Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from the Wiggs' house!!

A High Embarrassment Threshold

Yes, I think that I might have one of those. Case in point? Our Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A Monday night. No, I was not the cow but I was Minnie Mouse. Or as Melanie dubbed me "Loud Mouse". I told them I would post this pic and well...here it is. Me in all my Minnie Mouse glory. Hope you like it. And yes, the dress is poofy with tulle and stuff under the skirt. I promise!!

Nope, not embarrassed at all...Proud, proud, proud!

Here comes Halloween...

I guess there is something that I should have included on my "I've been tagged" post. It is a little known and wierd fact. Pretty much every Halloween since I was little, I get sick on Halloween. No, I'm not making it up. Its not always high fevers, vomiting, trip to the ER sick. But it usually involves a cold; sometimes with fever. Occasionally the good old GI infection. Well it looks like this year will be no exception. The headache and nausea has begun. I know you're thinking "well you are on a diet, maybe its carb withdrawal". And yes, you could be right. Signs do point in that direction. Then again it could be the "Ginnie's Halloween Curse"! muhwahhaha (that's evil laughter there for those who weren't sure if maybe the curse had resulted in the inability to spell words). Two days, I have two days to get to feeling better because I truly believe my children are going to want to trick-or-treat all night. No matter how cold, no matter how windy, no matter how sick. I think I better take some Vitamin C.

Uggghhh!

I just started back on my diet yesterday. And wouldn't you know it we had a Chick-fil-A spirit night last night. I was there for 3 hours and managed to resist the yummy, delicious goodness of a sandwich, coleslaw, fries and a sweet tea. It was quite tough. Although when you're dressed as Minnie Mouse (and I mean with the shoes people) and the dress is already big and poofy so you look like a red polka dotted whale, it makes it a wee little bit easier! Oh well, the end is worth it. Wish me luck and have a salad with me!!! ;-)

What's more surprising than a bday party not on your bday?

As I told y'all earlier, Andy spent his actual birthday at the Fall Festival being Super-Dad. He did not wear his cape because Edna Mode would not let him (a little Incredibles reference there!). We didn't really do anything to celebrate his day because we had so much going on and he kept saying "You don't need to do anything for my birthday...I don't need any presents...Its not a big deal". Well, when all the crazy dust had settled around here I realized that his birthday WAS a big deal and he DID need presents and we WERE going to do something for him. Whether he liked it or not! After much discussion with the girls (and how they kept it a secret I'll never know!) we decided we would have a special night for Daddy. We cooked him one of his favorite dinners, got him a Carvel ice cream cake and a couple of small presents. So we were all set when he came home from work.

As soon as he walked in the door, Belle starts going "Hey Dad, its not a big deal night. Nothing going on." Of course Hayden and I are going "heeheehee isn't she cute?!" (at least that's what I was saying). Andy looked a little perplexed but he lives in a house with 3 girls and he has learned to just nod and smile a lot; God love him. Long story short we managed not to give it away until the very end of dinner when he said "I'm done." And two little spoons shot down onto the table with such force that there may be dents in the table and two little mouths go "Us too!" Dishes have never been cleared so fast. Andy is still looking perplexed and now even a little concerned; had his children and wife lost their minds? Of course that all meant that I was done too, because the girls were in the freezer at this point, pulling out the cake saying "nothing is going on Daddy, but you should close your eyes". They're very subtle those two! Needless to say when we started singing Happy Birthday (Hayden finally took her hands off his eyes) he was surprised and I'd like to think a little misty-eyed. But that could have been Hayden poking him in the eye, who knows. Anyway, I've decided that I like this "Nothing says surprise birthday party like having a party when its not your birthday". Who knows when I might strike next!?!?!?

I was tagged....

I was tagged by Shalina and Suzanne so I guess I doubly have to do this! I'm a little behind but I think that's probably okay. So here goes, 7 facts you may not know about me.

1: My Mom tried to teach me to drive a stick shift when I was first learning to drive. We spent more time giggling and stalling than anything. So the way that I really learned how to drive a stick shift was when I needed/wanted to get to a friend's house one day and my Mom was at work and the only car at the house was the stick shift. She told me to be careful and good luck! It was actually kind of funny because I did a lot of stalling, cussing, laughing, maybe a little crying and a normally 20 minute trip took me 1 1/2 hours. I kid you not.

