Happy Anniversary

WOW I cannot believe it has been over a month since I posted last. We have been so busy around here time just flies by.
My wonderful husband and I celebrated 17 years of marriage this past Saturday. We were able to take a short trip. My mom came over and spent the weekend with the kids and we went away. It was nice to spend some quality time together just talking and enjoying each others company. We also treated ourselves to a very nice meal. Of course he also sent me some beautiful red roses on Friday and they were absolutely gorgeous. One of my coworkers saw them and said "you have such a good husband"...well I had to agree with her. I have the BEST one. I know I know all you other wives think yours is the best. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree:)
We planted some tomatoes earlier and they are really starting to grow. It is so exciting. My first tomatoes...that is sad huh? Oh well you gotta start somewhere.
Must get supper finished up as my husband is on his way home and we are usually ready to sit down and eat when he walks in the door.
Till next time!

Spring Weather

Hello to all! I think Spring has finally arrived in South Louisiana! I am sooooo excited. I have been patiently waiting (now I hope I'm not disappointed next week because we do get a cold spell around Easter) but for now it is wonderful.
We have decided that the weather is finally right to begin planting in our flower bed. When we moved into our house last summer there were just some overgrown shrubs in the front so we pulled all those up and laid new flower beds but never did get anything planted. Now we are ready to begin. Heath is outside now tilling up the flower beds then he will move to the back where we are going to attempt our first garden. Well I don't know if you could call it a garden or not. I think we are only going to try tomatoes and possibly squash or cucumbers but hey you gotta start somewhere right.
Brent has gone to Ron & Ellen's (aunt and uncle) for the weekend. They are his second set of grandparents....he is going to help Leah work in the yard there. He gets paid for that work so I think he thought it was the better deal besides the fact that he practically lives there anyway.
Well must run so that we can hit Lowes to purchase flowers etc for our projects. Wish me luck! Hopefully by tonight I'll be able to post for ya'll to drive on by and see my beautiful yard:)

Catching Up

Wow..I didn't realize that I hadn't posted in so long. We have been so busy but then again who isn't. We spent today working around the house. Several weeks ago Heath put laminate wood flooring in our den, kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately he wasn't able to get it finished so he has been working on it alittle each Saturday. Today he finished with the moldings and hopefully next weekend he'll get the side moldings down. It sure does look nice though. We have so enjoyed doing things around our new house. We had a beautiful day today. The weather was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately we are supposed to get bad weather on Monday and another cold front. We are all so ready for spring time around here. We did purchase our tomato plants today but can't plant them just yet due to the frost that we are supposed to get next week.
Brent has finished driver's ed and is going to go get his learner's permit next week. Look out! Doesn't seem possible that he is old enough to drive but time certainly does fly doesn't it? Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Working Weekends

Sometimes I like to spend my Saturdays doing all my running and then sometimes I like to spend them at home just relaxing, but sometimes I have to spend them doing work around my house....since this was supposed to be a cold rainy Saturday I chose the latter for this day......after sleeping in alittle we started right out working in the hall closet which we like to call our "Sams closet".....since we go to Sams and stock up on lots of things and that is where we store them. This closet was quite a bonus when we purchased this house a few months ago....we absolutely fell in love with it.....I know that might sound crazy to some people but you can never have enough storage in my opinion.
With Heath and I working together it didn't take us long to get that one done but then we moved to Heidi's room.....oh that was quite the chore since my little one is quite the pack rat......needless to say we finished that and then went to my office where Heath put together a book shelf for me. Then we decided to treat ourselves and went to DQ....
Now the laundry starts....which is my favorite chore....needless to say I do feel satisfied with the cleaning and reorganizing that was accomplished today and since tomorrow is Sunday we can enjoy our day of rest with a clean house.

Late Night Trips to the ER

Well I just got back from doing something I haven't done in quite some time. In my earlier post I mentioned that my kids have been sick. Well Heidi suddenly developed a rash and I got online and in doing some investigating suspected that it could be Scarlet Fever. So needless to say we just returned home from a stint in the ER and yes my suspicions were confirmed. She has Scarlet Fever which is brought on by Strep Throat which she tested positive for. Her heart rate was very high and she was dehydrated so they hooked her up and gave her fluids and medication and we stayed for that but thank goodness we are now back home and she is in bed. Hopefully to have a peaceful nights sleep and I trust we are on the road to recovery. Having children that aren't small anymore I had forgotten what it is like to have that rush of "fear" hit you when you don't know what is wrong with your child. It is frightening...no matter how minor it turns out to be the mother in you immediately starts imagining every sceniaro possible. As we were sitting there waiting to see the doctor Heidi said "Mom I don't like hospitals...I know they are nice but if I was a kid I wouldn't want to have to be at one all the time like those poor kids at St. Judes".......God is good!

Sickness

Well it seems we have been hit with the sick bug this past couple of weeks. Brent had it first and now Heidi is taking her turn. I told her this morning that I think it is high time we all got back to normal around here. I'm tired of all this stuff. I hate it when my kids are sick. Makes the house seem soooo quiet.
We spent Saturday around the house and Sunday as well. Doesn't seem like Sunday when you can't get to church.
Hopefully we'll all be feeling better next time I post.
I am having so much fun reading others blogs and keeping up with what is going on in their lives. It is so neat to be able to keep up with friends and family all across the country.

Happy New Year

It's been awhile since I've posted so I'll have to update ya'll. We had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We went to Heath's grandmas on Christmas Eve and had our Christmas with them then on Christmas Day we stayed home and my mom and grandma came over and had dinner with us and spent the day. It was very relaxed and nice for a change. We went to Natchitoches the weekend before New Years and had a nice time with the inlaws having our Christmas with them. It was nice to see Me-Maw Pounds is settling in at her new apartment in an assisted living facility. We had a nice experience on Christmas Eve....on our way home from Me-Me's we saw something sitting in the road and it turns out it was a small kitten. Well needless to say we didn't want to run over it so we stopped but then couldn't find the kitten anywhere...turns out it had crawled up under the car and rode home with us....need I say more....Yes we have another cat...that makes 3.....which in my opinion is too many but what can you do...my son is quite the animal lover and just couldn't stand the thought of it being homeless.....so he has settled in amongst us and we have another baby in the house.....