Where Have I been?

Well not sure I have an answer for that. I’ve been here. Just not posting, lol. Of course my horse blog interest me more, so I post on there a lot. My regular life is just not that interesting.
I did get a new puppy!
Isn’t she the cutest thing since, uh…well anything?! I named her Missie. She sure is a Miss Priss! She is a total spit fire and I’m having fun with her ;). She definitely tries my patience sometimes though. I got her about 3 weeks ago. Still battling with the potty training. Its getting better…I think.
I have already taught her to sit and speak and sit up, we are working on laying down. That one is really hard for her. She did it once! Haven’t seen it again, lol.
I’ve been thinking about something ever since last night. Something I’m afraid to say out loud to anyone but Lee…something that scares the you know what out of me, but also excites me to unheard of heights. Something that is probably totally not what I’m thinking it is…but at the same time could be… Something that I really hope is not, and yet if it is not, I’ll be more disappointed then I want to be…shhh, just pretend I didn’t say anything!!

I will definitely be updating if this something comes about/is true. But I gotta keep my mouth shut. I gotta stop thinking about it! Okay! No more.

Gosh its only 4:30 and it looks like 6 outside. I hate when it gets dark so early. Doesn’t help that its really cloudy out.

Choir practice tonight. We have been practicing for the Christmas service lately. Its all the same songs we do every year and we all know them backwards and forwards, but its fun to sing them. And just hang out with each other. I have to close at work though and that means I have to rush home change to a skirt and run back to church. I only have to close the first Wednesday of the month though, thankfully.

I hate working here around Christmas. It gets really busy and I have to work more hours/days. I have to work the next two Saturdays after this. BOO, and Christmas Eve. Ugh. This is the first year where its only me and the boss. We usually have one other co worker to take the pressure of one of us if we are sick, worked too much, have a party, etc. But now its jus us two. I’ll be glad when December is over!
Well Lee and I went deer hunting last Saturday morning. That was fun. We got up at about 5:30 and went out there before it got light. I wasn’t too keen on getting up in the tree stand, even though its pretty substantial compared to some! Its a two seater.

Us up in the tree stand!

Sadly we saw nary a deer, just a lot of squirrels. They would also make noises in the bushes/trees and get us all excited thinking there was a deer coming! Mean squirrels. We stayed out there till about 8:00 and then came in. I made us pancakes and then we went over and hung out with the in laws for awhile. That afternoon Lees brother got his horse out and his dad rode him (first time in 2 years!) then his sister got her 2 year old gelding out and lunged him around a bit with a saddle. Still too small to ride.

Well thats about it! Almost time to head home. Ta ta!

I Love Friday!

So its Friday, again, doesn't seem like last Friday was all that long ago. Good! Sitting at work of course, about four more hours to go, not too bad. I'm getting hungry alread, which isn't good since I didn't have anything to bring for lunch, ugh. I grabbed a hunk of corn bread, but thats it.

I'm pretty excited about what went on last night! A few days ago my bro sent Lee a picture on his phone of a '88 toyota land cruiser that was for sale to use for off roading. We were like, yeah, we wish, but of course we don't have $600 laying around. So then a couple days went by and we heard the guy might be interested in trading for Lees .357 revolver. Which is like his FAV gun, lol. So he thought about it a bit, and then we called the guy and met up with him last night to look at it. It is the coolest lookin thing! Heres a pic:



Okay, I know some of you are like, ick, haha, but its perfect for going on on the trails! The guy that owned it before him had started to convert it into a rock crawler, so it has a 3 inch lift on it already. I love that! (dont know what a rock crawler is?? check this out:



So anyway Lee showed the guy his gun and he said he acted like he really liked it, but wasn't sure about trading even for it...and we don't have any extra, maybe another 100, but we'd rather not...so the guy said he let us know today sometime! I hope he says yes! I'm super excited about it. So then we would have something to go off roading when my bro and them go, and Lees always wanted something like that to mess around in. We'll see!

So gotta go get hay for the horsies for the winter tomorrow. Hopefully it won't rain. Its up in the barn, but we still have to get it home! Not sure we have that many tarps! Then Tuesday the horse shoer comes. I'm hoping Tuff is a good boy and doesn't act up like last time! (although I was not there, he sounds like he was a total beast!) We've been working on it, so he should be a good boy. If not, he will wish he had!! muahahha ;)

And at church this weekend we are doing something fun! We are having our annual Old Fashion Day, where we get to dress up in old time clothes and the guys get to wear overalls, etc. Lee of course does not do overalls, haha, so we usually buy him a new pair of wranglers (he works in them so he is always needing a new pair that aren't trashy looking!)
This year I think I'm going to wear a hat, gotta find a ribbon that matches my shirt to go around the brim. Time to head to hobby lobby! hehehe

Lets see, guess thats about all. Till later!

