Update (again) - part ONE!!

Well, we just got home from travelling for the past two weeks. Drew, Alex and I left tuesday, June 10th for Indianapolis and our faux wedding. We stayed with Heather Tuesday and Wednesday night. Tuesday night we went to a bar on the Southside - Bubba's and met up with some of Drews friends from high school, drank some beers and ate some wings. Wednesday I was hungover (thanks to cheap tequila in my margaritas). Wednesday night we were going to go out downtown Indy and up to Ruths Chris to see matt, but I was exhausted as was drew and heather, so we stayed in. It turns out Peyton Manning went into Ruths and we missed him! Matt was very dissapointed in us!
Thursday drew and i moved into the Sheraton on the northside and went about our business getting things together for the party. Thursday night Drew, Heather, Matt and I went to Scotty's Brewhouse for some beers, martinis and dinner. It was delicious and a great time!!! (I came out much soberer then the first time I went there - when I spent $80 on shots for people!!). Heather and I had a 'flight' of martini's. They were three 4 ounce martini's in themes. Heather had the 'Keep the doctor away' and I had the unwind. Mine had a margatini (not a fan) and a lemon drop (very yummy!). Friday we tried to just relax all day - haha. I dropped drew off at his mom's to do laundry and Jessica (the babysitter) and I ran errands around the northside of indianapolis. We pick drew up around 2 and then he went to get my brother, chris, from the airport in a torrential down-pour!!! It took them about an hour and a half to drive back to the hotel - it usually takes about half and hour!!! So, during this time Jessica and I got ready and got alex ready for our drinks and appetizers at Ruths Chris's. We were supposed to be there by five. My crazy mother-in-law was there at around 4 wondering where we were!!! Drew and Chris got back to the hotel around 5 and we got ready and were at the resturant by 5:15. We had a Great time!!!! Much drinking and eating was done by everyone!!! We all had a great time and spent a lot of my father-in-laws money. But, just his side (including drews mom's side) of the family alone drank about $2000 worth of alcohol in the course of 3 hours, so they couldn't complain either!!!
It was awesome hanging out with my brother - as heather calls him - her second husband.... :) After dinner we went back to the hotel and Chris, Heather, Jessica, and James got into the hot tub for awhile - that was also fun and relaxing.


Ok - that was Tuesday until Friday -

Saturday and Sunday will be part two and then vegas will be part three!!!
Meanwhile - I've got to get drew, alex and I packed for Jazz on the Lawn at the winery here - Beachhaven - we haven't been before, but I'm excited. We're going to take some chicken and food from KFC, drink a couple of bottles of wine, and listen to some good music!!!



so -

to be continued!!!!

UPDATE!!

Oh my. Sorry about the long break in between updates. I had to finish finals. That was a job in of itself. Then I went back to work semi-full time. That tired me out (it's been forever since I groomed dogs more then one day a week!!). Then we bought a house to flip. That is crazy.
Ok -
one by one -
Alex update: Alex can now pull up to his feet!!!! It's very exciting. Now we have to take all the batteries out of the remote control so that he doesn't change the channel when he gets up on the coffee table. There really is no stopping him now. He officially is in that stage of stranger anxiety, and wanting his momma. The other day when I left his daycare he cried for the first time. That's weird to me!! It breaks my heart, but at the same time I'm like great! Now I won't get anything done!!! He is definately his fathers child however, he constantly runs for the computer, speaker cords, tv, anything electronic - it's all over!!

Drew update: Drew didn't have to go to the school this week he thought he was going to have to do, but instead he's been busy at work with change of command ceremonies. A whole bunch of people are retiring, or getting promoted or moving, so he has to get plaques and inventories and other Army stuff done before everyone leaves. But, he is officially in charge of his shop now, the other Sargeant retires this month. He has also been working on the house, last weekend was all the demolition and this weekend it looks like there will be more of the same!

Amber update: I passed school with flying colors. I made it on the Deans list, and if it hadn't been for a B in my Drawing class (thanks to a dumb teacher), i would've had a 4.0. But, oh well. My mothers day was..... disappointing (mainly because of my husband). I've been busy working and running around pricing things for this new house. I'm also trying to get ready for our faux wedding in June and vacation to Vegas, which is coming up FAST and I am crazy busy.
Well, I guess that's about it. Just living life, one day at a time!!!

Welcome back to the land of the dead... soon to be living!

