First Tomato and Pepper Picked Today!!!!

There's the first tomato and green pepper picked! :)

I love my dad's idea!!!!

A flower in bloom!

Ok its summer time and this is when I am swimming and such, well my mom goes if you loose 20lb by the end of the summer, I'll pay for you to get a massage in September! Well she told my dad about this adn my dad turns around and goes well I pay her $500 to loose 50lb! I love this idea totally! :o) I want to upgrade my cell phone for one thing the new one I got isn't holding together since it was dropped during the winter, but wow I love my dad's idea at the moment! :) So the ticker now at the top is my weight loss ticker and I am really going to work at loosing 50lb to get that money! Woohoo!!!!!

Happy Father's Day!

Look I have reddening tomatoes!!!!!!! I have about 5 of them at the moment on the four plants. ;)

Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there. A special shout-out to my grandpa, dad and my brother who are all celebrating the day. My dad is watching golf and I am sure my grandpa is too. :) My brother got Gaia for part of the day.

So this weekend it was like near 100 on Saturday and in the 90's today with no relief insight. Well I take that back, today there was a breeze and when you got out of the pool, that air hit you right, it gave you a cold chill. If that is even possible! ;)

I could've just smacked Ashlyn for this today, but I was swimming around the pool and I swore I heard my name be called, but went under like seconds later and didn't hear it again. So I was being a motivator for my neighbor down the street and trying to get her to swim across the pool in one breath short-ways. ;) It was then I heard Morgan say my name, and I had water in my ears and there were a bunch of people there and so I couldn't hear her. She said she had heard about my belly-flop the other day and I was like Ashlyn you have a big mouth!!!! LOL (I know it was her that told Morgan, because Ashlyn was on the stand when I did it) So they were begging me to do one and I was like, omg I will, but Morgan was leaving in like minutes and its like something happens u have to jump in! ;) Well it HURT worse than the last time I did it. Ugh and plus like my chest smacked more than my stomach and I couldn't catch my breath at first and coughing makes me think to breath after I can.

Morgan I hope you went to your interview happy after that! ;)

So to top that off, I did something to my knee on the diving board too. Ugh I swear....it wasn't my day!

So thats it. Marci sorry I missed your call earlier.

Here comes the heat!!!!!

Those are the plants from the seeds we planted way back when. Can't remember exactly when, but this has some beautiful flowers on it. :)

I am really beginning to HATE this time of the year already. Its already going to be near 100 this weekend! UNREAL! I remember that happening more in August in Ohio, here it comes in June!

I am really beginning to hate living in a small town. I am not going into detail about why, but it just pisses me off that everyone is so nosey around here about every little thing they here about you or some one else. Its none of their damn business for one thing. Ugh, another thing, if you are going repeat something, you need to get it right or say NOTHING!

So yesterday I saw a girl up at the pool that I haven't seen in a long time. Last thing I heard about her was that she was pregnant about to have a baby at any point. Well that was all true and I got to see pictures of the little baby! He's so cute!!!! =)

Oh yeah I forgot to mention in my last post, on my way back to NC, my aunt and I passed just southwest of Pittsburgh and I saw the exit to head toward Somerset, where the Flight 93 memorial is. Then looking at a map of where the plane crashed, was when I realized how close we were to it. We were stretched for time, but I was that close! Can you believe it?! Ugh! I will get there one of these days! LOL

Thats it! Till next time...

Home From Ohio!

The one of many pictures I snapped of the cutest puppy! This is Angek, 4 months old. Isn't she cute?!

So I went to Ohio last Tuesday. I went for the most part to help my aunt out with Angel and also hang-out with my friends that I didn't get to see the last time I was there. =)

So before I forget this, Morgan I am NEVER EVER going on Top Thrill Dragster again!!!!!! That ride is at Cedar Point in Sandusky, and last summer I didn't get to ride it because it was pouring down rain the majority of the day and they didn't have the ride open. Well lucky me this time it was a beautiful day! ;) I went on this, and remind you this ride at its peak is 426 feet off the ground, not my idea of a roller coaster! Its one where it like where you go from 0-to whatever speed in seconds, its over before you know it. Well my friend and I sat and watched it a couple of times and it rolled backwards down off the hill the first time. Oh yeah, that was going to REALLY make me go on it! I even said I wasn't going on it, because knowing my luck that was going to happen to me! ;) I finally got in line for it, I had to face away from the track the entire time, cause it was making me sick to my stomach! This ride goes some-what upside down and all you had was a lap-bar! Ugh! I wasn't liking this at all. So we were strapped in and you go out of the ride-op area and you wait for a little bit and it does this countdown and then BOOM you are off before you know it you are back at the other end of the ride! But my stomach went from my stomach to my throat! It was too much for me, it scared the crap out of me, and once we hit the top of the hill I thought we were going back down backwards, but we made it! I dunno what happened, but I got sick after riding it.

Other than that, my trip to Cedar Point was great! :) The other rides I had no problems getting on! LOL My favorite ride there is still Magnum, that ride celebrated 20 years this summer. I rode it 10 years ago when it was 10 years old. Raptor is another favorite, the drop tower (both sides....one you shoot up and the other is like Superman at Six Flags), Mavarick we didn't get to go on last year and that was a fun one. It was just TTD that I got sick on. Weird....

So little Miss Angel is very adorable. :) She gets excited very easily and she actually peed on my dad when we first got to my aunt's! LOL She is full of energy and very loving. Except she BITES so hard when she plays. I was starting to call her "Mini Garby aka MG" after my aunt's (different one) dog that bit me when I was 4. She bit me pretty good too. But my aunt was having problems with her before I came, but she didn't have any escapes while I was there. I worked with her on sitting, shaking and speak on command, she did all 3 on command 2 times for each! LOL Leash walking, didn't go too well.

