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tucker had a very happy halloween!
he got to show off his little tigger costume and helped mommy and daddy collect some candy along the way. i've started an album for you all to enjoy!
it is late and i am so tired. i will write more about his first halloween tomorrow! boo!
oh, i love daylight savings time. especially after a long night like last night. okay, did you read the last sentance in my previous post? yeah, the proper english was not available after a night at the green door. it was a great night though. we even made a homemade pizza when we got home. yeah, drunks and ovens usually are a dangerous combo, but it was soooo good to have food! so the fabulous four (house, jenn, matt and i) hung out for a bit afterwards. like the good 'ol days.
tucker is sleeping in his crib. had a up and down night at nana's house. he kept waking up. i think she finally took him to bed with her. he has been sleeping in his crib better now. it's up and down. he's about to get a tooth i think so that probably has a lot to do with it. here's to better nights ahead!
i have to tell you guys about this free sample site. i love it. it's just walmart, but man, i have a drawer full of samples that i love to use when we go somewhere or even if i want to try something before i buy it (obviously). watch out, you will get junk email, so use an email that you rarely check or make one up that you can use for a dumping box. good stuff baby.
well, the house is looking better, but i still have much to do before bed. tomorrow we are carving our pumpkin finally! i'll add the pictures soon. oooh, tucker's first halloween on tuesday! trick or treat!
check out the new album 'happy halloween'! we effing rock! what a great night and it is just getting over. what am i don't on here???
deer season that is.
in an effort to be a supporting wife during this trying time (called deer season), my tribute is placed in the header of this site (for the time being). this was deer season 2004. matt got this nice buck and his brother jeremy was helping him gut the dang thing in million dollar pit. okay, maybe just holding the leg up while matt gutted it, but trust me, it wasn't something i was signing up to do. let me tell you, they had fun dragging that damn thing all the way out before gutting it. that's how crazy my husband is. he didn't want the gut pile by his stand. what a die hard.
ah, you gotta love it.
so tomorrow i have the day off to stay at home with my little man. sweet. hopefully i am able to work a few hours from home on the pay to stay accounts and a community event i have been helping to plan through the community action team. it's going to be super awesome! i'll have a whole post about that later...but for now, let's just say, it will be something to attend!
so many things going through my head. tomorrow night there is a forum for local (city/county) candidates at the reunion hall. i am planning to attend. the next sheriff will be my boss and i would like to see the two remaining candidates speak. my dad is running unopposed for county commissioner, but i'm sure he will be there to say a few words. there will be the mayoral and city council candidates too...which is where i will be to support richard derosier in his write in campaign. seeing as how he was on the ballot in the primary for sheriff, he could not file for his seat again on the council. i hope people keep him on the council where he belongs...we need young, strong voices. so any of you from the bay reading this...vote derosier (i think i've said that a time or two this year huh?). well, better get off of the politics subject. i always have a way of rubbing someone the wrong way!
i'm excited to hopefully bring tucker to his first harvest party on halloween night at the reunion hall. i am going to see if auntie natalie wants to come with. she is probably getting to the stage where she wants to hit all the houses for the candy though. speaking of natalie, i posted new pictures in the october album. one of them is of her, tucker and natalie's cousin, audrey. those girls were chasing him all around and having so much fun with him. it was so cute to watch.
also working on putting together some type of halloween costume for saturday night. i think all of us girls are going as 80's rocker chiks or something. gosh, putting together that outfit is going to be something. also, i need to find some sweet bright blue eyeshadow and hot pink lipstick. whooohoo!
for me that is! first of all a huge thank you to my boss for lending me his photoshop elements software. it helped me create my first real personalized header...oh, i'm so proud. okay, that sounds so nerdy or something. anyways, i'm pumped. problem is, it is after midnight and i should be sleeping. but no. i'm messing around on this dang computer! save me!
had stamping club tonight. a good night to get out of the house. loved the projects we made. wish i had more time to do more of it and more money to buy more supplies...wait, i have so much, but no where to put it all...help!
well, off to bed. i am looking forward to putzing around with this more in the coming weeks. i say weeks because days would be a pipe dream.
this is a little hello to grandma cheryl in arkansas from tucker!
it was good to talk to you today! tucker can't wait until you are home to snuggle and play with him! he just whispered in my ear that he loves you very much!
see you soon!
we have kissed and made up. i am just a weeee bit stressed right now with everything on the plate.
