Advents Corner

GET OUT THE BEER AND CRACKLINS, THE GAME IS ON!!!!! Tonight is the night. I am very excited about the game tonight. As luck would have it I sit in the middle of two Ohio State fans. How messed up is that right? What are the odds? That did not stop me from wearing my LSU shirt and tacking my LSU hat to the outside of my cube.

GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PMI-001 is not a tough course if you have the likes of 642-372 and 70-293 on your credit. In fact, you will notice that clearing mcsd as well as 70-297 will be a piece of cake for you. In network+, the previous experience contributes a lot to future learning.

I am continuing to update Our Precious Gift with names so that data base is growing each day.  I am preparing for New Channel 10 to come and the interview on the 18th.  I was a little reluctant when I found out I was going to have to appear on TV but they will not do the story without it so I agreed.  Don’t forget to link over the site to check it out and forward to your friends and family.

They are so beautiful I had to share.

 

So Matt’s company as released the choices for the company trip this summer and there seems to be a clear winner.  The only thing is if we don’t find someone to watch Lani for us there is not way we will all be able to go, it is just too much flying for her.  We would fly to LA for a couple of days then Hawaii for a couple then Singapore for a few then finish the trip up with a flight to Bangkok for several days then home.

How amazing would that be?  But with all of that flying I don’t think it would be fair to Lani.  We have a lot to think about.

Yesterday was such a lazy day, it was so sad.  Matt and I would just look at each other.  We miss everyone so much but soon we will see everyone again.  I am going to see my Mom later this month for my brother’s baby shower so that will be fun.

The house is so quite now.  Mom and Dad left at 4 am this morning to catch their plane back to paradise.  Lani woke up this morning looking around for everyone but no one was here.  The house is so quite, Mom is not in the kitchen milling around and I do not hear the golf channel being blasted from the tv in the living room.  We are very happy that they are talking about moving back to Florida but we just want everyone to be happy.  They waited so long to move back to Hawaii we don’t want them to get here and regret moving back.  We know Lani is the driving force behind them wanting to move back, who can blame them but we just want everyone to be happy.

The weekend was wonderful other than the fact the Lani and I are the only ones that are not sick.  Mom, Dad, and Matt all have the cold that Dad brought from

Hawaii.  Mom as saying last night she thought she was going to have to sleep sitting up in the bed so she could breath, I thought now would be the perfect time to have one of those adjustable beds so she could just raise the bed up and not have to worry about all of the pillows.  They catch their plane to go back to

Hawaii at 6 in the morning so today is our last day together.  We do not want to them to leave but hopefully they will be moving back soon.  Mom is seriously talking about it and we are so excited.

Last night we were able to have dinner with Mr. Don Stevens, a man Dad was in

Vietnam with 40 years ago.  It was so nice; he brought pictures and shared them with us.  Dad was so young, only 19 years old.  Mrs. Lee took a picture of us as we were getting ready to leave and she sent it to me last night.  It was a very pleasant evening and 2 more wonderful people have walked into our lives.

This sucks so bad I am at work and all of our family is at home have a grand ole time.  I am glad Matt has the week off so Lani is home with Daddy and the grandparents.  She is going to be so spoiled she is not going to want to go back to daycare.  I really don’t blame her thought I did not want to come back to work.  I guess it being the day after Christmas the loony people are out.  I am answering phones today and some you know we are in the “title “ insurance business and I had someone just call me to get a term life insurance quote and when I tried to explain we do not insure people we insure land they were even more confused, oh well.

Well Christmas is over and I still never found my snow globe for the front yard.  That really upsets me because I know Lani would have loved it.  Last year I would just stand in the front yard at night and just watch it.  Our outdoor shed is so cluttered and disorganized we have to do something about it.  After the New Year we have to get in there and organize everything with some tool storage or something.  We can’t find anything in there and you know it is bad when you lose an entire Snowman Snow globe that is just sad to say the least.

Sorry for the short post but we have so much family here now.  I want to say real quick HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERENA!!!!!  My middle daughter turned 13 years old today.  Oh how time flies by.  Stay tuned for pictures.  I will try and upload some tomorrow.

This is Matt and I at his holiday party last night.  I thought everyone would enjoy seeing a new picture of us.  I love my man so much.  Dinner was amazing, I had lamb and Matt had a t-bone.