So I got some cute pictures of her for my aunt to have made and we had some made at Wal-Mart for her to send to family and such.

So while I was there, Bonita and I went to her Power Pilates class and some of the crap was like way-over-my-head and other stuff I knew all too well. ;) LOL I stayed in Ohio thinking she was coming back today for her visit, but she got sick with a sinus infection. So I was stuck. So my aunt was going to VA to help her daughter with her move and so we were able to make it so I caught a ride with her to VA and then my dad picked me up there and we came home. The funny part is, I travelled through 6 states to get home! Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennslyvania and North Carolina!

So I am home! :) Happy to be home, too!

Ohio Trip

Gaia and Sadie...does it not look like they are literally kissing each other?! How cute is that?!

So Friday I had to be up with the chickens to go to Ohio to see Gaia's gymnastics performance. So as you know I am not a morning person and I hate getting up to travel somewhere! Ugh! So my parents said we would leave by 5:o0 or 5:30, well we didn't leave until 6:00! Go figure, even they can't get up on time! ;)

So the trip up there is always long. I slept some of the way, just to pass the time. I am really beginning to HATE going to Ohio just cause its a trip I know all too well in the car and its LONG! I miss living there sometimes for that simple reason!

So Friday we picked Gaia up from her after-school place and what are the odds of her being soaked head to toe the day we pick her up?! LOL Luckily my mom had some dry clothes for her put on. Ah, the joys of having a 7 year old as a niece. ;) She gets in the car and immediately askes for her movie, which is always Charmed. So that kept her entertained, if you know what I mean.

So got Gaia a pair of dry shoes and went over to see my brother. We then went over to my aunt's to drop Sadie off and finally see the new puppy, Angel. This puppy is so adorable! Poor Sadie wanted absolutely nothing to do with her. Its like dog, only if you knew what you were like when you were that age! LOL Gaia had a great time playing with Angel, too. :)

So after all of that, we went to our favorite pizza place in Columbus. :Rolls Eyes: Its the only thing I swear my parents go to Ohio for anymore, minus visiting family. ;) My mom's sister and her husband (aunt and uncle) met us over there for dinner. My aunt is hilarious, she's trying to talk my mom into taking me to American Girl Place for my 30th birthday. :rolls eyes: I love my Samantha and Nellie, don't need to see the store, those two don't even exist there anymore. So dinner was great.

Saturday morning my wake-up call was Angel's howling for being put into her cage while my aunt was taking her shower. 6:30am! Lovely! So we met my parents, brother, brother's g/f, grandma, and niece over at Bob Evan's in Hilliard. Great way to start the day. I love eatting there for breakfast. Gaia had to be at her thing before noon to get her leotard on and such. Well I took the time and fixed her hair the "special" way for performances and ugh, her mother took it out and did it her way. That just pissed me off. She told Gaia to tell me that it was coming out, well no it wasn't you made it came out!

So anyways, this was all at my old gymnastics place. Even one of my old coaches was still coaching there, had coached Gaia also. =o) So this was all about Gaia showing off and the other kids also what they basically had learned over the year. =) I remember taking part in this every year that I went there. So first Gaia was on bars, she had problems. My dad was like "Well we may not have a future gymnast." I sat back and was like well she could be like me and bars will be her worst event! ;) Floor was next, she amazed me getting her legs all the way up in her handstand! Then came Vault, and she can run!!!!!!!! She did her little thing completely on her own. :) Balance Beam was last, and she did really well still! =o) She did a handstand on beam, and I stood there and was like I can't remember being able to do that early on. LOL

So after everyone was done, they had demonstrations on all the events from the girls that are the competition level. Then the owner and his daughter did this skit, I got it on video for Gaia to remember it by mostly. So after that it was the awards presentation. And so each kid got a trophy and a medal. I forgot to mention a little girl in Gaia's group had broke both of her arms at some point and had a pink and purple cast on both arms and she was cordinated with the colors with her leotard. :)

So afterwards, I wanted to go find my old coach, just to say hi and such. I didn't want to go by myself and Elise nor her brother would come with me. LOL So I walked up like I was going to leave and saw her and waited for her to get a moment where she wasn't doing anything. The whole time I was thinking about what to say! LOL Well go ahead and throw the thoughts that came to mind out the window, when she saw me, she remembered who I was. Which was shocking to me, because it has been 12-13 years since I saw her, been in that gym, etc! It was just shockinly over-welming in a sense. =o) It was great, though. The owner remembered me after he heard my name and put it to my face. ;) His daughter and I took classes together also, who was there too. ;) Meghan didn't even look like the Meghan I knew back then. It was shocking to hear to about Jamie's daugther's and how old they are now. They were little-little when I was there. I told her too that my niece was now taking lessons there and its like yeah she's taking after her aunt. ;) LOL I finally got Gaia to come over to me, and was like this was my coach when I came here. Her eyes were as big as saucers when she heard that and put a face to it. LOL It was that look of, "Oh, ok. That makes you really old!" LOL Its like too, you were lucky Gaia you got a trophy and a medal, all we got back then were ribbons and a certificate! Only got the medal and trophies when you competed! hahaha

So Saturday we spent the rest of the day doing various things, went for ice cream and ate a late lunch and such. Sunday we headed home. So that was the weekend! I am going back June 10th. :o)