole come back in my room and says "momma that is the ugliest thing i have ever saw" and then david got out the shotgun to kill it and david wanted cole to come out there with him and he said "no way i aint going out there with that thing"... david was trying to just do some guy stuff with him with the gun and teach him about guns at the same time but cole was so scared of the possumm he didn't want anything to do with david..

okay i HATE playdough i don't know why they make that stuff for kids.. it stinks too... so i did the dead and bought some for the kids.. jameson she made all kinds of stuff with the shapes and she was so proud that she made a starfish... wish i had my camera then .. and cole made a volcano.. which i have to say was very creative..

speaking of creative... cole has gotten the scrapbooking bug now.. last night i was getting my stuff together and he decides he is going to use my scraps to make his own scrapbook.. and i had some extra pictures so he started his own album... and i have to say he did a good job... gosh i hope he at least get that from me.. cause everything else is his daddy.. i mean everything...

okay enough for now
hope the dawgs do good today
they finally got smart and put stafford in as a starting quarterback YEAH!!!!!!!!

later dawgs

gosh has it been that long

wow.. i can't believe i haven't posted in just about a month..sorry..things have been chaotic here.. school, work, kids, homework, cooking, cleaning, and moving things around.. i moved all my scrapbook stuff last week into the dining area..and wow what a difference more room makes.. i can see everything and it looks so much better.. now cole can be on the puter while i scrapbook.. it makes it so much better for all of us.. and jameson she can draw whenever she likes.. i think i ever might buy the kids play dough.. i just might..i think i will.. they can play while i scrapbook or on the puter.. now reagan has her own room now.. gonna get some baskets and store stuff in the little room now and all the dog stuff is there now.. i like it a whole lot better than the crate out near our eating table..

okay so i found this cool website for jk rowling the author of harry potter books and found it so fun... so check it out and i don't read harry potter books.. but i am really thinking about reading them and reading them to cole and jameson.. i know cole enjoys them..

friday we are going to the pumpkin patch when david gets off of work and i can't wait.. i have been working alot of hours lately and haven't got to do much with them so i am looking forward to picking out a pumpkin..

i am also gonna post some layouts i did last week too.. i know all of you guys love this stuff.ha ha ..

the one of cole is one of my favorites of him.. i forgot i had this photo so i went to walmart and got it enlarged and did this..

also before i go please pray that our dawgs get there act together before this weekends game..and next weeks game..last weekend was bad but this weekend what plain out stupid!!!!!

later dawgs...

hey ya'll

sorry everyone been busy with the family lately... alot going on..


davids cousin john and jennifer there house caught on fire from her car and really destroyed there house.. burned alot of stuff and then there was smoke damage to everything in there house.. then johns truck caught on fire on saturday.. please keep them in your prayers.. they really need it right now... they are going through so much right now... and the boys were having a hard time breathing and runny noses from all the smoke in the house.. they just built that house and haven't lived there very long.. my heart just goes out to them... i just can't imagine starting all over..

david finally went to the doctor about his feet.. he is having a hard time with his feet.. found out he has a lot of heal splints.. he gets his feet molded tomorrow for that... and will take him 3 weeks to get the insoles but i know when he does get them it will be so much better for him...

and my dawgs are doing really well this year. . and i like the stafford guy as a quarterback.. i think he is doing real well.. in the next years he is just going to get better... so looking forward to seeing him play more... do you hear that coach ??

YES tonight is the night for my love affair... Greys ANatomy comes on... i can't wait... i have been watching reruns since forever!!!! last night david had to work late and he came in and said that is a rerun... i said " well this is a good rerun, and guess what i am watching the best rerun in a long time" yeah i hate reruns but not on greys... so tonight i am watching greys while david is watching survivor and csi in the living room... i told him when i found out it was going to be on thursdays that i was going to watch it in the bedroom no matter what.. and i would see csi on the spike channel...so i don't get to watch ufc tonight either.. or at least i hope i don't..

so gotta go... trying to get rid of this headache i have had all day... took so much tylenol, i gotta find something stronger i guess..

let's not forget what today is....

