Benefit of the Doubt

Saturday night Savannah's bestest little friend, Lakyn spent the night and went to church with us Sunday. Now we just adore this child! She is sweet and very mature (she loves to clean!) and a is always a pleasure to have around. We have been good friends with her parents for a few years now. Her father actually works with my husband. Well Sat night we made a quick stop at Target to get a highchair. We thought we could maybe avoid getting one and just forever use the Bumbo but Sara Faith is not containable in that anymore. It served us well for months but it was time to move foward. We are in the baby section and the girls start getting excited about some Christmas outfits they have found. It was some little baby onsies and shirts and bloomers that said "Baby's First Christas" and "Santa's little Helper" etc. I say "No, we are getting a high chair and milk and leaving. That is all!" Well the next morning during worship I reach into the diaper bag to get a bib and look what I find. These bloomers!!! I immediately look at my husband and ask if he put them in there. He quickly shakes his head no. Well I didnt do it. Then we both give each other the look of hope/disbelief..you don't think..? noooo. Of coarse not. But how?" So we are already planning to make a trip back o Target to right the wrong and I just know that neither one of these girls would do that..but how? Well after church as I am walking through the parking lot, I get motion over to Bethany's van. She has a baby boy Sara Faith's age and also a little girl who is about 3 now. She say, "Did you get those bloomers I put in your diaper bag?" Ha! Geez I had all but convicted them for a petty crime. We all just laughed and laughed. Not Savannah. She was just mad that we even thought it. Apparently Anna Claire had them when she was little and they had thought to give them to Sara Faith. How sweet. They are adorable and I am so glad I get to keep them :) Oh and here is Savannah Monday after I cut her hair. " No! No! Don't do it. I will hate it!" 30MINUTES LATER... "Oh, I just love this!

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I was clearing out old pictures from my cell phone and this was one. Savannah this summer at VBS at First Baptist Church downtown. She had a blast and I had a couple hours for myself and a newborn this summer. She spent one week in Disney World with her Grandmother Aunt and cousin but other than that she was scheduled for a new VBS every week. She probably went to almost every VBS in Montgomery! Ha!

Tradition

The things in my life that are tradition were just randomly started and somehow became tradition. A-Day game at Alabama. We cant miss it. It would break tradition. How we spend Sunday after church, holiday plans...etc. I have to decide what things are tradition vs which things are just quirky comforts that I can't let go of. Like what hotel we stay at ( Thanksgiving trip to the beach we have always stayed at the Holiday Inn Destin with ocean view 9th floor. Our trip is ruined if it is not available), drinking fountain diet coke everytime we go to any restaraunt, or taking this particular picture at this particular spot every year on this date. It may not technically be a tradition but I am going to do it! Like this picture we have taken every year at this spot the 4th of July. But this year was the baby's first year obviously so she is automatically included in the 'tradition'. Thanksgiving is in 2weeks and we have a "tradition" of going to Ft Walton the weekend after and meeting my mother and father-in-law for Beach Santa with the girls. It is the worst setup ever. The background decorations that is. All you can mostly see anyways is the throne for Santa. In one picture there is a rather large woman's backside in the background. Ha! But we do it every year, no matter what. It starts with a trip to Dilliard's to pick out an outfit and shoes for Savannah and then to do pictures, fuss over them and then to get lunch. Last year the iron bowl (BIG DEAL around here!) was that same Saturday and Sam and my husband went back to the condo to watch it while we got lunch. It fell on the same day this year to so I said it looks like you guys will be leaving us again. My husband calls to tell me he has been offered a ticket to this years Iron Bowl in Tuscaloosa! yay! Oh wait....the tradition! Ruined. Im sad... but what can I say? My point of view. Traveling the long drive by myself with 2kids, one of which is 6 months/ Who will Sam watch the game with?/ He will miss Sara Faith's first time meeting Santa/ IT'S TRADITION!!!!

His point of view. AL is undefeated for the first time in ? years (he could tell you)/ It is at home in Tusc./ Auburn sucks this year and AL has not beat them in 6years. / sitting at the mall miserable knowing he could have been at the game. /There will be next year. /This was HER tradition

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I will not fuss about it. He should go. I know that. But it is tradition and now he has missed a year. Does this set the precidence to miss again. Or to miss something else. Should it be as important to him? it will still be a lot of fun and maybe it was always about Savannah (and now Sara Faith) myself and Dea. Honestly Sam was probably miserable hanging around the mall and he would roll his eyes at me if he knew I was even thinking about not wanting Michael to go to that game.

Oh, Geez!

