Wow. Time sure flies when you're not keeping up with your journal. I guess for the most part things have been rather calm. That is always nice. As you all know I have had enough excitement to last a lifetime. Ben and I took the kids out to eat for the first time in I bet a year or more. We never go out just the five of us. You see Wil has never ( Read more... )

This morning I made breakfast for the family. Benji requested buttermilk biscuits, scrammbled eggs and sausage. Katie, of course was at Maw-maw's house. The girls were going to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate Hailee's eighth birthday, which was actually Oct. 27, better late than never I guess. Steph's mom was in town for the occasion. Wil and I took ( Read more... )

Today was a lot of fun. Mom, Steph and I went to the Christmas Village sans any kids and walked around. Mostly we stopped and grazed on the dip samples. We use to make fun of the grazers, now it appears we have joined their ranks. Next thing you know we will be fighting our way to the tables of the dough ornament booths (God forbid....please). I ( Read more... )

I am waiting for my banana nut bread (sans the nuts)to finish baking and I thought I would take this opportunity to catch up a bit. Not much really going on here, though so it will most likely be brief. Try to hold back your disappointment. Steph and I met at Chick-fil-A yesterday instead of today. Tia met us there with Zoe, which was nice because ( Read more... )

A friend of mine sent me her profile and suggested that I make a personal profile of my own on MySpace.com, well you know me, anything to kill all that extra time I have (did you catch the sarcasm?). It turns out I've had a lot of fun with it, you should check it out and maybe make a profile for yourself. Copy and paste, www.myspace.com/amy0316

We had a great day today. Brandy dropped Lexi Lucy off on her way to work so she could go to the park and get ice cream with us. We had a great time, all of the kids played hard. Actually, "played hard" is an understatement. We didn't go to the park until noon, so I put in one of the "kid's songs" CD's and we danced around the living room, after ( Read more... )

Yeppie, another week off to a fine start. Yesterday we had lunch at Jack's with Steph, Mom, Thilia, and all the kids. We had a nice time. I did get some awful news though. I ran into an older couple I use to go to church with and found out that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer (they just found out yesterday) and will be starting chemo ( Read more... )

I know you are probably wondering how our first night with Lexi went. In all honesty, it was pretty good. I let Gracie and Wil play until they refused to stay up any longer, then I put them in the bed. Lexi Lucy knows that usually after they go to bed her mom comes to pick her up, she asked about her several times, but she wasn't upset or anything ( Read more... )

I love Fridays. Well, every other Friday any way. Ben only gets two weekends off a month and I think we both live for them. Obviously this weekend is one of them. I haven't really made any plans for tomorrow, I know that Ben and I will go out tomorrow night because we always go out on his Saturdays off. I am going shopping in the morning, but maybe ( Read more... )

Today is shaping up to be a good day. Lexi is with us which is always fun. The kids love having her here, so do I. I don't ever want there to be any doubt in her mind that she belongs here just as much as her sisters and brother. Today we had something of a breakthrough. In the past when ever Brandy dropped her off she would cry after her, at least ( Read more... )