Just wanted to post a picture of my favorite little girl!

Ain't she just the cutest!!!

Parents are fun =)

Well this week has been a good one. We did our usual everyday thing the first few days of the week and then things heated up towards the end. Thursday night was another pedicure party, but this one was even better cause it was at Kristi's new crib...which of course means that Kristi's crazy kin and soon to be kin (Marti) were there. Haha, I think that is the most anyone has ever laughed while doing pedicures. And next week Carol, Tori, Marti and I have a makeover date, my absolute favorites!!!

Then on Friday my mom and dad came to visit! yayyyyy! Daddy had never seen our house before and the last time mom had seen it, it was halfway painted. They loved it and we had so much fun just relaxing. Well, Justin and my dad relaxed while me and my mom SHOPPED........I guess some things never change?? Saturday we woke up and ate a big pancake breakfast and then me and mom headed out for what else..........shopping. We got the beads to make Sharry's bridesmaid jewelry (In case you didn't know, I'm the expert on bridesmaid jewelry, haha). We did some fun crafts which we hid from the boys until they were finished and unveiled them like the special-ed children we are. haha. I love doing crafts with my mom. It seems that we walk through a store, see an item and my mom proclaims, "We should get this and do _____with it." In normal life, she would say this and keep walking but, with our powers combined, I'm the one who gets excited about what she is suggesting and just HAVE to do it! So I actually force her to put her good ideas into action. It's a great team effort.
Saturday night we rented a movie and made mega nachos and all cuddled up on the couch to enjoy. It was great. And then there was this morning.

We taught the 10th graders in Sunday School, next Sunday is our last one with them =( We decided to join the new "young couples" class that started a couple weeks ago. I am beyond excited, we got to go to lunch with a lot of the couples last week and I loved them. Two of them are pregnant. And just today Matt and Elizabeth Arnold joined the class too! I really can't wait. I'll still get to teach my lovlies on Wednesday nights though. It's a new phase and I'm so happy for it.

So that brings us to the present time. I cooked mexican food for Justin and some of his buddies who wanted to have a Poker night, but then some of the guys canceled and now it's just "sit on the couch and be lazy night" with a little bit of "let's wrestle each other until our faces turn red night" too. As you can tell, I'm uber excited!

and the craziness continues.......

Okay so the deal went down. I am now the proud owner of a Yukon. Here are a few pictures I took to share my new bundle with the world.

I'm slowly getting used to it. Granted there are a few times this last week when I just miss riding in my cute little solstice, but, hey, it's just a car right?? Plus I KNOW my passengers will much appreciate the room, comfort, and entertainment of the Yukon more than the Solstice for sure. haha.

On another note, I had my first interview for a math teacher position at Pace high school on Tuesday. I'm really excited and nervous. It would be just perfect for me it seems. The school is seriously 2 minutes from my house, my hours would be 7-2, and I get to teach kiddies all day. Well, not little kiddies, 9th and 10th graders.......but kiddies none the less. I've really and truly but this thing up to God though. If it doesn't work out I will be VERY set back in pursuing my teaching career (because this is the position I would have chosen could i choose) but I really am confident everything will work out for my best, really really!

This week has been busy, especially for Justin. It's the semi-annual inventory at Ferguson. Each time they have inventory they work into the late hours of the night for like 3 weeks straight, and weekends!! So us Ferguson widows (the staff wives) get together and chill while all our husbands are gone. So last night me and AnnMarie went over to Lanni's house for a Sushi dinner and girl talk session. Yes, they took my Sushi virginity.......and I actually like it! Imagine Alabama eatin' sushi?? We had so much fun, I love those chicks, so cute!

Plus this week has been so much fun actually getting to hang with Ash while she has been in town. I miss all the wedding planning stuff. It's so fun and she is as giddy as it gets. Plus is stinkin' love her mom, do moms get any cuter?? I got to steal Tor away from her busy schedule a couple times too so overall, it was a good week.

Okay well I have a Mary Kay party to go to now so I'll talk to you all later!

Your invited........

