Jessie & Maggie's world

LIFE

2009-04-04T12:58:00.007-04:00

Wow life changes in the blink of an eye.. sometimes good sometimes bad, but always in God's hands.

I have been learning a lot about myself these last few months and have been reading a lot and trying to find my purpose in this world. Everyday I think about what it is that I need ot do to make God happy and to raise my daughter the right way. Turns out this is a hard thing if I strive for perfection. I have learned that Jesus IS the only perfect one and there will never be another another one. Not even Jessie. So I need to not try to be perfect I need to be ME.

And dang it, I'm a pretty cool chick! :-)

Enough of my ranting!

Here whats been going on.

Brian's got a new girlfriend Audrey, Maggie really likes her ( thank god) I'm sure the blogging world has noticed her blog. Maggie is plastered all over it! and honestly, I'm cool with it,some have mentioned that it is a little odd and slightly inappropriate but hey, they like each other and she seems to be a good girl, so I say BLOG AWAY!!!

Maggie is taking Karate lessons, AND she hates them! :-) she's slightly ADD and I'm not sure that is for her, she thinks it should be more like the Karate Kid and she should paint fences and wax on wax off, and do the swan. I love that kid.

Today we met her Soccer Coach, she is on the Thunder cat's team. I love that, I think I'm gonna have Snarf put on the back of her T-shirt. She starts practice this Wednesday at 7 and she has a game every week. I think she will love this. Plus she will be able to RUN!!!!

As for me..
I'm good. Since the last post, things have changed. Things with Matt are over..

All my adult life I has chosen boys that I have to fix, relationships where the other person is in need of help or being fixed. I have always been the giver and the other person has always been the taker.. the important people in my life say, being the giver isn't a bad thing as long as you are coupled with the right person. Turns out.. I'm not a very good person picker. I only see the good. It would be nice, just for once I ne the rescued one, the one who gets taken care of Blah Blah Blah!!!

recently, I have been surrounding myself with Good people. people who don't need fixing or told how to treat me. Although I love helping, it's great for my 812-207 number not to be the crisis hot line :-)

It's also nice to know that there are men out there who are interested in getting to know me AND Maggie. Heck, they may even invite us to watch a basketball game and eat queso, or go to dinner on a Saturday night..

So, that's whats been happening in the Smith/Wimsatt household!

Peace out homies!

I will leave you with Mag Dog's Easter pictures!

The Funeral

2008-10-26T19:03:00.004-04:00

Today was my Uncle JB's funeral, it was sad as they usually are, but it kills me to see my grandma sad. Jay was my grandma's oldest brother, she called them playmates.

Yesterday at the viewing, Grandma, Aunt Chris, Steven Jay and I were at the casket, Chris ( who is now completely blind) say to Steven her son, "Steven, how does he look?" and Steve started to cry... then Grandma chimed in, with that ultra calming and soothing voice that she has and says, Chris, he looks like Jay, he's at peace. I lost it... it hurts so bad to think Chris the aunt that is so much the rock of our family is now so dependent on everyone.

There were a lot of cousins there that I either never met or haven't seen since I was little, they all said I look just like my mom and some of them even cried when they saw me... I have that affect on people :-)

Although, it was a very sad day and I hated it. It was great to see all my family, I have realized today that the 35 minute drive to them isn't too far to make, EVER!!!

Matt went with me for support and he was great, at one time when they were singing, I started to cry, he didn't say anything, he just gently reached over and held my hand tightly.. those are the moments with him that I love, when he doesn't say anything, but says so much.

Afterwards we went to eat with Linda and Cara and the kids + Courtney. Matt and Cara even exchanged a few laughs :-) things are looking up they will be BFF before you know it.

that's all for today, I promise to be positive in my next post :-)
Pray for our family, there is a lot of unfinished business.

This just in....

2008-10-24T22:01:00.002-04:00

one of the fish is dead,so we now have 1. Rest in peace Daphney, we will remember you always, or until you are replaced before the kids get home... maybe they won't notice! :-)

I'm back......

2008-10-24T21:22:00.004-04:00

Hello all my loyal blog fans, I am back. There has been so much going on in my world here lately.. too much to catch you up on.

My recently Maggie had a birthday she is 5 years old now.... I guess that makes me a grown up?!?!? i don't feel it.

Maggie and I have moved in with Cara and the kids, we have officially became the bradey bunch :-)

I got a promotion at Heartland and I am now Division Service Maanager of Alabama.. I love it

My dad finished his hot rod, it's awesome!! I'm not allowed to touch it and can NEVER drive it :-)

Brittany was on homecoming court and Cara and I drove her and Cody in the parade, it was so much fun.. she's grown into a beautiful young lady, so much like me..tear! j/k

I've been dating someone very special to me, his name is Matt. that's all I'm going to say about him, there is lots of drama in the LBC if you know what I mean :-)

Cara got her galbladder taken out because she has a crush on the hot doctor.

Maggie is going to be Dorothy for halloween and our Yorkie is going to be toto.

I can't think of much more to update you fine people on....

So, back to my regular posts.

Yesterday at lunch;

K so yeaterday I went to lunch was going to meet Matt but decided last minute I was going to run errands instead and would just see him later that night. So... I go to the bank fill out my deposit slip put my check and slip in the canister and TRY to put it back in the thing, but dropped it...it then rolled under my car, I had to back up to try and get out to get it and I ran over it, then... I go to subway and get lunch, they are out of my bread, I get my veggie sub and rock and roll down the road I go. UNTIL, I get stopped by construction, Matt was on the phone talking about his job so I decided to eat y lunch, as I opened my sub most all the veggie, fell under my car seat, and being of such short stature, I couldn't reach them, this whoe time, Matt is on speaker phone. I try and try to reach them making obvious grunting and aggravated faces when I raise up to see a construction crew, staring and laughing at me, I smiled and kept eating :-) THEN I get to work, by now I'm kinda in a hurry, I go to get out of the car and the insanely high heel get stuck on the pant cuff anf I fall out of my car.. thank gooness no one saw me. Shew... maybe next time I will just meet Matt for lunch :-)

This my friends is the Truffle Shuffle!

2008-01-04T20:11:00.000-05:00

My Story!

2008-01-03T23:53:00.000-05:00

No one cares about my personal life, I have no anonymous letters and no negative comments( except from Cara) all of you who experiencing this... you should feel somewhat of a celebrity.

I want an anonymous letter on my door step preferable from a secret admirer if anyone has an inkling to do so, please feel free to give me a ring as well! ;-)

Happy New Year!!

2008-01-03T21:54:00.000-05:00

Ok so, it's been a while, but ya know.... it's like riding a bike, except riding a bike doesn't require you to remember your password! ;-) Good thing I can remeber my daughters name and the year she was born, oh crap, I just gave away my secret, now I have to chnage my passwords to everthing. maybe I'll use my name and my birthday! Hmm.... no one will guess that!

Here are the happenings in our lives...

Maggie is starting day care next week. She has been going to her great grandparents for the past 4 years and although they are amazing and have been a HUGE blessing, I really think it is time for her to go to daycare and learn to be with other kids her age besides Lauren, Landon, and Hailey.

I LOVE my new job. It's kinda challenging at times, but I love it. I now do Petro and valutec. What I love about that is you guys have no idea what I'm talking about, but I'm an expert! ;-)

I have a mouse and it freaks me out every day. My friend Matt came over the other night to set some traps and I may have almost knocked him over running in the living room to jump on the couch.. That would have been funny to see ;-) I know it stares at me evertime I go in my kitchen. On top of that, Maggie has a kitten who does NOTHING!! besides eat and poop.

Landon pees in the potty all my himself. I videotaped it, but all you can hear is Cara and I and our horrible wheezy laughs because we were super ill. We sounded like 70 year old chain smokers.

My dad bought Elaine an English Bulldog for Christmas. He is precious. His name is Festus

Baby Max can crawl

My dad is finished with his car, he restored a 1938 Ford. It's amazing! Kinda like me! I'm kidding! I'm cooler! ;-)

And.....

Cara is now Cara ALLEN!!!!!!

Pictures will follow, Jessie is back.

oh, I forgot to tell you, I got a Truffle Shuffle T-shirt for Christmas! SCORE!!!!!

We're still here... sorry!

2007-08-15T20:22:00.000-04:00

Things have been CRAZY here... I started a new job, that I prayed and prayed about, Linda, Cara, and I have decided to all switch houses, Linda is moving in with Cara, i am moving into Linda's and Brittany is moving in with her mom... This weekend we plan on moving the BIG stuff, with the help of some very nice fellas.

Job- I started on Monday Aug. 6th at Heartland Payment Systems, the same place that Cara, Beth, Linda, Heather, Jessie D, Kristie, Tammy, and lots of other people in my life work. I can already tell that I am going to like it, God is good! This move was a HUGE answered prayer! ;-)
Already, I've had a lunch date with Beth and one scheduled with Kristie tomroow, I'm still waiting for my invite from Cara and the girls....

