This past Sunday our church had it's annual Luau. We had a blast - took this goofy picture, played with sidewalk chalk, ate yummy food and then played with Jacob in our church's awsome play area. Each Sunday night through the summer, our church has fun themed meals. This Sunday night is an ice cream contest and sundae bar. YUM. It's summertime folks!
Today is my 38th birthday. It was a great day. Hank and Jacob shopped yesterday and tonight we opened presents. It was the traditional "Carter" birthday as Hank wrote a poem with the first line of each verse giving a clue as to what the gift was and the 2nd line gave a clue as to where the gift was hidden. So, off I went with my clues trying to figure it all out. As you see, Jacob "helped" me :). My boys done good! I got Godiva (dark truffles - my favorite!), pj's, cd's, a dvd and a new dress. Not too shabby :) No cake as we still had left overs from Jacob's yummy cake.Not much new here other than we're counting down the last days of school!!! Can't wait for summer. Jacob just turned 2 and now we're thinking about potty training. That will add some adventure to the summer definitely. Just watched the American Idol finale. Yay for D. Cook! I was so surprised - thought for sure the kid would win - but so glad he didn't. ....tomorrow is my birthday.....Hank and Jacob went shopping tonight.....All I know is they went to the bookstore so Jacob could play with the "choo choos" and they ate "cocos (cookies)" That's all I could get out of Jacob - he wouldn't spill as to what Hank got me :) Guess I'll have to wait :) Oh - I joined our church choir tonight. It's a fun group so I'm glad to be a part of it. Hank said he never thought he'd see the day where I was in the choir and he wasn't. Belive me - if we had no church orchestra - he would have joined choir a while ago. But he enjoyes playing with the guys better than singing - and that's saying something!.....We started looking at houses last weekend. We saw 7 on Tuesday and I have lined us up to see 5 more either tomorrow or this Saturday....Stay tuned... This blog is a ramble - oh well... Until next time..
What a fun trip to the Smokie Mountains! This year we took a small group (2 busses) to Gatlinburg. We left Thursday morning and returned Sunday morning around 6:30 AM. While there, we got a 2 hour bus tour of the Smokie Mountains, hiked up Clingman's Dome, spent an evening strolling around downtown Gatlinburg, saw Ober Gatlinburg,went to Dollywood,and then finished our last night for dinner at the Applewood Farmhouse Restaurant. The kids were awsome and I think everyone had a blast. It's good to be back home. Next year we're off to New York City!
Today I got up with the roosters and drove Jacob to meet my parents in Mobile (half way to Louisiana). They are going to keep him for a week so I can go on the band trip with Hank. It took 5 hours to get there (with one stop) and then we had some lunch, I walked around a store and then drove all the way back. Uggg... 600 miles...I sure do miss my little guy already. I know my parents are going to have a ton of fun with him. And, oh yeah, he will be ROTTEN!! :) but that's what grandparents are supposed to do right :)...I'm so tired of my car that I may just walk to places tomorrow...Thursday will be spent on a bus for about 8 hours. This is not good for my workout schedule!!!
For almost a year we have had NO neighbor upstairs. It's been awsome as the previous family was quite noisy. The past few days, we've been noticing that the noise was back and sure enough we have a new neighbor. Around lunchtime I looked outside and noticed this guy and a lady walking towards the stairs. I opened up the door and introduced myself. The guy was with his mom. His name is Shai (sp?) and he is from Israel. He seemed very nice and I didn't think any more about him.
Now the fun part....I went to the mall last night to stroll Jacob around and get out of the house. I'm cruising full speed ahead and when passing one of those carts in the middle isle, this guys says "Hi Tammy". I stopped - turned around - and sure enough it was my neighbor. He works for one of those stupid aggravating "dead sea mineral,, hand lotion, nail file, proactive" type products. Those guys drive me nuts!!!! You're trying to walk in the mall and browse, and they are just about ALL some foreign guy who barely speaks English getting in your face and begging you to try their product.!! (that's my experience at least)
So now if I want to avoid him, I have to cut through the Belk to get to the other side of the mall. So there's my day yesterday. It went well with Jacob and his meltdown day. He always has a "day" after we take a road trip. It's like all the extra tired he got on the trip finally catches up with him and he screamed like I was beating him silly about 5 different times yesterday. I'm sure the neighbor has called DEFAC already :/
So - how was your Thursday???
Oh- any new favoriste on Idol? I think I'm pulling for David Cook now. They fixed his hair so that's a good reason to vote for him now right? (giggle)
Here's what I found to do for my 30 minutes of fitness while in Tamaqua.
I was all smiles at the bottom. Once at the top of these 134 steps, I thought I was going to die!!! It was quite cold and windy that day. By the time I got back down to the bottom my heart was about to jump out of my chest. After the steps, Hank and I toured Tamaqua for another 45 minutes or so. It was the only sunny day so we made the most of it.
