Finally!!

The living room is finally painted! That makes me soo happy & i'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I still need to find a big wall clock & and add a window treatment.

I need your help, I'd like to put vinyl lettering on one of the walls between the dark brown stripes. I want a family or religious quote but I haven't been able to come up with the PERFECT one. Any ideas???

Next rooms on the agenda: Carmen's pink n brown cowgirl room & Carter's Angel Hallway. I'm also open to suggestions for either of those!

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Guest Speaker!!

We got a call Wednesday night, that Cordell was expected to be at Abbott for a guest speaker Thursday. Well when they got there they learned it was none other than Mr. Bo Pelini. He gave a great speech to the boys about always doing your best in everything. He said, "C's aren't good enough & if I can't trust my players off the field, then I can't trust them on the field. Cordell was pretty fired up when he came home & was begging for me to buy him Husker tickets. Yeah right kid, I just went to my very first game last year at the age of 27. You think I'm gonna buy you tickets when you are 7???

This is a partial group pic of the football players, coaches & Bo Pelini. Cordell is in the red shirt right in front of Pelini & Jake was standing just to his left, but got cut out of the pic!

Then the text message came this morning, offering a FREE ticket to either myself or my son, for tomorrow nights game. I asked him if he wanted to go & his jaw dropped & his eyes got wide. I sure hope he can concentrate at school today!

New Furniture!!

We went to Omaha last weekend for Cordell's last football game & then ran over to Nebraska Furniture Mart to pick out furniture. I had done my research online & they had some that I liked, I just wanted to try it out & make sure it was comfy. It took me a minute to locate it, I sat down & Jake says "That is ugly." I was bummed, but knew if I wanted it, I would get it. We sit there for a minute & he says "it's actually pretty comfy." Well long story short, they had it in stock & we bought it. The saleswoman was pushing their no interest financing on us, but Jake kept saying, I'm paying cash. I asked to get a discount for cash, so they knocked $20 off, better than nothing.

So I have been painting & preparing all week for it to be delivered tomorrow. It's the first furniture we have EVER purchased, everything else has always been hand-me-downs. Now to only keep the kids & dog off of it to keep it nice, HA!

Have you ever....

Had a really stressful week? You don't sleep well & then wake up with a headache? With a sick little girl, I've had 2 nights like that this week, poor thing coughs so hard & wakes everyone up. Then with the move & not finding out until yesterday that we were still on for close today. I've been a crabby little bee until this morning, one man changed all of that.

I stopped at the gas station on my way into work to grab a soda, as I was walking out to my car I passed a gentleman & what from my wondering ears did I hear?? "Good Morning" I couldn't believe it, he wasn't some creepy old guy hitting on me, he was a 30-something polite guy that made my day. Sometimes it's the little things we do, going out of our way to be polite to strangers!

Last Sat I stopped at a gas station & I had a teenage boy walk back to the door just to hold it open for me. You know the kind, by appearnces you may judge them as a troublemaker, but his momma must have taught him some manners. And to think my hands weren't even full.

My biggest pet peeve is rude people. You know the kind, like at Wal-Mart, pushing & shoving, standing in your way like they own the aisle. The ones that bump into you & keep walking. Well I just want to challenge you to go out of your way today & be extra courteous to a complete stranger. Afterall, it might just make their day brighter!

Stressed!!!

We are supposed to be moving into our new house this weekend & I don't even feel like I have half of our house packed. I go into a room, start looking around & get lost . It doesn't help that Jake has football practice most nights & let me tell ya it's kind of difficult to do much with Carmen around. So here I sit on blogger after only packing 2 boxes tonight. I guess it will get done even if we throw stuff in boxes at the last minute (that usually happens anyway) Ha!

Closing is scheduled for noon on Friday, but we are still awaiting a confirmation on that. Because of the $8,000 tax credit, everyone is backed up & we haven't been approved yet by rural development. Everyone is hopeful we can get it done, worse case scenario we won't be closing until next week. :(

Carmen has been running a low grade fever since Friday. She has a cough, but has been generally ok. I hope she kicks it soon as I have already taken lots of time off work lately. Not that I don't have the vaca time to use, my boss isn't the most understanding (he stresses when he has to cover my job) & I have loads to do at work.

Cordell played awesome in his game last week! He was in for every single play, offense, defense, kick off & kick off return! We were very proud of his tackles he had & the 6-0 win. He does a great job firing up his team. He did suffer his first visible injury after he smacked his chin into another boys shoulder pads during a tackle.

I guess those boxes aren't packing themselves.........

Happy 2nd Birthday Carter J!

Let's see 2 years ago today I enjoyed a wonderful lunch with the hubby at Taco Inn, had my favorite Deluxe Nachos on flour chips with a huge helping of jalapenos! It was a Thurs so I went back & finished my shift at work, but what I didn't know was that it actually turned out to be my Friday! That evening I went home & did the whole evening routine, dinner, check, baths, check, kids in bed, check, computer time, check. Jake was just getting into bed at 9:30 when I told him I thought we better go to the hosp, my contractions were timeable & I didn't want to deliver en route.

We dropped the kids off & headed in to St. E's, which was super busy in L&D that night & we had to wait an hour before checking in. They checked us in about 11:15 and I was 5cm. They called my doc about 3am when I was 8cm, she came in and broke my water & I was ready to push but still only 8cm. After making it through a couple more contractions Carter Jefferson was born at 4:01am Oct. 19, 2007 in 5 mins of pushing with 3 pushes. He was born 11 days before his due date weighing 7lbs. 12oz & was 19 3/4in long. Once again I was able to have a totally drug free birthing experience, but only because I have short labors. I feel sorry for these poor women in labor for 12 or even 24 hours.

The first thing I said was "He actually has hair!" The other kids barely had any & it was so light, Carter's was so dark & was even curly when wet! He was quite his own little character, completely opposite of my other two. He liked his binky, he was not the chubs that the others were, he was just starting to roll over & laugh out loud. I sure do miss my monkey man! I am greatful that we were able to spend 3 wonderful months with him & see him smile!

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