The houses- This weekend, Josh Spencer and his brothers are helping us all move! our BIG stuff! I hope those boys eat their wheaties that day, my stuff is heavy! ;-) Then the rest of the weekend and all next week, I plan on moving the smaller stuff and Painting... shew! So... if anyone would is interested in moving, painting, babysiting, or cleaning.... let me know, I know where all the action will be! ;-)

Lots more to come, sorry no pictures, somehow, all that I have taken the past couple weeks, have been deleted, I found my camera in Brittany's room, and she has NO idea how it got there or how the pictures got deleted OR how the batteries are dead! WEIRD!!!!! ;-)

Random Pictures

2007-07-31T22:31:00.000-04:00

I decided to Go through Maggie's toys and decide what needed to go to GoodWill and what could stay, Maggie thought she would help me while I finished dinner, by dumping them all out on her floor so I could "see them better" it looked like ToysRus threw up in her room! SERIOUSLY!!!Here are some pictures of the Fair! I just found my camera... sorry for the delay! cute cousins ;-)

Ladies and Gentlemen.... just confirmed, Junior hates us! Just look at his face! ;-)

but Maggie loves her aunt April

Roller coaster Hailey and Lauren!
That is one good look'n bunch of kids!

~Notice Maggie has staked claim on Cameron and is looking around to make sure all the other 3 year old girls at the fair see!

She's very territorial! ;-)

Cute Maggie Story

2007-07-26T10:46:00.001-04:00

Maggie told me this morning that I wasn’t married and I agreed with her and then she said Cara isn’t married either, and instead of correcting her and trying to make her understand processes that most adults can't understand, I agreed to that as well.

then she said "you all will never get married again, there are no more husbands left"

I say, " sure there are"

she says, " no they are all married , unless God makes you one." Is he making you one?

I said he absolutely is, and he’s gonna be a good one, that’s why God’s taking so long to make him! ;- )

Then she asked "if you get married with a new husband do I still get to sit in the big recliner when he's a work?"

I just laughed and said, sweetie this new husband is going to be so great, he might even let you sit with him in the big recliner!

Then I dropped her off at the sitters, wonder what she's telling them about today?!?!?!?! ;-)

I'm a work'n woman, give me a break! ;-)

2007-07-20T07:47:00.000-04:00

I know it's been a long time since I blogged, but I've been CrAzY busy with swim lessons, dinners, work, gala's you know the normal single mom stuff! ;-)

This past Saturday the girls (Lauren, Maggie ,and Hailey) has their very first wim lesson, as Heather and i teared up Cara GAGED!!!!!! it was so sweet to watch them learn and listen to their teachers! We've all got such great girls!

Maggie swimming to her teacher, she needed a lot of help, she's not quite a swimmer yet~
The Teacher asked her to swim to her and Maggie got in the pool and just floated, in amazment, so needless to say they put her in the not so experienced group! ;-) they strapped a floatey back pack on each kids back, so that they would stay above water.

Lauren did better than Maggie, but still needed a little help, she was so super excited and every time she would do something new, she scream, "look Jessie"..
Hailey on the other hand, did not need assistance, this child was born to swim, she even jumped in BY HERSELF at the end of the lesson! ;-)

Then there was the Tuesday night Gala! It was so much fun! I really had a blast.. here are some pictures for you to enjoy!

Cara and "joe the paint guy" he was our date... all four of us, he handled that job pretty well! ;-)

Super Models...
Ahh.... aren't we sweet!
Here I am with my fabulous date, Jessie Durbin, and btw... I want to borrow that dress! ;-)

H Dawg AKA Heather, wonan award, I think it ws for the coolest hair at the Gala!

And last but not least , here I am with my "Twin" ..I love her!

That's all for now, more soon! I PROMISE!!!!!!
P.S. Cara, Beth, an dI are singing Sunday at church, hope to see you ALL there!

The house of PAIN!!!!

2007-07-11T21:19:00.000-04:00

Tonight we went to Cara's house to eat pizza and watch a movie.. the pizza was great and the movie was ridiculously sad... at least the parts that I got to watch..

Recap of the night...

Cara made a gallon of sweet tea, Lauren asked if it was ready she said yes, but wait, I will make you some, before we knew it Lauren had spilled most of it on herself ,the counter and the floor, Lauren started to cry saying, "it's all my fault, it's all my fault"

So we laughed and said we'll clean it up, don't worry!

Cara jumps up to clean the tea up and slips and CRASHES to the floor, but not before splashing sweet tea on the ceiling, the wall, and the stove! I rush in to check on her and she's laying in the floor cracking up saying, 'help me, help me... i can't get up!" While she was cracking up in a pool of Sweet tea, she peed her pants..... poor girl! The funniest thing was that she didn't hurt the cigarette in her hand, and continued ashing in what was left of the sweet tea.

After about 3 solid minutes of us hysterically laughing, Cara makes her way to her feet... I get towels and we clean up the mess, laughing about it the entire time.

We're laughing, but Cara's pretty banged up , she thinks she may have broken her wrist and she fell on a Amish Rocker stool... on her patootie, so that hurts too! ;-)

Finally that situation is under control so we continue to watch our movie, UNTIL ........... Landon comes in the living room riding side saddle on his 4wheeler... and heads right for the stairs, it was like slow motion cara says, Landon, no, No landon.....NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Then..................

He, the 4-wheeler, and Cara all go rolling down the stairs, I ran over to check on them and she was holding him at the bottom of the stairs hysterically laughing and crying...kinda scary like a demon....(Think of Cara the day I testified)

I carried Landon to the top of the stairs while she gathered herself and the 4 wheeler!
That situation gets under control, she tells me the night before, Landon put a whole roll of TP in the toilet, and got up in the middle of the night and opened the fridge, where it stayed open all night. She woke up to warm food, spoiled milk, and a chilly kitchen. The fridge incident happened only mere hours after Landon ransacked Cara's makeup bag writing all over his face with black liquid eyeliner and blue eye shadow.

Now the kids are in the tub and Landon is pouring cups of water out onto the floor! Lauren is screaming crying because Landon hit her in the head with a bath toy. The only solution was to put Maggie between them. Now, the bath won't be complete until someone ends up with a black eye...ahhh.... the life of single mom's! I love it! ;-)

Anybody know of a "Few Good Men" that could handle this circus of a life day in and day out?

This weekend in picturres!

2007-07-10T19:38:00.000-04:00

This weekend was GREAT!!!! We kept busy and had lots of fun! Friday night, us girls all hung out at Cara's and gave ourselves pedicures and watched movies! FUN FUN!!! at least I thought it was fun! ;-)

Saturday, we went to SuLayne and Tony's to watch Fireworks... we had a blast, I really enjoy hanging out with my church family, they are the best!

Rachel and Marcey- One time Rachel was coming ovet o help[ me with Spanish and Cara and i got into a HUGE fight, long story short, she tried to put me in the crisper drawer in her frige and I broke her thumb! But I learned how to say Cara is a brat in spanish that night! ;-)
Cara took a picture of me and Baby Blair taking a picture, because she says that's all I do at functions! She's right!

The Johnny Kaelin's and Baby Blair
Tony and Micah

Baby Blair

Tabby , Cindy, ans SuLayne
Cara brought a couple of albums of old pictures of everyone to show, it was funny to see how much we all have changed in the last 15 years... It hit me this weekend, that I am getting old, I will be 25 this August... Shew! the kiddos lined up to watch the fireworks.... so cute!The Joshua Spencer's, they are such a cute family.Especially that Beth, gorgeous! oh did I tell you that people say we look alike! huh... who would have thought! ;-) Karen and Rachel
The kids stayed busy playing on the swing set, I think Rhett was climbing up the slide to help Maggie..... Isabella may have some compitetion, Maggie thinks he is cuu-uu-tte
Then Sunday after church we went to the River bats game. I love Lauren's expression in this picture!
After the 1st inning, I was ready to LEAVE it was 100 billion degrees and there was NO shade! Maybe that's why I am such a big football fan, it's cold when they play and i can drink hot chocolate.Anyways..... after we watch the horribly HOT 1st inning of the River Bats,we let the girls ride on the merri-go-round!

Lauren just like her Mommy, always has to strike a pose! Jake the Diamond dog!

On the way back to the car.....My fav. part of the day! ;-)

Then about 9 p.m. AFTER we had already eaten dinner, we got an invite to come up to Charlestown Pizza Company! It was fun too! Cindy and Karen... pretty ladies! I'm not quite sure what Christina was doing, but everyone was laughing, I always miss Everything! ;(

Happy 4th of July!

2007-07-04T21:23:00.000-04:00

Today was GREAT.... we all went to my dad's for the fourth and ate lots of food and played all day. It was fun to have everyone together and to just relax and enjoy ourselves...

Here are LOTS of pictures from today!

this is Dad and Brittany loading his cannon, that he made! Trust me, this thing is insane loud, you have to hear it to believe it! ;-) The girls being festive ... Yes, Lauren does have mini cupcakes on her head!
Gator Ride, I was determined to get Cara on the gator, I even taught her how to drive it, now she's a pro!

We made Heather sit in the back with the kids! She's such a good aunt!
Landon was having a good time, I promise.. Here it is Ladies and Gentelman... Cara being outdoorsy!!! i had to take a picture, notice even with her driving a John Deere Gator she still poses!
Brother and Sister

A Rose between two thorns! ;-) Baby Max, was AWESOME the whole day!
He kinda looks like me in this picture... ;-)
Sisters! Awww

The best part of the whole day, was the slip and slide that Meme bought for the kids, thanks to Aunt Jessie and J.R. putting it together, they played all afternoon!

Speaking of Aunt Jesse and J.R. here they are manning the grill.. they looked so happy to have that job!
Jeff, Heather, and Max

Back to the slip'n slide, even Copper like it!

