I forgot too!

Speaking of Kristen's blog about forgetting birthdays...I am world's worst. Even after reading her blog yesterday, it still didn't dawn on me. Yesterday, February 3rd, was my godson's 3rd birthday. His mother, Tiffany, had to call me. All she said, do you know what today is? I knew we had just celebrated her birthday because that is usually when she calls...so it wasn't hers. I said ohhh It is his birthday today!! She said I am so proud of you for remembering or well I had to bring it up. I felt so bad. I haven't seen the little rascal in so long though! I am sure he has grown like a weed. If he is anything like his momma, I am sure he is wild! She said he has a little girlfriend at daycare. How cute is that!

I really need to go see him more often. She is hard to find sometimes though. She is all over the place and doesn't always have a cell phone. I don't think I have been a very good godmother. I used to buy him gifts and take them to him all the time. My feelings got a little hurt on his first birthday when she didn't really invite me. She called to tell me to call Sarah to bring Tripp over, but she never mentioned I could come too. First birthdays are a big deal! They get to smash their cake and everything. I got to go to Tripp's first birthday!! It was so fun to watch. I think because I don't have children people don't really think to invite me. I may or may not come, but I love to watch my friend's babies grow up so I would really try to go. Well, enough about that, because my little man is now 3 years old. She was taking him to Chuck-E-Cheese today. You know I wanted to go to that, but I have to work. She was going to ask Sarah to take Tripp with them. CEC is always fun! I hope he had a good birthday and I need to go see home more often.

Here are some older pictures of him. This is probably the last I have seen him. It has been way too long.

The past few days...

Kyle and I had a pretty good relaxing weekend. Friday, we happened to fight off all of the requests to go out and stayed home. I think Kyle would have gone, but its always me that just wants to stay home. Fridays are tough for me because I get up so early that I don't feel like doing anything that night after working all day. We stayed home and watched movies I believe.

Saturday, we slept in - which is always nice, but it was a pretty day to sleep away. I took my first Productions & Operations Management tests that took about an hour and 15 minutes. I made a 93/105 = 89%. I was happy and sad. I only missed 4 questions out of 35, but I really wanted an A. I was so close. This class only has tests and a paper, so I am afraid I won't have much leeway to make up for bad tests. I am shooting for straight A's in my last semester to graduate with one of the cum laude's. I am riding a fine line on that 3.5 right now as it is. Saturday we went to Movie Gallery and rented another party pack - 4 movies, 4 candy, 4 drink, 4 popcorns PLUS the late fees from the last 4 movies we rented. Dang it!! This is why we have Netflix. H&D came by and watched two of the movies with us. We rented My Best Friend's Girl, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mirrors, and Hellboy II. We watched the girly movies first.
Sunday, we tried to get up a little earlier because it was still a pretty day that day. Kyle went to Oakdale's (best steak from the middle of nowhere) to get our steaks for the super bowl while I got ready. We went to H&D's pretty early around 2:30. I took my homework to try to do it because I knew we would be there all day and it was due Monday. I was able to finish it along the way. I really didn't watch much of the game or commercials. I was sitting at the table "trying" to read my homework, but it was so hard to focus that I think I had to read the same lines over and over again. Heather and I dove into some of that yummy dip that she makes that I need to also add to my other blog. We were so full of the dip that we just split one of our filets. I made some big ol' chocolate chip cookies for everyone after dinner. They were yummy too. We had a good time. The best part of the day was honking at a guy that kept looking at H and I in Kyle's big truck. I really didn't mean to, but Kyle's car and keychain honks and beeps at any little push of the button. The poor guy got excited I think that he thought the two of us were honking at him at the store. Sorry guy, we really didn't know it was going to do that. It was so funny. I got out of there as fast as I could before he tried to follow us home. ha ha!

Monday night Kyle and I actually grocery shopped together. That is hardly ever. I always tend to spend more when he goes to the grocery with me. He throws in every little thing here and there. We actually didn't do too bad this time and tried to buy more stuff to cook at home instead of eating out. We had fun at the grocery, but I wasn't feeling too good. I've been having headaches and earaches for some reason. I got home and tried to run through all of the notes I made for my BP class on Capsim. I have to do that first real round for our company tonight in class.

