broken laptops, sweet baby girl

Our laptop died. Grandpa Phillip is working on it, but it's questionable at the moment. I don't know when I'll be able to post again. Wish us luck.

In other news, Addison woke me up this morning by tapping my arm. When I opened my eyes, she waved and said, "I missed you, Mommy." I just melted. She said something similar to Robert last night after he got home from the football game. She's the most loving little girl ever. She's the best.

Also, I had a few minutes to change the background again. I got some feedback that the pale green "Merry Christmas tree" theme wasn't quite festive enough. :-)

experimentating

I have the best daughter ever. She's suddenly decided to take naps again, so I have two hours to play around with my blog now! I found a couple of sites that offer free layouts. Some were cute, but didn't seem to format correctly on my page. After several trials, I ended up with this one. Not the most colorful, but I think it's festive & I like that it says "Merry Christmas". It may change frequently now that I've mastered how to copy & paste HTML codes. :-)

In honor of my husband, who is currently braving the rain in order to support his team, I feel like I need to say "Go Noles"!

Happy Saturday!

Christmas has arrived!

Happy Black Friday everyone! Hope you all got some good shopping in...I know we did! We were out of the house at 8:30. We had breakfast at Chick-Fil-A, went to Target, and then hit the mall. Bath & Body Works had the longest line, but I was willing to wait. They have the best sales on the day after Thanksgiving. I stock up for the year on air fresheners for my classroom & their fancy soap. While I was waiting in the 20 minute line, I was suckered in to buying stuff I didn't need. Robert had taken Addison outside & I was weak & succeptible to salesperson pressure in his absence. We'll be going back tomorrow to return a few items. :-)
Overall, it was a pretty quick trip, but productive. We have almost all of our Christmas shopping done now! Whoo hoo!

Thanksgiving was excellent. We had lots of delicious food...including some new things. Robert ate sweet potatoes at each meal (we eat twice - lunch with Robert's family, and then with mine for dinner). I tried sweet potatoes, too, but I didn't like them as much as Robert did. Addison tried stuffing (not a fan), sweet potatoes (not a fan), corn casserole (loved it), and cranberry sauce (not a fan). We missed our Uncle Bubbles & Aunt Evelyn, but I'm sure they had a great day with Evelyn's family in Margate. All in all, it was a very happy day with our families.

We're going to eat some yummy Thanksgiving leftovers (thanks Mom!) for lunch, and then will continue decorating the rest of the house. Robert has lucked out big time today: it's raining, so he can't be forced outside to do outdoor decorating. Not to worry - I plan to get him outside as soon as the rain slacks up. Maybe tomorrow morning. His time will come.

Here's some funny for your day: Addison's reaction to our Christmas tree & some musical decorations. We put the tree up while she was sleeping last night. Sorry the video is so dark. We had the lights off so that she could really get a feel for the Christmas lights on the tree.

Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope you all get to spend the day with family & friends! Here's a quick message from Addison!

Again....HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

testing, testing, 1,2,6?

Today was some kind of day. Glad it's almost behind us. Car battery died when I was picking up Robert. Luckily his co-worker Mike jumped our car, we rushed to pick up Adds, then hurried down the road to Sears. We ate Addison's new favorite - Chick-Fil-a - for dinner. Sears was SOOOOOOO slow to fix the battery...probably took two hours total. Thankfully, we have the world's most patient & wonderful almost-two year old in the history of the world, and she cooperated nicely the whole time. She was anxious to ge thome, and fell asleep shortly after getting in the door. (This pic is from our trip to the fair, but I thought this post needed something cute to pick up the mood!)

Evelyn is a graphic design genius. She made the CUTEST invitation for Adds' birthday. Can't wait for you all to see it! Thanks Evelyn for all your hard work!

We're Famous!

Addison & Robert are in today's newspaper (page 4A) and online at: http://tallahassee.com/article/20081123/NEWS01/811230331

Whoo hoo!

Busy Day!

Today was a busy day! We woke up earlier than normal (6 AM). Don't know what woke Addison, but she was ready to go, so up we all got. We to David's Cub Scout den's pancaked breakfast around 8AM. We ate with David, Memaw & Pepaw, while Aunt Janie & Uncle Craig manned the ticket table. They were pretty packed when we left, so hopefully it was a successful fundraiser for them.

After getting home from the pancake breakfast, we noticed a neighbor was having a yard sale. We walked down the road & ended up buying several items for Adds: a doctor kit, Sesame Street placemat, playdoh, and Addison's personal favorite - a sit & spin.

She played on the sit & spin until Nonnie, Uncle Andrew & Aunt Evelyn arrived. Then we all headed out into the 40 degree weather to Bradley's Country Fair. Traffic was better than we anticipated, and the first event we encountered was Addison's most requested activity: pony rides. (See the video below). A newspaper photographer from the Democrat took Addison's photo while she was on the pony, so if you catch a pic of Adds either online at tallahassee.com or in the newspaper, please let us know! After the ponies, we went straight to eat yummy Bradley's sausage. Once our bellies were full, we trekked for two hours through the craft area, purchasing a princess crown (which Adds will not wear), cloth gift bag, kiddie-sized apron (thanks, Nonnie!), a necklace for Mommy and a bracelet for Addy. At the end of shopping, we ran into Addison's teacher, Miss Julie. Miss Jule also works as a clown & make-up artist with BJ's Party House (which Evelyn does the website for and who Andrew used to clown with), so Addison got her face painted. It was a GREAT day! Here are a few:

Here's the video of Addison & her Daddy riding the pony:

One more time about my friend Heather - please check out her blog. She is in serious need of some funding assistance to cover the costs of her new treatment plan as well as transportation to & from NYC for each treatment. If you have any ideas on how to raise money for medical costs or if you would like to make a donation, please let me know so I can pass the info on to Heather! Thanks!