Movies, Monopoly, Music Awards

Alrighty, I guess it is time to do a bit of a weekend recap!

Friday Night- We went to go see Pink Panther 2 with our friends, the Lloyd's. The movie was so silly. Totally Steve Martin.

Saturday Morning- I woke up and went to my hair appointment. I got my haircut and Troy put in some highlights. Ya'll, my hair is blonde on top. Seriously, there are blonde highlights in my hair. And when I say blonde, I mean BLONDE. It is super fun and really different. I kinda have a panic attack every morning when I look in the mirror for the first time cause I keep forgetting that they are there!

Saturday Afternoon- Baby Shower! My mom hosted a baby shower for my cousin B'linda at her house and it was just lovely. I got to see alot of people I haven't seen in awhile and it was so fun to celebrate the upcoming arrival of little Isobel!

Saturday Evening- GAME NIGHT! Our Sunday School class had a game night and it was too fun. I spent the first half of the evening playing Scattergories, and the last half of the evening playing a game of SceneIt, Friends version. My team won :) Grant spent the ENTIRE evening playing a game of Monopoly. Monopoly never sounds fun to me and no one ever looks like they are having any fun playing it! Grant won after 3 hours. Blaaah.

Sunday Morning- Up and out the door to church! In Sunday school we learned about family relationships and establishing boundaries. Then, in church, Pastor Gregg taught about Living a Life of Love. He talked about how people should know that we are Christians by our love. It is though God's agape love that we can love others with phileo, or brotherly love. It was a great message.

Sunday Afternoon- Our class went to Mission Burrito for lunch. It was there that the girls decided that we should all go see He's Just Not That Into You. This movie had funny parts and some cute moments, but all in all I disagreed with alot of it. Does anyone else think that Scarlett Johannson ALWAYS plays the hoochie in every movie she does?!

Sunday Evening- I made spaghetti, we watched the Grammy's (people are weird, ya'll) and then I cleaned the house till I couldn't stay awake any longer!

Best Dressed at the Grammy Awards:

Carrie Underwood

Worst Dressed at the Grammy Awards:
Rapper M.I.A. I don't care how pregnant you are, no one should've let her do this!

And here we are, back at work. The next 2 days should be fairly easy since the 2 attorneys that I work for the most are in San Antonio at a conference! Woo hoo! :)

Have a great week, friends!

February Fun

This morning I was on my way to work when I saw some brake lights ahead of me. It looked like there was a minor fender bender. No one looked hurt and the 2 men were both exchanging information. However, I was in a big hurry and needed to get to work. Of course, NO one from the other lanes would let me over to get away from the accident. I put on my blinker, stuck my "nose" out there and kept hoping a kind soul would let me in.

Two to three minutes went by it seemed before I FINALLY saw someone flash their lights and wave their hand to "come on in!". I waved my hand in a very cheery way and said THANK YOU!! It was then that I looked in my rear view mirror and saw that the kind soul who let me in was none other than my darling husband Grant. :) That's why I love him! (And if he had driven by without letting me in he would've gotten a sassy phone call from me!)

Anyways, I am still a bit out of sorts. I have been sick as a dog. I was in bed all day Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I had a fever of 101.3. That was NOT fun but thankfully my Katie brought me some gatorade and made it all better! Monday I finally went to the doctor. Turns out I have bronchitis and a sinus infection. I got lots of fun medicine and got back to work yesterday. I feel a bit too drugged up to be at work but no one has really seemed to notice. I guess I always act goofy! :)

I spoke with Ronda for quite awhile yesterday and she and Chase are both home resting. Praise the Lord! I was expressing to her how amazing it is that it is February now- and that THIS MONTH is the month that she and Chase will become parents! I am beside myself with joy! All of these babies are coming into my life. I am so beyond blessed to be an aunt.

In other news, I am enjoying American Idol this season and have already picked out a few favorites.

Bikini girl is not one of them.

Praise!

Happy Saturday morning, everyone!

