NEW BLOG NAME.....

I never really liked the name of my blog and I never could come up with something fun. So I came up with this one "HAVING FUN WITH TWO". You never know I might come up with something else so keep watching......

Nothing much to post about. I haven't had time to upload/down load pictures from this past weekend, but they are coming. I have been really busy at work this past week, which has been nice because it has made this week fly by. But now I have to go home and fix Mamie and Nolan's costumes for tomorrow night, which is fine because I like doing stuff like that. Oh, I did finish three pair of pants last night. One for Mamie and two for Nolan. I think they turned out very cute. I guess I will have to take pictures and post all of what I have made when I get finished. Anyway, it is almost quiting time for me, have to go pick up Mamie and take her to gymnastics. So until next time, have a great Thursday night or better yet, HAVE A BOO OF A NIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT.......

3 1/2 gone

for nine days now i have have been heading to the gym to work out. this is what happens in the mornings. it started on monday, october 13th around 4:45 a.m. out the door by 5:00 a.m or a little after, went to the gym walked 2 miles, came back home showered, got mamie up and ready for school and left the house by 7:10 a.m. then tuesday night worked out with weights for about 45 mins, home helped with homework, played with children, got children (with help from husband) ready for bed. then wednesday came, did the same thing as that monday, thursday was the samething as monday. friday didn't feel like going, saturday morning walked and did weights, sunday was lazy. mondays, wednesdays and fridays (when i feel like it )i walk 2 miles. tuesdays and thursday is weights day. so, monday and tuesday rolled around again and it started all over. wednesday - friday off work. friday - sunday out-of-town ate everything i could get my hands on. monday again woke up you know the story, then comes today. worked out with weights and feeling fine. so yes, i am going to do this no matter what, i think i have gotten my body used to getting up that early and will do it again and again and again. as the title reads "3 1/2 GONE" just 30 more to go. i am not going to look at the big picture just each week.

oh, i am going to down load pictures and do a post about our weekend at the camp..... until next time..............

Sewing.....

it started wednesday when i went to jennifer's house and had a sew day. we have done this for the past year now and we have so much fun doing it. she taught me how to put a cuff on pants for nolan and applique and the is a big deal to me. i haven't gotten the letters down, but the squares and circle i can do. i made some cute football pants and a cute t-shirt to go along with it for nolan which we will wear tonight to a football game. nolan loves football and baseball. i have some baseball fabric ready to go for some pants as well. nolan just looks at them like WOW this is great. i will have to post pictures of the finished product. anyway, not much to say, just thought i would let the world know what i have been doing for the last couple of days. oh, i have been off since wednesday and have loved it, but i am ready to get back to work. o.k. that sounds weird, but i have worked hard these last couple of days. sewing, field trip with mamie, cleaning a house today, and packing to go out-of-town. i have fun and will have to do it again. thanks jen for helping me sew, it was great, great fun.

OH, ALMOST FORGOT. IF YOU ALL DON'T HAVE ANYTHING GOING ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 26TH. OUR CHURCH - FIRST BAPTIST MADISON, IS HAVING A FRIEND DAY FESTIVAL 4:00 - 7:00 LIBERTY PARK, MADISON. INCLUDING TRUNK-OR-TREAT, INFLATABLES AND PICNIC SUPPER (5:00 P.M.) AND PERFORMANCES (4:30) BY JONATHAN & LISA MOORE BAND AND COMEDIAN LEE MCBRIDE - ALL ACTIVITIES ARE FREE, JUST BRING A LAWN CHAIR OR TWO.