2: I wanted to be a vet when I was growing up (which is funny because that is what Belle wants to be now) and was emphatic that I would NEVER be a nurse. I even went to Auburn to go to vet school. At the time I worked in the summers at a vet clinic. One afternoon I was squatted down starting an IV on a Chow (evil, evil dogs) and he came at me and almost bit my face. I decided then and there that I DID NOT want to be a vet.

3: I got into nursing school one week before classes were going to start. As previously mentioned I was never going to be a nurse. I graduated from Auburn and was planning on going to Physical Therapy school. Worked at a clinic and totally nixed that idea. I was working at a doctor's office and was tired of what I was doing. On a whim I started calling nursing schools to see what I would need to do to apply. I had realized at this point that nursing was the perfect career if I wanted to have kids because it gave me schedule options. Never say never! Anyway, I called Emory and started talking with the Dean of Nursing who asked me "Could you start classes next week?" The answer was "Heck yeah!" and the rest is history.

4: My husband and I would love to own a huge piece of property and have a working farm raising horses and cows. Shocked ya on that one, right? I know it will never happen but it is a dream of ours.

5: It took me a full summer to learn how to water ski. Sad but true. My parents took me out many, many, many times that summer and pulled me around many, many, many parts of Lake Lanier. I think my mind couldn't quite get over that I had to let the boat pull me up. I wanted to stand up once the boat started and then fight to stay up. Apparently I still do it that way. Or at least I did until I blew out my knee. I haven't skied since. I keep thinking about trying it again and then get worried about my knee. For some reason I had this silly song that I kept singing the whole time I was trying to get up, "Running Bear Loved Little White Dove". And no, it wasn't a Prince song. I'm not even sure how I knew this song or if I had even heard any of the rest of it. Bizarre! I'll have to see if I can find it online to share with you because I know you're dying to hear it! I think I got so much water up my nose and other various places that I probably lowered the lake a few feet that summer.

6: I tore my ACL in my left knee playing soccer and had to have surgery when I was 28. The sad part (as if the whole thing wasn't sad?) was that it was a pick up game because the team we were supposed to be playing didn't show up. I was defending a girl and was behind her, my foot was set and got caught in the astroturf (it was indoor soccer) and when she pushed against me my whole body moved but my foot didn't. Pain, suffering and agony. I had an MRI on the night before Thanksgiving that showed the tear. I had surgery a few months later. Thank goodness for my Mom who let me stay at their house and gave me an intercom so that I could call when I had to go to the bathroom or turn over at night!

7: I went to the Governor's Honors Program the summer after my junior year in English with a minor in Drama. Hey! Maybe that's where my kids get it!! Anyway, I was nominated by my English teacher and had to submit an essay for an application. I was accepted and spent my summer down in Valdosta at the GHP program.

Okay, there you have it. Seven things you may or may not have known about me. I don't know 7 people that blog if you take away all the people who have already been tagged or have tagged me sooooo... I'm tagging Hayley and Christy.

I love weddings!

My friends Holley and Josh got married tonight. It was beautiful. There were candles everywhere. Of course my oldest thought that meant she was supposed to try to blow every candle out. I had to walk around behind her with a lighter relighting all the ones she blew out. The good news is at a wedding someone always has a lighter. Not sure why, but its true. And if they hadn't? Instead of throwing rice we lit candles and lined the path on their way out of the reception and into the limo. It was very pretty and my little pyro children loved it! Next to the candles? A whole basketful of lighters! They must have known my kids would be the candle blowing champions of 2008!

Me and Holley

At every ER person's wedding we always get a picture of all the guests that are ER employees. This time it was decided that we did not want a posed picture. I'm not sure if it was really what Holley had in mind, but it definitely is different!

Slacker!!!!

