Life IS good

Do you know what I love about being a Mom? Aside from the obvious- raising intelligent, compassionate, loving children. I love riding home from the playground with all the windows down, the sunroof open, the radio blasting and listening to my daughters sing all the words to 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' by Pat Benatar. That's Lara doing her air guitar & Jewel on the drums in the first pic. I LOVE MY LIFE!

Ain't no party like a Scranton party cause a Scranton party don't stop!

So- here it is! We've been waiting all summer for this night. My brother, Randy, and I had a Party Planning Committee meeting a couple weeks ago. The ideas started rolling out. We invited our "Office" fanatic friends and had a fabulous party. The guest list included: The Cochrans + Reed, Duggans, Giddens, Pettyjohns, Waxters & the Wileys. We are sooo blessed with such great friends.
Heath & LaFae Duggan were the trivia winners, Danny & Jaime Waxter were the door prize winners. I forgot to put the "c" in Schrute on the shirt and I freaked out when I realized the mistake. Sorry guys- I'm not worthy! The replacement shirt is on its way! Reed & I suspended a duplicate of Bryan's phone in jello (thanks Randy!) and then we taped his phone underneath the table where the jello was. We called his phone and the jello was ringing! Those are mini Dundie awards on the table. The season 5 premiere was AWESOME!
So- who's hosting the season finale?

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I'm gonna tell on you

Governor Sonny Perdue issued his antigouging order late Friday. Drivers who think they've been price gouged at the gas pump should save their receipt and contact the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs:

In the Atlanta area: 404-651-8600

Outside Atlanta metro: 800- 869-1123

www.consumer.georgia.gov

Don't be a victim.

Hair we go

Just after we moved back to Georgia in the summer of 2006, my sweet daughters decided to play "beauty shop" in their room. After they chopped each others hair off at the root, cleaned up the shed locks by hiding them and I stopped screaming.....we had to get ready for a wedding reception in Charlotte, NC for my cousin, Robbie. (that's sister of the groom- Deborah in the pic with the girls) I did everything I could to disguise their new "hairdos" to no avail. Until I remembered something we used to do at Girls' Camp to keep us busy and our hair out of our faces. I searched all over and found elastics to match their dresses and voila! Now I'm checking out all the cute little girls around with "smocked" hair and I'm thinking, "Wow- we were in style and we didn't even know it!"

To forward or not to forward?

Oh my gosh! I love it! Ya'll know I don't forward emails, but this one was sent to me by my cousin, Michele, and she laughed out loud and so did I. At least one of these will make you smile.

Maintain a Healthly Level of Insanity-

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sundglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice!

3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4. Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine additions, switch to Espresso.

5. In the Memo field of all you checks, write 'For marijuana'

6. Finish all your sentences with 'In Accordance with the Prophecy'.

7. Skip down the hall rather than walk! and see how many looks you get.

8. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

9. Specify that your Drive-Thru order is 'To Go'.

10. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.

11.Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you have a headache.

12. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won!"

13. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling "Run for your lives! They're loose!"

14. Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let
one of you go.'


Ha-ha-ha :)

My first time

Well- I just was so proud of the made-from-scratch custard (I used my double boiler for the first time) and meringue. It's my first totally homemade banana pudding! Thank you Paula Deen. Now, don't ya'll wish you were coming over for dessert?

July 2008 trip

We've had some trouble with our home computer and are trying to save things off of it. I wasn't sure if we could get these pictures of our summer trip to NJ & PA. But we did....so here they are. We decided to go with Bryan to NJ for the week and just hang by the pool. After doing so for one day he calls me from work to tell me that if we can stay 2 extra days then we can go to his company picnic on Saturady. Ok- sounds good. So we got to take the kids to Philadelphia as a stop-over and then to Hershey Park, PA. We walked all over the city of Philadelphia listening to stories about this great nation. At the end if you get all your stickers before 4 pm they you get a coupon book for free stuff around the city. So much fun packed into one day.....and you can do all of it for FREE! We highly recommend it! What a trip.

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