Not so Straight after All

Well, as some of you noticed in Caleb's blessing pictures, my hair is not so straight after all. I feel bad for not posting a picture, but you really didn't want to see that mess. So I have gotten the courage up to post the best attempt at making my hair look some what presentable. I still don't like it much, and my hair is really damage from the whole experience. It practically falls out in handfuls when you brush it, which make me sort of nervous. I guess it's going to take me at least 6months for it to grow in some health hair growth. My hair takes forever to grow. I told the hairstylist that it has never worked and how many times I have tried this and I don't really think she believed me. So now I'm living with half straight/half stringy hair, I hate this half way in between stuff. It happens every time, you'd think I would have learned by now that I was meant to have curly hair and to embrace it. Well I think I finally have. I vow to never straighten my hair again, you've read it hear everyone, never again. So off I go having lots of bad hair days for quite a while. I did it to myself, I know better, oh well.

I see myself

I thought this was really funny, Caleb was starting to fuss and as soon as I turned the camera around and he saw himself he stopped crying. Oh Yeah, I finally figure out this video thing! Don't forget to pause music on the side

Turning 4 months and playing with Alligators

Caleb is now 4 months old wow can you believe it. Caleb loves to smile at everyone. He weights 14 lbs. and is really filling out and putting on that cute baby fat. He just started rolling from is back to his side, not quite officially rolling over yet, but will be soon I'm sure. Caleb loves his bath, he kicks and smiles and laughs to whole time. He has been a good little boy. His acid Reflux is slowly getting better as each day passes. We were able to go to the doctor a few weeks ago and get him some eye drops to clear up all the drainage he was having. He end up having an eye infection. As soon as we started to give him the drops he looked and felt much better. We sure do love having Caleb around and is so exciting to see him learning and growing. As for the whole alligator wrestling...
Caleb has been very excited about his new Alligator Gramma Mott gave him. Gramma sent him an alligator right before Jerry went out hunting for the real thing. So I guess Caleb had better luck he caught an alligator before his daddy did. Caleb loves to hold it and looks at it and laugh. Most of the time he just sticks it in his mouth and sucks on it. So he wrestled the Alligator and I think he won!

Kate Being Silly

Kate sometimes says some really funny things, so I'm trying to write them down or blog them so that I can remember them. A couple of days ago, Kate got upset and was crying about what I don't remember, but she started wiping her eyes really fast and saying "eyes get happy, eyes get happy." I asked her what she was doing and she said "I'm trying to make my eyes happy". She was trying to stop crying but I think I like how she said it better.

When I got my hair straightened or attempted to, she asked me "Mom what did you do to your hair? You look like Karrie" (that's my sister, she has very straight hair.)

When we had gone on vacation to visit Michigan and family my mom had just gotten out of bed and her hair was looking funny from sleeping. Kate with a very serious tone says "GRAMMA YOUR HAIR LOOKS TERRIBLE". Let just say at this age kids can be a little to honest. My mom asked her again what she said just to make sure she heard her right.

I can't think of any other ones right now, but I'll post some more either when she says it or if I remember some ones in the past. I hope you get a kick out of them as much as I do