My husband and I have really been watching our language lately. I used to have a better handle on this and can't quite point out when it slipped away from me. My new phrase "Oh, Geez!" is the brainchild of my 6year old. Sometimes she says sheez though. so I started saying it. hehe. Well apparently I say it a lot. I wonder too if it started as someone trying to quit saying the lord's name in vain and maybe they had started to say oh, Jesus! but caught themselves at Oh, geez! I am starting to annoy myself! You should have heard me during the Alabama/LSU overtime!!!! I had to grab a pillow and just bury my face. hahaha. Any ideas on a new word?

Speaking of Jesus, this was a fabulous weekend for my church. We finally had our first service in the new building.


We had been meeting at Faulkner University rotunda for the past two years after our old building was sold and waiting for the new construction to be finished. There is much to be said for cushioned seats in worship and not having to make everthing portable and not meeting at other buildings for functions, etc.... I cannot wait for Wednesday!

Food for thought (as in milk and raw eggs.)

Just a quick note Crazy neighbor Mrs. 'G' was caught yesterday morning lowering a bucket over my fence down to Maya. I banged on the window and said "That's not necessary!" She says "Oh That's not necessary?" she went back inside and i got my stepstool (It is a tall privacy fence, not that it helps) and saw the bucket was still there...full of mik and raw egg yoke!!!! I have decided she is officially certifiable. Any suggestions on how to handle this one? I have been told to file a police report and I think maybe I should but keeping in mind that this is someone I live right next door to and am not wanting to cause an akward scene. Ha. That actually sounds funny, I guess she already did that. hmmm

Also I am thinking about driving the Expedition around all day today to help warm up South Dakota residents from the blizzards. hmmmm

Rebecca

I don't know why but I really found this interesting so I google presidential pets..there were some weird ones!

I hate (love) Wal-mart!

The lines make me nautious thinking about them and going from the milk all the way over to pick out a book is quite a hike. Parking a mile away (usually with a baby) is enough to send me to Publix. Oh but the prices and the one-stop shop...I try to avoid it at all costs but when you have to get groceries and socks and a car cleaning kit that's the best idea. Yesterday my husband wasn't feeling well so he didnt want to be gone too long but wanted to go pick out his own socks and since he wanted to see the new church building (move-in date is next Sunday!!!!!) and it is on the way to wal-mart -- there we went. Standing in the 30 minute line we brushed up on our celebrity news (poor Jennifer Hudson) and housekeeping and tabloids of coarse! Well the Globe had a headline that actually caught me off guard and I laughed out loud! I dont remember the exact wording but it basically said Ted Kennedy offered $25million for a cure. Hmmm. What boneheads. Do people believe this mag or do they know it is full of the same substance as Sara Faith's diaper? I hope it is the latter. Of coarse I believe in the power of prayer and I am no Dr. but if all it took were some rich person to offer a measley (in the scheme of financing research) $25mil then I it would have happened long ago. Money cannot buy everthing but how they want to fuel that it does. The author Im sure is voting for Barack. He has the most aggressive and fastest growing brain cancer with a a prognosis of 2 years max and a survivor rate of 0! The idea of him buying his health is insultingto him and anyone who has the GBM tumor ( or any malignant disease for that matter) or anyone who has lost someone they loved from it. Like my fam did. My step-dad died 9/29/05 from the same tumor but that is not why I was so taken aback by this comment though. It may be why it jumped off the page at me whenever i see a pic of the senator now though. This is my Mom with him probably 10 years ago. I am praying for the senator and his family and can only imagine what they were thinking writing something so rediculous and insensitive - oh wait, it's Hollywood. No one is safe there.

She's back! And I made her cry?

The ever good-intentioned neighbor thought of Maya while she was at Petco. Awe! Deep sarcasm. I do not understand her. OK This morning I was unloading groceries and Sara Faith from the car after dropping off Savannah at school. I could hear the loud pitched voice belonging to one Mrs. G apparently yacking away at Maya about something. Blah blah blah I just rolled my eyes. I went outside and brought Maya in to eat breakfast when I saw a figure walking up my driveway towards the gate. hmm. I met her as she rounded the corner. "Can I help you Mrs. G?" Caught offguard and throwing her hands behind her back, she says, "Oh no, um is it alright if I go play with Maya for a minute?" and then this happened
LISA She is in the house eating right now.
MRS G She is ?
LISA Yes.
MRS G Maya?
LISA Yes.
MRS G. Maya the dog?
LISA The only Maya I know.
MRS G. OK well (slowly revealing a dog collar) I was at the store and I thought Maya could use this if she were maybe outgrowing hers.
LISA huh???? she actually has a collar that fits her just fine. Pirt can fit his whole hand under the, stop- pause-thinking, my dogs collar is just fine! G I take good care of my dog, you know and Im about tired of you undermining us with your non-sense!
MRS G. (tearing up) Oh no I dont mean it like that it's just, I know you have a new baby and all and well a dog is a big responsibility (I can already feel my neck getting hot..anyone been there?) anyways just think of me like an aunt!
LISA First of all that is how it is coming across. Second, my availability to this dog is none of your concern, and third, I have an aunt and she has yet to tell me I have outgrown anything and has already bought me a replacement. You are the nosy neighbor.