If you head on over to Ronda's blog, you will learn that Chase's platelet counts went way WAY up! :) Praise the LORD! I am so relieved and thankful to God for His mighty healing and provision. Please continue to pray that the treatments continue to work and that he is fully recovered by the time the little additions to our family arrive!

Grant is on his way to Baton Rouge right now. Sadly, I am not. I started getting a mild cough on Wednesday that has turned into something AWFUL. Last night I hardly slept from all the coughing and nose-blowing and my sinuses feel horrible. I feel like someone is pinching my head like a grape. So, clearly, I chose not to go with Grant so that I would not get Chase sick. I also didn't wanna get the Baby Mama sick so close to the arrival! :)

Praise the Lord for healing. Keep praying for Chase!

PRAYERS PLEASE!

Calling all prayer warriors!

We got a call last night about Grant's brother Chase. I know many of you read Ronda's blog and know that theire twins are due in just a few short weeks. This is a very happy and busy time for them, but things just got a bit more stressful.

Ronda explains things more clearly on her blog, but basically Chase's platelet counts are alarmingly low, and seem to be decreasing when they should be increasing. He is not feeling poorly but they are admitting him to the hospital if things don't start to go on the up-swing.

Please pray for wisdom for the doctor's and for a quick and speedy recovery for Chase in the event that surgery is in the near future. He will be a daddy VERY soon and those little ones need his undivided attention!

Thank you for praying.

I Don't Even Know What to Call This

Two nights ago I had a dream.

The dream was that a bunch of our family and friends were congregating at my parent's old lakehouse. One of my dear friends brought with him his pet goat. Yes, I said goat.

So, this goat was making me uncomfortable and I told my friend, "please don't let the goat near me". At this moment the goat jumped up onto the bench next to me, and he looked at me and made a goat noise.

When he made that goat noise, white letters appeared at the bottom of the "screen" in my dream and said "I'm Nervous".

Yes. The goat had sub-titles.

I am really concerned about myself and my mental health.

In the same dream, I sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for Simon Cowell.

I was trying to analyze this dream with Grant to find out what it could mean and asked him, "I mean, why would the goat have sub-titles?" to which Grant responded "Cause how else would you understand the goat?".

Please pray for me and my mental health.

And also, please pray for the goat and his nerves.

It's a Christmas Miracle

I would like to announce....

That I dried a LARGE load of clothes in my dryer....including TWO towels....
and it dried....

in 1 HOUR and 10 MINUTES!!!!!

Grant should break things more often. SERIOUSLY!

:) I am just thrilled.

You know what else I'm thrilled about?

Katie & Mo are moving here.......

TODAY!!!

Husband Lends a Helping Hand

On Monday night when I got home from work, I immediately put a load of clothes in the washer. The reason I have to do this immediately is because, as I have stated before in previous posts, my dryer takes 3 hours to dry clothes and that is NOT an exaggeration.

So Grant got home from work, we went to the gym, and when we got back I started to cook dinner.

As I was making dinner, sweet Grantley came up and asked me if I needed any help with anything. Precious. So I told him that if he wanted to help me, he could transfer all the clothes from the washer into the dryer. "Sure thing" he said.

I wasn't paying attention to what he was doing (I was focused on the stove) but all of a sudden, Grant said "Well, the dryer's broken".

"What do you mean?"

"I broke the dryer".

"How did you do that? I just asked you to put clothes in it and press start"

"Well, I know you're always complaining about how long it takes, and it looks like the hose back there is all twisted, so I wanted to untwist it for you. But, I broke it instead".

".... okay.... so I can't dry those clothes tonight? They just have to stay wet?"

"Uh huh. I'll call maintenance tomorrow."

"Okay...." (inhale. exhale. He was trying to help. inhale. exhale.)

Sweet-darling-pumpkin-head is trying to help, I know, but this morning I cringed when I saw those wet clothes in there. The maintenance team is supposed to come sometime today. :)

Nice. Maybe it won't take 3 hours to dry clothes anymore, though!

I am thankful for my husband and his helpful, servant heart. :)