Nicki's Baby shower

We woke up this mornig at camp Blanding and then headed home to get dressed and pick up a gift for Nikki's baby shower. I just fell in love with the way she painted the inside of her house and she had it nicely decorated. It's a really small house compared to our home but it's cute. I took horrible pictures, but I did the best I could in the small space we had to move around in with like over 30 or 40 girls packed in. Rich is back out at the camp site and I'm trying to decided if I want to go back out there, or just stay home to clean house and do laundry. Mianna is starving and I'm too lazy to cook. I know this sounds crazy but I would rather do laundry and clean house, than cook dinner today. I might just take her to the mall and eat some mall food. ehehhe. We wanted to watch a few movies, but they only had early shows and no late show times.Let me go and post the pics from today.

Bloggin

Okay I'm home from work, yeah, they called me in on my day off and being the nice person that I am, I went in for 5 hours to help out. I answered the phone and then did the internet since Joe was not in to do it. I love doing the internet it's real easy and If I could I would just do it full time from home and not even go in at all . hehehe. wishful thiking. they should make it a position and let us do it from home. NO let me do it from home. LOL. slow season would be too slow to do it from home, but when it's real busy we have about 10,000 transaction in 22 days. so you can imagine how busy it can get on the internet. I couldn't do it from home unless I had the system on my home computer because things are forever changing in our systems and some times we don't book for certain places when the system goes down at any moment. Anyways, I'm home and Mianna wants to stay home till she can watch her show at 8 and it's over at 9, so we will head out to see dad at Camp Blanding as soon as her show is over. I'll just check out my daily bloggs and email. maybe go shopping on the net. LOL. i'm in the mood to shop, hey it's payday. LOL, no, we get payed but it all goes to the morgage. Rich didn't' make chief but I hope he does next year. My poor baby works so dang hard. He pass the test and made board, but they just don't pick his package. ;o(

Green Cove Springs Jr High

Mianna starts school on August 8th. Check out her Jr High, I just can't believe it, O man. I hope we have a good year. Her school is like less than 2 miles from our front door. I might have to go into work today and work a few hours. Let me get off this POOTER.

Kimberly

Hey guys, remember Miannas friend Kimberly she is in the hospital. She has diabetes and her blood sugar was over 600 yesterday. I work with her mom Jessica and I hope she will be okay. I heard she was lifted to the children's hospital by way of ambulance yesterday. We took Kim to Camp Blanding with us a few weeks ago. She is a smart Strong girl so I know she will pull through on this, but I'll keep you all posted.

SMS.ac

Okay so I got pulled into this SMS.ac thing from a friend and it just got to be too much. I was receiving way to many invites to become friends and it to irritation and then my account was being charged like 5 bucks, HELLO, I don't think so, I'm not paying 5 bucks to make friends with stranger over my cell phone. NOT ! Anyways, I just wanted to warn you all to stay away from SMS.ac unless you want your phone beeping constantly with messages.

Birthday Card

Big thanks to Ingrid for my cute bithday card. My B-day is in 6 days and she was the first to give me a sweet card. Luv ya girl. O my goodness, I'm feeling my age. My poor body has been having circulation problems this past few days....LOL. Thanks again Ingrid, I was too proud to display it on my very own mantel place

Camp Blanding

We are camping out at Camp Blanding this weekend, again! I think we will try to buy our own tents this Friday. I'm not so into the camping thing, but It should be fun this time, maybe I'll go swimming and get my fishing license so I can do that as well.

Our Black Bear hamsters

Jitter Bug

Brown Sugar

My friend Stacie from work gave Mianna two female Black bear hamsters and we just love them to death.One is a little jittery and active so we have named her Jitter Bug and the sister is real calm and gentle so we call her Brown Sugar.

Birthdays

This pass week has been nothing but Birthdays all around us. My dad's B-day was on July 18, My mom was on July 21. Shela had hers on the 20th and then Janice turned 40 on the 22 and Garry also turned 40 on the 23. Happy Birthday to you all. My mom was in Guam spending her Birthday with my dad I'm sure, so I didn't get to wish her a Happy B-day. She should be home soon, I hope they takelots of digital pictures to share, I sure miss my homeland.

