Church Camp

Let me just start by saying that it is H-O-T in the great state of Georgia. When you are outside you instantly sweat to death! It hasn't been this hot until recently so a little over a month ago when I had the great idea of registering me and Rylee for Buddy camp at a near by church camp...it seemed like a great idea! Buddy camp is something that THIS camp offers for young children so they can see what going to real church camp is like. It just lets them get familiar with it while having their parents along for comfort.
It really is an awesome and God loving place. They had WONDERFUL food, lots of great crafts, awesome music and a really nice pool. Although I'm not sure if I was wet from being in the pool or sweating so much. It was just so hot and if there is one thing I can't handle it is the heat with no relief! The cabins are actually pretty nice too and at least they have a window unit A/C or else I might have died.
Rylee really seemed to love it. She especially loved all the singing with Faith and Melody. We packed a lot in to that little overnight trip and ended the night with a little bonfire singing. It was nice to be with Rylee without anyone else to worry about and to get to watch her experience something new. It was also nice to be away from cell phones, TV and computers even if it was just a little less than 24 hours. We really enjoyed North Georgia Christian Camp and think they are awesome!!!

Love my Rylee Bug! I don't look to bad in the above picture considering that I didn't sleep AT ALL the night before!!

Total concentration needed for the crafts!

This was taken before she asked me to put down my paint brush:)

All the kids from our church that went to Buddy camp.

My sister-in-law (my hubby's sister) and her daughter also came and sweat to death enjoyed camp for the first time.

I hope that one day Rylee will be willing to go back on her own but I don't see that happening in the next couple of years. She was dead set that she would never go without me b/c she would miss me to much. I'm pretty sure as she approaches the teenage years she will change her mind.

Invasion of the FLIES

We are being invaded. Both of our porches are covered with flies and every time the doors swing open it seems like 50 flies invade our house. We have swatted and cried (mostly me when I couldn't sleep b/c I feared one would get in my mouth...apparently I sleep with my mouth open). It is crazy how many there are but misery loves company and I am glad to know that all the neighbors are invaded too...if they weren't then I would fear we had the case of the nasties. Anywho I made a trip to walmart this morning and bought all kinds of killing stuff for flies. I plan to beat these little devils one by one. Inside of my house I hung this up

I have yet to see any flies sticking to it but I'm holding out hope. My mom swears by them but we shall see.

I then bought this other little thing that you fill up with water and hang outside. There is a bag of "bait" hanging inside to lure in the unsuspecting aggravating creatures. I have it hanging by the front door but no flies yet! Maybe I can pray them away:)

Wish me luck in my obsession to rid my life of flies!!!

I Don't Wanta Grow Up...

Well that isn't entirely true. Tomorrow (or possibly today...depending on when you are reading this), June 10th I will be the big 3.0.!
Don't worry, I have no plans to slip in to a deep depression nor does it bother me one single bit to be turning 30. I guess once you have been married for over 9 years and have two kids, your pretty much considered old already. Seriously though there are a whole lotta things that bother me but one thing that I have never gave a second thought to is getting older. It is way better than the alternative so I am just thankful to have been on this ride another year.
This past week my body has given me leg cramps, my chest hurt after jumping in a pool over and over again and my bladder showed me that it isn't what it once was while jumping on the trampoline with Paul and the kids. You should have seen us to oldies trying to jump on the trampoline...we needed oxygen tanks about 30 seconds in to it. Even with all that I know that I am blessed. You see there have been several years in my 20's that I haven't felt all that great be it physically or mentally. I had some huge pain and coping issues after having my first child at just 23 where I experienced chronic pain in just about every part of my body for 11 straight months. Then there was the mental stuff that lasted around two years after losing our son, almost losing another son and then worrying that something was wrong with him once he made it here safe. You see...I look forward to my 30's. For me it is promising and full of new things. My 20's was my time to marry and have my family. Now my family is complete (unless you count that little girl that I want to adopt one day that my husband says no to but I keep talking to God about it and I'm pretty sure I will win). My husband FINALLY has found his career and seems to love it. Then here I sit uncertain of what I am going to be when I grow up but going to school just in case I figure it out and feeling like I can be anything I want to be. I feel good and feel blessed to be healthy, happy and not hungry!!! Well I'm hungry a lot but atleast I have food in my house to eat. So does turning 30 bother me...only if I wake up tomorrow and can't get out of bed!
Have a blessed day because I know I will!!!

6:30 AM

At 6:30 this morning my husband popped open a carbonated beverage. The sound of him opening that can drink echoed through the house and as I tried to lay sleeping in our bed I suddenly heard a loud voice through the baby monitor yell "Mommy Don't do that noise". It didn't take me long to realize that I still had the headache from yesterday so I quickly turned the monitor down and went back to sleep. Oh don't judge me...you know you have turned that monitor off before. It wasn't like he was screaming, at least not at that point but when I awoke 2 hours later....he was screaming really loud!

