A quick thought

Since I have been in the bed or on the couch for most of this week ( I still do not feel great)... I have noticed something about commercials. I believe Americans are starting to eat unhealthy and eat more fast food because there are commercials for fast food restaurants EVERY minute of the day.

I promise if you are do not feel good you do not want to see food all the time! It is very hard to get away from food on the tv. I wondering if it was like that 20 years ago.

Just a thought!

"Almost" Wordless Wednesday

Every year Patrick and I take a picture with Caroline at the beach to see how much she grows in one year!

Caroline 06

Caroline 07
Caroline 08

Something to Blog about......

When I first started this blog I wasn't exactly sure what to blog about because who really cares about two grownups. Well starting in March I will have something special to blog about...

Patrick and I are expecting our first baby in March of 2009.

In June I was sick everyday and when we went to the beach in July my mom was very surprised I was not pregnant. She decided to buy my a test at the beach and when I took it it was POSITIVE!!

It was so neat to be able to tell my family right when we found out. I believe God did this on purpose because I always told Patrick I wanted to tell my mom in person but if we found out in the middle of the week I wouldn't be able to wait until the weekend to let her know. It was very nice to not have to hide this from her.

Later that week at the beach we also went to see Patrick's parents so we were very happy to be able to tell them.

After we told our family we told them they could not tell a soul. Well of course that was hard for them! I am very happy they did it, because I didn't! I told everyone in Lexington! :)

I did not want to tell anyone until I heard from a doctor that I was actually pregnant. We went for our doctors appointment last Friday and they confirmed it! We go back in two weeks for the first ultrasound.

Please pray for us during this time. I have been very sick and exhausted and not much help to Patrick around the house. Please pray that we have a healthy baby and that I get over this sickness!

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things I MUST do before I go to back to work!!

1. Finish my two online classes
2. Finish my THESIS for my Masters
3. Finish my E-Portfolio for my Masters
4. Unload all my boxes in my new classroom
5. Set up my new classroom
6. Organize my closet
7. Organize our study
8. Read about three more books!
9. Organize our kitchen cabinets
10. Hopefully hold a new baby, Madeline Grace Connor. This is our friend's baby that is due REAL soon! We can't wait!!!
11. Hopefully go hang out by the pool with Katie!
12. Hopefully entertain Sally!!! :)
13. Paint our bedroom (This one will have to wait probably til after school starts. We are waiting on Mom and Dad to help).


Looking back over the list I can say that all of this will probably not get done, but oh well! I hope all you teachers out there enjoy your last few weeks of summer!

Happy Birthday

Today is Patrick's Grandad's birthday! We were not able to go home last weekend for his big celebration but we hope to see him this weekend!

We love you GRANDAD and hope you had a great day!!! :)

Lexy Update

I woke up this morning around 6:30 to OMG this is nasty!! Lexy had gone to the bathroom in her room right beside her litter box. I guess the prayers work because she went, but she still won't use the litter box! Oh well at least Patrick got up first and cleaned it up! :)

Dancing the Night Away and Duke the Panthers Lover

Last night Patrick and I went to a wedding reception for a couple in our Sunday School class. They got married a couple weeks ago in Boston so they had a little reception for everyone down here who could not make the wedding. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! They had a DJ and we danced all night long! My mom always wanted us to get a DJ at our wedding but I told her no, and now I kinda regret it because it was so much fun! We actually stayed out until 11:30! (That is really late for me!)


Yesterday Patrick cleaned out our shed and found an old Carolina Panthers sweatshirt. Today I was looking outside and Duke had it in his mouth. He was tugging on it like it was a rope. Patrick decided to put it on him and it was so funny! He tried to so hard to get it off but couldn't. Here are a couple of pictures!

Playing tug of war with the sweatshirt

Lexy watching from inside

Putting the sweatshirt on Trying to get the sweatshirt off!
Holding him so he can walk!
Another wonderful weekend has ended. It is hard to believe I only have about 3 more before I go back to work :(..

