HIATUS

As some of you may or may not know I am having a baby in about 2 weeks. Therefore, with the excitement and such I am going to take a bit of a blogging hiatus. I may post or not, but please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. Come back in August. We should be ready to go by then. Until next post.....

Thursday 13

13 Random Facts about me. Post yours as comments or link to your blog!!!
thanks Hollie
1. I don't really like my middle name
2. I have really small feet
3. Birds really freak me out- can't stand them
4. I don't really stress that much- mom & brother do, don't understand it
5. When I was little I thought I would marry someone famous- I guess I kinda did!!!
6. I took piano as a child- hated teacher/hated piano
7. I was a cheerleader
8. I can Clog- look it up if you're not from the South
9. I don't like seafood
10. Nor do I like eggs
11. When I was little every Saturday night we had steaks, baked potato, salad & watched HeeHaw (again, look up if not from the South or just too stinkin' young)
12. I have 2 "REAL" adoption dolls (again with the look up for you younguns)
13. I still love to drink Kool-Aid

Enjoy!

Third Day on the 3rd Day

Supportive wife- check
Crazy husband- check
Blog post- check

Mark has begun this great little adventure over at the Third Day Blog called "Third Day on the Third Day". Catchy title!!!
Each month on the 3rd he will have a time for fans to write what they want about the band and link back to the Third Day blog. Being the afore mentioned supportive wife I am I thought- why not???

Really, he didn't MAKE me do it!!!

So, what to say, well I plan on posting some great fun times we as a family have had- where to begin.....

Cleveland, TN- sometime before the earth was cooling in 1994

Picture it, a bunch of stinky men and some really cute ladies pile into a van. A van that smells like old food, dirty socks and well...stinky boys- YUCK. We have the trailer hooked up, someone driving and off we head to Cleveland, TN (just a couple hours away from home).

This was a rare time in our life when the girls got to go "on the road" with the guys b/c they were doing this show and then coming right back home. During this time they were so busy that this NEVER happened. It was a small miracle.

So we go without problem to the show. It is being held at Lee College- when we got there we couldn't find where they were supposed to play. They drive around, ask folks where to go, everyone seems frazzled that we talk to mind you, but we still don't know where to go. So finally we get our bearings, Tai is driving and this van/trailer is NOT easy to maneuver. As we approach the building a guard stops the van.... what this is the ROCK STARS!!!

Cop-"You can't come in here"
Third Day- "We are here to do a show tonight this is where we are supposed to set up and play"
Cop- "I don't think so, one of the dorms burnt down and this is what we are using to house the students affected"
ALL OF US- WHAT!!!!

long story short, we DID NOT do that show and NO ONE had told us it was cancelled- NICE.

Being the young, hungry guys they were they decided (after the frustration of driving a few hours for NOTHING subsided) we would just go eat. We are leaving town and just making the best of things and all of a sudden the van is what I would call riding on 2 wheels!!! Somehow we had missed the big curb divider in the road and we ran over it at speeds no less than about 45. It was CRAZY. I just remember we all freaked, noone had seen it and then we all laughed like crazy. I can still think back to that time and laugh.

The last memory I have of that day is we drive by a store called "TAPE CITY", I told you it was a LONG time ago- and Mark declared that if he ever had a store if would be named "SOMETHING CITY" b/c that was the coolest name EVER. WEIRDO!!!!

My tale of early Third Day may not be fun to you but buddy you should see my smile! It is good to remember all the fun, hard, exciting, frustrating, hysterical times I have had with this amazing group of boys that are now some of the finest men I know. One thing I can assure you- Mark, Mac, David & Tai are still the same boys they were back then, a little more mature, a lot more grown up, wiser, funnier, not as STINKY, but still the goofy guys I met some 17 years ago.

FUN SUMMER NIGHT!

Tonight we had a fun family night. We went to this really fun, unique and yummy restaurant called "ELEVATION".
This place is cool because it sits on the runway of the small airfield here in Cobb County. The food at this place is really good. Different and fresh. I think the motto is "midtown food without the midtown traffic!!!".
Every table has a view of the airstrip and we saw planes take off and land. Abbie really enjoyed it.

My mom got this crazy drink called a Nitrogen Martini. They literally prepared it at the table and poured liquid nitrogen (dry ice) over it. Mom said it was the coldest Martini she had ever had. A layer of ice formed over the top and you had to puncture it to get the straw out. WOW!!! It was a great evening with the parents and the husband and munchkin. Pop Pop (my dad) twisted Abbie's arm to go get ice cream afterwards. (JUST KIDDING). It was such a beautiful breezy evening.

The perfect ending to a perfect summer day is camping out. So, Mark and Abbie get the sleeping bags, the computer for movies and the floor in our bedroom for the camp out. The little one has yet to be convinced that the "real" outdoors is a fun camping place. The playroom, our bedroom so far. Next step the screened in porch, then maybe the outside- we'll see. Her mama isn't much of a camper so..... maybe that apple really doesn't fall that far from the tree!!!

Thursday 13

My friend Hollie did this on her blog and told me (and everyone who reads her blog) to do it so here we go....