Tuesday Boredness

Just sitting at work wishing I was doing something fun. Or at home where I could do whatever I want. My house is pretty much in a serious state of disrepair. I've had one of those "I'll clean that up later" weeks, and so now it is later and everything needs to be cleaned up! -_- Boo.

So not a whole lot of anything has been going on. Just livin life. Did have fun Sunday night though. A couple from our small group, and the bro and sis and law and us all went to the couples house and brought papa johns and watched a movie in their new movie room in the basement. (We watched Taken for the 4th time for me, haha, but I love it) And us girls sat and talked awhile while the boys went to my parents to get something.

Lee and I went to Lowes last week. I found out we were going to have a little extra money that week so made up a list of improvements that need to be done around the house. Like laying the tile in the guest bathroom that has never been done, cleaning the windows, hanging up pictures, putting the rest of the knobs on the kitchen cabinets, etc. So we spent about 60$ and got everything we need just about! I still want to get some plants for outside but that can wait.

We are trying to get ready for next month. Every Sunday of October we are hosting the small group at our house. Eep, so we went it to look good!

I also found a room sized rug for the living room that I really like. Its kinda shaggy, but not overly so, and goes great in there. After I get my pictures/shelves up I'm going to really like the dining room/living room area I think.

So my birthday is coming up! About 2 weeks, little over. Its oct 12th. I better start coming up with stuff I want! Lee and his family will be dogging me about it soon, lol. I really dont know...sure I have lots of stuff I want but they are way out of everyones price range! Lol. I'd like money! But thats impossible to get people to give you, well my family might. But his won't! They are very big on being personal etc.

Id also like a new camera, but I want to move up in quality, and that starts costing from 400-800 dollars! Um, what else...I guess I'd like a shotgun, but I don't want one that bad...we haven't hunted in about 2 weeks. Mostly because of the rain. It has rained EVERYDAY for like 2 weeks straight. No joke. We hare having all kinds of flooding. Thankfully not around us though. Finally they said its going to clear up after this week. That has definitely put a stop to my riding -_-. I was watching a few videos on trail competitions, that looks really fun. I want to set up a course out in the pasture and try Daisy through it, hehe, I bet she'd do great! The Alabama Horse Fair is at the end of January, and they have a Trail Horse Competition that any and all horses and riders can enter. Here's a run from last year a girl did on her pretty paint mare:



I think she did great for it being her first competition. Which also tells me anyone and everything enters these things. There is another video of a fat appy that a girl rides through, she doesn't get through but maybe 2 obstacles, lol. I know for a FACT Daisy and I could do better then THAT. That high jump up and down thing though, I think thatd be our worst, lol, that thing looks scary! But the pain mare does GREAT over it.

I like these type of trail competitions. The kind of stuff you would actually maybe encounter out on an actual trail. Not the crap AQHA does with all those crazy intricate poles and junk and their heads at their hooves and going SO SLOW.

Frankly I just want to get out and do SOMETHING with my horse in public. Its been over 2 years! Right before we found out Daisy was pregnant with Tuff Tuff. I'm also kinda worried about her lameness though. I'm definitely not taking a lame horse out in public. I need to get her to a vet to find out just what is going on. I can guess all day but that won't do any good.

So the boss showed up, better skidattle, adios!

Work Work

Betcha can't guess where I am?? lol, okay maybe you can.

Only 30 more minutes to go though! Its been a pretty fast week so far. I loved having Monday off to spend with Lee and the fam. We just lounged around all morning, then went over to his parents for a bit, then on over to my mom and dads for a b-que. That was pretty fun. Dawson was in fine form, sooo funny and cute! Dad b-qued chicken, soo good. And my grandma made homemade macaroni and potato salad, AND fried okra. Can you say TUMMY ACHE, haha. So good. Then my dad also had homemade ice cream making, and it was really good, peach. You just cant beat homemade ice cream. Why can't they make it that good for the store? I mean blue bell gets close but not there.

Here's a few pics!

