This past football weekend

We had some friends over since we had worked so hard on the living room. We cooked hot dogs and watched football all day. We started out watching the Alabama football game, well it was boring. Bama beat the crap out of Arkansas. We all hung out outside with the kids, playing with them and cooking the food on the grill. We still had football games on, but nothing really important. Then it came time for the LSU/AU game. Well my husband is a big LSU fan but most of the friends that we had over are AU fans. I am a true Bama fan, but cheer for LSU when not playing Bama. So there sits me and husband, the LSU fans with about 4-5 AU fans. As the game went on, the score keeps changing, AU then LSU, it was a game that kept me on the edge of the couch. Then when LSU scored the final touchdown, we knew the game was pretty much over. The AU fans in the house got quiet, one even walked out. We had a blast having our close friends over but that game was intense. I am now happy that they game is over with and we don't have to go through that for another year. I am really nervous about the Bama/LSU game, cause that really causes tension in our house. Last year was really rough during the LSU/Bama game, me and hubby didn't talk for the rest of the night. Hopefully I will not get mad like that again, because Bama will win. I am also worried about this weekends game, Bama/Georgia. I will probably be sitting on the edge of my seat for that game too, but I can't wait either. So I hope that everyone has a great football weekend, cause there will be a bunch of great games on. I wish that today was Friday and the work week would be over. Just one more day. ROLL TIDE and have a great rest of the week and weekend.

The final look...

This is a picture of the old big screen tv that we use to have. Of course, Haylee being in front posing for the camera was cuter. But I wanted to show you the before project.










Here is our new tv sitting on top of the old tv. We gutted the inside and made it a DVD case. The walls are a new color in this pick and the trim work is done. We were in the process of wondering what color to paint the ceiling.










I loved the way that everything came out, we worked so hard and long on this project.
















This is the final look of our living room. This is my favorite picture. It shows the fresh new paint on the ceiling, walls, and trim. It also shows the new paint job on the old tv casing. It was solid brown and we painted the inset black.




I am so proud of our new living room. We have been looking at the same living room for over 7 years. The color before was just tan with white trim. Now we have a completely different look. We love the brown trim, was questionable about it, but love it now. We still have some work to do on the floors. That is our next project. We have hardwood floors, we are wanting to sand them and stain them. There is so much stuff that has built up on our pretty floors, they don't look as pretty as they use to. But after we do our floors, our next mission is Shelby and Haylee's room. They have outgrown their room and so we are moving on to a new color. It is hard to decide on a color that they both agree on, but I think we have finally come to a final color, actually many colors. There are a lot of different colors that they want, they want some kind of design on the wall. I hope that I can do it the way that they want, because I am not artistic at all. Well I just wanted to show why I have not blogged in awhile and let everyone see the final look of our pretty living room.

TOO FREAKIN CUTE

I just thought this was too cute and had to post this pic for everyone to see. Haylee was looking on the front porch and started laughing. I asked her what was so funny and she told me to come look at the little kitten. It is amazing how they can sleep anywhere.

My sister

Not very many people know that I have a sister that is only 7 1/2 years older than me. Our family has been through a lot with my sister and her medical background. My sister started out having cervical cancer when she was pregnant with my youngest nephew. After having him, she had a full hysterectomy to get rid of everything. Then she found out she had thyroid cancer and had to have her thyroid removed. She has had colon cancer numerous times and has went through chemo with it. Now we have been informed that she has cancer on her liver. She is not a drinker or smoker. She is a very healthy person when it comes to her habits. So now she has to have surgery tomorrow where they are wanting to remove at least 1/3 of her liver, maybe 1/2 of her liver.
I have somewhat got use to the fact that my sister has a lot of medical problems. We have dealt with all of her cancer and getting her better and we have also dealt with her having narcolepsy. She has custody of her two youngest sons, which are 7 and 8 years old. They know that she is having surgery but they don't know what she is having done. They will be spending the weekend with their father and then will be staying at my mom's until she gets better.
I do love my sister and hope that everything turns out ok. Me and my sister have had our share of problems, believe me. I have somewhat learned to get pass everything and move onto the future.
I just needed to get some things off my chest about having to deal with my sister and her medical problems. Please keep my family in your prayers and help us get through this.

