When the iron meets the rug...

I wasn't home when it happened, all I know is I couldn't stand looking at it so I bought a new rug.

This is the old rug



and this is the new rug. Hopefully Jack won't chew the corners of this one up!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY LILLY!!!

My niece Lilly is one today, I can't believe it's gone by so far. WOW! She is having a party tonight and we aren't going to be able to be there. We have both saw her quiet a few times over the past 2 weeks. I can't believe how much she has grown.

Here are some pictures from my trip home this week:



This is the face that I got everytime I asked for a smile.


My new hair and my cousin Kali

My aunt Hope, Granny & my mom

Can I get some form of good news?(LONG POST)

This week has been eventful to say the least! I drove back to West Memphis on Saturday evening because I wanted to visit my uncle Lee's church Sunday morning. So, Sunday we drove to Joiner Arkansas and went to church, then I drove to Mississippi to pick up some things William had left behind when he was at home. I had a blast, I got to eat some grilled dear meat and see most of the Lewallen family and play with my niece Lilly for a little while before I left. I love that little girl so much!!!! She will be one tomorrow, I can't believe it! Monday moening about 7:30 my middle brother Joseph arrived here from Canton, OH. It was so good to get to see him! The last time I saw him he was 17 years old, in high school and hadn't been to the Marine's yet. So on to Tuesday, I spent the morning at the hospital with my granny and papow getting his bloodwork done for his heartcath on Wednesday, then we spent the afternoon at the Dr. with my cousin. On Wednesday I was up at 6am to be ready so I could go to the hospital with my granny and papow at 7:30. We just had to be at Crittenden here in West Memphis, so it wasn't too bad of a drive. After getting there at 7:30 they got my papow all prepped and ready to go but didn't come get him for his heartcath until 11:30, are you kidding me, he is a diabetic! Well, besides that I had left to head to Jonesboro just after they took him back for his procedure and asked my granny to call me when she knew the results. I wasn't even out of West Memphis before she called and told me that he had 90% blockage and they were talking him to Methodist University Hospital in Memphis by ambulance to do an emergency surgery. So, off to Jonesboro I go, for an hour drive. I get there and get lost 3 times trying to find St. Bernard hospital, and then just around ran into 3 cars in the parking garage. Well, I suprised my grandmaw when I showed up there. My mom had sent me a text earlier in the day when I was still in West Memphis telling me that she thought it was my daddy's birthday so I called him and asked him and he told me that he was turning 49! WOW! I didn't even know, my mom is 44. Shows how much I know! Well, while I was on the phone with my dad he told me that my grandmaw was having some more stents put in so I definitly wanted to go see her, because I knew she already had 4 stents. So, I got to the hospital in Jonesboro and found out that they didn't have to do any more stents they just did a little roto-rooter job on one of the stents she already had. So I stayed with my grandmaw and got her back to her house and resting before I headed back to West Memphis. I got to West Memphis at 5:30 where I had no key to any house around here. Not my moms, grannys, or aunts. So after calling everyone's phone 2 times I got an answer from my aunt and went to her house to wait on everyone to get there so we could head to Memphis to see my papow. Four years ago I would have told you that I would never forget my way around Memphis, haha, unless it's just off the interstate I can't find anything anymore! So we got to the hospital at 7:30 to see my papow and didn't end up getting back to my moms until 10. Boy was I exhausted.So, today I am going to take me and my brothers to WalMart to get some cheap pictures made, because the last picture that my mom has of all of us is from 1999.

I will post some pictures from this week, but will have to wait until I get home since I forgot my cord.

Here's our family picture from 1999: I was 13, my mom was 34, Joseph(back) was 8, and Jesse(front) was 7.

Spring Break!

Yesterday at 1pm I offically started Spring Break....WOOHOO!!! I am exhausted! I got over half of my to do list done today of things that I have been procrastinating on. Yesterday we offically paid off our last Credit Card....FOREVER! We also paid off the rest of Nursing school and I still have a year left, what a huge PRAISE! We were suppose to be leaving yesterday afternoon to go home and visit but since William just got back home on Wednesday evening we aren't going. He goes back to work on Tuesday and I will get up and leave for West Memphis when he leaves for work and stay for a couple of days. I hope to get some reading done and rest while I am there. I need to have all of my reading done before I go back from Spring Break because we will only have 5 weeks of class left plus 1 week of finals. 4 of those weeks I will have clinicals on Monday and Tuesday plus I think we have 2 tests thrown in there somewhere, a concept map for my Older Adult class and a Teaching-Learning project for my Adult I class. BUSY BUSY! I have applied for a summer internship at Mercy....I don't know how I feel about it. I am so undecided if I want to work this summer or just enjoy my time off so I have prayed about it and am leaving it in God's hands because he so knows what I need. I never realized it before until recently how much better he knows what I need than I do. We had our 2nd older adult test on Wednesday and all I can say is PRAISE THE LORD that I passed! I made a 82, which is a C. The class average was 77 which is a D. Not good! Well I am off to watch TV with William, I cherish these moments because their aren't many of them with the busyness of school.

It's been a while....

Well, it's been busy. I am so ready for Spring Break, only 11 days! Today is my Teaching Learning day from clinicals, I don't actually have to do anything today because we do our project at a later date, I just get my time back on today. Tomorrow I am going with a Hospice nurse. I think I will really enjoy it, I think I can see myself being a Hospice nurse someday. I have gotten myself into a bad habit of procrastinating and it is starting to catch up with me, which makes me stress. It's not bothering me too much because I am stressing less than I did last semester.

Jack got a haircut on Thursday, I cut William's hair on Saturday and I went and got a haricut yesterday. BIG MISTAKE! I usually go to a place in Centerton that only charges $9, it is called True Colors Salon. I really like it there, but they don't have any stylist in on Sunday, so since it was really the only day I had time to get my haircut I sucked it up and went to Smart Style at Wal-Mart. I asked for a 1 inch trim and I ended up with a bob kinda cut. I will post before and after pictures, it is growing on me, all I had to do was blowdry my hair and it looked great today, though I will be straightening it for sure!

This weekend we are leaving for a quick trip back home to Mississippi. A very close friend of the family passed away on Saturday and the funeral isn't until this Saturday so we will be there for that, plus William has a 10 year reunion meeting. The reunion isn't until July, this is the 2nd meeting already, much more organized than I thought. Then on Sunday morning we will turn right around and come back to Northwest Arkansas in time for will to teach group. I have clinicals on Monday & Tuesday in the OR a test on Wednesday and then we are leaving again on Thursday night to head back to Mississippi to celebrate our niece's 1st birthday. It shold be a fun and eventful 2 weeks!

My cat, I am either going to kill her or give her away, neither of which I really want to do but she is really making me mad. She peed on the carpet AGAIN! Not in the same spot as before, but just beside it so now I think I just going to take all the carpet up in the corner where her litter box is and Kilz that whole corner.




The above are the before pictures that were taken after my last haircut on January 31, the below is my haircut that I got yesterday, so my hair actually was a little longer than in the picture. So you can see why I am a little frazzled over my haircut!