Weekend In Athens, GA

So last weekend we enjoyed a weekend in our favorite town...Athens, GA. We love the atomosphere and our University we didnt attend! I wish I could have but I surely didnt have the grades and Geoff I just dont know why he didnt go, well wait yes I do, apparently it was my fault since we were dating when it was college time! Oh well, now we get to go visit together and enjoy each others company!

Ok say the reason we went was for baseball games. Our Baseball Bulldogs played Mississippi St that weekend in a three game series. We saw the games friday and saturday and while in attendance they won both games! Go dawgs. We missed the game sunday but we were able to get it online when we got home. When Geoff looked it up we, the bulldogs, were loosing! But to our excitement they came back in the eighth inning and won the game 10 to 5, I think! I had a blast at the games, OH also while at the game friday Guess who was there also, MATT STAFFORD!! I heard someone say they saw him standing in the ticket line with his friend and then I spotted him! When I heard that he was there I totaly lost attention on the game and was looking for Matt. I found him and pointed him out to Geoff and I kept watching him to see if he left or moved to another seat or WHATEVER! So he got up to go talk to someone and I saw him sign something for a little boy so I wanted my picture with him so I got out my camera and went to go after him....well he ended up going to sit with some girls so I totally didnt want to be the girl to ask for a picture and look totally desperate, so I turned around and went and sat back down! Well the people sitting beside us said, "why dont you just go to picture day?!" I had never thought of that. They said you can get pictures and get the players to sign things that day! I really want to go to that now for sure! So no picture with Matt, BUT We did get our picture with Brandon Boykin who is going to take Asher Allens spot on the team! YEAH!! So that was neat, the way we got that picture was because the same people sitting beside us KNEW him! YEAH, they did so they called him over and asked if he would take a picture with us! I was so excited!

Saturday's game we saw Rennie Currin sitting in the stands, we sat by the same family from Friday and their son pointed him out to us! He is also always watching to see if players come to the game! So that was exciting along with the fact that we won the games we attended and the Series!

Saturday evening Amanda and Paul came to see us from Atlanta and I cut her hair before we went to eat at the Mellow Mushroom. It was really good so geoff and I want to try the one here at the beach! We had fun catching up with them and getting to take a picture all together to remember out night in Athens together! I still dont think I can convence Amanda to become a Georgia Fan! Too bad she will never bleed RED AND BLACK!! I know geoff and I do and I love it!

Other than that not to much going on! I have missed being at church. We have missed two sundays in a row, 1st GEoff was sick and then we were out of town so I am excited to see my nursery class and get them back on schedule! Tomorrow we will go over the letter "C" with them. We have done "A" and "B" so we are moving on! Hope I can help them some how!

And my big change is amazing I love it and it makes me feel so fun! There is a picture but not one with the finished look! It will be posted later when I have not been in the rainy weather! Boo rain! So for now that is it.

Family From a Distance & Sickness gets Geoff

Well it has been awhile since my last post. I guess there has not been much going on. We have been busy with our church calling in the nursery and work. On the other hand we, meaning everyone but Jessica and Geoff, got to visit with some distant family from Texas!

Delray, Janet and their son Taylor came to visit for few days. They got here on Tuesday and left today. They came to visit because their son Taylor is in the service and had a break before he left for Iraq. He was supposed to leave on Sunday I think but he got an email while we were out on our way to Broadway when it said he needed to be ready on Friday March 13Th to leave on the plane at 6pm. It kinda bummed us out but we made the best of it. I was able to enjoy lunch with them at River City in Surfside and then we joined mom to go to Broadway. We went to the aquarium and walked around Broadway for a bit. Met up with Dad, Blake and Emilee to catch a movie. Taylor wanted to see Mall Cop which ended up to be pretty funny! Glad you chose that Taylor. We then enjoyed a dinner together at Logan's! It was yummy! We then said our good bye's for the night. While I was doing all that my poor husband was home sick. When he is sick he likes to be left alone. I can be overbearing when he is sick, I ask him if he needs anything to much and it can be annoying I guess. But it is all out of love that is for sure. I totally wish Geoff could have enjoyed the Bassetts company but hopefully they will be back. Geoff is still feeling poopy but he is getting better. He said he wants to get out of the house tomorrow for sure. We will see how the weather is and go from there!

