It's been crazy lately!

Well it's been quit a while since I've blogged. I've been running around with work, Bible study, cheerleading, Christmas Musical, Spanish Class, dinners, etc... Don't get me wrong, I love it. Let's see, what has been going on lately....?

Well Piper has started taking dance. She's been asking all summer so I thought I would check into it. Well come to find out if you are a working mom, then your child is out of luck. They cannot take any extra curricular activities. What year is it people? Come on! The guy at the dance studio actually told me that he doesn't teach children her age past 5 because they needed to be eating dinner at that time and in the bed by 7:00. I wanted to say, and exactly how many children have you birthed and raised? But, my mother reminded me it was about Piper and not me and she is taking her to her 3:00 class. And don't even get me started on the price of dance for a 4 year old. That's another whole rant.

Peyton our sweet baby has been cheering her tail off. We have finally cut our practices to one day a week and she is so happy. She actually says on Thursday nights before she goes to bed, "I have tomorrow off!". I know, that's sad. Even though she has Monday and Tuesday nights off, she says she really doesn't because she has to do her homework. Which shouldn't take 2 days to complete, but when you drag out putting your 20 words in ABC order for an hour, then it does take 2 days. Focus sister, focus!

Jamie and I had a wonderful evening at the Georgian Terrace and the Fox last Thursday. I was honored at an event for work and we took full advantage of it. We got all dressed up and stayed out til 1am! Like Kelli said, that was like 4am when we were 18. It took me all day Saturday to recover. hahaha

I'm in the process of planning our neighborhood Halloween Party. We host the event every year at our house. This year I'm going big. It's Friday night, so why not? We are starting off with the usual hot dogs/hamburgers/musical chairs, then off to trick-or-treat. Then when we are all done, we come back to my house for popcorn/hot chocolate and a scary movie on the lawn! I'm so excited. I'm currently looking for that perfect all age appropriate movie that is really more funny than scary. I'm leaning toward the Haunted House movie Eddie Murphy was in not to long ago.

Well that's about it for now. Don't forget it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Feel'em up and make sure they are healthy, everybody's doing it! hahaha

Catching up....

Well it's been a while since I've blogged. I've been busy, busy, busy. We took our last hoorah trip to the beach for the summer. Fay tried her best to ruin our weekend, but we prevailed. The seaweed was a little icky, but thanks to our friends who were down there at the same time, he had access to a pool on the beach! PawPaw Burge and MeMe went to the beach with us. This was our first family trip together and we had a great time. The guys went to a place on Saturday to watch Georgia's first game. Apparently this place had a room dedicated to Georgia! They said it was a blast. The local Bulldog Club supplies the rest. with all kinds of Georgia gear.

We ate at one of our favorite places, Schooner's. This place is open-air and the weather was perfect. Thanks to old Fay we had a great breeze coming through the entire meal. The girls got to run out and play in the sand a bit and fun was had by all.

Peyton's first game is this weekend. I'm ready....ready to get them going and done! hahaha Piper is excited, she gets to wear her little mascot uniform and I bought her a megaphone like the big girls.

That's all I've got for now...not much to report. It's been pretty low key.

Trying to do it all and not freak out...

Do you ever feel that way? Sometimes I think I need to be medicated, and sometimes I know I just need to say NO. Isn't it funny that you can so no all day long to your kids, but when it comes to someone asking you to volunteer for this, or be on this committee, or coach this team...you just can't get it to come out, instead comes a sure, or absolutely or I'm so glad you asked...hahaha! Now, don't get me wrong, there are many things I do love to volunteer to do and help with, it's just they often seem to happen all at once. Can you tell I'm a little overloaded at this moment? I guess it's really not that bad, it's only for the next 3 months. Peyton is cheering and I'm coaching her team on Tues and Thur nights. Then the games will begin after Labor Day weekend and those will be on Sat mornings. On Mon evenings I lead a Bible study at church and on Wed evenings we attend a LifeGroup at church. Once cheerleading is over we will get back to having more family time together. That's really what I miss the most. We try to make the most of what time we do have during the week. Jamie is so awesome, he cooks dinner for us during the week and gets homework done and out of the way before I even get home. I've decided next year I'm not coaching, that way we can take turns going to practices during the week. I feel bad Jamie does so much during the week at the house, but he truly doesn't mind and he is a good cook.

