Happy Birhday to me...sort of....

Well...I turned to big 2-9...sad. However, my wonderful husband made sure my evening was great when I got home from work on Tuesday. He made me a steak dinner and he even bought cake! Above is Copeland putting in the incredibly high number of candles. Fast forward about two hours...all was calm at the house and then Cope said her tummy was hurting. She says that all the time so we really didn't pay much attention to it. Well..she got my attention when she was sitting in my lap and started vomiting! Fun times! While Copeland and I took a bath to get cleaned up, poor Josh had to clean up the computer room. He even managed to clean up the mess without vomiting himself! Yea!
I kept Cope home with me on Wednesday, but no more vomiting just diarrhea. Don't you just love reading this?! Hey...I'm a nurse.... So I decided she could go back to school today because she hadn't vomited anymore and her diarrhea had stopped. Well, Copeland had other plans. We got about halfway to the interstate and Copeland started vomiting..again...in the car. So here is a picture of my sick little princess taking a nap. Pray that this will pass fast because I talked to one of the nurses at the Peds clinic and she said yesterday she had talked to a mother whose child had it on and off for ONE WEEK!

Snow Day

This was the backyard at about 7:30 am.
This was the front yard about 7:30am.
Notice the difference?

OK...so it snowed for the first time in like seven years or something. We here in the great area of York, AL, got about three inches. However, Copeland did not really get to "enjoy" the snow because we had my nephew's birthday party to go to. (Happy --belated--Birthday Joshua!). It was also my mother-in-law's birthday, so that evening we went to her house. Josh was sick and I didn't care a thing in the world about going out in the snow to play...resulting in Copeland getting sick...no thank you. It was beautiful though. On the way to my nephew's birthday party in Meridian, I had to drive 40 mph on the interstate! Before I got half way to Meridian I had already seen three cars in the ditch because they were driving too fast in the snow. Do these people not realize that we aren't accustomed to snow?! Did they think the MS road system was equivalent to the road systems in the north? Idiots.

I was tagged...

Okay, so Amber tagged me to post seven random items about myself. There are several instructions regarding this, but I don't have time to figure out how to link to Amber's page and she tagged the only other person I know who has a blog (Sparks), so I'll just answer the seven questions.

1. I was engaged twice! True story...first I was engaged to a guy named John Adams in Richmond, KY. It didn't work out ( packed up my things in KY and moved home because he yelled at me...and I had family issues at the time) obviously!
2. When I moved home from KY, two months later Josh and I were set up on a blind date by my cousin. We have been together ever since---almost six years now.
3. I am not really a phone person. I love to email, but I don't like talking on the phone. Weird huh?
4. Copeland was an accident. Some sage advice for women not wanting to have a child right now...don't take antibiotics while on the pill....they cancel each other out! :)
5. I used to swear that I would not be a nurse. My mother is a nurse so it's in my blood, but I always said I would never be a nurse "because they are over-worked and under-paid". It's still true, but I love being a nurse!
6. I am working on my third college degree. I have a BA in Communication (double major in public relations and broadcasting with a minor in marketing) from MS State, and AD in Nursing from Meridian CC, and I'm working on my BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. I will graduate in December with my BSN. Ultimately I will have four or more degrees when I am FINALLY done with school.
7. I was one of the last of my high school friends to have a baby, but the first of my college friends! Now all of my high school friends either have baby number two or are expecting it...so my college friends need to pony up! No I'm not expecting.

Random Pictures

Copeland hunting "big game" at home. She found Josh's hunting clothes and proceeded to dress herself. That whole dressing herself thing is tons of fun....can you feel the sarcasm?!

Now here are a couple of really funny pics of my "special child". She thinks this look is hilarious!!! My favorite time she does this is when we are out in public..like the grocery store. It's a riot! Once again....can you feel the sarcasm?! :)

Happy Birthday Matthew

On December 19 my youngest nephew, Matthew, turned five! I can't believe he's that old. I vividly remember being at the hospital when he was born. There was a HUGE tornado that touched down in Newton, so the nurses were being held over. Stacy was freaking out because she thought she wasn't going to have a nurse to help deliver Matthew. I laugh now because I was there, my mother was there, and Stacy's brother-in-law (Mike Purvis, MD) was there! ONE of us could have caught that baby. Anyway...Matthew's growing up...Josh is about the be seven and Copeland will be 3 in a few months! It is all way too fast, but so much fun to be a part of.