New Toy!!

This, my friends is Dave's new toy. This is the TMobile Wing. So far, after a night of trying to get everything crossed over, he loves it! I finally ordered him a new phone after watching him duct tape his other one over and over. Duct tape, the magical fix for everything (except phones!). This cool phone even has touch screen!! Very cool!

What's new with us so far this week?

Monday we went to the dermatologist for Dave's psoriasis. They gave him a script for a new ointment that has great results. The other ointment that he had worked amazing except on him knuckles and knees...so this one is stronger and they say it should make it almost disappear!! He can eventually go in for shots - he isn't opposed to the shots, the doctor just says it does something to the immune systems - like, if he gets a cold, it would make him have the cold a little worse. He doesn't really want to mess with that, so this will work! While we were there, we saw a little girl, maybe 5 or so and she had psoriasis and I thought to myself - The advances that have been made in science and treatments are so awesome that kids can have a cure for this!!

I went to the neurologist on Wednesday. He is so great! He is keeping me on the "miracle" drug (that's what I call it) for now..it has reduced my migraines from two horrific bed bound ones per week to only one bad one this entire six weeks. I am going to go see him in 10 weeks and give him the results and see where we go from there. Right now though, I am just happy to have this working for me and look forward to a Migraine Free Wedding Day!! Yippeeee!!

I think that is the most that has happened this week -- Palms are doing well! We are going to shoot on Monday night at the range. Saturday, my mom and I are going to get my wedding dress and get the account set up so all the bridesmaids can get their dresses. It sure has been busy around here! School ends this week but starts right back up on May 5th! Next semester, I am taking Meteorology ( I swear I was born to be a weather girl...:)) , Developmental Psychology, and Mythology in Humanities. A full load, but necessary!! I really need to have several more electives, so that's why the meterology class and then I need to satisfy my Humanities classes requirements! Well, that's all for now! The weather here is great, 80's during the day and then 60's at night..just beautiful! We do need rain though - so pray for rain for us so we don't get into a bad forest fire situation!!

Love everyone!!

Taken at Clearwater Beach

Palms "R" Us

Lots to update! This weekend was another busy one with no time to relax. Yesterday, we went to Lowes near Dave's shop and we found the best fruit trees and palm trees. Of course, Dave picked out the tallest palm they had and we loaded it into the truck. It only stuck out about 8 foot and only weighed probably 200 pounds! I also bought a Ruby Red grapefruit tree and an orange tree so my dad will have fruit to pick & eat when he comes down. So, we got home and my brother, Alex came down with the tractor to help unload the palm and put it into the world's largest hole ever dug by hand. Here it is!

I figured while I am posting pictures, I would put up one of our bedroom and the quilt that my mom made me. She's also making me table toppers for the wedding out of this same fabric! I LOVE this fabric.

It's funny - in all of our pictures, it's like a Where's Waldo? puzzle-- except in our pictures you have to find the dog. The above picture features Worm. Speaking of pets....Anyone want a kitten? Someone dumped off a pregnant cat a few weeks ago and my mom and I have been feeding her. She's a great barn cat, and I realized she had kittens somewhere. We looked and looked and my mom finally found them this weekend in the upper part of the barn. They are so adorable, as kittens always are - and I think every person that reads this should take one -- Dad, Rhonda?? I'll personally fly it to its new home!! There are five of them:

There's two balck ones that look like twins, a tan puffy one, a calico puffy one and a grey and white one. The last one is the runt and they are all cute.

Tonight we decided to do something we haven't done in a long time, NOTHING!! We are going to go to Blockbuster and rent a movie and just relax! We need it so much. Next weekend, we are going to pressure wash the house and start to repair the cracks in the concrete blocks. Then, the weekend after that, we are going to start painting the house. Inside, I have the bedroom finished and am now starting on the bathroom. Upstairs, I am not really into the colors that I painted the spare bedroom that used to be Mike's room. It is a yellow color with black stripes. I am thinking about painting it something different, I just don't know what. Maybe the same colors as the bedroom??

Lastly, finals for me are this week. I am already registered for the next semester -- 3 classes! Wish me luck and say a prayer that it goes well as I'll be studying more along with finishing up our wedding!!

