I think this is the only one where she actually looked right at the camera

Lexi's photos

I decided it would be easier to just post some of my favorite photos than to try to explain how to go look at them. Here's one of her photos

picture perfect...

Well, we took Lexi to get her pictures taken today (remember we won those two free photo sheets). I didn't think they were going to come out good because of course she was crabby and fussing, I finally just said "ok, we'll just see what happens" and we went into the room with her binky in her mouth. we got the picture all ready and pulled the binky out right as she took the pictures. Luckily we only had to do that for two pictures, then she cheered up and was just awake and alert. she refused to look at the camera or even near the camera for 99% of the pictures, she was too busy looking at all the neat things on the walls. They took a TON of poses and then sat us down and we had to chose two- or pay to buy others. Well, we're broke right now, so we went in there knowing we'd only get two. There was one problem... She is SO DARN CUTE. We had it narrowed down to four and then they told us that the picture collages are on sale for $9.99. SO... we ordered one. so we're getting the two free 8x10's and then an 8x10 that has 9 different pictures in it. it's so cute. plus, since we ordered something other than our free sheets they keep the pictures for six months so if we ever get money we'll be able to order more. OR if anyone else wants to order some they can. They post the pictures online in 48 hours, so when they do that I'll tell you how to look at them. but beware... she's cute!!!

Lexi

Here's Lexi today! so cute with her little purple cord overals on... :) someday I'll get her to smile for the camera...

who's that little girl?

Here's lexi staring at the little girl in the flower... (it's a mirror).

I forgot to mention that she was pretty much sleeping ALL day yesterday so we didn't expect her to sleep at all last night...

SHE DID IT!!!

Lexi slept from 11pm until 7am, with only a brief fussing at 5am, when I went in to check on her it was freezing cold in her room and she joined us in bed and continued sleeping!!! WOO HOO! Go Lexi!

Sleeping baby

Well, Last night Lexi only woke up once! WOO HOO! although she's been sleeping all day and only been awake for a couple hours all day, i'm starting to wonder if there is something wrong with her. Although she might just be growing, cuz that makes them tired. She's so cute, she was in her swing earlier, and there is a mirror over her head, she was staring at herself smiling. She even played a bit this morning, she was starting to get fussy so I tried to give her her binky, well she made a funny face and spit it out, so I kept taking it and rubbing her lips with it, then taking it away and saying "EWWW". she just thought that was the funniest thing and was smiling so big. I can't wait for her to laugh.

Lexi had her first drum lesson the other night, you got to start them early if you want them to be the best! I think she was a little scared of the size of the drum stick, we might have to find some mini ones.

I love the feet!!!!

At first Lexi was thrilled at the thought of having play time with her daddy, but as soon as mommy took the picture she started screaming.

Lexi likes to sleep on our bed... isn't she CUTE?!

Turtles

Well, one of my turtles were having this problem where it was basically pooping out its intestines, then they'd go back in eventually. we couldn't figure out what was causing the problem, until we put it in a tank by itself and noticed after a day that there was a ton of gravel in the bottom of the tank and we didn't put it there... Turns out they have been eating the gravel in their tank. I took out all the gravel and put him back in the big tank and watched as the other one pooped out about 15 pieces of gravel. OOPS! So word of advise for any turtle owners, don't put gravel in their tank.

oh! I forgot...

A couple weeks ago Eugene and I were walking around the mall and there was a table infront of Sears to sign up to win two free photo sheets and photo session. So me, being silly decided to sign up- I never win anything but I sign up for a lot of stuff- who doesn't want to win?! Anyway, friday night we were at a tail gate party and they called me and guess what? I WON!!! So Lexi is going to have her picture taken next Tuesday. Unfortunatly because of our lack of money we wont be able to buy any more pictures than the two sheets, so we'll probably be selfish and just get ourselves pictures and not share. HE HE... yah, I'm a winner!

She Smiles

So yesterday Lexi started focusing her smiles... Eugene and I were laying on our bed staring at her, and she looked at me so I smiled at her and told her she was beautiful and that I love her and she just got this HUGE ear to ear grin. don't get me wrong, she's been smiling for awhile now, but this was a real, planned, "hey, you're my mom" grin. Then Eugene started talking to her, so she turned her head and did the same smile for him! She did it several other times last night too... YAY! we reached a mile-stone. As soon as we get a picture of it I'll post it.

Ok, one more picture... this was Lexi this morning sitting in the bowl chair waiting for mommy and daddy to be ready for church like she was...

Lexi and I were taking a nap.. can you tell? notice the smirk on her face... and Yes... she's laying on her belly I know it's bad....

i feel like a slacker

I was reading Beth's blog and man, she posts a lot!!! it made me feel like a total slacker. Not only does she post a lot, she also keeps up with current events and post intelectual things about them, I can't even spell intellectual let alone write about it... anyway, So i decided to take three minutes while Lexi is still sleeping and blog. But I don't have anything exciting going on like camping at Yellowstone, or my baby being in a wedding, or being pregnant. nope, nothing too exciting. Lexi got four shots the other day and they told us she weighs 12lbs now, but I don't know if that's true or not because my friend's baby weighs 12lbs 8 oz and she feels a lot heavier than Lexi.
Yup, man, I need a life... All I do is feed the baby and clean the house. Thursday I went to a church play date where all the stay at home mothers bring their kids to the park to play (which by the way Beth, is every week and I just didn't know it...) So my friend Laura picked Lexi and I up and we went to the park. Then we went to the court house where she got a new "tag" (lisence plate) for her car. Then Lexi and I went over to their house. We found out Lexi is allergic to cats, atleast I think because her eyes got red and puffy while we were there.
For the last few nights Lexi has successfully slept in her crib, with only a few minutes of crying when we first put her down, and an occasional cry after night feedings. (She's still up every three hours to eat) We're also working on a schedule... she goes to bed every night between 9:30 and 10. that's as far as we've gotten with a schedule.
So, she's starting to stir which means she'll wake up and want to eat, so I'll go after I post a new picture...

sorry

Ok, so Blogger messes up every time I try to post a picture... here is a recent one of Lexi, taken Wednesday. enjoy!!

Ok...

