it's been a while

while its been some time since i have blogged, i have been ultra busy! so , let me just take a moment to catch up before i get in to what i am blogging about. first, bryson is still getting into everything and then some and i am still loving my new job! i seriously have one of the best bosses ever and that alone makes any job worth going to. the girls at work and i decided we are goin to try to lose some poundage and hopefully some inchage (yeah, i made those up) so along side trying to eat better Travis and myself have been riding bikes with the kids @ the 'hood. its been 14 years since i rode a bike! and i will just go ahead and tell ya.... my butt hurts! i've got more cushion back there now so why don't i remember my butt hurting when i was a kid? anyhoo, life is great and i am making some positive changes that i hope i can divulge soon!

bryson's latest

well, last week was rather adventurous. to say the very least. you might had read previously where bryson tried to flood half of the house the week before. well, last friday as he laid down for his afternoon nap i decided that i would go ahead and shower. bryson lets me know he is indeed awake when he comes in the bathroom and is eating a sucker that he had to climb on the counter to get. (mind you travis is out of town. ) so i finish up and explain to bryson that he is not allowed to get things without asking. i had a sitter coming over to watch the kids while i went to work so i was going to order pizza. as i pick up my home phone it is pouring out; literally, liquid that is sticky. i am a little confused so i pick up my cell phone. it too was soaking wet. neither of them would turn on! as i notice what was my glass of diet coke on the table bryson announces speed boats mommy!! i realize then that he had turned the phones into boats! as i had previously found his little adventurous side funny and humorous.... this day i did not!! he did get a lil' spankin. so i was without any kind of phone!! i had to run to walmart and get a cheap phone to do until...and sat. i had to go and see if my cell phone was repairable. as it turns out neither of my phones were repairable and over $300 later i have new phones! my info in my phone could not be switched over either. so if i haven't been calling you don't take it personally as i don't have your #.

tag~ i'm it!

so, sarah tagged me, i guess that means it's my turn to tell 6 things about myself that you may or may not know.


1. i guess first things first. i really don't have a clue when it comes to blogging. i am new at it and i probably won't even do all this "tagging" right.


2. i have a favorite past time that some find very weird and some have said that hmm...maybe they would try it. and that is on any given afternoon or evening after a long hard day you very well may find me snuggled up on my bathroom floor w/a pillow and my hairdryer going and yes it must be blowing on me. i especially like to do this when it is cold outside. i find it to be great heat therapy; which is what we call it at my house. so, if you were to call & my kids say sorry my mom is busy she is doing her heat therapy, you'll know what they are talking about. btw } sometimes we make this a family time event and we will all get a book, pile up in my bathroom floor, and just relax with the hairdryer going.


3. now that you are totally freaked out by #2 i'm sure you're wanting to know what else is to this weirdo ?>? well, i really want a dog. like real bad. the only thing is i don't have the time right now to invest into an animal. heck, i am trying to get my 2 1/2 yr. old to use the potty. i don't have the energy to try and house train a dog too. when i do get the time i want a weimaraner.


4. i support our troops and i believe the war is necessary. i believe that America is a blessed country but i also believe that people have corrupted it by taking God out of our schools and our courtrooms.


5. if i could do anything career wise that i wanted to be it would be a forensic photographer for the FBI. maybe when i grow up that's what I'll be.


6. i would like to lose about 30 more lbs. and then go have liposuction on just about every area of my body and have a booty lift and some jugs installed.



so. now maybe you learned 6 new things about me. now it is my turn to do some tagging. i am tagging:

sonja~this means you can start a blog now

tracey j.

denise

austin

leslie~same thing. now you can start one too

i know this is only 5 but i don't know many that blog. *remember i am just starting! lol



THE RULES

1.LINK TO THE PERSON WHO TAGGED YOU

2.POST THE RULES TO YOUR BLOG

3.WRITE 6 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF

4.TAG 6 PEOPLE AT THE END OF YOUR POST AND LINK TO THEM

5.LET EACH PERSON YOU HAVE TAGGED KNOW BY LEAVING A COMMENT ON THEIR BLOG

6.LET THE TAGGER KNOW WHEN YOUR ENTRY IS POSTED

rainboots anyone?!?!?!

okay. so today has been a little bit of an adventure.... to say the least. as i am awakened by my angelic, innocent, loving and ever so cute 3 yr. old son, bryson this morning, i hear what sounds like running water.......