Well, my whole house is on quarintine. Nevermind the spelling. Drew is sick. And he never gets sick. Alex is sick. But he always gets sick. I have a hurrendous cough and allergies. (Again, nothing new). Molly keeps eating the food that alex throws on the floor and has disgusting, nasty, vomit-worthy diarhea. Thank god that after roscoe left she stopped pooping in the house. Hopefully. Tomorrow is the last day of class and I'm not going. I didn't go yesterday or today either. I'm trying to take care of my sick men.

I have a favor to ask - yes, again. But this time it is a selfless one. A little boy, Hunter, that went to daycare with Alex was accidently run over by his step-father last friday. Hunter passed away as a result, and I just wanted you all to pray for Hunters mommy. I have no idea what I would do if this happened to me. The closest has been when my aunts ex-husband ran over her dog. And that was a dog, and not even my dog. So, please keep Hunters Mom in your prayers and goodwishes.


I have to go sleep, I've been up since 4 am with sickies. Bleh. Sorry for the short blog, will write more soon!!

Lions and tigers and finals oh my!!!

Well, it's been awhile since I have updated! I've been so busy at school. To catch you up - I ended up entering the fruit and fabric drawing into the art show. I didn't win any prizes, but it is/was fun to see my drawing up with my fellow artists in an art show. And now that I have the anxiety of entering a show over and done with, hopefully I will be able to enter, and maybe win, some more shows!! Lets see - I've been busy getting my work done for finals. I'm going out of town this coming weekend to seattle, and finals start a week after I get back, so I have tomorrow, and then the weekend before finals to get my work done (I work this sunday so there isn't a hope for me getting anything done). I've also been getting stuff together for mine and drews 'fake wedding' this summer. To make a long story short - drew and I eloped November of 2006 so that we could start collecting on the Army benefits (living expenses and health insurance for me). Well, we were going to have a big wedding June of 2007. That changed when, two weeks after we eloped, I found out I was pregnant. But, drews mom still wanted to throw a party and all that jazz, and so, after waiting for a year and a half - we are having a reception/party/prom on June 14th of this year. This sounds like fun, and since drews mom was going to plan everything I thought - ok - what the hey. Except I didn't count in that I would have to address envelopes, organise babysitters for alex, find tuxes for drew and alex, get shoes, get my wedding dress altered..... etc. So it's basically added a whole bunch of extra work for me that i don't need right now. Oh well. It will be loads of fun, and then afterwords we are going to Las Vegas for four days!! YIPPEEEE!!
Alex had pink eye this past week - it flared up last friday and we took him to the ER on saturday. I stayed home with him Monday and it's better now, except now I have it!! ICKY!! Mine flaired up yesterday and I went to the ER (the clinic had already closed), and they gave me the same medicine alex had. I think I caught my flare up in time and I hope it will go away before I have to go back to school on monday. I stayed home from school today, but I still had to work. It was fine while I was at work, and not even the dog hair bothered it, like I thought it would.
On another note - i've reconnected with a whole bunch of old friends from Australia and New Zealand through facebook, and it's been so much fun learning about everyone and hearing about their lives now. The weirdest thing is now I am having horrible dreams about my past. I hope it will pass. Through this reconnection I have realized how lucky I have been, and how many people have influenced my life in both good and bad ways. I think that my actions have been the bad ways, however. And I've realized how I have taken advantage of people and the opprotunities I have had. That sucks. Maybe that's why I've been having bad dreams.
What else has happened?
Oh - we went on a picnic last sunday and played frisbee and soccer. That was lots of fun.

Alex can crawl! HEAVEN HELP US ALL!!!!! Haha. He still kind of army-crawls, but he's getting there. My life is officially over!! No more leaving alex alone in a room. I think it's time I pulled out his playpen again and he can crawl around in circles in that!!
I went to the neurologist this week for my wrist/arm. She ran some tests and declared I have nerve damage in my wrist (on the OPPOSITE side of the injury/surgery scar- weird!). But then she has referred me to a hand therapist to see if there is anything they can do. All the tests she ran, however, have made my wrist WORSE this past couple of days - but hopefully it will get better. It also doesn't help that I have started throwing bigger and bigger lumps of clay (3-7 pounds) and before I was throwing about 1 pound balls. But, it's so much easier with more!! I just kind of grin and bear it to get through the day - but I can't live with this pain for much longer. They have got to do something!!!!
Well. Drew is getting up early to go to the casinos in Paducah tomorrow for the day (it's about and hour and half away) and I have alex all day - so I need to get some sleep. I will leave you with some pictures.
The drawing is my final for my Drawing 2 class - a self portrait of me and alex. It is unfinished right now, but I have put about 5 hours worth of work on it so far. The others are from our picnic last weekend.

