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Pimping my husband

August 22, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I’ve been begging Scott to write down or record all the stories he tells me from work. Some of them are funny, some sad, some shocking some just captivating. He HATES to write and even worse type though so has been reluctant. But I finally set him up with a blog of his own and we’ve agreed to do it together. He has written the first one but we plan to have him dictate the stories and I will type them up for him. I REALLY wanted him to video record them. He is a great storyteller and some of the stories of wrecks and DUIs are just plain easier to understand and in some case funnier if you can see him tell the story. But he WILL NOT let me do that. So the written word is all we’ve got. Well, and he’s going to be adding some of his pictures in the gallery I set up. I know there is quite an audience for police stories. I mean, just think of the success of the COPS show. I want him to do it for personal reasons of wanting to put a book together one day of his career.

So it’s just starting up and we’re still tweaking things, but here’s Scott’s police blog!

At home this morning

August 19, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Instead of embarrassing Lexi and myself by letting her scratch her herself all morning in Sunday School, I opted to stay home with her. Her rash does seem to be improving in the slightest way as I didn’t have to wake up through the night with her even though she slept with us. I’ve also learned to change her as soon as she wets and wipe her with water and then dry her before putting a diaper back on. The dr said it should be improved by tonight so I’m hoping. I’m supposed to go into work tomorrow and I hope I don’t end up having to stay home to run interference. Something about sick kids always wanting their mommy.

So today is the first Sunday service without St leading choir/worship. I’m wondering how many people will sing in the choir and how the praise and worship will go. Scott is not the best at giving scoop and J is not going to be there this morning either so we’ll see how much info I get.

Crap – just a call that C is leaking fluid and she is in Wisconsin visiting family and was supposed to fly home today. She’s only 23 weeks pregnant and had E at 28 weeks. Please pray hard!

Keeping busy

August 11, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Keeping busy this weekend but nothing extremely exciting to report. Almost all our spare time is spent in the pool. It has been so nice this week with the temp over 100.

Last night after we dropped the kids at ILs to spend the night, we went out to eat at Rafferty’s for our we-didn’t-get-to-go-out-for-our-anniversary dinner. When we got home we I (Scott fell asleep within minutes) watched Deja Vu. That was an excellent. movie. That might be a good one to buy. And I don’t do that often.

This morning I stayed in bed until about 10 and then cleaned, cleaned and cleaned some more until dinner time. Then Scott and I made dinner for us and Mom, Dad and Heather. We made our “famous” Tilapia dinner including sweet potato casserole, corn on the cob, yeast rolls and brownies and banana pudding for dessert. Yum. So now Emma is watching some recorded LazyTown and Lexi fell asleep literally in the pool while Heather was holding her.

I need to get something together for Sunday School in the morning. I skipped a few lessons through the year so now I’m left with nothing these next few weeks.

We also have Disturbia for us me to watch tonight. I heard it might be hard to sleep after that so maybe I’ll get to make some more updates to my theme later on…

9 years ago

August 8, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Nine years ago today I wasn’t sure if my SIL would be in my wedding.

Nine years ago today I had just gotten a letter in the mail from one of my bridesmaids telling me what an awful friend I had been.

Nine years ago today mom and I were having our billioneth disagreement about the wedding.

And yes, nine years ago today Scott and I were married.

Just like the days leading up to the wedding, in all the bliss, it hasn’t been perfect. The last two years especially have been hard and even through the worst, we both knew we could and would never leave each other’s side.

Nine years ago today we promised to love each other through thick and thin and we’ve learned that love is certainly not an emotion but an action. This anniversary I’m so thankful I have a husband that loves God as much as I do and is as serious about his relatinoship with Christ as I am. I’m thankful for a husband that loves his children with every ounce of his body as much as I do. And I’m even more thankful he loves me with every fiber of his being.

I love you, babe.

