A Thoughtful Treat

During the Halloween Party at A Fanciful Twist, a few wonderful bloggers host giveaways during the wonderful event. I wish I had been more organized and offered a give-away myself, but I am claiming moving boxes as my excuse. But never fear, I already have some wonderful ideas bubbling around in my head to offer up for next year.

I was lucky enough to win something from two of them. My first gift arrived yesterday...


Mr Wee Pumpkin, made and given to my by Debby at Midlife Poet. She has an amazing blog and I just love the stories she creates for this parties! The stories are creative all by themselves, but then she creates the most amazing scenes to go along with them. Truly a treat to behold. Thank You Debby for the wonderful gift. It really means a lot to me.


Ya know, I haven't post any pictures of our new home. Bad, bad me. I will wander the homeplace and surrounding lands and bring back some pictures of our new home. We have been on a few little roadtrips. And sadly, on this last one, Dear Hubby, didn't tell me that I might want to bring my camera. So I ended up having to purchase a disposable, and like a dummy, left it and my cell phone in our friends truck, whom lives in Birmingham (45 minutes away). I realized I had left my phone about an hour after he left. So, I have been phone-less for the past 3 days. Kinda nice :0)

Anywho's, Hubby is now working in Scottsboro for Advance Auto. Yeah, I never did really mention this, because it was kinda a sore subject, but here goes. He was offered a job with Hollywood Video (Movie Gallery) as District Manager for the Birmingham area. That is why we moved from Florida. He had the job for 3 weeks, had moved his district for the bottom to one of the Top 10, and then like that - BAM- they fired him. To let you know how screwed up they are, it took over a week to find out his actual reason of termination. And it's all PooPoo. But the good thing is, the very next day after he was fired, his old job, Advance Auto, was calling him on the phone. It took about 2 weeks for them to get an opening in this area, and the store in Scottsboro is about an hour and 15 minutes, but they are working on getting him to Anniston, which is about 20 minutes. I'm just happy he got a job. But I have a confession to make. While he was unemployed, I got some many Honey-Do projects completed, he did the laundry, he even cooked dinner a few nights!! He was turning into a real Mr. Mom!!

So, back to the story. Since he is working in Scottsboro, he saw a shop that I might be interesting in going to. Unclaimed Baggage . And is was a treat. I found a few books that had been on my To Be Read list and some music CD's. There was a really nice selection of clothing, but with three kids and two men with me, it was hard to get into a real shopping zone. But I will check it out again.

After that, our friend made a comment that we were only 70 miles from Chattanooga, so we kept driving and ended up at Rock City. This is where I purchased the disposable camera. It was quite an adventure and once I get the pictures developed, I will post and write about it.
Until next time...Ciao for now!!

The Rest Of The Week

Here is what I will be doing the rest of this week:

Which means this will be happening:

So if you could do this for me:

I would appreciate it!

I will be back to my regularly scheduled hectic life shortly after I get to the new house. Can't wait to show y'all pictures, I think you're gonna love it! And the Halloween decorating will begin immediately!

Armdrop Racing 2009

I was so excited about coming home this past weekend and showing all the pictures from the car racing, on my post I was going to make first thing Monday morning, but now it's already Wednesday!?! What happened? Who stole my Monday and Tuesday? I want to know!! LOL!! Wow, time can really fly sometimes. But I do want to tell you about this past weekend. There aren't too many pictures, the dang cars were so fast, all I kept getting were blurs!!

This is a jet car that made an appearance. It ran about 396 mph!

This is our friend, Wade's, car. He stayed in until the final 30 people. There was almost 220 people entered.

Me, the kids and Rich Christensen! When I heard that he was out taking pictures, I grabbed the kids and ran. I don't think Charlie even knew where I was for a little while! I did realize that he had started a new event called Arm Drop Racing which was what was being held at the drag strip. A little different than Pink's but still fun!

My friend Rachel with Rich.

All in all we had a great time. Dane had a blast but after being there all day, all of us were tired.

And I do have a few other pictures of cars that I haven't put up yet. A few weeks back, Charlie held a Car Show at his work. He is hoping to sponsor this each year.


Charlie, being "The Man" and cooking for all the people.


My contribution: A hand painted sign!!! ( Think I did okay! )


A good shot with the store sign in for good measure.


Now this would be one fun car to drive around in!

On The Road Again

This little chickie has been burning up the roads! Since last Wednesday, I have driven just about 700 miles! And pulling a trailer with me the whole way. And then another day was devoted to unpacking said trailer and finding little nook & crannies to put the stuff. And then another day just to get caught back up with housecleaning, laundry etc. So here I am now, finally, back to normal for a few days at least.

Agenda:
On Wednesday, I drove t o Mobile to get our taxes done (Yeah!). But it turned out to be so late I couldn't finish all I had to do. So on Friday, I drove back to pick up the trailer. My sweet Momma gave me an antique wardrobe that I have been eying for a long time. I can't wait to re-paint it and start using it to house all of my craft items. I will need to install some shelves somehow. Unfortunately, the mirror in the long door popped out while driving and the mirror broke. But I already have an idea in mind to cover that up. Then Friday night, Charlie had tickets to the Monster Truck Jam which was in Pensacola. Dane had a blast watching the trucks jump over the cars! Then Saturday, off the Tallahassee to pick up more stuff from the old house. Still not everything. But I did pack in my wonderful blue bench, which I don't have a picture of right now, but as soon as Hubby helps me unload in onto the back porch. I'll snap a few. And with all of this going on, I have had little time to do any crafting! But I will in a few days, once I can get my hands on all of my stuff. I finally got all of my scrapbooking supplies from the old house. I need to start a book for Gracyn and get Dane's up-to-date. I have so many projects to complete, do you think I will ever finish all of them? Not counting all the books I have to read that are waiting on my TBR pile!

Well, just want to let you know where I've been and what I've been doing. Hope all of my friends in blogging land are doing good. Trying to catch up on everyone's post!

Rain, Rain Go Away

Finally, it's stopped raining, at least for a little while. But as I'm typing this, it's looking cloudy again. And there is another storm out there, Gustov. The joys of living on the Gulf Coast. But I love it here, don't know if I could live in the snow!!

Fay really dumped a lot of water on us. We had one tree to fall due to the ground being so saturated. You can see how close the tree was to the house. We were thankful that it went into the yard instead of the house. The one good thing I can say, it that because we were inside the whole time, I got a couple of scrapbook pages done for Dane's scrapbook & we made cookies together!



A few weeks ago we went to Mobile for a job interview for Charlie. While there, I got to visit with my best friend, Kimberly. She & her husband own a seafood market & she had to work that day, but we did get to visit for awhile. She has a son, Aidan, who is one month older than Dane.
It was great getting to visit, but I wish we lived closer. We used to do so much fun stuff together! Maybe one day soon, we might get to move back home. I've been thinking how nice it would be to have family to help out. My Mom & Dad would love to watch the two kids. And it would be nice to actually eat dinner together sometimes. I've been praying & I know God knows what's best but sometimes it just so darn hard to be patient! There are a few things going on right now with this, but since it's so up in the air, I'll wait to post anything until I'm a little more sure.

I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend. Charlie was off for the weekend but has to work Monday. We went to the local Whatburger for the monthly car show last night. It wasn't a big turn out, but he enjoyed talking cars with the other guys. And Dane was invited to a friends' birthday party at Fun Station, so he had a blast. Now, if I could just sneak off to the local Antique store (and find some extra money from somewhere... LOL!!

Take care this weekend!!