Our Aweful Beautiful Life

Have you ever done something, for the thrill & excitement of it, only to look back later and realize how dumb it was? You know, like partying so hard on your 21st birthday, then totally regretting it when you're still feeling like crap at 4pm the next day? Or playing chicken with another car? Or...well, you get the picture. Let me set the stage for our latest bout with stupidity. We have family, namely Seth Maxwell, who works in the fertilizer business, and has recently been working with the local crop dusters to fill their tanks, so that they can do their job. (Insert note here courtesy of Wikipedia: A agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use - usually aerial application of pesticides ( crop dusting ) or fertiliser ( aerial topdressing ); in these roles they are referred to as "crop dusters" or "top dressers". Agricultural aircraft are also used for hydroseeding .). After visiting at our h...

  We had another great, but fast, weekend. Friday night, we got to see Trent & Lisa Stinson, and their little boy Grant. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to Grant's 1st Birthday party on Saturday, so we went to visit a day early. He's so cute, and he and Colton were playing together all evening. They were pretty nice to each other too...sharing toys, and being gentle with each other. It was fun to watch them interact. Saturday, Jason worked all day, while I attended a funeral and then ran errands in Monticello with Mom and Colton. I worked on cleaning up the house Saturday afternoon, before we headed up to the White County Fair. I had big plans for taking lots of pictures of Colton at the fair...but didn't take a single one. I'm still hoping to go back up there one more night, so I've got one more chance...we'll see if I can remember to take any pictures or not? Sunday was kind of busy in it's own right too. We headed up to Chalmers ...

So, Lindsay, who I share an office with, recently shared a website with me. Remember, I love to be creative. I think scrapbooking is awesome. However, I do not have the time, not the resources to buy everything it takes to make an awesome scrapbook. Hence, this is my new favorite website. WWW.SCRAPBLOG.COM -- check it out. If you are a Mom, if you have friends (haha...of course you do...that sounded bad), if you love pictures, if you have traveled, whatever....this site is awesome. You can totally create awesome scrapbook pages, all online. And, you can print them off at Wal-Mart, for cheap, and they look great, because we tested it out!  (And you really don't even have to share it publicly. You can set the settings to keep it private, and oh yeah, ITS FREE!!). Lindsay and I have been doing about one a day, over our lunches, and then saving them as jpegs and setting them as our screensaver-- aren't we smart? Okay, Lindsay's the smart one, but she's a good...

So, in about a month, we're going on vacation. It's gonna be fun, but hot. Really. Really. HOT. But that's okay...we'll be oceanside on a beautiful island with some great people. We're going to Dauphin Island, Alabama, with Seth & Jenna Maxwell, John, Jessica & Meredith Gretencord, Austin & Jill Pangle, and Ryan Clark. It's a fun group of people, I think anyway. Last night...we had a planning meeting to talk vehicles, travel plans, food, etc. Seth & Jen were kind enough to host a little cookout, and in doing so, I think we got a pretty good taste of what to expect during meal times in Alabama. Of course, once the food was prepared, Jason and I's plates were filled, and we'd sat down to enjoy, Colton got extremely jealous, and decided it was time for him to eat too. He does this...I swear the kid knows food. So, Jason held him and continued eating, and once Ryan finished his plate, he offered to take Colton. While I finishe...