Speaking of my Bible study, I start a new session tomorrow night. I've been leading this group for over a year now and it's grown from 4 ladies to now 14! It's a weight loss Bible study called First Place 4 Health. It's so much fun and I really enjoy the ladies. The program just changed and this will be the first time I've taught the new food portion, so we will be learning together. I love the Bible study part of the program. The whole program is based on growing all 4 sides of us, soul/mind/body/strength and keeping Christ the center of it all. The funny part of all of it is, I started this up in our church thinking, if I lead this group then I will have to lose weight...you can't lead a group and not lose weight! Well God had something else in mind, he wanted to grow me spiritually first. It's not been til this last semester that I actually started to lose the weight. I lost 11 lbs. total in 13 weeks. It's been a learning experience!

Well that's all I've got to say right now. I've got to make sure the bonus room is ready for my cousin Michael to move in. He needs a little support so we are going to give it. Please be praying for all of us!

Kik

I guess it was about time....

I've been reading so many blogs lately and getting sucked into these peoples lives that I felt it was time I finally started my own. I agree with my friend Tiff, when she said it was the hardest thing to come up with a name for your blog. I thought how can I describe me and my life in a couple of words....hence the name Husband, Kids & Big Hair. If you know me, then you know that's my life! I thought about adding lipstick too, but that was just too much for a title. I have the worst memory in the world, but I can tell you the one thing I dreamed about growing up was getting married! Who was going to be my husband, what was our last name going to be. Don't you remember when you used to have a crush on some boy in school and you would secretly write your first name and then his last name like 100 times just to see how nice it would like on paper! haha The second most important thing to me growing up was a big family. Oh, how I couldn't wait to have babies! I love them! How many would I have, what would they be...boys or girls or both? I just loved babysitting as a teenager. Not only was it fun, but the money wasn't bad either. Ok, now on to my big hair. Yes, I love me some big hair. Those of you who know me, know I don't go out of the house without my big hair. As far as I'm concerned it never has and never will go out of style. Some of you may even want in on the secret to big hair, well here it is....it's all about the product! Girl, you have got to spend your money on the right product and put alot of it in your hair. I can remember actually checking out of school because of a bad hair day. I would call my mom from the pay phone and tell her, mom...I'm having a bad hair day and need to come home and the good southern mama she is, said ok darlin' just tell'em your sick and give me a call and come on home. It's so true, just ask her.


Well I have my Prince Charming, Jamie...and I have my babies, Peyton & Piper...and of course, I have my big hair. So you are probably thinking, wow she has everything she ever wanted. Well, that's what I thought too, but something was missing. Something big, don't get me wrong, I was happy. But, I just couldn't put my finger on it....then it happened. I started my walk with Jesus. Now, I grew up in a Christian home, had very Southern Christian grandparents and always went to church. Until, High School that is...then I didn't go so much. I always knew who Jesus was, knew that He died on the cross for me and knew that He was in Heaven. But, I never knew He wanted a personal relationship with me. Wow, how that has changed me so. I am so complete. I can't learn enough about Him. It also doesn't hurt that I have the best church family in the entire world! I am definitely very partial to them. We have the best time together, it's a true family. I can tell you that having a personal relationship with Christ is the best decision I have ever made. To know that He loves me no matter what I have done. That He is my true Daddy in Heaven, just looking down on me waiting to see what I do next, clapping at every accomplishment, waiting to pick me up when I fall, hug me when I'm sad...that's just so awesome to me! So I choose to live for Him. To try my best to bring Glory to Him in everything I do. Try is the key word, I am so far from perfect.....


That's about it for now. I can't wait to add to my blog. Until later...Kik