That is how my day started and that was basically how it went. Tegan pitched his two year old tantrums all day long. My lazy wonderful no rushing summer has been transformed this year to a 7 year old and almost 3 year old fighting over everything. Don't get me wrong, these kids love each other but the problem is that Teg is a little infatuated with Ry and must do everything she does. She doesn't really like this very much so it turns in to an all out war around here. My attempts to not raise my voice have not been going very well. Although I know it isn't going to help totally, tomorrow I feel like a weight will be lifted off of me as I finish up the hardest class ever with a huge final. Maybe I can focus on redirecting Teg instead of pushing him to "go find your sister while I study". I guess in a way some of the fighting is my fault but at least it entertains him:)

The most pleasurable part of my day was loading them in the car and going to buy that tiny little $100 sticker for the tag on my car. Yes that's right...I have a birthday coming up in the next couple of days and thankfully the tag office doesn't let me forget. Anyways, that trip was so quiet that I ended up riding around for a little while b/c I was enjoying it so much. I'm pretty sure that after completing this horrible class I am in, it will cure everything!!!

Never Never

this picture is my screen saver on my computer right now. Don't know why but I LOVE it! It is so Teg. He goes outside, he comes in covered in dirt.

It doesn't sound nice but it is the cutest thing ever when you are having a totally serious conversation with a 2 (almost 3) year old and he tells you he is "Never Never going to do that".

I'm on the mend from my "Man down" incident...I hope. I had such horrible heartburn last night that I slept most of the night sitting up on the couch. Isn't it weird how one day you are 29 and in just a few short days you will be 30 and apparently your body knows that and makes the very sudden change from young to semi-old.

We went swimming at a friends pool this morning for this weeks playgroup. It was nice and not very crowded. There were two young ladies there that were great at entertaining my two very needy little ones. The pool is hard to explain but awesome. Actually, to jump off into the deep end you have to walk up what are like patio steps. I was standing up there and one of the girls was totally caught off guard when I ran and jumped in right along with her. This happened about 5 more times. It was really fun and seemed like an awesome idea until now...my back hurts and my body is sore. Again, a sign of my age:) If you are only as old as you feel then I am in some serious trouble! We rounded out our play date with what was probably a mild concussion for the Teg man. He slipped and fell on the very hard floor but don't worry, his head caught his fall. He hit really really hard and cried and cried. The only thing he said the whole way home was "it hurts it hurts". But once we got home, ate some lunch and turned on Barney all was right in the world. Oh and Rylee was giving him some extra love so he was for sure milking it!

I have been selling camera strap covers like crazy. I can barely keep up. I can't wait to be out of school for break so maybe I can make some new and different designs.

We had our free spicy chicken sandwiches from Chik-fil-a tonight. They were pretty good but nothing to go all hog wild about and especially not something I should have been eating while my tummy isn't exactly sure if it wants to digest or upchuck. But I will probably order one again in the near future.
OK...this is officially the most random post ever with the most random title ever!

Mommy Down

OK...I think I can officially say that stress is rearing its ugly head and beating my body to death. I can't wait for some down time (if that even exist with two kids) so maybe I can feel a little better. I felt a little better today and was finally able to eat a little, not much but something. I went to school and came home, took care of the kids, cooked supper, went to the grocery store, gave baths, wrote a paper and studied. Oh the things us women can do when we feel like we shouldn't leave the bathroom floor!!!

When Mommy is sick

I wanted to title this "Mommy Down" but I was sure that most of you wouldn't realize that I had gotten that from my obsession called Deadliest Catch where they yell "Man Down" or "Greenhorn Down". Seriously, they have been showing a marathon for the last four or five days of this show and since I just got in to it I can't stop watching for fear I will miss something important. I think Saturday I watched it all but about three hours..ALL DAY LONG! I have even stayed up until 1:00 am watching it. Crazy I know but I can't help it...it seems to relax me and make me forget that I have a really huge test at school tomorrow. I think Paul was afraid he was going to have to disconnect the satellite just to get me to stop watching it.

OK...that was not what this post was about but I can't stop thinking about it. In fact, I woke up this morning sick. Like the kind of sick where you let your kids pull your house apart b/c you can't stay out of the bathroom. When I would have a wave of nausea all I could think about was those boats rocking in the ocean on deadliest catch and I'm pretty sure it was making me sea sick. At one point, I passed out dosed on the couch and had a dream that I was sea sick on one of the boats and there was no way off. CRAZY!!!! Anyways, while I was sick the kids took full advantage of me but yet they took no pity on me. In fact they fought and fought and fought today and made sure to come in the bathroom while my head was hanging over the trashcan and tell me about every right or wrong move their sibling was making. I wanted to cry, in fact I did cry! I felt horrible and couldn't get it together. My kids didn't get breakfast until around 11:00 and even then it was just toast. Poor Teg ate a pack of crackers for lunch while leaving a trail from one end of the house to the other. I still somewhat feel the need to vomit and my head hurts on one side of my head but at least I can set up now. As soon as Teg went down for scream time nap time, I crawled in the bed. Rylee caught me in a weak moment and asked if she could do anything she wanted while I napped and I of course said yes b/c I was hallucinating about a boat and rough seas. Needless to say she ate all our snacks and moved her bedroom in to our living room floor!!! It seems that the world falls apart when Mommy is sick:)