DVD-R

I found a brand new package of 50 DVD-R in a box in my messy garage. I must have purchased this a long time ago and forgot about it. I'm all excited now because I can back up my files and do all that good stuff. Tomorrow my friend Merranda is having a garage sale and so I was looking to find some stuff to include in her sale. I hope to have the garage cleaned out so I can surprise Rich with a garage opener and room to park his truck. LOL. Fun Fun Fun, this is how I'm spending my day off.

Duke

Duke has this horrible caugh and keeps making me jump out my seat, so I'm going to bed now. O my goodness he is so loud and it sound painful. I hope he will be is okay. I think I'll try to get him to drink some water. He seems to be breathing really loud too, poor Duke, I hope he is not sick. Our boy is so old he is like over 100 in dog years.

4 cups

I should have never had 4 cups of coffee at work, now I'm up late windows shopping. I hope Mianna doesn't discover this site. ehehhehe. SHE is a shopping demon. LOL

The Moon

The moon is so HUGE tonight. Wish I had a better camera to take better picture of it.

Camping

Friday we had our AIMD picnic, it was actually a luau complete with this huge pig. I didn't really eat much because I was so hungry I ate before we got there. I have such a phobia of eating with large groups now. I get sick like every single time I eat at a large function like that. I did have some free ice cream. After the picnics luau we headed over to the campgrounds around the corner and caught up with a few of Ritchie’s coworkers that had invited us to camp out for the night. I was a little skeptical that we would camp out because it was poring down rain and thunder with lightning just as we got the campgrounds. We all huddled under a little awning and just waited out the rain. I was so scared of the lightning since is seemed to be right above us. Thunder and light happens her in FL, every single day around the same time. Well eventually the rain stopped and we all started to pitch tents and set up camp. After we got things together I had to go home and let Duke out and pick up a few things. I found our air mattress we used when we first moved here and that always comes in handy for camping. I slept good that night but had to get up early to had home and let Duke out and also get ready to go meet my coworkers for lunch at Olive Garden. I was really hungry and just glad to be back with civilization, I like to camp out but I did miss the real world, ehhehe. I'm such a City Girl now. LOL. After eating our late lunch early dinner we had decided to take the kids to see Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I thought the movie was funny and Johnny Dep played a really good part, but I still love the original the best. After the movies, Mianna and Kimberly who was going to have a sleep over decided they wanted to go swimming at the lake so we headed out there and Dad took them swimming. I was not in the mood to get in the water and so I just hung out on the pier taking picture and watching the lightning show across the lake. Camp Blanding is a really nice place and the lake is fresh water and so no salty sticky feel after you swim and that felt nice to rich and the kids. Rich had spent the entire day out there fishing and he caught 5 bass but was only able to keep 2 that were over the limit in length. That night we cooked hamburgers and another guy fried down the fish, O MY GOODNESS, that fish was so darn good. Rich was drinking and so he decided to stay one more night and had his truck with him, but I had to come home so I could be up by 5:30 and get here to work by 7. Time is dragging on right now and my stomach is hungry. I wish I had some of that fish to eat.

The Discovery Launch

One day I would love to go watch this in person.

I want this

This is the floor plan I fell in love with when we lived in Lemoore and I was house shopping. If we move out of this home, I will have this one built. I'm trying to talk Rich into moving to World Golf Viallage. ehhehehe. He thinks it's too far. I love St. Augustine area.

Tropical Storm Emily

This storm will eventually become Hurricane Emily. We have all got our eye on it. EMILY will not hit the US. whooo hooo!