i have been home today.. gotta a teachers conference and running errands... so i have been watching tv all morning.. then got on the message boards and found this website http://exhibit13.com/readlisten.html if you have time please check it out... it is a really a neat website.. it is the papers from 9/11 in someones garden... my thought are with those families..and also with ralph cox... his mother is a member at our church and ralph was also in school with david and i in the 9th grade....
so please say a little prayer for those families...

tonya

gotta a dryer???

well got home from the cruise was doing laundry and my dryer died...yes it died..so gotta get a new one..not really looking forward to doing the shopping around for it and finding the right one...but gotta have one.. my laundry is pilling up.. and i really hate that..i am the type that loves clean cloths.. i love the smell of new cloths too.. right when they get out of the dryer...i love anything that smells clean.. yeah even bleach sometimes..and when i do the laundry i fold and pile in the kids piles and then that is when i hate to take them to there desired area.. i just hate putting cloth away.. maybe it is the smell i don't want to miss.. oh god this sounds so cheezy...well just thought i would pass on a little something about me.. i like things clean....

so big brother is coming on and of course my cable is out...how come cable is out when something really good is coming on and you don't want to miss out... it always happens to me..and i really want to know what is going on since i don't have time to read everything on the web about it..i am kind of glad will is gone but kind of not.. he made that show really funny..especially in the diary room...but chill town asked for it...the girls are in control..well i hope they are..

and this weekend is going to be a great college football weekend...some really good games..ohio and texas is going to be on the same time georgia is playing so i am gonna have to switch back and forth..well maybe not if uncle larry is telling me the score...(that is larry munson for all of you non football fans)...georgia is playing south carolina and that is going to be a real good game too..

so gonna post more pictures today...

later dawgs
tonya

back in the saddle again

I am so tired...it's the getting back to normal that makes me so tired..doing the same routine again..and trying to get caught up on everything i have missed since i have been away.. and then david having to work nights for a couple of days....

i got christys pictures and i am gonna post some of them... i really like most of her pictures... we used her camera most of the time.. and i think we have some of the same pictures.. some of these are really funny.. like the one christy got of me with the life jacket on...everybody looked really silly with them on..so christy got a picture of me real fast...it is really funny now that i look back on it...before we leave port we have to line up with life jackets on and look really silly...i had already had a few drinks in by this time..

well good news jameson is just about potty trained.. she loves wearing her panties...she thinks when you go to the bathroom she has to go too..i really don't mind that just have one bathroom that is all...

will post more pictures in the coming days... got so many.. i am glad we took as many as we did..thanks christy for nagging about getting pictures takin... now i really cherish them...

later dawgs...

tonya

more pictures from the cruise

seems like things are back to normal... the kids are fighting and arguing...back to normal... the first picture is a shipwreck in the bahamas the second picture is christy, me and donna on the yellow bird...we really had a great time on that...we rode on the yellow bird and drank all the rum punch you want then they take you to blackbeards island..where there is a beach..we got in the water most of the time.. there was about an hour spent on the beach...then get back on the yellow bird and party even more with limbo..seemed like everyone was wanting to play limbo on the way back..... that was the best time we had on the trip to me...i had a blast that day...nassau was really pretty...next time i am going to take the tour to atlantis...that is what i really wanted to see...but getting into a taxi didn't seem to safe for me, especailly with 4 women... more pictures coming tomorrow hopefully....

see ya dawgs
tonya
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i'm back!!!!!

I had a great time on the cruise... i got to relax and see things i have never seen before... there is so much to do you can't do everything... but i had a blast...this was the first time i left my family and it was really hard.... i miss the kids and david so much.. i realized how important family really is...i know i am a little seasick too...and mostly that i have a best friend that loves me no matter what... thanks christy for putting up with me when i wasn't so nice....i got cranky...and not to leave your husband at home too... next time i go i want david and christy and her man to come.. i think that would be a better idea...yeah i have a best girlfriend but david is my life and i would never leave him home again...everything we did i knew david would of had a blast too... so i am glad to be back i still am swaying like i am on the boat and unpacked so back to the real world....

