Life

Well we had our yardsale, then we got drenched and so did our stuff. I am having to dry off some items and put the clothes into the dryer so that they will not stink. I am still planning on trying it again this Saturday. Kind of unsure about the flea market because then I would have lost $20. Ten from this weekend and ten for the next weekend. I am going to have one but unforsure where.
Well Mariano got baptized yesterday!!! I was sad and happy at the same time because I really wanted to go to my Aunt's funeral and be there for my cousins but Mariano being baptized was a once in a life time deal....well death is too but I felt like I needed to be there for Mariano and we got it on camera. Thank the Lord we didn't "everything" that was visible that day. I am really starting to have a problem with some things...and I really think that it needs to be addressed again.
Sunday dinner was great!!! My favorite dish...MEXICAN MACORINI. I want the reciped girl. I thought about going to the grocery store and just fixing what I thought went in it for tonight. I still might, it was really good. Mariano didn't get any, it was all gone by the time he got there. But he took a bite of mine.
Work is good, boss is on vacation all week. I need get off Friday to go camping even though there was another lady that had asked off before me. But I think it will be great. I got the 'heads up" that in January I will be taking over another division. My boss didn't tell me but someone else did. So I was honest and said that it might be time for me to start 'squealing' about the phones because I am pushed as it is. Jessica my intern has two more weeks left. I am highly disappointed because she is really good and I would like for her to stay but that is the thing with interns. I need to get her a gift, any ideas?

Thursday

Well we found out some bad news. My great Aunt Mavine passed away last night of a massive heartache. The funeral will be on Sunday. So I am disappointed that she is gone but at the same time because Mariano was wanting to get Baptized. I don't think that he told Bro. Ken about it, but I was thinking about doing it. Might seem crazy but I always wanted to have one done with my husband growing up. So I was thinking about it. So I hope that we don't miss it.
Of all the Great Aunts she was the one that I knew the most. I have been told that I got my 'singing in the shower' from her. She was always happy, BTW this is my Grandfather's sister. So if memory serves me right there are only three left. But she liked singing, loved to watched all of the Bill Gaither movies. She will be missed. If you could only see her. She just had her leg amputated just a month ago due to Diabetes. So just pray for her family. We are waiting on Dad to finish feeding the animals and then we are going down there.
Everything else seems to be going okay here. My house needs cleaning, that was originally my plans. Tomorrow night the B-day party and then bring my yard sale stuff into the living room. I am wondering if I am going to have enough room. Might have to go in 1/2 with my buddy.
Which reminds me, that was an awful song that we sung the other night at church. I don't know what was up with me. I couldn't find the lead part, the first chorus I have no idea what either one of us sung. But I love that song but it might have to go back into remission!

Buzzy Bee

Well I have felt like a little bee but never got any stuff out of the flower. But I had my first conference call with my boss concerning damaged shipments with our overseas carrier. I am nice, I let the people talk and will let them plead their case. My boss on the other hand, cuts them off and bla bla bla. But at one time he put the phone on mute and looked at me and said, "Don't let them get away with that!" So I pleaded my case and it is now over with. We came out on the better end but it was a new test for me. I had worked all day Monday on it, sent my boss my stuff and he said that was good. So I thought that was it. Monday @ 4:20 he comes in wanting to know what all I had since earlier. I just laughed and explained that their was a communication problem because his "that's good," meant to me that he had enough when all actuality he was only saying that I was doing a good job...lol. So I flew in getting some more data because we had told the guys that we would have information for them by 5. Didn't happen I was denied access to some stuff so we had to wait until the morning. But in the end everything went okay.
I have been extremely busy. I took Mom and Aydan out to Hickory last night so she could pick up some church supplies. We ate at OLIVE GARDEN!?!?! I ate the left overs today for break.
I still plan on having a yard sale with Faith this weekend, anyone can still join. We are going to the Flea Market, PLEASE COME AND BUY LOTS OF THINGS!!!
Hopefully in 2 weeks we are going to start working on the spare bathroom. We are going to remodel and redecorate. Target has a cute, cute monkey theme for the bathroom. Everyone knows that I love monkeys, hoping that it will get passed on to Aydan because he is my "Little Mono" Spanish for Monkey.
My work got a 2-5 year contract, majoryly big customer for us. So we are going to be hiring more people and we have an ice cream day today. Icecream Sundaes with all the topping. So that sounds really good so I am outta here.

