2007_10_01_archive

Back Safe and Sound

Well, I made it back safely from my trip to Cropical Paradise. We all

had a great time EXCEPT the assistant they had helping them out got on

our nerves a little. But we still made the best of the situation. One

person in our group emailed the owners to let them know about her and

said that she could hurt their business. The owners also contacted the

group before us too who had her as well and needless to say, they had

an awful time. Therefore, to make a long story short, they agreed and

will be taking care of the situation. Lastly, they told us that we'd

be left in better hands next time!!!

On every trip so far there's something 'goofy' that we do....well,

this time it had to do with two decorated pumpkins they had there.

We'd take and place them in different places...they might greet you

after you got out of the bathroom or be in your seat at the dinner

table, etc...we even named them: Rose and Steve. They were such good

sports!!

Our group was a little smaller this time but that was okay...we got to

spread out more!!

Ruby and Laura are in the chairs. Sarah and myself are on the swing.

Beth and Denise are in the back. Check Rose and Steve out too!!!

The cool thing about this trip was that I went with 3 of my co-workers

(Beth, Denise, and Laura)....something that we never thought could be

possible. Don't worry, the office still had some people there...we had

to make sure of that since that was the agreement with the boss man!!

:-)

It was another productive weekend for me...this time I got a total of

21 pages done!!! Check a few of them out on my slide show on the side.

I hope you enjoy!!

On this past Tuesday, I met Dad, Mom, Kathy, David, Christian, and

Carter at the Pumpkin Patch. Unfortunately, most of the pictures are

on my sister's camera b/c my battery died on me. But we plan to go

again so Jason can go with us, so I'll hopefully get more then, but

here's a few...

Carter rode the train ride, then we all rode the hayride to the back

to pick our pumpkins. Carter picked one out that was just the right

size for him. Then they played on the playground area. After this we

all headed to dinner where Jason met up with us at Texas Roadhouse. My

dear sweet son thought he'd be funny and throw a french fry at the

armadillo person...well, that armadillo decided to give him some

attention and come after him (at first, he was just waving at us all).

Carter flew under the table sooooooo fast, we all laughed so hard at

him. Anytime during the rest of the meal if the armadillo came by,

Carter was out of sight (we'd wonder where he was and then realize

that the armadillo was near by, so we knew exactly where he was)!!!!

:-)

Wednesday evening Elizabeth, my cousin, and her children, Seth and

Elyssa, picked Carter up for me and I met them at Chuck E. Cheeses.

Carter and Seth had so much fun together. My Aunt JoJo and cousin

Corey met us there too, so that was a sweet surprise!! Happy Birthday

to Elizabeth whose birthday was Saturday.

Saturday, we had two birthday parties at the same time to go to!!!!

Can you believe that we made it to both of them!! We decided to go to

Olivia's 2nd birthday party first (actually they were having a double

celebration b/c it was Olivia's 2nd and Julia's 1st birthday....Julia

is my friends twin sister's child...they both have babies born on the

same day but one year apart...how cool is that!), which was in

Memphis. We only got to stay about 45 minutes, then we left for Zach's

1st birthday party that was in MS. My poor child just kept wanting

some cake, so since we left the first one before it was served, we

told him that we should make it to the other one in time but if not

then we'd stop and buy him a cake. Really, all we'd have to do is buy

some icing b/c that's all he's going to eat of it!!! :-) Carter really

enjoyed both parties but the latter one worked out great for him b/c

there were two boys there only a year older than him so they all

played great together. Olivia belongs to an old co-worker/friend of

mine from Towers Perrin. Zach is our long time friends, Todd and

Dixie's baby. After Zach's party, we spent the remainder of the

evening over at Todd and Dixie's just catching up!

Today we had lunch with Mawmaw and got to spend time with our cousin

Dalton who was up visiting. Dalton is a Sophomore in Horn Lake High

School. Carter and him played basketball together...more like Dalton