The Green Tree Edition

Last night while I was watering the plants and Dave was taking pictures of the Ranger that we want to sell, I decided to grab the camera from him and take some photos of last weekends' handy work! Here is our Palm Garden". If you are looking out the front door, this is on the right near the fence. We want to do the same design as soon as we get someone to haul the Ventura away (hopefully this weekend) on the the other side of the driveway in what is probably the back yard.

Gemini wouldn't get out of the way - so I took the photo as he was looking for somewhere to "water".

Next is a photo of My baby - Mr. Moo. He's the calf that my mom and I have raised from the dead. When we found him, he was really on death's doorstep and we brought him back to health and now he is so healthy and happy. He is such a beautiful bull and I have to decide if I want to steer him. I think I will leave him a bull though!

I am going to try to post every day or at least as much as I can because I eventually want to be able to print this up as a journal of sorts for our life. I have posts from my other blog from the time I met Dave until about a year ago, so I can combine those.

I think that's all for now! More updates as things happen - which is all of the time around here!!

And then...Some Rest

So...we have been busier the past couple of weeks than I think we've been for a while. Two weeks ago this coming Saturday, my little sister, Kelly was married. It was such a cool wedding at a beautiful plantation in Albany, Georgia - The Wynfield Plantation. It rained, but was such a great day. At the end of the reception, the bridesmaids and Kelly all jumped into a natural spring in the rain and in our dresses...Those pictures should be pretty cool. Here's a pic of me and my brothers trying to hoist Kelly up in her dress for a cool shot - Thank you Joe for the picture!!We survived the wedding and the drive and the day after that, Sunday, we drove down to a turnpike Rest Area about an hour and a half from our house and we delivered the RC51. This is Dave's oldest bike that we sold on Ebay. I was glad he was able to sell it!
Last weekend we spent all day Sunday (after our breakfast ritual), going to nurseries and looking for our newest love -- Palm Trees! We ended up at Home Depot , after finding out that most nurseries are closed on Sundays, and we bought 6 palms. Two each of three different kinds. I also ended up buying a bottle brush tree. We came home and proceeded to dig holes deeper than us and we got all of the trees planted and then Dave mulched around all the trees with a red cedar mulch. We are going to start painting the outside of the house in a week and a half - Dark Blue with a nice red door - so the mulch will fit right in. Our next outdoor project will be making a flower bed in the front and then pulling out the bushes in to the right of our door and making a true flower bed there. Now it is just a Gemini Digging Hole.
We have pretty much decided that Florida is where we really want to be. We have discussed moving to Tennessee but we love this state. We love the weather, the beach, the palm trees -- all of it. So, now that we know this, we are going to start doing some pretty cool improvements to the house. I will post pictures along the way as we get them done.
Monday night we went to the gun range as we usually do. 300 rounds! That's how many rounds I fired!! That is a lot of ammo!! Dave makes fun of me because I go through so much more ammo than him - but that's okay...I tell him at least I hit the targets:) (Just kidding, he hits the targets very well, actually!!).
Other random happenings?? We are working more outside Sunday and on our fence around the property so we can bring MR. Moo over to the house. I already have one guy from around here that wants to "rent" him to breed his females. He has turned out to be a HUGE beautiful bull and it will be cool if I can make some extra money off of him. He does have an amazing lineage too, so that will help.
Whew! I think that's all for now!

It happens in 3's right??

So, I inadvertently left out something that happened last weekend with Dave's checking account. We went to breakfast with my mom, like we do every Sunday. Dave was going to pay and gave the cashier his card. The cashier said that his card was declined. He thought maybe the stripe had been slowly rubbed off and was just not working now. The cashier said that, No, the stripe worked, the card was just declined. We were planning on going to Lowe's to get a new kitchen faucet, but instead he wanted to head home since he knew that he had more money than the 30 dollars breakfast was going to cost. when we got home and he logged on to his internet banking account, he realized that someone had charged over 1200 dollars to his card. Each charge was $429. All of the charges were from a company called Identity Protect. He was so upset because he obviously didn't approve these charges. After doing a little Google investigative work, I found that there are literally hundreds of people in the United States that have had these same charges against their credit cards and bank accounts. Monday, he went to the bank with his printed Google info and his bank statements and talked to the Bank Manager. He had to get a new bank account and new card. Finally on Thursday of last week, the money was redeposited back into his new account.