i will post more pictures this week... and hopefully i can get christys too and post some of those too...we took ALOT of pictures... and some videos but i can't post them.....

oh and GO DAWGS!!!!! it is time.... yeah!!!!!!!

see ya dawgs
tonya

more photos

i am trying to add as many photos as i can... they were all so good... i took alot of photos of janet and they all came out really good...couldn't add them all..but these are really cute with her and the our kitten..she wanted to take the kitten with her..but they wouldn't take it..she alreadys has an animal farm..james came over after the beach blast and went fishing we all went down there and david brought the tractor so the kids could ride it but nowne of them wanted to..just jameson for a while.. but then she got scared..

leaving on a cruise boat...

sorry i haven't posted in a while... been really busy with everything...going to post some pictures from the beach blast... we all had a blast.. had a great time with dad and the family... yeah i danced too..and danced with david too..i don't think we have danced together ever...it was fun..i just loved seeing dad smile and laugh like he did that weekend..and saw james and jennifer and her family..got some really cute pictures of the kids with janet..will post them too..oh and ignore the girl in the pink skirt please...i don't even want to talk about that..

going on my trip on monday really excited about that.. getting a little scared though there might be a hurricane or something pop up.. something always happens so hopefully this will not happen to us..i really need a break to get away and just relax..not sure how much i am going to miss the kids and david.. i know i will miss them... i have never been away from jameson or david this long...and i am a little scared to know what jamesons hair is going to look like while i am gone.. david has no clue how to fix her hair.. been trying to show him...i don't think he is cordinated at all to put her hair up. and i am really going to miss out on big brother...yeah i am offically addicted..got the live feed and read all the transcribes.. (i think that is why i don't blog more) so i won't be able to know what is going on....big brother is my drug of choice right now....so addicted.. it is awful.. i even talk to the tv when it is on tv.. what is wrong with me?

okay so dawg fans i am getting really excited about this year i am hoping JT does a good job.. he did really well last year in the florida game so i am really excited to see what he does this year...


later dawgs

tonya

going to the beach blast...

this week has been hectic... trying to get back in the swing of things...and yesterday cole was complaining of a soar throat...today he is at home... he says he is feeling better...i hope so..i am really looking forward to some relaxing time with family and david...we need to have a good time... it has been a while since we have gotten to go somewhere just adults... so got a real good friend of ours volunteered to keep jameson for the weekend...so i was really worried about what i was going to do with her..we had just planned on taking her with us so she can play with janet..but things have changed and i have some awesome friends that stepped up... thanks dana and sean....so got all the groceries just now and packing..can't wait...i just hope it doesn't rain..well if it does gotta tent?? we will still have fun i know we will...i will try and take pictures we will see.. i know christy is coming and she will want to take pictures i know... i know i will take some of janet, jennifer and james.. and the twins little tummy too!!

so talk to you later dawgs!!

tonya

not to long till the dawgs play

sorry been busy

sorry i haven't posted i have been busy with the kids lateley...cole started school on tuesday and i have been working and then running around like a mad woman...trying to get things together and back into the school thing again..figuring out what is the best way to go in the mornings and that kind of stuff...so cole is now in the 2nd grade at a new school this year..i hate the way the school is done here in wayne county...they go to one school for 2 years then another then more..when i was younger i went to screven elementary till i was in 7th grade then middle school then high school...it was so easy that way...now with this school board they have it all kinds of ways...can you tell i am not too pleased with the school board??? for parents that have more that one child it can be really hard taking them to school and picking them up...sometimes i wish i did live in screven so he would not have to change so many schools...

so yesterday was heather's birthday so happy birthday heather...sorry i could not get a hold of you yesterday to wish you a happy day.... and i love you... it is so nice to have a lot of sisters...i have 4 and i love each one of them so much...so proud of all of my sisters...you have become such wonderful women in my life.... did i say women?? my god we are all women??? yeah we all have grown up... where does the time go? you are all my best friends in life...and christy she is my sister too...except the blood part...

