Is anyone out there???

Knock, knock...??? Is anyone still out there? Ha! I know I disappeared but life has been super busy! Who's hasn't right?

Let's see, last time I posted it was fall and Devin was having a good football season. Well all the boys ended up having pretty good seasons. Madison and Devin's teams made it to the first rounds of playoffs but unfortunately lost there. Madison won the Allstate AFCA Goodworks Team Award and will be presented an award at half time at the Sugar Bowl. (I think that was a great way to end his last year of football!)

My church group is awesome! We have done so many fun things and I have made some great friends! I am now in charge of the activities for the group and that keeps me fairly busy and stressed but I do love doing it.

Mom is busy as always with the nursing home! I went to play Santa's elf for Christmas Eve but our regular Mrs. Claus fell and broke her arm so I filled in!

Oh, and I cannot forget to mention that we had our first WHITE CHRISTMAS in 128 years! It has snowed before on Christmas but never accumulated. I was staying at my parents house so I did not get a picture of my house but here is one of theirs! This was around 5 pm...

And this was around 8 pm...

The Boys of Fall...

If you know anything about my family at all you know we are HUGE football people. I was the only girl for 12 years and if I remember correctly I used to be the football! When I was little my cousin would come home from college with his football buddies and there are pictures of them helping me hunt Easter eggs! Anyways, almost all of the boys in our family have played football in high school/college. Each year for the past several years my mother and I have made our pilgrimage to watch Madison and Landon play either high school or college ball. Devin has now joined the ranks and is turning into one heck of a player! We are very happy that they live much closer and that we are able to catch more of his games.

We sure are proud of #88 Devin O'Connor!!! GO CANES!!! GO BIG D!!!

Life

Life is what happens when you blink your eyes, two months pass, and your sitting on your couch at 11 o'clock at night saying "Whoah, I haven't posted anything on my blog in 2 months!" Yes, I have been a busy little bee. I have joined a new church and am LOVING going to Sunday School with people my age. I cannot remember how long it has been since I was in an actual Sunday School class...probably middle/high school. We stay very busy with activities. From Braves games, to tubing in Helen, pool parties, hiking trips, and next weekend is a rafting trip on the Ocoee. (See, I told you I was a busy bee.) I finally got my deck rebuilt. It looks AMAZING!!!! Now I just need to do a little....errr LOT....of landscaping and my back yard will be in tip top shape. For the 4th of July I head up to my Aunt Nancy's house on the lake. I spent 4 days laying out on the dock and you can barely tell I was in the sun! It was an eye opening experience when my 16 year old cousin (who I changed his diapers and was at the hospital the day he was born.) drove us to get fireworks. I really can't be that old! The puppies are doing well. I have been transitioning them from being in their kennels all day to staying out in the living room/kitchen area. They are doing well so far with that and I feel much better knowing they have room to play and stretch. And finally, work is still going well. I like my job and we have been super busy with fiscal year change. I hope to do better at posting. Maybe even get some pictures up!

Take me out to the ball game...

Tuesday night I headed to Turner Field with 5 of my new friends from church to see the Braves take on the New York Mets. This was the view we had. We had outfield seats and could barely see the ball when it was pitched.

But we still had a lot of fun! Here are the girls...Myself, Jennifer, and Kristen.It was a pretty good game. The Braves scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. Jennifer and I had gone to get something to eat and missed Troy Glaus hitting a home run! Jeff Francour, who now plays for the Mets, scored a home run in the top of the 5th. Everytime he came up to bat the crowd BOOOO'ed him! And whoever caught his home run ball threw it back on the field! The Mets tied it up in the top of the 5th and the game was scoreless until the 9th inning. In the top of the 9th the Mets came way to close to winning but the Braves held them off. And then in the bottom of the 9th the Braves had a man on 1st and 2nd and Melky Cabrera hit the ball to 3rd where it was caught and thrown to 1st but it bounced out of the 1st baseman's glove and we were able to score, winning the game 3 to 2!

Out with the old...In with the new...

What do you do when your dogs cause destruction to your precious laptop? And it looks something like this...

Well, if you are me, you deal with it. Because, while the battery is dead and you have to keep it plugged in at all times and your missing 6 keys on the keyboard at the end of the day it does still turn on and you are able to type. But, when I was shuffling thru the paper on Sunday evening I ran across an add for a laptop that I could not pass up. So, out with the old beat up one...you will be missed. You and I have been thru quite a lot! But, in with the new...

The MOST amazing toast...

Toast....I know. It seems kinda bland. You can put jelly on it and make it a little tastier. And it is a great item if your tummy is doing flip-fl0p's. But this post....

www.thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/04/the-right-way-and-the-wrong-way-to-make-cinnamon-toast/

This post clarifies the most amazing way to make cinnamon toast. Trust me...just try it. Granted, I didn't add in the vanilla...and it was still that good.

Power

Power is a beautiful thing. It provides light in the dark, heat in the cold, air in the heat, electricity to turn on TV's, alarm clocks, and laptops. Needless to say it provides a lot of useful things. Useful things you don't realize you are in need of until it is gone. I arrived home this evening to a power truck pulling up in front of my driveway. When I walked into my house I noticed that the clocks were out which told me the power was out. I thought it was no big deal since the power company had just pulled up. Boy was I wrong. After eating dinner, reading for a while, and finally resorting to taking a nap, I had had enough. Apparently instead of turning my power back on they had simply checked and left. So, I placed a call to report my power outage. Luckily, they responded in about 30 minutes and quickly had the power back on. But, I had my bag packed ready to head to my parents to spend the night. Funny what a simple thing you THINK power is, until it is gone! I mean, do you really think my boss would have believed me showing up late to work with wet hair and the excused of..."sorry, my power was out!"?