BLABBER.....finally!! :-)

Tis I....I am ALIVE. Not that anyone was worried or anything but it turns out that I am a horrible blogger!! :-( I so don't wanna be that person but I so am!! OK, lots to say, I think!!
Anyway...now to the really important stuff!!
I had a dr apt today! :-) Fun stuff!! I am 16 weeks and 4 days today!! :-) Pretty excited. Finally got to hear the heart beat, it was a strong 155! Can't remember what that is (boy/girl) but it was sounding good!! She was going to schedule me for my ultrasound in two weeks but since we are not finding out what we are having and are in no rush she is going to have me wait 4 weeks and then do it. We totally don't want to know what we are having but thinking about this it would be really fun to have blue or pink instead of all green and yellow!! Oh well, guess we'll just have to wait! They finally gave me a due date of October 30th! And....I've only gained 4 pounds since April 10th! (Huge surprise since NOTHING fits me!! :-( ) But...I'm having some name issues!! If anyone has a name that starts with an "A" that they would like to suggest...please do!! We need a name that is a little different. I can't have like a common name like, oh I don't know, Amanda or Andrew!! :-) If we know someone with the name, it's probably not gonna work!! But...please please we are open some suggestions!!! Enough on that for tonight!! :-)

Last night was the girls' first dance recital. It was extremely cute!! I was very proud of both of them and I have learned that neither one of them are shy...at all!! Adilynn has been doing her tap dance for MONTHS in my kitchen, night after night after night...well last night was the recital and they did not do any tap dancing. So...I've been suffering through her loudness (is that a word??) for about 3 months for absolutely NO reason??!?!?! WHAT??? Oh well, it was worth it. And...Aubrey, well let's just say she has some dance moves up her sleeve!! She came out lookin like Tina Turner on one dance, her head was a bobbin and her hair was flyin!! They had a grand time! Too bad we didn't get home til almost 11PM!!! Yucky!! Then I fell asleep while Andy was feeding the dogs and this is what I woke up to at 11:30ish..."Mandi, you have to come help me!" I freaked out for a second and then I learned that my stinkin little chihuahua dog, Sadie, would not come back to the house. She was abused and we have figured out that it was more than likely by a man, she is SCARED of Andy. He couldn't get her to come home. I had to walk down to the church parking lot with no shoes on, and anyone who knows me knows that I am scared of the dark....so I had to go get a flash light and then go looking for her again. She would NOT come home!! She ended up running into the back yard and I opened the back door and she came in and went straight to her kennel. Just a little advice, next time there will be NO chasing!! I'm making her go outside on a leash for a week or so and see if she feels like listening next time she's let out. (why did I just share that story???)

Anyway, going to head to the bed now!! I am really really going to try to start blogging at least once a year!! Hopefully I'll have something interesting tomorrow!!

Leaving with.....YAY FOR DAVID COOK!!! DC IS THE SHIZZLE!!! WOO WOO!! (I voted 36 times and I'm pretty sure I swayed the vote....go Mandi!!!)

Nighty night!!

TIMBER

I know, I know....I get so annoyed with other people who don't blog daily and I keep checking and checking and now...I'm that other people!! :-) Well...where to start, lots going on around here. First I'll start by attaching the Marshall Democrat News website, www.marshallnews.com you can go there and see the tree that fell on the house yesterday!!! You have to click on the story about the clean up, our house is the bottom house. If you click on it the picture gets bigger. I love the big trees around here but I'm beginning to think the big trees aren't so fond of us!! Some of you might remember we just had this happen in August 2007, that one got struck by lightning and didn't hurt anything, just killed the ugly bushes that we needed to take out anyway!! Well....this time, it got us :( I came home to let the dog in because they said the weather was getting bad. (I work in the basement of a basement and NEVER see daylight so I had NO clue!!!) I let Diezel in and went to the front room and there was a HUGE tree leaning against my living room windows!! So....I went to the front door and it was the other tree this time!! It's the tops of the trees but I bet these trees are 50 years old, they are very large and TALL (and awesome in the fall....or so I thought!!) Anyway...I called Andy and he came home to assess the damage!! We have about 6 large holes in the siding, two holes in the roof (one is over the screened porch), the gutters are completely off on that side, and there is some damage to the molding on the corner of the house!! LOTS OF FUN let me tell you!!! The holes in the roof are not leaking in the house, they go to the attic but it has to be repaired or it will damage the ceiling. Andy patched it outside and we should be good to go until we find our deductible hiding under the next tree that falls!! :( Oh well...no one got hurt and I'm thinking that's the most important thing...right?
Well...the oven is dinging and this girl don't miss a meal so I gotta go!! Lasagna smells so tasty!! Hope everyone has a great night!! I promise to post tomorrow night I have LOTS more to talk about!! Ta-Ta!!