Meagan Maxwell

My friend at work Meagan got married this past weekend. I didn't get very man pictures but between everyone at work we did. I will post them as I get them. It was beautiful! It was at a winery in cooksville (about an hour from our house). We got a table on the second floor right in front of the stage area. So all the lottery people we sat together. The lights dimmed and the music started and the girls and guys came out to the top of the stairs and walked their way down. Then Meagan came. Wow! What a beautiful girl she is. It's been a while since we've been to a real wedding. The ceremony only lasted 20 mins. But after that the party was on! They had a live band and good food. This is how you know your in the south. There was fish sticks and a sweet potato bar. We danced all night. It was really fun to get out of the office and hang out with some of the people from work. Lets just say we left at 10:30 putting us home at 11:30 and boy were we tired. Most of my friends got hotel rooms for the night, so their party didn't get till the wee hours. I'll get to see Mrs. Maxwell in a week!a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMyElt0qKqZwkxHCpAxI9zjACPTi6Rq4B4ysLwDvGwfeYYDAaWQibLToD-bOQ56kvYaOr0X4ADmhyeQ0QD0xovUMKgrsSGqSO3kSrD8cplIhhyphenhyphenN6ss57zRs0_61wwBvOCP_wCLXJfSjs/s1600-h/us.jpg">

I love this park!

I love the Centianal park in down town Nashville. It's so big and there is so much to do there. Here are some of the best parts.

Randome pictures

Wow so I was going threw some of my pictures on my computer and found these. Out takes, randoms, pratice what ever they are they are too cute not to share!

Yep...

Well we found out today.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!

Yep I'm moving from the front desk to a cubical. I have been the receptionist for 2.5 years for the Tennessee Education Lottery. I am now moving back to the mail room. I'm so excited! Also given the situation with Billy and his job he has another interview today. This one is at the Lottery with me! How cool is that?! He is interviewing for the claims center! Things are starting to look up for us right now. I'm so happy!

Is today the day???

I guess we'll find out at 3:00pm today!

Car goes boom!

I've been having a really bad week. I've been sick all week, I'm tired, and my car well blew up. It barely made it to the ford dealership. When I got out of the car i was crying being the mess that i was. I think i scared the guy. I was upset because I was suppose to call the mortgage guy today to find out what we get approved for on the house. Well it's ether a car or a house, not both. I could name you the list of things that were wrong under the hood as well as all the other things. After 5 years and 182,000 miles later good by dear friend.

2001 ford focus

It was so hard to walk away from my car last night. After I emptied it all out it was finally time to go home and I was so sad to leave my first car behind. I was 18 when I got it.

But on to bigger and better things we got a new one. Here it is:

2006 Ford Fusion

I took these at work today. It's awesome! It's super safe, reliable, and roomy. After this week this is week this is what I needed. We now have a new car and a car payment. I'm so excited!!!

October 1st

Today 5 years ago me and Billy went on our first date. We went to see Resident Evil 3 and then went to stake and shake for dinner. After we ate dinner we went to the lake and sat on the back of his car and talked. We didn't really know alot about each other and that showed seeing that we talked till 3 am. Yeah ooouch. So he took me home and kissed my hand good night. He was so cute and so respectful that night. This was my first real date ever.

To celebrate we bought something way cool tonight.....but you have to wait to see it tomorrow!!!

Canning

I want to get a head start on my food storage. I just don't think I can wait till we find a house. So my question to you is what do you can (or have storage of) that your family enjoys? Where can I find recipes? How can I find instuctions on "how to can"? We don't have the big cannery out here in TN like they do in AZ. But I'm not sure what are some good things to can.

Thanks for your help!

So far I've come up with:
Spaghetti sauce
tomatoes
salsa
jelly
apples
and dried bananas

What?! That's cool....

Yep, I have a button now. That's right. Go ahead try it out. Copy the code, add the HTML widget to side bar, add copied code. BAM!!! you are now the proud owner of my way cool button.

I had a friend make it for me. Take a look at her work on her blog. Sharon over at Good, True and Beautiful makes them.

Thanks for the wonderful work!

State fair!

Last weekend we had the choice to go to the duck races or go to the fair. So we went to the fair, it was a good thing too because the duck races were canceled due to the rain. So off to the Nashville state fair. This was so much fun. We went with Heather, Chase and buddy Gavin. Billy was at his sisters birthday party and missed out on all the fun Dax and I had. Here are some pictures.

First we started with the rides just in case it started to rain. What you had to do was check to see how tall you were. Dax was 32 inches and Gavin was 36 inches. Well being that they are that short there's not much they could ride. Plus an adult has to ride with them on most. So we rode on the semi trucks. Gavin in the front us in the back. Dax really liked it. He had his hand on my leg the whole time and a spoon in the other. Then we found this train. We let them ride on it alone. They did so good. I mean look at Dax he was just hanging out the whole time.

Then we moved over to the petting zoo. At first I didn't think he was going to be nice to these animals. But he did well. He didn't grab to much and no one got bit. He really like the little black goat and got really excited to see the water bufflo. He petted the camel, lama, cow, horse, deer, and some other things. We went to the rabbit house and saw the chickens and the ducks.


Here we are with the pumkins and water melons. First place pumpkin was 1,119 pounds and the water melon weighed in at 239 pounds. Crazy!!! Oh yeah we also got our picture taken with abe lincon!

I got a new phone!

Yep! I got a new phone and it was completely free. This is the phone I have been looking at for a few months now. My friend just got a new phone and gave this to me. It's only 6 months old. I'm so excited. Hopefully this is the start of the good news train.

Bow holder

So my sister-in-law's brother had a baby girl. We are all really close. They did not find out the sex of the baby til she was born. They had a girl! So now it the time I get to make cute girl stuff. I've been out shopping and I got her 7 little dresses for next year. They were like $1.50 a piece! What a deal. I also made this.

BEFORE: I bought this at good will. The only thing I didn't like about it was for one it was plastic. Two it didn't have backing to it.



AFTER: A little paint some ribbon. Bam it's done.

After with the bows. Yes this is a bow holder for little girl bows. How cute is this!!! I got these bows off of etsy for yes....$1 each.

My little king

So last week in day care. (witch is going really well for him) they learned about royalty. He came home with his crown. He showed me how it worked. He doesn't like hats but he kept this on for a good while.

He later that night got to have a cupcake. There were a perfect size for him.

The dog park

So they bulit a dog park right behind our apartments! So I took Dax and Juliet down there. Here are some pictures from our trip. We had a lot of fun.

Death to the machine

I have this new obsession with lego star wars and lego Indana Jones xbox games. They are soooo much fun. Well I just finished 100% Indana Jones game. That was fun. I'm now at 81.5% done with star wars legos game. We usually play after Dax is in bed.



Well this weekend I was in the middle of my level and it shuts down. After about 10 minutes this is what we see.







Yes that is the RING OF DEATH and yes we have seen this before. Because I have seen this once before I'm scared I'm going to be out a system. I have a few phone calls I have to make when I get home about this.

**soon to come my christmas gift post