So it's been a long time since I last blogged- thank you for pointing that out. I'm such a bad blogger! :) So Lexi is 7.5 weeks old and you probably want to see some more pictures huh? Well first I'm gonna talk so get over it. We went on a nice vacation to NJ and Maine and saw all my family- it was great. The best part was that we hitched a ride with my mom and step-dad so it was a free trip!! WOO HOO! We had a blast, Lexi enjoyed meeting her whole family- even the three year old cousins who wanted to hold her. :) While we were in NJ we celebrated my grandma's 80th birthday party- everyone was there even cousins I didn't know I had. Anyway, since we've been home we've had a ton of fun trying to get Lexi un-spoiled. She wants to be held all the time, and all she does is fuss and eat. I'm not too sure what's going on, my mom says she's growing I don't know. She did gain 1 lb 12 ounces while we were gone (in two weeks) Last time we were at the Dr she weight 7lb 12 oz. Did I blog about Beth coming to visit me? That seems like just a few weeks ago, but really it's been since the end of July- crazy how fast things go. We had fun doing nothing but hanging out and eating ice cream. Livi is cute. Josh came too. I don't want to leave him out and make him feel unloved, cuz really I loke Josh too- he's just a little weird with all the space man stuff. I'm intimidated by his intelligence. boy am I glad Blog has spell check. Anyone have any ideas on how to cure a fussy baby that wants to be held all the time? Monday I quit my job and it felt great, sure the only way we are going to survive and pay all our bill is because we serve an awesome God who is our provider but atleast I'll be the one raising Lexi and I'll get to see all her firsts not hear about it from some child care provider.
Ok, I am going to post some pictures...

I couldn't find a smiling picture, but here is my blue light special baby- from when we had to take her back to the hospital- sad isn't it? I have to be honest though, we laughed when they put the batman mask on her... poor thing. I'm so glad she's better.

Two weeks old!

Well, Lexi is two weeks and 40 minutes old. (and sleeping like a log). I thought I'd post another picture of her, because she seems to change daily (that may have something to do with the weight she is gaining!) we went to the DR on Monday and she went from 4lbs 13 oz on Wednesday to 5lbs 3 oz. 6oz 5 days. pretty good if you ask me!

She loves her face, atleast it seems like she does, she always has her hands up there. she's so serious... Maybe I can find a smiling picture and post it. Anyway, here is my adorable girl...

Alexia Renee McCurdy

Alexia Renee McCurdy blessed the world with her presence on Wednesday August 2nd, 2006. She was born at 8:08pm weighing a whopping 4lbs 15 ounces and measuring in at 19 inches long. She was born 5.5 weeks early, but is hanging in there, we got to leave the hospital on Friday, but Sunday night we ended up bringing her to a Children's hospital in Chattanooga where we stayed until Tuesday night- she wouldn't eat and had a very high Jaundice level. However after 36 hours in the incubator with the billy lites on her and an IV in her arm and a ton of blood taken she is doing much better. We had to start pumping and feeding her in a bottle to get her to eat and now that is all she will do... but atleast she's eating now.

I thought I'd fill you all in on my baby... She's adorable.

Dr appointments, drive in's and car seats

Well, Thursday morning I had a DR appointment. It went well, i was told my weight is great (woo hoo! last time she told be to be careful cuz I was gaining too fast...). I was also told I drink too much water and I need to eat more salt- i've never heard a dr say that in my entire life. Come to find out people can actually get addicted to water... she said I need to just eat more salt for now and when I get done breast feeding then I need to not drink so much. I drank 78 ounces of water that morning before my appointment (my appointment was at 11:30am and I woke up at 6:15...) Anyway, I was also told i'm measuring 3cm bigger than I should be so in two weeks when I go back we get to have an ultra sound!!! The dr wants to see just how big Lexi is because at this point the dr is thinking they will have to induce me a couple weeks early. I'm still debating how I feel about being induced. I do not mind her coming early but I don't want to deal with the side effects of inducement. We've been going to child birth classes which I'm very excited about, I thought I knew a lot about giving birth and stuff, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to take them but i figured- what the heck, they're free why not? It's not like I'm going to get stupider by going right?!
Last night Eugene and I went on a date, even though there is still7 weeks before Lexi's due date, we figured we might as well just get it in just in case... Anyway, we went to a drive in! I'd never been to one. It was kinda fun and kinda frustrating at the same time. we got there at 7:45 and the movie didn't even start until 9. we spent about 45 minutes before the movie started getting the car comfortable (we have a hatch back), then right before the movie started I was looking at the sky and said "this reminds me of that part of Twister when the tornado rips through the drive in...." about three minutes into the movie the wind starts picking up real bad, the sky is a nasty color and it started raining and flashes of lightning filled the sky.... We could hear tree branches falling all around the place and the power kept flickering which was getting quite annoying because we were trying to watch Superman. Turns out you can miss the begining of superman and not lose any important information. Anyway, we ended up turning the car around and watching the movie through the windshield wipers. Well, being 33 weeks pregnant and sitting in a car for two hours is not the most comfrotable thing. I was quite miserable. Anyway, Superman wasn't all that good, but they play two movies so we got to see Click too. Click would have been a lot better without the usual perverted Adam Sandler usual comments and Scenes. It stopped raining so we got to open the windows to the car and it made it a little more enjoyable. But I still don't recommend sitting in a car from 9pm until 2:15am when you're pregnant. it's not that fun. I kinda felt like she was just going to come out from all the pressure she was putting on me!
We also got to get Lexi's stroller and car seat out of layaway yesterday! that was fun, it's exciting to have something big for her. We haven't quite figured out the car seat straps and head support thingy, but hopefully someone we know can help us with that. things are just too complicated. we also bought a shelf and two cute hooks (one's a butterfly and one's a flower) for her room! My mom has been working hard on her bedding and she showed me pictures it's looking VERY nice. I'm excited. :) Lexi's room might actually be ready for her when she comes out!
Next weekend is going to be VERY fun, and I'm so excited. My sister in law and niece are going to be staying with me from Friday until Sunday(our husband's are going to Promise Keepers). Then Sunday Beth, Josh and Olivia will be coming to visit!!! YAY! I haven't seen Beth since her wedding... cuz I'm a bad friend. But I'm thrilled! Livi is going to be sleeping in Lexi's crib so we lowered it for her and I'm washing the sheet. How exciting! I'm even going to call in sick on friday... YAY Company!!!
well, I guess that's all the excitement for now. I'll keep ya posted on the baby thing.

