The Florida trip.

Two weeks ago today actually we flew to Florida for a conference of Jacksons. I just tagged along as usual...:) We stayed at the Gaylord Palms, it was fancy. They had their own alligators..

Their own indoor boat that was actually a restaurant. There were fish and stingrays in that water.The next day we went to Downtown Disney and walked around. There was this restaurant called TRex it was just awesome! We didn't actually eat there we just toured the restaurant, not sure that I'd ever "toured" an eating establishment. However here are some of the cool pictures that didn't turn out so well. :(

Okay enough of there...so we keep moving to the Lego store. Stockton loves legos so we had to take a picture of every one of the statues outside that were made out of all legos...here are a few.

That day Jackson was going to be busy for the evening and all day Friday so I drove to my cousin Lori's in Boca Raton. We were suposed to snorkle but it had rained and was super windy so we didn't get to. :( But here is the beach.

Yep it was a private beach...so sad that it rained that day! Well that's all for now, I'll finish the rest of the story another day.

Card making....

Well I decided along with Janie and Joanna to make cards on Saturday afternoon. They were not there very long but I continued on my own...I made this one while they were still there with Joanna's help...so cute if I do say so...:)

Here's the rest...

So much fun!!!!!

Total Randomness

I was flossing this morning and a piece of my tooth came off. How does that happen? It was floss not a jackhammer. And to top it off it's one of my "two front teeth". Fantastic isn't it.

So tired these days...blaming the weather. Hopefully not laziness since that's what it really is. I want to get back into the getting up at 5 and running...but with my running partner. That's probably why is because she's not waiting on me...Jackson is. It's so much easier to cancel on someone who you know isn't out of bed yet. This morning he showed me he doesn't need me to go running with, well he's always ran alone, but he took our 9 year old and ran with him instead. Go Jake! So I've been replaced by a 9 year old. He did get out of bed though...guess that's the key. Miss you Jasper.....

Stocktons last report was good. God is so awesome. Nothing has changed on his liver which is very good. Thanks to everyone who was praying for him.

Everyone's having babies. Sometimes I wish we would have had more...even if I did get 3 boys...but then I think...nah, I'll just borrow everyone else's and send them home...oh great, now I'm a grandma.

I'm still needing ideas of stuff to do in Florida...for me and Jackson and just for me. :)

Is it May yet? We get our first dog in May and I'm ready. We've decided on names..Jackson is naming his Tank and I'm going to name mine Cali.

I'm so ready for a tan. While I do enjoy swimming wherever it may be...indoors is so not the same as being at good ole Sun N Fun and soakin up the sun...oh tan where art thou?

Well I guess that's all my thoughts for the moment...I may add more later...oh look there's a kitty.

Another proud moment!

We were going thru Jake's backpack like any other day and came across this paper that he did at school.

We were amazed, obviousley. The assignment was to write about "The important thing about..." and my boy chose Jesus! That's right...Jesus!! The teachers may not be able to talk about Jesus at school, but that's not stopping my boy from doing it! You go Jake!! Below is the picture that he made to go along with the above very true story.

25 Random Things

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. Tag the person who tagged you and tag your friends, too. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. (: Only do this if you want to and have time :)
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. I love tattoos. I just got my 10th one a week ago and can't wait until my birthday to get the next one.
2. I grew up on a farm, never lived in town until I moved to Tennessee to be with Jackson.
3. I would love to have a horse farm.
4. I could be a dive master and never get tired of the diving.
5. I love to dive but just the thought of sharks possibly there makes me shake sitting here, no where near an ocean.
6. I got married when I was 18.
7. I also don't like people touching my feet nor do I want to touch anyone elses.
8. I would rather make a list out of a catalog then actually order it, to me it's more fun to make the list. ;)
9. I wanted to name my daughter Gracie.
10. I always wanted twin girls.
11. I love to make cards.
12. I love to organize things and when something one of my kids or husband takes out of place it drives me crazy until it's back where it belongs.
13. I love to get my hair colored, and it has to be something different everytime.
14. I love to run, just not in the heat.
15. I love to bike and if we bike we should go at least 12 miles.
16. I don't like the cold, if it wasn't for the running I could live where it's warm all year long.
17. I love roses, I have almost every color rose bush available, well at least the ones I can get around here.
18. I don't like my picture taken, I'm not one of those people who loves to be in photos.
19. I could wear flip flops 365 days of the year, I actually used to have over 50 pairs.
20. I love talking to my friends and being totally crazy and random and they knowing exactly what I'm either going to say or can keep up when I jump from subject to subject.
21. I am a lousy blogger.
22. "it's in my coat"
23. Inside jokes are the funnest!
24. I'm entirely too sensitive.
25. I love collecting old dishes.

Need ideas...

I'm still needing puppy name suggestions where are they...maybe that's a good indication that no one reads my blog. HA.

This blog isn't really about that. I was thinking that I haven't blogged in awhile and mmm what a surprise that is, so I thought I would blog about ideas of things to do in Orlando. Jackson and I are going there for 4-5 days in a couple months. It's for his work but we get a little time to do fun stuff in between. So all of you who have been recently I would like to know what you thought was fun. Also ideas for me. I will have all day one day to do whatever by myself so if you have ideas other than shopping they would be greatly appreciated!

Not so much new years resolutions...

I am setting out this year to not make any "new years resolutions". Every year I decide on a couple and I mess them up every time. So instead of starting out disappointing myself I am just going to start out trying to do simple things. Such as just being an overall better person, hopefully closer to who God intended me to be, working to be a better wife and mother, and working towards the best 1/2 marathons ever this year. I think those are not too out of reach but yet they are challenges none the less. I am hoping 2009 is the best year ever. Doesn't 2009 just have a good ring to it anyways? So even if things arise that don't make 2009 the best, I want to strive to choose joy each day to purposely make it the best year ever!