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Thursday
Richard's 57th Birthday!
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Monday
I can't believe Cayden is almost 4!
Sunday
The Grown Up Weekend
The hotel was simply amazing...everything about it! They changed the floor mats depending on the time of day, Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night. The elevator would say Going up, fifth floor, lobby and my personal favorite Going Down! haha! I am so glad and grateful that Joe and I had a chance to enjoy each other!
Thursday
Vista Print
I love the free things on http://www.vistaprint.com/! You order your items and just pay for shipping... I got the cards above, note cards with our address, return address labels, note cards for cayden, note cards for chase, a notepad, and sticky notes for 30.00. Not everything I ordered was free but still 30.00 for all this stuff is simply amazing! Go check them out. I have ordered from them before and then stuff is nice. I ordered magnet calenders for the fridge, gift tags, some different return labels, and a pen. Love them all! I will shop there again. Apparently!!! PS- You get your products pretty quick! (faster than I thought)...Wednesday
Sunday
Pictures of all things Valentine's! Enjoy
Thursday
Valentine's is right around the corner
An another annoying update on next weekend...no spa treatments for Joe. Apparently, The W is smoking crack because there spa is more expensive than The MGM in Vegas like 100 dollars more! So instead I am heading to Publix this afternoon after work to get some shrimp and I am going to grill him so shrimp and chicken kabobs - tomorrow night. I know it is not valentines day tomorrow but Saturday is filling up more and more as the days go by. While we are out and about we are going to the Sears outlet in Tucker to try and get a washer and dryer because our dryer is dead and the washer is on it's last leg. Well - I bought our tickets to Imagine It earlier this week - the kids still do not know that we are going...they will be so excited. Joe is excited about going to the CPK in Atlantic Station and he is even a little excited about Ikea. I think that if he fully understood what is there and what it is like - he would more excited! I will show him. I am having a little bit of anxiety about getting around Atlantic Station. Random Jessica Fact: I CAN NOT parallel park to save my life! So we are going to have to park in places I can pull in and out of. Joe can parallel park but he hates driving downtown- that part does not bother me. There is a parking deck- I am just hoping it is close to the CPK! I got Chase a new stroller last weekend so it is 10times better than the little umbrella stroller but since we will be doing a lot of walking I am going to leave that one in the car for Cayden just in case.
Cayden and Chase packed their valentine cards early this week. Tuesday we baked the cupcakes for their classmates and tonight I am going to frost them all! (42 cupcakes) Well there will only be 41 when I get done...yum! They are excited about tomorrow and the little parties they will be having. I want to teach the kids that Valentine's Day is not just about lover's per say but about all the people you love...mom, dad, brother, cousins, grandparents, friends, and so on! So I am so excited that VDay is on a Saturday so we can spend it as a family!
*CPK is California Pizza Kitchen
Well - I am sure I will be busy tomorrow at work so ....
Monday
Chatt - a - new - da'
I really need a break from our life here. I need an excape with my family to enjoy them. I could not sleep last night so I watch my children sleep - I have so many emotions that I just can explain rushing through my body like The Might Mississppi River. These feelings are not directed at Joe, Cayden, or Chase: I just want time with them! I want to show them new and fun things. I want to make more memories than their little heads can hold and have pictures to prove it!
Thursday
Why I love MOTHERHOOD
- Taking pictures of the boys doing something that is a no-no instead of a time out
- Kissing my kids even when they turn their heads
Vacations/weekends just for mommy & daddy - Eating M&M's before bed as a treat for the boys
- Knowing my faults, admitting them, trying to fix them, and do what I can to make Cayden and Chase's life the best it can
- Going over the top
- Baby Massage or babbbbie 'sage as I used to call them
- Going to Waffle House for dinner after I pick them up from school
Here is an example of the pictures (from Feb 4-2009):
***Disclosure: The MCUC only got the floor! We don't allow "paws" on the table!
Monday
Update: Our Grown Up Weekend

Wednesday
Something cool I found for parents....& other random thoughts & stuff!
http://www.atlantakids.net/It has a list of things to do with your kids and family friendly places to eat. Pretty interesting, they also have this thing call E-zine for 6.99 it is quarterly magazine through email about freebies and what not in Atlanta. I personaly did not sign up for that but they also have a free email list that you can sign up for. Anyhow - just thought I would share.
