Freak my freak!

This baby is making me sleepy! This morning I slept about 30-45 minutes later than I normally do! I am known to hit the snooze a time or two since having kids but 45 minutes? That puts me in a full blown rush to get myself and three other people out the door on time! I am NOT complaining! Just stating facts.

I woke up and realized what I had done and made a b-line for the potty. Our potty is in a water closet(I prefer potty room but whatevs!). As I sat there, I looked down in front of me and staring me straight IN THE FACE was a…

SCORPION!!!!!!

Shut the front door!!!!!!!!!!

It was on the trim right in front of me. It was about an inch to two inches long. Big enough to EAT ME ALIVE!!!!

I jumped up and ran to get my cell phone to call Officer Hubby-who was at work.

Hubby: “Hello.”

Me: “Holy crap!(‘cept that’s not really what I said. oops.) There’s a scorpion in our bathroom!!!”

Hubby: “hmm. That’s weird.” Just as calm as a napping cat.

Me: “what do I do? How do I kill it?”

Hubby: “With a shoe.” Like I was dumb.

Me: “What???”

Hubby: “Actually catch it in a cup because I want to see it!!”

Me: “for real? You want me to catch it??????”

What the what??? Why can’t this happen WHEN HE IS AT HOME??? Lucky for him there was a cup in the bathroom. Meanwhile it ran up under a t-shirt that was in the floor. So I had to pick the shirt up and try to get the thing off. It didn’t want to move. Then it jumped off the shirt at me like spiderman.

Just kidding! It fell in the cup! :)And then I flushed that sucker like nobody’s business!

The pest control man will be sent to our house TO-DAY! Yes sir.

Freak my Freak Take 975.2

Josh was riding along cutting our grass yesterday when out of the corner of his eye he saw something wiggle. He looked down to see half of a rattlesnake hanging out from under the lawn mower. He quickly jumped off and pinned it with a tire and ran inside to grab a gun. That joker was 4 feet long! I can not believe it didn’t bite him before he ever saw it! So thankful it didn’t because he was home alone!!

It really racks my nerves because the kids are always outside playing. They know to watch for snakes but they sure blend in well with their surroundings!

Freakity!

These stupid things are back!

The boys came to the office about a week ago and stomped as many as they could and today they are back!!!!! ahhhhh!!!!! Freak  my freakin freakity freak freak!

I think I am going to get hubs to bring the boys up here to the office and let them catch them and take them home and feed them to the chickens!!!!!!! Mwhahahahaha.

And then there were TEN…

On  Thursday, Hubby, Griff and Peyton decided that four chicks wasn’t enough. So off they went to buy more and ended up getting SIX more! That means we now have 10 chicks living with us!

Gosh I took this pic Thursday and they have at least doubled in size! They grow so fast!

They are all so cute and friendly! We’ve had fun catching grasshoppers and feeding them to them! Well Griffin has been doing the catching…y’all know I’m not touching those things!

Side note: Griffin caught too many grasshoppers on Friday so I told him to just leave them in the box he had them in and stick them outside(he had pulled their legs off so they weren’t going anywhere! hahahahaha)…the next morning I found them in our brand new deep freezer!!! AHHH!! Thankfully there was no food in there yet! ha! So not only did he de-leg them, he froze them to death! Gosh.

Cluckingham Palace is coming right along… Josh and his Dad have worked their BUTTS off on this thing! Can’t wait til it’s done!

On Saturday we went to our friend Addison’s 4th birthday party! It was Alabama themed and Big Al showed up :) My boys thought they were too big to take a picture with him and Reece…

FREAKED HER FREAKIN FREAKITY FREAK!

She talked about the party all week and was so excited to see Big Al, until he walked in the door! She disappeared and I found her crying in the bathroom! Oh well!

 

PeyPey wasn’t feeling well that day…said he had a headache!

I started getting twin comments on the boys again this weekend! They are the same size these days! :)

DUDE! I’m behind!