And the very last picture of the day... Landon would slide down get up, drink some water and go back down.... He's a doll, he looks just like me! ;-)

Hope everyone had a fun safe 4th of July!

God bless America!

Sleeping Beauty or would it be Princess Fiona?

2007-06-28T22:20:00.001-04:00

I peeked in to check on Maggie and didn't see her in bed. so I walked closer And found her being spooned by Shrek
He had his arm around her......
Or maybe it was a head lock... I'm not sure , but whatever it was it was cute!
Never mind the cotton candy stain on his arm! ;-)

The weekend...

2007-06-25T18:52:00.000-04:00

This weekend was great, I was ILL friday and Sat. morning but got better towards the evening, a few of us had a cookout at Grandma Dee's house, it was a blast, it was great to get together, eat and play games... We had a little trouble with the grill, thank God josh took over, I was slaughtering the hamburgers! ;-) Corn Hole is a Haymaker tradition ..... Trace is pretty good for a Pre-teen as he puts it! Here he is bracing himslef! ;-) he must have been talking ALOT of smack!

Trace thinks Beth is pretty, for a grown up! ;-) ahhhh.....

If there was any question of it the bag went in , Landon would know!

But not until AFTER he touched the elctric fence TWICE!!!! everyone ran and we were like, ah, he'll be ok! you can tell we all have lived on a farm Caraand lauren took numerous pictures of themselves, here are a few ... and when I say few, I mean a fraction of what was taken!
Yes, yes Cara you are a super model! Robbie, Scott, and Linda enjoying the day!
Meme AKA Grandma Dee, sitting with her princesses

Linda and her new man friend Scott... whooooo .. Vomit a little! ;-)

They may look sweet and inoccent, but these two, may be the meanest two children in Clark County... trust me!

Self portrait of Jessie D. and me.

Grandma and Christel
Cara and the kiddos.

All in all the cookout was fun, I can't wait to do it again soon!

Sunday, I got baptized, and my Grandpa got an award for being a Deacon for 10 years, it's so sweet to think, that my Grandpa filled my baptismal ....tear, or at least it was until Trace told me that he had to kill a big spider that was in it! ....ruined moment! oh well!

Monday morning I called in because, Maggie threw up on my NEW mattress twice and the first time was cm. from my head! Gross, I know, how do you think I felt?

Hope everyone has a great week.

Ahhhh.... teenagers! ;-)

2007-06-18T21:26:00.001-04:00

Tonight, Molly, Amy, and I went walking and then to get an ice cream, I took my camera so I couls take pictures of Brittany while she worked..... when I got home I went into her room to upload and this is what I found! It honestly look like Abercrombie threw up in her room...
So I wrote her a little love letter with the mustard, I found on the computer desk!
Needless to say, she cleaned it up when she got home! NASTY!!!!! maybe that's why she always shuts her door! ;-)
Here she is hard at work!

I Love,love,love,love, my baby sister Brittany... she's beautiful, kind, sweet, smart, and GROSS!!!!!!

The Weekend!

2007-06-17T20:54:00.000-04:00

Friday night we went to dinner with our cousins Amy , her hysband Larry, and their little boy Lucas, Tumble weed Maggie's favorite, Maggie and I got there a little before everyone else and when the waitor came to ask us our drink order Maggie said .. I want sweet tea and can we have some cheese with fire?;-)

Brittany, Maggie and I bought me a new mattress, box springs, and bed frame! Shew.. that was a sight let me tell you, Maggie was VERY eager to try out every mattress in the place! ;-)

She would say, I think you should get this one it's much jumpy and very com-fort-a-ble.
I told the sales guy that I was looking for a queen mattress, then Maggie said, do you have any Princess Mattresses?? ;-)

I found the one I wanted and the guys loaded it up, I got a good deal and even got a better mattress than I set out to. YAY!!!!

Heather and Cara came over to help with the set up!
There was approximately 3 failed attempts to set up the frame before Cara found instructions.... Where's a boy when you need one?Ahhh......about an hoour later... I have a bed! ;-) it's comfy too! After a restful night on my new mattress, I went to get a pedicure and manicure with Grandma for her b-day... it was AWESOME!!! Grandma had never had a pedicure, I think she'll be back, very soon! She loved it!

Oh... HA HA here's out foot shot... you didn't think that I wasn't going to put feet on my blog did you?!!?!?Sunday after church we headed to Poppy and Meme's for Father's day
Molly came over to help celebrate and played the role of "Aunt Molly" the entire time she was there...

Daddy, of course, had to have a picture with his girls for father's day, he always poses us all for pictures like we're the vauntrap family from "Sound of Music".. he even looks like he is singing... The hills are a live....

Meme and her bambinos
Too much Father's day'n

Jeff's first Dia de Padre'... Father's day, for my none spanish reading readers! ;-) I can say that and My pen's on your desk! ;-)

Peace Homies! I'm out!

Cute Lauren Story

2007-06-15T15:24:00.001-04:00

recently for Kindergarten graduation...Cara bought Lauren her own cordless phone for her room, well, every since then she calls me ALL the time, sometimes at 7 or 7:30 in the morning to see what I'm doing , other times at 10:45 at night to talk to Maggie , but the best ad cutest was yesterday.. I was having a horrible day at work, nothing seemed to go right, I looked at my phone and I had 9 missed calls and 4 VM's from Cara's home number .. immediately, I PANIC! I thought Landon's broke a leg or something... No!

Lauren and Gary stayed home from Day Care and Camp , their Meme came over to watch them.... and you guessed it telephone queen Lauren was calling me. I called her back and she said, Uh... I've been trying to get a hold of you!
I say... well, baby cakes, I'm at work
she says..... are you coming over
I say maybe after work
she says... I left you some voice snails..
I giggled and told her I loved her and hung up

here are her Voice snails:

VM-1
Hey Jessie, this is Lauren, call if you give me a chance.. I think she meant, call me when you get a chance…

VM-2 Hey this is Lauren, I just wanted to call and tell you thathmmmm…. I want you to come over and hmmm…. Call me if you give me a chance…

VM-3- Hey this is Lauren, come over, Austin is getting on my nerves and he just farted in my face.. bye

VM-4 Hi Jessie this is Lauren, I love you, come over if you give me a chance..

HA HA HA HA HA !!!!! I wanna save them forever!!!!!

Pictures!

2007-06-12T21:02:00.000-04:00

Short story about getting my hair cut....
Amanda my little hair girl says are you sure you want to cut all the damaged hair... I say YES!!! I have never had damaged hair, cut it off...
so she cuts, we gossip, she cuts more, we gossip more
then she pulls out this pair of clippers, like you would cut a boy's hair with and turns them on
I say... whoa, whoa, whoa... How much hair you cutt'n off sister?
she proceeds to tell, me the shears are for shaving my neck, I said.... Do I have a hairy neck that needs to be shaved and she said.. Indeed you do! GREAT!!!! so not only do I have HORRIBLE hair , I have a hairy neck, well not anymore, she sahved it! ;-) Sigh... this hair is going to kill me!

Here are some pictures of the evening... I promised a picture of my new hair! ;(

Here's my little money girl on her new swing set!

I love that kid!

Kissy kissy moochie moochie!

These pictures are black and white for a reason ;-)

this is short hair like a boy Jessie signing off!

Shrek & Green Hair!

2007-06-11T21:33:00.000-04:00

So this weekend, I tried to be creative with my hair and well...., lets just say. it was BAD!!!! My hair turned green for real... GREEN, and what better time than right before we all go see Shrek at the drive in.. I swear I looked like Princess Fiona in gauchos!! Sigh.... oh well, I thought I 'll just cover it with a darker color.... WRONG, it turned kinda green too, so, today I went and got it all cut off, I mean it's short, shorter than I have had it in a LONG time! and it's still red, I have to wait a couple weeks beofre I can color it again, we'll see, I'm deep conditioning it now!

I hate myself! I'll never try to be cool agan!!!!Arghhhh!!!!

The good thing is... my hair grows like weeds and the cut is kinda cute! at least that's what I keep telling myself..

and NO there are no pictures, if you didn't get to see the green first hand.. then you will NEVER see it. And as for the short hair cut you will see it eventually, but hopeully it will not be red!Good thing I'm not overly girly if this would have happened to Brittany or Cara, they may.... I don't know transfered schools! HA!!!
{inside joke} Cara got a bad haircut and transferred schools! he he ;-)

Enough about my Shrek wanna be hair, here are some pictures of the weekend!
Enjoy!

Audrey, Shelby, and Landon

CGZ and the offspring!

this is Landon and Luke Jessie D's nephew... we all wen to Jessie's for cake Thursday she's the big 26! Happy birthday Durb!
Maggie and Audrey... Maggie got new Hair this weekend too... she loves it!
Landon watch the big screen... he was amazed... for about 30 seconds! ;-)

Finally Sunday After church and my green hair, we went to Meme and poppy's and Maggie got to play with Uncle Jeff and Aunt Jesse, sorry there are no Baby Max pixtures.... I promise next week, I will do better, hopefully I will be less distracted by my hair!
Hope everyone has a good week!

My friend Beth "the blessing"

2007-06-07T22:58:00.000-04:00

God has really blessed me with wonderful friends and family. I know that if I ever needed them they would be right there.