Scary picture

I was going to show you a good picture of me from saturday, but it turns out that all the pictures are still on the memory card which of course is in the camera. Where is the camera you ask? Well of course it's with Eugene in Florida- where else?!
So anyway, you're stuck looking at this scary fat picture of me very pregnant. I think I have a buddah belly.

I guess a month is a long time to go without posting anything huh?

Well, unfortunately there is nothing exciting going on in Jes Land. Eugene is away at Daytona Beach, FL with the youth group- they're at camp. I'm stuck here cuz of my stinky job, but I guess that's ok, someone has to make some money to pay the bills right? Lexi time is getting closer, we now have 8.5 weeks until her due date- that doesn't necessarily mean we have 8.5 weeks until we get here, we could have 6, we could have 10... who knows. Either way I'm getting rather anxious and nervous and excited and and and....

My biggest worry right now is the actual labor process. Atleast that's what I think is the biggest worry.

The thought that consumes my mind the most is the fact that I do not want to work after I have her and I just don't know how we are going to work that detail out. That's one that I am trying to let God work out, but I think about it all the time.

And my biggest excitment is just knowing that I'm going to be a mommy! (scary and exciting at the same time). Soon this girl that pokes and pushes and kicks my ribs is going to come out and I'm going to be able to hold her in my arms! and change her poopy diapers too. :)

Being pregnant is a weird feeling, not just the always growing and stretching stomach, but the weird movements, the feeling of having your body part moving from the inside and you have no control over it. It's simply weird. Knowing that there is a tiny human being in me is simply amazing though. God is awesome the way he designed our bodies. Then there is the completely irrational hormonal mood swings that make you cry over the stupidest things and laugh over things that you should be crying over. I'm just glad I have a supportive husband who even though he doesn't understand why I'm crying while watching Ed, Edd and Eddy, he still loves me and shows concern (before laughing at me of course.)

Well, I guess I might try to go to sleep now, I'm kinda tired. Hope you're doing well!!!

Shoes

is this sad or what? Lexi is not due for THREE months but she already has EIGHT pairs of shoes. And what exactly does a newborn do with shoes anyway? they're just so darn cute. My baby girl's not spoiled... what are you talking about?

gorgeous!

SEE MY STACY?!

well...

It's been a long time since I actually wrote on here, so I'll try to think of something exciting to say. My Stacy got her hair cut and she looks very cute.... I'll post a picture when I'm done.
Eugene's off in the middle of the woods for the weekend with the Youth Group. They are having "Survivor Camp." doing all sorts of weird things I'm sure. Lexi got the hiccups today, it was interesting. I think she had them yesterday too, because I kept feeling her twitch, it wasn't until today that I paid attention enough to notice it was rhythmatic.... or had rhythm. I'm a horrible speller but you know what I mean. we went to NC to visit Eugene's family this past weekend, that was TONS of fun. they had a small baby shower for us which was nice. we got some really cute stuff and a bunch of diapers! WOO WOO! It was just good to get to see his family. I wish mine lived close enough that we could drive there for a weekend.
ok, so I have NOTHING to say... so I'll just get off of here...
thanks for reading my rambles...

Here's Tig (Eugene) and I.

and more pictures!

This is my friend's baby... she was born on cinco de mayo (5th of may) isn't she a doll? so cute!

pictures woo hoo!

me at uh.. 22 weeks?

More pictures for Jaime

This is my favorite picture because you don't have to see my ugly face!! just my big belly. This is my belly at 21 weeks.

Alexia Renee

Sorry for the poor quality, I'll try to rescan it soon and post a better picture... Either way, this is my Alexia Renee!!!

baby update

IT'S A GIRL

19 weeks and as big as a house

nothing exciting

Ok, so I said that once I got the internet at home I would post more, but really between never being home and having to fit my husband for the computer, I still never blog! Plus, I discovered Myspace... I hate to say it and be unfaithful to blogger, but it's so much better. I didn't realize how many people from High school and college and elementary school I could find! Within two days I was reconnected with a bunch of old friends. How cool is that? I kinda sound like a commercial. So, i'm not saying I'll give up with my blogger completely, but my "space" is www.myspace.com/mccurdygirl you can check me out there too! BUT a warning, I'm not to be held responsible for anything my "friends" post or say on their spaces. Not all my friends have the same standards as me. so take this as your warning. :)

this is cool

http://kevan.org/johari?name=mccurdygirl

he he he

I discovered after 24 years that I have curly hair. These aren't good pictures at all, especially the one that makes my nose look like it's three miles long... but look, I have curly hair!!

Baby Belly

For those of you wondering how the belly is progressing.... here it is... it looks bigger than it is because I pulled my arm back to get out of the picture, then I realized that it made me look bigger. Oh well! that's the belly....

giving birth- this one's mostly for Beth, cuz I don't think anyone else will care...

well, for those of you who read this and care, I've made an important decision about giving birth. I'm gonna do it. Yup in September. oh wait, you already knew that. For real I decided I am going to go all natural. no Epidural. I never wanted one anyway, but I had never met anyone who had given birth without one (aside from my mom who gave birth when the dinasours walked the earth... oh wait, that means i'm old....) so uh.. anyway. Last weekend I met a woman who is 30, and gave birth to two children without one. I was so excited. She talked about all sorts of things no one had ever talked to me about. She informed me that my DR doesn't do Episiotomies, which is a relief because I heard healing from those is worse than tearing. anyway... so the main reason they give epidurals is because you can't push after getting an episiotomy. So yah, to make a long story short.. I'm going all natural. Good thing I have a high pain tolerance, cuz I know it's gonna hurt like the dickens. Anyway, that was my little tid bit of TMI for you...

More Eugene's nieces

These are two more of Eugene's nieces, Gabbie and Torie. Gabbie is the younger one! He has beautiful Nieces

Nieces

These are two of Eugene's nieces, Britt and Abbey. Britt is the younger one

Me and Tig at the River

what a lovely self portrait of my wonderful Husband, Eugene (AKA TIG) and I. :)

Baby McCurdy

Well, here's the baby's first picture! If you can tell what is where, the baby has it's hand in front of it's face, we like to say it's sucking it's thumb. :) Anyway, that is the baby two weeks ago, so it's a little bigger now. The next ultra sound isn't until May, so we have to wait alittle while to see another picture. But we will find out if it's a boy or a girl then, so we can stop saying "it"

hmm

Apparently no one cares about turtles... So i'll tell you my newest solution to acne... Nutragena bar soap. it smells nasty, but in two days my face has cleared up so much!! i had pregnancy hormones making me break out so bad, and my doctor told me to try that. It works wonders!!