So, In continuing with our recent stream of, I don't want to say Bad Luck, because it isn't that - but our unfortunate circumstances - Dave was rear-ended yesterday while going to the tag agency to try to tag our VTX. The car behind him was hit and then he was hit. It isn't bad at all, he thinks the bumper is going to need to be replaced, but I am not sure. He knows more about this than I do.
So, Hopefully things really don't happen in 3's. I told Dave not to get too down about everything and to not get into a Glass is Half empty mode because up until this point, we have been very blessed and we live such a good life. He was fine after a little bit of thinking about it.

On a more positive note, we (I) painted the bedroom over the course of the weekend. IT's actually still a work in progress. But, the new color is Teal walls with a white color ceiling and a brown stripe around the middle of the room. It's so beautiful. My mom made me a quilt out of this fabric, that actually was the originator of our wedding colors. The fabric is called Metro Blue if you want to google it. IT's beautiful.

Finally, here is a picture of Dave's newest baby - a 1969 Chevy Truck. It's really cool!!

The Goings On

Hi everyone, all 2 people who read our blog:) Just wanted to write an update and let you all now what is new in our lives. Here's what is new:

Three weeks today and no migraines for me! I am hopeful that this new medicine that the new neurologist has put me on is working...I hope. I say a prayer every night that it continue to work! I figured it out before I went to this new doctor and I have experimented with over 19 different medicines. The toll that it has taken on my body? Who knows.

Kelly's wedding is in two weeks, so we are busy finishing the last details of her wedding and getting the dogs their Bordatella shots so they can be boarded. Fun times.

Dave's been busy at work and at home. We are doing a lot to the house including painting the bedroom, installing new faucets and painting the outside of the house. There's alot to get done before our various families start to arrive, so wish us luck!! Yesterday we spent almost 3 hours at Lowes redecorating the house, imaginary style. It was great. We have so many ideas, now we just need to win the lottery.

School. School is school. Homework and papers...IT's going well but not much more to say about that.

The weather here has been so beautiful lately. We've been driving everywhere with the top down or the sunroof open. I love this weather!!

Well, that's it for now, nothing exciting, I know. Maybe tonight Dave will pose (haha) for a couple of pictures from us shooting at the gun range?? We'll see if I can sneak a few and post them tomorrow...for now though, I will leave you with this:

Yes, it's our two cats waiting at the door to be let in from outside. IF the door is shut, they will meow until we let them inside!! Only our cats.

Long Time, No Blog....

First. the above picture is what happens when I leave my little brother Alex and a friend in charge of the dogs. They did everything they could to get all of the animals of the house to pose with them for a picture. Not pictured - Shitten. He scratched Alex's friend Dakota and so they decided to leave him alone.

Needless to say, we've been very busy lately. There have been so many things going on that it seems as though time for ourselves is not going to happen right now. Here's a taste of what has been happening!

* Please say a prayer for my Uncle Larry, Aunt Cel and my soulsister/cousin Cristy. Larry has lung cancer which has spread to his lymph nodes and is in the hospital in ICU right now. He needs some serious prayer as does my Aunt and cousin who are burning both ends of the candle right now.

*School - School is well, school. It's going well. I still have my 3 classes that keep me on my toes. Last night I was awake until 11pm doing homework and writing my 3 papers due at midnight. I just have to remember that each class gets me closer to my goal of Sign Language!!

* Work - Work for Dave has been going well. He's going through a transition right now with a new boss, but other than that he's been getting some good hours and some good work. Work for me has been going well. My mom and I have been so busy with her quilt store and then sprinkle in some sign work...it's busy!!

* Dave's been busy working on his newly acquired purchase - a 1969 Chevrolet Pickup. It's a project truck! It runs and it's interior is in good shape. It has a good engine but it just needs some minor things. Last weekend, he put in new shocks and a muffler system on it. It's a cool truck!!

* I've been busy helping my sister get ready for her wedding, April 5th! My mom, Grandma Carolyn and I drove to Macon, Georgia for her Georgia bridal shower. That took alot out of us, but it was worth it to see her new house and to have some fun up there!

*Our wedding!! Right now, there isn't much to work on. I have been talking to photographers but ohter than that, we are set for a month or two. I ordered the card stock for our actual invitations. I am making those as well so I wanted to get the colors ordered and here so I wouldn't have to worry about them. In late June or July we will have our food tasting and a cake tasting over in Clearwater Beach. It is all coming together and neither of us can wait!

Well, I think that is all for now! As if all of this isn't enough!! I'lll write more soon!!