My Birthday Surprise!

So Friday afternoon the weather got really ugly. I got the kids all bathed dressed with socks shoes and jackets on. Having lived through the Tornado of 89 in Huntsville I do not play around with Storms. Mother nature really does destroy in the blink of an eye. It was over and done with in a matter of hours, but it seemed like we were battling bad weather for hours and hours and hours that day. My hubby called to tell me that we were not going to be able to go away for my birthday surprise and that we are going to a bed and breakfast in Mentone, AL. I have to say I was very sceptical of the whole bed and breakfast thing. I have never been to one and to be honest never had a desire to. But I love alone time with my honey and I will go anywhere to that. ;o)

So Saturday we wake up and Bo calls my Mom and asks her to watch the kids over night. He is so sweet he took care of all the plans. We went into Guntersville to kill some time and ate at the New O'Charlies. Then we took the Kids up to Grant to spend the night with my parents while we went on our little romantic get away.

The name of the place Bo got us reservations to Mountain Laurel Inn. It is off in the middle of no where on the top of Mentone. Bo and I got to our bed and breakfast around 3:00 and checked in put our bags in our room and decided to hike to Desoto Falls. It would have been perfect had a I brought some tennis shoes or boots, but NO I am in my brand new Yellow Box Flip Misty got me for my birthday! But we hiked to the water fall.

We had a good time being Bo and Lisa we had a wonderful time talking about where we feel like we are headed and about situations with the house. I got to hear Bo's thoughts on the move and I got to share mine. We have decided to look for land and a house and if that leaves us here in Jackson County so be it. My husband has always told me that he wished he was a farmer. I know you guys are laughing but his hearts desire is to have some land as well as a home. So one day when our kids are all grown they can build around us if that wish to. ;o( I was thinking get the heck out of here so I can finally have your daddy all to myself. (Wink Wink) So now our search has shifted from a subdivision to land.

Bo and I went to eat a little restraunt up in the mountains it was perfect. I have the bestest husband in the world. I had no idea what a Bed and Bfast was but I am so glad I went! What a perfect 30th birthday. I got to spend it with my bestest friends and then the weekend with the bestest of best! THANK YOU HONEY!

Happy BirshDay

I woke up to my girls being so sweet kissing on me and telling me Happy Birthday I love you mommy don't worry you are not old. Now when you get 50 you will be old. How sweet are my kids. Well I was waiting on the traditional phone call from my Mom and well it never came then around ten'ish I got an email from her more like a posted note. ha ha My Dad never called and I did not hear from half my friends today. I have to say I lost it a few times having a pity party I seriously cried. SUCH A DORK I KNOW! Bo brought the kids home early to have birthday party with me. My girls and husband had made me a Suzy Q and gotten me a really cute Vera Bradley Beach Bag with two matching towels and a L coffee Mug.

I had a great little party with my kids and husband. The baby sitter showed up and Bo told me to get dressed we had reservations at 6:30. So I got dressed and we headed to Huntsville we ended up going to Mikato's. I kinda figured my parents were going to be there when I saw my sister's big expo and I thought I saw my Mom's car, but was not expecting to see all my friends. I walked in and saw one of my best friends Sella and her husband Tim



. I of course did my usual when I am surprised. STOP IT then I looked over and saw another one of my best friends Misty and her husband Heath



and yet again another stop it you bunch of liars and there was my Mom, Dad, Sisters, and brother in-laws.






I was so surprised to see them. Then the late comer's Alliloo and JT



brought the rear up. I was a little sad cause my friend Lindsay and her husband David could not make it they had her Mom's wedding shower (that is so much more important) and Thursday's are my cousin Mistee's husband late night at work so they could not make it either. Kelly and Jamie had a house full of sick babies so they could not come either. I missed you guys being there. It was really a big surprise to see all of my friends and my family there and I really enjoyed my dinner. I LOVE YOU GUYS SO SO MUCH! My favorite part of the night was when the manager came to sing Happy Birthday to me and he wanted a group shot picture of all of us and was trying to get us all to squeeze into the shot but instead of using his pointer finger to motion us where to go he used the birdy if ya know what I mean I laughed so hard I thought Allison and I were going to wet our pants. Then instead of singing Happy Birthday to you It went more like Happy Birshday two eww bahahaha. I have to say something about my cake. Actually I am going to let the picture tell you the story. Can anyone else see what I saw when I first glanced at it? Does it not look like it says a bad word? ha ha







haha It was a fun night. I did not get the cruise but I did get to spend my 30th birthday with my family and some of my best friends and I would take that over a boat any old day!