Please say an extra prayer for Lexy tonight. She is still not using the bathroom. We get to finally put litter back in her box tomorrow night so I am hoping that will help! She had a couple of times this weekend where she had to go to the bathroom and stay for awhile because she was bleeding. I am hoping she will get better this week! I still feel guilty for taking her to have the surgery so I am hoping she gets better REAL soon!

Book Nerd and Giveway Prize

Yesterday after doing things around the house I went to the library because I had some books on hold. Patrick called me a book nerd but I was excited about reading the new books! I started Mistaken Identity at 5:00 last night and finished it around 11:00. IT WAS SO GOOD! I recommend this book to EVERYONE. It is amazing to read this story of two families and the whole time they are praising God. It is an easy read as well that you will not want to put down.

I also have forgotten to thank Meredith for my prize from her giveaway. It was nice to come from the beach to a package! Thank you so much for the shower gel, lip balm, and loofah. (My camera is dead so I can't take a picture)

Update!!

There is not much going on at our household.

Lexy is recovering well except she is not going to the bathroom. We cannot put litter in her box because it will get in her paws so we have to put shredded paper. Well she doesn't like that AT all! We figure when she has to go back enough she will go!

I start my LAST graduate course next Wed. That means in 7 weeks I will have my Master's completed! I am so excited! The only problem is right now I am taking two classes online, plus this last class is where we make our e portfolio and write our thesis. This is all happening around the first weeks of school.

Speaking of school I keep getting emails from work about IMPORTANT dates not to miss! :( That means the beginning is coming soon.

Patrick was so excited about The Dark Knight coming out today. He had to go to see but we really needed to do yard work and clean the house before dinner so he got up and went to the 9:30 showing. He is still there with our friend Adam. I was suppose to go but woke up at 8:15 and told him I didn't think I would make it! I hope the movie is really good for his sake!

This weekend we are having a low key weekend. We are doing yard work, cleaning the house, and washing the car. Tomorrow we are going to a reception for our friends from church who got married in Boston a couple weeks ago! We are very excited!

I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

Gulity "Mom"

Today I went to pick up Lexy from having her surgery. I was alittle nervous because I wasn't sure how she would be when I got there.

When we got home I let her out of the crate and the first thing she wanted to do was lick all the dry blood off of her paws. If you don't know cats, they HAVE to be cleaned. Lexy probably cleans herself 15 times a day.

She is not suppose to jump at all because the incisions could open up and bleed so I have been trying to place her on the couch and places she usually likes to lay but she only seems to want to lay in the floor.

She is mad at me obviously because she won't let me pick her up and pet her. She only lets you pet her on the floor and she refuses to be in the same room as me.

Other than being mad, she seems to be doing ok! I still feel guilty for putting her through the pain but I am glad to say that our house will be not scratched to death anymore.

We are Back!!

We are finally back from our vacation! I actually did not take any pictures the whole trip (I know that is crazy). I just figured I would get some from my sister.
We started the trip at the IOP on Sat. with my family. You can read all about the trip on my sister's blog. We had such a great time! It was a great trip even though it seemed like everyone was sick!

We left my family on Thursday and headed to Edisto to spend the weekend with Patrick's family. We got there and went to the serpentarium. I HATE SNAKES!! It was very nice but I couldn't look at any of the snakes. I did enjoy watching the alligators! We had a great time with his family and I enjoyed spending time at another beach!

Sunday when we got home our friends from church called us and asked if we wanted to go out on the lake later that afternoon. So yesterday we spent about 4 hours on the lake! It was so much fun to be able to ride on the boat. Patrick also had a great time skiing. We got home last night after eating at IHOP at 10:00 and we were asleep by 10:30. We were so tired!