Gosh. I don’t even know where to start! I’m very well aware that I’ve only blogged like 2.2 times the entire month of November. Officer Hubby was on evening shift for two weeks and it really got me out of whack. Not to mention I about went whack. For real. I don’t know how single mom’s do it. Taking care of all the kiddos by myself was not really hard…it was just that there’s only one me and there needed to be 57! Plus I was lonely without my other half!

Close to the end of the two weeks Reece got REALLY sick. Started with a low grade fever. No biggie. Then on last Thursday night we fell asleep on the couch together. I woke up with her trembling in my arms…I knew her temp had to be sky high. I was still half asleep and couldn’t think straight. I called Hubby who told me to get her in the bath tub. I did, but she was shaking so bad I couldn’t even hold on to her. OH I forgot to mention that we fell asleep two hours after I had given her Motrin. I didn’t keep her in the bath long because I couldn’t hold on to her. Once she was out I just kept her naked hoping that would help. I gave her Tylenol. After about 20 minutes she was still shaking. I called hubby again and we decided that we should get her to the emergency room. I really freaked my freak on the phone with him…I’ve dealt with high fevers before but I’ve always been able to manage them better than this. It was really scary. I called Allison to get her to stay with the boys…

Which is a whole other story! She jumped out of bed and headed to our house…about 5 miles or so away from hers. State Troopers have bean rampant in our area lately and of course she was speeding. And she got pulled over. She explained what was going on and he told her she was going really fast. He asked for her license and insurance card…she could not find the insurance card and freaked! If you know her in real life you have got to get her to tell you this story! I about peed on myself! Anyway, the trooper ever so nicely got her to calm down and only wrote her a ticket for the insurance…which will be thrown out! Whew!

Once Allison got to our house we headed to the ER. Reece had finally stopped shaking but we decided that unless we wanted to do this again at 3am we better go ahead and go. Also on this night was a ballgame. Stupidest thing ever to have a game on a weeknight. HATED it! The game was over around the time we were heading to the hospital, which is super close to campus and the stadium. Josh was driving like a bat outta hell…and I fussed but he ever so politely told me and I quote,” I drive like this for a living!” Whatever.

We thankfully made it in one piece to the ER and got Reecey Bug checked in. And then we got to sit in the ever so lovely waiting room where we saw all kinds of things…drunk boy that was half dressed in his bama gear that had been stabbed or something…that was the most interesting. So we sat there for TWO hours and nobody was even being called back! We got one of the nurses to take Reece’s temp. It was down to 100.2 and we left! I planned on having her at the pediatrician first thing the next morning…or the same morning because by this time it was after 12:00!

So, what caused the high fever?

Urinary Tract Infection.

We think. The urine specimen that the doctor’s office sent off came back inconclusive. So, we’ve been on antibiotics for a week plus a few days now. No more fever! yay! And we go back Tuesday to recheck and make sure the urine is all clear!

I still need to catch up on Peyton’s zoo field trip! Hopefully tomorrow! I’m being optimistic!

xoxo,

Cop Wife

Sometimes it’s hard to be a cop wife. I remember when Josh first told me that he was thinking about becoming a police officer…it made me so nervous! And for months after he started working at TPD I couldn’t hardly sleep.

His life is on the line every single time he leaves our house to go to work.

That sucks.

But I have finally come to the point where I don’t worry so much. I know it’s out of my hands and all I can do is pray for him to be safe!

Still, every now and then I let my emotions get the best of me and freak out. Case in point, Saturday morning. Actually let’s back all the way up to the day I posted on here about getting a new critter! Almost as soon as I posted asking for advice on what to get I b-lined it to the nearest pet store and spent $70+ on a hamster and all the jazz to go with it. I didn’t even give y’all time to talk me out of it! But anyway, the kids loved her and she was super cute! WAY better than having a cat! But when I woke up on Saturday morning she was dead. as. a. doornail. Yes I am serious. The kids were up but weren’t awake enough to even pay any attention and it looked like the rat was asleep. So. I texted the hubs who generally would have been on his way home at that time. Wellll, he didn’t say anything back so I called him…no answer. Hmm..I figured he was just on a late call and would call me back. I texted Allison to tell her the news. Meanwhile it had been 10 minutes or so since I tried to call Josh so I tried again. No answer. Made me a little but anxious. I tried to ignore the crazy in me that wanted to freak out and went about my morning making the kids breakfast. I called him every 5-10 minutes for 45 minutes and then my heart started racing. I didn’t want the kids to know I was worried so I still tried to ignore that gut wrenching feeling…and the tears that REALLY wanted to flow. Then my cell phone rang…it was Allison and as soon as I answered I started bawling! I couldn’t control it anymore so I went and hid in my bathroom and talked to her and she tried to talk some sort of sense into me! Didn’t work BUT my phone beeped and it was JOSH! YAY! I have NEVER been so relieved!