When Matt and I got married years ago we were married in Louisiana in July, outside. I know how stupid does someone have to be, not to mention it was a renaissance wedding and let me tell you the clothes were so hot it was unbearable. My Mom had this Industrial Ceiling Fan under the porch and a giant boxed fan out in the yard. The fan in the yard kept throwing the breaker so everyone was huddled under the porch in between pictures just to say dry from all of the sweat. She just let me know that she just got a new fan for the yard for this summer. That is great and it is going to help us out this summer, wish we had it years ago.

I am so excited Christmas is one week away.  Matt’s family starts coming in from Hawaii on Friday with his parents arriving Saturday afternoon.  They have not seen Lani since July and she has gotten so much bigger since then, they are going to be so surprised.  I have been looking around for a table arrangement to make, as soon as I find one I will post it for you guys but if you have something you would like to share then please post it up here.

Tanya and I were talking about Christmas gifts and she told me something so strange. This girl is just crazy. I told her I could buy her an everyday hand bag and she said really I don’t think I could do that for you because that is so personal. Then she follows that up with do you need underwear? I just looked at her dumb founded thinking she was joking but she was very serious. She feels that she knows me well enough to pick me out underwear. Of all of the things in the world, panties!! She thought I was pushing it by suggested I get her a purse and she wants to buy me underwear. This girl is so strange, and then she tells me I could get her shoes. I could not pick out shoes for her or anyone for that matter. I can not even bring home shoes for my daughter. Tanya said she wants a pair of sexy boots; all I could do was shake my head.

This is really starting to tick me off; Matt got called for jury duty, AGAIN.  All I want to do is perform my civic duty and I have NEVER BEEN CALLED.  Everyone I know has been called at least once and some like Matt have been called twice.  Even my daughter’s ex-boyfriend was called.  I am really beginning to believe I do not exist.  When I started to buy saving bonds a few months ago I opened an account with the US department of Treasury or maybe I should say I tried to open an account with them.  You go through this gauntlet of questions to prove your identity and when I was all finished I was told that they could not verify who I was.

I was left with a form I had to take to my bank to have notarized stating I was who I said I was.  Do you think that has something to do with the fact that I have never been called for jury duty?  I have been registered to vote since before I graduated high school.  As soon as we moved to Florida I got my new drivers licenses, registered to vote, and also checked the box to become and organ donor because I think that is very important.  I have voted in very election we have had including the primaries and I don’t understand it.  I do not have a criminal record, I have only received on ticked in my life, and that was 16 years ago.  I am an upstanding citizen and I want to go to jury duty dang it.  If you have any insider information on how they pick the people they call for duty please share it with my readers, I would really appreciate it.

LSU will be playing Ohio State for the BCS Championship.  I am sure I will have many jokes to pass along to you from all of my family in Louisiana about the buckeyes as the game gets closer.  I will also be keeping my eye for cool stuff for you to check out.

Lani and I had a morning of shopping and waiting in line at the post office.  The lines are getting really long there with people picking up and dropping off.  The rush as not even hit yet but I am happy to say I got all of the presents mailed that needed to go out.  After all of that Lani and I  grabbed some lunch then came and she took a nap.  That was a lot of excitement for a little one and of course she was so good in the stores and at the post office.  She always is.

Christmas is getting so close and that means all of our family will be soon.  Weekend after next Mom and Dad fly in the same day Michaela flies out.  It is going to be so nice for them to be here for Christmas with Lani because this year she is so excited about the tree and the lights and the Christmas cards.  I is going to be so much fun Christmas morning with her opening all of her presents, I better make sure my digital camera battery is fully charged because I would not want to miss anything.  I can use the regular camera and Matt can use the camcorder so we can make sure we have every angle covered.

I might get to go to Vegas.  Matt has to travel there in January and we are trying to come up with a way for me to meet him out there on the weekend.  I have never been and I think it would be cool to stay in a nice Vegas hotel like the ones you see on CSI.  Having a little one makes things like this a little bit harder; this is a perfect time to have grandparents around the corner.  A nice little weekend get away for us would be so nice but I guess we will settle for the nights we put her to bed then sneak out to the movies.