Baby Mama Drama

Ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls, people of all ages...oh. my. gosh.

Last night a group of us went to Busch Gardens in Tampa. Right now they have the Howl-O-Scream thing going on and they have the park set up with 7 haunted houses, and they open up the roller coasters. Sounds fun, right? It was..except for the SheiKra.

I came close to dying. Yes...I almost went home to sweetbabyJesus last night. Would you like to know how??

Did anyone else gasp and almost faint when Adam actually posted a blog?? No? Besides many spelling errors (bless his little heart...he can't spell if his life depended on it) and the lack of sounding absolutely miserable without me around, I was quite impressed. I think it could have used a little bit of "my life sucks without Lindsay around. I am barely surviving without her and I often find myself curled up in a corner rocking back and forth repeating her name." But lets get real here, he's doing just dandy. That's ok, I am too...ha.

Well then, now that we have that covered! I'm still in Alabama. The wedding is over with and it was gorgeous. It was a very long (and rainy) day but it was so much fun. I was completely exhausted by the time the reception was over with, I was out by 9:00. It was a very long 2 days filled with a luncheon on Friday morning, rehearsal on Friday afternoon, followed by the rehearsal dinner Friday night. Then I woke up early on Saturday and headed to the church to get ready for pictures at 10 am, the wedding at 2 pm, then the reception lasted until 7 pm! Um, can I please just share with you how much food I ate on Saturday? Please, you're going to want to hear about all of this..it was insane. First off on Saturday morning on my way to the church I stopped at Chik-fil-a and got the Chicken Mini's. Oh hi, they were amazing. Then at 11:00 we had McAllisters catered and I ate two sandwiches, chips, and a brownie. Oh, lets not forget to mention the 2 granola bars in between Chik-fil-a and McAllisters. Thanks. I called my Mom around 1:00 and asked her to bring me some McDonalds before the wedding started at 2:00. Fatty McFatterson over here scarfed down an entire meal right before walking down the aisle. It was a Catholic wedding, so it lasted a pretty long time (an hour to be exact) so by the time we were in the limo on the way to the reception I was starving! We got to the yacht club and by this time everyone was with their date or significant other...then there was me. Dateless and hungry. So naturally I headed straight for the food. I was in food Heaven, chicken tenders, fruit, potatoes...wedding cake. All of that, and me at a little lonesome table chowing down in a dress that wouldn't stretch for the life of it. Let me just let this mental picture marinate for a second.

Mmmkay. Back to the cake. 3 pieces to be exact. I didn't even allow myself to go to the grooms chocolate cake because I did enough damage with just the brides cake. The icing. Ohhh the icing..you have no idea. I think everytime someone looked at me I was eating cake.

Needless to say, I haven't ate since then. HA. Yeah right. Come on, you know me better than that.

On Sunday I was headed to see my Dad up in Huntsville for a few days. I stopped on the way though, in Birmingham, to visit the bff Kristen. We all (her boyfriend was there too!) went to lunch near her house, then I left and drove to my Dads! My Dad and I just hung out and relaxed! He had to go into work in the mornings but I just slept, did laundry, and cooked some lunch! We got my oil changed and then stopped by the mall to pick up a few things! The good news is that my Dad got the house on the Tennessee River! Cha ching! I love it and am so excited for him! I can't wait to help decorate!

I got back yesterday from Huntsville and hung out with Hunter for a little bit. We went shopping for a Halloween/Fall gift for his teacher. Shockingly, I didn't put my little paws into the candy corn bag. I don't know how that happened.

Today is my last day in T-Town! My Mom and I are getting up in the morning and making the long drive to Sarasota..wait..or is it Bradenton?!?

We decided that it would be better if my Mom went with me because it's a pretty long drive. I'd say about 11-12 hours for us. Adam says it only takes him 10 hours but I stop a lot. My Mom is going to stay through the weekend and fly out of Tampa Sunday afternoon! She is actually going to meet some of Adams family on Saturday! I know...after 4 years of dating our parents have never met! I think Adam said that his Uncle and Dad will be gone, so I think it's just going to be his Mom and Aunt. I hope they're ready! Haha just kidding. It will be fun.

I have had a great time being home, and I realllllly don't want to leave :( I keep telling Adam that I have changed my mind and that I'm not coming and he just cries laughs. It would just be perfect if he was here. I mean, really, I am gone with him in Salt Lake friggin' City for the whole baseball season, you'd think he'd do me a little favor and stay in Alabama. But nooooooo! Oh well, maybe I will be back sooner rather than later! Sorry if any of that comes of as a little witchy..but let's get real here. I'm a witch sometimes. I am excited though to be with him..and be at the beach. Ha. Ok time to go now!

Lauren (good friend from high school), me, and Kayla!

Since Adam has been gone, I have been filling in at the pre school! I started working there in high school and worked there until I moved to Utah to go to massage therapy school! I didn't realize how much I missed working with little kids! In my opinion, Valley View has one of the nicest pre schools around! It's a new building, not old and musty like other church pre schools. This past baseball season in SLC I tried to find a nice pre school to work at, but none of them were as nice as VV...no thanks! Anyways. I was working in the 2 year old room and oh..my..gosh..talk about hellions! Of course, they're 2...but they sure do have an attitude! During the 5 years that I worked there, I was in the baby room (6 months-1 year) so my kids couldn't talk. HA. Let's just say, that it's much better when they can't talk, hit, and bite. Oh my sweetbabyJesus I was stressed out! With that age you have to repeat yourself so much because they don't want to mind. For instance, true story....