The adorable Dawson Wayne

Me and my daddy!

My grandma, and Dolly!

And me and Bowser of course :)

Anywho, mostly just sat around and talked. My grandma from Arizona is in town this week, and that was fun to spend some time with her. I was around her my whole childhood, but after we moved to Alabama I have missed her. It is good to get to be around my dads grandpa tho, she lives here now and I did not see her much in my childhood; she lived in Oregon.

The boys got a old playhouse of my nieces out and converted it into a shooting house, lol. They still need to put a roof and sides on it, but its a good base! They drug it up the hill to where they are going to try to shoot deer when season opens.

So I'm pretty excited about this Saturday! We may be going to Tennessee!! The Smokey Mountains baby!! Okay, just Pigeon Forge, but still, its up there! 5 hours away. But totally doable. Apparently there is a really big car show up there that dad and them want to go to, so we are invited too. Sounds fun! Well, Im not a big car show fan, but I am a fan of Tennessee :) Wow, that looks really strange if you look at it real close. Weird work.

Anywho, got choir practice tonight. Gotta be there early for some reason. I'm in a worship team, so I guess we are having a meeting about that.

I got my violin out yesterday and played a VERY little bit and my fingers/wrist are sore today! Way out of practice. I even cut my finger nails, sniff. They were so pretty too, lol. It is very hard to play with long nails though. I need some new strings, a new bow would not be amiss either.

Well, short post, for me, I know. But almost time to leave. Until later!

Monday Again @ The Shop

Hellloooo readersss. Well, hello Michelle! ;) It's nice that over the years, we have both known even if no one else reads our blogs or looks at our websites, we did each others!!

So had a good weekend! The week was a little rocky, Lee and I fell off our happy wagon a bit. Not that we were unhappy, but sometimes you are just in the groove and things are going good you know, and then sometimes its just a little eh, your just living with each other...I dunno, I may not be making any sense at all. I was also really bored at work all last week. I need to find another game to play, lol. I was playing an online rpg (role playing game) but it got boring...that kept me interested.

So just went and got some lunch from guthries, now dad is on the phone in front of me trying to get a real person at bank of america. Thats a feat! Just tried calling the mother, she is wanting to make dinner for the in laws. The mother in law had surgery last week and is out of commission for a while. Shes not answering tho! Urgh.

So back to the weekend! Friday night we did our becoming-a-tradition thing and went to Salsas, its a mexican/american restaurant, one of both of our faves. Which is unusual that we both like a place that much. They have the BEST chips and salsa. Yumm, and I usually get a chimichanga with shrimp or beef. I like it because its pretty quiet and fast, and the waitresses are nice. A lot of what makes a difference to me is the atmosphere and how I'm treated. If one of those is off bad enough, I won't go back.

So then we headed home and Lee decided to use up our last batting cage tokens, hehe. I found out I really suck at hitting softballs! I don't have a clue what I'm doing, lol. Better learn before next year if we get a church womens team going!

Oh and Lee bought me FLOWERS Friday. I KNOW. That like, never happens. Well except for like V-day or my birthday. They are all red roses and daisys and stuff. Very pretty! I don't know what came over him, lol! But I like itttt, heheheh. I guess my trying to change my attitude is working! He put them in a vase near the door but I totally missed them. I noticed my fake flowers were laying on the counter, and then saw some flower food, but thought he had got some for his mom. Then I went towards the bedroom and saw finally saw them.

Saturday we got up about 7:30 or so, Lee had to go do some work with his boss for a few hours. So I decided to call the dog groomer and go with him. I dropped Lee off at his boss' house and then headed over to the dog groomer, dropped Bowser off and then went to the job Lee was working on. He was cutting seams in some concrete they poured the day before (probably about 10k worth of concrete, no kidding its like 110 a yard here now) so it won't crack. So I had a movie I rented that I hadn't finished yet (slumdog millionaire) so that kept me occupied. Then off we went to town waiting for Bowser to get done. Took them like 3 hours. We went to the hunting/gun store we both like, then I persuaded him to take me to hobby lobby, hehe. I got some GREAT stuff there. I have a really pretty frame that I have been wanting to put up, so I got another picture that is similar to it, and then a shelf and some gorgeous flowers for under 20 bucks! So excited to put them up. Just gotta get some different hanger things. I'm gonna put them in my dining room.

