Amy J. Bennett

Pageant Pictures

September 8, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Emma at home before the meltdown

For some reason Lexi thinks her tongue should go out when I tell her I need a picture of her…

Once again, Emma before the meltdown…what a cutie….

The three of them “before”

Lexi walked first..can you see what a ham she is being..big grin the whole time

Here she is waving at the family.

Emma walked next. Can you see the blotchy face?

Lexi being crowned Wee Miss Tiny Tot Tega Cay.

All of the Division 1 contestants. Emma is 3rd in the line and Lexi is 5th. I snuck Lexi’s crown on.

These are the awards they brought home.

Quick Pageant Results

September 8, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Lexi is now Wee Miss Tiny Tot Tega Cay and will compete at the state level. She received a large trophy, crown and sash. Yay!

As predicted, Emma freaked. out. I ended up going on stage with her even though I wasn’t allowed to and her face was blotchy from crying. She did receive a Princess trophy for participation.

Pictures and details later…

Pageant Day

September 8, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Today is the day for the pageant. The pageant itself is less than 4 hours away and we have to be there in a little over 2 hours. The girls have had a relaxing morning. I made them pancakes around 10. They are ALWAYS in a better mood with a full belly. I got a shower and got ready and now I have them in the tub. The only part I’m nervous about is getting their hair done. I really wish I would have made appointments now.

The first words out of Emma’s mouth this morning is she didn’t want to do the pageant. Crap. But she has seemed excited since then to get ready. I’ve had no complaints from either of them really.

I got bows from D last night, borrowed from her girls’ stash. I think it will be cute. We’ll see how it goes today, wish us luck!

in a funk

September 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Lately I’ve been in a funk of sorts. I think I need something to do. I’ve been spending alot of time online lately doing a whole lot of nothing. Adding a ton of blogs to read. Maybe hoping to find some new friends, not sure. At times, as busy as I stay, I feel lonely. I need a friend. Someone I can just sit and talk to about absolutely nothing. And I guess in a lot of ways that’s what I do here. And yet, this blog doesn’t give me a whole lot back. Actually, nothing I do online does. I’m not really part of an online community, usually just on the outside reading what everyone else is doing. And it’s no fault of my few readers, but I usually don’t get a lot of feedback. And that’s fine because I keep this blog for my own personal journaling. Very, very few people in my “real life” read this blog. And I’ve been struggling with that too. Debating giving it out to some of my closest friends hoping maybe to make our connection stronger by keeping up with each other more often. But then I’m pretty sure it will get out to the family. Not sure how I feel about that. Will this really be a place for me to vent at times if I know everyone in my life is reading it? But lately, I’ve felt the need to connect with people more and have seriously considered it. I don’t know what’s going on with me. But I do have that unsettled, not quite “full” feeling. I know my bible study has been lacking lately, especially since I’ve put our bible study on hold since helping out with the band. I know it’s no excuse, but it is a reason. Anyway, I don’t know what’s going on with me, but just wanted to get that out there.

lyrics

September 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Our youth group is part of this thing where we get everyone’s new CDs to use as ministry tools. I brought a couple home to check out. One was Hip Hope 2007 with KJ-52’s song “Do Yo Thang”. KJ-52 is sort of like a Christian Eminem. I just found some of these lyrics funny so I’ll share:

You know you don’t fit in
When your own myspace only got 3 friends
It’s Tom your mom and a dude named Ben
And I don’t even know how I added him

And then:

I go to McDonalds aint got no cash
I just order hot sauce then I walk out fast

And lastly:

I don’t think the kid is well
He sends viruses to his own email
He got 5 text messages all from myself
Saying your wack dude LOL
I really used to keep it real
In my little mini van with the 10 inch wheels
Driving up to side just get my meal
Can I get fries, “sir this is Taco Bell”

They have no great meaning and aren’t hilarious, but it was funny at the moment.

Todd Agnew has some really great songs on his new album. I especially like these lyrics from his song “Funny”:

It’s funny how the bright ol’ sun can hear Your voice along its way
Stop in the middle of the sky for an entire day
Because You said so
It’s funny how a donkey can hear Your voice
And talk instead of bray to set Your child on His way
Because You said so

And You speak to me all the time
Lighting my path with Your words of life
But I can’t obey You no matter how hard I try

Well, I can but I don’t, and I want to but I won’t
And I don’t do what I want to
I do what I don’t mean to
And I’m confused
It’s funny how a fish can obey You but I can’t

And then his song “If You Wanted Me” is filled with the questions I think a lot of people have asked God at one point:

I’ll admit I’m glad we’re not disciples
Out on a lake paralyzed with fright
‘Cause I’m afraid I might have laughed at Peter
Until he stepped into that stormy night

If you wanted me to walk on water
Why’d You make the solid ground seem so right?

I’ll admit I’m glad I’m not King David
Ruling over everything I see
‘Cause I think I’ve fallen for more than Bathsheba
Your creation’s a temptation for me

If you wanted me to love you only
Why’d you make the moonlight sparkle in her eyes?

I’ll admit I’m glad I’m not John the Baptist
In a jail cell waiting for my day to die
‘Cause at least down here I know what we’re chasing
And it’s hard to trust Your dreams are so much better than mine

If you wanted me to die to myself
Why’d you make me fall so deeply in love with life?

If You wanted me to surrender
Why’d You make these hands able to hold on so tight?

And if You wanted me to be like You
Why’d You make me like me?

Pageant – I think we’re gonna make it

September 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

OK, so this morning I was getting nervous about the pageant tomorrow. Lexi still wasn’t sold on either of the dresses we had picked out. I had no frilly socks that fit them. No new Sunday School shoes. No hair bows. I talked to Mom on the phone last night and she planned on taking them shopping on their day together today.

But when she came over this morning, I found one more dress we already had that could work for Lexi. It’s white with burgundy flower on the top. She was ALL. OVER. wearing that dress. And then we tried on her white glitter slip on shoes and they looked perfect with no socks required. Then Emma tried on her dress and since it’s pink with a brown sash, so do you wear white shoes or black? Then I remembered she also has multi-colored glitter shoes that are trimmed in brown with a bow on them. They were perfect and also no socks required. Whew. Only thing lacking was hair bows and Mom is on the mission as we speak.

Lexi did. not. want to take off her dress and shoes but the dress is dry-clean only so I had to force it off her. She wasn’t happy. But I’m hoping that means she’ll now be excited to wear her outfit tomorrow. Whew.

Emma of course is excited and twirls and smiles. I hope she doesn’t freak being on stage by herself. We’re gonna have “practice” again tonight so hopefully that will help.

Post Surgery update

September 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Scott’s doing really, really well. He was up through most of yesterday and today. He can even move his arm and use it while still in the sling. He says the pain is not near as bad as when he broke it. The medicine still makes him whoozy when he hasn’t had something to eat. He seems to think he’ll be back to work pretty quickly.

I’m not smarter than a preschooler

September 7, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Lexi found Emma’s old Tupperware shape sorter and wanted to do it. Heather and I were sitting with her in her room and as she picked up each shape, we asked her things like, “Where does the circle go?” “Where does the triangle go?”

So I picked up that six-sided-shape and unfortunately started talking out loud…”What’s this called? Six sides…sex….sex…sexa…sexagon? Uh, I mean, hexagon.” Heather was of course laughing at me and then I said, “Sexagon, that’s not a shape, that’s what happens when you get married.”

I’m so punny.