Wishing for Fall

Ok, I know you're thinking "she must have lost her mind while she was gone". Well, I kinda have, but that's another story.

The weather here for the last few days has turned alot cooler and it really has me in the mood for fall. Fall is my favorite time of year and I really tend to rush it as soon as we have a cool spell. The leaves aren't changing yet, my hummingbirds are flying everywhere, and I know there is alot of warm weather to come. I guess I was hoping that changing my background would hurry up the cooler weather! I can't wait to get outside when there's that chill in the air, we actually have one now at night, but it's just not the same as October. Now I'm not wishing my life away, if October would just get here, it could stay forever! We usually try to find a few days to go to the mountains in October to catch the leaves turning since they aren't nearly as pretty here and I'm hoping we get to make it this year. We may not get to, but that is yet another story. Yes, I have lots of stories going on right now! I'll save those for another day, don't want to use up all my "blogging time" in one day now that I've come back!

What is your favorite season and what are some of the things you look forward to?

Surprise!!

I know you all are surprised to see me here....I've been meaning to do this forever, but it just seems like I haven't had time to just sit and think about what I want to write. As is the case today, but I was determined to get back to blogging, I miss my friends from blogland!

It's been a busy summer. Between baseball with Jacob and working, there just hasn't been a lot of time for anything. I did get to meet one of my "blog friends" though. Kat from "Just a Beachcat" came to Southaven to watch her grandson play baseball in July and we met, where else but at the ball park!

I brought my camera in to the computer to download some pics of some of the things I had done this summer and don't ask me why, but my memory stick is blank, except for a few pictures that I took at Sr. Bingo at work. Now, I haven't taken them to print, or done anything, but they are not there. I can't believe it.....there were a few on there that I am very upset to lose.

We had puppies this summer, well actually on Memorial Day.....trust me, we will remember that. Our yellow lab, Sadie, had 6 puppies and it took her forever. We were a wreck because we had never had puppies (and won't again), we were so worried when it took her so long, but it all turned out good. Our youngest daughter and her husband kept one, so she comes to visit pretty often!

Only a trip to Canton Ms for the state baseball tournament and a short trip to Knoxville so far this year, it's just a crazy busy year for us, so we'll probably only get another short trip to Knoxville in the fall to see the leaves in Gatlinburg. I would have loved a trip to the beach, but it just didn't happen and I LOVE the mtns in the fall, so it will all be ok, once I get to go there!

That's a short synopsis of my summer, just wanted to write so it would jump start me.....I promise I'm not going away again.......take care and can't wait to hear from some of you!

Vicki

HAPPY EASTER!

I just wanted to make sure to wish everyone a very Happy Easter. Please take the time to remember what this holiday is all about. It breaks my heart when I think about what Jesus did for ME....and for YOU. It breaks my heart, yet I am so grateful that He did that so that I could live forever and thank goodness I won't live forever here in this world. As good as it gets sometimes, just think how good it is going to be. Wow. And as bad as it gets sometimes, just think one day we won't have to deal with those things anymore. It gives me chills just to think about it. Thank you Jesus for all you did for me and for all You are going to do!

I hope you have a great family day. We'll do what we usually do around here.......eat. We don't have a big family, both of my parents and both brothers have been gone now for a few years, and Ronnie's famiy doesn't live here so it's just the girls, son in law, grandson and us. It makes holidays sad in a way, but I am thankful that I still have both girls and Ronnie to spend the holiday with. After last year, I'm thankful for everyday with them.....although some days are better than others :), if you know what I mean! I am thankful even for the days that aren't as good as some!

Happy Easter!

Vicki

HOPE I NEVER SEE ANOTHER PLASTIC EASTER EGG!

Just a quick note. I have been stuffing plastic Easter eggs for what seems like forever! I am a marketing director for a Chick-fil-A . Tomorrow night I am having an Easter egg hunt on my parking lot. The Lowe's across the street from our store is donating 1400 sq. ft. of sod and 20-25 "trees and plants" so that we can have a grassy area to hunt on. I am really excited, or at least I was until the weather decided not to cooperate. No, really I am excited and love doing activities with kids there. It's so fun to watch them. Hubby helped me stuff 3000 eggs with #'s for prizes and we finally finished a little while ago. Don't know if the time shows or not, but it is 12:50 AM here and I am pooped! Can't sleep in because hubby has an appt with the cardiologist at 9:15 so I really should turn it.

Oh, go over to http://fly4luv.blogspot.com/ and register for Becky's spring giveaway. She's giving away lots of goodies to get the cook out season started!

