Frazzled

I had a relaxed morning, had devotions, about to make breakfast, not dressed yet...and then... I get a phone call from work saying that I'm already 10 minutes late for work... yikes!

I was gone for the week on vacation..and so.. I thought that I wasn't working for the rest of the week. The policy at Old Navy is if you don't pick up your schedule by 6pm on Saturday night your hours are given away. I wasn't there Saturday night.

Long story short... I was 30 mins late for work today... and... I looked and felt all frazzled. There were different sales going on and I had no idea what was happening. The feeling was miserable. I finally got everything together and was fine the rest of the day, but I felt really bad for being late... I had no idea I even had to work... Oh well... hopefully it won't happen again. :)

Winnie and Jo...and... some pics from Disney

I had so much fun getting to see my family and hang for the week. I stayed with my Mema, Aunt Terri- Ann and her daughter Emily. The first few nights we spent with my Great Aunt Mimi, then Great Aunt Flo, Then with more cousins... and finally we ended up in a cozy hotel! Exuasting at times, but tons of fun.

Breakfast with Cinderella and the other princesses was a blast... the little ones squealed with delight while My cousin Leah and I sat back and made jokes at the pincesses... :)

We had a fun filled week with many many stories to tell!

Disney World!

This coming Wednesday I'm off to Florida to see my great aunts and Disney World with my grandma and cousins!!
I'm so excited! I haven't been since I was 5. When I first went I got to have breakfast with Chip and Dale, Goofy, and Daisy and Donald Duck. This time... we get to have breakfast with Cinderella... in the castle!! I've never been in the castle before... Cinderella is more for the younger ones, but I'm sure I'm gonna be just as excited as them! ;)
I haven't been on vacation in a long time and I'm glad I can get away from everything and relax... Since about May I've wanted to just go somewhere and my Mema kindly invited me to join them. Thank You Mema! I love you!

John "Deer"

Well... today was a sad day... Mom disposed of our sweet little chihuahua Elsie... or so it seems like that. She actually sent her to a very sweet family where she will get lots of attention.

Everyone sad, Mom added a new animal to the family... to Jimmy's surprise he found this "lovely" old deer head hanging right above where he sleeps. We're not sure how long this pet will last either. Ha!

P.S.
Mom wanted me to let you know that we are not hicks... no where close. We're still not sure why she bought it though. :)

Winnie & Jo's Sewing projects

Winnie (Rachel B.) stayed over last night and in desperation to find something to do we decided to learn how to sew... I already kinda knew, but we'd never done pillows before...and now we know!!!

I had a bag full of clothes to give away so instead of giving them away we ripped them up and made quilted pillows with them. These were some of the clothes.

Making quilted pillows is our new fav thing right now, so for any birthdays coming up... you know what you're getting! :)


We had spasms of random laughter since it was like 1:30 in the morning... too late for us















I did most of the actual sewing part
















Winnie sat there and cut...and cut... and cut.




















Our finished products... not stuffed yet though!

Our Crazy Fam...

I love my family... we have sporadic outbursts of laughter...(Katie!!)... Katie and Michael combined are hysterical... Jimmy and Aaron are best buds and they're destructive together, but we love them non-the-less... Mom and Dad, they have to deal with all of us kids... and me... I'm just me!

Michael was trying to sit on me and I was resisting...and...I lost.

Michael giving me a noogy... and Aaron giving himself one...weird.

Mom and Katie (not Kate)

Daddy and Me

Jimmy got a Jimmy...

Yup! Jimmy was blessed with a GMC Jimmy...ha ha isn't that ironic! A man from Dad's work was so kind to bless Jimmy with a car which was much needed. All the car needs is a new starter and a good cleaning... AND... I got my license!!! Yay! I've been doing all the errands for Mom and she let me drive to beach day today. I'm loving it! ha...I feel like I'm set for the summer because I have my license and I bought Katie's old car. I'm so blessed!
I'll put some pics up of Jimmy's car soon. Other than all that good stuff this summer is going great and I'm so glad school is over.

Jimmy's Graduation...

My brother Jimmy graduated yesterday along with nine other grads. After the ceremony and pictures we all headed home for a party at our house. People came and relaxed... just like he wanted it to be. We all had a blast and Jimmy was really blessed. This fall he's looking to go to ODU to become a dental surgeon...

Jimmy's wanted present since he was young... a popcorn machine