On The Coast of Somewhere Beautiful!

I'm not ashamed to say that I think I have one of the most beautiful little girls there is. Thank you God for giving me such a thoughtful, loving, little girl and help me to remember this when she is driving me crazy!

The life

Sometime in July April, Cortnie, and I decided it would be a fabulous idea to take the 5 children to South Haven to the blueberry festival. We were minus one since Jacob went to cub scout camp with his dad. Well it rained all day, and when I say rained I mean stormed and stormed bad, lots of lightning and thunder, sideways rain, and floods. But we still went. When we got to SH we went to McDonalds to let the kids run around a bit and to wait and see if the storm would stop. I took some pictures and purposely tried to get this woman in one of the photos, she was a total witch. She was sooooo sooo mean to her husband I can't believe he didn't kick her in the teeth. First she was walked in mad about some problem she was having with her bank and how they didn't know what they were doing and only had idiots working there. Then she was mad cause her husband ordered her kids sausage biscuits, "Don't you know that gives them diarrhea, do you want them to have diarrhea all day, I can't believe you didn't know those give them diarrhea" So then he went and got eggs, that are runny. Whoa who woulda thought MCD would give you runny eggs. So she preceded to bitch about that, she made that poor man go and get different eggs. On and on it went...the last thing that I heard her complain about was that she couldn't believe they had to spend over 10 dollars on a mcdonalds breakfast!! All this being said with a huge ring on her finger that had to be at least 3 or 4 carets! I did forget to mention that this man was all decked out in camo, so maybe thats what put her in a crappy mood. Ridiculous!

We did have some fun, Cortnie played with the kids. Don't let her tell you that she HAD to climb up there to get Lauren, Lauren was just fine.

Poor April had to ride way back in the back due to seat belt issues!

As long as Cortnie does her job right and Zach doesn't get all Mark's shitty qualities, this could be the future Mr. and Mrs. Davis!

Nowhere to go, Nowhere to be!

So we went to Shipshewana yesterday.....one of those impromptu trips that just sorta falls together at the last minute. Mesha and I scrambled to find somebody to work for her, I asked my boss if I could have a day off, oh wait a minute I don't have a boss, anyway it all just sorta happened. Even though it was lots of walking it almost just felt like we were wandering along with nowhere else we had to be, kinda nice.

sooo.........they have lots of bras, underwear and purses. If you don't need any of those three things you might want to skip it. I've heard that it has changed alot. My mom used to go and bring back tons of stuff. Maybe thats where she bought our underwear, i'm not sure.

I still love to go. I love the yummy chicken and noodles lunch and I love eating dinner at the Essenhaus. So I guess if you need some large underwear...

or if you just want some yummy food, definitely go.

The time spent with good friends makes any trip worth it. Kathie, Cortnie, Mesha, April and I had a fabulous day. Kathie picked up some Christmas gifts, Cortnie got sunburned again, Mesha is no longer a shipshe virgin, I tried real hard to keep my leaf turned over, and April ....well April got a nice nap on the way home...

Somebodys' Callin

I'm pretty sure I hate talking on the phone.
and I'm also pretty sure that now that I can text I hate it even more.
I find myself irrated that people don't have texting on their phone.
My sis in law pointed out to me tonight that I haven't returned her three phone calls from last week (was it really three?) and I don't have a real good reason why.
well ok one is that I forgot but other than that I just don't like to call people.
Could it be because I talk on the phone alot at work (man imagine if I wouldve taken that National City job)?
I love facebook and blogging and I used to love myspace until I found facebook. But if I can't find it out on facebook I don't really find it out.
My parents are both horrible communicators so maybe thats why I hate the phone. Sometimes I can go weeks without talking to my mom or dad and thats because they hate the phone too. They never call me, I never call them.
Why am I blogging about this???? I have no idea, maybe because I'm supposed to be calling you about something and I don't really want to.
I should call my dad and ask how the garden is growing and if they saw the bear again?
I should call my mom and tell her that I don't want her to live in Fl full time?
I should call my brother and ask him if everything is ok cause he called me today and he must hate the phone too cause he never calls me either
I should call Allison and tell her I truely am sorry that I haven't called her back but that I am soooo super stoked for our concert in 18 freakin days.
I should call everyone of my bffs and tell them that I love them and that I am grateful for them whether I talk to them once a week or once a year.
I should return the phone call to the Midland fundraiser lady so she will stop callling me.
I should call Susan and wish her good luck tomorrow on her second day at her new fab job.

I could go on and on and on obviously since I never call anybody but I'm kinda sleepy so thats it for now.

I do miss my mom and dad though!

Magic

For those of you that are keeping track, we leave for Disney in 8 weeks!! and I've already started packing!

Don't Happen Twice

Turning 4 years old!
This is my beautiful niece, Natalie, and today she turned 4.
She had a princess party.
She wore a gorgeous purple princess dress.
She received 3 new outfits from Nana and Papa and had to try them all on including the leggins and tights.
She couldn't sleep last night because she was so excited for her princess party.
Her very talented mom made her a homeade castle cake that rivaled any I've seen.
It took her a couple tries to get all the candles blown out but I believe whoever the lucky person is that grants birthday wishes will see her and decide that it doesn't matter that she had to try like 6 times to get them all out, shes too stinking cute to not give her whatever her little heart desires.
Happy Birthday Nat Kat, I hope that you feel the same anticipation and excitement for all your birthdays as you did for this one.

Got a Little Crazy

Ok not really, but I think we all wanted to. We went out on Saturday night for a GNO not so much a celebration on Cort's divorce but a celebration of moving on. I am pretty sure we all planned on getting so toasty that Jerry would be driving a bunch of passing out in the back seat girls home...ok maybe not Kathie but the rest of us. The only one that seemed to accomplish that was dear April..seen here drinking her "this is a big beer" through a straw.

Although our night was surrounded with young bachelorettes, too short dresses on girls that shouldn't be wearing too short dresses, a movie that wasn't to be, and a george lopez look alike trying to be Rusty I think it was a fabulous night.

I'm happy to report that although I personally didn't think she would make it, bff Kelli met up with us. Thank goodness since it's been awhile since I've taken a Kesha picture...and as you can see by the following photos I am defintiely out of practice.

Kelli's eyes too crazy big~

Mesha not smiling~

I'm pretty sure to be a official Kesha picture I have to be the one that takes it..... aren't they so cute.




The girls got up on stage for a little "celebration"
to show those bachelorettes how to do it!
Go Kathie!!



Then our wonderful driver showed up to whisk us back home! All in all a great night with some wonderful friends~Cortnie we got your back!