13 Random Fact about ME.

1. I am left handed
2. #1 makes me very disorganized- MAJOR
3. When I was little I was pretty obsessed with stuffed animals
4. I don't swim in water I can't see my feet in
5. Recently I have acquired a strange addiction to "Law & Order"
6. Windows based computers REALLY tick me off
7. I really like Apples (fruit & computers)
8. I have extremely blue eyes and NO I don't wear fake contacts
9. I HATE winter- except for Christmas
10. Math + Me = PROBLEM
11. I can hear a song about once and remember the lyrics (this freaks the husband out)
12. I am 3D (not the band) challenged- I can't see things in 3D even with the glasses
13. Bon Jovi makes me happy

Your turn, post your Thursday 13 on your blog or comment here. Pretty fun huh??

Cats & Hats

This our friend the Cat in the Hat,
No, he is not fat

He actually is very lean
And, not at all mean.

The little one she does like,
to read his story every night.

We got to meet this funny Cat,
Someday this blog will get on track!!!

My ode to Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat"

UPDATE PLEASE!!!

Sorry folks, I have been enjoying my summer a little too much it seems. Or do I just love the hubby so much that I feel he needs to be celebrated for an entire month??? I plan on updating all of you various readers on the ins and outs of this summer filled life but I recently have been called out therefore the MUST on the update.

You see, the other day I was on a HOT date Saturday night. The husband and I went to see a movie (very rare) and then finished the evening with a trip to Target. Don't all dates end there??? As I am standing in the day planner refill aisle trying to remember what type of holes the planner I had just found at my house (that was last used in 2003 mind you) had, b/c I am oh so very organized!!! I am startled out of my little mind when I hear

"Oh my gosh are you Stephanie??"

um.... yes??? I hope that is the right answer.

Mind you we are stopped at times for folks to talk to Mark or we often hear "Hey man, Third Day!". Ok that's fine, it comes with the territory right? Well me, little ole' me. NEVER. So I jumped. Seriously I felt like Michael Jordan or something. Ok, not really but how high does one think an 8 month pregnant woman can jump!! I turn and this lovely lady comes down the aisle with her appointed Target buggy and cutest daughter.

"Hey, are you Stephanie, I'm Soliloquy"

Praise the Lord, not the stalker person in my mind, but a blogger friend- who just happens to live like 1/2 a mile from me.
Seeing as I was in no way needing to slowly back out of the aisle and run screaming that a lady with really cool glasses was after me, we proceed to talk and chat it up- cause that's what a good Southern girl has learned to do.

My new friend and I talked for a few and then we went our separate shopping ways. Well my pal warned me that she would blog about this. You can read her quite hysterical version of the meeting over at her blog. Therefore, I have been made to update my blog. Not a bad thing just... ya know doesn't that mean summer is over or something.

I might know the answer to this had I gotten those calendar refills I was looking for but you see, I still have NO idea what kind I need, might should get on that- seeing as I am so organized like that!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK LEE!!

Today is the husbands birthday. I will not disclose his age for his sake!!! :). Let's just say he doesn't look his age my any stretch. How do you put into words how you feel about someone you love so much??? Well, Mark is my best friend first and foremost. He ALWAYS has made me laugh. Either at something he does (falling up stairs- DAILY), or some weird comment he says. Yes, many a time there is the internally eye roll at the silly comments, etc- but I always end up laughing. The thing about this is I LOVE TO LAUGH. How perfect are we. Also, he is the kindest, most giving, selfless person I know. He will do anything for anyone at anytime. Mainly me when I want a drink or let's say food from 2 different places- but that would NEVER really happen would it?? It is hard sometimes b/c he is gone so much. I miss him terribly but I know it will be so warm and cozy when he gets home.

Did I mention he is the BEST DADDY in the WORLD!!! We waited a long time to have children so we could enjoy our "free" life, and due to a situation involving his newborn cousin (I'll let him tell that funny story) he was always a little "shy" around babies. Once we had our little munchkin though, all things changed. To say she he is wrapped around her finger is an understatement. He plays, dresses up, reads, colors (unwillingly) and does everything but paint with her. Mark has a strange aversion to craft projects :). All this to say he is wonderful and I am probably the luckiest person around. I have an AWESOME husband and he deserves more praise than I can bestow. He loves the Lord and he loves us- we are blessed.

Sadly, Mark has to work today on his birthday. This is hard on me, not him. Birthday's in my family are like Christmas- you don't miss them. See, in my family we have like birthday week. You go to dinner with ALL of the family and then on the actual day you do whatever it is you want- no questions. Poor guy, he has had to deal with the psychotic me freaking out that he will be gone on his birthday. Big deal, he says, we will celebrate when I get home. Yeah, right. You see, that selfless thing I mentioned. His birthday is literally 2 days before our Anniversary. Well, an Anniversary isn't a major holiday in my book as a Birthday is- go figure, but still a big deal, so normally his birthday is clouded over by our "big day". He just accepts is and moves on. For this reason, I really try and do something special for his day. We have had a bowling party, a pizza party, an Irish pub party, but this year he will have a hang out with his best friends and chill day- probably what he would prefer anyway.

In closing I will say, Mark Lee, I love you and hope that today is filled with every Birthday wish you could ever want. We are sad we don't get to be with you on "the day" but we will celebrate- I promise (um...maybe)!!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY

My Little Ballerina

She is too precious. She is so very proud of her recital coming up this week. Even though the costume is "itchy" she can't wait till the day after when she can just play in it for dress up!!! I am so proud of her efforts and how great she is doing. The little munchkin is growing up!