Have a great Tuesday, I'll see ya after the egg hunt!

Vicki

HAS IT REALLY BEEN THIS LONG??

My Life Until October!

I can't believe it's been so long since I've been here. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun. Baseball season has started so that is where the majority of my time is spent in the summer. Jacob, my 10 year old grandson "eats, breathes, sleeps" baseball....and he is really good. Not because he is my grandson, it's because he has good genes.....my family! Just kidding. My oldest brother was a professional baseball player in th 60's. I was fortunate enough to attend the 1969 World Series. And no, I didn't think the Mets were so amazing. My brother played for the Orioles. He was a pitcher. Jacob also has baseball genes on his dad's side. His dad was a left handed pitcher in high school, went to college on a schlorship, had the opportunity to sign with the majors, but let's just say a little attitude got in the way. I think he is living his dream through Jacob, which makes it a little tougher on Jacob. Anyway, his first tournament was a couple of weeks ago and we won't stop, except for Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day weekend until October. Oh, there will be a small break in August I think, before "fall ball" starts.

I promised myself before I started blogging that I wasn't going to start something and not keep up with it. Not a very good start, huh? I'm promising to do better. Now I'm going to go and catch up on all of you! Have a great week.

Vicki

Can it get worse??

Yes, it can always get worse.....but I'm sure hoping it doesn't. A few weeks ago, actually probably a couple of months by now, my GMC Envoy started making a strange noise. We could tell it wasn't the engine so we didn't rush to take it in. It is very inconvenient to do without my car even for a day since I use it in my job and also because I pick Jacob up from school most everyday. We had people say it sounded like a fan blade, a belt, but never anything real serious. Even when I got to the dealership to have the oil changed, tires rotated and "noise" checked out, the service writer didn't think it was very serious. Well $785.00 later, I am the proud owner of a new water pump.......just what I was dying for. But, in all seriousness, I have never had a vehicle that I liked as much as this one. Usually by 50 to 60 thousand miles, I am wanting to trade. Not this time......I do love my envoy. It is a 2004 and I've had it 5 years and 101,000 miles later, I really do not want to trade it. I've been thinking the last couple of days how much better it rides and drives since I'm not hauling around "a loose water pump". The bearing had gone out in the water pump and it was "loosely" riding around under my hood.

Now, the rest of the story! Today on my way to Jacob's baseball scrimage, which I was so anxious to see how he was doing, my car started "acting funny". I was almost there the first time I noticed it and I was hoping that when I left there, it would be just fine. Wrong......it was LOTS worse. At first, I could feel it "hanging" and not switching gears, then I couldn't get over 20-25 miles an hour.....then I actually got up to about 40, but the RPM's was very high. I manged to get back over to the town when we live and work to the dealership to leave my car. They are open for limited business on Saturday so they "looked" at my car and called to tell me that it is definitely my transmission and it is sounding like I may have to have a new one. I'm thinking if a water pump is $700.00, I don't even want to know how much this is going to cost me........and no, I'm not one of those people who bought the extended warranty. It was one of those cases where I will get it later......NOT......

Oh well, I still love my envoy and I guess I can look at it like when I fix this.....surely God will smile on me and not let anything go wrong for a while. I really don't want a new car, especially when while waiting on my daughter to pick me up, I walked to the showroom and saw a new Acadia, which by the way, I do love those, for $41,000.00.

Somehow, I'm loving my envoy even more tonight, everytime I think about that sticker on the window.

Have a great Sunday!

Vicki

I'm back!

I know I've been "gone" for a while. It's just kinda been nuts around here.

Some of you may know that our oldest daughter and her son live with us. They have been here for almost 2 years now. Right after she moved in with us, she went back to school to finish her degree to teach. She loves kids and is very good with them. Well, as soon as she finished her first semester back in May is when she was diagnosed with hodgkins so the two classes that she was going to take last summer were put on hold. Determined not to let that slow her down, she is carrying quite a load this semester. She goes to school on Monday from 3:00 - 9:00. Tuesday through Thursday she goes from 6:00-9:00. I'm not sure that it's not way too much for her as she is also "subbing" as a teacher assistant for 12 weeks. I don't think her stamina has built up enough yet.
I said all of that to say this........we have become "full time parents" again. She doesn't see him at all on Monday and just a couple of hours the other days. Of course he goes to his Dad's every other weekend so there's not alot of time for them. It sure has rocked our world, but it will be worth it when she gets her degree. I'm so proud of her for her determination.

Have a great rest of the day!

Vicki