Yes, that is me! I've forsaken my blogging this week for other pursuits. Not all fun pursuits I assure you. A lot of working and because of that, some sleeping. Okay a lot of sleeping! Sometimes a girl's just gotta sleep. But tonight, tonight was different. We had family fun night. We decided not to go to the Buford Game because of the weather. Instead we decided to stay home and hang out together. We all ate dinner at the same table; which if you know my girls is a feat. They like to sit at their own table so they can watch TV. It started out they were only allowed to do that when I was at work and somehow it became an every night thing. I'm fighting to take my girls back to the dinner table!

After dinner Andy told the girls we had something really special planned for them. The girls were super excited. Let me interject here that when I first told Hayden we weren't going to the game she was bummed and in such a sweet tone (yeah right) said, "Well what are we going to do instead?" I told her we were going to sit around and stare at each other. This earned me an eye roll and a couple of hrumphs and arm crossing. Back to the story. So Andy has the girls sit on the couch, I sit next to them and he pulls up a chair in front of them. The girls are bouncing up and down with excitement and giggling. He says, "Okay, now everybody.....I want you to stare at the person next to you....(the girls did)....this is what we're doing tonight!" At the same time it hits both girls what he's just said and they yell, "This is all?" Oh it was extremely amusing. Of course it all led to some more eye rolling, arm crossing and hrumphing but it was soooo worth it!! I really don't think Andy and I have laughed that hard in quite some time. I guess some would say that was mean, but sometimes you just gotta remind them to laugh a little. They finally did laugh....honest.

Of course that wasn't all we had planned. We carved jack-o-lantern candles and jack-o-lanterns. The kids drew out the faces themselves, I cut off the top, they scooped out the guts and then I carved where they had drawn. We had the best time and we were warm and dry which would not have been the case had we gone to the game. Of course I was told by Hayden that "what we did was much more fun than sitting staring at each other". See, I told you she found it amusing.

Our Jack-o-Lanter candles. So easy to make! Unless of course you have a broken arm and can barely hold the toothpick!

The Wedding Month

I always thought that June was the wedding month, but I've since realized that October is a HUGE wedding month. Take for example my parents who just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on October 1st. Another example? My friends Kristen and Nathan who just celebrated their first anniversary. Obviously my friends Laura and Holley got the news too because Laura just got married this past Saturday (and is in Jamaica right now; I'm so jealous!) and Holley is getting married this coming up Saturday. Yep, I'm gonna start lobbying now for October to take over as the official wedding month, especially here in Georgia. The air is cooler, you don't sweat as much in all your finery. The fall colors you can use in your wedding. You should have seen the gorgeous dark orange dresses for Laura's bridesmaids! I think October can take it away from June with no problem. Who's with me?!?!?!

It's yellow this time!

Well, Hayden was a little disappointed in her ortho visit today. They did take off her green cast and re-xrayed her arm. But....we had to have another cast put back on. She went with yellow this time and will probably get it off on Halloween night. Poor thing had been complaining that the previous cast was rubbing her on the bony prominence of her wrist and when they took the cast off, I realized it sure was. Her little wrist was all red. He made sure to put extra padding on that area this time. She went with yellow this time so that people could sign her cast in green and "it would be real cool!" She had to keep the green one that everybody had signed (we took out the padding on the inside that had made it stinky!) and Belle got a big kick out of putting that one on her arm. When we left there it looked like both my kids had broken arms! I'm sure there were people in the parking lot thinking that I was probably the best Mom ever! I'll have to take some pics of the new yellow cast (I know you're shocked) and post them. She should look really cute tomorrow in her cheer uniform with this bright sunshine yellow cast! But hey, its still dress code!

Cebuuuuuuuu!

Okay, I have to explain my photo of the day. Hayden used to LOVE the Veggie Tales. They are vegetables that sing and they have videos that give children a good message. That is except for the Silly Songs with Larry. Larry is a bit of a, how shall we put it, well he's a cucumber. You can't really expect too much from a cucumber I guess. Anyway, he would sing these silly songs that were just fun. One of them was about a cebu. You can see the video here. You don't have to watch the whole thing but it will definitely give you an idea of what I'm talking about. We used to sing this one all the time. And sometimes it was just enough to say "Cebuuuuuuuu!" to send Hayden, and eventually Belle, into fits of giggles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQXa9SgrtE

So when we were at the Pumpkin farm and Andy started walking around with the gourds on his head like horns that was all I could think about.

