Fashion Show!

Addy wanted to have a fashion show the other night when I was in the hospital so Kellie put all kinds of outfits together! The pictures turned out so cute!

LOOK HOW LONG HER HAIR IS GETTING!! I BLOWDRYED IT AND FLIPPED IT OUT THE OTHER NIGHT AND I WAS AMAZED! IT LOOKS EVEN LONGER WHEN I TAKE THE CHI TO IT!

Addy wrote her letter to Santa last night, we ended up filling the entire page so you can imagine how long it took, but she is getting very good at writing! That is all she wants to do anymore is write in her "Hannah Montana" diary! No one can read it either!

These are halloween pictures, Addy wanted to be a scary witch this year, but she said absolutely no hairy wart! We had alot of fun that night and who could have asked for better weather!

Pumpkin Carving

Chad was in town this weekend, and we all carved pumpkins last night, it was alot of fun. Addy has done this every year, but I guess she does not remember because she thought it was so gross! We ended up carving three pumpkins, everyone thought that I was going to cut my finger off, so after doing two pumpkins, we let Kellie take over!

I have a video, and tried uploading it, but for some reason it tried to upload for about two hours and would not do anything so I will try agin later!

Addy and I had a garage sale at the house a couple of weekends ago! I know, it is huge! (alot of it is Mandy's) Addy had her own lemonade stand though, and she was so cute! She sold quite a few cups, and the little thing was so proud! I can say that I was a little proud too!

Chad and I went to St. Louis this past weekend to visit my family and also to go see some things! We had so much fun! We got to go to my favorite pizza place, my aunt suprised me with a "gooey butter cake" (which was great, I had my co-workers fighting over the last little bit!)
When we went down down, we went to the arch, the Budwieser tour (which was very neat!) October Fest down there and then a haunted house! Could not have asked for a better weekend!

Picture with the famous "Joe Baccardi" My favorite pizza place in St. Louis!
Me, My Grandma, Janice and my Uncle Fred
Chad stepped in cow "poop", you can't really see it here but it was hilarious!
We went downtown the next day and had so much fun!

I recieved this email from a girl that I used to work with from that bank that was from our Chillicothe branch, it amazed me how many caring people we have in the world that would take the time to give either their prayers or some kind of help to this family. The lady that I work with is actually neighbors with this people and she said that this was just devastating! Please everyone keep this family in their prayers!

To all who will receive this,> On Tuesday afternoon a three year old boy, named Colten,> was severely injured in a lawn mowing accident in Polo, Missouri. He lost > one of his legs in the accident, and the other had to be amputated. > Extensive injuries to his back side has left him without a rectum. He lies > in a drug induced coma at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Keep > this child and his family in your prayers over the next several months. He > is at a very high risk for developing infection because of how the injury > occurred. As for the second part of this request I was not sure of how to > even begin to word it. This family has no health insurance coverage. The > need for help will reach far beyond his medical bills. This is a young > family who's father is self employed. A account has been set up in his name > (Colten Newman), at Bank Northwest in Polo, 305 Main St. Polo, Missouri > 64671 Telephone #660-354-2111.> In closing, we all receive and send emails to each other, often with > a long pre-forwarding list of people we don't know. Words of encouragement > that might have been the right message for someone. But, sometimes it takes > more than just hitting the forward button. If what I could imagine for this > family, it would be, that> everyone that receives this email, would place one dollar in an envelope and > mail it to the address above. This is not a scam, that is why I included the > address and phone number of the bank.> > Trust the person that has sent this email to you, and act on faith. May God > bless all who reads this.>

Ok, so I do not have any new pictures because my camera was lost for a long time. I wanted to share my excitement that I had happen recently for those of you that do not know already! (everyone already knew) Chad ended up leaving the 9th of September and we had planned that the next time we would be able to see each other would be October 10th. On September 18th, I was working and Mandy, my sister came in and just pretended to be visiting, then next thing I knew, Kellie came in holding a dozen roses, she had said that she ran by the house and found these on the table so she wanted to bring them up. The roses were beautiful but all I kept thinking to myself was that fact that I wanted Chad to be here so much more, and I even said that, not knowing that at that point he was standing out my door listening to what I was saying. Next thing that I knew, I lokked up and he was standing in the doorway of my office! My mother, Addy, Kellie, Mandy and my co worker Shelia, I think all had tears in their eyes! This was the best suprise ever and I am still not sure how my family kept this secret! Chad ended up being here Thursday through Monday and as always we had a great time! He got to experience the Jesse James days, and ever one had said to us that "The true test to a relationship, is making it through the drama of Jesse James Days" Well...we did it, this is for sure the man that I want to make me happy for the rest of my life! I guess it was all worth waiting for!

I will post again soon!

This past weekend, Chad was in town from Kentucky and this first picture was when Ashley had her twins over. All of us were hanging out, we made the guys take pictures with them. I thought this turned out so cute!!