For Valentine's Day, I think Joe and I will take the babes to the Imagine IT Children's Museum and then to the California Pizza Kitchen in Atlantic Station...then maybe Ikea because I love it there! I always have throw something in there for myself...I have to get it where I can! (haha!)Random thought: So exciting that VDay is on a Saturday this year so we can have a family day with the ones I love the most!
Tuesday
Oxford/Anniston - Saturday
Chasey
...buddies...
jacob
all the boys
Wednesday
Winter Blues
Friday
Open House
Me, Pam D, Pam M, & Dana.
Yours truly:

Linda, Pam, Ken (the President of the CU), Me, Dana (my manager)
Wednesday
All aboard the..... BiRtHdAy ChOo ChOo!

March 13-15, 2009
(A gift that, Chase and I can enjoy also!!!)
MySpace Countdown Clocks
We are going for 3 days - 2 nights to Chattanooga...
I told the kids last night what we were doing and they are so excited they were both talking about this morning getting ready for school.
Joe and I are each taking a day off work. (Me=Friday, Him=Sunday)
We are going to leave at nap time on Friday morning and I will drive up so Joe can rest (he will not get home until Friday early AM) and the kiddies can nap. That should (if I do not get lost)put us there are lunch time. We can grab a quick bite to eat for lunch and then head to the children's museum Creative Discovery Museum (http://www.cdmfun.org/)
After that we can check into the hotel the Sheraton Read House!
Where the hotel is located at we will be one of the stops for the free downtown trolley/bus/train thing. For the day(s) that we go to the Creative Discovery and the Tennessee Aquarium we will not even have to drive ourselves! I love that!
So here is what we are thinking for our fun filled weekend in Tennessee:
Friday:
Leave at nap time like I said earlier.
Have a quickie lunch.
Creative Discovery.
Check in at the hotel
Snack TIME.
Tennessee Aquarium for a little while. (http://www.tnaqua.org/)
Dinner at the Choo Choo in the Pizza car (Silver Diner). (www.choochoo.com)
Saturday:
Tennessee Aquarium in the morning. (http://www.tnaqua.org/)
Lunch & Nap.
Look Out Mountain: (http://www.lookoutmountain.com/)
Ride the Incline (ridetheincline.com)
& Ruby Falls (http://www.rubyfalls.com/)
(Joe and I decided not to do See Rocky City...).
Dinner.
Swimming at the Hotel (the indoor pool of course).
Sunday:
B'Fast & check out.
The Zoo (zoo.chattanooga.org) (so the babies will be tired for:)
time to head home.
The Tennessee Aquarium has this thing called:
& how it works is you pay 24.95 for each adult and 17.95 for kids 3-12 and you get to go to the Aquarium for unlimited times for 2 days. With each 2 day pass you also get discounts like:
IMAX Theater — $2.50 off adult and $1 off child tickets
Tennessee Aquarium & IMAX Gift Shops and Concessions — Save 10%
Creative Discovery Museum — $2 off each ticket purchase
Ruby Falls — $2 off each ticket purchase
Big River Grille & Brewing Works — Save 10% off food or beverage purchase.
Blue Water Grille — Save 10% off food or beverage purchase
WOW WHAT A MAJOR PLUG FOR TENN AQUA!
I know I drive Joe crazy with my over the top planning for trips with who, what, when, where, how much, how to get there, how to get back...but he as never gotten lost, run out of money or had a bad time!
So the whole family is excited... &
In case you would like to know where I got all my information check out the following websites:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/
http://www.chattanoogafun.com/
& all the links in the blog!
Monday
Love Wins & Hope Lives
I get no more than about 3 miles down the road and the phones rings yet again...Yes, dear. I say ... all I get is a Love you...which is always how he starts he phone call when he is feeling guilty or knows I am pissed or upset. In this case I think it was a little of both. I know for sure that he knew I was upset - Anyway...so he proceeds to tell me how his tummy is upset (like it has been for weeks now) so I tell me to call the doctor on Monday and go in because I am tired of listening to him whine about stomach issues. So, the kids and I get to church with 3 minutes to spare. Scott meets we outside to help me get the kids in the building out of the cold.
