All Time Best Birthday Cake!

Happy Birthday, Lisa!

Yesterday was our friend Lisa's birthday. Keith and I worked up a surprise for her and the 4 of us went to Derby Dinner Playhouse. We saw Beauty and the Beast. It was amazing. The characters and costumes were so unique and creative. I think Lisa was impressed and had a good time.

ZZTop sings that?

Happy Birthday, Michelle! For her birthday, we all went to the ZZTop concert at Ft. Knox this past Sat. Yes, I had heard of them, but couldn't tell you anything that they sang until someone told me? But to my defense, I can tell you only a handful of songs that I know the singer of. I just don't keep up with it. Anyway, we had two carloads of people with us; Michelle and Dave, their son and new daughter in law, Mike and Samantha, David, Keith, Brad and I.

I was really excited about this and even went to the scrapbook store and got this stuff to do a layout.

Then I found out that we couldn't take cameras in and that they would be taken if you were caught with them. So I thought all would be lost for the layout.

I've still got ticket stubbs so all might not be lost and Keith took lots of pictures with his camera phone. Who knows if they will come out though.

The show started with Blackberry Smoke out of Atlanta. They were pretty good, had a couple of funny songs. Then Blind Melon came out. I had never heard of them either, until someone actually sang the song for me a couple of weeks ago at school. No Rain ended up being the only song that I knew or even understood.

While we were waiting for ZZTop to come out we ran into a girl that plays on our softball team. She was working at the Chase Credit Card booth, signing people up for free t-shirts or something. She brought all of us t-shirts and then had a something special for Brad and David. Yep, backstage passes! Brad and David were going backstage after the concert. ZZTop finally came on and were pretty impressive for old guys. The bras started flying, not mine thank you, but they seemed to be going everywhere. People are crazy. We had a ball dancing and singing though.

After the concert, Brad and David took off backstage. They apprently got a big briefing about how they could not take pictures, use cell phones, or even speak etc. They said it was like going to see the president or something. They got things signed by all three guys, but didn't talk to them at all. Someone did take Brad's picture to put in the Turret, the Ft. Knox paper, though. So hopefully, I'll at least have the picture to put in my scrapbook. And he got my t-shirt signed.

So that was our weekend. Brad's at work and I'm in my scrapbook room all alone. I might actually try to do something here scrapbook wise. Two posts in one day is pretty productive though for the first day of summer vacation! Make sure you read below too.

I Getting Bad at This!

I really getting bad about going weeks without posting. It's not that I don't have anything to write about, I just can't find five minutes to sit down.

So, I turned 30. No big deal, but I had a great day and weekend, though. My friend Michelle picked me up early on the 3rd and we went to Louisville to play bingo. You get to play free at some places on your birthday, might want to keep that in mind. I called "Bingo" on a $500 game, my first win ever! Another lady got it at the same time though and we had to split it. $250 isn't bad though. So since we won, we went and got pedicures.

We came home and Brad and Dave had decorated the whole house and my car. They had a balloon full of confetti over the door that they popped when I opened the door.

We ended up with a house full of people and had a great party.

The next Monday, the 5th, I only had to work half a day, so I met up with Teaque and we headed to Louisville to meet Bethany and Traci for another birthday dinner. Of course, we had to meet at Olive Garden. Yum!

For Brad's birthday we headed to Cincinnati to see the Cubs and Reds play. We took our friends Dave and Shell, as well as Makinsi. I was so excited to get to take Makinsi to her first Cubs game, but I'll have to make that another post.

Crazy Life!

Yes, I'm still alive. Things have been so chaotic lately. It's been almost a month since I posted, but we have just been so busy. It seems like I get home in time to go to bed most nights. This weekend we even went on a whirlwind trip to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. Brad's nephew's birthday party was this weekend out there so we went. We left early Sat. morning and got home about 9:30 last night. We took Makinsi with us though and we had a ball. She cracks us up.

She was so good. I picked her up Friday night and she spent the night with us and we left early Sat. morning. She was a great car rider, especially for a 7 hour trip. She watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. I had never seen this so I listened to it while I was driving and had to finally watch it last night. I knew all the words, but didn't know what was really going on. I'm thankful, I'm not blind. I'm pretty proud of the fact that I spend 2 days and nights with her completely in my care. This is the first time she has spent the night with us since last June, before she could move around so much. And I brought her home in one piece... Well...

We did have one heartattack moment with her. Sunday morning I walked her down to the car to put some things in the trunk. As we were coming back in she pushed the buttons on the elevator and as the door opened she put her hand on the door. It pulled her hand right into the door and it was stuck. She started screaming and I couldn't get it out. I tried to push the open button, but it wouldn't release. I finally just pulled real hard and got it out. She is screaming like crazy and I was crying by the time I got her back up to the room. Brad asked what was wrong with her and when I turned around he saw the tears in my eyes. I'm sure I scared him half to death. I felt so bad. I think she ended up fine. We ran it under water and then put some ice on it. I think I cried longer than she did. The thing that upset me the most was that there were probably 10 guys standing in the lobby, probably military, and not a one came to help me. Anyway she was back to normal, but Aunt He He bought her a new baby at Cracker Barrell to make it up to her. I think she's back to normal. She was hanging out the sun roof when we stopped for dinner.

Hunter's party was a Spiderman theme. Spidey even came to his party. How cool is that? I think he was impressed until he saw the hole in the back of Spidey's head and that might have been then end of it, if I hadn't told him that Spidey just got a bump on the back of his head during his last fight. He said, "Maybe you're right."

I have several photo sessions scheduled. I have apparently become a photographer for hire lately. I have taken engagement pictures in the last couple of weeks. This is the son and fiance of a friend of mine.

I'm taking their wedding pictures on the 17th of May. It's a little nerve racking. I've done one wedding before and it was a very small wedding party. This one is lot larger; 3 attendants on each side and full families on both side. Keep your fingers crossed. The girl's mom is also getting married later on this year, so I am also doing their engagment pics and wedding pics. Got a little business going here.

Celebration #2

After church we all went back to Mom and Dad's to get ready for celebration #2 - Makinsi's First Birthday. The poor thing was so sick. She couldn't breath through her nose at all, so that makes drinking and using the paci pretty hard, but she was a trooper, during her Disney Princess Party!

She loved the icing and dug right in.

I think Cousin Bailey has been teaching her how to eat!

Uncle Chris gets the best present award. The rocking horse moves its head when you squeeze it's ear, then it will wag its tail and whinnies. She absolutely loved it. Check out the cowgirl boots he got her to go with it.

Of course she loves her Aunt HeHe!

And then.....

Out she goes.