Today, I would like to tell you about my dear friends The Spencer's Beth and Josh....I've known Beth forever.....She's the best, I used to want to be just like her she had pretty fingernails and drove a white Geo Storm, which was WAY Cool!!!!!!!! ;-)

And Red is a gorgeous color on her

And always has been ! ;-) She looks much happier with Josh than she did with Junior! he he ;-)
she sings at church and is just all around a wonderful person and a great mom, not to mention photographer ;-) She really is an inspiration to me, she has really been there for me the last year or so, I can always count on her to pray for me or give me words of inspiration ...She's married to a great guy that I have known just as long or maybe longer... his mom Connie and my mom were good friends.
This is a picture of Connie, Josh's mom holding Jackie when she was a baby..... that's josh on her lap... I know the picture quality is poor, but come on people it was 1984.. give me a break! ;-) Here is a picture of Connie, center, my mom, right, and Linda(cara's mom) left... There is something anbout that small child in the stripes up front! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!;-)

VBS @ Main Cross 1985... I think

Josh and I have never been close, but I have always considered him a good friend.. He is the type of guy that would stop and talk to you or say "hi" no matter what or who he was with. That was a big deal to me when I was in high school and even after high school, when I was out of church , going through my wild phase..... I ran into Josh at a baseball game he went out of his way to say HI and to see how I was doing. That meant a lot! Especially at that time.

When I heard that these two love birds were getting married, I thought, what a perfect couple!!!!!

Beth and her mom actually sang at my mom's funeral, so as you can imagine how dear these people are to me.

They have a blog , which got me started on this whole thing... and this is a story about how their Christian walk and their testimony blessed me and my life.

One Friday while I was at work, things were kinda slow and I was looking over Beth's blog, I found a post, that I had never seen before, I was amazed that I hadn't read EVERY one of her posts, I might be a little of a Blog STALKER!!!! sorry...;-) anyways, the post was about Josh telling Beth that he wished he had a pound cake with icing like his Nanny Geraldine used to make, about that time Beth heard a knock on her door... she went to answer it to find the little old lady that lived next door, josh had been cutting her side yard for her, she was holding a cake, she handed it to Beth and thanked them for being so gracious, when Beth brought it inside she noticed that it was a pound cake with icing!

~I know it gave me chills too... ;-) LOVE IT!!!!!!!

So I tell my friend and co-worker Andrea whose office was very close to mine all about the post . She is Catholic and I have been trying to get her to come to church with me .... she thought the story was awesome but asks me what God has ever done like that to prove himself to me..... I was stumped! I said, well, huh... let me get back to you on that, thank goodness, there was an issue that I needed to resolve and could not continue the conversation.

The next night, Cara and I were at dinner and I tell her the story, and say, "when she asked me when has he ever proven himself to me , I was stumped"... mind you, I am on Cara all the time to go to church and to get her kids involved in church, she is one of my biggest prayer requests.... Because I love her and want to see her in Heaven, anyway, she says to me..

"how can you say that?"
I looked at her very confused and said , say "what"?
She said, "Jessie ,your mom and sister were killed ( in the afternoon) 2 weeks after your mom switched you to P.M. Kindergarten, if she wouldn't have done that, you would have been there and then where would I be?"
"How do you explain that?"
"How do you explain that shortly before your mom died she explained to you what it meant to go to Heaven ?"
" When we told you that your mom was in Heaven you understood and knew that you would see her again one day."
" you were only 5, and that's not a normal conversation a mom has with her 5 year old", God had a hand in that."
Then she said " You are here, what more do you want him to prove?"
" you are the miracle"......
so as we cried and ate our grilled Mahi Mahi ;-) ....

I came to the conclusion, that Cara, and Beth and all my other Christian friends.. are my miracle. God didn't have to send someone to my door for me to know he's real, he sent me great friends. SO Beth, Josh, and Cara... you are my pound cakes! and I love you!

Suddenly..... I'm hungry !

I just had to throw this in because I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

PIctures!!!!

2007-06-06T22:30:00.000-04:00

Here are some pictures on the last week, that I promised I would post!
Lauren is quite the photographer! ;-) ok ... so this was a couple weeks ago, but I just found it and I like it ;-)
Squeaky clean!
Now, that is a good look'n bunch of kids, that spent the night with ME. Now you know why I wasn't at church Sunday!

The Haymaker Brothers! Gordon is better at corn hole.....

And YES he wore those white socks ALL night!
But Junior is better with Landon!
The Gaines children and Max the dog, not the baby!

Sorry I haven't updated!

2007-06-05T16:02:00.000-04:00

Sorry I haven't updated been a crazy , but fun weekend!

Cara and Robbie left for a cruise Wednesday and Linda kept the kids until Friday, I picked them up and kept them until Monday morning! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!

let's review the weekend:

Friday- Linda had a cookout for her good Friend Lori's birthday, it was fun, Grandma and Grandpa met Scott 's ( inda's new bf) parents.... ohhhhhh! ;-)

After the cookout we stayed and help clean up Courtney and Shelby spent the night with us, Me, Maggie, Lauren, and Landon...... We had a house full! ;-)

Saturday morning, Linda and I packed the kids up in Cara's expedition and went to a Yard Sale, then came home and did NOTHING... but with 15 kids ;-)
Sat. night we headed to Gordon's for a cook out.. Landon and Junior were buddies the entire night, so sweet.....

Sunday morning,we had ALL intentions of going to church , but I've discovered, being a single mom to A kid is a lot different than being a single mom to a few kids! ;-)

SO......... we went to McDonald's and got brethfest as Lauren says.

Monday I picked the kids up from Daycare, and took them out to eat at Texas Roadhouse, because Landon doesn't take a passy anymore! YAY!!!!!!!!!

Then Cara and Robbir came home and I dropped the kids off, went home and went to sleep and didn't wake up until 7:38 and I have to leave my house at 7:40 ! Shew!

So in a nut shell...... I'm exhausted!

Happy Tuesday!!!!

Sorry there aren't pictures, I was a little busy, I have a few I'll post later! ;-)

Born to be a Rockstar!

2007-05-31T13:25:00.000-04:00

I still have this wig and leotard! Cara, borrowed it to wear on her cruise! ;-)

I've Reached a New Low!

2007-05-29T22:52:00.000-04:00

Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, I've disagreed with Cara and other friends and family that I need to go out and have some adult time, tonight, was my NO KID night for the week and this is the fun I had......
All day at work, I was dreaming of the Hot Fudge Cake dessert at Cheddar's, I got off work, went to tan, picked the little sister up and met Molly at Cheddar's This is exactly what consumed my thoughts ALL DAY at work!

And this is what it looked like, when we finished! ;-) Needless to say, I've decided that maybe it is time, I get out...... But it will have to wait until next week, I'm taking the kids fishing this weekend! ;-)

Memorial Day Weekend!

2007-05-28T20:41:00.000-04:00

I love a three day weekend! This Memorial day weekend, Maggie and I took it pretty easy, we went shopping Friday night and got a new swing set and pool..... It took me and Brittany ALL morning Sat. to NOT get it put together and my dad, about 15 minutes Sat. evening to whip it right up! Agh..... ANYWAYS, Maggie loves it and that's all that matters! Score Mommy! ;-) Saturday night after We worked in the Yard all day, Maggie's Crazy uncles, Gordon and Junior called and asked her if she wanted to go for a hay ride and of course she said ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

On the way to Gordon's Maggie said... "when I see my uncle Gordon, i'm gonna tell me, I love you.. now I mean it, I love you!" ;-)

Here are some pictures of the "Hayride" it was in the back of Gordon's truck, Kris, me and junior, rode in the cab! ;-)

You won't see Gordon , he is in the corner covered in kids! ;-)

Sunday was church and dinner afterwards, it was great! Kris, the girls, Cara and her fam. & Linda all came ... Afterwards, Grandma ,Maggie, and I went to the Cemetery and looked at all the pretty flowers, then Maggie and I spent most of the afternoon with grandma at her house , later we went to Poppy's at hung out at the Creek... When Maggie was younger she used to say, I Anna go to Meme's and dig a hole! ;-) Meme used to always let her dig in her back yard, Maggie even has her own Farm tools! and she uses them.Monday Cara and I ran to Meijer's to get some stuff to cook out at Lindas and while we were there the girls HAD to race the horseys

We headed to Linda's to cook out! Lauren stole the camera and took pictures, she was pretty good... she took a picture of this really pretty and very nice girl! I wonder where she came from ! ;-)

As soon as we got to Memaw's the kids all ran to the Little pool she had bought for them and jumped in WITH THEIR CLOTHES ON!!!!

All and All we had a great weekend!

Prayer Request~ Please remember my friend Tawana Phillips and her son Todd Shrank in your prayers ! Tawana and my mom were best friends! and she is one of the sweetest,most kind people I have ever met .... and I love her! ;-)

Also remember her parent Juanita and Dave.

Same O Same O!

2007-05-24T22:28:00.001-04:00

Not a lot going on here, looking forward to the long weekend!
Here are some random pictures of the week!

My Pretty girls!

My little helper..... she loves to water the flowers, and sometimes, she waters momma and Brittany too! ;-)
Heather and baby Max!

Crusade for Children... Maggie gave her entire life saving to them, I think it was atleast 12 dollars! She's such a giver!
3 going on 16! Better Britany's car than mine ;-)

And this final picture is the BEST EVER....... This is the Real Maggie! in time out! Even Ballerina Fairy Princesses, get in trouble for sticking their tongues out at their Meme's!
Did I mention she also shook her head with her hands on her hips all at the same time! Multi-tasker! ;-)

I have NO idea where she gets that from, I was an angel! ;-)

and still am ...............