so it is really hot really scorcher outside...it is hard to keep this house cool...but i will not complain i will just not move around as much...or stand in front of the fan.. i know there are people out there that don't even have an ac or fan... so not complaining just can't wait for fall...love fall...one of my favorite seasons...alright i will keep blogging more sorry i haven't... and my dsl was down until tuesday so it took me forever to hook the new one up...i really hate dial up..why does it even exist...okay blog later....

later dawgs....
tonya

my dsl is down

i really hate bellsouths help line.. really i do and my father in law works for bellsouth..there help line is awful..i mean awful.. they are in pakastan? and they are talking english when you can't even understand them...what is going on with this country when we can't hire americans to run an american company..and then you get your bill and you wonder what is wrong with this?? you would think they could hire and pay someone well since they charge us a arm and a leg for a phone and then dsl...so right now i am using dial up.. i hate it really badly.. i am so spoiled from dsl..i really wish comcast had there dsl where i live cause i would be getting that..so i don't have to talk to the pakastainian?.. the reason why my dsl is not working is because we had a really bad storm yesterday and it really messed up my dsl.. coles tv (not working) and my coffee pot..my favorite coffee pot...well it works but the timer isn't...i know i went to mcdonalds last night to get something to eat and the texaco sign was gone..thinking the wind tore it down...

when in athens there was a really bad storm there on friday night when we got in....my cousin bryan's house blew done some really old trees in his yard..by the way that house was my great grandmothers house they built it and i am thinking they probably planted those trees..so summer storms are not fun...so be careful out there people...

well david is back to life...haven't seen him in days it seems like..i was sick and then he got sick and has been in the bed for days...i even slept on the couch so i would not get sick again...and plus he was everywhere in the bed.. he gets that way when he is sick and taking all those sleeping meds...

so found out last night i am going to be an aunt twice...yes james and jennifer are having twins...all i can say is thank god that isn't me!!!thank god!!! so can't wait to find out what the sex is... babies are such fun... so i will post pictures when i get my dsl back on.. so sorry for not posting pics...

see ya later dawgs!!!

some updates

have been a little busy lately...had a yard sale saturday and that went okay...think i might have another one soon...before the cruise..then had to clean the yard sale up so i could go to athens..had a good time with the grandparents..so this is a pic of jameson on grandpas back riding horsee..that is her new thing now..she likes to ride horsee..i couldn't believe grandpa let her ride on his back..he is 73 years old and in great health..guess that strickland blood is ageless..i was trying to tell grandma that i didn't know her age cause to me they are ageless..

and i spent some time with dad... was worried about him but i do feel better since i got to spend some time with him and let him know how much i do love him..he is the only dad i have..but he seems better..so i feel better too..

so got the flu after i got home from athens..thanks danielle.. i think she gave it to us..me, jameson and david have it.. i am feeling better.. although my head is stopped up..i think jameson has a little of it not what i had and not sure what david has of it.. he is in bed..and a little ill...he tried to stay away from me so he wouldn't get sick so now i think he has it even though he stayed away from me..he always gets everything i get..

so sorry i haven't posted i have been under the weather..

going on a cruise...

Have i mentioned that i have the best friend any one could ever ask for??? yeah i really do... so i am going on a cruise with christy... and 2 of her girl friends from work... i am so excited... so excited... we have been friends for so long... over 10 years.. she is part of my family... and someone i can depend on when i am having a bad day... she cheers me up and is some of my support system... we all need one of those... she inspires me to be a better person.. to be nice to people when i really don't want to....she is very generous to those that love her....it is amazing how far we have gone and we are still the best of friends....she was in texas and i was in hawaii and we always keep in contact... not matter what...those kind of friends don't exist anymore.. well they might but i don't have that many close friends and i really know why now... it is because i have such a wonderful best friend...i would do anything for her truely i would.... christy you have been an inspiration to me in so many ways i just can't explain it and i appreciate everything you do for me and my family.... thanks so much for being my friend all these years... i just can't believe sometimes how much we have been through so much together and we are still best friends and we finally live in the same town...it has been a long time since we have lived in the same town.... so i am grateful for christy each and every day... love you christy... and i can't wait to go on the cruise... it is very exciting...