We've got an ortho appointment this afternoon....

so keep your fingers crossed that it goes well. We're praying for no elbow involvement and the words "she will only have to wear the cast another week." Although Hayden is hoping to hear "its a miracle! You're all healed and the cast can come off today!" We shall see.

It's Early Release Today

I can't tell you how much I loved hearing that when I was little. "WHOO HOO, I get to get out early today!" Now I'm more like, "Eek what kind of things can we do to keep the girls from fighting?" Do teacher/parent conferences count? Probably not; but today I do get to either do a Halloween craft or make Rice Krispy treats with the girls and frankly that makes it once again a WHOO HOO kind of day for me!

Drat!

I wanted to give everyone an update. My uncle Kevin came in second in the chili cookoff on Saturday...by one stinking vote! I told him he should demand a recount! Anyway, just wanted to offer an update of one of my ramblings the other day.

TMBITT: Punkin Patches

Today I am going to play the "take me back in time Tuesday" that my friend Shalina (http://www.mylifebehindthelens.blogspot.com/) started. This week is Pumpkin Patches Through the Years or as we like to call them Punkin Patches! I didnt pull out and scan all my old punkin patch pictures but I do have 4 years of digital (I love digital!) pictures to share. We're not punkin patch purists. Any patch works for us and most years we have to try out multiple patches. I'm not really sure why since they all have about the same stuff but since the kids love it if we have time we do it. I agree to it because what if there is a cuter photo op at the next patch? You don't want to miss that! So here it is Punkin Patches with my Punkins Through the Years!

2004: This was the year of the multiple punkin patches. It seemed like we were always heading out to find the very best one. We even went to a corn maze! Our first venture was to the church in Downtown Buford that has a patch every year. We had to wait until Daddy came home from work so it was late, but that didn't stop us!

The second patch of 2004 was up to the corner of Hog Mountain Road. Yes, that really is the name of it! Once again at night.

In between these two we did the corn maze, but without any cute punkin pics. This was back again at the church in Buford, but this time we brought friends. The O'Flaherty's were with us and it made for some interesting shots. Two 3 year olds and two 18+ month olds weren't easy to wrangle into picture posing!

2005: They were sooooo little!

2006: This punkin patch trip also included a punkin bouncy house, rabbits and pony rides. It is one of the girls' favorite punkin patches and they want to go back again this year.

2007: This year was a funny year for us. With all that we had going on, I realized on Halloween day that we had never been to a punkin patch!! So, ever resourceful, on the way to my parents' house to Trick-or-Treat we stopped at our favorite patch. Thank goodness there were plenty of punkins left as we jumped out of the car, posed for a few pics and jumped back into the car to fly down to my parents'. The girls thought it was funny that we had to make sure that we had proof that yes, we had been to a patch that year!

We've got punkins!

Punkins, punkins, punkins!! They were everywhere at Burt's Pumpking farm this morning. So were about 500 of our not so closest friends!! We got there early and actually got out of there before the crowd got too heavy. We got punkins, did the hayride and took a few pics. It was great! So now we have costumes and we have punkins. We are so set for Halloween its scary!! Get it? Scary? Cause its Halloween!!!

Whoo Hoo!!

Halloween costumes have been obtained!!! This may not sound like an awesome accomplishment, but if you think that then you don't know my two children very well!

We'll start with Belle who wasn't sure if she wanted to be Dorothy ("and not plain Dorothy, Mommy. I want bling on my dress." Yes, those were her exact words.) or Lucy from Narnia ("you could make me an outfit Mommy." This was after it was pointed out to her that there was no costume available for Lucy. Not too mention what an awesome seamstress I am....NOT!) We've gone back and forth on it. The Dorothy dress at Target "wasn't flashy enough". It was "too plain". And "with Jack in California there is no Toto; Stitch is too big". And shoes. "What if we can't find red sparkly shoes"? She "simply can not be Dorothy without red sparkly shoes". Then Narnia was watched....repeatedly, to see if she could figure out what she wanted to wear to be Lucy. We saw outfits at Target that I thought could be Lucy dresses. But, what do I know? I was told that "they DO NOT look like Lucy". This has been going on for weeks!! Thank goodness for Party City! We went there today on the Quest for Costumes. It was a little like Monty Pythons' Holy Grail without the Knights who Say Neep. And there with the sun shining on it like an omen (I think I heard angels singing "ahhhhhhhh") was the Dorothy costume with sparkly sequins on it. Belle stated that it was "PERFECT!" We even found a little basket with a stuffed Toto in it. Have I mentioned that I love Party City? Next it was on to Famous Footware who had SPARKLY RED SHOES ON CLEARANCE!!! But not in Belle's size. You wanna know how I knew it was meant to be? When we asked the salesclerk if they had a 13 in the back he answered "No, but there have been a pair of 13's on hold for over a week that you can have". Yes, it was a great costume experience and she is now ready for Halloween.