Today, I get a call from my mom on my cell phone at 9 am. It worried me a little because it was early and it was my mom's cell phone. She said my sister had a little accident. She was in a car accident this morning on her way to work. Traffic was backed up and started to move. She looked down for a second and back up, but it was too late. She rear-ended a BMW in front of her. Her car was pretty smushed up, but they said the BMW looked almost fine. Rachel's airbags deployed and everything. Mom said she had a couple of red spots on her face from the airbags. I am so thankful that she was alright otherwise. It could have been a lot worse. She and I are always really good about wearing our seatbelts though, so I am sure that helped. We don't know yet if they will total it or not. I think it was like a 2001. Not sure yet what will happen with that.

I am off of work soon and going to my BP class. Wish me luck on our first round on our simulation business. It is so embarassing if your group doesn't do well because he posts it up on the board the results. You get to see how good or bad other groups do. Hopefully we won't need another emergency loan tonight. :)

TGIF

I have been a slacker this week as well. I guess I haven't had all that much going on to tell about. I've been really sleep at night all week long so I haven't even really done homework. I had class Tuesday night, but it was the first one he let us out early from. I got out about 8:30.

Kyle was over at Nate and Jessica's house to spend time with them while they are still mourning, so I went over to hang out with them too. Nate is as always very quiet about everything that has happened. Jessica's mom was in town from Ohio to be here for her. Jessica, her mom, and I played different online games on my aol account to keep her busy. Kyle and Nate had the xbox on the big screen so we had to come up with something else to do. We played some Family Feud, Jeopardy, and other puzzles. We eventually were guessing the pictographs on the Mickey's website. That was a lot of fun. Some of them were stupid, but we had a fun time trying to guess. I want to create my own one day.

Jessica tried to stay occupied with the games, but if we ever stopped for a minute she would get sad. She would start talking about the baby, which I was ok with because she needs to talk about it. I was able to see his picture and hand/feet prints. He had the cutest, smallest little hands and feet, but what do you expect for a baby that premature. His little hands and feet prints were about as big as a quarter. He didn't even weigh a full pound. I think he was .7 ounces. He looked a lot like Nate. At that point in time, they didn't know what they were having yet or if they did they hadn't told us. It is usually at 5 months when you find out, and I don't think she had "that" appointment yet. So, they weren't really prepared with a name. Since it looked so much like Nate, they named him after him. The nurses were very good to her and gave her a box with some stuff in it that had the pictures of him and them holding him. This was her second stillborn and even that still can't prepare you for what you will go through. I can't even begin to imagine. It was nice to meet Jess's mom. She was just as wild as her. She was so sweet and nice. I like to listen to their accents, because I am not used to that. I stayed pretty late and went home for the night.

I got my hair done last night and absolutely love getting it done. I got it lightened a little more and just trimmed up again. I'm trying to get a nice shape to my eyebrows as well. I had to let them grow for 7 weeks so that she could make a shape out of them. It about drove me nuts! I was able to leave most of them though without plucking. I hate the part of getting my eyebrows waxed, but I love them afterwards. They always look so smooth. After about 2 hours of getting my hair done, I went to Heather and Derek's where Kyle was at watching basketball. Heather and I hung out and watched some American Idol and did a little myspace stalking. haha That is always fun.

I am not sure what we have in store for the weekend besides the super bowl. I haven't heard many plans for what all is going on for that. I am sure we won't decide until last minute anyway. I have my first Procution & Operations Management test this weekend to do before Sunday midnight. I also have to practice some more rehearsal rounds and really study this Business Policy Capsim stuff before our first real Round 1. If you have had this class you know what I am talking about. We have a simulation company that we have to run that sales electronic sensors. We have to make up everything about them: size, performance, price, marketing, sales, etc. You have to really know what you are trying to do in order to keep customers buying your product instead of the other groups you are competing against. I have to sit down and go through our manual to make sure I have all the points down to know how we should pick all of our items. I think we will do fine, but I don't know!! We were one of the top groups in the first practice round, but we did horribly in the second practice round with like a $14,000,000 emergency loan that we didn't realize we had gotten. We over spent our money! oops! hahaha So, I need to pratice some more and hope my group does the same.

