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My ten top things I experienced at the wonderful fair: (not in order)

1) I worked at our Animal Welfare Society booth
2) I recognized and met April !!!! ooooh, I think I actually did a link.
3) Ate an Indian taco- or should that be politically correct- a native american taco? :)
4) Ate part of a cheese on a stick
5) Rode the ferris wheel with Brady
6) Watched Brady ride everything else
7) Brady won a stuffed spider playing the horse race game
8) Looked at all of the animals
9) Smelled all of the animals
10) Sweated!!!!!!

Dang Hurricane!!

This has not been a great 2 days. My inlaws (Steve's parents) live in Slidell, which is right across the bridge East from New Orleans. They left their house yesterday to go to Mobile to be with his other relatives. They are still in Mobile, but have no idea what condition their house is in, imagine a beautiful home with tons of collectibles and things that have been kept for years and years from Germany and all over the world. We are just hoping it isn't too bad, which we pretty much know it is probably flooded or tons of wind damage. They had up to 150 mph winds today. Mobile has had no electricity and may not have any for 3-4 weeks. I feel so bad for his family. I'm glad everyone is doing ok, just praying that their house isn't totally ruined. This is where we went on vacation the first week of August. If ya can, say a little prayer for his family! Thanks!
Shannon

Guess what??

That's my question to you--Guess what?
and No- mom, Alyssa & Keith-you are not allowed to guess!
because you know!

Keith, Ty & Alyssa

Below is a pic of my brother-in-law, Keith, Ty, and Alyssa.
When they were helping with the Home makeover.

Ty, Keith & Alyssa 

Pic of my Sis and Paul

Below is a picture of my sister, Alyssa and Paul from Extreme Home Makeover Home Edition. Yea!! I wish I could have gone. I will see later if she will let me try to post the pic of Ty!!

Alyssa & Paul 

OMG I'm in the running

I just read Redneck Diva's post and found out I am in the running for "Best Family Blog" in the Okie doke, Okie Blog Awards!!! How cooooool is that?? Very cool if you ask me. Diva is up for "4" awards! Go Diva!

I have nothing to whine about today. My day wasn't too good, but turned out to be wonderful. Tell you all about it soon!! I went to my college Algebra class today, that I am destined to make a "B" in. I think I may actually do ok in there. He is a very good teacher.
I talked to Alyssa, my sister, awhile ago and her and Keith, (she might be mad for me saying this before she tells it) but I am gonna blab it anyway, sorry squidly!!! Can't keep my mouth shut any longer!!.................. No, they are not expecting a baby!! :):) They have been working on the Extreme Makeover Home Edition in Purdy, Mo. They got to meet Ty today and yes, they talked with him, and also got their pix taken, and also with Paul!! Ty is such a cutie! I think it will air in October. They worked a lot on the house, Keith did a lot of wiring-he's an electrician, and Alyssa cleaned, and did a lot of things to help. They have been there off and on working all week. I will let you all know when it airs for sure.
Check out the Okie Blog Awards!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Top ten favorite foods: (not in order)
1. BBQ brisket
2. Taco Bueno chicken chilada platter
3. Chicken fried steak at the Coleman House rest.
4. Frito pie
5. Lasagna
6. Pizza
7. Lil' Cafe bacon cheeseburger
8. Chinese buffet (Chinese chef)
9. Broccoli and cauliflower salad(w/the bacon bits)
10. Big bopper sundae at Shakey's- yummmm! love the salty pecans with the ice cream!!

These are some that came to mind.

Watchin the race!

What am I doing on a Sunday? Of course watching the race, Nascar that is.
Tony started in 36th place and now is in 4th after 94 out of 200 laps. VERY cool!
Mr. Bradys-mom is mad because I keep getting excited that he is so talented to come up that many laps so I am not speaking to him right now. HA! Going to finish watching. Hope no major things happen. There is a lot of trash on the track today so cars are overheating. More later!

Finally someone wondering where I am

One of my advisors from PSU called me today wondering why I haven't enrolled in classes for the fall. Made me feel good, someone wondering where I have been and why. She called to ask me why I haven't enrolled for my restricted courses for the semester. Here's the reason: I called Dr.%&*(^ won't mention names on here, but I called her to see if the wonderful CARTE committee had reviewed my request to get into the 5% window, since school starts Monday! She said they had their meeting on Wednesday evening and my request had been denied. I was so pissed off. This is all because of my "C" in college Algebra. I took col. alg. at NEO in the summer from the head of the math dept. I had been out of college for 15 years, and I thought a "C" was pretty dang good for being out that long and taking it in the summer from the head of the math dept.!!!! Anyway I was pissed. My advisor that I talked to today I totally love, she is the one that gave me my scholarship for my minor, and she was concerned about my classes. Ok, so I have decided to take my algebra class over again at NEO this semester, and I am going to substitute teach. I am going to make a "B" if it kills me. Should be easier than in the summer though. And I will have my sister, Alyssa tutor me, since she is the math whiz in the family, and she is in Miami now.
If they give me any problems about my "B" average after I do this class, since I already made a "B" in Math 304 for teachers, and they make me take the PPST math test again, I am not taking it, I will write a letter to the dean about discrimination. I am not taking it again.
Ok, enough griping.
My dog must really trust me to sit right under the computer chair, knowing I could roll over an ear or a leg at any time. She weighs about 90 lbs.
Oh, Courtney, for some reason my computer won't let me reply to your blogs. I don't know why!! Hope your year goes good, teacher! Kids are so funny especially when they say damn! :) Good luck on your garage sale, and I will see you at the fair. We (animal welfare society) are having a booth too.