Travis has been working nights but i thought, "why would he be taking a shower in the kids bathroom?" all the while bryson is telling me to "mere." which in his lingo means come here. i get to noticing that bryson is shimmering w/ glitter and then i get that panicky feeling. i jump out of bed, literally. as i come to the hallway i am looking at standing water. ummm, if were to guess i would say at least 4in. deep. not only is it in the hallway, it is in the bathroom and in the girls room! we have hardwood floors but i am immediately thinking omg my floors are going to be ruined and mind you water is still running full blast.

bryson had pulled a stool over to the sink and pulled up the stopper and turned on the water. i don't know i guess he thought since i was asleep he would just swim in the bathroom instead of me taking him outside to get in the pool. so i turn the water off and call my mom n law frantically and she tells me what i should do. it took 6 beach towels and the already soaked rug to get most of the water up. most of the stuff under the sink had to be thrown away. the girls floor is still wet (we don't have hardwoods in there). i had to get box fans to dry everything else out.

meanwhile bryson had to sit in time out and got a little lecture about playing in the water! i did find it all kind of funny and a little amusing. he's so cute. it's hard to get mad at him. i know you're wondering where i was during his playtime. he usually comes straight to my room when he wakes up if he gets up before me but not today and i never heard him! I'm not a heavy sleeper. i just have a very sneaky, curious 3 yr. old who loves adventure.

since you brought it up.....

do you think that it is wrong to flash your lights at on-coming to traffic to warn them of a speed trap ahead? while i know this is against the law, i don't find any harm or wrong in it. now, if someone were barreling past me going way over the speed limit i probably would not flash my lights at them. but for the " just 5 mph or so over kind of people, i would. i think that they should be warned to slow down. not that they are driving reckless or anything just going a few miles over the speed limit. i would like to be warned!
so i will just tell ya: i m a flasher. i will 9 times out 10 flash my lights to warn others of a speed trap.
i just want to know who else does this? or does not?!?

the few...

while i do still feel the same about my previous blog, i thought i should express gratitude for those that i have in my life that i cherish and could not imagine life without.



first and foremost, GOD. He has been there for me right through it all. even when i was all alone in an empty house or laying on a bathroom floor sobbing. He was there. i can feel His warmth come across my cold heart and body at times when i need Him the very most. when life has seemed to much to bear and when i felt i could go no further, it was God that was there. i know i have failed Him tremendously and my life is nowhere where it should or could be. this however; is between me and the Lord.



secondly, Travis my husband. honestly, it has taken a few Vallie's and storms in our relationship for me to realize just how important he is to me and how much i really do love him. whether Travis agrees with me or not he always has my back. i never question his support. he compliments me daily and reminds me of how much he loves me. this past year was a very difficult year for us and i look forward to new year and a new beginning.



next, my sister-in-law and best friend Stephanie. wow. there is no way to describe our relationship. we value each others differences and can appreciate one another for who we are. no matter what she has stood beside me and was a shoulder for me to lean on. i can always count on her honesty and support. i treasure her since of style ( which i taught her, lol),since of humor, and her sometimes messiness. i love that she is the only one i know who will drop something before the day is over or get something on her clothes, or even better can explode caramel all over the kitchen.



then there is Sonja. we met about 12 years ago. although, we have not been close this whole time, i completely value her friendship. her friendship is not the kind where we have to talk everyday. when we talk it's like we haven't missed a beat. i value her intelligence and wittiness. she has a great work ethic and is great at any thing she does. i swear she should have been a psychologist. she knows exactly what to say and when to say it. Sonja has a way of lighting up your day and just making you feel like there is nothing you can't do or conquer. she has played a huge role in my life over the last couple of years and i would like to say that I'm not sure where i would be without her. thanks Sonja. you're the best.



i have several other friends that i would like to mention there name who have been great and wonderful friends: sheree:i love you & appreciate all that you do and who you are. mark, Austin, Angie, brea, leslie, and Denise. thanks.

can i just vent????

i want to say that sorry if you find any of what you are about to read offensive but it's just the way i feel!

first i can't stand it when people get involved in other people's business that does not concern them in the least! this is a pet peeve of mine. and well, lets just say that i am a little irked right now. secondly, i am bothered by the fact that when these same people go and run there mouth about what they have "heard" or the way they "feel" concerning this other person and it gets back to the person they are talking about, they deny it and say that they didn't say it and all the sudden become the "miss holier than thou". pardon my expression but have you ever met someone like this? they just make me want to laugh in their face b/c quite frankly i find it funny. these kind of people are the very ones that have made more bad decisions to last a lifetime, who has done so much junk it would make a hooker blush; but yet, the very ones who will be the first to throw a stone at you and criticize you. i simply don't understand people like this.

and then what about the kind of people who have something to say but they won't come say it to you personally?!? very peculiar. instead they choose to send you a stupid msg. on my space (hahaha), or they will blog about you but "not about you", or they will just go run there mouth to everybody else about you. i tell ya, there are some strange lil' weirdo's out there!

oh! and what about this one i love it. it's my personal fave.! btw~*~ i am a christian....i am someone who does not have it all together and when you think you do i don't think you can call yourself a christian b/c i will always need the lord and as long as i am living in this messed up world with these messed up people i will never have it all together. i may not live up to your standards but guess what.. you're probably not living up to mine! with that being said, i love it when people claim to be living for god and professing that they are a christian walk around with a look of " i just ate a bowl full of lemons!"and then they size you up and wont speak. some of the very people that i am referring to think that just because they look a certain way or don't go to certain places or however you want to label it that they have it all together. i am sorry but this clearly does not make you a christian and the way you treat people goes a whole lot further than what you wear, where you go or don't go.

a note to self: be kind to others because you never know what they are going through and i don't want to be responsible for being the "straw that broke the camels back". and don't trust a coward! i only have a few true friends. just like my mother said i would! lol. i will choose to love them and never judge them.