"Seth, please do not put your booger in Taylorkate's mouth!!!"

If I'm lyin', I'm dyin..I had to tell a kid to not put his booger in his friends mouth at story time. Sicknast!!

When it wasn't that it was...

"Brylon, what's that in your mouth? A what???? A STAPLE?????"

or...

"Avery, can you please pick up the apple that you just threw down on the ground and throw it away? No..don't eat it...throw it away...AVERY....don't.........(too late) eat the apple."

Sigh.

It won't kill them will it? Well, the staple, maybe. But the booger and the dirty apple, hopefully not.

Let's just say that the next few days in the baby room were glorious. They only ate baby food, not boogers, and the only things they put in their mouth was a pacifier...Heaven.

Moving on.

On Friday I went a picked up Taelor from her pre school. We had to run a few errands and Robby had to work late, so we were scootin' around town doin' girl thangs'. Oh my gosh, she is such a little priss.

We stopped at McDonald's to get some food, where Taelor proceeded to talk to everyone that walked by. A group of boys walked by and she screamed,"Hhaaaaayyyy, boysssss!!!". When she wasn't busy trying to pick up boys she was busy shouting "Row Tide"!! (If you're no aware of it, that's was Roll Tide sounds like with a country accent). I taught her how to say "Boo Kentucky"..but it came out sounding like "Boo Kentutty"..good enough.

Today I went and bought Hunter and Taelor pumpkins to carve. The only part they got to do though was pull out the "guts". The sawing and cutting was let up to me, which is a scary thought! They had a lot of fun!

Puckerin' up those lips...p-r-i-s-s-y!

"Cheeeeeeesee"

She was saying "My Hunna!!!"

Once we left Michigan, we were back on the road! Thank goodness, once we left Suttons Bay our trips were only 5 or 6 hours long! It didn't take us long at all to get to Kentucky! We were going to one of my bff's (Megan) house to stay for the night. Her and her husband Josh live in Somerset, KY..very pretty! We got there around 4:30 in the afternoon, headed over to her parents house really quick to say hi to them, then we were off to dinner! We ate at a little marina thingy then went to see their houseboat, um, hi..it was so nice! We left there then headed back to their house and played some cards! They both had to work the next morning, but Adam and I slept in until about 9:30 and then headed to Alabama! Hall-a-lu-yer!

Ohhhh, it was glorious. Arriving in Alabama. I mean, at times, it felt like we would never make it!! Our first stop was in Huntsville at my Dads. We had to pick my car up, but we got to visit with him for a few minutes. We had to hurry and leave though because we wanted to make it to Hunters baseball game! We were going to see my Dad the next day, so we quickly got back on the road and drove the last 2 1/2 hours to Tuscaloosa! We went straight to Taco Casa and got some food, then went across the street to the ball park! Let me tell you, watching little league baseball is way more entertaining than professional baseball! Those kids are hilarious! Hunter is the short stop in the team, and he's one of the best batters too! He even got a home run! I think Adam had a pretty good time! I love watching all of the Dads on the field, they get so intense, it's little league for goodness sake!!! Anyways!

My Dad got to Tuscaloosa Friday afternoon, so he took us out to eat at Dreamland. It's one of Adams favorite places to eat..they have the best bbq ever!

Saturday was the day that Adam had been looking forward to the entire trip. It was GAMEDAY! We went to the game with my Dad and my brother, my Dad has season tickets, so we called dibs on the tickets a while ago! Before going to the game though, we went tailgating! Tailgating in the south is so much fun..and if it means anything to you, ESPN voted Tuscaloosa to be the best tailgating spot in the country..haha whoot whoot! It ended up raining, but only for a few minutes, so some of the time tailgating was spent smashed up under a tent with random people! I've never seen so many ponchos! Adam and I went back and forth from the Jim Myers (baseball tent) and my Dad and brothers tailgating spot. My Grandparents, Jane & Guerry, were in town for the game, but they were big ballin' and sat in the Presidents box! Lucky! Adam got to catch up with some old baseball friends, it was a lot of fun! The game was a lot of fun..Bama won, so that always makes for a good day! Ohhhh my goodness, I just have to throw this out there. Where we were sitting there was a girl that was probably my age..she kept walking by and then I noticed it. She was wearing a little Alabama bow. Like, as in, what a child wears. It really bothered me because, lets get real, did she leave the house thinking that she looked good?..that some guy might stop and say,"Hey I really like your little baby hair bow, want to go out??" I think that if you no longer have any of your baby teeth, then it's probably time that you stop wearing the bows from when you did have your baby teeth. Aaah, I feel much better now.

Sunday Adam and I met my Mom at church at Valley View! I haven't been there in a while (well, not the church service, I did work at the pre school for 5 years before moving to Utah with Adam!). My Dad was going to go, but he forgot church clothes, so when it was over Adam and I met him at Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch before he headed back to Huntsville!

I am loving being back home. And since being here, I can tell that my accent is back in action. I'm afraid that I even caught myself using the phrase," I ain't got no...." the other day. Scary, I know..I like to think that I am smarter than that..but I guess I ain't!

Adam left for Florida on Monday. Sad day. Well actually, it was kind of good because I had to work at the pre school all week! And that, my friends, is a whole post in itself.

Being the "oh so athletic girl I am", I had to take a breather!