This is a picture of the two of them when we first got them, they were a lot smaller then... They grow up so fast... SNIFF SNIFF 

Here is one of the two of them, going after the yummy freeze dried Shrimp 

This is Esau, he loves his freeze dried shrimp... 

This is Jacob- the turtle not the frog... he's significantly smaller than Esau as you can tell 

Turtle Pilates- Yes, our turtles are very avid Pilates turtles... Every morning they get up on their rock and stretch their legs out, Right back, left front, then they switch, left back right front... it's quite cute! 

A quick note

Today we got internet at home, so tonight I plan on posting some pictures of the turtles and the new apartment and all sorts of things like I kept promising you guys. I hope you're still waiting and didn't give up on me! :)

HELLO

HI STACY...
HI BETH...
HI JESS...
HI ANYONE ELSE WHO OCCASIONALLY READS MY BLOG.

Maybe I fell off the face of the planet?!

Ok, so it's been too long, after I pick on Beth saying she fell off the face of the planet. I've been actually spending my time at work doing work- mostly, and a little emailing. I thought I'd do a quick update...
Still pregnant! 10 weeks along, Thursday will be 11 weeks. I went to the Health Department to see about getting Tenncare (Medicaid) but we didn't qualify- we make too much money. I don't know who's standards they go by, cuz we barely pay our bills. Anyway. Eugene called the Department of Human services to see if they had any other level of Tenncare where we would pay a copay and they said we had to bring all our bills and proof of income, and proof of pregnancy up there and see if we qualify. Well that meant I had to go back to the Health Department to get proof of pregnancy. So, we arrived at 7:30, and at 9:15 we were leaving, with a little hope and a lot of reading material on being pregnant. They told us that we automatically get Tenncare for 45 days- but they didn't have a way to over ride what they had put in the computers the week before saying we made too much money. So.... We do have to go up to the department of human services to see if they can over ride that we don't qualify. We are really praying this works since my insurance here at work does not start until May 1st. I checked into prices for the doctor and the visits themselves are $147, that's not bad...But the first visit they do lab work which ranges from $400-$700. So if we get on this 45 days of tenncare, it will be long enough to cover the lab fees! Hopefully this will work.
Target is having a big baby sale, and although I do not like target because they are terrorist, I think we might go get a crib- it's MAJORLY marked down to $105!!! That's so cheap. So if you're disturbed that I think Target is terrorists... Here's my theory in a nut shell...
#1 they do not allow our veteran's to stand on their property to raisse support, sell things or hand out information.
#2 I've been told that each store has their symbol painted very big on the roof. think about thir symbol
#3 THEIR NAME IS TARGET.....
#4 they are putting their stores in every major city, and a lot of small towns too.
I get this strange feeling that either they build them with bombs already in them, or the huge target painted on the top is a well, for lack of a better word, a target for them to either drop bombs in, or crash into....
Now I'll get off my soap box.
Work is doing good, although I'm quite sleepy I still enjoy it.
I get emails from my nieces sometimes, they are so cute. Two of them can spell and read very well, One is learning how to spell, so she just types the words she knows how to spell and Aunt Jessica is one of them :) The other one doesnt know how to spell at all, so it's just lots of random letters. :) so cute.
Well, now that I wasted a lot of my work time (my ten minute break) I'll get busy working.

Beth

Yes, I think Beth fell off the face of the earth! she came back just long enough to post 14 pictures on her blog, but then she left again! I'm not sure why she thinks just cuz she is busy means she doesnt have to remember about her friends!!!! Maybe she secretly hates us! I doubt that.

Here is one of just the kids.. Oh so cute! I love the way they have the youngest girl with her hand on her brother's shoulder! It's so darn cute. I'd say names, but I'm not about to have some weird strangers finding my nieces and nephews and stealing them. So if your some weird freak, don't even think about it.

This is my eldest brother's family! He has such cute kids! I wanted to share their cuteness with you! hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do! I love how they make him look tall by having everyone else sit down... Really his wife is about4 or 5 inches taller than him he he! Oh well, it's still an adorable picture!!!

my job....

More exciting news!!!! Today was my first day as a full time permanent employee of Steve A. McKenzie Companies!!! Yup, after 3.5 months of temp work, they decided they liked me and hired me on full time! YAY! May1st my benefits kick in (which will help with the baby!!!) I got a $1/hr raise which is about what the insurance will cost, so I wont really make any more money, but we'll have insurance! All this exciting news, new apartment, baby, job... it's great! And my sister in law just got hired on full time where she was working too! It's great! GOD IS GREAT, GOD IS AWESOME!!!!!!!! GOD IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

guess what?

Friday morning I found out I am going to be a mommy! Yup, pregnant belly here I come :) Morning sickness has already started, it's not fun. but that's ok. We're gonna have a baby. Before you ask, it will be due in September, and no, we have no names pickes out. :)

hmmmm

I titled this Hmmm cuz I really don't know why I am posting. I have no news, but I figured it has been a while since I posted so I thought I should post. That and I am bored and don't feel like doing anymore work today! Our new apartment is starting to look like an apartment, it's exciting. Once all the empty boxes get taken away (which won't be until the garbage truck comes on Friday) then the house will look good. We have stuff on the walls, and boxes unpacked. really we don't have much left to do! Just little things that need to be hung up or put on a shelf. And the floor needs to be vacuumed really bad, but our vacuum broke and we are waiting to see how much the part is going to cost we might buy a new vacuum. That will be exciting we've never bought a vacuum before. We've never owned a new vacuum either. The one we have now is one my mom left with us when she got married and moved to Texas. We never had one before that either. Who cares about my vacuum?!! I'm so dumb.
I know you are all waiting for pictures, but I need to burn them onto a CD so I can bring them to work and put them on here. Maybe I'll do that tonight if I have time. But knowing me I'll get distracted with things that need to be put away and do that instead. It's kinda hard for me to sit still and relax. I think I have adult ADHD. I noticed when I was unpacking, I would open a box, start putting things away and then see something that needed to go in a different room so I'd bring it in there then start putting things away in that room, until I saw something that needed to go in another room- you see my drift. My husband was getting mad at me cuz I couldn't just get one room done, I had to work on all six at the same time. I do that at work too, If i've been doing the same thing for too long (like today) I have to find something else to do.
Anyway, I have to get busy! talk at you later!