This weekend in pictures! ;-)

2007-05-20T16:36:00.000-04:00

Friday night~ Lauren spent the night and she and Maggie went on an adventure looking for dinosaurs'! They wore back backs and ball caps! ;-) they were serious and they even took a map with them.
Saturday we went to see Shrek 3 -Cute movie!~ they all watched a movie on the way to the movies!
BFF
The kids got to pet some greyhounds that were outside the movies, now of course, Maggie wants a greyhound! ;-) Maggie got to buy the tickets all by herself and I had to take her picture~ It was the first time she used a credit card! tear! I'm so proud! ;-)I'm not a fan of the Simpsons! But this was too cute! Maggie Paige meet Maggie Simpson!
Then Sunday of course, we went o Meme and Poppy's her is Meme with her babies!

And Maggie with her baby Max!

Max with his new hat! ;-)
I had to take a picture of what Ms. Maggie picked ou to wear to Meme's a ballerina outfit and gum boots and jewelery! HOT MOMMA!!!!

A perfect ending to a good week!

Have a good week!

A Cute Maggie Story!

2007-05-18T08:56:00.000-04:00

This past mother's day on the way to church Maggie and Hailey her friend had a conversation in the backseat of my car that I just thought was amazing, then this morning on the way to Maggie's Grandparents( Her sitters & wonderful people) Maggie said another amazing , christian thing to me. I'm all the time telling my friends and even my dad to watch what they say around Maggie because she remembers everything ans repeats it. She's so smart and funny and these two little conversations prove exactly that!

Sunday on the way to Church~ btw- Hailey's cat had kittens! ;-)
Maggie is 3 and Hailey is 4 and they are BFF!

M-do your kittens have a daddy?
H-No yet, we only have a mommy
M- Do you have a daddy?
H-No, I only have a mommy, do you have a daddy?
M- you have a daddy, God’s your daddy he lives in Heaven with my Memaw Karen and he loves you more than your mommy.
J-uncontrollable sobbing
H-God’s my daddy! ;-) Do you have a daddy?
M- yeah, I have a Brian Daddy, but one day I will have a real daddy that lives with me
J- More sobbing
H- Me too!
M- then we’ll have much daddy’s! ;-)

Today on the way to work as we are passing church! ;-)

M- You're mommy's not dead
J- Huh......Yes she is baby, she's in Heaven with Jesus , MeMe is mommy's step mom
M- No, mommy! Your mommy's not dead
J-What do you mean Maggie?
M- She's alive in Heaven
J- Uncontrollable sobbing , yet again;-) .... that's right baby, mommy forgot she's alive she has everlasting life and we will see her again!
M-But we'll be very old and dead!
J- giggle, yeap! very old!

3 minutes later in the silence, I say Maggie ,what are thinking about?
She says, How does god fit in my heart!?!?!?
I say, ask grandma Dee! ;-)

All this time, I thought she wasn't listening to me when I talked about God and Heaven, she really was! Makes you wonder what else they pick up! ;-) I hope she picks up my love for IU basketball! ;-)

The Single life!

2007-05-17T16:36:00.000-04:00

I am very happy with my life, me, Maggie and Brittany. We live happily ever after in our house in Glendale. brittany has her life, packed full of social gatherings and ball games, and me and Maggie our lives packed full of everyday stuff!We grocery shop, go out to eat, get ice cream, go for walks, read books, clean the house, and maybe just maybe attend a family cook out! Sounds pathetic, I know, but I love my life!

When I was married, i did everything for Brian, I cleaned the house for Brian, I cooked for Brian, I put make-up on for Brian, I did it all for Brian. now I do it all for me! then it was all about the "look" and how people perseved us to be, now that I look back on it, I was just as guilty as he was. I wanted to be the cute family that everybody looked at and said awww..... Instead, I got a divorce and Child Support every now and then and the reponsibilty of raising Maggie and making parental decisions alone. But again, I'm okay with that! It's a blessing!

I understand now, that God was not the center of our family, Maggie and I prayed at night, but Brian never did, One of our biggest fights was over going to church one particular Sunday. I never want to be in a relationship like that again! and I won't!

The one thing that I think about is Cara all the time telling me that I need to date and I need to do "Grown UP " things, I do , I go to dinner with my friends, Schneed especially! I love her. Molly comes over we do things and I go shopping with Heather and Hailey all the time. Cara and I used to do everything together but now that she is back with Robbie it is hard for her to up and go get a milk shake or go to Wal-mart. and I am OK with that! ;-) I love her and Robbie!

So.... my problem with dating is that if someone dates me, they honestly are dating, Me, Maggie, & Brittany, we are a unit. And that will not change. I will have Cara's, Gordon's, or Junior's kids over to spend the night any time they want to. Don't get me wrong, I go out and get babysitters on occasion but I am just as content staying home and watching a movie!

I'm happy with myself to the point that I'm ok if I never meet someone. Although, I would like to have more kids! ;-) but there's always adoption! ;-) or I can just borrow one from someone!
;-)

Ahh...... Mother's Day!

2007-05-14T13:12:00.000-04:00

Mother's day was awesome!

church was great, I got a little weepy, but with each year that passes that I am a mother and not having mine, It means more than ever.Jane Hammond sang a song at church that really touched me after she sang, she hugged me and said "A mother's prayer never dies", then Cindy sang, "somebody's pray'n for me" WEIRD!!!! I know my mom is watching down on me and Maggie and is proud! But most of all, I know that I will see her again oneday and she will get to hold her grand baby ! ;-)

I am truly blessed with all the mother's in my life!
I have my Gramdma Dee who is the prayer warior, she prays for me each and every day, i am sure she probably prays for me more than once a day. Plus she is fun on vacation! ;-) She will never know how much I love her and how much I look up to her! She really inspires me!
I love you Grandma Dee! ;-)
Then I have Linda who is always there for me and has a great fashion since, I can always swap outfits or ask her about clothes, now she's so skinny I can't fit into her clothes! Wreched woman! ;-) She really was the one who taught me to wear make up and fix my hair if it weren't for her... I don't even want to think about what I would look like ;-)
Then there is Granny Smith,This is the person Maggie was named after, I spent a lot of my childhood with this beautiful lady. She is a SAINT! especailly since she has to put up with 7 children and something like 30 grandkids!
Last but not least there is Elaine, Elaine and my dad were married when I was a Freshman in College, they dated a little while I was in Highschool. She is awesome! I couldn't ask for a better Meme for Maggie or a stand in mom for me. She has been there for me and has meant the world to me. I don't know what I would do without her and my dad.
Now after the honorable mentions here are some pictures of the cookout at Meme's house.

Maggie taking some pictures ! Such the photographer! ;-) Copper and Pappy! Pappy is a bigillion years old!

Baby Max! He's such the outdoorsmen!
Poppy and his babies on the Gator!
Poppy an dhis girl ready for a ride! They are inseperable!

What'a a family function without Brittany on her cell phone ;-)
My girls cooking hot dogs!
And here's Poppy manning the grill!
And last but not least here's the OTHER aunt Jesse and baby Max!

God Bless! Hope everyone had a Wonderful Mother's Day and have a great week! ;-)

That's Just Cara!!!

2007-05-11T15:43:00.000-04:00

Per request of my loyal readers... this is a post Cara wrote about our differences! No matter what our differences! She will always be my very best friend! I love her more than you could ever Imagen! She has been there for me since the day I was born, The first thing she did when she heard about my mom passing was start packing her bags and packed me some Barbies to play with. That just goes to show how compassionate she is towards me, sometimes! ;-)

When I was younger and needed a female influence because I was using Irish Spring Soap, she bought me bath and Body Works! THANK YOU CARA!!!! My dad had a policy, if Big Blue ain't got it we don't need it!

When I started liking boys she wrote mean poems to make me laugh instead of cry!

And when I got divorced she was there for me! She listened to me cry and whine and be a crazy girl! She's the best, I truly am blessed to have such a wonderful family I have awesome siblings and the BEST big cousin in the world! I wouldn't trade her for anything!