Chucky Chesse

Every time I hear the word "Chucky" all I think about is the evil little boy doll in the movies. But anyways, Mom had told me that she was taking Kelly, Garrett & Levi to Chucky Cheese last night. So she called me right before I went to lunch and asked if Aydan and I wanted to go. I needed to talk to Mariano because I enforce (not always followed by my spouse) that if we want to make plans then we need to consult the other one to see if something is going on. So I called him and asked...yes I asked my Husband can I go to Chucky Cheese...he said I am not your Dad! But that is practice on my submission part....so we went. Had a blast, Aydan's first time. Pizza was not very good. I don't know it was just missing sauce, like they didn't have enough on there or something. Aydan and Levi I think had more fun putting the coins in the slot machine than actually riding a ride. At one time, I heard this little girl saying, "No, No, No." I looked over and Aydan was trying to get her coins out of her cup. She was trying to get him out and it was hilarious.
Well foot washing service has still been postponed to Wednesday night. This time Bro. Ken said we are having it regardless of who is there and who is not...depending if God leads that way. LET"S JUST HURRY AND GET IT OVER WITH SO THAT WE CAN GO ON. Mariano said that I can take Aydan with me this year, Mariano took him his first time.
Tonight, I have house work since I wasn't able to do it this past weekend. We had so much fun at Carowinds. It was good to spend some time with Faith, since she and I have been married, church is about all that we see of each other. Plus it was just pure fun at Carowinds and I was really proud of the youth and how they acted. An engineer from work went yesterday with his youth and he said they were like the only ones there in the park. He said that they would ride the rides like 3-4 times straight because they weren't anyone in line. So maybe next time we can go.
I have been thinking about the Retreat 2008. I really want to go this year. Mariano isn't too hyped about it because he doesn't really know anyone. But we are going to Alaina's wedding in September so I don't know how that will effect it. Then we are still waiting for the National Visa Center for our appointment. The lawyer said at least a month, and a month will be the first of August....so we still have a little bit of time. I haven't cried that much about it, I get to thinking when I am up in the choir that it could be that I can look back there and Mariano isn't there watching Aydan. But I have to remind myself that, in reality, that could happen anytime. I need to be more thankful for the days that we have together. Dwell on happy things and it does make your day better!

Too much to do in too little of a time frame

Well Faith is working on a new edition of the ELM and I am still on the one that hasn't been printed so I get the hint Faith. I have printed it and I tried sending it to my work email but apparently it got kicked out because I never received it. Anyways, I have to pay an arm and a leg at the library but I intend to get it proofread by tomorrow evening.

Tomorrow Mami and I are spending the evening together. I do not know what the evening holds for us. She wanted to give me $20 for taking her to the doctor on Monday but I wouldn't take it so she wants to go out Thursday evening and take me to supper. Which she doesn't have to do but I realized that Mami is 80 years old and she is going down hill. Which makes me really sad because she is my last grandparent. I will admit that I am just as stubborn as she is and that is probably where I get it from, and my mother....lol. But so I am going to try to take one evening and spend with her or either just go visit her. This week is number one so we will see how it goes.

My friend from work, her husband passed away on Sunday. April actually knows him from hospice but it has been a hard time for her. The viewing is tonight so I will be late for church. But that is okay because it is foot washing....Lord of all commandments why this one??? But I will have to say that it could be worse and we could be washing something else!!! But I have seen people get so blessed by this and I want that blessing. But I just have to overcome my flesh, but I am thankful that the sisters feet aren't busted. But the thing is that it I don't think that it is something to be enjoyful. Washing their feet is letting them no that you are no better than them. Sometimes, it could be me and it could be the devil, but sometimes I get that feeling that people think that I think that I am better than they are. Be honest, do you get that feeling because I don't want to have those feelings. So I am going to try participating to night, well another thing that bothers me....maybe not as much as it did before...but I hate it when everyone is sitting around teary eyed and all and here I am dried up like a prune. I am not pulling for emotions but I feel like an outsider....am I alone?