All in all I think we had a great vacation week! :) It is hard to believe that school will be starting soon :(

The Dark Night

Last night after dinner Patrick was playing Rock Band and I was reading a book and all of a sudden our power went out (This was at 8:30). Patrick went outside to make sure it wasn't just our house and there were many neighbors outside checking the same thing.

It was a nice night so we went out on the front porch and I continued to read and Patrick was on the phone. The neighbors decided to start shooting fireworks so we watched those for a little wild but we were getting bored FAST!

So what does any couple who have no children do when their power go out....... We went to the movie!!!

We have not been to the movie since Harry Potter last year so I was very excited! We went to see Get Smart and I recommend it to anyone. It was so funny but actually had a good plot. I really enjoyed the movie!

We got home around 12:30(I think) and the power was still out so I was alittle upset! We just went to bed and the power finally came on this morning! We ended up having a great night!

On another note today is very busy for us! We are leaving for the beach tomorrow and I have to get EVERYTHING washed and packed. We are going over to a friend's house tonight for dinner for the 4th so I have to do everything before 6.

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July! I will try to post again but I think I am taking a long week off! We are staying with my parents until Thursday and then Patrick's parents until Sunday! I can't wait! :)

Little Tidbits from the day!

Every morning Patrick lets Duke out of his crate around 6:30 before he leaves for work. For the past week he has been coming to our window and playing with his soccer ball. When he plays he also growls so I usually wake up and hear him. We have been joking about how he does his exercises every morning.

Well this morning there was a cute moment between Lexy and Duke. He started to exercise and he was hitting the side of the house. Lexy was in my closet sitting in the window and all of a sudden I see her run and jump up on the window to look at Duke. It was so cute because she wanted to watch her brother. I got up to tell Duke to stop jumping on the house and he was just looking at her and smiling! It was so precious!

After all that happened I could not go back to sleep so I laid in the bed and watched the Today show. I was trying to watch something to help put me back to sleep. There was no need for me to get up at 7:00! When I turned it on they were going to commercial and showing the crowd. I saw someone I thought I knew and then I remembered that our friends Casey and David were in New York. I thought to myself it couldn't have been them! I really wanted to find out so I text Casey and she told me yes it was David. I thought it was so neat how I just happened to turn on the tv at the right time to see them! Of course after that I fell back asleep! :)

I have been playing Rock Band all day and trying to get out from doing work and getting things ready for the beach, but oh well! :)

Rock N Roll

This past weekend Patrick and I were just shopping around Best Buy and I saw that they had Rock Band for the Wii. For those of you that know me you know I love guitar hero so I thought I would also love Rock Band. We were going to buy it that night but I decided that we didn't need it and we needed to save our money.

We got home and I remembered I had 50.00 to Best Buy(Thanks to the Bishop's) and 25.00 Mastercard (Thanks Kelly and Andy). So today I went out and bought ROCK BAND!!

I didn't tell Patrick I was going to buy this so when he got home he was very surprised! :) It is so much fun!!!!

Next week we are going on vacation and I can't wait to see my family play this game! WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN! :)

Highs and Lows

This summer has been very strange for me. I have experienced many high and low days. There have been some days where I just stay in my PJ's. The high days are days where I usually already have something planned so I a happy because my day usually goes by fast. Yesterday was a great high day. I cleaned our house and went to the grocery store, so I was busy! Today I woke up and was very low. I don't really have anything to do today but work on my graduate course stuff which won't take long.

Saturday I was talking to Patrick and he kept asking why I was so down and I told him it is hard to be home ALL day and not talk to anyone. I am usually here by myself until 7:00 p.m.

Now don't get me wrong I love not having to work and get up early, but I do miss engaging in conversation all day. I do have friends down here but they have either been out of time or they are busy.

For those of you that know me know I hate to not talk, so this summer I have had to learn how to keep myself busy by myself! I have also realized that I really do love my job. I actually don't really mind going back next month.

So for all you bloggers that have someone at home or kids to talk to all day don't forget how blessed you are! :)