What do you mean I can't use it???

OOoooo.. I was unhappy today. The kiddos and I went to Target. I've had a coupon for $5.00 off the purchase of a $25.00 toy. Since the toy had to be $25.00 Cam and I decided to get the Bat Cave. We looked last week and they were out of them so today we looked and there it was... the Bat Cave with Andrew and Parker's name written all over it. They were beaming with excitement. We get up to the check out and I give her my $5.00 coupon and it doesn't work. She looks at it and says, "I'm not sure why it's not working b/c it doesn't expire until October". She calls someone over to see what's going on and the lady says, "I'm sorry we can't accept that coupon because we've had some problems with fraud with that coupon". I was so upset. I printed the coupon from their website. She asked if I wanted to put the Bat Cave back... I'm like, "yea, right, you try telling my boys that we can't get the bat cave when it's the only reason we came here today!!!" ARRGGGHHHH!!! Whatever happened to customer service?

Sweet giggles and more appointments...

Mom kept the boys today while I took Piper to a couple of my doctor visits. While we were waiting in the room at the doc's office she got the giggles:)... I was acting like I was going to tickle her feet and she kept laughing and laughing. You know that deep belly laugh that only babies can do. It was sooo sweet!!
I got my MRI results today. My neck looks okay, some degeneration around my discs but nothing else too unusual. The radiologist did find a cyst on my thyroid and wants me to call my regular doc tomorrow to get an appointment to get an ultrasound done. Just what I need, another doctor's appointment. The doctor did give me a prescription for a therapy machine that I can use at home for my neck and back. It's the same thing they use at my chiropractor's office so it's really handy to be able to use it at home.
Okay... randomness but I had to include it:)... I saw one of my old students the other day at Wal-Mart. I was sooo excited to see him. He was a student of mine at a behavioral hospital. He was my favorite student there... yes, teachers have favorites, too:). He was my favorite because he had sooo many obstacles in his life but had so much potential to turn things around. He seemed to be doing really well. He's married and is 22... I couldn't believe he was so old, made me feel really old!! I love being a teacher! I absolutely adore my students. There are so many that I had at Jacksonville that I miss so much and would love to know how they are doing. I miss Jacksonville:( I definitely felt like God used me there. I know that He can use me where I am now but there just seems to be sooo many more kids that are in need there.
Better get to bed... I have a massage scheduled in the morning:)!

MAN down!!!

I don't know how much more swim lessons (torture) I can stand. Today I was afraid I was going to have to noodle-whip Andrew's teacher. Kind of hard to explain but she almost let the poor tyke drown. She was suppose to be holding onto him while he was swimming to retrieve his squishy ball. She decided to just go get it herself and left Andrew who continued to try to keep bobbing for it. He kept bobbing his head up out of the water and then going back in and then just went under completely. She was about 6 feet from him and she was walking the other way, while the other 4 year olds were unattended on the steps. Cam and I screamed "HEY" and she finally turned around and went and pulled him up. Bless his soul:(. When we got in the car he said, "I thought I was drowning, I just kept thinking while I was under there that I was going to drown". He did really good, he didn't seem scared at all when she pulled him up. It was scary to us though! A friend of mine that was there said last year her son wandered off of the step and the teacher was out with another kiddo. When her son went down she started running and screaming "Man down" over and over:). She said everybody thought she was a psycho!:)

Poor Cam...

I've been having the worst neck aches and headaches since the wreck. I've lost count of how many doc appts I've been to. I have to get a MRI on Monday, like I really have time to be going to doc appts with 3 kiddos. Last night was the worst yet. I started feeling really, really bad around 6:00 and it didn't go away until this morning. Poor Cam had to get up 4 times between 11:00 and 2:00 to get me a new ice pack. I finally decided to take a muscle relaxer at 2:00 this morning and fed Piper some milk from the freezer. I feel better this morning but I'm really sore from hurting so much. Even though I've felt like crud for the last few weeks, I am soooo thankful that the wreck wasn't any worse than it was. I am also thankful that Piper seems to be doing okay from the wreck and I'm thankful that she's such a sweet baby. God has definitely blessed us with a sweet, content baby. She's doing wonderful. She's only eating once through the night and she's able to soothe herself to sleep when we lay her down. She has some fussy times but usually is very content and happy! Her favorite thing right now is watching the fish mobile on her swing:) she always smiles and follows the same fish around the whole time. It's soooo sweet!
By the way... I know this post will get NO comments because it's too serious:) as Shane and Anna have concluded:).

Waterboarding... I mean swim lessons

Andrew started swim lessons yesterday... poor boy. He was pretty much tortured the whole time with water being dumped in his face:). He hates water being in his face but he did pretty good. When he gets water in his face in the tub, he always wants a towel or something to dry his eyes with so yesterday he decided to use the noodle that was beside the pool:).

Where's Waldo... part 2

It's our 2nd installment of Where's Waldo? (wish she knew how to fold towels:)

Heirloom

Amber, my cousin's roommate, finished my baby quilt. The pictures really don't do it justice, it's gorgeous. She put so much hand sewn detail into it! I love it!!! I have extra fabric left over and I'm hoping to make something with it, not sure what though. Maybe I could do a pillow that could be used as a ring bearer pillow for my kids in the future. I also added some pics of my wedding dress before cutting it up (my scanner is broken so I had to just take a couple of pics of my wedding pictures so they're not the best quality:). I LOVE heirlooms. I've been fortunate to get a few heirlooms from my grandmothers and I'm hoping to leave several heirlooms for my children and grandchildren.
Just a little FYI about my wedding... we were super frugal. My dress only cost $199.00 and my bridesmaids and I made all of our bouquet arrangements the day of the wedding which was super fun! My roommate, Jalyn, took all of my pictures and did a wonderful job! My mom did all of the food... I think we spent a little over $1000 on everything. Isn't that great? I spent the summer before my wedding in Rwanda and was terribly convicted about how much money we spend in America. Not only did we save tons of money but it was extra special having people I really cared make my wedding special.