Hemmed Pants

I HAVE SUCCESS! This past Christmas my MIL gave me a sewing machine and I haven't had that much success in making things. In fact, I have been horrible at everything I have attempted. Well, today I decided to try and hem a pair of pants I just got. And what do you know? I did it. Ok, so they aren't perfect but they are wearable and I'm at least proud of them! Yay, me! 

Kentucky: Day 3

Day three of being here in Kentucky was a lazy one. Spent most of the day in the house just watching t.v... lol. But then we eventually ventured out and I got to see our friend's land that they plan on building their home on. It was great to see how they are so excited about it and to see their future plans together! 

Oh, we went to O'Charley's for lunch - does anyone remember there being one n Florida just down the street from where Douglas and I live now? Yum. Too bad they aren't there anymore because they have the BEST ooey gooey carmel pie! 

Kentucky: Day 2

It has been our second day here in Kentucky and it was busy - well, Douglas worked ALL day and I kept busy. I hung out with my friend. She took me to some restaurants that aren't typical in Florida (Zaxpy's, Rafferty's). They were pretty good, actually I think I like Zaxby's more than Chic fil-A. 

We headed to Tennessee to hit the Outlet Mall. Wahoo! Shopping! We didn't buy a thing full price and we got some pretty amazing deals. 

We closed the evening by playing Mario Kart til the wee hours of the morning - again. 

 

Kentucky: Day 1

We are in Kentucky this weekend because Douglas is working and I got to tag along. (yay!) We have some friends up here that I am visiting while up here so I happy to see them. The flight was not too bad, layover in Atlanta, but I have realized that people like to talk A LOT on flights. Me? Not so much. I like to sleep, especially since we had been up since 3:30 in the morning. I guess I am just not a friendly enough person. lol. But I made it through my talkers.. my seat stealer (who actually got all rude to me because she thought I lied about her being in my seat) and the continual bathroom user (I got the aisle seat). It has been great to see our friends here again! Driving around and seeing the town here is nice. Its very beautiful here, and somehow it seems so much more populated than Melbourne (OMG! you say, how is that possible? LOL. ) Come on, pick a place almost anywhere and it would be more populated with more things to do than Melbouring....wink. Anyway. We stayed up playing Wii... I suck at this btw. But it was a full day and night. Looking forward to my shopping day with Steph. 

Man and Wife - Our 4th Anniversary

It has been FOUR years! Four years, can you believe it? It went by so quickly since the day Douglas and I said "I do" (May 22, 2004). It has an amazing four years to say the least. We like to mark our years by the major things that happened or where we were during that year, so here ya go:

Our first year: The year of West Palm Beach

Second Year: The year of living with the  Drummond 'rents 

Third Year: The year we bought our first home

Fourth Year: The year of our first babies (ok, so technically they were our first pets, but they are our babies) 

Each of these years have brought their own trials and at each anniversary we like to look back at what we have accomplished and then look FORWARD to what we get to and want to accomplish! Thank you all that have made our lives wonderful and have been there to pray for us and continue to help our love grow. 

Douglas, I love you more my galant knight! 

Simply Pleasures

Ok, you all know that my favorite scent is vanilla. And they (Tide) has come out with the Simply Pleasures laundry detergent that I have fell in love with for the obvious fact that it is vanilla and lavender. mmmm. smells so good. My friend recently informed me that I should have been using detergent for front loading machines well, because my washer is "a front loader" - Duh, I thought... I knew that. But only to be saddened by the fact that I can not find my scent in laundry soap in front loader... bummer. So, I use the regular detergent, but still use fabric softener and dryer sheets in my favorite scent. Doesn't do the same job. The detergent is very over powering. Ahh, the dilemmas of my day...I move on.... I'm at the store and I see these hanger pendants made by Tide (Simply Pleasures) scented vanilla and Lavender. 

BINGO! I think I have found my solution or at least another way to make my clothes smell happy and me smile when I walk into my closet. And so far they really work and they smell WONDERFUL! Try them! If you can picture the cartoon hand coming and swifting under your nose... then you've got the picture. Thanks, Tide! 

(To the far right hand side you can see one of them hanging on a hanger... look real close) 

PS: If anyone does find front loading detergent in lavender vanilla PLEASE let me know !!! I could never get enough of the scent even if this did help. 

Bowling with the Gang

Last night Erin, Ricardo, Arnaldo (Ricardo's nephew) and I got to be on Deal or No Deal! Thats right! NO JOKE! Ok, so it was at the bowling alley, playing for tickets, but still. Out of 200 tickets that could be won, Ricardo won 100! Wahoo.

Erin and I only won 4, ug.

And Arnaldo won 15. I guess we know who got the better deal.  The main reason we were at the bowling alley was of course to bowl but we got to go bowling for FREE! That's right, they had a free party , invitation only (really you just need to sign up on their mailing list-so DO IT), that included everything: games, shoe rental, pizza, drinks.