Bo told me we are going someone close by over night tomorrow night so I am guessing we are going to either Gatlinburg or we are going to Nashville or ha ha Lake Guntersville State Park! I CAN NOT STAND NOT Being apart of the planning. When there is going to be time spent away I like to plan for it. I mean I am all for a surprise but I want to be able to know what kinda clothes to pack and how much clothes to pack, what we are doing with the children and what kinda activity do you have planned for them ughhhh ! I just want him to tell me what the heck we are doing. I am so tired I hope everyone had a great 4-10-08 Blessings

This week so far

I am getting horrible about not updating this thing. Friday not a lot went on during the day. Silas and I just hung out but Friday night Bo and I had a night out without the kids. My in-laws took Bella with them and we took Kenzie and Silas up to my parents house in Grant. Then we headed to Huntsville to grab a quick cup of coffee cause Lord knows I will fall over at 9:00 so I got a double shot white choc mocha my favorite drink in the whole wide world. ;o) Well we went to meet my cousin and her husband to head to the VBC for the ECI fight night. OH MY WORD those dude's literally will beat each other till they say MERCY. I mean I saw broke noses, ribs, busted lips, gashes on the face and puke. IT WAS CRAZY but we had lots of fun hanging out with Mistee, Steve and meeting Carrie, Larry, Chad & some other guy don't remember his name. Horrible with names I know. We did not leave the VBC till 11:00 Bo and I went home and off to bed.

Saturday Bo and I woke up got ready and we went to breakfast just me and him for the first time in ages. Then we drove up to Grant to get the oldest and youngest from my parents house. Then we were off to his parents house for a day full of hanging out and celebrating birthday's with his side. Bo's sister and her son came into town from the Shoals. We grilled, talked, ate and sang happy birthday to me and Bella then hung out a little bit more then we went home I was exhausted my allergies are killing me these days.

Sunday we got up went to church service was amazing. I just have to say I love our church and I love our pastor's sensitivity to the spirit. It was just a powerful service and It has been such a long time since I have been able to sit in a service like that. WOW I just really love our church. After church we went to eat then to Sam's we had to get some stuff for the kids snacks and such. Then we went to New Market to meet our agent to look at a house. OH MY MERCY I feel in love with it at first sight. It is beautiful on the outside and on the inside the only thing I did not really LOVE about it was the fact that the living room was smaller than I imagined my dream home being in my head. OH MY WORD the yard is perfect cause its .48 so big enough for Bo and the house is perfect for me. Ughhh House hunting is so much harder than it sounds.

Monday I watched Cohen we hung out with Silas and cleaned out Not to much fun.
Today Cohen got here early was fine Alli came for her lunch break and while on her lunch break Kenzie's school called and said she was not feeling well so Bo went to pick her up and Alli decided to take Cohen home and take the rest of the day off:o( My cousin stopped By Dinky with his Dad it was nice to visit with My uncle it has been a while. Well Kenzie was not sick by no means she just had a sinus headache nothing a little pain reliever won't fix.

Tonight Silas crawled into my bathtub and got ahold of my razor and cut both his thumbs up pretty bad so bad I could not get one of them to stop for a good 8 min so Bo came home 15 min early to help me get it under control. It was scary for like 15 min.

So Thursday is my birthday and its not just any old birthday its my 30th birthday. To me there is not really another birthday that will be bigger. I have no idea why I feel this way I guess its cause I will not ever celebrate another birthday after this one. I plan on being 30 from this time on ha ha I have been telling my husband for months now I want to go on a cruise or go away with just him, but I don't guess we will be doing that because here it is the Tuesday before my big 30 and NOTHING. He has not said I have something planned I won't tell you what it is just pack a bag nothing. I have all these great day dreams about Bo and I on the beach or us cruising the ocean. Or having a big party with all of my friends and I don't guess I should do that because I know from past birthday's I always get my hopes up and I guess they are to big of dreams for any normal person to be able to fill. I just knew since I have made no bones about what I wanted that he would come through. UGHHHH OH WELL I guess whatever is whatever. I can't help but feel a little let down. Well I am going to go to bed after I get done watching my Lady Vols whoop Stanford's butt. ;o) I will write more later on this week after I find out what happened for my Big day. ;o( Blessings
Lisa

Latest Going's on!

