HELPPPPPP!!

This week has been crazy! I have seen Nick a total of about 3 hours since last Friday! He has been working major overtime. He worked twenty hours yesterday, got home at 3:30 this morning and just left to do it again today. I feel so sorry for him! Hopefully he will be able to get off in time for Gabby's first Halloween. I worked Saturday, Sunday and Monday night. I knew my day would be crazy Tuesday, so I left work an hour early just to catch a nap. Nanny's brother passed away and the funeral was in Oklahoma on Wednesday and Dad and her were flying out Tuesday afternoon. After running back into town to pick my niece, Kynsleigh up (she spent the day with us Tuesday and Wednesday) it was back to Nanny's to take her to the airport. Mom asked if I would make sure she packed everything she needed. The last time Nanny packed her own suitcase she left out most of the essential items: underwear, shirts, etc. They were only spending one night in Oklahoma so she didn't need much. She did pretty good packing everything she needed but for some reason she thought she needed 6 pairs of panty hose, 2 things of deodorant and 4 hair nets. She reminds me of when I was little. I would get mad at Mom and Dad and tell them I was running away. I grabbed my " Going to Grandma's" suitcase and filled it with doll clothes. Every time, Mom would sit me down and tell me she needed to make sure I packed enough warm clothes. By the time she got done going thru the suitcase I had forgotten why I was mad and the whole running away thing was over. Anyway, I had called Nanny and told her I was bringing her lunch but when I got there , there was evidence of several candy bars that had been eaten and she had just opened a root beer. She refused to leave the root beer there and she tried stashing it in her purse for the plane. She thought she would be able to hide it from security. Can you imagine them finding an opened "beer" bottle in her purse? When we got to the airport we parked in the ten minute parking to wait for Dad. As she sat there and stared at the timer she said, " You know, when I was born those people would have never guessed something like this would ever be invented." Was she amazed that there were massive machines with engines flying thru the sky? No, that little timer kept her fascinated till Dad got there. I felt so sorry for Dad. They had a long flight with a two hour lay over and Nanny was hyped on candy bars. He did text me and tell me that Nanny swears she is able to see tractors driving from cruising altitude. I knew her eye sight was good, just not that good. After another day of taking care of two wild girls, Wednesday I was beginning to feel what it was like to be a single mother. I didn't realize how much Nick helps out. So if anyone would like a wild child I would probably be temped to give her away. Atleast for a few hours. I was able to take a few pictures of Gabby in her Halloween costume before she had a complete come apart. Doesn't she look so cute? The other picture was one of her fall pictures taken by my cousin. I love it! She looks so big with her hand on her hip.

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

Nick surprised me with tickets to the Alabama- Ole Miss game a few weeks ago. We debated on taking Gabby but when we found out we would have to pay full price for a ticket for her we decided to wait till she is older to experience it. So, Saturday we woke up bright and early, dropped Gabby off at my sister's house in Birmingham(thanks for keeping her sis!) and then headed for T-TOWN! We got there just in time to see the players entering the stadium. I love to be down there on game day! Nick is a huge, HUGE Tide fan and when we're down there I can relate. I watch the games on T.V. but it doesn't compare to being in Bryant-Denny. Last year I went with him to homecoming. I was five months pregnant and miserable. Saturday it was a lot better. I don't know if it was the weather or the fact that I could walk 10-feet without feeling sick! We had just enough time to grab a bite, take a quick walk around the quad, and catch up with David and his tailgating crew before entering the stadium for the game. We had great seats! Of course we had the crazy drunks that kept pulling booze out of their bras. And beside us sat Nick and I in the future. It was a couple in their mid 50's that were Bama fanatics. They go to every game and every time we scored they kissed. My plan is to do travel nursing once Nick retires. He told me Saturday that I would have to find a job in Tuscaloosa during football seasons. It was a close game but that just made it even better.

Nanny

I think part of this story happened before I began blogging. If I blogged this part, sorry about the repeat. Nanny and my cousin were going to a family reunion in Kansas. My grandmother used to religiously go get her hair washed and set every Saturday but now she said she read somewhere that girls are to wash their hair every two weeks and boys every week. Anyway, I was washing and curling her hair before they left for the reunion. As always, I was joking with her about finding a man. She made the comment she would look at the reunion for a boyfriend. I knew she didn't realize what she was saying so I reminded her these people were her relatives. She laughed and said, "Yeah, we wouldn't be able to have kids if we were related." Yeah, like an 87 year old really needs to worry about birth control! Well, here is the connection from that story to her latest. My grandmother thinks she has found out what she has been suffering from and the whole reason she got her license taken away. She says she is suffering from Post-Partum Depression or in her words, the "Baby Blues". Her baby is 52. She can not except the fact that she is 87 years old!! My grandmother won't die from an illness or old age. No, she will die from something crazy. I can see the headlines, " 120 year old woman plummets to death when sky diving accident goes wrong". Mom said the other night as they were driving down the road my grandmother looked up at the moon and said, "That moon is going almost as fast as we are! Oh! It almost hit that tree!"

Just few quick funnies. Kynsleigh has always been curious when it comes to me nursing Gabby while I am at my mother-in-laws. We call it, "BA BA", so I just tell her Gabby is getting some

BA BA. Recently, Kynsleigh has been really into taking care of her baby dolls. Rocking them, changing their diapers,and of course, giving them BA BA!!

And what do you do when your aunts comes to visit and Mommy and Daddy go out on a date?

You break out the hairspray and hair paint of course!!

Fun on the Farm

Last Saturday, Meredith and the girls came up for the weekend. I had heard about a pumpkin patch in Taft, TN called, Lyon Family Farms. I HIGHLY recommend it for kids of any age. Mom, Shana, me and Gabby, Meredith, the girls and of course Nanny went. When Mom told her how much admission was, Nanny said she would just sit in the car. But when we got there Nanny was talked in to it. The first activity we saw was called the "Cow Train". Basically, it was a lawn mower pulling 55 gallon drums cut in half. When the teenagae boy driving informed Meredith and I we could ride with our kids, Nanny decided she wanted to go along for the ride.She let us know real quick she was getting her money's worth.

So Mom and Shana decided, after much encouragement, that they needed to ride too. Can you imagine the looks we got riding around the farm in that? I cried I laughed so much! After that the girls played in the "Corn Wagon", it was a wagon full of corn kernels,they played on the swings and the inflatable wagon. I was hesistant when Mom put Gabby in the corn wagon, but she never tried to put the corn in her mouth and she had a blast!

Once again.....................

Nanny decided to get her money's worth. I tried explaining that this was a day for the kids, but she would not listen. Later she told me she would have gone down the big slide but the there were too many stairs. She did however actually get lost in the corn maze. We just let her wander for awhile and she finally found her way out. Finally, we got on the hay ride and rode out to the field to pick some pumpkins. After much searching..........................

Gabby found the perfect ones!!!

After the tractor dropped us back off at the farm, we played on the slide some more and went to see the animals. They have a section where they have a few animals to pet and then inside the barn are bigger animals to look at. We had a blast! We also had three, okay four if you count Nanny, tired girls. After bath and supper, they all went right to sleep.