On Tuesday before Chad left, Addy, Chad and I all went out to see the house of Jesse James. Chad thinks that it is so crazy that we celebrate a criminal but all of us including him thought the whole thing was very interesting! We took lots of pictures when we were there but here are just a few.

Just some Random Pictures!

Burlington, Kentucky

I went to Burlington, Kentucky this past weekend and absolutley had the time of my life! We (Chad and I) did so many fun things that I would just never do back here in Kearney because no one has ever thought of taking me to do those kinds of things! I must admit, this guy is amazing! He really knows how to show someone how to have a good time. Just to list a few out, we went to the body exibit mesuem which was really neat, it was amazing to see all the different parts of the body that we are not aware of and what they actually do! We then went to the drving range, but I have been told that I am not going to be in the PGA tour anytime soon, to say the least I was not the greatest! That night we went to Chad's hometown festival which was alot of fun and I got the funnel cake that I was so excited about! The next day we went fishing, and then went a played Laser tag, which was so much FUN!! I have to admit that I was not bad for the first time, although somone.....may not agree with me! When I go down there next, it is a must that we go play! Last but not least, we went to the most amazing returaunt with the greatest view! I would have to say that I typically do not eat at places like this, but it was such an experience!

Here are some pitures of the weekend!

Sarasota, Florida!

It was Kellie and I's birthday yesterday and my mom was very nice and flew us down to Florida this past weekend. This was by far the BEST vacation I have ever had. We had so much fun and every part of Florida I have ever seen never has water the way that this place did. Kellie and Mom are still down there and I really wish that I could have stayed but I was ready to come home to see Addy and I had to go back to work. Just a few pictures while we were down there.....

This is the Condo we stayed at!
We went out Staurday night for our birthday with some people that we met, beleive me, we were really safe!
This is called Vennice Beach, this is where you hunt for Shark teeth, the man said that they are between 30 to 50 MILLION years old!
This is the beach that we hung out at most of the time, Siesta Key!


These people on the beach had made this Alligator, the detail on it was amazing!!

This was actually awhile back, but us girls went to "BonJovi" and these pictures were taken at the concert.

Happy 4th Birthday Addy!

Addy had her birthday party this last weekend, as you can tell it was Candyland, I had alot of fun with this party, making the cake was the best part! She is a spoiled little girl and had the Hannah Montana cake on her actual birthday and then I made the one for her birthday party. She had aot of fun and got lots of cool things! It is so weird to me that she is growing up so much that she has her own little group of friends that come!

The picture of her and I was of the day before, her and I went shopping for her birthday things and she did not want to stop taking pictures of her and I. Should a 4 year old even know how to work a camera?

Happy Birthday Addy!

Worms!

Addy came in today and asked me if she could have a bucket, I asked her what for and she said so that I can get all the worms out of where Aunt Tellie dug holes. If you are not my family you may not understand, but when I was little, I used to try and save all the earthworms so that someone would not (sorry to be graphic) chop there body in half when the shovel hit them. My mom has always said that she knew that I would always have a loving heart because of the way that I acted about the earthworms....so the point of the story......Addy came in today pretty much saying the same thing. I posted a video of her getting all the worms and I also put another of her driving her "escalade" for a little bit. It will be a really scary thing one day when she gets on the road, we still have to practice a bit, she's getting better!

The Cruise!

Ok, I know...I know...I have still not gotten any better! So Mandy posted all the pictures of the cruise already and so this will kind of be a repeat but she seemed to have left one huge peice out of the puzzle! We had a storm Friday night after our last night of porting and we were told that there were somewhere between 15 to 25 ft swells! This was the scariest thing that has ever happened in my life, the whole family was seasick, there were passengers trying to get to the back of the boat because that is the worst spot and they were just walking down the hallway with trash cans. They had roped of all of the decks because it was too dangerous. Mandy, I know took a video of trying to walk down the hallway but I have not seen it, maybe we can talk her into posting it on her blog. The cruise was alot of fun, but this I can say ruined the whole cruising thing for me, I am not sure that I will ever step foot on a boat like that again. I know this sounds crazy and in all reality it would not have happened, but all I could think of while this was going on was that this freakin boat is going to tip! Here are a few pictures while on the cruise!

Ok, I know...I know...I have still not gotten any better! So Mandy posted all the pictures of the cruise already and so this will kind of be a repeat but she seemed to have left one huge peice out of the puzzle! We had a storm Friday night after our last night of porting and we were told that there were somewhere between 15 to 25 ft swells! This was the scariest thing that has ever happened in my life, the whole family was seasick, there were passengers trying to get to the back of the boat because that is the worst spot and they were just walking down the hallway with trash cans. They had roped of all of the decks because it was too dangerous. Mandy, I know took a video of trying to walk down the hallway but I have not seen it, maybe we can talk her into posting it on her blog. The cruise was fun, but this I can say ruined the whole cruising thing for me, I am not sure that I will ever step foot on a boat like that again. I know this sounds crazy and in all reality it would not have happened, but all I could think of while this was going on was that this freakin boat is going to tip! Here are a few pictures while on the cruise!