Having a great day...

today has been a really great day for me... christy and i are going on a cruise at the end of august.. and i am really EXCITED ... never been on a cruise before.....if i like the cruise maybe me and david can go on one... got more good news but i can't say because it isn't good news for someone else...but it is for me and my worries.. i have been stressed out about some things and now i don't have too... so started back at work today and i am really beat.....so i am going to make this short today and post some more layouts i did... have a good monday....and don't forget to watch treasure hunter.. a really good show...

later dawgs
tonya

i am gonna post some of my layouts i did while i was on vacation... i really enjoyed doing them.. i like doing just the one page layouts.. and the one photo too... okay enough with the scrapbooking is what some of ya'll are saying..

so this weekend i am so sore from moving stuff and taking the fish and turtle tank down.. got rid of it.. thank goodness.. gotta have more space for books and sorts..

it is hot here... had to go get another ac unit just for jameson's room.. so hot.. it was like 85 in here yesterday.. i don't think anything will make this house any cooler.... so i have been inside staying cool and just resting my body cause i know this weekend i am gonna get a workout with the yard sale... so everyone come by and get some junk... cause i need a new dryer... that is the goal for the yard sale...

later dawgs
tonya

kind of busy this week

A good picture of cole...danielle was taking the kids to see Pirates of the Caribbean....such a good movie...and johnny depp..yum!!! can't get enough of him...such a great actor....i started watching him when he was on 21 jump street.. and have been a fan ever since...and he isn't that bad to look at either.... so i am looking forward to seeing it too... we might go this weekend to see it at the drive inn...

so we are going to have the yard sale next weekend..i think wendy has a lot of stuff to get rid of...
and she is moving closer to us now and i am really excited about that...get to see her a little more i hope...maybe we will have a BBQ fot them when they get settled in..

well gotta go do some more scrappin gotta enter a contest at my local scrapbook store.. hope i win...get a gift certificate for free stuff..

ABC's

today i was looking throught my favorite website www.twopeasinabucket.com and noticed a familiar name..i had noticed her work in some of my scrapbook magazines but wasn't sure if it was the right person..until i found her blog..i have admired her work for a long time..come to find out her husband is from the same town i live in..wow... small world.. anyway she did this and so am i ...

Artist??
Bold
Color love it!!
David love of my life
Eventually i will get to it
Friendly (sometimes)
Gracious
Happy
Improve myself
Jokster
Kind
Loveable
Memories i try to keep
Need more time
Openminded
Patient
Quiet time is great
Responsible
Scrapbooking
Tidy
Understanding
Victory in Jesus
Warm
Xmas - favorite holiday
Yellow favorite color
Zzz's need so sleep

Hope you all enjoyed this as much as i did...

undecided about title

well just picked jameson up from her new daycare (school) and i feel really good about her being there.. she usually cries when i come to pick her up but today she was having a good time..and she didn't even cry..cole even said it was fun there..so maybe that is a good sign..

i hope danielle is feeling better..she got her wisdom teeth pulled today..so hope you get better danielle..she took cole and jameson to the movies last night to see cars...cole really wants to see pirates of the caribbean so i think she is going to take him thursday..but right now that is what he is watch.. the first movie..so he will be ready for the 2nd movie..all day today he has been asking me when are we going to go get jameson..and yesterday they drove me crazy with there fighting with each other..i think he really missed her today...so he went outside and got some boards to make some kind of steps for the baby kittens we have..so they can eat also with the bigger cats...so i told him the momma feeds the kittens..they can't eat that stuff..i know he was trying though..he reminds me so much of when jameson was smaller he used to do the same things cole does...

speaking of james, i am going to be a aunt again...jennifer called last night to tell me she was pregant..maybe this will be a boy this time..hopefully ..we need more stricklands in the family..
i can't wait till the beach blast...or i hope i can't wait..gotta find out if she is bringing janet..don't have a babysitter yet for the beach blast..richard and lillian are going to be gone..so we will see..things might change..hope not though...