I just want to say thank you to Taylor for having a desire to serve for our country. May God bless all those who are serving at this time not only in the service but our Missionaries too. Be strong, courageous and always remember we love you! Good luck and May God bless you in all you do for us and our country!

Thank you to Del and Janet for coming to see us. I had a blast hanging out with you guys. I guess we will see Taylor in November for a week when he gets a break!

We had a blast with the Bassetts that is for sure!

Pictures will be posted later! Janet has them on her camera!

Mom's Birthday & a Drive Thru

Okay, so yesterday was a good day being that it was a Monday and everything. I got up and got almost ready but got side tracked my GMA, Rachel Ray and the Ellen show! Mom texted and asked if I was up and i was so she came over so I could wax her eyebrows and such. After I waxed her I did her hair. I then finished getting ready to spend a Birthday day with my amazing mom!

After getting ready I went over to her house and helped my sisters and brother do some house work mom wanted done. After we were done cleaning I got a crazy phone call from one of the owners of the salon. She said, "Car, Thru, Salon!" I was so confused that I had to tell her to breath and talk slow. She was able to get across to me that, "a car had driven INTO the salon!" Yes that is right a car drove into the salon. What happened was an elderly lady was putting on her flip flop to get a pedicure and the shoe was on the gas pedal of her car!!! So she was 98 years young and wanting a pedicure but instead she remodeled the front of our salon. I was able to get to the salon and check out the damage. It was pretty bad but we were able to get back to work this morning with a plywood wall where glass and block once were. All in all I am glad the salon was not opened and that there was no one sitting on the sofa in the waiting area. NO one was hurt and all the damages are fixable at this point. The crazy thing is, the lady still wanted to get her pedicure from the nail salon next door! Crazy Crazy. We have been told that the lady will have her license taken away because of this!

After we checked out the damage we went to eat at California Pizza then stopping by Ulta to get mom some eyeshadow she wanted. And then watched the 2ND National Treasure Movie!

I just wanted to say thanks for everything you do mom and I love you! Hope you had a great birthday and many more to come!

Happy Birthday MOM!!! I love you!!!

Family Home Evening number2

Well this week has been crazy! Really super busy but good. We started our week with FHE again! This week we cleaned our home so that it would be a house of order and not clutter. It feels so good have a clean house. What makes it even better is that we cleaned together. Not the typical FHE but the cleaning needed to be done.
Tuesday we babysat for a family at church.
Wednesday we had Geoff's parents over for dinner. We made enchiladas and they were so yummy!
Thursday we went and did some shopping at Target. I saw a suit in Columbia that I thought Geoff would like so we went to our and luck had it they had his size and HE liked it! I was also able to get some stuff for a baby shower this weekend and Valentines stuff for our Nursery class! I just love holidays. (Even more so when you are on Holiday yourself, by holiday i am talking VACA. WE picked up the whole Holiday thing on our cruise with our friend Ellen and Kyle!)
Tonight Geoff has something planned that he will not tell me so I guess I will just be excited and go along with his plans.
Tomorrow is a shower for Joe and Shawna! I am so excited. My BFF Tiff has done all the hard work getting it together! She is just an amazing person and is such an example to me! We will be able to hang out together and also celebrate Joe and Shawna's new baby coming soon!


Pics will come Later!
Love you all!

