Auburn

Since we have season tickets we have been going to all the Auburn games. Grace really enjoys it...she has been going to Auburn games since she was about 9 weeks old!! This year has been so fun though because she can walk and talk and really knows what is going on. At the LSU game she sat in the stands for most of the game and would clap when everyone else would and got so excited! It was great. The nice thing is we can take her to the letterman lounge if she gets too hot or tired to watch the game. She enjoys tailgating as much as we do and when we play cornhole she gets excited and starts clapping. She is such a joy! She of course wears a little orange cheerleader outfit and is precious.

Speaking of Auburn, I am so sick of people talkig about how bad we suck. Yes, we are struggling, but we just got this new offense coordinator and are learnign the spread and it is going to take time. I get upset and I hate watching us play so pitiful, but this is a transition period. I am a fan, a loyal fan, and I will always love and support my Auburn Tigers no matter what. We are 4-1. Not too bad, but it is about to get a lot harder. Everyone is already giving up on us and it makes me mad...you know I expecially get ticked off at Bama fans. They think they have the Nat'l title won already. Uh, hello, you still have to play LSU, MSU, Ole Miss, and AUBURN! You better not count your chickens before they hatch. Yeah, Bama is good right now, but we have ALL seen how quick the season can change...i.e. USC v. Oregon State. Also, they are making fun of how bad we are and everything...umm does no one recall the past 2 years?? There records were 6-6 and 6-6 regular season. I am just tired of hearing it. Everyday all I hear is Bama=Nat'l Champs '08 and Auburn=the worst team ever. GET OVER IT!!! We are not even half way through the season! And even if we do lose the rest of the games...I will still bleed Orange and Blue! WAR EAGLE!!!!!!

Grad School

Well, I found out yesterday that I got in to UAB graduate school!!!! I am so excited! I will be the first person in my family to have a Master's. It feels great to know that in a little over a year I will be a teacher! I am so happy and cannot wait to be done. I have to take 12 classes and intern/student teach an entire semester. I hope to be done with classes by august 2009 and then intern that fall and graduate in December 2009. But we will see. It may be May 2010 before I can graduate. Either way I will be done and a teacher. It is very exciting. :)

It's been a while!

Well, its been months. I have been very busy. I have started back to school. I am going to UAB to get my masters in Elementary Education. I have been taking three classes this summer and it has been crazy. I had to observe in a kindergarten class for a week and it was so fun. I really want to teach and I cannot wait! It will take about a year to complete the program. Grace just celebrated her ONE year birthday! It was so fun and she had such a good time. Ray and I are going to celebrate our THREE year anniversary in a couple of weeks. We are taking an anniversary vacation at the beach and I cannot wait!! We leave July 24 and we have about two weeks to go. Things are great around here. We have lots to do the next 7 weeks. Then it is football season!

Scared

Ray went away on business again. He will be gone for the whole week. I had to stay by myself last night and I have to admit, I was scared. I just don't like being alone in the house at night. It freaks me out. I don't know why. I guess it is because my house is bigger than what I am used to and it has an upstairs and downstairs....lots of places for people to hide! Plus, we are kinda out from town. There are woods across the street that animals can come from. I have seen foxes and stray dogs, which freak me out. Luckily I have a garage I can pull in! Otherwise, I would be totally freaked out! I know I am a sissy, but I cannot help it. It is only at night too. Hopefully I can get over this! It's hard though.

Baby Grace

Grace is 9 months old. I cannot believe it. She is crawling, pulling up, trying to stand on her own....ah! Where did the time go? She is such a busy girl. She is so wonderful. I really don't know what I did without her for so long. She had a great Easter. We had an Easter egg hunt at Ray's parents house and at my parents house. She really wasn' t that interested. :) It was fun for us though. She did like holding the eggs! She goes to the Doctor tomorrow for her 9 month check up. I am excited to see how much she weighs and how long she is! We are going to Auburn this weekend for the spring A-day game. We are excited for that. I have got to baby proof the house more now that she is everywhere and into everything! It is crazy how big she is. I really just look at her and she grows! It is going by too fast!

Home

We are home from vacation, unfortunately. It was so fun! Gatlinburg was very redneck....lol.....it changed a lot from when I was a kid. It was still amazing though. We did a lot of stuff. We rode horses through the Nat'l park and that was amazing. We saw several deer on the path and that just made Ray's day. It was beautiful. I am sad to be home because it was so relaxing. Our cabin was amazing. It was literally on top of the mountain overlooking the smokies....breathtaking. We had a covered porch with rockers...talk about relaxation. We also had a hot tub. SOOOOOO nice. I did well....I didn't cry once about Grace. I guess it was because we stayed busy the whole time. I did go crazy on the trip home because I was so ready to see her. When we got home it was great holding her! I missed her! She is crawling now! It is great. She is just growing up before my eyes!

Vacation

Ray, Adam, Kristin, and I are all going to Gatlinburg, TN on Saturday. We are staying for 4 days and 3 nights. I am SO excited! This will, however, be my first time away from Grace. So it is going to be hard. Ray's mom is coming to stay at our house and keep her. I know she will be in good hands. It will be nice to get some sleep....a full night's sleep! Wow, I haven't had that in over a year. I am pumped though about going to the mountains....I haven't been in like 10 years. My family used to go every year until my grandma got sick. Ray has not been to Gatlinburg so I am excited for him. I can't wait for it to get here! We leave in 4 days! YAY!

Love

Well, the other night I went home and decided that I wanted to cook something different and good for Ray. So I looked through some recipe books and finally found one that sounded good. So I looked through my pantry and wrote down the things I needed. I went to the store and got the needed ingredients and went home to cook the dish. I was excited! So, Ray comes in around 6pm and says that he got called back to work for something. He said he wouldn't be long and I hadn't even started to bake it yet. So I said okay and thought he would be home by 7pm. Well around 8:30 pm I was getting furious. I already ate some and decided that I was going to give him a nice talking to when he got home. I called and called and got only voicemail. Then I remembered that he said he phone was dying. So around 8:40 I called the guy I knew he was with. Turns out, he was already almost home (he lives near us) and said Ray should be home any minute, but to call if he wasn't home by 9. He said that they also had a disaster at work and blah, blah, blah....whatever. So at 9pm I started getting really worried. Then I FREAKED.....what if he had wrecked? What is he was broke down in that bad neighborhood he travels through and got shoot! (Okay I have officially turned into my mother!) So I stand by the window looking to the road. Watching, waiting. One car comes, not him, another, and another.....I am crying at this point. Then I start to pray again. Finally, around 9:15ish he is home. I go into the living room and just sit on the couch crying. He walks in with tulips! I just started crying. I was so worried that something had happened to him. I was so relieved. He apologized and I accepted. I was just happy he was home and alive. He then warmed the dinner I made and loved it. He took it to work the next day! So, all is well....thank goodness!

Blog

Well, after long consideration and being harassed by friends to get one, I have finally given in and created this blog. So, this is my blog spot. Where I will "blog" when I feel like it. Nice. I am now officially a "blogger." I conformed.