On Friday countdown

1. This week is dragging by, I guess it doesn't help I have had to be at work before 7 the last two days because philip has been going out of town.

2. I for some reason am in a baking mood, I am going to try out a new cookie recipe this week, maybe they will turn out better than my brownies did.

3. I am amazed at how time flies, I can remember meeting Nicole and Michael the first time, they were 3 and 5, now they are 10 and 12, and it's breaking my heart to know they are growing up, and the day is coming where they will be too cool for Aunt Jenn and Uncle Philip. Ha....

4. I am helping out in our 1st and 2nd grade sunday school class, this week I will be teaching the lesson, I am so excited, I have made a poster for the visual and gone to buy the treasures for our treasure bowl.

5. It's hard to believe school starts next week, football is right around the corner, and Christmas will be here before you know it. AHHH!! I say every year I am not gonna wait until the last minute, but we are always out buying someone's present on Christmas Eve.

6. I am hoping to have my wisdom teeth surgery at the end of this month, even though I am nervous, I am ready for it to be done and over

7. We got our paperwork in the mail yesterday for adopting a baby, I didn't realize what all was involved and how expensive it was, this made me a little crazy, because when I say expensive, I mean it. We are praying about it, and praying that if this is something God wants us to do, he will guide us to the answers of how we will pay for all the expenses. I can't help but wonder if this is what God has wanted us to do all along, but we just ignored him, I don't know we will see, Pray for us, that whatever God has in store for us, we will follow obediently.

8. I got to take some good ole dessert to some pretty good people, who just had a baby, a boy named Jonah Scott, it is our youth minister and his wife, and they are really nice, it made it so easy to go over there knowing I was going to see a new baby. I love me some babies!!!!

9. I plan on hanging out in the pool this weekend to keep from melting, the high for Sunday without the heat index is 100 deg. that's hot.

10. I am going to pick up my niece and nephew this afternoon, so me and my niece can have mani/pedi day, and so the nephew can see his new bunk bed, I hope he likes them, his uncle philip worked hard getting them set up for when he came over.

Well I hope yall have a good day.

Jennifer

Friday Fun

1. I can not believe in two weeks, all the kids will be back in school, where did the summer go?

2. I am so glad it's Friday, looking forward to getting some things done around the house, and maybe find some time to rest

3. I am about to jump into unknown territory and do something I have never done before, God is with me, so I am calm.

4. I can not believe in two and half months, me and the hubs will have been married 4 years and together 7 1/2 years, honestly, it seems longer, but I absolutely love being married to my hubby

5. I want to start painting again, I really enjoyed doing it a while back, and it helped me relax, I don't think I am going to try free hand again, though, that is certainly not my gift. HA!!!

6. I had a friend of mine who lost his life this week, he was so young, (38), it was such a shock to his family, but he was needed more in heaven than on earth. RIP David Lambert

7. I am so pumped, football season is right around the corner, I am ready to see the Colts play again, for those that don't know, I am a huge Peyton Manning fan, I have watched him play since he was at Tennessee.

8. I really enjoyed the Atlanta Braves game, I have had to learn to like baseball, since that is hubs' favorite sport, and honestly I love it.

9. I think I am gonna go to Life Way this weekend and buy me some Beth Moore books, I have been told her books are great, so we will see.

10. Well everyone have a good day, and a good weekend.

Many Blessings.

Jennifer

Our Atlanta trip

So we left at 7:00 am Friday morning, heading towards Atlanta, and I was ready for the moans and complaints to begin right off. I was ready for don't touch me, Aunt Jenn he/she is on my side, are we there yet, blah blah, nope none of that. This is because Michael and Nicole slept pretty much the entire time, and for the first time I didn't. I don't know what it is, as soon as I get in a car I want to go to sleep, I usually sleep the entire time of a road trip, and the poor hubby drives the whole time, but this time I was awake and really enjoyed just talking to the hubs, and talking about how excited we are to be going to Atlanta. So after forever driving we made it to the hotel at 4, they are an hour ahead of us, got everything unloaded and started getting ready to go to the game, me and Philip found out what it's like to live with a pre-teen girl, 45 minutes later she is out of the shower, so we are late leaving, and by the time we started getting near the stadium, traffic was at a stand still, OMG, by the time we got to the stadium, parked, walked to the stadium, it was 7:15, game time was 7:35. Let the excitement begin. Well because I don't know much about how the stadium works in major league baseball games, I ordered our tickets on the brewers side, which meant we sat by brewers fans, boo!!!!. We encountered a group of drunk brewer fans, and they showed out, I wondered out loud to my husband who the designated driver was, because everyone in their group was intoxicated, he said probably the one who will be the least drunk, another OMG. Can you imagine. I can't see how they could afford to drink there, the beer was $7.00 a can, the only reason I know this, the vendor dude wanted to hang out in front of our row and scream it out. Well needless to say as Chipper Jones comes up to bat, which by the way is my husband's favorite baseball player, the vendor guy stopped right in front of the hubs and talked to the drunken brewers fans, hubs was not happy, so politely, ok maybe not so politely, told the brewers fans to stop talking to the vendor and for the vendor dude to move, chipper was his favorite player and this is why we came here, the drunken guy and the vendor both apologized, needless to say it didn't happen again. Well the Braves ended up getting beat 9-3, we left in the 8th inning. Saturday we all got up, got dressed, went and had breakfast, then headed to the aquarium, I am thinking oh this is great it's early, we will get in, look around, and have the rest of the day to do something else. WRONG!!!!! When we got there, there was a line out the wazoo, did I mention there was 7 family reunions in town that weekend, yeah lucky us, well I am guessing these families were all wanting to go to the aquarium. Well long story short, after 3 1/2 hours of standing in line we got our tickets, but still had to wait for another 2 hours before we could go in, so we ate lunch and hung out downtown. When we finally got to go inside the aquarium, all the time we had to wait, was wiped away, it was so worth it, the aquarium was awesome, with all the fish, alligators, beluga whales, sea lions, sea otters, and a whole bunch of other stuff, Michael and Nicole got to touch a sting ray, a baby shark, jelly fish, and some sponge like thing, which they thought was really cool. The aquarium was by far my favorite, and I think it was the kids too. Well let me say, after spending all that time downtown, we were more than ready for something real fun, so we went swimming at the hotel pool, and we had fun, the kids and philip played noodle war, it was philip against michael and nicole, and I have not heard or seen them laugh this much in a long time, I got so tickled. The rest is nothing excited, ate dinner, got packed to come home the next day, then went to bed, the next day we had to do the forever drive again. By the way, on this round I got the don't touch me, he/she is on my side, are we there yet, why is it taking so long, but it was worth it. Nothing is better than knowing I got to spend the weekend with my most favorite people, the hubs, Michael and Nicole, and to hear them tell us how much fun they had, and can we do it again next year, but this time stay a week. OMG!!!! I was glad to get home to my babies, and my bed, I missed it so much, when you are used to a california king bed and have to sleep in a double, it makes for some uncomfortable sleeping. Oh well! I am so glad to know we made memories for us and for the kids to remember for a life time.

Jennifer