Well I need to get off of here, I hear this Banana split with strawberries and chocolate dressing ( I can't think of what is called ) but it is hollering out my name. Listen closely and you can hear it, sad thing is, I only have $2 cash and it cost $3. Oh, yesterday I had a peanut butter & jelly sandwich for lunch and today I had a frozen burrito. I haven't ate out for lunch. I did go to Oliver Garden but that doesn't count because it was for SNO. Which we had an awesome time, let me go around the table and say who all came, Tiffany, Wendy, Faith, Tonya, Teresa, my momma (they sung B-day song to her), Tina, Faye, Nikki, Regina, Amy, Tina's baby Zachary, Aydan and myself. I know maybe we aren't supposed to take the kids, kind of defeats the purpose but I feel like I am away from Aydan enough, and I might be different if I stayed at home but God hasn't fulfilled that promise just yet....but its coming...sometime....I think....I am still praying....and still waiting....HELLO GOD DO YOU HEAR ME!?!?!?! I WANT TO BE A SAHM, as Kelly calls it. Anyways that and I hate, absolutely hate having to ask someone to watch my baby. Because several people have offered but I dont' want to take advantage and I want to use them for completely emergency situation. Didn't I say that I needed to go??? I'm gone!

4th of July

Whew, we are back home......and have a few piles of laundry to do, unless someone else would like to do them. Actually, laundry is probably my favorite house chore to do, at least if I have a washing machine and dryer. No way on earth I would go down to the river and scrub....we would wear them dirty...lol...just kidding.

I was trying to find a picture from last years 4th of July but I can't find it, I will try looking some more later. I wanted to do a then and now picture of him. But I finally got another digital camera, and I asked Aydan to give me a kiss and Mariano was going to take a picture but this is how it turned out. He opened his mouth at the very last minute, I actually think it was trying to go bite my nose.


We went to Patriot Park because there was supposed to be a lot of things to do there, nothing to see....so parking was $20, yes you read that right, so Daddy dropped us off, and he went back because we were only 3 blocks away so he parked the car and Scott came and got us. We were waiting on Scott, but also Stephen's girlfriend got a phone call, which you can see in the back ground, that her Grandfather has just passed away. So Stephen, Tracy, and Michael (Tracy's son) left on Saturday morning.

The three amigos...Scott had brought me a shirt identical to his and he called asking what size did I want. I said XL but it turned out to be a night gown on me. So we had to take it back and I was going to exchange it but that was the only size that they had and I knew that it was not going to shrink down to fit. So Scott said just to take the money and buy something else. Mariano did the exchanging while I was in the bathroom, Scott had paid with his debit card so they only placed the money back on the card. Least to say I got a $5 T-shirt.

The REAL THREE AMIGOS!?!?! This was the best one that we had because Aydan wasn't in the posing mood. Can you tell whose white and whose not??? Aydan is wearing Carter's Carhatt's overhauls. I love overhauls, if I had my way he would probably wear overhauls everyday....






We took Aydan to ride some rides for the first time. I am still a little nervous because I don't really know what he is going to do. But he was okay with this ride until the worker started manually spinning them and he did not like that at all.





I had to take this picture. I have been wanting to do this for a while, actually before we had his hair cut. But we His face expression is just a little weird there. But still adorable.






He liked the train. I rode with him the first time and when we went to get off, he was a stomping his feet because he wanted to ride again. Let me tell you about a rip off. These kiddie rides took one ticket and if you bought one ticket it was $2.99 ea. RIDICULOUS.....or you could get 6 for $16....STILL RIDICULOUS. This place was packed out too.



The first time Aydan rode the swings he was kind of uptight with it. Wouldn't smile or let go of the bars but the second time he knew what was happening. He would wave at us and so forth. But when it was time to get off and the worker went to get him out of his sit, Aydan was just shaking his head at him! We all laughed.




This was the cheapest ride...$.50. Aydan didn't care for it at all because it kind of rocked too hard and he didn't know how to ride it properly. Maybe we should have tried the giraffe. He also rode a another cheap ride the Dump Truck and still did not like it either. He was fine while it was still. I don't want to pressure Aydan but I kind of want him to wild a little bit instead of being scared....