It was fun, even though we all kinda stink at playing.

Well, I pretty sure the only reason Erin did bad is because I made her play granny style because of being prego. But, whatever. (chuckle). 

Fun with my girl, Cora!

Babysitting night again!  

BATH TIME

MOVIE TIME

DINGO TIME

PUZZLE TIME

I think we got it all in before bed...(wink) 

Christafari Concert

Last night was not a regular Wednesday night service at Calvary Chapel of Melbourne. Christafari came and performed!




It was AWESOME! All their songs were fun and made you have to get up and dance and sing along with them. They are definitely one of my top favorite bands. It was great to see them in person. 

Our Pastor even got on stage and danced along with them, it was GREAT! LOL. Go Pastor Mark! 

Pets playing together

I came downstairs this morning to find this:

Now I know that my babies work together to get what they want because Lan (this webkinz panda's name) was on the table and only Baleigh could have jumped up to get it down and I am sure it was too big for her to carry it so cute to the center of the kitchen floor, so I blame that on Dingo. So I actually caught them playing together which to me is one of the sweetest things - even though according to this picture it looks more like a showdown.

Poor Lan - I think I got to him in time before his stuffing got ripped out of him. 

Women's Tea

Today was the annual Women's Tea at my church. My mother in law and sister in law decorated tables this year. They were really cute! They chose to do an Oriental theme in which they hand made oragami birds,


they had chinese candies and they made the centerpieces - pretty awesome cherry blossom trees. They also made their outfits for the day.. not just their hats. They did really great! Thanks ladies for a fun day. 

MUAH! 

Date Night

Last night Douglas took me to this really interesting restaurant in downtown Melbourne called Lexi. It's a martini / tapas restaurant where they serve primarily well, tapas and martinis. But one feature that was very interesting that we enjoyed was their wall of wines. You get to put money on a card and then go up the wall and make your selection of wine in three different size increments (tasting, half glass, full glass) Its very neat! Their menu, although small, was really rather delicious. We chose a selection from the beef and from the chicken and ordered a cheese plate. Then to finish it off we each got a dessert. YUM! How could I resist a chocolate trio!


It was really an interesting atmosphere. BUT, heed this warning: do not go if you are starving because this is of course a TAPAS (appetizer size portion-or "elf food" as we joked) place. Although it is connected to the restaurant Continental Flambe and they seemed fine with ordering off that menu we wanted to have the whole experiance of this place.

Side note: Douglas left for Kentucky EARLY this morning and will be back on Tuesday for work. Pray for safe travels and that he will be a huge help while he is up there! Oh, and for me while he is gone because I HATE when he's gone, Im truly a mess. =( 

Beat, Beat, POW!

Today I went with Erin to her doctor's appointment. It was supposed to be just a regular no nonsense appointment but I got lucky to tag along to one where they listened to the baby. That's right - I GOT TO HEAR THE BABY!  It was way cool. My little nephew's (or niece's) little heart beated away so fast and even gave us a kick! It was pretty neat! The mommy's doing fine ! 

They may be cute but WATCH OUT!

Who says my job isn't dangerous? 

I subbed in a Pre-K class today! SOOO much fun. I was very excited about it. Then entered two little girls followed by their daddy carry a large cage. Yes, twin girls decided to bring in their pet hamsters.  "AHH, lol"  

I wasn't so weirded out by them really, in fact it was going ok that is until we decided to put the furry critters in their balls to let them run around the room. Here's where the danger comes in. 

The stupid things bit me! OUCH! (and yes I said it out loud too because it really hurt). It didn't bit my once though, it decided to keep biting - FOUR TIMES!!!!! Stupid Hello Kitty. (that's "his" name, lol). 

Ahh, the joys to working with youngens. Gotta love it.  

Happy Birthday Ricardo!

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Good Night Puppers

This is truly Daddy's Lil Girl. Most nights Douglas calls Dingo to come, then sit in front of him when its time for bed just so he can gather her in his arms to carry her up the stairs and place her in her bed. It is really one of the sweetest things I have ever seen.  Night, night, Puppers. Sweet Dreams.  

Daughtry Concert

It was  girls night out this past Tuesday! SOOO much fun. Went to Panera for dinner (with a side trip the Hallmark to get just a few trading cards for Webkinz- lol), then it was off the highly sought after concert "Daughtry".  (THANK YOU Rachel for getting the tix for us all) It was a GREAT concert. It was acoustic so the arrangements weren't like the songs heard alllll the time on the radio. The changes were really neat and made me wish they made a cd with them.



Even though our seats were in the balcony, last row, they turned out to be great ones. You could see the stage no problem and it wasn't too loud for us old folks. HA! Oh, yeah, he's just as cute in person as he was on t.v. (and I still think he should have won, but whatever).