Cool song.

Hey, I keep hearing this song on www.Christianrock.net which I listen to all day at work. Anyway, I love this song and I thought I might share the lyrics with you, because they are what sticks to me the most.... Whoever says they don't listen to the words just the music when they hear a song are full of crap. No matter what you always hear the words, that's why when a stupid song comes on that you hate, you know all the words. That's just my little splur on why I think Christians should only listen to Christian music. I had to hear country music all day at work before I got speakers on my computer, and now, despite me trying to block out the words I know the words to all those nasty country music songs like "tequila makes her clothes fall off",

"Save a horse, Ride a cowboy," and that song "I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was...." I'm sorry but no matter how hard you dont want to hear the words, you do and that is what gets stuck in your head!!!! that's what you meditate on all day! is that pure, lovely, noble, honorable etc??? I don't think so. Anyway, here are the lyrics to "Faith Like That" By Jonah 33

I have read about the days of old
About the men who followed You
And how they saw the supernatural
And became the chosen few

So I come before You now
Tearing off my earthly crowns
For this one thing I have found

CHORUS:
I want a faith like that
To see the dead rise or to see You pass by
I want a faith like that
Whatever the cost, I'll suffer the loss
I want a faith like that

I'm not looking for a miracle
Signs and Wonders or things thereof
I caught a glimpse of what You want for me
And what I have is not enough
I read the story one more time
Of those who gave to You their lives
With no fear or compromise

I want a faith that can move any mountain
And send them to the seas
I want a faith that can break every stronghold
That keeps You, that keeps You from me

Happy New Year!

Well, it's been a long time since I posted, but no one even made a comment, so everyone must be really busy. Beth hasn't even posted since before Christmas. Did everyone have a great Christmas and New years Eve? We've been really busy with traveling, but we're done now. After today we will be completely moved into our new apartment. and I will take pictures and post them. We drove to PA for New years weekend and got to see our godchildren, they are SO DARN CUTE! They will be coming down to visit us in the spring, that will be fun too. Christmas was great we visited with my husband's family, they are a bunch of fun people. Stacy, I drove right through Ohio but didnt know I was going to until the day I drove through, I should have called you anyway, I am a bad friend. The ten hour drive from TN to PA turned into like 12 hours cuz we hit snow in Ohio somewhere. I am still at work, so I can't post much. but just wanted to say HI! someone leave a comment!

Merry Christmas

I wish I had a long time to post, but you know the drill... I'm at work and I can't talk long. We have been soooo busy!!! between traveling and Christmas and now we are moving too! We found a very nice big two bedroom duplex and it has a laundry room! I'm so excited. So January 2nd we will be moving. Today, after work, we are leaving to go to Eugene's family's house in North Carolina where we used to live it's a six hour drive. We will be there until Monday. Monday we come home and work Tuesday-Friday. Friday we leave to go up to PA to see Eugene's best friend and our godchildren. I'm so excited to see them! The next monday we come home and start moving! ugh.... Oh well. If you want our new address email me and I'll give it to you. I was going to post it, but I realized anyone could read it and come find me and kill me for writing boreing blogs. The coolest thing about our new apartment is that it doesnt smell like skunk. I thought I had a lot of exciting things to post about, but I guess not. Oh well, Merry Christmas!

Oh Smelly days.....

Well, good news! I got to the Library. and I am posting. Now for the bad news..... I can't download Hello on the library computer, so i can't post pictures. That's only one part of the bad news. The other part is I can't stay long cuz I am just taking a short break from de-skunkafying our house and everything we own... Yup. Friday morning we woke up about 5:30 smelling burning rubber and being very confused. We got up, searching our house for the source of the smell but found nothing. We tried to go back to sleep, but the smell was so powerful we were getting sick to our stomaches. So we got up, showered and went out for breakfast. After leaving our house we reaslized the smell was not burning rubber, but skunk. Our cars smelled like skunk, our clothes smelled like skunk, our wallets, purses, watches, belts and everything we owned now was sprayed with Ode De Skunk. We thought "oh, it's not that bad, so we'll just go to work and worry about it later." Well, after I got to work and everyone gave me funny looks I realized it was a lot worse than we thought. It's kinda nice to be told that everywhere you go you leave a trail of skunk sent behind you. NOT! My nice supervisor got me a shirt to wear from the company closet of goodies, and I threw my stinky shirt in my stinky car. Then Eugene went home and did a load of laundry bringing me back clean pants too. So we were good for the time being. But we have spent the past two days (and lots of money) trying to get the smell of skunk out of everything we own. So if you have any good ideas- feel free to post them. We've scrubbed the walls, sprayed the carpets with vinigar and now this natural spray stuff.... but something still smells. Right now Eugene is sniffing his foot trying to figure out where the smell is coming from. We even mailed up Skunky smelling Christmas presents to my family in Maine. wasn't that nice of us? Yah, anyway... I forgot my library card in the car, and we could only get one computer so Eugene is bored reading over my shoulder while I type this to you, So i think I'll go now. Happy non-smelly day to you!

camera

Guess what? For Christmas Eugene and I got a digital camera! it was our gift to each other. So now, I can take pictures of our turtles, and me, and other fun things and post them! Now we just need internet at home!

Update

Work got a virus, internet was down, now it's up, but I'm pretty sure they are monitoring our internet usage... So now I'm scared to be on here.... Maybe I'll get to the Library to post. sorry guys, dont want to lose my job before I get it!!!

Thanksgiving

Well, Thanksgiving is over. We made it to and from Texas safely, and we had fun while we were there too. Although it took 16 hours to drive there- That part stunk. It was great to see my mom and Rick, and to meet my step-siblings (Who were awesome by the way). I also meet a step aunt, and some step cousins. :) My step siblings and Eugene and I got along great. We're a lot alike actually. Katie is the youngest, She is a year older than me, and her husband is a year older than Eugene (making them 25 & 27). Her and I had a lot in common. The next one is Sara(h) I'm not sure if she has an H or not. Her and her husband, Steven, are 26 or 27. She is pregnant and due in June. The oldest is Jason, him and his wife, Misty, are 30. We all hung out on Friday, and all but Sarah and steven hung out on Saturday before we left. On Saturday we had Texas BBQ, A.K.A. brisquet, or something like that. It was good. Saturday we left and started our 16 hour drive home. We drove for 8 hours, then stopped at a truck stop and slept for 6 hours, then drove the rest of the way.
Anyway, Now I am at work and I must get busy!!! talk later! Hope you had a great thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

Just want to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Today Eugene and I are setting out for Texas to go visit my mom for the Holiday. I am going to meet my step-siblings. I think I have three, two sisiters and a brother, but I'm not sure. It is going to be a long drive, 15 hours or so. UGH. oh well. Now I have to work. Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for reading my blog! and Thanks for being my friend, asuming you are not one of those weirdo's who read random peoples blogs and you stumbled upon mine by accident. :) bye!