Then we went to a few other stores and finally Bowser was done. Went and got him and headed home. Lee had said something bout going to the Bass Pro Shop that day, so we took Bowser home, loaded up the lawn mower and went and mowed the church yard. Came back home AGAIN and got ready to head up to the Bass Pro Shop. We love that place. It has a feeling of being a long ways from home, but is only about an hour, and its got the neatest stuff in there. We can spend 2 hours in there easy. And we were so good, didn't buy anything! ;) Although Lee tried on some camo coveralls that are just awesome. They can also be turned inside out to be just brown, so he could wear them to work and hunt in them. They're insulated and he said they are really comfy. About a 100 bucks for them, so he might have to wait for his birthday, hehe.

Then we headed home and Sunday was church. It was a great service this weekend, our choir song we sang got me so worked up that I actually was crying a little bit, that is not usual for me. It is called Worthy Is The Lamb, and He is SO worthy. It works me up every time, I just love it. Its an indescribable feeling. I'm getting teary thinking about it now! God is so good. And Preachers message was just great.

I kinda wanted to go to the b-ham Barons baseball game, but we decided to just go get some groceries and a movie and head home. That was fun, we watched Duplicity, good couples movie.
Before we did that we put out another bag of cracked corn for the doves out in the pasture. We saw quite a few out there! Yeah! I think the cooler weather is bringing them in. Opening day is Saturday! Which is also the day after my grandma from AZ flies in to visit, and the day of my nieces bd party, AND the first day of college football. VERY IMPORTANT in this state, lol. Gonna be a busy weekend! I'm driving to b-ham with the mother to pick grandma up. She doesn't like driving down there. Got the handy dandy GPS to help us out!

Sigh, I'm kinda wanting to get out of here and get off the same time as Lee, 2:30. But I will prolly have to be here until 4. Boo. Yawwnn. So I guess I will quit boring yall and go.

Catch Up!

So I have been a little slow on updating this blog lately, bad girl! I'll try and hit the high points!

So the weekend before last was pretty fun. Saturday was a little boring, mostly was at my dads shop all day putting up two new car lifts. Yeah. But Sunday a group of us went out and did some four wheeling/off roading at wilborns (the place about 2 mins down the road from our house)

So long story short, we got stuck in some major mud puddles, but got out, haha. And had a lot of fun doing it! Heres a vid after it was stuck and our friend pulling it out. Thats Lee and the sis in law in the back.



Great, huh?? LOL, I was glad I got out before they went through it! The water was like 2 inches high in the floor board Jamie said, lol. Here's a few pics:






So this past week went really fast for me for some reason. I love when Friday gets there and you barely realize it! I've been trying to be a better wife to Lee lately and so far its really working out. I've gotten in a bad habit of criticizing everything he does basically. And getting mad about the littlest stuff. He doesn't deserve that. Now I've been trying to just love and support him, no matter what, and miraculously things just fall together. I know thats the way I should be all the time, its just hard sometimes! We had a great weekend together though.

Jamie stayed with us Sat and Sun night. My brother has gone off on a trip for a week to Stark ? FL to study lightening. So she hates staying at her house by herself and usually stays with Lee and I and my mom and dad throughout. And a few nights by herself, lol, sometimes. She brings Sophie (her boxer) with her to our house, and her and Bowser have fun playing. She is a little annoying though, lol. A bit large for our house! And her manners are not the best, but she is not a beast either.

Friday night we went to the new Academy Sports & Outdoors in Decatur. That was fun. Lee found some sketchers he liked there that were on sale, and I found some pink ear muffs for shooting guns to wear, they work GREAT.

We went to the flea market in Lacon Saturday morning. Lee found a leather wallet, but that was about it. They had some super cute husky puppies there, only $125.

We also got a shotgun from Lee's boss to try for me that afternoon. He bought it for his daughter a while ago and she shot it like once and then decided she didn't like it, lol. Its a youth .20 gauge pump. What I thought I wanted! Well I shot about 25-30 shells through it and decided yesterday evening I'm not a big fan. I think it is too short for me. I picked up Lees huge pump and shot it 3 times in a row and got all three skeets I was shooting at. It felt better too. I have a nice, UGLY bruise on my arm right now from the smaller one. It was also smacking me in the cheek. So I guess we'll keep looking. Lee thinks his size is too big, and the youth is too small, so what the heck do I need??? Sigh. I'm wanting to get one for dove season, opening day is the first Sat in September. We're going to have a little shindig, invite my dad and grandpa out, the bro, and do a shoot and maybe eat or something.