Baby Madison

Last night I got home to find a new family member for the night. LOL. We were baby sitting Madison and she was with us all night. This little girl has wild sleeping pattern. I had to keep on top of her every move while we slept in our queen size bed. At first she was in the middle of us and then woke up for a second and wanted on top of my chest, and then she flips over to her side and into my arms and then back up on my chest, back to the middle of the bed and then flipped up on Rich. We slept like this for about 1 1/2 hours of her rolling back and forth between the two of us. Madison doesn't really like men so she stuck to me and Mianna like glue. LOL. I just loaded her up in the car seat and her and Rich took off in the truck to daycare. I have to say it was nice have a baby in the house again. We can borrow her anytime I get the bug. I took a few pictures of her and a few pictures of our new truck. I'm off to bed after this, it's too dang early for me

Tropical Depression 5

It's so crazy!!!! Dennis just left, and had our share if wind and rain, flooding. And now a new tropical depression that will most likely develop into a hurricane, is on it's way. We have water damage in our garage already. Not sure how it's getting in, but we need to have it looked at and call the builders.

Hurricane names in order

I thought I would post the Hurricane names for this year in order. Looks like Emily is stirring and Franklin is right behind her. We will have a ruff year and this is an unusually early start for this hurricane season.


Bret
Cindy (tropical storm)
Dennis (hurricane that hit yesterday in Pensicola)
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katrina
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rita
Stan
Tammy
Vince
Wilma

7mile Update

I have made no time to blogg. We have had little effect from hurricane Dennis, but it looks like we have 2 more storms brewing and heading to FL again. I have been a little stressed and now I'll porbably be even more stressed. We have lost both of our old cars, due to age and Now we own two brand new 05 cars. Yup we got a new 05 GMC 4x4 for Rich and it only had 7miles on it. I'm happy with the purchase and we got over 7000 bucks off of the price, whooo hooo. we just have new car payments, that I hate, but we have to do it if we want reliable cars to drive to and from work. I will be stressing to make the payments, but hey, we have to do what we have to do. I will probably cut back on lots of things we use to be able to do, like eat out. Belive it or not we use to spend about 500 a month on eating out and no commissary shopping. I hate the commissary here and try to stay away from it as much as possible. I shop at walmart, target and Winn Dickie. Anyways, I just wanted to blogg and tell you all we are alive and still kicking. The weather outside is very dark and rainy.

Tropical Storm Cindy & Dennis

It has been raining here nightly for weeks and tonight it has finally stopped. It is about 90 degrees out and finally no rain, but we might feel tropical storm Cindy and then Dennis.

2005 Hurricane Names

Arlene Tropical Storm 6/11
Dennis Tropical Storm Dennis could come near South Florida by Friday 7/8
Gert
Jose
Maria
Philippe
Tammy
Bret
Emily
Harvey
Katrina
Nate
Rita
Vince
Cindy
Franklin
Irene
Lee
Ophelia
Stan
Wilma

Fire works

I got off work just in time to watch the fire works , but we missed Six Feet Under. :o( I'm up waiting for it to come on at midnight. Sunday will be a new time for our show, so I look forward to that and not having to stay up late on Mondays to watch it. I get off work at 2pm on Sundays and Ill be able to watch my favorite shoes. I also watch Entourage.

Fun

Yesterday turned out to be so much fun. We ate at the crab shack and wile we were there a raccoon walked up to our table. After dinner we stopped at Micky Ds for ice cream cones, apple pie and Rich had a hot fudge sunday. I took a really cool picture of the water droplets on the sunroof of the TL and then we got dressed to go out and meet Merranda and Steve at Harmonious Monks for drinks and dancing. Merranda pulled me to go dance on stage with her, but I forgot to give Rich my camera to take a picture of that. This bar is all live music and performances by the waiters and waitresses. You can stand in your chair and dance or stand on the bar. I stood on the bar with Merranda and danced the night away. Lets just say I paid dearly for that flaming Dr pepper shot. :o(

No more 323

Yesterday we gathered all the thrash around the house so Rich could take it to the dump like he usually does. When he left the house, he took Duke with him and only got 3 miles. He called home and said he had bad news. The Mazda 323 died. That car has been a trooper with over 140,000 miles and 13 years old. No more 323, I'm sad. Today we ran around shopping for a truck. Looks like we are back to the one car thing for the next few weeks. We have to shop around and find Rich a truck he likes. We did come across a few on base for a good price and I'll have to do some blue book checking to see if they were asking a good price. Anyways, it's too dang hot today to do car shopping in this 90 degrees heat. We are off to eat crab shack!!!! mmmm