Happy Turkey Day

As you can see Wilson is tickled to death over his pilgrim hat. Thank you Old Navy for coming out with that one. He actually likes to wear stuff so I am not completely torturing my dog. The picture above is our attempt to make pilgrim hat cookies. Dam those crafty magazines for making everything look so easy. It wasn't that bad but with 4 kids (Olivia helped too) in the kitchen doing all of it turned out a little messy. They aren't a total disaster. And they taste good so who cares how crappy they look? What's on your agenda for Thanksgiving? We're headin' over to Dad's this year, this is a first. We gotta show Rici what REAL country cookin' is all about. I'm sure G-K will do a great job! Then Saturday I head out to Dallas with Casey, Rici, and Rici's friend Marie for a trip to the Galleria. If Rici thinks shopping is good in Arkansas, she will flip at the Galleria!! Have a great turkey day!!

Casey and I are making a trip to the dentist this afternoon. Wish me luck that the same torture doesn't happen again like last time! :)

Halloween costumes

What are your Halloween plans? We'll be busy running up and down our street as usual. Connor has cotillion and we are co hosting the hayride for his group before it starts. Casey is going to be busy being the Kandy Korn witch. Rici is going as a Greek goddess. I'm the queen bee, Wilson is my little Bee and Coco is going to hangout and be a dog.

Gotcha

I bet you guys thought I was done with this thing?!?! Almost, just too much going on all the time. Ya'll know Casey turned 10 this month. We all survived my b-day party, and soccer pretty much rules any sortof schedule we may have going on. Thanks tho for keeping my updated on your end of the world!! Hopefully we look to slow down here shortly, but I'm sure that's going to trigger the holiday rush and all. Wow. Holidays. Right around the corner!

My children are missing.

Alert, if anyone has seen the real Connor and Casey would you please send them home? Since Rici (pronounced RICKY) arrived I have two aliens posing to be my children. First, the faux Connor talked in his manly voice for the first 12 hours he was around her. I think his throat start to hurt so it's only kinda manly right now. And then this faux Connor apologized for his sloppy handwriting when he was showing her some of his school work. See, this is how I know they aren't my children, Connor has for 12 years informed me that his handwriting doesn't suck. Yes it does son. And of all things, he has picked his room up almost daily.....without me asking. What tha? So then Casey, or the faux Casey, gets home from Memphis this weekend and meets Rici. She isn't so bad but I have to say that when she kept refilling Rici's water at the dinner table last night was a little strange (of course she was ignoring the rest of us). And I have been replaced by Rici to get weekly massages and pedicures. Which frankly, the coconut lotion Casey is using for massages was getting on my nerves. Hehe. This faux Casey also wanted to pass up a birthday party to spend more time at home. A birthday party? Where they will serve cake and stay up all night? Gasp. So it may be my real daughter here because she did decide to attend the birthday party. I may keep this faux Casey but if any of you see the real Connor Epps, send him home. I miss my messy, goofy son.

24 Days...

So since the rest of you are NOT participating in the '40 at 40' idea I thought I would share this one. Christian asked me today that since it's 24 days until my birthday to tell her about a time I stayed up for 24 hours or more. Honestly, even in my wildest days (and yes, there were plenty) I can't say I stayed up for 24 hours. Ummmm, maybe 22 but always got 2 hours of sleep before the next round of partying began. So do you know the time I can honestly say I was awake for 24 hours??? The birth of my son. I remember I was on call in cath lab and had gone in early that morning (it was a Sunday) and worked until my back started hurting me. I was tired so my friend took my call for me (her Mom was here helping paint my nursery) and I went home. Skipped a birthday party for a friend and tried to rest. Between going to the hot tub and back rubs I got NOOOO relief. I called Labor and Delivery asking if they could give me something for gas pains. They said, 'Sure, come on in!'. I realize now they must have been laughing their asses off because they do not administer pain medicine for gas. So Blake and I went in to get pain medicine. They said they need to check me to make sure everything was okay. I gladly agreed thinking my gas pain was an inch away from being gone. They checked and said they were going to give me some pain relief. In the form of an epidural. I was ready to deliver even though Connor wasn't due for another 3-4 weeks. So the epidural went in and 10 hours later Connor was here. Between the visitors and feedings I did not go to sleep until 7 or so that Monday night. So that is the only time I can honestly say I was awake for more than 24 hours.

28 days.....

Yep, 28 days until the big 4-0. Pop on over to FB and see what Christian is doing to me. She's putting a twist on '40 at 40'. Everyday she gives me something to do that is related to the number of days left before my birthday. For instance, it's 29 days until your birthday you should look up the #1 song the week of your 29th birthday and download it to your i-pod (if you like it). Pretty fun so far. But can she keep it up?? BTW, the song was 'Unpretty' by TLC. I didn't like it so much but the weeks before that year it was 'Genie in a Bottle'. I think I already have that one on my i-pod. BUT, if you can come up with suggestions that I might do when I turn 40 then speak up. Only 28 days.....