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Ok, here it goes the Top ten Tuesday from Aprils new thing:

My "Top ten things I need to get done to my house"

1- Do a "Clean Sweep" to every room in my house (except the
bathroom)
I'm talking totally removing everything from the room and taking it
outside!

2- Finish painting my living room paneling (brown paneling, that is!)

3- Get new carpet in the living room

4- Lay a new floor in the kitchen

5- Move our room to the gameroom and Brady's room to our room

6- Put our fence up so I won't have to "take" the dog out every 10 min.

7- Paint my kitchen cabinets

8- Get organized (new file cabinet)

9- Eventually gut our other 2nd bathroom

10-Take our shower doors down and put my shower curtain up in 1st
bathroom

CASINO

My husband and I went on a "date" last night. He is still on vacation so we actually got to go somewhere on a Friday night!! My mom watched Brady and he spent the night and we went and ate at the Coleman House restaurant. It was soooooo goooood! I had chicken fried steak w/gravy, roasted corn mashed potatoes, and the vegetable of the day-which was a bunch of squash. We also shared dessert-chocolate pecan cheesecake with the fancy syrup drizzled all over the plate and whipped cream. Talk about an awesome chef they have there it was outstanding!!
Then we decided to walk around-I talked to a lot of people I knew from working in the box office. Steve decided to hit the poker room and I was playing on my Cherry Pop machine. He came out $165 ahead and I was hitting ok. I walked out with like $31.00. That was at 3:15 in the morning. Way past my bedtime!
We cleaned the game room yesterday-that is planning on being our room someday. I didn't realize we had so much crap! Why did I keep so much useless stuff? And as my husband says why are we keeping more useless crap? owell. If he was to go in there and clean we would have nothing left which kinda sounds like a good idea!!
Oh, I found my shorts. Steve had stuck the dirty clothes into the side(end) of the suitcase. Yea.

Movies Movies Movies

I still can't find one small bag of dirty clothes. What happens to everything? They had my new shorts in it! We had it at the motel we stayed in. Owell I guess they will turn up sometime.
We went and saw the "Bad News Bears" yesterday. If you don't want your children listening to bad language don't take them to see it. LOL
I guess if ya really think about it, Billy Bob was in it, so what would you expect?? It was cute though. We used our free tickets that Brady and I got before our vacation. We had went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on a Thursday (which we were in the theatre and I received a phone call from the secretary of our animal welf. society saying she wouldn't be able to make it to our meeting that day!! Here I am the pres., and forgot all about the meeting. I'm such a loser sometimes) anyway I called the treas. to tell her I totally forgot the meeting.) We were watching our movie and there was a storm outside and the power went off maybe 5-10 minutes before it ended.
We got 2 free tickets to use toward our family outing. On Tuesday Brady and I went to see "The Longest Yard". I just love Adam.
I got a new camera phone yesterday. We went to Home Depot where they had a Home Depot Tony Stewart pop machine when you walk through the door. I had Brady take a picture of me and Tony. Steve got so mad and went in to look at the fencing supplies. haha
Steve and one of his friends went to Quapaw Casino to play poker on Wed. and they got in on the bad beat they had going up there which was 67,000something dollars. Needless to say we got some moolah. Now we need to get our fence.

Back from the VACATION!!

Hello!
We left last Monday(Aug 1st) for vacation. Me, hubby, Brady and my mom drove 12 hours to Slidell Louisiana to visit Steve's parents, my inlaws. We dropped off the dog at Watterson's then picked mom up at the car fixer place so she could get her SUV fixed while we were gone. Then our 12 hour drive began. The first 9 hours went by ok, but the last 3 really sucked. We were so ready to get somewhere, take off our shoes and rest. While we were down there we went on a swamp tour which was great!! We saw tons of gators that came up right to the boat. I will try to post some pictures in a few days. We took videos of it, but my mom took pics.
We went shopping at the Big Dogs outlet store, our favorite!! We are a Big Dogs family, who also own a BIG dog. We went to Casino Magic where I won nada. We ate at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, which the food is wonderful if you are ever down that way. We played the slots and I won $71, putting in a $5 my mom gave me. I had it up to $97 but then had to get greeeedy and try to hit again. I got down to $76 and cashed out. It was very exciting since I never win in Miami. Another day we visisted with the rest of Steve's family, we went shopping again at the mall by their house and then went to the Bayou store which was very interesting. We left Saturday evening around 7pm. There was no way I was going to drive straight through, so we stopped at Nachitoches?!sp?? We never figured out how to pronounce that name. There was one sign that said Many Nachitoches, but we found out that "Many" was a town and also "Nachitoches". We drove 5hours that night, checked in, called Dominoes and ate and went to bed. We drove 7 hours the next day, taking our time because we just had to eat the Shoneys breakfast buffet. Oh and on the way home had to keep track of the race. Which, by the way Tony won!!!
When coming home that night we found out the our house had a large population of fleas since I guess a couple were in there and then they multiplied while we were gone. We had to go to Walmart and then come home and bomb our house, and we went to a motel. fun fun!!
Had a great vacation though!!!!!