........to the going away party for THE SOLSTICE, my baby=( Today we will be saying goodbye to my one true friend and sending on her way (to somewhere in freakin' Arizona where someone will make her a happy happy home I'm sure) And in her place will roll the most opposite vehicle out there (with the exceptance of the H2, which my husband thoroughly considered), the YUKON. This thing is stinkin humongous! I am sure that me and my future children will be perfectly safe in it, but as for all you other people on the roads of pensacola.........beware! How can you put me in the smallest car known to man, with 2 cubic feet of sitting room, into an SUV (in which I believe I can ride next to a few high flying birds) with 5000 cubic feet of space?? Oh well, it will take some getting used to I guess. And even though the Yukon wouldn't be my first pick of vehicle (because the Solstice would dangit!) haha, you can't help but feel that Xzibit had some part in designing this one. It's totally pimped! Well not with the glow in the dark paint job, or flashing front grill or anything but it does have the most amazing interior. We got beautiful tan leather interior, full DVD system with drop down monitor, bose sound system with six disk CD changer (which is in the front dash, I'd never seen a six disk in the front dash, but then again, I am from Alabama). Anyway, it's got tons of other stuff that Justin can tell you about but I can't ever remember everything. So needless to say this SUV is worth WAY more than the Solstice so I guess I shouldn't be complaining about anything huh?? Does this SO make me a mom though? The only way driving this HUGE vehicle is going to be worth it is if I have tons of people ride with me allllll the time and watch DVDs and say they love it so much, hahah. anyway, the deal is going down TODAY. It really is a dirty deal we are getting and to pass it up just because I want to hold on to my little baby for a few more months would be kind of ridiculous. Who knows, I may just fall in love with the fact that I can pack more than one soft sided bag when we go on trips, and when I drive someone to the airport they don't have to hold their luggage in their lap in the passenger seat anymore, oh yeah and the sheer fact that I can take more than one friend at a time to lunch, it will definitely be better for traveling and when we start poppin' out the babies!

Okay so, on to other things, I'm starting to feel myself being pulled into a new (yet so very old) addiction, Super Mario. Ok, so Tetris and things of the sort will always have it's addictive powers but, Super Mario had lost it's grasp on me until Saturday night. Kristen and I have no doubt repeatedly sat through many a boxing match and UFC fight and gracefully grinned and bared it. Well, not this time, while the boys were hootin' and hollarin' we snuck away to the "man room" (forbidden territory), pushed aside the PS2 (even more forbidden territory) and dusted off the old nintendo games. We laughed so hard we almost peed as we tried to remember if this was the version that you could pick up turtle shells in, or if they would kill you unmercifully. Yeah, we died! So now all I want to do is save the Princess and get 5000 points by jumping on those stupid flags. ahhhhhhhhh!

So this week Ash is in town and I'm so glad to play with her. We gots tons of stuff to get done for this wedding, I cannot believe it's only 4 months away! It's coming like a speeding train I tell ya. I just love love love her poofy little dress, it's so mod. And she really had her little bridesmaids in mind when picking out our dresses, not only flattering, but it makes you look REALLY tan! I'm happy! haha.

Anyway, that's all for now, I'll post some pictures of me in my new ride later if I remember.

Age is just a number

So, Jus and I just returned from Bama. There are always tons of crazy things going on up there, maybe that is why I turned out as crazy as I am. My 72 year old grandmother got married on Saturday! Yep and the groom cried, plus they wrote their own vows. haha, it was seriously so cute. Her husband (my granddad) died about 7 years ago and her groom lost his wife also. So with their powers combined, they can finally change a light bulb. Still can't hear the TV but, at least they can still walk dangit! My mom was a bridesmaid and my dad was a groomsman. It was a fun experience........my mom has all the pictures on her camera, I'll have to get her to send them to me. Maybe I can post them later.

My little neice Tatum also had her first birthday on Sunday. We had her a luau and it was the most adorable thing I have EVER seen (again, I'll have to get the pictures!)
She's kind of got me scared that my kids are gonna be the ugly cousins........how can they compete with blonde haired, blue eyed, dimple faced kids?? Oh well, we'll see! haha. We had the kiddie pool and two slip and slides out there, we grilled out hot dogs and Tatum had her very own grass skirt and flower headband that she sported the WHOLE time! Justin went up to Lake Martin for a golf tournament with some of the big wigs in his company and my mom and I spent the day galavanting around Prattville. It was fun, but now we are home and back to everyday life.

