My mom has cancer

We found out that my mom has breast cancer.

There I said it. My mom has cancer.
I guess it's an easy thing to say, and a hard thing to believe.

On March 21, she will have a mastectomy and have her lymph nodes removed. After the surgery they will test everything and decide if she needs chemo or not.

It's funny. I've seen the pink ribbons everywhere, I've seen all the walks for awareness. I've seen the bumper stickers, and I've even bought something in pink just because some of the money went toward breast cancer awareness. But I didn't know anything about breast cancer until now.


I'll update more after we know more.
Please keep her and our family in your prayers.

SwagBucks & MyPoints

I know I've told lots of people about how I get free gift cards from the internet.

I thought I'd share the two sites I go to for them. SwagBucks & MyPoints.

I earn points by searching, reading emails and shopping. Very easy!
Accumulate enough points and you can cash them in for a gift card.

And if you sign up under me, I get extra points. :)


Try it out!

Our Upstairs Addition

Ok So I know you've all heard me talk about the addition to the house that we are building. Everyone keeps asking what we've got done and how it's going. Most of you have not seen it. So here are a few pictures to show where we are at.

This is going to be the new master bedroom and the nursery so hopefully it's finished up in the next few months!

Micah ripped out 2 closets.

Cut out the ceiling.

Micah & his dad built some temporary stairs.

And started transforming the attic!

Now we have it all framed in.

And the duct work started.

 We will be insulating real soon, putting down sub-floors and hopefully starting the sheet-rock.
I can't wait for it to be finished so I can start decorating the nursery!

It's a Girl!

So we found out we are having a little girl!
Poor Micah is soooo outnumbered! Even the dog is a girl, so we outnumber him 5 to 1 now!

We are going to name her Adrian, after my grandpa like I promised him. We are stuck on a middle name and hope we decide on one before she makes it here!

Since finding out she was going to have a baby sister, Jordyn has gone Bow Crazy!
She has made so many bows for the baby! She has started making flower loop bows, which are very cute!

Jordyn has made so many of them! She has them in all kinds of sizes and colors! The baby will have a different bow on her head every day!

The Bathroom Remodel

So I woke up one morning and decided that I was going to remodel the hall bathroom.
As with everything in this house, this seemingly simple project has turned into a full blown nightmare! AAAHHHH!
The project started while I was on Christmas Vacation and is still going on. Hopefully this weekend I'll finish it up.

The demolition of the bathroom took 3 days! I thought the whole thing would be done in 3 days!
Ha! Stupid me!

I forgot to take a "before" picture. So here's one when we just got started.

Everyone likes to help demo. It's the fun part!

We found ceramic tile under the ugly vinyl. Anyone out there know how to restore old ceramic tile?

Alex gets the job of uncovering the tile! Kao just likes to get in the way!

Hopefully I'll post the "after" pictures soon! This project just keeps getting bigger and bigger!

Christmas 2010

It's Christmas 2010!

We had Christmas Eve dinner at our house last night. Lots of great food with the family!
We had Cornish hens, green bean casserole (Al's favorite) cheese and crab quiche, sauteed mushrooms and pearl onions, asparagus and hollandaise sauce, and for dessert we had, southern pecan pie cake, chocolate lava cake, and cake balls. Everything was wonderful! Needless to say we were all stuffed!

Yum!

Jordyn did an awesome job with the table!

The girls got lots of great gifts and so did Micah and I.Alex got her Ipod touch and Jordyn got the LSU Jacket she had been wanting. We  had a wonderful time with Micah's parents, Kay and Woodrow.

Today we will head over to my dad's house for lunch and then over to Micah's sister's house for dinner. Micah has to work today so we won't see him until dinner time.

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's Begining to Look a lot Like Christmas!

So we got our tree up this weekend!
I love Christmas and love decorating and putting up the tree and even shopping for Christmas presents!

Well Micah and the girls decide that we need a very big tree this year. They pick out the biggest tree they could find on the lot!
We got it home and put it up and quickly realized that we would need a lot more decorations!

So now that we have the tree up I guess next is baking! The girls and I will be in the kitchen soon making goodies! I can't wait!

I'll post pictures of the tree soon.