one year ago today

let me re-cap my story and then bring you up to today. i had this job for about 7 1/2 years and really liked it. it started going down hill about three years ago. i will not go into detail because i get very upset just thinking about it. i started really looking for a job last (2007) summer. well, i came across this one at umc and thought i had landed something good. well i talked to the lady about three times and then on that third time said "oh, by the way, what is the pay". when she told me i started crying, because i knew i couldn't take that big of a pay cut. i told her thank you so much for talking to me and she told me good luck in the job search. she was such a very nice person. she told me she was upset that i couldn't take the job as well. o.k. so moving on, october 2007 rolled around and i got this call from a lady. at first i didn't understand who she was, or what she said. i just heard are you still looking for a job? i say yes, and who is this again? she told me virginia carlton with the court of appeals and you have been highly recommended for this position that is available in my office. at first i still could understand who it was and where she was calling from. she called me on my cell phone and it was breaking up very bad. anyway, i agreed to meet with her on october 11, 2007. i called kyle and told him about what had just happen and he laughed and said "alison virginia carlton is a judge with the ms court of appeals". then i realize what was going on. so i went and met with her and she afford me the job that day. only thing is i couldn't say anything until judge southwick got appointed for the federal court. judge southwick had to be appointed before i got the job so i would call my friend at sentor trent lott's office for about two weeks asking when was this going to come up for a vote and she would say not today, not today. so she told me she would call me when it would come up for vote. well october 22, 2007 judge southwick was finally appointed to the federal court after about two long years of waiting. judge carlton call me that day and told me that the position is now open. o.k. let me fill you in on the position, a lady that worked for the judge was going to go with judge southwick when he got appointed and i was going to take her place. so i told judge carlton that i accept the position and when would you want me to start work. she said "as fast as you can". well i had to tell my other judges (i worked at the hinds county chancery court as a court administrator) that i was leaving, but they were not there because this was the annual court administrator and judges seminar. so i couldn't even tell anyone about this new job until after i told my judges that i was leaving. it was very hard. i only told kyle, my parents, and some very close friends that i knew wouldn't tell anyone about what was going on. so, after coming back from the seminar i told the judges that i was leaving and the end of october was my last day. yes, i know i didn't give a two weeks notice, but at that time in my life i really didn't care i wanted out!!!! so i started to work with the ms court of appeals as a judicial assistant to judge virginia carlton on november 5, 2007 and oh what a joy it has been. i am (well at least i think i am) such a better person to be around, i am happier to be around and i will stay until i retire. so thanks to the person that highly recommended me for the job with the coa and thanks to judge carlton for interview me for the postition, because i am loving everyday that i am there...........

4:45 a.m. comes early around my house

well, folks i did it again. i went to the gym monday morning @ 5:00 a.m., last night around 6:15 p.m. for about 45 mins, then again this morning around 5:15 a.m. i start to get hungry around 8:30 a.m. i will have to find some good healthy snacks to eat when that happens. if anyone knows of any good snacks please let me know. i have two more days left in this week and i plan to go to the gym both days. i ran into a friend at the gym this morning and she was telling about this class on tuesday and thursday mornings @ 5:30 a.m., so i am going to try that out in the morning. i have made my mind up that i am going to do this. i am sure there are going to be days i don't want to get up, you know the days that are cold and rainy, but i am going to try my best to get up and out the door. i am going to get kyle to take a picture of me now and when i lose 10, 20, 30 and then my goal 40 pounds. i am only going to do a post with my pictures before and after. like anyone really cares, but i am not doing this for anyone, i am doing this for myself............ so, let the pounds come off..........

I DID IT!!

Not that anyone cares, but I woke up this morning at 4:45 a.m., got dressed and went to the gym. Long story - short!! Last year around February I was waking up Monday - Friday @ 4:45 a.m. to get to the gym @ 5:00 a.m. to do my daily work out. I had lost some weight and was feeling very good about myself. This went on for several months and again, I was feeling good. Well, I got a sinus infection, we put Nolan in the big boy bed and he was waking up and coming and getting in our bed around 2:30 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. and I just couldn't make myself get up and go work out, you know one thing after the other comes up and you just don't go. I kept putting it off and putting it off. I would say o.k. tomorrow I will do it. Then I just got in a habit of not going. I would go when I could after work, but I wouldn't do it like I wanted. So anyway, back to this morning, I finally got my lazy self up and went to the gym. I plan on doing this tomorrow, the next day and then the next. I will let you all know how it is going. I AM READY TO BE SKINNY AGAIN.......