Cara's post:

Jan.10th 2007

That's Just Jessie

Since Jessie is on me all of the time to update my blog, I'm going to dedicate this entire post to her. That's what you get for being so pushy ;)My sweet cousin, Jessica Shay Smith, is a good girl. We've been close since the minute that she was born. She's always been full of energy and has been very strong. We used to fight all the time, in a loving way of course. However, it was so bad at one point, my Grandma Dee refused to take us anywhere together. My mom wrecked her car into the basketball pole in the Main Cross Church parking lot one time because she was turned around reaching into the backseat trying to break me and my girl up from an especially brutal scrap session. I ran her head into the wall when she wouldn't clean. She nearly broke my thumb slamming the phone on it, and I tried to shove her into the crisper drawer of the refrigerator.Ahhhh, such good times. She moved away for college. I moved in with Robbie. I had a kid and I got married (in that order). She moved back to Indiana. She got married and had a kid (in that order). She got divorced. She started dating. I got divorced. I'm still waiting for that first date. ;)We're probably closer now that we've ever been, which is hard to imagine since I've always considered her to be my sister more than cousin. Even with our special bond and similar upbringing, we couldn't be more opposite if we tried. I've put together a little comparison below, and I hope she embraces and celebrates our differences.1.) She wants to get married and live the fairy tale life with picket fences, butterflies, and puppy dogs. Probably a farm with lots of flowers and plants that she can tend to when she passes time. She wants to make sun tea and fried chicken and deliver it in a perfectly coordinated picnic basket to her hard-working man on a tractor in a field, while her kids are perfectly content cross-stiching their monogram into their pillowcases, just like she taught them.I don't want to get married again, and love being single. This is the best time of my life. I wouldn't change anything at this point, and I'm not looking to be tied down by another man, ever. (Keep in mind that this single difference between Jessie and I cause the most drama in our relationship.)2.) She wants lots of additional kids, whether she gives birth or marries her dream man whose wife died and left him with 6 young'ns to raise. She is excellent with kids and sets up special "Cookie Baking Day" parties, she buys the coolest snacks, and all of the kids in the family want to always go to Jessie's house.I love my two kids, but don't want anymore to raise. My tubes are tied and cut, and that will never change. My dream man doesn't want kids of his own or has kids in their twenties. I would prefer to end up with someone without little kids.3.) Jessie is very domesticated. She loves to make things. She sews, paints, makes crafts, cooks, cleans, and makes a mean gingerbread house.I'm not very crafty, but I can cook when I have to. I would prefer to pull pre-made food from the freezer and throw it in the oven for every meal.4.) She is a homebody that enjoys hanging out at her house watching movies and making homemade popcorn and sweet tea. It doesn't bother her to never go out on the town. She is perfectly content never having a babysitter on the weekends. She likes to go to bed early (before 10), and readily offers to watch my kids when I want to go out.I only stay home when I have my kids, and once Landon has some age on him, I'll probably be dragging them out all of the time, too. I love staying out late on my "no kids" weekends, and dragging myself home around 5 a.m. I can have parties at my house, but I usually convince everyone to go out when they assemble at my place. I love mixing and mingling, and could be on my death bed, and still go out. (FYI - Jessie reluctantly agreed to go out with my on New Year's Eve, but then made me take her home at 11 p.m. Of course, I headed back out after grabbing my karaoke player and some CDs.)5.) Jessie is 5'2" and blonde.I'm 5'10" and usually a brunette. (People say we look so much alike, and we find that so amusing. I call her my twin.)Obviously, we have lots of differences, but we both love to laugh, tell stories, and sing. I always have a great time when I hang out with her, even when we don't go out. And if even if she won't admit it, I think she has a good time when I drag her out with me.I would like her to be more willing to kiss random boys, and not always think about whether or not they would make a good mate prior to doing so. I would like her to show off her assets a little more since she is very buxom and built like a brickhouse. I would like her to throw away every furry and/or fleece vest that she owns. I would like her to not forget about herself as she takes care of everyone else around her. I would like her to live a little before she looks up and realizes that her life has passes her by.I really just want her to always be happy and to always be my best friend.

I love you, Jessica! You complete me.

No, no Cara Delynn, you complete me! ;-)

The Weekend Update!

2007-05-06T21:27:00.000-04:00

We had a pretty eventful weekend, it started Thursday, Maggie put almost a full bottle of Max Factor Color Stay Foundation on! ALL OVER HER BODY!!! while I was doing dishes, I though she was being very quiet when I went to check on her this is what I found! The stuff was everywhere.
Then after her bath, I let her dress herself and this is what she chose!

Friday night Lauren spent the night with us and Saturday we went to see Baby max and got ready for Isabella birthday party. She turned 1 ! Her party was sooo cute! She really enjoyed herself . Beth and Isabella !
Lauren and Maggie
There were children there of all ages!
Glad we got to share her special day with her, Maggie and Lauren had a blast and Maggie said Beth gave the best prizes EVER!!!!!!!

After church Sunday I we went to my Dad & Elaine's

Baby max 9 days old!

Maggie on her tractor on poppy's porch, she loves to play on their porch!

Poppy and Maggie were a team this weekend, Maggie spent the night with Poppy Saturday and helped him around the house. They washed his truck
played in her new Castle
And attemped to camp out, Maggie lasted 15 minures and then said, I want my Meme!!!
Here is a new picture of the precious baby boy! Then of course there's Maggie and Max! BFF!
He's her baby! and No one better mess with him! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

News Channel 11 Interview

2007-05-03T23:20:00.000-04:00

To watch the video click "View this story"

http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/050307whasmjdTopBusDrivers.320a6300.html

School Board Meeting!

2007-05-02T09:36:00.000-04:00

Last night, there was a "special" board meeting called for Greater Clark County Schools, my Mother-in-law Teresa called and told me about what was happening, I had to get involved, I prepared and speech and spoke from my heart, I may have cried a wee bit, but I got my point across, I think the meeting went well, there were over 300 people there, including my BFF Molly, she was my support system!
Teresa means the world to me I may have divorced her son, but I didn't divorce her and her family! they are wonderful people and for all that they have done for me and Maggie, I will gladly do anything and everything I ever can to help them! And trust me if you have a child riding a school bus, you would want the driver to be as loving and caring as she....
The room was packed, people were standing in the doorways and sitting on the floor! I have trust in the Board that they will do what is right... after the meeting, I ran into some Board member and the Chairman at tumbleweed they all approached me and made me feel confident that the meeting was successful! I hope so and I hope that they make me proud!

Everyone that spoke did a wonderful job, Teresa and Donna were very informative! I really enjoyed listening to them speak! All the bus drivers were there and lots of parents spoke out, Chrissy Yager ( jones) had poster boards to hold up, Small kids had t-shirts printed saying they supported their bus drivers. It was an awesome turn out and it blesses my heart to see how import and our community and our kids are to the public!

As I was speaking, Vicky was hiding from me, she's so sweet. ;-)

Here's a copy of my speech that I KINDA read! ;-)

May 1st School Board Meeting

On February 18, 1988 there was a murder in southern Indiana that shook the community to it’s very core. During the trial, a local bus driver from New Washington, Ms. Burgin, testified, “I’ve been driving this route everyday twice a day for year, I know when I see something that looks suspicious.” She told the jury that she saw the victims car and a young man walking from it on foot, that she had ever seen before. This identification and testimony led to the conviction of that young man, who was subsequently sentenced to 182 consecutive years for the murder of my 27-year-old mother and 3-year-old sister.

After the trial, my dad and I moved to Charlestown. I was 5, and the possibility of leaving for school only to come home to no one was a very real fear in my small world. The first few weeks of 1st grade my aunt took me to school. Soon, though, my grandma asked me if I wanted to ride the bus. She told me of Vicky, my daddy’s barber’s wife. She was going to be my new bus driver. I figured she had to be okay if she was married to my daddy’s barber. That sense of community and family is what made me brave enough to give it a shot. The first time I boarded that bus and rode to school, I cried the whole time. Thankfully, I had a decent, patient, and loving bus driver who honestly cared about me. She allowed me to cry on her shoulder and made me feel as if I mattered to her. She asked an older kid that she knew if he would sit by me until I got to school. He and I struck up a friendship that formed such lasting bonds that, 16 years later, I named my child after that boy. Vicky took my fears of riding the bus and turned it into something that I actually looked forward to. My family, already nervous about putting my life in someone else’s hands for 35 minutes twice a day, felt tremendous relief knowing that I had a warm and kind bus driver who did her best to calm my fears and comfort my anxiety. Vicky will never know how much it meant to me that she took the time to care about me, when I was just another kid on her bus.

Me moving past my fear and the help to convict the person responsible for my mothers death was only possible because I had wonderful bus drivers who took pride in their routes and children. I just ask that the school board see how one Child’s life has been affected by our local bus drivers, and to please consider how many more can be. We as parents need to be able to trust our drivers with the lives of our children. Who better to trust with that precious responsibility than the people with whom we’ve grown up…other members of the community?

I also ask that the school board take into account the members of our community who depend on their buses for their livelihood. Having the same driver for years and even generations has been a tradition for our communities. My Grandmother put her children on Mrs. Webb’s bus. Years later, those children, now grown, waved from the driveway as Mrs. Webb greeted their own little ones on their way to their first day of school. There was never a question of who their bus driver was going to be…for as long as Mrs. Webb decided she needed to work, these families trusted her with their children. Why would we want to do away with that? Why would we want to bring strangers into our communities when it requires loosing our neighbors as drivers?
After speaking a man shook my hand and said good job, my name is Charlie Burgin people call me Chief, he is the husband of the buss driver that testified in my mom's trial, I thanked him and told him he should be proud of her legacy! As he should!
Also... here is the link to the Courier Journal coverage of the meeting
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070502/NEWS02/705021191
And here is the Evening News'
http://www.news-tribune.net/cnhi/newstribune/homepage/local_story_122112349.html?start:int=15
I urge everyone to get involved! Happy Wednesday!
Happy Birthday Isabella! ;-)

He's here... he's here!!!!!

2007-04-28T20:01:00.000-04:00

Baby Maxwell Warren Hubbard was born this morning at 2:12 a.m. It was a perfect delivery Heather did GREAT!!!! she's an awesome mom and Max loves to eat! ;-) Jeff did great also, Heather says he will hardly put Max down. Sorry there's no pictures of Maggie with Max, they were taken with a film camera! I'm sure there will be some in the very near future!!!!!