Our foozball Saturday

I have just found out that Alabama's game will not be on a regular channel next week and am very upset. I will get to watch the LSU and AU game next Saturday on our new tv in HD, but it is not the same when I am a full blown AL fan. I have been waiting patiently for a game to come on tv, because they have not really played anyone since Clemson, but I consider Arkansas a well known team and think it should be on tv. I had to rant about that for a minute to get it out of my system until next weekend...lol.
Now the AU game was a joke to me. AU beat MSU by 1 point. That is just something to me. I thought they would have come ahead by way more than 1 point. You know that Tubbie is going to be raising some hell with those boys this week in practice. They have LSU to play next week, so they better get ready. Jason is a LSU fan and so that is who I will be cheering for next weekend until they play Bama. I know I probably just made some people second guess me because I said that I will be cheering for LSU, but it is on when LSU plays Bama.
I hope everyone has a good weekend. Oh and gotta watch the race tomorrow, it is the first race for the Chase.
Sorry, my sports fan just came out a little... :)

What is wrong with these kids these days?

Ok, I was on the bus this afternoon. The route was going ok, better than the other days this week. Well I have my hyper, loud kids in the front seats. Well I have decided after today that I cannot sit them all together. They like playing and falling out of the seat and whatever else comes to mind. So I finally decided to separate one of them from the other two. So I moved him to the seat behind him to see how that would work out. Well he continued to fall out of the seat and bother other students around him. Well our school assistant principal has made a deal with the kids that if they are good for the entire week, then they get to get in a space bounce for free for 15 minutes. Most of the kids are very excited about that. Well this one student said that he didn't get in it on Wednesday and he will not be able to get in it on this coming up Wednesday. I just plainly asked him, "What is wrong with you? You know the difference between right and wrong, why can't you act right?" His response to me was "I am ADD!" Why are parents telling these kids that is the reason that they are acting the way that they do. My husband has ADHD and I have a mild case of it. Neither one of us are on meds for it. Shelby has been recently diagnosed with it and she is not on meds. She knows the difference between right and wrong and knows that we will beat her butt if she doesn't act right.
That just really urks me to know that kids are using this as an excuse to try to get out of trouble. Instead of saying "I am doing wrong and I admit it" they want to blame it on the ADD or ADHD. That is just crazy to me. I do understand that some kids have to have their meds or they are trouble and a half. But this kid takes meds! I hope that you see where I am coming from when I say this. I say this because I do have children, one of which has been diagnosed. But when she gets in trouble, she will tell everything under the moon but not that she has ADHD. And also nowadays, it seems like everyone has some kind of ADHD. The doctors diagnose most children that act out with ADHD. It is like it is a safety net for some parents. I hope that I don't offend anyone with this post, but it is just something that really bothered me this afternoon on the bus. I just had to get some things off my chest. Hope everyone finds the humor in this while also finding the sadness in it. Instead of parents raising their children, they depend on medicine.

The dentist...

Me and Shelby just got home from the dentist where she had to have a stainless steel cap put on one of her molars. My fear has continued on from me when I was her exact age. Poor child, she has my teeth and has to go through the same things that I had to. She had to have teeth pulled and we are now saving up money for her to have braces in a few years.

When I was her age, I had to have 4 teeth pulled in order to make room for more teeth to come in. The dentist that I had was the worst dentist that any child could ever have. I was very nervous about having anything big done like that and he made it worse. He stood there and screamed at me and told me that I was going to do what he said. I was in tears, my parents were no where to be found. I ended up getting up out of the chair and screaming for my mother. She heard me and came back there and I told her what happened, she gave that guy a piece of her mind. My mom said words that I had never heard her say before. Long story, short, we found a different dentist and everything went great.

Now to Shelby, she started having problems with her teeth when she was 1 1/2 years old. She had her first dental surgery when she was 2 years old. She had to have stainless steel caps put on her 4 front top teeth, with the white coating. Well I just so happen to find the second worse dentist out there for my daughter. He did not feel like it was necessary to calm the child before doing anything. It turned out that she hated going to the dentist. If she even thought that she was going to the dentist, she would shut down on us and would not do anything. Well we got lucky about a year ago and found the perfect dentist. She loves this dentist. Everything that he has done to her, she has enjoyed. He makes going to the dentist fun for her and she loves that and so do I.

But as I sit there watching Shelby in the chair getting her teeth worked on, I can't help to think back to all the bad experiences that I have had in the past. I thought about my bad past and even the bad past that we had with her first dentist. I also sat there thinking about how big my baby has got. She is about to be 7 years old and I just don't know where the time went. I am very happy to have found this dentist and I am glad that Shelby likes him so much.

The picture above is of her trying to smile after her dental work. Her bottom lip is still numb and she is tired too. You can't even see the cap, it is so far back.