Have a good weekend and be safe celebrating for the super bowl!

Michael "Keegan" Malone

Michael “Keegan” was born Sunday, January 25th at 9:08 pm. He was 8lbs 6oz and 21 inches long. Abbi checked into the hospital around 7 am on Sunday. They got her into a room around 8. It was not much longer after that they went ahead and broke her water to start inducing her. She had to get them at some point to pump in more medicine for the epidural because she said she could tell it may have been wearing off some. Mike was pushing her legs back so far that the doc had to get onto him because he could break her leg/hip and she wouldn’t even know it. ha! Every contraction she had during the day, the baby’s heart rate dropped. So, they had her lie on her right side. He originally was face down like he was supposed to be, but she wondered if lying on her side for so long made him fall to the side. If you will notice, his little arm is safety pinned to his shirt. He broke his collar bone in the delivery. He was turned on his side inside of facing down. He was not coming out so they even had to vacuum him out. You can’t tell here, but he has a little red spot on the back of his head from it. He was so cute and precious. I held him for a while until he started dreaming. I was the first friend to visit outside of family. I finally gave him up because more of their friends from work were coming in. Abbi and Mike will go home tomorrow. She looked great as well and was up and moving around.

Welcome to the world Keegan!

Bitter-sweet

I had somewhat of an eventful weekend. We had a good time overall, but we also got some bad news from one of our friends.

Friday – A girl that I work with and am on the DEMA committee with found out Friday that her father passwed away. He lost his battle with cancer. I can't even imagine how she must feel. I believe the last I asked about him last week, he had decided to stop taking his chemo. I hate that for Jeana. Kristen and I started our weekend off with a yummy lunch at Cantina Laredo – her favorite place. It was only my second time eating there. If you know me, I am such a picky plain eater. I wasn’t that impressed the first time I went for it to be so expensive. However, this time it was actually pretty good. I think since I knew what to expect this time it was better. It is a little different from any other Mexican Restaurant that I go to. It has two kinds of salsas – one that is temperature cold and one temperature warm. I ate the cold one, and I think Kristen ate the warm one. I normally get cheese quesadillas at other Mexican places, but I guess CL is so fancy they don’t even have those on the menu. I ended up ordering the lunch special that had a beef fajita soft taco, a cheese enchilada, rice, and beans. The price of that was not too bad at around $9. Not any worse that Rosie’s. However, I guess it doesn’t really matter how much it cost, because Kristen and I got our lunches for free. It’s good to know people in high places! ha ha We went to Lucky so that I could try to find these jeans that I want oh so bad! Heather has some and they are so freaking cute. They are the Lola jeans I believe. They are 50% off, but they don’t have them in my large size! ha ha The guy said um, we don’t have any denim in a size 29. Wow, thanks buddy. ha! How about get some fat girl jeans in so that I can buy them! I guess I didn’t need to spend the money on them anyway.

Our friend Matt invited us to eat dinner in Bridgestreet, so we decided on Conner’s. What a lucky girl I am to eat twice in one day in Bridgestreet. We invited some of our friends as well to eat with us. Conner’s is one of my favorite places to eat – them and Bonefish Grill. They have the best steaks. I eat the Boursin Filet at Conner’s and had garlic mashed potatoes with a house salad with Thousand Island dressing. They even have really good salads. I am not a big salad eater, but theirs is yummy! I stole a little of Heather and Derek’s lobster dip as an appetizer. I got a full tummy and drank two pomegranate martinis. They were delicious as well. Very nice dinner time. We walked down to The Scene Lounge and hung out for a little while on the patio by the fireplaces. It started to mist a little, so I went inside. It was a Friday night where I had been up early, so I never can stay out too late on those nights. I was ready to crash by midnight.

Also Friday during the day, we received a call from our friend Nate that his girlfriend’s water broke. She was only 5 months pregnant. They rushed her to the hospital to try to get more fluid in her to keep the baby in and safe. They were originally going to keep her for two weeks. We were very sad to hear that and hopeful that everything would work out.