The Evening started around 6:30 Heather called and said she was timing her contractions, her mom convinced her to go to the hospital, and as we all know how Heather is, she insisted on going home and taking a shower and shaving her legs, which she did, Jeff called me around 7:30 and told me she was 6 cm. So we headed to the hospital, leaving Maggie and her new harmonica with Poppy!
When we got there they were giving her her epideral, so we had to wait about 30 minutes

These beautiful ladies below are Elaine and Cindy the New MeMe's and Brittany the new Aunt..... So check it Heathers mom and dad's last name is Smith and her sisters name is Brittany, so this baby has 2 grandma and grandpa Smiths and 2 aunt Brittany's and 2 and Jessie .... CRAZY!!!
Then of course there is Jesse and Maggie's boyfriend JR, JR was a trooper he came with Jesse and stayed until Max came which was 6 1/2 hours later! Here's the Daddy to be! When they let us in, Heather was all numb and feeling NO PAIN!!!!! she did wonderful! They had her all hooked up to the monitors and the baby was doing very well.Only me and Heather would take a self portrait while one of us was in labor! Why does she look bette than me ?!?!?!? Ugh....

I love this girl, she has really shown what she is made out of with this pregnancy this wasn't easy for her and she has done GREAT!!!!! I'm proud of her!

Jeff is going to be a great dad, he really has a heart for children and Maggie just thinks he is the greatest.

Together, they will make a great team! I love them both! And FYI I hooked them up! Score.... Jessie, why can't I do that for myself?!? Ugh... again!

After about 41/2 hours of labor and 1 1/2 hours of pushing, baby Max made his way into the world!!!!!

Max was born at 2:12 A.M. and weighed 6lbs. 7oz. just like his momma did when she was born!

Heather's mom and her new Grand baby! Cindy was sooo excited once everyone cleared the room and the Doctor said it was shoe time, she could barely contain herself, it was priceless!

Heather's dad couldn't be there he was sick, but he soon came the next day to check his Grandson out, the first thing he said was, " He has Smith feet." like him! ;-)

Their first Family Photo!

Baby Max and Daddy!

Meme's got another one! As Heather's Brittany looks on!
Max and his FAVORITE aunt Jessie j/k Sister! ;-)
Max and Molly
Aunt Brittany and Max

And last but not least ........the ABSOLUTE BEST PICTURE Max will ever take! He he ;-) Just look at that face! I love him! It's like he is saying HELLO LADIES!!!!!!!!!

We love you guys!

Happy Birthday Courtney

2007-04-23T21:53:00.000-04:00

I love these Girls! Shelby .... only 5 more months til your birthday.... smile!

The Waterbed

2007-04-23T21:28:00.000-04:00

My dear friend Edna passed away today she was such a sweet and caring lady. She always made me smile and I was looking forward to showing her my new hair, I told her I was getting it cut and she begged me not too, but you know me, I needed a change! ;-)

A funny story about Edna! -

One summer a long, long, time ago way---- before Maggie, I spent almost every weekend and even some week days with Edna,. She had a King size waterbed that had a ppuncture that wouldn't stay patched, so she had bought a new mattress. She called me and asked me if I wanted to go get lunch and help her drain her waterbed. I told her I was game, just to come get me, I couldn't drive yet. So she came and got me and we ate lunch and talked about how exciting it would be to go to Heaven and how we would see our loved ones again, she told me that that is what she looked forward to the most. After lunch we headed to her house to drain the mattress.... this is the funny part :-) She told me that she would think about this story and it brought a smile to her face and she couldn't help but laugh out loud!

We read on the hose kit how to do it , so we hooked it up to the stink and the mattress and turned the water on.... NOTHING, it wasn't draining, so I suggested that we hang the hose out the window and let gravity pull the water down..... NOTHING!!!! So then I said alright, if you tell anybody that I ever did this I will swear you are a liar, so I then began to suck on he hose like a straw to get the water started guess what.... It worked, but not before I almost choked to death on 20 year old water bed water and mind you this whole time I am squated down outside by her window. She laughed so hard at me while I was spitting that nasty water out , that she could hardly talk. The neighbors got a good show that weekend! ;-) After laughing about it for another couple hours she took me home and told me that she loved me and that I really meant a lot to her, she would never know how much she meant to me.

We would take long drives and talk about heaven and how wonderful it is going to be, tonight Edna is there and I am positive that she is smiling and NOT because of the silly weaterbed story, but because she is HAPPY and with our Lord Jesus Christ and will be forever more! She's the lucky one! She will no longer know pain or struggle only joy and happiness! She will be greatly missed, but I know one day, I will hear her tell the waterbed story again! And what a day that will be!

Happy Thunder!

2007-04-21T22:57:00.000-04:00

Hope everyone had a great Thunder, we spent the day fixing up our yard and shopping! Jeff and Heather came over and cooked out and we watched Thunder on TV. The highlight of the night was Jeff and Maggie playing with a glow stick! Those two are silly! He's going to make an awesome dad! Maggie also found a frog!

Here are some pictures! Enjoy!

oh .......did I mention, Heather announced to us that she is scared of frogs! This AFTER she does entire baby's room in Frogs! ~ Only Heather!

Today's the Day!

2007-04-18T06:42:00.000-04:00

So today, I have eye surgery! I am so excited!!!!!! I have to go in without make up on and the worst part of this whole thing is that I can not wear eye makeup for a week! YIKES!!!!! If you have ever seen a redhead without eye makeup you'd understand..... anyways here is the absolute last picture of me EVER in glasses!!!!!!

Pardon the red eyes... it's 6:30 in the AM and I'm not in the mood to fix them!

Happy Wednesday!

The new and improved!

2007-04-16T22:29:00.000-04:00

This is the "new hair"

I got my hair cut today, I wanted to grow it out just to prove to myself that I can... I did then... I chopped it off! Yay me! I got 7 inches cut off today, that was the longest my hair has ever been. I'm on this new kick of self improvement, I got my hair cut, I'm starting to go back to the gym, and I'm having lasik surgery Wednesday.... Now all I need is laser hair removal and Lypo and I will be golden! Oh yeah did I mention that I am also whitening my teeth, so if you see this cute short haired girl with these unbelievabley white teeth and NO GLASSES, say hi it's me, you just don't recognize me ! ;-)

Funny thing about this weekend, I did nothing but clean house, Sunday after dinner and sleeping through church, we must have been exhausted, Molly and Heather came over and we watched movies, this weekend was a great weekend for it to rain, Flight of the Navigator was on twice, anyways.... we watched some Nicholas Cage marathon, AWESOME!!!! but the funny part was we watched it in my bed, we didn't even get up all day, we ordered pizza made Brittany go get it and then ate in in my bed! Funtime!!!!!! Here's a picture of the happenings or lack there of! ;-) Hope everyone had an as eventful weekend as we did.

We looked like the Grandparents off of Willy Wonka!

Look at this sweet picture of Heather and her Belly! Aww... I love cute prego's ;-)

Happy Monday!

House cleaning day!

2007-04-14T15:27:00.000-04:00

It's rainy and cold so, I decided to clean my house like it owed me money, I mean I scrubbed and scrubbed! Little Miss. Maggie dressed herslef and this is what I found !

She's so silly!

Happy Easter!

2007-04-11T22:31:00.000-04:00

Here is Maggie, Heather & of course, baby Max!

This is Maggie's "boyfriend" JR teaching her to play golf!

Uncle Jeff and Aunt Jesse! Enough of the festivities!

Little Sister in "her" chair
here is Ms. Maggie being oh so Precious! Tea anyone?

Happy Easter! He is Risen!!!!!!!!!!!

I love my girls!!!!!

2007-04-04T22:13:00.000-04:00

Tonight, my friend Schneed came over to eat dinner with me and the girls, the phone rang, I answered it and it was Lauren, my 5 year old niece, Cara's daughter, she says, hi Jessie I have a suprise for you, I painted my room.... Can I talk to Maggie, SO they talked on the phone like grown ups and finally Maggie said bye and handed me the phone and Lauren was gone. They amaze me!

This is Ms. maggie talk'n it up with Lauren while she eats cheetos and wears her Buzz Lightyear goggles!

More vacation photos for your enjoyment!

Yeap, Maggie's always like that! Poor Lauren!

Sunny Days...Sweeping the Clouds Away

2007-03-27T23:02:00.000-04:00

So this past week, Maggie and I have been on vacation with 4 other lovely women, Grandma Dee, Cara, and Brittany. You wouldn't believe how well the difficult ones traveled, no fighting, no crying and no hitting.... Lauren and Maggie did excellent as well! ;-)

This was a much needed vacation, I will blog more about the specific later, I jusd wanted to give you wonderful readers a few highlights of the trip!

Before we even left Jeffersonville on the way to Florida, my debit card gotsucked into the ATM machine, and it wouldn't spit it back out. I didn't have any access to money, and we drove around Louisville for an hour trying to find a night depository. Which we did not and I had to borrow money from Cara the whole week.

Cara thought we drove over the ocean, twice. How she has made it as far as she has is beyond me. She's dumb!

This is what she thought was the ocean! Gees!

Maggie stuck Cheez-Its in between all of her toes, and then ate them one by one.
Maggie thought that our hotel room was our new apartment. She we moved there.
Grandma said that she and Maggie are just a couple of pole dancers. (This is due to the fact that they stayed close to the hand rail that led into the pool. Cara and Jessie explained what most people think of when they hear "poledancer", and she retracted her statement ;-)

Cara decided to drop a duece when she knew that Jessie needed to pee. Therefore, Jessie was forced to pee in the bathtub, which caused all of her fake tan to come off.
~ Sorry no picture to accompany this event!