Okay so I've decided that God has it out for me, haha. Last week our air conditioner died, it was over 90 degrees in our house for two days. Luckily it was under warrantly still and they were able to come in and fix it quickly. Right after that is when we headed to Bama. When we got there, Sharry informed me that her air conditioner had also gone out. And daggum if the next day my mom and dad's air conditioner didn't go out on us too! Oh but it doesn't stop there. As I am sitting at Tatum's birthday party (which was hot as......well, really hot!) My dad informs me that there is smoke coming out of my car, he thought it was the grass underneath it that had caught on fire but soon discovered that instead it was actually my CAR! ahhhh, it turns out a bolt was loose and the air conditioner was leaking causing the car to smoke and once again, the air to go out..........luckily he got that one fixed quickly. So just when you think my body tempurature has been raised to 90 degrees permenantly, we get home and today.............our home air conditioner has gone out AGAIN!! So yes, I'm sitting here boiling as I write. What do you think God's trying to tell me here???

Anyway, all is well and I'm counting my many blessings!

Outdoors with Christi and Justin

Write it down in the record books people I'm posting again........already! Well, I had a minute while Justin is out playing golf so I figured I should seize the moment.

Yesterday was offically one of our "Christi and Justin" days. We have to have one of those every once in a while when we feel like we NEVER see each other. These last couple weeks has been one of those times. With Memphis trips, Huntsville trips, Oregon trips, wedding mania, and me going to bama for a few days.............we needed a day just to enjoy the one we married. So that day was yesterday and we went to the ZOO! haha, I really can't wait until I have kids cause then I will actually have an excuse to do all the things I really want to do.........but for now, I'll just do them!

This is a sweet little goat dude that LOVED to get his head rubbed. But he sure did stink!

Okay so this was my FAVORITE part of the day. When we saw this mommy with her little baby. So cute! The baby just clung to the hair on her back for dear life. Justin and I spent almost an hour trying to get a good picture of the baby but the mama kept hiding her from the camera............I felt kinda like the paparatzi trying to photograph the newest star child.

He's almost as big as that gorilla huh?

This giraffe was really funny, he wrapped his entire tongue around some little kids bag-o-food and tried to steal it.......luckily the dad snatched in back out of his mouth! That tongue was slimy, so Justin didn't want to touch it, what a girl! So he proceeded to make the giraffe stick out his tongue while he dropped each piece of food onto it! Everyone was cracking up!

So that concludes our fun trip to the Zoo! I love the Zoo!

CAR-isis!

Wow! Could I BE more of a blog slacker? Well, in order to re-pay my extreme debt, this one's gonna be a doosy.

Well, let's try to pick up where I left off last, i was on my way to Tally to see the ever so lovely Audge Podge. I spent a few days there, had my first pedicure party (p.s. everyone LOVED the new pedicure set), and got to hang out with old friends before they all headed back home for the summer. I love Audrey K Johnson with all my heart but was extremely excited to get back to my Jus. Plus I knew she was only one day behind me on her way to Pcola anyway! hah!
Okay so skip ahead to the next wednesday. It was Tori's birthday, yay! We all went to Macaroni Grill to celebrate, first time i'd seen Ruco in a long time. He looked handsome as always. The next morning Justin and I were flying out to Memphis to visit Jon and Angie (brother and sister-in-law). We had a lay over in Atlanta and then right when we got to Memphis Justin and Jon got on the Bellvue church bus (which I must say is no ordinary church bus!) and they were off for a three day golfing trip with the mens group at the church. On which Justin did the most amazing thing of all times........he hit a REAL HOLE IN ONE!!! Oh yeah, we have many witnesses to prove it, a framed scorecard and a beautiful plaque with his hole in one ball mounted on it! I didn't get to see it, but I heard all about it (since all of Bellvue Baptist was buzzing about it when we went to church on Sunday). I don't know if Justin or Jon was more proud?? he told everyone! While those boys were gone me, angie and Jackson got to spend lots of time together. Jackson is so stinkin cute. Even when he tries to be defiant he is cute. Angie would say, "Jackson, get in your car seat." To which he would reply, "No Thank you" or "No ma'am". How do you get angry at such a polite kid?? haha. We had a lot of time to talk and I enjoyed it so much. I think that may have been the first time Angie and I have really spent any alone time together (cause there are always tons of folks around) so it was a great time for me! On Monday morning Jon drove Justin back to the airport to catch a flight to Oregon.......business trip. And Jon, Angie, Jack and I hopped in the car and headed back to Pcola. Right when i got back I had a million things to do. On Wednesday I had a couple's shower for Kristi and Ruco at my house. We had a full house and I thought it was sooo much fun. They got lots of great stuff and we got to see people we haven't seen in forever it seems.
Then the next night Angie and I threw Joanna a lingerie shower, also at my house. Which was also a good turn out. So I figured I should stop all my showering for now, I wouldn't dare ask for three great showers in such a short time would I? So then Friday morning was Joanna's bridesmaid brunch. We all dressed up in our little debutant dresses and big hats. It was so relaxing out on Mrs. pam's farm and the weather was just perfect. Before I had time to blink I was jumping in the car, changing into my bathing suit at a gas station, and heading to Jill's house for Kristi's bridesmaid luncheon at the pool. I think that is my favorite thing to do, lounge by the pool. We had lots of laughs with all the girls and then we were all off to get ready for the reahearsal. Whew!