Good night all!!

This week sucked, and other sucky things....

Well, thank goodness this week is OVER. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't wait for tomorrow!!! For some reason everything and everybody this week has just been weird. People have either been rude, cranky or just plain dumb, and that's me included!!! So, hopefully tomorrow will be GREAT.... although I only have 4 weeks of school left!!
I can't wait for summer! We have so much stuff planned for this summer.... including putting hardwood in our living room and tile in the kitchen in may, a surprise going away party in may, having a fake wedding in june, going to Las Vegas in june, and going camping over the fourth of july for drew's birthday, and then Alex's first birthday will be the conclusion of the summer, on August 10th. YAY!
Now, if I can just make it through the next four weeks without losing my mind, or killing my husband!!! HAHA. Just kidding. Kind of! :)

My first entry into an art show.

So, US Bank in Downtown clarksville sponsers an art show every year to raise money for their scholarship they do. It's ten bucks to enter into and you can only do one entry. Well, I am entering something. And I'm scared Shitless. I don't know why, however, because they hang and display everything given to them... haha. I guess I'm just scared that all these people are going to see my drawing. The biggest problem is I only have three half-way decent drawings to decide from, and they are all from Drawing class at Austin Peay (two from Drawing one and one from drawing two). The choice I have to make is between these three:






and




and







As of right now I have one vote for the fruit and one for the light/books....
I'm nervous, and there is a 100% guarantee that I will be getting into the show!!!

EEK

The weekend come to a close...

I'm sitting right now at my computer upstairs while alex is playing behind me with his toys after a busy weekend, once again. 

Yesterday we all got up early and got ready to go to Nashville. After stopping at IHOP for breakfast we went to the Opry Mills Outlet Mall in Nashville to take a look around. Drew bought me a watch at the Fossil outlet there and I got some new flipflops at Old Navy for the summer. We then went to Sams Club... what a trek. We go to the Sam's Club on the southside of Nashville when we need formula for alex rather then going to the one here in Clarksville. The Sams in Nashville sells his brand of formula (Similac Soy) for 28 dollars for 36 ounces. Walmart and Target sell it for 26 dollars for 25 ounces. So, in the long run, it's worth it. Especially since he goes through a half a can at home and half a can at daycare a week. Only five more months of formula though, thank goodness. It's very expensive!! So we stocked up yesterday - I almost died when I saw the bill, but then realized that we bought 12 cans of formula, as well as diapers and stuff we all use a lot of. But, our Sams is up next month and I don't think drew is going to renew it, so we had to stockpile. 

After Sams we went to downtown Nashville to the Frist Museum to see the exhibit 'Monet to Dali'. Drew just wanted to see the Dali and Surrealist work, but I'm more interested in the Impressionism stuff, so it was good for us to get some culture. They had a couple of Picasso's, which drew thought was cool, and they had some Monet's and a Mondrian which was really cool. I discovered Mondrian in 9th grade, and it was awesome to finally see one in person. Drew doesn't really get it, but going to a Museum to see people I admire is awesome to me. It's like going to a concert or something. You hear the music, and buy the cd's - but there is nothing like an upclose and personal experience with it - you know? 

Anywho - we met up with a guy drew works with and his girlfriend and mom so then we met them a little later for dinner at the old spaghetti factory. I had never been there and was kind of dreading it (I thought it was like buca de beppo and I hate that place) - but, besides the service, the food was pretty good. Alex got his first taste of ice cream and he was loving that crap. It was busy because the predators had played, but we had a nice dinner. 

Phew. That just made me tired writing about it. 

Today we just hung around and cleaned. I went to the movies this afternoon with Melissa to see The Other Boleyn Girl. It was really good, and now I really want to learn about the Royals, cause I had NO idea what was going on.... but it was really interesting. Anything that makes my mind work lately I have been a fan of. 

Oh, I also found this website this week - www.postsecret.com and I thought it was amazing. You should look at it if you haven't. 

well, Alex is getting hungry - so yet again - the child beckons!!!!