So Excited...it SNOWED

Okay so Wednesday morning I got a text from my friend Kim and she said, "its snowing" I was kinda out of it because it was around 7:30am. I read it then said..."Geoff it's snowing!!" I jumped up and looked out the window and what did i see...SNOW! It was awesome. I was so excited I was calling everyone. I was even able to get a shower and to my wonderful surprise when I got out it was snowing even more! I put on my warm clothes and went outside. I made a snowball and smeared it on the window so Geoff could see that it was enough snow to play in for a minute! He was not as excited as I was but I was able to get some good pics! I told Geoff that I was so excited that I thought I could turn into Buddy the Elf, from the Movie Elf! You know when He gets so excited in the movie when He finds out Santa is coming to the mall, well I was even more excited that I was exhausted by 3pm. Well enough talk here are the pics!

First FHE of 2009!

I am so proud of Geoff and I! We actually did a family Home Evening TOGETHER!! We needed to make a poster for nursery at church about our Eternal Family because the theme this year is "My Eternal Family" so we made our poster to go along with the posters our parents bring in for the kids in our class! I will take pics of the room so you can see it. Tomorrow we will do the bulletin board in the room itself! I am so excited, now we just have to get our lesson done for Sunday and we will be all set for the week!

A long with doing family Home Evening I wanted to brag a bit because I am a list maker and I never do so well with my list but today I was determined to cross off most of the things I needed to do today and guess what "I DID IT!!!" I was so excited too because Geoff helped me! He emptied the trash cans and asked me to remind him to put the trash out Thursday for the trash pick up Friday! Thanks honey for helping and Props to myself for completing a list! Thank goodness for list I don't even want to imagine the list I will have when we have a baby! But all I know is that I will be so grateful when it happens! Well props to all those list makers out there who get to cross stuff off their list daily! YOU GO!!!!

Weekend in NC

So a couple weekend ago we went to visit family in NC! It was a really good trip. Geoff and I left Friday night after Geoff got off work and stayed at Aunt Shari and Uncle Craig's House! We arrived at about 10:30pm and then everyone went to bed. G-ma and G-pa Aldridge were there so we could go to breakfast Saturday Morning together which we did and it was really good. After breakfast we went back to Shari's so G-ma and G-pa could go to their house because the rest of my family was on their way to the country! So we hung out with Shari, Chad, Jennifer, and Laura Rachel till Craig got off work. We, Geoff, Shari, chad and myself went to an outdoor shooting range where Chad showed us how to shoot different kinds of guns. PS I forgot my camera so no pics of that. IT was really fun to be out there, it was freezing though!

After shooting we met some of the fam it a Mexican restaurant. My was NOT good at all!

D-scusting!!! Anyway we got to the country be like 6pm Saturday evening. We spent the rest of the weekend there.

Sunday dad took Emilee, Jessica Jordan and myself out to some land of our family and we shot one of dad's guns for the fun of it! There was a a lot of target practice that weekend. Geoff didn't go because he was playing with fire back at Leslie's house with some of the kids! All in all it was a really fun weekend!

SNOW DAY!!!

Okay, so tomorrow will be a week since it snow flurried at the beach of Myrtle! We had just gotten home on Monday from a great weekend in NC with our fam! I got home and saw that the local weather man was predicting snow for Tuesday! I didn't believe it because that is just my luck, when I want something to happen I get really excited and then it doesn't happen...SO I kept telling myself, "Mindee it is NOT going to snow!" Well surprise surprise the weather man was right...IT DID Snow....and I was so happy! I called one of my friends and was screaming on the phone to her about how excited I was about the snow! Before I did that one of the girls from the salon called me and said,"it is snowing at my house!" I was so sad because It had not started at our house YET! Ha A little bit later it snowed and then it flurried the rest of the day... I did end up going to work after I called just about everyone in my phone book! I was just to excited to keep it all to myself! You know me I took some pics of the glorious WHITE snow! Amazing it is I know! Enjoy!!! BURRRR

COOKIES!!