Oh but the fun was only beginning.........I had a bit of a predicament. Both the reahearsals and rehearsal dinners were at the exact same time. I decided that since Skoplelos (Kristi's rehearsal) and Angus (Jo's rehearsal dinner) are right across from each other that I would go to Kristi's rehearsal and Jo's reahearsal dinner. And I actually got to make it to the end of Kristi's dinner too!
The next morning was spent trying to get everything together for my mad dash between weddings all the while trying to tend to my newly sick husband. I made it to the hotel where Jo and all her bridesmaids were getting ready and pulled myself together in enough time for pictures and what not. The wedding was gorgeous and fun but it was running a little late. Thankfully, Jo was on a mission to get me to Kristi's wedding on time and made the photographer take all the pictures with me in them as fast as possible. So i ran back up to the hotel room, completely re-did my hair, gathered all my things and jumped in the solstice in Jo's bridesmaid dress. I made it to Skopelos before everyone else, SCORE! I was able to breathe for a minute, but not for long cause I had to put on Kristi's bridesmaid dress in the bathroom and after that, there was no breathing going on! hah! We chilled with Tori in a secluded room until time for the wedding to begin. It was so sweet, everything looked fabulous! And the reception was more fun than.........well, something that is really really fun! Whew! and now, we are done.

Well, until I got back home that night and Justin was absolutely miserably sick. Even sicker than he was before. We went to bed and woke up early to take Justin to the doctor, Tonsilitis! Ew, his throat looked gross. And even with the antibiotic he wasn't able to go to work for two and a half days. Anyone who knows Justin knows that he has to be REALLY sick to miss work, I think he is addicted. Well, before he got well I had to leave for Bama, my little sister was graduating high school. (I'll post pictures later) The last one of 8 Shirley's to graduate from Marbury (my mom may have withdrawals??) I got to hang out with the fam, drive around in the Solstice with Brandy and then Megan all weekend, and got to see some hometown folks I've missed. Speaking of the Solstice, you may be wondering what the title of this blog is referring to...........Justin wants me to sell it! AHHHHHHH! I know I know, What the heck right?? Well, turns out he has a good reason i guess (if there is one good enough). Since the demand is so high for it right now, and you can only get one if you are on a waiting list for 6 months, the used ones are selling for more than the new ones. So, my car has actually appreciated these last three months. But, it won't last long, once the dealers get in their shipments and the new '07's come out............I'm screwed! His argument is that when we have little ones, they can't ride in the solstice anyway, so i can sell it now and get an awesome SUV or wait until it depreciates and get a not-so-awesome SUV. Ah, decisions. He says it is up to me, and my heart says, KEEP THE SOLSTICE, but my mind and checkbook are saying...........be logical and sell. Crap! Feel free to leave your feedback to help me! I need help! Love you all and hope you enjoyed the LONG update!