Well there has been so much going on and yet I just could not will myself to write it out. Last week I kept Cohen from Wed-Friday he is such a sweet soul just like his precious Mommy. That little man likes to eat and if Alli don't look out he is going to eat her in to the poor house. ha ha Seriously she said that He likes to eat every hour or 1 1/2. I was like sister we can stretch that one out so I got him to at least 2 or 2 1/2. He gave me a great gift on my last day that boy tore a diaper up and while changing him he just kept on a coming. I am a season veteran at diaper changing and I at one point almost panicked cause it just kept on a coming. EWWW I know but It was just one of the things that stuck out in my mind from last week.


On Thursday we had the survey done and to be vague It was not good news and until we get the situation settled I can not really talk about it. We proved we are not on the crazy cat lady's property and I have to say that was the highlight of that day. Getting to tell her in my most polite and direct voice that is our property line and that this was her one and only warning If I caught her on my side of that stake that I would press trespassing charges and she did not like that none to much. I cracked up when they told her we were not built on her property.

On Friday night some friends of ours came over. It has been since before Christmas since we got to hang out. We had a BYOB night and no it was not a drunk fest it was Bring your own Burger ha ha. I just could not cook I was exhausted so we had a fast food night. We sat ate, talked and of course played Wii. We really enjoyed having them over they are great friends of ours and have missed hanging out. We are so blessed to have these friendships they for sure are sharpening and Bo and I love them.

Saturday Bo had to go to work so me and the kids hung out till Daddy got home. After he got home we just let the kids run crazy through the house. Bo and I were lazy we just laid in the bed the whole day until around 6:00 then we got up packed some clothes then went to my cousin Mistee's house we had a great time. While on our way down there Silas got car sick and threw up all over his brand new car seat and his only pair of shoes we brought. I always pick at my cousin for her shopping addiction and her expensive taste in food. BUT I will admit when I am wrong and I was WRONG. We got PF Changs take out and I have to say that the food was wonderful I LOVED the Chicken Lettuce Wraps HOLY COW melt in your mouth. So Mistee you are right on the food tip. Mistee and I goofed off with the kids outside dancing around being crazy doing the cha cha slide and cupid shuffle. Then Watched our husbands play the Wii and then watched a little Dr. Phil I am not his biggest fan as anyone can tell you but he was so on point on this show I was screaming at the stupid Mom's that said they wanted to quit there job's as a MOTHER! Lord I think all Mom's have a thought in there head saying I just wish I could run away but we don't dwell on it. It's called a bad day or bad week. Sheeesh The first two Mom's had real life issues with disabled children but the last Mom was just being selfish and wanting to go hooch it up. I was so hacked off yelling at the TV finally at 2:00 am I said I can't watch this anymore and shut the DVR off. I left my cousin and her husband fast asleep on the couch. Ha Ha

Sunday morning we got up and went downstairs and put Silas shoes back in the dryer cause they were still soaking wet and after two rounds in the dryer they were still to wet for him to wear. :-( Then while Steve was making Bfast Bo realized he had not cleaned the car seat out and it has sat over night with "SICKNESS" in it so he scrubbed it and well soaked the seat. So Bo and I decided that going to church was just not going to happen we had already gotten up late and then Silas not having shoes and him having to sit in a soaked car seat having wet clothes was not going to work. So we sat around played Wii and then got up got shower's and went to the Flea Market ummm NOT cool as I remember it when I was a kid. Then we went to the mall to eat then off to the VBC for the craft show. We got Silas a car seat cover so that if he gets sick again we won't have to wait a few hours for it to dry. ;o) Kenzie got some clothes for her bitty baby Bella got Ear Rings and Bo got some stuff for his grill. We had a great time and was a wonderful break from our lives over here in Scottsboro dealing with the house stuff.