Photo Scavenger Hunt Pictures

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Saturday our friends the Giustina's wanted to get together and do something fun. My friend Erica only had two requirements and they were 1. something cheap and 2. something to get out to the house. I was all for that. So we came up with having a photo scavenger hunt. We set it up where it was boys against the girls, with the exception on Caleb he had to go with me for obvious reasons. The boys came up with 20 ideas of what to take pictures of around the town and us girls did the same. We combined the list and set up a point/ranking for each picture. We didn't really know how many points to give each picture so we guessed at what would be the hardest things to get and gave them the most points. It was funny some of the ones we thought were going to be the easiest were the hardest ones to get. We left the list up for interpreted of how to get each picture. It was so neat to see the results and how creative each team was. We couldn't set up the game without having a prize to be won. Erica and I wanted babysitting services for an afternoon so we could go to a paint your own pottery place. The boys well they kept changing their minds, I still don't know what they wanted for there prize, something about watching the kids so they could workout or something. I'll have to double check that. So the game was on. We had so much fun, the kids had a blast, they really got into taking the pictures. It was such a good activity for the adults and for the kids. Oh I almost forgot that we had a two hour time limit. You had to get as many or all of the items on the list and be back at the meeting place on time. If you weren't on time you lost 10 points. It was fun going around our little town and getting photo of things that were special just to our little town. It was actually pretty challenging. The guys came up with some good ones. Well here is the list of items we had to find. The first 20 was the girls list and the second was the boys.
Girls List
1. someone walking a dog
2.Take your picture with someone in uniform
3. By a statue or monument
4. On a swing
5. Picture with a tampon box
6. Find a funny Church sign
7. In front of our Church sign
8. Fancy Car
9. Welcome to Enterprise
10. Helicopter
11. 4 different photos of out-of-states license plates
12. Picture of a phone booth
13. Team member pumping a stranger's gas
14. The smallest house you can find
15. Graffiti
16. Someone 85 years old or older
17. Team sharing one soda (everyone needs there own straw)
18. Go to Burger King and all take pics with crowns
19. Grave sign
20. Water Tower
Boys List
21. Water Slide
22. 3 Story Building
23. Police Officer
24. A Fish
25. A Horse
26. A Cow
27. Barrow (Furniture Store)
28. Upside down picture of someone on your team
29. Everyone on your team wearing cowboy hats
30. A Stranger
31. King
32. A Butt
33. Something Turquoise
34. Old Car
35. 167 North
36. CH-47 (Chinook Helicopter)
37. Duck
38. Purple Flower
39. Dothan
40. Fire Truck

The girls had trouble finding a police officer, but the guys got lucky and actually flagged one down that was driving and got him to stop and take a picture. I really like the smallest house pictures, we found the first school house in Enterprise and the guys found a DVD TV series called House, theirs was definitely smaller. The girls couldn't find the water slide. We also had a hard time pumping a strangers gas because for the last two days the oil company were threatening to raise the gas price in the south due to the Hurricane coming to shore. So everyone was out in long line trying to get gas. There was just not that many people pumping gas that day. There were some really creative interpretations of each picture and some pictures from each team turned out better than others. It was so much fun. Erica was such a good sport, I know it wasn't easy getting in and out of the car being 9 months pregnant. She did really great and the girls really liked posing for the pictures. I don't know about the boys, I am sure they had fun doing all the crazy things. We ended up going to Ruby Tuesdays for Dinner and Ice Cream at the Guistina's. When we got to their house we set up their laptop and our laptop and looked at each photo together. Boy we had some laughs and talked about what we did to get each pictures. I had so much fun, we have to do it again. We decided that we would change a few things up the next time we did it. We said we would probably think of more photo's to get and do more things with the general public and get them involved, because those pictures were the funniest ones to get. We even thought to have another couple of families do it with us. I recommend this to anyone it so fun and cheap. I did this once for a date night in college and remember it being one of my favorite dates, now I remember why because it was just so much fun. So the WINNER WAS............ The BOYS by 3 items. I'm up for a rematch. I'll post our pictures so you can see. Everyone had such a good time, it was great making some fun family memories with friends.

Kate 3 years old and Caleb 3 months old

Caleb's Baby Blessing

On Sunday we got the chance to give Caleb his Baby Blessing. He looked so handsome in his little white outfit. He looked like a little Angel. Jerry blessed Caleb and he did a wonderful job. It truly was a blessing fit just for Caleb and his personality and who he is. I know Jerry was very nervous, but he didn't let it show. Jerry really put a lot of thought into what he wanted to say and it was really nice. Jerry's Dad, Brian Mitchell, Bill Mozzo, Brenton Spivy stood in the circle to bless the baby with Jerry. We were able to have Jerry's parents and Jennifer, Neil, Sierra, and Mia here with us. It was so nice that they traveled so far to come celebrate this special day with us. It really meant a lot to us to have them here. We also were glad to see some friends from out of town here in Alabama come to show there support. Thanks Mitchell and Thomas families it was so great to have you there. All in all it was a great day and Caleb didn't cry and when Jerry held him up to show him to the congregation Caleb gave them one of his big smiles, everyone giggled at the site of it.

Fun Filled Weekend!