since no one sees my scrapbook pages thought i might put this one on here...i love it...one of my favorites of cole..getting better at this photography stuff..

getting rid of jamesons baby cloths

this morning i went through all of jamesons cloths..i am a little sad that she isn't that small anymore..and now i am putting most of her baby cloths in the yard sale..it is hard to let go of her cloths but i just don't have the room for them anymore..every outfit i see i can remember where it came from and the memories too..and i am not sure if that is going to be the end of babies or not..so i am a little saddened at all of these thoughts..to me dressing little girls is a so much fun..by the way i still have some of coles cloths too.. jameson has so many little dresses she wore to church and to special places.....

so this week jameson is starting little light of mine and hopefully cole will be better this week than last week..i am really excited about her going to this school..i think she will get alot out of being there and learning songs and bible stories..and the preschool program is really good there also..i was on a waiting list for a while and i have really thought about not changing her from country kids but i just think this is a better program for her...david even thought so too..we went and looked at the place before we made our minds up that she really needed to be there..

so today they are both home and right now they are fighting over everything..wish they would just get along today....she wants everything he has....and i still feel a little sick but better..thought last night i was going to have to go to the emergency room was feeling really bad...i was hurting really bad.. i have never had that kind of pain... but feeling better now...

feeling sick

For the last week i have had this stomach ache...no i am not pregnant either!!! and this weekend i really was feeling bad....it might be from being stressed out..i don't know..all i know is that i feel sick all the time..i hate laying around on the couch when there is stuff all over the place and dishes that need to be washed and dirty cloths..i could go on an on....but i won't...i gotta feel better..i want to do some things before i go back to work..and i really want to have a yard sale next weekend..i hope that is going to happen..got lots of stuff to get ride of....poor danielle she went everywhere friday night to take the kids to see pirates of the caribbean....everything was full..so she took the kids to walmart and cole got some pirates gear..a sword, a bandana like captain jack and some tatoos..i know he hasn't seen the first one...not sure why he wants to see that movie so bad...but like danielle she will do all her power to take him to see it..so hopefully today she will get to take him to see it.....well i guess i will go back to the couch this is about all i can take..gotta lay down..

more pictures--4th spent in screven

had a great time last saturday night... we went to screven and spent some time with sandy,heather, danielle, meme and papa..we had hamburgers and all that good stuff...watched the fireworks in screven.. the kids had a great time and so did i..just hanging out in screven..we walked over to where richard and lillian were to watch the fireworks...this is where i got this really good picture of grandma and jameson...and the other one is richard and lillian with jameson..cole was playing with the sparklers the whole time and jameson was terrified of the sparklers..had a great weekend..then on sunday we ate at richard and lillians and sat on the porch while the kids played with the pin wheels...i will add those photos sometime this weekend...the week is over and david has to go back to work...i hate it but them i love it cause next week i am off too...by myself.. i might get somethings done around the house...

4th of july with the stricklands

i got up this morning wanting to check out the pictures christy and i took yesterday and wow they are really good...so i know wendy reads it in the mornings so i am getting it on here so she can see some of them....had a blast at the beach yesterday ..did get a little sunburnt but other than that had a good time...met dads girlfried and she seemed nice..christy and hunter came with us yesterday...danielle and mark were there..and some of danielles friends dropped by for a little bit..rachael and ms jan came and wendy...so it was a crowd..but a good crowd...it was great to have david with me..usually he doesn't get to take a vacation during a holiday but somehow he did....it felt like old times in a rv yesterday...when we were growing up that was our vacation to take a rv and camp at the beach...i miss those times..although we did play alot of cards when we were burnt or just didn't want to be outside...times have changed....but one thing hasn't and that is our family....and man is it growing...so many kids there yesterday...i think jameson and cole got a little jealous of dads girlfriend donnnas kids..i think it is stranger for them than it is for us....but we all have to accept change and i hope everyone else can too....