So I guess mom and I thought the cookie monster was coming to town because about three weeks ago we made three different kinds of cookies. The truth of it is, we didn't make them at Christmas so we made them for the new year I guess. I cant explain to you how much fun I had with my mom making cookies. I don't know what it is but I am becoming more domesticated all the time if I do say so myself! Ha Ha, anyway here are some pics of our cookies! They were delicious! If you scratch the screen you might be able to smell them! But if you want to taste our cookies you have to come visit us! Love y'all!

A Tag From My Cousin Carmen!

So I was reading my cousins blog and she tagged me in one of her posts! I was so excited to see my name! So I will enjoy doing this one!!!!

How I met Geoff

1. Where did you meet?

Geoff and I were in the same Chemistry Class in high school! I could not think of any other way to meet him! It was tradition in this class to throw paper balls at the person having a birthday...so it was my day and everyone got to throw PAPER balls at me....well after we had gotten back to the task at hand someone was still throwing paper balls at me, Geoff! I was getting a little annoyed so I turned around and said, "You don't even know me why are you still throwing paper balls at me?" The rest is history!
2. What was the first thought that went through your head when you met?

Before the paper balls incident I had my eyes on him, he was just so cute!
3. Do you remember what he was wearing?

I don't remember exactly but he did have either cargo shorts on or carpenter style jeans on for sure. That is really all he wore and still does!
4. When was the first time you kissed this person?

We went ice skating and I made the move!
5. Where did you go for your first date?

We went to Goody's to return a pair of shoes and we were supposed to go see my friend play volleyball but he got called into work!
6.How long did you know this person before you became a couple?

Well I guess not long we started talking Oct. 8, and I asked him out, wait did I really just admit that, or told him I was his girlfriend Nov, 11 1999!
7. How did he ask you out?

I think I already admitted I asked him!
8. Has this person ever proposed to you?

YES! It was amazing. We went to dinner on Valentines day 2003 and he picked me up at my parents. We ate at Drunkin Jacks and we had already exchanged gifts in the truck and after we were done eating we were getting dessert and he asked me if I had gotten everything I wanted. I said yes... I wanted the Jessica Simpson CD and a big stuffed animal because I had never gotten one before. What I didn't notice was that he was having trouble get the ring out of his pocket so the host of the restaurant knew what was going on and he saw Geoff struggling so he came over and talked to me about a flower on my plate that was edible and while he was doing that Geoff got the ring out of his pocket. The next thing I know Geoff is down on one knee asking me to marry him! I was so surprised and crying.. I had my HS ring on the finger so I had to take it off and move it to my other hand...I have no idea where my HS ring is still. So of course I said, "yea, yea, yea...YES!!!!!" Everyone in the background was saying, "Did she say yes?" He is so amazing! Side note...when Geoff went to get his salad from the bar he almost fell coming down the stairs because he was trying to hide the ring box in his pocket!
9. Do you and this person have kids together?

Not yet, we tried and it was the wrong time but when The Lord blesses us with one we will both be so happy!
10. Have you ever broken the law with this person?

I don't think so... I am not a big rule breaker! Sorry!
11. When was the first time you realized you liked this person?

When I had to tell him that if he could not take me to the temple We couldn't stay together. Then it really hit me when I heard him say his first prayer at one of his meetings with the missionaries!
12. Do you get along with his family?

Yes, I just love his parents!
13. Do you trust this person?

With everything!
14. Do you see him as your partner in the future?

For time and all eternity!
15.What is one thing he does that gets on your nerves?

Since he is not going to read this till I tell him I did a post about him.... It used to be that he played to much PlayStation, now his major downfall is he doesn't make many decisions. But I guess that is good for me because I get to make them!
16.Where do you see each other 15 years from now?

With a family and being happy together!
17. What causes the most arguments?

Him not making a decision!
18. How long have you been together?

We have known each other for almost 10 years...11-11-10. Married 07-05 almost 4 years!
19. Are you married?

Almost 4 years!
20. Who do you tag?

I tag Mary Ellen, Tiffany and Ann Page!