Incredible Weekend.

I absolutely hate When you have an awesome weekend, then you realize that it's over and you have to go to work!!! If you read my post from Friday afternoon you know that I got a dozen long stem red roses delivered at work with a card that said "Meet me outside at 5:00" and I think I explained that Eugene has been planning some surprise for our anniversary (which isnt until the 29th). Well this weekend was the big surprise; and it was great! I went outside after work and he was there waiting for me in his car. I got in and he blindfolded me and we drove about 20-30 minutes. If you have never been blindfolded while riding in a car- it is an interesting experience... Anyway, we arrive wherever we are- I have no clue of course, all I know is that I was more aware of my suroundings through my hearing than ever. We were on gravel, I knew that. He told me I had to sit in the car with the blindfold on while he took care of some things. He was gone for what seemed like forever, while I sat in the car wondering where we were and what he had planned. I was thinking of every possible place we could be. I never did figure it out. Finally he came back, and guided me into wherever we were... All I knew was that it smelled like an old person's house and they were cooking turkey. He told me to ignore the smell cuz we had to. I was clueless. Finally I could open my eyes- I was in a living room and there were rose petals on the floor, and candles lit. I still had to ask where we were, I was so confused. Anyway, my romantic husband had planned a romantic weekend, we were at a Bed and Breakfast! It was sooooo sweet!!! He bought all sorts of candles and had the place all romantic. He bought wine, and flowers, and rose petals... it was so nice. The best part of the place was the tub!!! it was this HUGE tub, with jets and everything. the tub was seriously HUGE!!!! it was the size of our whole bathroom! about 4 people could have laid down in it, and it was DEEP! it was so great! Then we went to the Ocoee River on saturday and hiked up to a waterfall. It was so pretty we took pictures, but we dont have a digital camera so when I get the film developed I'll post some pictures. We got some nice rocks for the turtle's tank and when we got home we set it up all nice and cute! Yah, it was a great weekend! So I dreaded coming to work this morning... oh well, it's still good. :)

Nameless turtles

Weird thing happened. When I ordered the turtles on Wed. I got UPS 2nd Day AM shipping, thinking they would arrive today, Friday... Then I got an email saying that they only ship on Tuesdays. So I thought I would have to Wait until next Thursday, which would have given me more time to get the tank ready. Then... Wed. night I had a dream that I got an email saying my turtles were shipped out and would be delivered on Friday. Didn't think anything more about it, except that I'm excited to get them, and then at work on Thursday I check my email and I had one from UPS saying that they were being shipped and would arrive on Friday! YAY!!! So anyway, my husband called an hour ago and my turtles arrived! YAY! So soon I will get to see my children. The thing that stinks is that we didnt get everything we need for the turtles yet, so tonight after work we have to go to PETCO to get a lamp and some other things for them! I'm so excited about my nameless turtles! Well, Lunch time! Talk later!

A dozen long stem roses

Some of you know my Birthday is on Monday, and my anniversary is on the 29th. Well my husband has had this big surprise planned and wouldnt tell me what it is. I got back to work this afternoon from lunch, and was working when I got called to the front desk... there was a box there with my name on it. I opened the card and it said Happy Birthday. Meet me outside at 5:00 pm. I opened the box and it was 12 beautiful long stem roses! Amazing what men can do! By the way.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turtles...

well, I finally got to meet my turtles, and we only had been watching them for 30 minutes when my husband declared that their names were Jacob and Esau cuz they will not leave each other alone. Esau is a little bit bigger than Jacob and more masculine I will laugh if he ends up being a girl. Jacob's shell is not as colorful or pretty as Esau's but they are wicked cute! I'm so excited. I just wanted to tell you all they are wicked cute and they have names.

one more today...

I dont know why I didnt just put all these blogs into one... oh well. I'm scatterbrained. The song Concrete Angel is playing from the radio in another cubical. it makes me cry. I love that song. If you dont know what I am talking about look it up. That's not what I was going to write though, I was going to tell you about the Acne Cure my brother-in-law told me about. As you both know I've suffered with bad acne all my life, well I still have a bunch of zits. Jason, my brother-in-law, used to have bad acne, they tried everything under the sun, his grandmother kept telling him to put egg yokes on his face and let it dry then wash it off. Well aparently he thought that was gross- which it is, and didnt try it. Finally after going through all the medications and every treatment you could think of, he tried the egg yokes. After only a few days, he was acne free! and he hasnt had problems since. Now I am trying it. I put egg yoke on my face last night for the first time, my face has never felt so soft. This morning when I woke up, my face was less greasy, and still soft. Also, for the first time ever, my face wasnt red! My face always has a reddish tint to it, I was a normal color this morning! it was awesome. Even my husband told me my face looks good today. YAY! I think it's going to work!

Have no fear, Underdog is Here!

Wait, it’s just me. Beth pointed out that it’s been five days since I posted last, well Beth, if I recall correctly you were missing for quite a few days too! Life has been Fun. I’m still waiting to hear about this becoming a real job, not just a temporary job. My sister-in-law, April came to visit this past weekend; she brought her daughter and two of our nieces. It was fun. I enjoyed their company. But now they are gone, and I am sad. Next Thursday my new baby turtles will arrive. YAY! I am getting two (they were buy one get one free!) BOGO. He he. I am having a hard time choosing names though, so if anyone has any ideas let me know. I was thinking Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Snoopy & Charlie, Hansel & Gretel, you know, some famous couple names. Something fun. Got any ideas? I took lunch break while writing this and Eugene and I came up with the names Trigger and Happy. HE HE. But I’m still open for any new ideas. I was going to do a poll like Beth did for naming Olivia, but then I remembered she had some smart friend do that for her. Oh well!
While April and the girls were here we took them to the Ocoee River, where normally in the summer the dam is open and there are people rafting, but when the dam is closed the river is really low and you can climb on the rocks. So we did. However, Gabbie, the 5 year old was trying to throw a big rock in, she did it successfully but then when she was done, she was trying to sit back down on the rock, and slipped right into the freezing cold river. Me being over protective Aunt Jes, made her take off all her clothes and wear Eugene's hooded zip-up sweatshirt. That silly CPR, First Aid training had me paranoid about hypothermia. I made sure no one saw any parts of her body that shouldn't have been seen though. She was such a good sport about it. I would have thrown a fit until we went home; she said she wanted to go, but we convinced her that we could still have fun. She keeped on trooping. We had a bunch of fun.
Now I should get back to work, talk to you later! or should I say talk at you!