Monday Night we met my family for my niece Addison's Birthday We always have a great time when we get together. Addison is our miracle baby every single year on her Birthday I always find myself in a state of Praise and Worship. On this day 8 years ago I saw the greatness of God. I saw wonder woman in control of everything get knocked to her knee's, I saw my unshakable Sister's world crumble and then I saw the father pick her right back up dust her off and carry her. I saw the breath of Jesus come right into the room. He breathed his breath of life into a dead baby girl. On that day every year I find myself praising God for the fact Doctor's can be wrong and that she is a living breathing walking miracle who loves the father (and her clothes, earrings, and boys) ;o) Addison I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH DIVA GIRL!

Tuesday-Thursday Has been much of nothing. I have been cleaning out drawers and chasing a crazy 20 month old who is into EVERYTHING. Well I best stop writing this and get busy on the laundry. I woke up this morning with a sore throat, stuffy nose and I don't feel like doing much of anything but gotta do it other wise it won't get done and nobody likes to live in filth. Well I hope everyone has had a great week. Blessings

My exhausting day & My friendship with Alli :o)

I wrote this last night but edited it this morning!

I got up this morning early cause I knew Alli was coming to bring Cohen to stay with me today. Her Mother who normally would watch him has come down with a kidney stone and I told her I could watch him. Cohen is very special to me His Mother and I have been through so much together I can not imagine my life without her. I remember when she lost her first child it was such a horrible time for her and I remember crying and praying with her. All the months of trying to get pregnant and month after month getting a negative after negative. I remember the night that she let it all go when Holly Choppa spoke at M & M's at church. It was like such a weight lifted off her shoulders. Alli refers to it as her Monumental Moment then not long after that Labor Day weekend to be exact we got the positive we had been waiting so long for (we like I was having a baby)We prayed and prayed and prayed those first few months. Then the month came we found out Alli was having a boy we were all so excited I got on the phone and called all of my family ha ha I really don't think I have ever been so excited for someone else to have a baby. Then the day finally came two days late might I add that Mr. Cohen Robert made his entrance into this great big world. I was so excited. Well I guess I tell you all of this to say I am super excited and was honored that she would ask me to keep him.

Today was Alli's first day back at work since Cohen was born and I knew it was going to be a little rough on her so we tried to focus on all the good stuff not the feelings every mom feels when they have to go back to work. She cried and you could tell it was the hardest thing she had to do. I took loads of pictures today while he was here so Mommy could see him at all times. I have to say life with a newborn and 1year old is not easy so Jordan if you still read this blog SISTER YOU ROCK and I give you a standing ovation. I don't know how you do it day in and day out. I had only Cohen and Silas today so it was not really to bad but if you added Kenzie and Bella off in that mix boy I would have been lost. I think Cohen and Silas schedule is just about the same maybe 30 off but Silas will get use to Cohen's and fall into line... Its so sweet Silas would wake up from naps and say CoKen where baby momma and then runnnnnn into my room to see if he was on my bed and then to the living room runn all over the house it was way cute. Alli did great she called like 2 times all day. When she walked in the door a little earlier I was caught of guard my two older ones had just walked in and we were talking to my mother in law so I had not packed his stuff up... Note to self she will come early pack stuff around 4:00 Well we at an early dinner and I have been trying to clean some tonight cause I know tomorrow I won't get much done with a newborn and Silas running around..

They do the survey of the yard tomorrow and I can't wait to see what the nut job next door has to say about it. Well I better go I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Blessings

You don't have anything nice to say!

Yes I just started my blog off with an old saying from my mom "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all" We have not had anything new with the house. The closing date has been set for April 30th and we still have not found a house yet. The ones I like Bo does not think there is enough land with them and the ones he likes I think there is not enough house for as many children as we have. I have no idea why it was so easy for us to buy the last two houses when we walked into our first house on Belle Drive it was like I heard Angels singing and saw a great light over the house. The house we just sold I thought my husband was crazy that this house was never going to be livable. I admit it I was wrong this house turned out to be beautiful and I love this house yes I just admitted I love this house. I will be glad to see it go but there is so much security in this house in this house I have room for all my kids and room for them to play. However I know all things in life must come to an end and this is the final road for this house.