Saturday – It was my good friend Tiffany’s 25th birthday. She invited us out to eat at Friday’s at 7:00. Of course, she was late and we were the first of the party there – and we were 15 minutes late! Kyle and I just got spinach dip because we had already snacked during the day. I had a cosmo to go with my food. It was ok. I don’t drink those very much, but I was tired of the appletinis. Our friend’s Angie and Josh asked us to hang out with them later that night, so we left Friday’s to head to their house in Riverton. Their house is so amazing. It is so big and beautiful. It was a two story open floor plan. I was so excited that this would be where were spending the night at after we went out. We decided earlier in the day that we would like to go to the Horse to do something different. Angie and I also like to shake a tail feather. Angie and I danced the night away after that. My legs are still sore today from all the dancing. I love it so much! I always have a great time when I can shake a leg. ha ha! We stayed the night with them and stayed up well into Sunday morning. I was exhausted.

While we were eating dinner, we received a text from Nate that said Jessica was going to have to deliver her baby anyway and that the baby wouldn’t be ok. Therefore, they lost their baby boy on Saturday. It is extremely sad. Jessica had already miscarried once before and had a still born before she met Nate. She was a high risk patient and just couldn’t have this one either. It is so sad to imagine how they are feeling right now.

Sunday - Since we didn’t go to bed until 5 or 6, we slept until around 11. We jumped up quickly to get home, because our doggies hadn’t been let out since we left for dinner the night before. They were actually very good puppies and didn’t have any accidents or terrorize anything in their path. We lounged around the rest of the day. I finished up some homework that I had to do before tonight and hit the sack around 11:30. I received a text message from Abbi at 10:30 that said she had baby Keegan at 9:08 pm and he weighed 8lbs 6oz and was 21 inches long. I knew that she was getting induced that morning at 7 am. I was worried because I hadn’t heard from her all day until then. I am glad everything went well. Boy he is a big baby. I haven’t gotten to see him just yet. Hopefully I will in the next few days.

That was pretty much my eventful weekend. We went from dinner with friends, to celebrating a birthday, to mourning the death of an innocent baby, and then to excitement for the birth of a healthy baby boy. Wow, it has been a roller coaster.

Behind These Hazel Eyes!

CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye Brightening Mascara!

I bought some new mascara at Wal-Mart last night and wanted to share. This is the first morning I have used it. I am not really sure if I can tell a difference yet or not, but that little Lissy on my shoulder always talks me into buying new products - especially that it was for MY eye color! haha Anyway, it is by Cover Girl, and they make a different color for every eye color. It is supposed to really brighten your eyes. We will see! If not, oh well I needed new mascara anyway.

Black Sapphire = Blue eyes
Black Pearl = Brown eyes
Black Ruby = Green eyes
Black Gold = Hazel eyes

You can purchase your own for about $7.50-8.50.

It's Time for a Change!

It is late, and I should be in bed. But - I had to write about this special day in history. Today our country inaugurated the first African-American President as the 44th President of the United States of America. How great does that sound and feel to say. No, I am not African-American, but I have very strong feelings on what is happening today. Whether you voted for Barack Obama or not, I would hope you could put all politcal views aside and say that you are happy to see America change the way it views the people within it.


Every time I hear him speak, I almost get tears in my eyes. If you know me and my politics, you would know I hate them and don't really pay much attention to them. I am just so proud for him, his wife, my husband and his family, and all other families. I have witnessed first hand unfair treatment of certain people. I want this to give them hope that things can change. We may all look different on the outside, but we all bleed red!


Obama and his wife are extremely smart. Mr. and Mrs. Obama make me smile. Looks can be deceiving, but if so they sure do have me fooled. But - to me, they look so in love. They have a beautiful family and appear to be the true White Picket fence family. Even with all they have been through as a family throughout this campaign, he can still shine that smile and give everything he can to even those who went against him.

Again, putting all politcal views aside, I think we have an intelligent, caring, family-oriented, REAL President. I am hopeful for what he can bring to this country. Whether the country gets better or worse while he is in office, I truly feel that I can trust that he tried his best. I hope he proves to everyone that you really can be the best you can be no matter what color your skin is.

Here's to change within the years to come and hope that my children will grow up in a world that they are accepted as an Amercian although they have a white mother and a black father.

Yes we can! It's a new day!