We've had a great time this weekend. We have family in town because we are giving Caleb a baby blessing on Sunday. Jerry's Mom and Dad flew in on Thursday afternoon, and Jennifer, Neil, Sierra and Mia came in on Friday as a Surprised to Jerry. It very hard to keep a secret and even surprise Jerry, but some how we did it. We had a good time going out to dinner on Friday for Neil's 33rd Birthday, Dad took us out to Longhorn Steak House. The steaks were really great and then we went to play Mini Golf,I think almost everyone got at least one hole in one. The weather has even been pretty decent as well. Saturday we a picnic lunch at the pool and had a great time swimming. The funniest was when Neil tried to jump threw a small kids circular tube and got stuck and then tried to get out of it by jumping back into the pool. Dad thought it was so funny so he tired to see if he could get all the way threw the tube without getting stuck as well. Let just say he got stuck too. We got in on tape I'll see what I can do to try and post it. We then had some pizza and played some games. It's been so nice to have family in town, we sure do miss everyone a lot and it's been great to see them again.

Dancing in the Rain

I had a fun time capturing this moment. It was fun to watch Kate dance in the rain, she just had to have her princess umbrella. Thank you Hurricane Fay for this memory it was really sweet to watch her child like wonder. We were truly bless with all the rain fall we received, and for our safety we hope the others to follow will do the same.

Kids say the funniest things

Last night Kate was in the bed laying down with her daddy, winding down from the days activities and she said "Daddy you have grass growing on you face and you have grass growing on you legs too. You need to cut your grass daddy." Jerry had a little bit of a scruffy face last night. We both got a good chuckle out of it. Kids say the funniest things sometimes.

Lesson Learned!!!

Lately the last month or so I have been wanting to do something different with my hair. I didn't want anything to drastic Maybe a trim and some highlights or something. Well I thought that if I relaxed my hair not straighten it, I could maybe change my bangs, and have them swoop across my forehead instead of those dreaded bangs I so don't like anymore. Well, I was super nervous, as I always am because literally every time I go get my hair done something always goes wrong. Lets just say that when I came in to the salon the Head salon manager had to come out to assist the lady who was doing my hair. Not a good sign, I should have got up and started running out the door, but no I decided to see what they could do. They took a long time in the back room talking this over how to do my hair. Come to find out later this was the lady's first time straightening someones hair, so not a time for me to be a Ginnie pig. I told the lady I wanted just a little looser, NOT STRAIGHT. Well my childhood came all rushing back to me, I remember my mom would take us to the beauty college to get our hair done. If you not familiar with how it works, at the schools the beauticians/hair stylist have to have their work inspected and they are mentored and talked through different procedures. That's exactly what happened on Friday, every person in the Salon was either watching me or asking questions on how to do things. That was sign number 2 that I should have realized that this wasn't going to be good. So I get done and the lady says you still have some curl left, as she is saying this it looks bone straight and she is attempting to curl my hair with a curling iron. Now I have to say that is ironic, why would I want to straighten my hair just to curl it with a curling iron. You could tell that they knew they messed up my hair and didn't want to admit it. The manager said to me oh yeah I see some curl in it, I quickly paid for my bad hair job and walk quickly out to the car so no one would see me crying. I wanted a change not something worse then what I already deal with. This is where I tell you I've learned my lesson, I have straighten my hair many time through out my life and it never works, its half straight/half curly the next day. The last time I tried this was about 10 years ago, well I don't think I will be doing this again any more in my life time. I have just come to terms with the fact that the Lord gave me curly hair and he wants me to keep it that way. The older I have gotten the more I am OK with my hair and how curly it is. I think I just had a momentary laps and forgot that I'm not meant to have straight hair and that's o.k. Jerry was so nice he said it looks nice, but I know he likes my curly hair better, that one of the reason he thought I was so cute when we were dating. He said why didn't you just get some Highlights and a trim. I should have taken his suggestion. At church on Sunday I had a lot of people asking me what's different about you, or I don't recognize you without your curly hair and I really like you curls, which is code for I like your hair better curly. So in the end Lesson learned do not straighten hair again. I would post a picture but it looks so bad today it's have frizzy/straight, I don't think I could bare to show you at this point, it's too embarrassing. I guess I will be living with lots of bad hair days for about a month or two, so not fun.