So we grilled ribs Sat night and watched a movie. Then off to church Sunday! That afternoon we couldn't come up with a thing to do, so just headed back to our house after small groups. We layed around being lazy most of the afternoon and then all of a sudden my mom and dad showed up! They haven't been to my house in like a year, lol. (they live about 30 mins away on the other side of the county)
They were out driving and ended up near our road so came to visit. We just sat and talked for awhile and then they left. I made some chili and corn bread and we watched Far And Away (one of my faves!) and then off to bed! Although Lee and I did't get to sleep actually until 12:30, but we won't go there, hahaha.

Yesterday I worked at Dads, and then went over to the in laws afterwards. His mom is feeling really bad right now, somehow she tore a muscle in her shoulder, got to have surgery on it. She is pretty much immune to any kind of pain killer so it hurts all the TIME. :(
I made lasagna and cheese bread for them all last monday. They all LOVED it. I was so pleased. And the men in that family are SO PICKY. I even liked it and I'm not much of a lasagna fan, but Lee likes it so I try to make it.

So today is pretty quiet so far. The store was DEAD last week. Not good.

I guess thats all, until later!

At The Shop

Well its Monday again, about 2 o clock, nothing for me to do. It is SO hot today, its not much cooler in here either. There is a wall air conditioner and a fan, but they are not enough to keep it cool in here today! At least I'm not sweating!

So got an event tomarrow, one I'm so not looking forward to. The OBGYN. :shudder: I really hate going there. This will be my first 'examination', yeah, I've gotten away with it for 3 years, but she flat out refused to fill my birth control this time until I came in. GREAT. Boo. So I'm trying not to think about it so I don't get nervous. I know its not THAT bad, but its bad enough! I'm also kinda worried about the money. I DID have a hundred saved up, but that went, as usual. So I'm hoping to get an advance on my money here with dad for this week and next. He paid me last week, so hopefully he is planning on paying me this week too.

Mortage has to be paid this week. And I need to pay another loan as well. And the money is just dwindling away. Lee is going to do some sidework this week, but he can't do it if it is raining, and there is a chance every day this week, GREAT. Oh well, I'm putting it in Gods hands, He will get us through.

So the sea doo is running again! We've took it out twice now, does great. Well it did start smoking a LOT when I first took it out, so I let Lee get on and he said its just because its a 2 stroke motor and it hadn't been run in awhile. Otay.

Thinking about taking it out this afternoon again, seems to be a Monday tradition, lol, its so deserted there and we can swim at the dock and stuff. Last week we took the little BIL, he liked that. Then got some b-que from the rinky dink local place and got a movie to watch. It was fun. Then we took it out Thurs night. Invited the sis in law and bro and had dinner after with a movie. Another fun night!

So lots of crazy stuff going on right now at the shop. My dad had two car lifts taken out of the cement in his shop, so he could put bigger/better ones in. Well for those guys to do that, they have to cut up the cement and then jack hammer it out. REALLY REALLY loud and annoying. Add to that, there are guys on the other lift they took out already, putting in gravel and concrete to fill in the hole. Then my uncle is here, and two other guys (customers) waiting on dad to help them. Craziness!! Oh! And I just looked out the window, the tool truck guy is here, geesh.

So yesterday we did some more geocaching. We found it this time! So far we were 1 for 4 or 5, lol. But Lee Lee found it! I was too busy trying to get good pictures of the HUGE waterfall near it. Was really neat!


I never knew this was here till I found it on the geocaching website. Its not far from our house either. Really close to our house we rented previous to the house we bought that we live in now.

Gah I look terrible, it was SO MUGGY we were dripping, just dripping sweat. The humidity must have bee like 150%! Lee looks cute of course, he always does!

Here's a short video of the waterfall:



So it was fun, but we did get in a few arguments, one because he didnt want to listen to the gps (or me) when I told him about a road to go down, then said I had said this, and I hadn't, yada yada. Then he didn't want to drive through a mud hole with his tuck cause he just spent 10$ at the car wash, (which I told him not to use anyway, wash it yourself!!) then the gps was confusing us so we were getting ill, haha. Such meaningless stuff. Stupid when you think about it now, but not at the time! We'll learn.

So not much else going on. Wish me luck at the drs tomarrow, ughhh. And lets hope I'm not pregnant because I've been off the pill all month, heh.

Adios!