Fall TV Line-up

I have a lot of things to catch up on here, but I thought I'd start by giving you my TV shows for the new season. Now that I have DVR, my list has grown since I can watch more than one show in the same time slot.

First - General Hospital - my sister will gag at this one, since she thinks that Soap Operas are ridiculous...and they are. But, I'm going to blame this one on my mom. Ever since I was very young, I've watched this show. I was in LOVE with Frisco when he was on many, many years ago. Now the kids on the show are my age and having kids of their own. I guess that's what makes it interesting to me. Plus, it's a good wind-down in the afternoons when I get home.

Monday
7th Heaven - Nothing much else on. It's also one of the only classy shows left.
The Bachelor Rome - starts on Monday, but I always enjoy watching and critiquing with Lolly after the show is over.

Tuesday
Gilmore Girls - just a fun girly show to watch. The reruns are great too!
Dancing with the Stars - A family favorite! Landrie loves to twirl around the living room while this is on. Lamar and I are rooting for Emmitt Smith...thank goodness he made it through tonight. We were threatening to boycott.
Law & Order: SVU - Jordan and I are addicted. This show leads to some disturbing dreams sometimes, but I've always been interested in crime stories.

Wednesday
Dancing with the Stars Results - need I say more...
Lost - Starts next week. We used to have watching parties with our HT friends. We'll see how season 3 pans out. It was starting to get weird for a while, but I enjoy having something to talk to my kids at school about. They all love it.

Thursday---MUST SEE TV Night
Thank goodness for DVR because Thursday is Game Night so Lamar misses Grey's Anatomy. Another family favorite. When Landrie sees it on, she calls it the Doctor's show.
6 Degrees caught my interest last week. I'll keep watching to see what I think.
ER- Another old favorite. I'm DVRing it and will watch it if I have time.

Friday & Saturday - No shows

Sunday
Desparate Housewives - we've watched it from the beginning and I'll continue to watch even though it's not so much a favorite any more
Brothers & Sisters - I forgot to record this last week. I'll give it a chance though since it has such a great ensamble of actors. We'll see!

At some point I'll need to sleep, eat and raise my children, so I may have to cut back on this hectic schedule! Haha!!

How I met THE one!

It's funny that when you're getting to know someone the conversation always turns to how you met your husband/wife. And although I haven't had a conversation with anyone in the "bloggy" world, this is one of the posts that's gone around. Barb at A Chelsea Morning posted the idea, so here goes:

Going to a small college, you kind of just know everyone. On our campus, there were only 2 sororities and 2 fraternities. I was a member of Alpha Xi Delta and our sorority was usually paired off with Lambda Chi Alpha, Lamar's fraternity. I knew who he was, but that was about it. I don't really remember an introduction, but I do remember the first time I noticed him other than just a Frat Boy.

I was moving back in the dorms after Christmas break and my friend Tommy brought Lamar by to my room. I thought...this is strange. I knew who he was, but we'd never really talked. From there, we hung out a lot, just talking between classes and things. We had our Sweetheart Bash coming up and the guy I was dating at the time couldn't go. So, Lamar became my "default" date...just friends, you know. From that date on, we were a couple. Our first official date was February 14, 1999.

We've now been together 7 1/2 years, married for nearly 5 and have 2 beautiful girls!! This is my Happily Ever After!

Sweet Husband

The last few days haven't been the best. I'm feeling pulled in many different directions, but I think I'm still managing to keep everything functioning at a good level. My two proudest accomplishments around the house lately are making my bed everyday (except today...oops) and cooking dinner at least 3 nights a week.

The bed thing is something that is important to me, but I'm sure Lamar could care less. Dinner on the other hand, I know is more important to him. I don't really doubt that Lamar notices these things or that he appreciates them. The problem is I am a words person and Lamar is not. That's probably pretty obvious, but after we took the Love Languages test, it was confirmed. (He's Acts of Service)

I let Lamar know that I was feeling unappreciated. Evidently he agreed...

He came home last night early so I could go to my nail appointment. While I was gone, he took Landrie & Karsyn with him to the store and cooked dinner!! I think that was his first time ever to venture out with the girls by himself. Just for that I was impressed.

He and Landrie also picked up a surprise for me...

Last night was great! My Love Tank is FULL again! :)

Thursday Night Lights

Tonight was Lamar's second football game of the year. They played Bedford Junior High at Bell. I debated whether or not to go to the game. Landrie didn't take a nap at school again, so I thought I could get her to go to bed early.

Well...after a couple of hours of her playing wildly around the house, I decided we would lay down together in her room. Next thing I know, it's 6:30 and we've both been asleep for a while. I woke her up and we headed to the game. I knew after that nap, there was no way she would go to bed early.

We got to the game during the 3rd quarter. I lugged Karsyn in her seat along with our Sonic dinner up the bleachers. It was so nice outside. Landrie loves to watch football. During the game she yelled for Daddy to put on his "hemet" (helmet). She's so sure that he needs to be out there playing WITH the kids...not just coaching.

The scoreboard said 15-99 Bedford winning, but the actual score was 14-12. We WON!! Central is off to a good start and we can only hope for a successful season.

We came home and I thought Landrie would be ready to crash, but as you can see...she's still bouncing off the walls!



Tomorrow night Bell plays Boswell at Boswell, so Lamar will have a late night. We're hoping for a win for Bell...we'll see!

A New Addition to the Family

From the title, you might wonder what in the world we've added to the family. It's not another baby and definitely not an animal, but a...New Car!

My Jeep had seen its better days, so I went to Payton-Wright Ford today and after 5 hours of patiently waiting, I am the proud owner of a 2006 Ford Explorer! I love it!! It has the 3rd row seat and rear AC that were the top features I wanted.

Here's some pictures!

Karsyn

Here's 2 of my favorites of Karsyn from today

Picture Day

I'll admit it...I'm not great about having the girls' pictures taken. We take plenty at home, but the last time Landrie's picture was taken professionally was April '05! So, a year and some months later, here we are again.

We found a great place to have pictures made called Portrait Innovations. They do a great job and you get your pictures the same day. They draw you in with a $9.95 "Special" that includes a 10 x 13, 2 8 x 10s, and several others all the way down to wallets of a single pose. When they take over 80 pictures, that makes things difficult.

I took Gigi with me hoping she'd help me find the perfect picture and we'd walk out of there spending just $9.95 + tax. Boy were we wrong! It's difficult to only choose one, especially when these were Karsyn's first professional photos.

Things started off OK...



And got progressively worse!Landrie was not enjoying herself and there was no amount of coaxing, bribing or just straight telling her she would do it to get a decent smile. She just clammed up. I still think they're pretty cute!

There are SEVERAL others, so I'll post a few more next time!

Thank you Gigi for the pictures!! The girls were thrilled to see you and Grandpa today!

3 days and counting

Karsyn is STILL sleeping through the night!! She even slept until 8:40 this morning!! What a blessing!