Now for Hayden, who had absolutely NO CLUE what she wanted to be for Halloween. It has been "What do you think I should be Mommy?" Of course every suggestion I had was shot down. "I don't want to be a fairy, a princess, a witch, a cat, a ghost." I even had her go online to look at costumes there. Another bust. Nothing at Target has interested her. Needless to say I was convinced this was going to be a fruitless quest. We arrive at Party City and go back to the costume aisle. If you haven't been in Party City during the Halloween season, let me tell you about the giant wall of costumes. You look at the pictures on the wall and decide what you want tell an associate the number and size, they relay it to the back and someone brings it out. A simple process, unless of course your 8 year old stands in front of the girls' section staring at the pictures without moving for 15 minutes!! You may think I'm kidding, but I'm not. 15 whole minutes with only her eyes moving looking over the costumes. Belle had her costume by this point and her and Andy had moved on (you know the Toto quest and all). The whole time I'm throwing out suggestions "look how cute this one is; how adorable you'd look in this one; how fun this one is." Nothing. And then a little voice, "Mommy all of them make you wear makeup." My little tomboy was stumped finding a costume because in all the pictures the girls had on eye makeup and lipstick and she did not want to get a costume and have to wear that. Tugged on my little heartstrings a little once I realized what was causing the problem and I quickly let her know that she did not have to wear any makeup with her costume. Once that was cleared up, she perked up and found one that she had been looking at online and at the store (the girl in the picture had on bright blue eyeshadow, blush and bright red lipstick) and decided that yes that was the one for her. She is going to be half devil/half angel and no she won't be wearing makeup. She will however have a pitchfork and cute tennis shoes. She wanted sparkly silver shoes that she would never wear again but settled on white tennies with sparkly silver trim that she can wear again. And they were on sale!! And now she is ready for Halloween.

The Quest has been concluded. The grail has been discovered and it is good. Halloween can now commence!

A Semi-lazy day

I don't remember the last time that we weren't off and running in 50 different directions, so today was a nice change. Of course we had to cheer this morning which was interesting considering that in our squad of 6 + 2 mascots, 3 + 1 mascot were out of town and one had a bum wing. So for those who aren't mathmatically inclined; we had 2 1/2 cheerleaders (Hayden did a few cheers and lent her voice to the occasion but was having some pain) and 1 mascot. They did the very best they could. Which, as I like to tell the girls, is all you ever can do!

A little aside here: its always nice when you hear your words (the good ones at least) come back spouting out of your little ones' mouth. I was told the other day by one of the coaches that they were saying something about the team losing the game and Belle turned to her and said "We don't really want them to win, we just want them to do the very best they can cause that's the best you can do. And they did their best so we're proud of them!" Okay, so we DO want them to win, but it is nice to know that they are listening to what I say......sometimes!

But I digress. The game was doubly nice because my Uncle Kevin and his son Alex came out to the game since we were in Grayson which is where they live. The girls thought that was cool. After the game they were off for my uncle to defend his chili cookoff title so I'll have to see how he did. Anyway, I keep getting off track! After the game we came home and had......wait for it.......NOTHING SCHEDULED THAT WE HAD TO DO!!!! It was wonderful! I don't know how long it has been but every weekend it feels like we're running from one event to the next (hey you've seen the blog!) so it was nice to have a change of pace. Andy and I even got to watch a movie tonight! How awesome is that?! With 3rd grade football wrapping up next week we may get a few more weekends like this. Although, there are a few things I wouldn't mind putting on the schedule.......... ;-) I'd hate for anybody to get bored!