So we get the kids to their rooms and we meet up with my mom and find a seat.
Mike comes up and is talking about what would Paul say to us if he were here today...about love?
Mike ask is Love the supreme value in YOUR life? How do you treat people in your "private" life...any and everyone...
So I think ... I am nice to cashiers, waitress and waiters, I let people in front of me on the interstate (only if they have their blinker on, otherwise I do know that you want over (that is for a whole different blog)), I am always trying to help, go the extra mile, and just generally try to be someone that everyone wants to have in their life...BUT
I just went crazy over my husband not going to church because he was "sick"...
then Mike reads...
1 Corinthians 13
The Excellence of Love
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The part that stuck with me is:
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Well let's see: I was not patient or kind...I was a little be jealous that HE got to stay at home and I was doing the "right thing". I boasted that his life was passing him by and he was at home, that church is a FAMILY activity. Which that made me arrogant that I was boasting that I was doing "the right thing" and that I was doing the FAMILY activity and not him. I definitely was not becoming...I was seeking my own, I was seriously provoked and provoking...and finally I took in to account all his "suffering"...
So anyway...Why is it that I can be nice to the cashier, waiter, and blah blah blah...but one of the MOST IMPORTANT relationships I have I get so upset so easy?
I do not have the answer to that question...BUT I am going to work on it and see what I come up with...and I WILL NOT act that way in the future!
To Joseph - I am sorry for being so ugly and not just about the church issue just all the things I do that are unbecoming as a wife to you! I have no reason to act that way or treat you that way.
So in closing, where hope lives, our love wins....
Friday
Eat, Pray, Love - My new found LOVE of books!
simply because I love to watch the Gosselins when they are on TV. I admire they way the mom (Kate) is so organized and not a nervous wreck. The dad (Jon) is every involved with the Kiddies! I have gotten a lot of good ideas from watching them and the boys can watch with me if they want to and I do not have to worry about what might pop up on the screen. You can visit them online:Wednesday
Goal One : 2009
From the Temple website:
"Temple Backpack Program"
This will be an ongoing project that the City is helping with, and we are looking for community involvement with this as well! The program helps children that may not have a parent home with them all the time and might not have the financial means of getting all the groceries that they need. How the program works: The schools provide the “back” packs for the volunteers and we usually pick these bags up on Wednesday or Thursday, we then pack the bags on Thursday and try to deliver back to the selected schools on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.What to pack: We are looking for non-perishable foods such as cup of soup, ravioli, grits, oatmeal, peanut butter, crackers, and because these are for children, they all like sweets too, so Debbie cakes, cookies, etc. We also like to pack apples, oranges and bananas. A donation box is located in the lobby of City Hall.This pack provides food that these children would not normally have, and that is easy enough for them to fix on their own and gives them food to last over the weekend. You can help by volunteering to pack, pick up or deliver these bags.
We always need food or monetary donations to help keep this program going and give back to our wonderful City of Temple.
Please contact Ashley Hulsey @ 770-562-3369 ext. 103
Friday
Wednesday
Happy New Year!


Cayden, Chase, and baby Jayme....
Tuesday
Jessica's Favorite Things - Whatever Oprah!
10. Chinese Take-out
9. My shoes from JcPenny Liz Baker® 'Noa' Slip-on
8. Target Diaper and Wipes...the wipes are my fav!!!! They smell so good and they are soft!
7. PokaDot Socks
6. Pop-up organization...Great for the car (toys and such in the backseat) and the trunk (extra clothes)
5. Wrapping presents and all the JOY that my kids have for Christmas
4. Riding around looking for Christmas lights
3. My new bag from Smushed Peas...looks just like a buckhead bettie...just a bit cheaper...PERSONALIZED...Merry Christmas to me!
2. Envirosax...I WILL be getting some of these...Google them! Target.com also has them but the prices are better on their website and you can get the "pod" of them!!!!
1. The possiblity of a Christmas Bonus for me and Joe!
Monday
Thursday
Christmas Shopping
I only have one more thing to get for Chase!
& I got a bunch of gifts from SMUSHED PEAS! (http://www.smushedpeas.com/)
I more than half way done with my shopping and all but 3 are wrapped and under the tree!!!
Be jealous!!!



