i got someone else that influenced my life

Influence could be the word for stacy but he was almost my big brother...he was my uncle but he was only 7 years older than me..i really miss him oh gosh i really do...i looked up to him.. and still i think about him hitting my leg when he heard a good song on the radio...or drinking pepsi like crazy..and if you don't know the stricklands don't drink pepsi!!!! i hate pepsi!!!but he always did...before daddy and sandy divorced we used to go camping in the summer time to ferndina and one year stacy and trish went with us..and i rode down with him and her to the beach in his car and he played this song for me..it is called brickyard road by johnny zant (lynard skynard) and he was talking about his brother that was killed..you need to download the song...he said to me that song reminds me of your dad and me..i never understood what he meant by that song but i did fall in love with it..i have it on my ipod now....what stacy was saying was so many things to me..i think he knew he was dying and he wanted someone (me) to share with dad how he felt about my dad... so i did tell dad that..when that song comes on my ipod i STILL get chills...talking about mom and dad and how they are and it just completely reminds me of stacy...and to make this circle for me..stacy died on december the 7th.. a year before cole was born...cole's birthday is december the 7th....is this a sign???? i don't know really...but sometimes i feel that it is..i wonder what his legacy would be if he lived a long life?? if his children would have a better life? i think they would...i wish things were different for him because he didn't deserve the pain and agony of the disease he had....i know he is up there with dale earnhart and all the georgia dawg fans cheering them on...so here is to stacy and the life shortly lived...
i love you stacy for all the good times..... and the red slap marks too!!!!

papa remembered

I really miss papa..i think he has influenced me in a way i cannot explain..the year and a half that he was in my life was incredible...he loved this farm all the animals..it was the simple things in life he loved..but he especially loved his family....now that the farm looks better than it has in a long time, i just wish papa could see it..sometimes when i am washing dishes or fixing something to eat i look out the window and just say a little something to papa...or look at my plant that he gave me a clipping from...it isn't a clipping anymore it is pretty big in size...the older i get the more family members are passing away and you just need to cherish the moments while they last...i met papa when he was sick with alzhemiers and he was a hoot before he got really sick but i just know he was even funnier when he didn't have that horrible disease...just days before papa died i was going to athens to get reagan (our dog) and cole, jameson and i went in to see him before we left...he said he was going to build us a pin for the dog.. it seemed like he was his old self that day..it was a really good visit..he talked to cole a little bit and i was really happy leaving the nursing home going to athens...i thought man he acting like himself, i was so happy about the way things were that day..but when i got back from athens he wasn't doing well at all..he was sleeping that day and i woke him up cause i really wanted to just let him know we would be gone a few days..i am so glad i did wake him up cause that was the last time i saw him... the night he died david wanted me to go to the nursing home to say my goodbyes but i had realized that was his goodbye to me that day when he was his old self wanting to build that pin for the dog....and playing around with cole....

i know when we move from this farm house i will be sad cause i remember alot of things about papa....cause looking out that kitchen window brings memories to me... you could always watch papa feeding the geese or riding around the farm to check things out or just sitting on those rocks fishing...or friday nights when we all go out to eat and he would have that after shave on smelling like a cleaned up man..i could go on and on.....so today i wanted to just say i miss you papa...dearly....

The legacy i was left with...grandma polly remembered today

i have been having alot of dreams about my grandma polly..i don't know why i just got up this morning thinking about her...i miss those weekends when we would get up and she would be in the kitchen at the crack of dawn making breakfast or a feast...smelling those homemade biscuits and all the sausage your heart could eat...i miss her alot...i miss her so much....i know dad does too..what an influence that woman has put on me..she was a hard worker..and a gentle person..every fall we would go to the mountains and she would go and sometimes she couldn't go but she always gave all of us a little money to take with us..i mean all 6 about $5 or $10...i have decided this week i am going to do a memorial album on the people we miss or have lost..i think cole and jameson would really learn about there family that way..the older i get the more i cherish moments with my grandparents..if there is one thing i have learned is that money doesn't mean anything but family means more..you don't take money with you when you die but you do carry on your name and your family and the memories..i would rather have those memories of grandma polly then anything..and the smells too...carrying on the memories to my children is what i am going to do..

**the bottom picture is grandma polly and dad, cathy, carol and holding tommy...stacy wasn't born yet...