Another Fall; another broken arm

Yes, that's right Hayden broke her arm last night. She stayed at a friend's house last night and apprently fell off a scooter and broke her right forearm. I didn't find out about it until this afternoon when I went to pick her up!! I think Hayden didn't want me called because she was afraid I would make her come home and not spend the night. So instead we spent the afternoon at the Urgent Care getting xrays and a cast. She went with Buford green (imagine that!). The doctor is a little concerned that there is something wrong with her elbow too, but wants to re-examine her next Friday to double check. Hopefully that is just him being overly cautious and that's it. We'll see!

The interesting thing? Her cast is waterproof! Who knew? She can get in the bath and shower with it.

Another interesting thing? Her excuse for PE and recess says (and I quote): "no running, jumping or falling at recess". Does one really PLAN a fall? I told her she would not be able to fall at recess for a couple of weeks and she told me I wasn't funny. Personally I found it quite amusing. Maybe she will too once she feels a little better. We'll see about that too. She also didn't find it too funny when I pulled out my camera phone to take pics of her getting her arm casted. Maybe she broke her funny bone!! Get it?!?!? See I really AM amusing!

October 9th, 2008

Today is Andy's birthday; he turned 39. He keeps saying "I'm now only a year away from 40." I guess we'll have to make this a great year so that 40 is merely a blip on the radar....for both of us because I'm not so far off from 40 myself. When did that happen?!?! Only yesterday I was graduating from college and 40 seemed sooooo far off. Yet it is literally around the corner. But I digress, I'm so very lucky to be married to my 39 year old man. He is such a great husband and Daddy that I thank God every day for bringing him into my life.

Happy Birthday Andy! And I swear that next year when you turn 40 I won't make you spend your big day with a couple thousand of your closest Buford friends at Fall Festival. That's right folks, my main squeeze spent his birthday helping out at Fall Festival; watching the girls, helping me and even helping out at the class booth. How could I not love him? He is truly my best friend and my rock.

I Don't think I'll ever understand my child

Okay, so lets do a little review. Who here remembers when I wrote that Hayden HATED cheerleading; how it was always a struggle to get her to practice or games; how we had to try to BRIBE her with the hopes of a lizard at the end of the season? I see a lot of hands so I know you all remember. Well, let me tell you a conversation that was had tonight in the Wiggs' household:
Scene: (In the car on the way home from cheer practice)
Hayden: "....and I'm going to work on my tumbling because next year we can tumble and do lifts and tons of stuff that we couldn't do before. And I'm going to work on my jumps and splits...Next year we're going to win Cheer Off."
Me: "Um, Hayden are you planning on cheering next year?"
Hayden (looking at me like I'm crazy): "YES, of course."

Yes, you heard it the words were "Yes, of course". Of course. As if the past 6 weeks of grumbling and griping have never occurred. As if that was another child or a dream that I was living. As if I never had to give "the look" to her from the stands, or threaten, or cajole, or bribe. Of course. And she's only 8. It makes me look forward to the teenage years.....NOT!!!

Cheer off is over

The girls did AMAZING! They did the very best that I've ever seen them do their routine. They were loud, they were together and all their moves were perfect. Therefore it was a huge shock to all of us when the squad didn't place. We were all stunned. The worst part of it was that after they've just learned that they didn't win or place, they have to take a sqaud picture! "Hey you didn't win! Smile!" I think that is just cruel. Hayden is a little depressed and I don't blame her. She just wants to know what they did wrong so they can improve on it. I think that's pretty mature. I expected her to behave much, much worse. The other thing she has decided is that she wants to take Cheer tumbling this spring and summer and then cheer next fall and, as she put it, "blow the 4th grade competition away next year". She might be just a wee bit competitive. Anyway, just wanted to update everyone on how it went. Have a great rest of the weekend, I'm headed to work.

Today's the BIG day!

We are getting ready to head down to Cheer Off!! Our girls look really good and we're very excited! Keep your fingers crossed that they do really well. Hayden says she is so excited that she couldn't even sleep last night! I'll let you know how they did and I'm sure I'll have a pic or two when all is said and done. GO WOLVES!!!!