Believe- The band

My husband came home from band practice with some interesting news on Monday. The band is finished. They completed the work God wanted them to do as Believe. This made me very happy in a sad way. I know Eugene enjoyed it, but he is really peaceful about it being over. This means we will get to spend more time with each other! YAY!

Howdy Ho!

I get tired of coming up with titles for the posts. Sorry. Today is my husband's Birthday. YAY! That means we get to go have fun tonight, We're going to eat at Famous Daves... YUMMY. Then I think we will go bowling or something silly like that. T'will be fun. I dont have any amazing revolutions today, not even any cool thoughts or ideas. Sorry. I have been working in a different department the past couple days, and there is a big possability that I could be hired on in this department. that would be nice. Anyway, I just wanted to say HI!

Loving loving God vs loving God.

I am doing a Beth Moore Bible Study with some Woman at my church and this past week during one of our days of homework it said something about how some people get so caught up in loving loving God, that they lose track of loving God. We are studying Jacob and it was talking about how he went from loving loving God, to just Loving God (which is what we want to do.) At first he was caught up in the things loving God would give him, basically getting God's blessings. Then after about 20 years and working for his uncle he finally realized what Loving God is. Well, in our small group one of the ladies said it was like people now days who get so caught up in doing things for the church and with the church that they lose sight of loving God. That's when it hit me- that's me. Not that I am thinking that works will get me into Heaven, or that I need to do things to make God happy, and not that I dont love God anymore, Just that I thought it would be nice to help out in one area, then in another, then in another. Now I am so busy doing things at church I forget the reason I am supposed to be in church is to love and praise God. Now I am so busy i dont have time to breath and I'm burnt out meaning I dont give 100% to anything, not even the area God really wants me to serve in. Heck, I dont even know what area that is. Now I get the task of praying really hard that God shows me which areas to stay in, and which areas to let other people take over. Yup, that's what I learned. now I have to work.

Beth AND Stacy

Ok, I have come to the realization that you two are either the only two people who love me, or the only two people who know I have a blog. HE HE. but thanks for caring enough to read my boreing ramblings and post comments so I know you care. How sweet! I love you Stacy, and I loke you Beth! This weekend was not long enough. Friday night Eugene was in West Virginia playing a show, while I was home alone. You would think that since he was gone all summer I would be used to sleeping alone, but there was soemthing weird and different about Friday night. I was really excited to sleep alone, and spread out over the whole bed; then to be able to sleep in Oh it was going to be great. So at about 10, I went back to the bedroom and started reading "Live Like A Jesus Freak" well, there were weird noises, and dogs kept barking- I live in a trailer park in the middle of no where, it's kinda creepy. So, after about an hour of reading, I decided I would try to go to sleep. So I turned off the light and fluffed my pillow. I decided I was a little creeped out, so I started praying as usual. After about 30 minutes of praying I was almost asleep when something woke me up. I opened my eyes and just happened to be looking down the hall. Well, I noticed that on the wall in the hall there was a weird bluish light, kinda swirly- with different shades of blue. I immediatly thought my eyes were being weird so I rubbed them, blinked and looked again. it was still there. So I started thinking about what window a light could be shinning in to make the light on the wall. There was none. So I thought- this is weird..... Next, I did the only thing I could think to do when weird things happen I said "JESUS!!!! JESUS!!!!!JESUS!!!!" before I got the first one out, the light went away. So.... that was weird. I decided to get up and put on Praise and Worship music. Well Eugene for some reason had all my CD's in his car, leaving me with his heavy music... fortunatly I found Third Day Offerings II and figured that would work. Well, it was about 12:00 now, and I still couldnt sleep. I was laying there praying and I started thinking "What if I just missed the rapture!!!" I dont know if you've ever had one of those moments where you're all alone and you just thinking out of the clear blue that Jesus has come and taken everyone away and for some reason you're still here. I have them on rare occasions. It didnt help that I couldnt get ahold of Eugene- he wouldnt answer his phone. Finally after about 30 minutes of that I realized it was a silly conclusion and couldnt have happened and it helped that Eugene called. So.... I decided to try the sleep thing once more seeing that it was now 1:00am. So I'm lying in my bed.... and my furniture starts creaping... I just stop and say "HEY CUT THAT OUT" and get back to my sleeping cuz I know that God is bigger and He's watching over me.... oh sorry.... Veggie Tales "God is Bigger than the Boogie Man..." anyway...... I'm lying in my bed, and I still can't sleep!!!! So I've been praying now for almost 2 hours straight, I decided I'll read my Bible. I open it up to Psalm 23, 24 and 25 and read. then I put my Bible OPEN on the bed right next to my head, and BAM, I'm asleep. it was so weird.
So Saturday morning I woke up at 8:30 I decided I would finish cleaning out the spare room cuz my sister-in-law, April and her husband and daughter are coming to visit this Friday, and our spare bedroom was the place where we threw everything that we didnt need when we moved in. It still had boxes of things that weren't put away. So I got that done, and went for a run, then showered, then went to Walmart, then did the dishes then Eugene came home. Then we went and cleaned the church. Hmmm.... I think that's it. No we did something else, cuz we were up late.... Oh I know, we had to practice the skit for KidStuf (our church's Sunday School program, we're both Characters in it.) Then Sunday Morning we had to wake up at 6:30, cuz he has Praise Team Practice at 7:30, at 8:30 we have a KidStuf meeting, and at 9:00 KidStuf starts. After church we went home and watched "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." it was funny, I liked it. Then we went back to church, Eugene's band Believe (www.believeministry.com) played a show at our church during the Youth service. It was kinda funny cuz their band is heavy, and our church is a bunch of preppy people. But that's ok, they did great. Then we had to go to Chattanooga to unload all the band equipment. It was another late night. When 6:15 came this morning, I could NOT get myself out of bed.... ugh. Hopefully tonight I will be in bed and asleep by 10:15. That is my goal. I would make it earlier, but I have Woman's Bible Study tonight. Life is busy!!!