He could immediately tell that I was crying…

Josh: “What’s wrong babe?”

Me: “I’m just really worried about you!!!!”

Josh: “Oh I am SO sorry!!!! I’ve been on a CRAZY call and didn’t know you had been trying to call!! I am so sorry!”

All I could do was cry and laugh. He felt SO bad.

I know this post is getting lengthy, but you will be laughing even harder than you are now when you read what he was dealing with! It WAS crazier than me!

Officer Hubby was arresting an illegal mexican for sodomy and rape of a girl that had mental problems.(Bentley for Governor!!) He got a call from another officer that needed assistance at a local gas station. There was a man there, clean cut man, that had walked around behind the counter at the gas station..where the cashiers are. He unzipped his pants and whipped out his wiener. (how else do I say that on here?!?!?) When Josh got there he was singing to Josh, “My ding-a-ling is bigger than your ding-a-ling.” When the other officer was putting handcuffs on him he backed up and tried to grab the officer’s package! Can we say coo coo for cocoa puffs? Hubs starting investigating things and apparently the man went missing from Huntsville(North Alabama) 10 hours prior. He was not drunk or high. He was having a mental breakdown that made him THAT coo-coo. It’s really sad.

I don’t post too much about hubby’s job….but I did get permission for this one! :)

xoxo,

Gimmie a Break!

The Hubs and I are having a kid free weekend! Whoo hoo! I’m a teeny tiny bit excited! We’re going to the beach. We most definitely need a break…just to sit around and do nothing! Or maybe we’ll make out in the water for hours on end like our bachelorette, Ali! ha! Notsomuch.

In other news…the things that freak my freak the most are back…

I swear they sit around the office waiting for me to come outside and stand in the middle of the sidewalk daring for me to walk by so they can jump on me and eat me! Freakity!

xoxo,

Wacky Dreams!

How about I have only blogged THREE times this month so far! That's horrible. I'll do better. Just busy.

Do you ever have crazy whacked out dreams? I do. The other night I had this dream that I was pregnant, like 15 months pregnant(if you have kids, you know what I mean!) I was somewhere alone and felt like the baby was coming. I drove myself to the hospital. When I arrived there where hundreds and hundreds of people outside waiting to get in. I decided to go to the front of the line because I really felt like the baby was coming. I got in this triage area where there were a lot of people and told the nurse what was happening. I lifted up my dress and the baby's head was partially out. So the nurse told me to sit right there on the floor and push! (told you this was crazy!) So I did all by myself and the baby came right on out, we didn't know what we were having, so I looked and it was a girl, with a head full of blonde hair! LOL! She had fluid still in her lungs and I was telling the nurse and trying to help the baby. The nurses kept telling me that they couldn't help me help the baby!!!! I was freaking out! Finally I hit her on the back enough and she was fine! Josh arrived and was upset that he missed the delivery. My friend Jamie was there working and she was trying to find a room to put us in and then I woke up!

You know I really love even numbers! 4 kids, 2 boys, 2 girls=perfect!

My heart is ready for another baby, but my head isn't. I'll let you know when they finally agree! :)

xoxo

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

Sooo, I'm sure most of you have figured out by now that my little nephew will be here tomorrow! :) yay! Can. Not. Wait! Allison plans to blog throughout the day so I will not be blogging. No sense in blogging about the same thing in two different places! If for some reason she doesn't feel like it or something comes up, I'll update! I do plan to update my tweets and maybe my facebook! So you can check there!