now i'm working on the site to see if i can make it a little more exciting. matt is making a grocery list as i type. oh, and tucker is still sleeping, which i didn't think would happen since he barely ate a thing before bedtime. like an ounce of formula and wouldn't take any cereal. weird. those little gums were swelled a bit so i'm thinking a tooth is in the very near future!
okay. things are crazy here and if i don't get some of this out, i am going to explode.
my house is under attack again. i'm hoping to get the huge winding ceiling (kitchen, entryway, hallways...) painted tomorrow so that i can start on the walls. i can't wait to do the walls...another neat color (potato skin). so, in order to do this, we had to finish spray texturing the rest of the 'new' construction. my brother and my dad came over today and finished that for us. now, i'm ready to paint. this is the goal for tomorrow. i was hoping to get started tonight, but that's not happening. i'm going to try to buzz up my fairy godmother to entertain tucker while this is finished. oh that's riiiiight. i don't have a fairy godmother. silly me.
two words: hunting season. well, it is bow hunting for deer now, then in a few weeks rifle season starts, then when that ends it is still bow hunting season. well, matt does it all and it only being oh, a month into 'the season', i'm already ready to go to war with him. like the saturday's he is going to go out for 'a few hours' leaving at 6. i'm thinking he will be home around 11 or so...but it more like 4 or 5. it's killing me! tonight i have had it (watch out, here comes the little devil in me that needs to vent). last weekend we got into a major blowout. i had went out and stopped at his brothers for like ten minutes with a group of our friends and he was going nuts. i had even found a sitter (my parents) for tucker for the evening so that matt didn't have to feel 'stuck at home'. gosh, what am i saying? boy do i love my little guy more than life itself, but there are things i need/want to get done too! a few minutes to myself that don't include 'sleeping' or 'going to work' would be lovely. i need them for my sanity. so, tonight he makes dinner (thank you) and did daddy duty while i cleaned the floors, but after dinner, he takes a nap. says to wake him up in 20 minutes. well, 20 minutes go by, then an hour, then an hour and 20 minutes. he said he would do the dishes. so i left them. nope. jen and house were going to come over and so i urge him to get up or go to bed with tucker. oh, he gets up and is a bear. then after words goes to bed...which is wear he is now and i can hear him snoring on the baby monitor. urgh. oh and did i add that matt keeps asking me if i want to hunt again this year. um, no.
i had to get that out. sorry. i hate to air that kind of thing on here, but seriously tonight, i needed to. i know that each one of you reading this has been there (if you are a mommy) or someday you will be there and you will understand. tonight my knee is bothering me, i'm stressed because there is a million things i would love to get done, but i always run out of time. i am still trying to accept that everything will not always be done like it was before. ahhhh.
so, tucker and i worked on the crawling thing again today. he moves in his own little way. i would be assuming it will not be long and he will be on the move, at a much faster rate of speed. ah, then i really won't have time.
promise, more pictures to come, hopefully by tomorrow night. got some cute ones to share! well, off to, you guessed it, bed. i hope to have dreams of merry maids in my sleep.
are you ready for this? tucker slept all night in his bed! thank goodness. our new bedtime ritual includes a bowl of cereal before bed. he has that before his last bottle and let's cross our fingers people...maybe tonight will be two in a row. i took his bumper pad off his crib as he woke up this morning with his head on one side and his body on the other. uh, so, that's gone. things keep changing so fast with him. he is really trying to crawl and i'm starting to think that him being a premie may have something to do with it, but then i think about all the other little ones that don't crawl for a while and he's doing just fine. he is super strong and knows what he has to do, just making all the parts work together is sometimes a bit on the tough side. he knows how to get somewhere when he really wants to though...
boy, a little rambling there.
tomorrow i am home with tuck. my mom is in arkansas working so her next two thursday's had to be filled. i have tomorrow and grandma keri will take him next thursday. i am so lucky to have my family to help me with tucker when matt and i are at work. i don't know what i would do without them.
well, hope to get a few things accomplished tomorrow. matt's mom said that we could store some things at her house, like the bins (and i mean bins) of clothes that he has already outgrown, his swing, etc. it will be nice because we have barely any room. ah, a new house is running through my mind more and more these days. then i wake up.
i hope to post more pictures by the weekend. i'm such a slacker. oh well. i'm beat. off to bed!
