Been Too Long

I had no idea it has been over a year since I last updated this blog. So much has happened since then. Well, I don't even know where to start but our year started with a funeral which was terrible. Christy lost one of her family, faith heroes, it was a rough couple of months after that for her. Then Matt had a busy summer with two weeks of camp back to back. He hurt his ankle during the first week and spent the second week in a borrowed, walking boot. It took several weeks for his ankle to heal but according to the doctor is was just sprained really bad. Then Matt had a week at the National Convention in Charlotte, NC. In August, Christy surprised Matt with a birthday party for his 30th birthday. All of our family from Tuscaloosa was there and he had no idea! This year Jayse turned 3 and we had a pirate birthday party at Wilder's World, which is a place full of jumpers for the kids to bounce on. This has been a busy year at church too. We started the school year out averaging about 30 teens on Wednesday night for several weeks. And then sports started and other things but we still have about 20 every week. Matt has been able to preach a lot this year and he really enjoys that, of course. Christy got a promotion last August at work and she is now a legal assistant, which she enjoys much more than the department she was in. Jayse's daycare announced in the middle of October they were closing at the end of the year because they couldn't afford to make the changes to the building that the state was asking them to make for safety reasons. So we have changed to a new daycare and this was our first week. He did good for the most part. Monday he did great but you could tell he didn't like what was going on. Tuesday was horrible for him and his mom. He cried and cried out for his mom and so of course then Christy was crying. The rest of the week was better even though he didn't want us to leave. Hopefully, the next week will be better. He has several kids from his old school coming to his new school so that should help. Jayse loves sports, especially baseball and football. He likes playing with dinosaurs and superheroes. He likes Bibleman, Spiderman and Batman and pirates too. Some days he wants to be referred to as one or the other instead of Jayse. The rest of this year should be just as eventful. We have sold our Dothan, AL house and will be closing on it next week. We have an offer on a house here in Albany and hopefully will close on it before Thanksgiving. I am sure Christmas will be eventful too. More to come....

WOW!!!

It has been too long since I updated this. We have been so busy!!!! Matt has been to two weeks of camp (back to back) already this summer and he will be going to OK City this summer for the National Convention. We had three teenagers get saved at teen camp!!!!! We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on June 8th. I got a beautiful bouquet of 2 dozen red roses. Jayse is growing so fast and does something new and cute everyday. We are so blessed to have such a great little boy. Jayse and I went up Memorial Day weekend and spent time with all the grandparents on the Davis and Hallman side. We had a blast and he showed out and had a blast with eveybody. I am going to start working on couponing more and saving more money. This month I went to Winn Dixie and got an awesome deal on meat. I bought $105.00 worth off groceries and paid $62.00 including tax. That is a savings of 41% AND I didn't even use coupons!! I will try to do better about posting deals from different stores and how to get steals on groceries. SOOOOO sign up to join my blog and you can stay posted on the deals around Albany which will also apply to the Southeast for the most part. ALSO click on the links on the right side of my blog to get coupons.

Trying to win a new machine!!!

Please help me win a new Embroidery machine!!!! Check out this website at http://www.thediydish.com/blog they have really awesome things that they are making with sewing and embroidery machines and they are giving away TWO machines. So this means you all can enter also and we could be sewing together. Also check the video above and see what they did on their first episode!! Thanks for helping.

Pampers

For those of you with kids in diapers I have been doing A LOT of research on where to find the cheapest diapers. To my surprise I am already getting the best deal (I think). It is at Sam's!!! I buy the Pampers Cruisers and I have checked every website I can think of and have a promo code for just about everyone of them and still can't get them any cheaper. The only thing I haven't tried is using coupons at Sam's so I am going to try and see if they take coupons. So I will update when I find out and hopefully get them cheaper than I have.

March 15, 2010

Well, Jayse is getting lots of compliments about his haircut. Everybody says he looks like a little man, but I'm not sure I am ready for a little man yet I still want the little baby! He is doing lots of new little things. He climbs onto and off the couch, he shakes his head "no" when he doesn't want something, and he is really trying to say new words. He is doing good, he cannot say it exactly right but he gets close enough that Mommy understands. He can't stand when mommy cuddles with daddy on the couch without him. He will make mommy move over and then push mommy back over and then lay over us all and go "awwww". We are getting excited about Easter and going this Friday to have Easter pictures made with real bunnies. After the Santa fiasco I thought we might not try the costumed bunny and see what happens with real bunnies. Check back soon for pictures!

March 6, 2010

Today we took Jayse to get his first hair cut. He didn't like it to say the least. I think Matt and I fixed it for the most part when we got home but I will not be able to take him back until he is like 16. I think I will just cut it myself from now until the day he gets married. Anyway we have had beautiful weather today so we went out to Lowe's and exchanged some things and I bought some more sample paint at Home Depot this time and ended up getting basically the same color with a different name in a different brand. So I guess I really so like the color it just looks different outside of the store. Christy has been participating in a weight loss and Bible study class at church that started in February. So far to date she has lost 5 pounds. Matt has been traveling A LOT these past few weeks. He took the children to Snow Mountain, GA and the teens to Ober Gatlinburg. Then he turned right around and went to Orlando, FL for a youth pastors conference. Anyway, we hope Spring is right around the corner!! Please continue to pray that we sell our house in Dothan. We REALLY need to sell it. We also have unspoken prayers for our family, we just ask that you keep us in mind that we may always do what the Lord wants of us.

Giveaway

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