WARRIOR DASH!

Yesterday I went to Annie's school for her nine week CARE ceremony. I talked to Daphney about running and a few events around Atlanta and she recommended the Warrior Dash so I checked it out and signed Jaime and I up for it. After talking to my daddy this morning, I signed him up too! The Warrior Dash is a 3.22 miles 11 obstacle adventure race. Their description is actually Americas Most Insane Race, 11 obstacles from hell. I am so excited about it. I have never done anything like this. My friends know that I don't really like the outdoors and I really don't like to be dirty. On the race I will have to crawl through mud to finish. YUCK! Ricky thinks I will never make it but Brance is positive I will. He has me on a training regime since I have exactly two months to prepare. Brance said he will check the distance on the motorcross track today and I can just start running it everyday instead of using the eliptical or treadmill. Of course he isn't here so I'm on the computer. It is a little to windy for me outside anyway.

Brance's room is completely painted. I hope that Mike will have his bed ready by next weekend. He will need a new mattress and boxspring so I can get that in town and have it delievered next week when I'm ready for it. We still have the 30 yard dumpster in our driveway and its not even half full yet. Our contractor said he won't have it picked up until we tell him that we are ready. We have three ball games tomorrow so I won't get to work much in the house until Sunday afternoon.

Well enough blogging for me, Annie and I have to grocery shop.

So Michelle is ahead of me...

I haven't had time to sit down muchless catch up. We are so thankful Brance only has one week of ball left. I am really tired of these double headers on Saturday. He is still practicing everyday and being very tired the entire time. I can't wait for it to end. Annie is still practicing but only once a week, I'm so glad Ricky takes her to this. I just can't stay awake.

If you have rode by my house than I'm sure you are wondering what's going on. We are having a lot of work done. The new roof is finished and the tear out in Annie's room is completed with only painting left. Brance is getting his room painted and the kitchen is getting a paint job. Living in a house this long requires a lot of up keep that I will never be ready for. I'm all for selling and moving every few years but Ricky isn't up for that.

I don't really have a lot of time so I better get off here for now.

Well the week is starting kind of rough...

I had to pick Brance up early from school yesterday. A combination of asthma and lack of rest. I've told y'all this before Brance requires a lot of sleep, when he doesn't get it he throws up. Baseball is consuming him. His feet hit the floor at 6 am everyday, he eats lunch at school at 10:30 am, he has an afternoon snack sometime before starting practice five days a weeks until 5:30 pm, bath, dinner and homework. I can't tell you the last time he went to sleep before 9 pm. With that said, now he is sick. His asthma is always bad once ball season starts. Yesterday we went to the doctor, he already takes Singular and Claritin, now we are switching from Claritin to Zyrtec, going back to Advair (once a day) and Albuterol before any exercise. YUCK! He is really congested but he was on a strong antibitoic in December for the staff infection so his doctor is hesitant to give him another one. An oral steriod would knock this mess out overnight but he was on an oral steriod three times last year so we can't do that yet either. Poor Brance is really dragging. He came in from practice, took his shower, ate dinner and was in tears walking up the steps to his bedroom to go to sleep. He will have to do his homework before school in the morning. He should be asleep before I finish this tonight so he will get about 10 or 11 hours of sleep. That's a start but far from where he needs to be. I pray the ran will come in and keep him from practing for the next few days. He does have a game in Flowery Branch on Thursday night.

Annie has practice tonight at 7:30 pm. She will most likely be asleep before they get to the ball field. I know that I'll go to sleep pretty quick after they leave. Although our feet hit the floor by 6 am every day, its rare that I sleep past 4:30 am. I usually just read my book or aggreviate the Good Lord with all of my problems.

I've had two nice days at work, a few of us started a little prayer circle before we open the center. This at least helps us to get our day off to a great start and I think its a great habit to get into. I love working with girls that love Jesus like I do. The best part of it as we are rushing around to get out the door and both kids fussing, I don't take talk time to talk to God, I'm sure when Annie is ranting about something and I say, Jesus help me, that's doesn't really count as prayer time. By having the prayer circle at work I know that I'll have a few minutes before I start work.

I'm still working on my plan. God hasn't slammed the door in my face yet. Keep your prayers going. Also the last two weeks at church we have had about 125 people, a lot of them are visitors. We are so glad for the work God is doing in that place. Come visit us if you aren't already attending a church. Look us up at www.foothillsfellowship.com
We start at 10 am and get out a few minutes after 11 am. Lot of good music and great fellowship! We are all sinners, saved by grace.

Ricky finally got his bionic eye...

Well at least that's what we call it! Ricky has a perfect eye with 20/20 vision and a not so good eye. He has glasses and contacts but complains that his depth preception is different with both. So he wanted to have lazer surgery to correct it. Well you know what I think about cosmetic surgery so I was all for this correction. The hurry up and wait took two hours but the actually procedue only took 60 seconds and I got to watch it on the big screen in the waiting area. They gave Ricky a 10 mg Valuim before surgery but he said he couldn't tell it did anything. I have four Valuim that the doctor gave me for a flying trip and we decided not to go. Ricky said 10 mg wouldn't do it for me. I'm so glad he knows that about me! Anyway now we say Ricky has a bionic eye and we told my daddy that he can see through girls clothes so of course daddy wants to have it done!

I became a fan of While your stabbing me in the back you can kiss my ass too, on facebook. I think this is the best fan page yet.

My week has went quickly we closed an entire day for snow and didn't have pre-k on one of the days. How nice is that, it gave me some time to get some paperwork done. Some days I am just slammed with stuff to do and it seems its all at one time.

Brance has his first middle school game tomorrow. He has a double header starting at 12:30 pm, Annie has practice at 10:30 am, Ricky is helping coach so I'll just have to make it to the ballfield for Brance's game. There goes my Saturday!

Have a great weekend.