The kids had spring break last week we did not do much of anything for there break they just played around here or at my inlaws hunting eggs and watching Hannah Montana and Suite life of Zach and Cody. I felt bad that we did not do anything but it just did not work out. We will make up for it this summer we already have a beach trip planned for the third weekend in June with some good friends of ours. I always hate going on trips like that by ourselves. Me and my sisters hardly ever went anywhere when we were kids without the Reynolds and I want my kids to grow up with a family like we did. You always had someone to do something with and our Mom's hung out our Dads Still hang out and well us girls still make time to see each other as often as our busy lives will let us. Back to subject we are really excited about going with our friends. We are going to Gulf Shores and have actually already booked the condo. TOTALLY EXCITED!

This past weekend was really busy Friday night Linds and David came out to eat and hang out they brought there three kids we had a GREAT time chatting, eating and playing a little Wii. Then Saturday we got up got all dressed up went to look at a house and my parents met us there. We were sure we were going to make and offer on that one but we just could not do it. GOD HAS REASONS!!! Then we went to some friends of ours wedding. Megan and David were married downtown at the roundhouse depot My baby sister was the wedding planner and did a great job. Everything looked as if it went smooth and she had the J-Lo walk going. My older sister did the brides and some of her girls make up. She did a fabulous job. I am so proud of them they both having amazing talents and if nobody ever discovers there talent at least I know right ;o) We had a blast that night the reception was great. The cake melted in your mouth yum yum. But I have to say the best part was the dancing. I saw a whole new side of my brother in law Sean that boy can move. It was great.

Sunday we woke up got dressed and ready for church at the VBC. Praise and worship was GLORIOUS! It to me just proved a point. It does not matter where God's people gather wherever it may be. We the people are the church not just the building. I love it when the campuses come together. I get to see my family from West and my Friends from Scottsboro. The sad thing is I only got to see like 3 ppl from Scottsboro but I did see a ton of my central campus coordinator friends and my family from west campus. After we left the vbc we went to grant to hang with the family. We ate lunch and hid eggs.(more like the men threw them all over the yard) Laura and I went through her cloth diapers she wants to sell and the ones she wants to keep. I got a lesson in cloth diapering and it really is not all that bad. I think if my kid were younger I might have even gotten on that band wagon cause they are way cuter and if What Laura's research is true it takes 50 years for one single diaper to decompose (is that even the word you use for this) Anyway we had a great Day hanging with the fam. I LOVE those days.

Today I went with my friend Alli to check out a local daycare and have lunch. Its been eight weeks since her and I had any alli-looler time so it was sooooo good to sit and talk even if I had to take benadryl to eat and chit chat. I came home and prayed Bo would get here quickly so I could lay down and I think I slept like 30 min. ;o( now I am wide awake! Well I am going to bed this is a long blog and its random I hope all had a great Easter. Blessings

ughhhh

I have to say I have such horrible luck with Cell phones. My LG ENV has been no different I have had it a year now and replaced it once and had it in the shop once. Its just been a horrible phone for me YET again. So I took it into verizon two weeks ago cause it was not taking charge unless you hold the cord one way and turn the phone on its side you know the drill yada yada yada. And the ear speaker kept going on people on the line with me could heap me but I could not hear them. So I take it in and the guy tells me there is nothing wrong with the phone that I was making it up... My friend Alli can atest to the fact it does it all the time when I am talking to her. He told me he could send it off but there is nothing wrong I say so you aresaying I am just making this up huh? He just looked at me. So I said give me my blame phone. I go to another store and buy a in car charger and it seemed to work but the battery still did not hold charge that long. Well yesterday while at the grocery I noticed it was not taking charge the phone. So I try to pull the charger out of the plug and it would not come out so I pulled and pulledthe blame thing fell apart. So last night I get it home and put on the in house charger and it would not take charge and finally this morning it died. My hubby is bringing home the store's phone so those of you that have my number if you need to talk to me you can call my cell and leave me a Voice Mail or send me and email lboatner@scottsboro.org or leave a comment here. UGHHHHHH CELL PHONES THEY MAKE THEM JUNKY NOW DAYS!!!