I realized that I never put our pictures from the cirus on here! We had such a fun time!

Some old creepy man tried to coax me and Reece into the men's bathroom at Wal-Mart yesterday. Talk about freakin your freak. Little did he know that IF I had been dumb enough to go anywhere near him I would have killed him right there in the bathroom! My little taser is definitely coming to good use! ha!

That's about it for now I guess!

xoxo

Bite Me!

Grrr. Today is not the day. If you know me in real life, you may want to stay away! Our leasing agent texted in...not CALLED in, she texted. That does not make me happy. And I really don't care if she sees this because I plan to tell her myself anyway. I have a TON of work to do, year end stuff, first of the year stuff, new sign company stuff...the list goes on and on. And I HAVE to stay on top of all this because my sister is having a baby any freakin day now....which apparently someone forgot.

And, no, it's not that time of the month at all. In fact I don't even have that but every three months thanks to my happy pill.(which isn't working, apparently!)

Stay away, I will bite!

xfreakino

Freakity Freak Freak Freak!!!!

I got a text picture from Josh yesterday afternoon.....

You probably can't tell from the picture because I couldn't either but, it's a freakin' rattlesnake! He killed it in my neighbors backyard right beside our fence! He shot it four times! I'm sure it didn't take that many, but you know how boys and their toys are! hee hee!

Here's it's fangs!

ahhhh!!!! That's too scary! The boys were outside playing and ran inside and told Josh that there was a snake out there! We(not we, Josh!) have killed two around our house since we've been there. The first one was a baby copperhead that came into the garage one night when Josh left for work. The other one was a baby rat snake that was squished by our garage door, remember?? This one, my friends, is by far the scariest! For Josh to use the pistol instead of a shovel should tell you that! He said it was a Timber Rattler. It had SIX rattles or whateveryoucallthem!

ughh!!!

xoxo

Roll Tide, Baby! Roll Tide!

Want to know what 90,000+ dedicated fans look like?? Drowned rats. That's what we looked like! :) To say that Josh and I got soaked on our way to the game would be an understatement! But we weren't the only ones and it was SO worth it! We had a blast. We had perfect seats. It stopped raining just before the game started. AND, we rolled all over those hogs!
A few pre-game shots:

And....then we were soaked! So much for cute hair!

Just before the game we were standing inside the stadium out of the rain eating a snack when Josh looked at me like I was about to be freaked about something. He glanced at the door we were standing by...I looked up and saw this...

Ahhh...I'm telling you, they follow me just to freak my freak! The green one was about 3 inches long and the other two were about two inches. Oh my heavens! And I couldn't really freak out because there were people everywhere! Eww!

Just in case you missed the final score.....

Yep, I think THAT'S a spanking!

xoxo

This time I'm freakin' YOUR freak!

Here's a little story that I thought ya'll(yep, southern girl talk today!) would find interesting! Share it with your friends and family, especially those wild women you know. It comes from my friend Donna and I'm sure she would want me to share!

Donna's daughter(Vanessa) and her husband(Jeff) had some pictures taken at the beach last summer by a photographer that Jeff knew. He is in the insurance industry and so was this photographer-a woman. Recently Vanessa and Jeff had to go to some sort of insurance convention or something and the woman was there as well. She told them that they were not going to believe what happened to her since they last saw each other. Apparently, she was at the beach with a friend and met a man...I don't know if they met on the beach or in a bar or what...but she liked him and they were kissing on each other. He asked her to go home with him and she told him no and that she wasn't like that.

The next day or so she woke up with a rash around her mouth. She doctored it a few days and it kept getting worse. So, she went to the Dermatologist. He proceeded to ask her who she had been with. She told him the beach story. He asked where the guy lived and she told him that she didn't know, all she had was his name and phone number. The doc said that he needed both to give to the authorites! Come to find out, the rash she had on her face was some sort of flesh eating bacteria, THAT YOU ONLY GET FROM MESSING WITH DEAD PEOPLE. Sooooooooooooooooooo the authorites went to his house and found THREE dead women in there!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow, she would have been the fourth! And the flesh eating bacteria is fatal and would have killed her had she not gone to the doctor!

