Erin's Summer Program

Erin participated in the Summer Program at church. It is kind of like VBS all summer long on Wednesday nights for the elementary kids. She loved it! Here is the program they put on for the church where they show everything that was learned:



Here is Erin and her best friend Ashlyn:

Tammy, look what I ate....

With both of the girls spending the night with friends last night, Stuart and I actually had a date. We went to see Tropic Thunder, which I was not very excited about. It turned out to be really good! Now maybe it was good because I went in with no expectations, but Tom Cruise (hope I didn't spoil it for those who wanted to be surprised) was hilarious!! Then we went to PF Changs (PT Chings or JT Chungs for those of you in the Whiting family:-) ) Look--I ate a lettuce wrap!







It was yummy! We also ordered the Orange Chicken which was fantastic!

It was a really great date!! Definitely not a monotonous moment!

Which one is Amber?

That last picture was alot smaller on the blog than I thought it would be. So, in case you can't pick her out, Amber is standing on the 45 yard line. Back row, on the end.

Go Team Go...

Amber had a ball game last night. It was in Columbia, TN which is one and half hours away from my house. We did not get home until 10:00 last night. I have never been to Columbia Academy and usually I would be very nervous about trying to find a place by myself. But, I just typed the address into my handy dandy Garmin and it took me right there. I love that thing! I think I will marry it :-)! (Pee Wee Herman for those of you who didn't get that). Anyway, I didn't get very good pictures this time. I will try to do better next game.

Good Deal!

I just got back from buying Amber's and Erin's dance shoes. I think the whole city of Huntsville decided to buy dance shoes today. We waited in line for 30 minutes just to check out! Anyway, Erin's Jazz Tennis Shoes that she needed/wanted cost $70 (ridiculous!). I had a 20% off coupon and when the cashier entered it, instead of taking 20% off, she only charged me $20. So, that is actually 72.22% off! If only I had no conscious and could keep them at that price. It was too busy to go in and deal with it, so I will do it tomorrow when I go get my hair cut.

Walk Through the Bible

Today we spent the whole day at church doing a Walk through the Old Testament (www.walkthru.org/site/PageServer?pagename=seminars). It was very good and I really learned alot. We started at creation and learned 77 main events in chronological order until we got to Christ. We also learned alot of geography that I will always picture the Central auditorium whenever I try to recall a map of the area. Very good stuff. Oh and I forgot to mention that the 77 events have hand motions!

Here are Beth, Me, Brenda, and Sam enjoying the day....



And here is what we looked like at the end of the day because our "mommy minds" were on overload:

Update on Amber's Surgery...

I thought you all might like to see how Amber is healing:

Before:



After:


Pretty Cool! We started massaging it and applying Mederma on Wednesday to help it disappear a little more.

Not a very exciting day

Nothing interesting happened today. Got up, took Amber to school, went to work, got some blood drawn, ate Rosie's for lunch (yum!!!!), went to pick up Amber. Pretty monotonous. But, here is a picture of where I had my blood drawn...

Ouch!

So, of all the things I had to do today, be in a wreck was not on my "To Do" list! Yet, while I was out running an errand for Amber, a young women decided to whack me from behind. It was quite shocking! There was very minimal damage to my car, just a few scratches, not even a dent. Her car was much worse and she didn't have insurance. The only reason I called the police for a report was because I jerked pretty hard when she hit me and I was afraid my back or neck may hurt later on. I guess it doesn't matter about a police report since she didn't have insurance and I would have to pay for it anyway.

Cloning Machine, Anyone?

Has anyone invented the Mommy cloning machine yet? I was just wondering because I could really use one tonight. Erin has dance from 6-7; she has curriculum night at school at 6:45; and Amber cheers at her first ballgame at 6:30. So, if anyone has a lead on one of those machines, I could really use it!

Back to Work!

I never thought that I would be happy to say that I was back at work, but that is exactly what I am saying. It feels really good to be back in a routine and doing something productive. I am sure this good feeling will pass in a few days when I really need to catch a little cat-nap, but for now it is great!

Just in case you were wondering....

"How did she come up with that title?" you may ask yourself. Well, since things are pretty boring around here, I used the thesaurus in Word and looked up 'boring'. The word monotonous came up and since it started with an 'M' I looked up the definition:

"Repetitiously dull or lacking in variety"

Bingo! That is my life!

First Day of School

Here are the girls ready for their first day of school. Amber loved her first day at RCA. It is about a 25 minute drive, but she says it is worth it. Erin loves her teacher and has her two best friends in her class. I gave her a house key this year because there will be days that she will be a latch-key kid for 30 minutes. She lost her key the first day of school. She said, "I thought it would be safer in my pocket". AAARRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (That was mom screaming about it).

Swim for Melissa

The girls participated in their Swim for Melissa this morning. I drove 30 minutes for them to swim 6 laps in 5 minutes. The pool was huge and the girls were both exhausted after their time was up, so I guess it was a good thing that it wasn't any longer than that. Thank you to all of the Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles who contributed to the event in the girls' names. Amber won a free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, so she thought is was worth the drive!

My first monotonous post....

Well, this is it.