Nothing like a good friend and late birthdays

August 6, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

D and I have been friends for at least 10 years, right about the time each of us got engaged a few months apart. She’s one of those people I just knew I was going to be friends with for a long time. We had the same style in just about everything, even our mothers were similar. Although now we have added 5 new people to the world between us and we both stay busy, I can’t tell you how cathartic just 2 hours is with her. Tonight we met at Starbuck’s for coffee and just sat outside for over 2 hours actually and talked. I felt sort of bad after I left after dumping weeks of drama and kids stories on her but somehow I know she enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed every story she had to tell.

Her twins are going to kindegarten this year even though our oldest are only a few months apart, they made the cutoff while Emma didn’t. I’m sort of glad too. I don’t think she would mind if I told you the story of her having her one emotional moment about her kids going to school. She was in the grocery store one day buying Capri-Suns that were on sale, knowing she would need them for lunches. She questioned, as I did when she told the story, who would open their straws for them? It’s that realization that they’ll be one in a sea of 20 kids and no one is going to reach over, without even thinking to make sure their little girls straw is opened. That makes me choke up just thinking about it. I’m very sure teachers are competent, attentive and loving but no matter what, it won’t be the same. Oh, how we both are looking forward to 7 hours straight quiet house but until then, I’m really going to try to smile every time I have to open a straw for one my girls and more importantly, hopefully I can teach Emma how to open the straw so my big girl will be all ready for lunch time.

New little C

July 19, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

J&W who lost a baby last year (I would link to the post but can’t seem to find it. their last son was stillborn with a genetic disorder Trisomy 18 I believe) had a bouncing baby boy this morning. I’m so happy for them. Scott in fact is at the hospital now with S visiting. I’m quite jealous because I heard they had posted “family only” for visitors and I can’t really leave right now anyway because of work. But hopefully I’ll get over to see all three of them.

Happy Birthday, Scott

July 14, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Today Scott turned 32 today which is a long way from 18 when I met him. I just feel so old these days. A couple days ago he said he was getting too old to do something for his birthday but I knew his family, especially his mom, would want to do something. But it was kind of hard to plan something since he works nights all weekend. I told Scott yesterday we’d just order some pizza and have his parents over. Then I saw THE dessert (which was FANASTIC) and decided maybe make it a little bit bigger affair so last night while Scott was working I called his mom, sister, cousin and grandmother and told them to come over for lunch. Scott woke up to a little birthday party and while there were no streamers and balloons, he thanked me quite appreciatively after everyone had gone. I was glad he was happy and I DID work pretty hard on getting the house together, getting all the ingredients last night, making the pie today and even though the pizza was easy, I did order it all and get it myself with Lexi in tow which I think speaks for itself…and for goodness sakes I actually CALLED all his family members. I scored mega points today but I guess I don’t get to count them since it IS his birthday. So, happy birthday, babe.

07-07-07

July 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Ten years ago on 07-07-97 Scott and I got engaged. Interestingly and unplanned, we were married on 08-08-98.

We were at Myrtle Beach that week with his family. He had asked for my hand in marriage from my dad and I knew he had bought a ring I had helped pick out. In fact, my parents bought it and he paid them back $50/mo. I wasn’t sure if he had brought the ring to the beach but I thought he might have. One evening after dark, we went for a walk on the beach right near Cherry Grove’s pier. He stopped us so I was facing the water and he was facing me. I don’t remember anything he said to me. I do remember he had to get the ring out of his back pocket and dropped it. He had to find it in the sand which thankfully didn’t take long and wasn’t quite as awkward as it may seem. Anyway, he got down on his knee and proposed. I was so happy I was laughing and crying at the same time and never said yes. He said, Well, say yes! Which I did of course. On the beach, under a full moon. It was quite a romantic setting. I remember going back to the beach house we were staying at and telling his mom we were engaged. I remember her giving us a hug and then start crying. I don’t really remember much else about the week and the rest you could say is history.