THAT my friends is just another reason not to be leaving the bar and going home with someone! ugh!

Told you I was gonna freak your freak!

xoxo

Freak my Freak, take 4567

Remember this??? I'm telling you, they really freak me out! I seriously run when I see them! Allison was leaving the office today and she called me from the parking lot and told me to "Come quick!" I don't know about you but when a pregnant lady says, "Jump." I run! So I did. And this is what she had to show me....

Look right there on the power line.....Yep, they're making more! I almost had a heart attack. Almost.

xoxo

Man oh man....ONLY me!

So, I sort of ran out of gas this morning. You see, I am VERY dependant on my low fuel light. I rarely get gas until it comes on.(I'm a woman, don't hate!) Yesterday, I noticed that the gas was getting low and that I hadn't got gas since before we came home from the beach on Sunday. Most of you would have high tailed it to the nearest gas station---not me, that makes too much sense people! The light wasn't on, I was good to go! This morning I was on I-359(busy, busy!) headed to drop Peyton and Reece off at school when my car/truck/whateveryouwanttocallit started s-l-o-w-i-n-g down. I thought, "Oh no! Something is wrong with my car!" I pulled to the side of the road, turned the flashers on, said a quick prayer that we didn't get run over and called the hubs.

ring ring ring
Griffin: Hello.
Me: I need to talk to Daddy quick. It's an emergency.
Griffin: Oh Mom! Ok!
Griffin: Daadddddddddyyyyyyy, it's Mom, it's an emergency!!!!
Josh: Hello.
Me: Hey babe, we're ok, right now. My car, not so much. It just quit! The check engine light is on and some red light is on. I know my gas was getting low, but the light wasn't on!
Josh: It's ok. Just turn it off and then try to turn it back on.
Me: Please Please work! And it did! Phew! I will just putt putt to the gas station and go ahead and get gas, maybe it's just freakin it's freak because it's low.....
Josh: Probably so.(I know he was thinking, "Women."and probably rolling his eyes!)

I drove along to the gas station which wasn't very far and put 22.5 gallons of gas in it! By far the most that I ever have!! So, yes, technically I ran out of gas!

I will never depend on that light again, ever!!!!!
xoxo

Freak my freak, take 957!

First of all, I would like to give a shout out to my mom! I love you so dearly and I am SO blessed to have a best friend in you! I meant to include this in my post yesterday but you know, I was freaked about the allergic reaction stuff and I forgot!

Now, I said that I would post about our lovely Friday night as well. But, I will tell you that I am sitting here cringing just thinking about it!! ...cue those hibbie jibbies!.... We got home from the ballpark and were doing our normal thing getting all the kiddos out of the car when I heard my honey bunny say, "Well dang!" "What is it?" I asked as I jumped out of my car(yes I said jumped...you know I'm short and that Expedition is way taller!) "Come look!" As I approached what was there my heart started to pound.....
Ahhhhhhhh...freak my freakity freakkkkkkk!
He apparently was trying to get in or out of our garage when Josh was leaving and he (or maybe it was a she) got squished in the garage door! We walk by that very same spot 8,000 times a day and lemme tell ya I would have PASSED OUT had it been alive when I walked by!

I plan to jump back on the wagon with Not Me Monday's today....so that'll be a little later!
xoxo

Ahhhh!!!

For those of you who don't know...I am terrified I mean TERRIFIED of grasshoppers. I don't know what it is about them. They just freak my freakity freak freak(as Ellen would say). Come at me with a grasshopper and I will have a heart attack. No joking....and especially those giangantic red and black ones.



They seem to be all around the office, which totally sucks. Week before last I was headed out the door to the accountant's office, Baby Girl in tow. I headed around to her side of the car to put her in...there one stood, staring straight at me!!!...cue the hibbie jibbies!... I grabbed my southern linc out of the diaper bag and screamed for Allison to rescue me! Then, a few days later, he was back in the parking lot, however this time he was dead! YAY!