And its over!

My day is finished and my feet, legs and behind hurt from all the running around! Parade was fun. Especially the part where we GOT LOST!!! You may wonder how this happens when you're in the middle of a parade. Well, it happens when one of the football teams is riding in a boat being pulled behind a truck, and said boat gets stuck going over a dip, and said football team has to hop out of said boat to enable it to go over the dip. Once the football was back on board the rest of the parade had disappeared! We were all so busy watching the boat action that no one watched to see where the parade went! So we start driving (we're the second car behind the boat) and the boat turns and we figure well surely he's just getting off the parade route and look the truck behind him is turning too; they must not know where they're going we'll keep going straight and stay on the route; hmmmm a dead end; maybe we should turn here; oh look we're behind the same truck again; please stop people can't you tell we're in a parade! (thats because at this point we WERE the parade and there were only a few lost souls behind us who thought we might actually know where we were going) We finally do end up at the end along with a bunch of random people who didn't understand why they were now in a parade! We thought it was quite funny and the girls were so busy in the back doing cheers (and still throwing candy....to no one) they didn't even notice!

Then we rushed to get the tailgate party set up and to be honest, I was so tired by that point that I wasn't even all that stressed!!! Not too mention that I had the best helpers EVER!! We had tons of volunteers and got everything up and running very smoothly. We ended up feeding over 250 people and it seemed like everybody had a great time. We did go to the game and Buford did win 42-0.

So over all it was a good day. Andy informed me that he works harder for me on his days off than he does when he works a full day at work. What do you say to that? I said, "I love you and thank you." I thought that summed it up.

Quick Blog

Both girls did awesome in their pep rallys today!! And I did pretty good in my first time role as assistant cheer coach, if I do say so myself!! ;-) Believe it or not I have a picture or two that I will post later. Much later, because there is still food to pick up, a parade to throw candy in, a tailgate party to throw and a game to attend. Then, and only then, will I be able to download my millions of pics from today. What a gorgeous day for a parade!! GO WOLVES!!!! And now, go Ginnie!

Tomorrow, tomorrow, its Homecoming tomorrow, its only a dayyyyy awayyyyy!

WHOO HOO!! Tomorrow is Buford Homecoming! That means pep rallys in the morning, parade in the afternoon, BES Tailgate party (we have 250 people coming! Twice as many as last year!!) and then the game. Its a green day all day!! Even better? Belle and her friend Morgan who are mascots for the 3rd grade squad will actually get to do a couple cheers at their own school!! Its so cute! There are only 4 of them, but they are actually loud and doing the cheer right! Oh my gosh, I just noticed that I've started using the word "actually" an awful lot. Eek, gotta knock that off. Anyway, so the mascot squad will be able to do a couple of cheers and then we'll dash over to see the third grade squad do their routine. I know this isn't the first time Hayden has performed at a pep rally but she is super excited because it is her first time doing one in the Academy and apparently these are BIG deals. What do you expect when you cram 911 screaming students, teachers, parents and siblings into a school gym? It is going to be LOUD!! I probably should make sure that Andy takes some Motrin before we leave or he is going to have a major headache! The things he does for his girls. He surely does love them bunches!

I'm still here!

I've been slack this week on keeping up with the old blog here. I guess I need to remedy that. We've kicked off fundraisers in both schools and that is keeping me hopping along with everything else. Did we used to have to do fundraisers when we were little? I don't remember it. I do remember when I was in band in high school (yes, ha ha, I was in band) and we had a rock-a-thon where we sat in rocking chairs for hours in order to raise money. Not a lot of effort there! But, that is the only sort of thing I can remember. Now of course, my Mom will probably read this and correct me and remind me of some obscure chocolate selling experience that I'm not aware of. Ooh ooh wait! I just remembered when I was at Saint Peter and Paul's we had to sell wrapping paper! There I guess we did have fundraisers! Although that was private school, not public. Does that count? Since I don't remember any other fundraiser and barely remember that one, I'm going to have to hazard a guess and say that back then we really didn't do them. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!