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on the nightstand

wow, two post in one night. i was tagged by heather to do this. so here it goes.

the rules:

*grab the nearest book
*open the book to page 56
*find the fifth sentence.
*post the text of the next two to five sentences in your blog along with these instructions.
*don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the closet.
*tag five other people.

the book: through the eye of the storm by cholene espinoza
page 56, sentence 5: shentrell later told me that the homeowners in the neighborhood had recently celebrated paying off their thirty-year notes.
this is my first book to read about katrina washing away the coast. i just never had it in me to read what happen to coast, but this book was given to everyone at the junior league meeting last month and i had just finish reading another book and wanted to read something else.

i tag whomever wants to do this.

HERE IS HOW MY BIRTHDAY WENT

i went in to get mamie up for school and she was kind of awake. she had her arm over her face and i said "oh my where is mamie". she just smiled and said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA, I LOVE YOU". then nolan walks in and says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY". i just laughed and mamie corrected him right off. nolan didn't like that too much. anyway, i ran around getting mamie ready for school and me ready for work. phone rang it was mom and dad wishing me a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. i asked mom what time i was born and she said "around 3:30". i laughed and said "well i guess i don't really turn "40" until then right". she said "i don't think that is how it works". mamie and i love singing along to music on the way to school so i said "you know since it is my birthday i want to hear something fun". mamie yelled out "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PLEASE". o.k. i know it is a little scary that i know some of the words. we had fun singing to the top of our lungs. i dropped her off and then headed to work. i was at a stop light about the third car back, all of a sudden i hear "BANG". well you guessed it, a lady ran into the back of me. i am so glad i didn't see it coming or i would have braced myself and it would have really hurt. so i got out, check my car and everything was fine. she was crying the entire time, saying that she had just gotten in a fight with her husband so on and so forth. i told her i understood, because my husband and i fought this past weekend as well and on top of that it was my birthday today. she started crying more. she gave me her information and off i went. oh, my car is fine and so am i, just a little stiff in my neck and my lower back it kind of tight. i got to work with warm wishes from the guards and phone calls from friends. kyle and i did get to go to lunch today and my judge and law clerks threw me a "80's" birthday party. my judge teased her hair very high, put shoulder pads in her shirt and some how found some blue eye shadow. boy those were the days. one of the law clerks made a cd for the occasion full of the "80's" we had cheese cake and lots of laughs. i picked up nolan, mamie, mason and jennifer so that we could go to the "FIRE SAFETY" thing at the library. (pics of that to come). for dinner kyle grilled salmon. we had a salad and yellow rice to go along with it. very good, i might add. he even bought a birthday cake for me, which nolan licked the icing off the cake. he told me to go look in the back of his truck for my present. i got a sewing table. i having been wanting one for about year now. thanks to jennifer i got the one i wanted. kyle also gave me a new (used) camera. i can't wait to learn how to use it. boy he is too good to me. after cake and ice cream we are all settling down for the night. so thanks to all of you for emailing me, calling me and commenting on the last post with well wishes for a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY". WHICH BY THE WAY WAS A HAPPY ONE..................

i can't believe kyle got us all looking and smiling.
the cake was about to fall off the black thing and we just started laughing. nolan is the only one looking at the camera which is very unusual, because he is the one that usually is looking away.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

tomorrow is the "BIG 40". i will celebrate this day by going to work, maybe lunch with kyle (he has court around 1:00 though), cake with co-workers and going to the ridgeland library with mamie, nolan, mason and jennifer for fire safety week. this picture was taken on our trip this past summer. we celebrated our 10 year anniversary, kyle's "40th" birthday and my "40th" birthday. kyle asked me if i wanted to go out to eat tomorrow night and i said "no, not really". he said "oh, o.k. then". i told him maybe a movie friday night. i really don't want anything, i already have very thing i want, a wonderful husband that loves me for who i am and two wonderful children. what more could i ask for????