I embarassed the entire family when I refused to pay $5.29 for a tiny bowl of fruit for Maggie's breakfast at IHOP because it didn't arrive like the picture displayed. IT WAS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!! Do not get the fruit bowl! ~

Lauren rode the entire way from Georgia to Florida with her fish floatie on.

We were craving some fine Seafood dining so we stopped at a Captain D's and discovered that Maggie pops the end of popcorn shrimp off, then sucks out the shrimp. This makes her aunt Cara very happy and proud. Cara eats like a weirdo as well.

Maggie pushed the alarm button on the hotel elevator causing Cara to smack her hand.

Lauren said she couldn't look at the Lionfish display because she was freaked out and was going to throw up.

Cara constantly sang A-1-A BEACHFRONT AVENUE!!!!

there is a video to accompany this .... it's worth the wait!

Finally the last leg of the trip, we stopped to see Dolphins, they were amazing the girls loved them,I later say, I wonder if there are dolphins in the wilderness in Fl? Cara then makes fun of me the whole way home. I thought that was a ligit ?!?!?

Here are just a few picture of the journey, like I said I will blog more about it later! :) Hope everyone had a wonderful spring break!

That's all for now! I still have not received my reolacement debit card, if yoiu are wondering! :(

Sleepy Head

2007-03-19T23:09:00.000-04:00

SLEEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brittany must have stayed up too late last night, she and the dog passed out way too early !!!!!

Cute photo Op! I love that thing, and the dog!

Happy Monday!!!!!

Babies and Beer

2007-03-18T21:15:00.000-04:00

Boy has this weekend has been busy... Friday night; me, Cara, Lauren, Grandma Dee, Linda, and her man Scott all went to see the Crabb Family Concert! It was awesome, I think I have discovered that I may be full Gospel, I loved the church it was AWESOME!!!!
K- so I gotta tell you about the incident in the parking lot... Grandma Dee has bad knees and Cara insisted on driving her truck, so Me, G-ma, Cara, and Lauren piled in. Lauren and I sat in the back and Grandma and Cara rode shotgun. After the concert, Grandma had a hard time getting in the truck so I tried to give her a little boost, as she opened the door, Cara had just started the truck and from the radio blared, "You can do it put your back into".... SO of course we (me and Cara) die laughing I ended up peeing a little and Cara ended up throwing up... long story but funny!

So that was Friday night then came Sat.

Saturday morning The fam. headed to the brother's house to help hang pics and get ready for the shower Sunday, Daddy and Heather pretty much sat on the couch and compared bellies!

Daddy and Heather

Maggie and her aunt Jesse

then was Landon's birthday party, he got a 4 wheeler and he loved it all the kids took turns riding it, but the cutest pic, is of him in his camo hat, I 'm a sucker for boys in Camo! :)

The Weekend!

FINALLY... It's Sat. night! Time to party and hang with the fam. and watch IU!!!!!
I went out with cousin's Cara and Amy and their Husband's Robbie and Larry. We had a blast! The game was a nail biter and well.... IU lost but only by 2 points! They played a good game!

Cara and Moi

The Smith girls!

Ma and my girl again! I love her! :)

Cara & Robbie (the happy couple)

Amy & Big Larro

Then Was the Shower, Heather had a great turn out and got lots of cool stuff! I can't wait for baby Max!

Here are some pictures of us at the shower...

The Sisters
Jackie, Brittany, Heather, Me, and the other Jesse

Me, HSMI, and MMCC

Moi and MO

I love those girlies! :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!!!

I Bleed Red!

2007-03-16T00:17:00.000-04:00

I be lov'n me some HOOSIERS!!!!!

have I mentioned that I love Indiana Basketball! I even named my dog Robert Montgomery Knight, Maggie calls him Copper, after the greatest coach in the world! Here are some pics of us watch'n the game tonight!

Now, if we can just get past UCLA.....

Terrible Twos: Here Landon Comes

2007-03-14T21:50:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday Landon!

Today is Landon's 2nd birthday! He is sooo big, I can not believe how fast these kids are growing, I remember when Lauren was born, it seems like yesterday, then came Maggie 2 years later and then Landon almost 2 years after her, now he is 2 himself!

He is soo cute, he loves Maggie and Lauren. He is all smiles and has such a cute personality!

Here are some pictures, Maggie and I took him a cake and some balloons his party isn't until Sat. I'm sure I will post lost of pictures then!

Blow your candles out Landon MeMe on the phone!
The whole gang!

Sweet Lauren!

This Is My Life...Sad, But True

2007-03-13T14:59:00.000-04:00

A Day in the life of Jessie Smith

K so check it, this post will help everyone understand what a day in the life of Jessie Smith consists of.
6:30 get up get ready for work, I'm not woke up by my alarm clock, but by my howling basset hound, nice :) then I trip in the hallway over a toy grocery cart, almost fall, but recovered nicely if I do say so myself. I then let the dog out only so that he can chase a cat into the neighbors yard and I have to chase him in my bathrobe. Finally get the dog chained up and fed ready for my morning routine....jump in the shower and hear a weird noise, I open the curtain to see my baby sister puking in the toilet, BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! then I get out blow dry my hair get ready for work, Brittany stays home from school and spends the day with her mom.
7:45- leave the house ready for work pull out of the driveway and Maggie screams you forgot my chocolate milk.... pull back in get the choc. milk head back out.
8-5 Work like a mad dog!
5:00 head home, not a care in the world, no children tonight, Brittany is ill and with her mother and Maggie is with her dad. After 2 phone calls from the Ex, and 15 questions about my upcoming vacation, I finally make it home, a throw a load of laundry in to settle in and watch a movie, I then am side tracked by the dirty dishes in the dungeon (Brittany's room) I load the dishwasher and discover, there is no detergent, so I head off to the store, come home with trash bags, air freshener and NO DISH DETERGENT! Ugh , I was ticked, oh well I'm doing nothing but watching TV, Now its 7:30, Molly calls I talk to her for a while then, got caught up in Little People big world on the TLC channel, LOVE THAT SHOW!!!!! Anyways... after about an hour and 1/2 of that I begin to doze off with the dog on the couch.
it's now 9-9:30, my cell phone rings, I jump up to answer it thinking, hey it could be a boy! :) as I was jumping up, I shattered my wine glass ( that I was drinking tea out of) and sliced my foot almost in half, K so maybe that was an exaggeration... but close. All of this only to find it was BRIAN calling me AGAIN, this time he got called in to work and he was bringing Maggie home, I said fine, I gotta go, cause I was bleeding out all over my kitchen.. I then hobbled to the bathroom ran cold water on my gaping wound then peroxide and bandaged myself up, I think I used 15 Sponge bob band aids, as I was bandaging my cell phone rings again, I didn't dare run to it this time, then my home phone, I hobble to the kitchen answer it and you guessed it, Brian again, this time, he changed his mind, he's not going to work.NICE!!!! All this and your not even bringing Maggie home! So there I sat gashed open foot, no kid, no boy calling me and a dog licking up tea between the slivers of glass! I decided to end the day and go to bed! Shew!

Hank & Skynyrd!!!

2007-03-12T16:21:00.000-04:00

Hank & Skynyrd - A girls dream!

So I heard on the radio today, that Hank and Skynyrd are coming to town Friday June 15th, so you know where I will be that day! No one knows how awesome this is for me, these are my 2 fav. in the world..... I know a little RED but I don't care, I will be singing A country boy can survive and Sweet Home Alabama all night! I'm going to drag Cara and Robbie with me, which means I don't have a date... any takers?!?!?!? I don't even need a date, they are that awesome! I gotta go start polishing my Justin's! :)

Stop! It's Blogger Time!

2007-03-10T10:55:00.000-05:00

So, I've decided to become a blogger myself. Cara and Beth seemed to have mastered the Blog world, and i hate to be left out so here I go....

As mentioned in Cara's first post, we are the very best of friends. We are exaclty the same person but opposite. I am 5'2", she is 6' 10" . I am 24 with a beautiful , but mean :) 3 year old daughter. I have been divorced for about 2 years. And when I say divorced, I really am! :) Cara is 28 with 2 beautiful children Lauren 5 and Landon almost 2, she is still married! and HOT per Cara..... I have red hair, and usually highlight it blonde ,Cara has, brown hair I think or atleast she did when we were little :) I think that may have been the last time I saw her real hair.

Cara and I have different outlooks on Marriage and Divorce, when she was "tired" of being married, she decided to leave and get a divorce. She since has came to her senses... I on the other hand am more of a "Stand by your man" no matter what ,kinda gal, it's the girlfriend and her 3 children with 2 different dads that I found problems with! ;-) But things are better now that I am past that chapter in my life. It's hard thinking you will spend the rest of your life with someone and then find that you will spend the rest of your life, exchanging the offspring. Sad...... not really! ;)

The most recent happenings in our lives has been that Cara and Robbie have made up and moved back in together. Yay for them, I may have vomited a little in the mouth the first time we all hungout again, but truly... I missed Robbie and am very glad that they have decided to work things out!

Well... that's all for now, I will blog again later with some pics! Maggie is having a slumber party tongiht ...... so PRAY that I will not loose my mind :)

BTW What happened to them Hoosiers last night?!?!?!?!?!!?!? :(