Stacy

This is a thanks to Stacy, the only person who ever reads my blog. She's faithful I think she checks every day to see if I have posted, and as you know, before Yesterday I hadnt posted since like August. So thanks Stacy! I love you soooo much. and I miss you! Hope you're having a great life even though you are busy..... :)

Data Entry/ Filing person/ gopher....

So I think I said I was working a temp job. Well it's actually Fun. The temp agency called me up In the 26th of September at 9:30 am and said they had a job that would last a couple days and it was data entry. So, I took it. Well, I am still here, 5 weeks later.... And I love it. Right now I am doing data entry, as well as anything else the two Renee's want me to help them with. I do a lot of Filing, which is fun to me, because I love organization. Well there is a possibility It may turn into a permanent job. If that is the case I would be taking on my own stores (as far as paying their bills, I work in the Accounts Payable Department) anyway, I would have my own states instead of just helping them with theirs. It would be awesome to have a full time reliable Job. So that's my biggest prayer request right now.
Eugene and I are probably going to go to Texas for Thanksgiving to visit my mom and her husband and meet our step-siblings. That will be awesome and fun. Eugene's Sister, April and her husband and Daughter, Gabbbie may be coming to visit us next weekend, I hope so I haven't seen them in a long time.
I will be turning the old age of 24 on the 21st, but Eugene turns 26 next Thursday so he's always going to be the old man. AND our anniversary is on the 29th, we will be celebrating three years of not killing each other! just kidding, we love each other and are very happy!!!
I am sooo glad it's FRIDAY!!! Although Eugene is in West Virginia playing a show tonight, so I will be alone, but that's ok. Anyway, it's 4:06 on a Friday afternoon and I am sitting at my desk surrounded by papers that need to be filed and data that needs to be entered, so I better get busy!!!
thanks for reading!!!

Word verification

There is this cool thing called Word Verification. It apparently keeps unwanted annoying spam comments from being able to post on my site. YAY FOR WORD VERIFICATION! I hope it works.

random commenting people

Have I mentioned that I hate when random people post comments on my blog. Totally random people who want to tell me about china and sex problems. it's dumb. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE, PLEASE DONT COMMENT. I dont mind if you are my friend and you want to comment about china or sex problems, but if I dont know you, keep your comments to yourself!

uh... it's november

Yah. it's november and I dont think I have posted anything since um... August? that's kinda bad... most of that has to do with the fact that I moved out of the house with internet and into a house with no internet. and lack of money causes us to get internet. but to make a very long story short (for now) My husband is home, both of the weddings are over now I am planning for one or two next year (Lindsay and her fiance and Lacyand Aaron). I am working a temp job which is where I have access to the internet, but only between people walking by to keep from getting in trouble. so that's my long story short. I'll write more later!

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Well, if you can't tell by the title, Today is Thursday. this is amazing, i'm blogging two days in a row. I spent the day fixing my resume and mailing and faxing it to businesses. Hopefully soon I will have a job. I also called my sister-in-law and talked to her, and I went for a walk- 2.22 miles. it was a nice walk. I've discovered something I hate about blogger- that random weirdo's who you dont know can read them and post comments. that's kinda annoying, so if you dont know me then dont comment on my life, I dont care what you have to say. especially if you're some sex therapist who wants me to look at their site. Do you really have no life other then reading random people's blogs?? GET A LIFE!!! My life is not exciting enough for you to read my blogs. That's just something i find annoying. Although I guess all this doesnt sound very Christianly, Sorry, Jesus loves you.
35 more days until my husband comes home. He is still in Oregon.
So as you can see, nothing exciting is going on in my life! but have a great day!

this is for stacy, although it's a pretty blurry weird looking picture, that's kinda me.... 

this is my idea for the tattoo on my ankle. as some of you know I already have the cross, only it's a deep purple not hot pink, for some reason the computer wouldn't show the deep purple as purple, it was brown, so this hot pink is as close to the real color as it comes. But anyway, sometime when i'm rich I'm going to have the wings and the words put on my ankle. I think it will look neat. 

it's been tooooooo long!

Well, 11 weeks went by fast and my job as a camp counselor is over now. YAY! but Now I am faced with reality that I have to find a new job. I spent the day exploring around town looking for places I might want to work. But mostly I just went to a temp agency and re-signed up with them. It wasn't much fun. My husband is still far far far away in Oregon on the Extreme Tour, he'll be returning September 15th. I'm supposed to be in Maine by that point for my friend Jess' wedding (on the 17th) but I might have to wait until he get's home to leave, which will kinda ruin my plans so I'm not sure what's going to happen. Other people's weddings are SOOOO expensive. I have seriously spent more money on other peoples weddings than I did on mine. Too bad I'm not rich- this is getting kinda expensive. I have plane tickets to buy still, so if you know of a cheap place to get tickets, or if you're a pilot and want to fly me to Maine for free I would appretiate it. Life in the real world is so stressful! Like right now for instance- I have no job, my husband is out touring the west coast FOR FREE! so he is making no money, he works some while he's out there, but not much- he's busy. So we have no income at the moment, I live with some friends from church- which I appretiate greatly, but still all our stuff is in boxes growing mold in the basement. I sooo want to have my own place so I can unpack everything and cook meals in the kitchen and clean, and have a normal life again! but we have no money. So as I said earlier I am in two weddings coming up one in September and one in October, and I love these friends DEARLY! I'm so excited for them. but it adds up- the price of the dresses, shoes, presents, hair, travel (I'm in TN and one wedding is in Maine and the other NYC). School is supposed to start back up in a couple weeks, which means I need to have money to pay for my class.... this whole email is mostly just a prayer request- pray that God gives me a good job, so I can pay for all these expenses. Life isnt bad though! I still love it! (aside from my husband being in Oregon). Sandee, the lady I worked at camp with who has become a good friend, told me that her landlord has a place for rent for $350 a month, so if I remember to call him I'm going to go look at it tomorrow and see if it's a place that Eugene and I will want to rent when he comes home. She is always talking about how great he is, so I'm hoping it will work out.
So yah, that's about all that's going on in my life. :) Hope yours is going great!