She left (without her collar She handed it to me when I was at the huh?? part.)

Well it ended. It ended. Maybe that will be the last of that crap but I have a feeling she'll think we've given her the wrong dog food and be back for more.

Fall Fun

We have been busy little bees around my house! So many things going on at my house and I have been doing a bad job of writing about it. It mostly involes getting ready for fall, and attending (and hosting) some events. As of right now the baby is a little stuffy so she is not sleeping well which means I am up at 12:21 writing this! Forgive me if I fall asleep writing it and do not make sense. Fall Festival at school is where I think I left off. They had all the big blow-up Jumping activities and games. It actually was a lot of fun. I had been dreading it because I had the baby with me and I just knew it would be hot but the weather was nice. I had duty at the jousting booth and here is a picture of Savannah putting a good whooping on this little boy. Yes I know she was much bigger than him but he made such a stink having to go against a girl that it was too funny. All the kids were hilarious and Sara Faith just slept the entire time in her stroller except right at the end when she wanted to be held. I abliged of coarse :) I had done so well avoiding the bake sale booth. I had visions of me and a rolling cart full of cakes and brownies and cupcakes and homemade pies trying to manage my 1st grader and the stroller back to the car so I thought it best to just stay away but then they announced 1/2 off and I was a gonner! But I didnt too as bad as I had imagined, especially since by the end the pickings where slim. We actually ended up going home with a just plate full of brownies - only $3! The next weekend was the annual halloween pumkin carving that a couple from church do every year. This was our first time going actually and Im glad we did. I think michael enjoyed it the most! The pumkins were awesome and soo creative! There was even one with the Alabama 'A' on it. Roll Tide! Ours was simple and ghostly :) Here is a pic of Savannah with it. I think she really liked that cat though! We will definitely be going again! I decorated a little for fall so far and love the results.

We had a new house project 2 Saturdays ago. On a whim I wanted to add a wood railing to the front porch. Michael and a friend built it (I did help sand :) and i painted it. Finding the exact color paint as the existing facia boards was difficult but I finally did at Home Depot. We were done building by Sat afternoon and painting by Sunday night! i LOVE IT!!! Next we will do a matching hand railing down the adjasent steps. Our front porch steps are 80 years old and very spaced apart so it is only a matter of time before I get sued by the mailman!!!
The highlight of the last two weeks was having some friends over for the Alabama/Tennessee game. Michael cooked on the grill and I thought it was a lot of fun. My sister and cousin came and a few couples from church. We have other couples we hang out with but this was the first time this particular group had ever been over here. No particular reason why that is but it was good to do something different. Pirt (the planner) was freaking out the whole week prior worrying that everything was just perfect. Oh and the Trunk or Treat at church Sunday night was just precious! Savannah was "Vannah Montana"! Yes those are black lace gloves with the fingertips cut out she is wearing. She wanted to add her own personal touch. :) Sweet little Sara Faith was a pink poodle I thought it was a lamb originally but my sister pointed out the difference. Hahaha! We do not go door-to-door anymore. Previous years we used to just go to my parents and families but really I just dont like the idea of trick-or-treating anymore. It doesnt make much sense these days. And somewhere there is always a fall festival or zoo-boo going on:)

Super Tuesday

This is a blog I had posted on my myspace a while back and obviously am an insomniac tonight and thought it was cute and I would post it here.



Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Savannah voted!!!
Savannah's kgarten class voted yesterday. she knew all the candidates and has been excited all week for "Super Tuesday!" She could not decide who to vote for. John McCain looked too old and she couldn't say Mitt Romney. She stressed between "Michael Hug-a-bee", Obama (B-A-M-A roll tide in her head) and Hillary. she finally voted for "Hilally Kinton" because she was a girl and well she liked her red dress. Savannah didnt want to hug any bees but she did feel a little bad about not voting for the roll tide O B-A-M-A!


Monday, October 06, 2008
Savannah Says Current mood: amused
she came home from her Grandparents singing, "Oh, Suzanna, don't you cry for me! I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee!!!!! "Grande taught me that."so now it's Oh Savannah, clean your room for me! If you dont put those clothes up, I'll put you over my knee!!!!!! (Michael of coarse)
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