Updates

Hello everyone!

I thought my blog needed an update. I've been off of work this weekend. :) Yay! Thursday morning, Luke's mom called saying that Luke wanted to come to our house. So, Jason went and picked him up and we've had him since Thursday. He's currently taking a nap. We went up to the video store earlier and he rented a video game for the GameCube. I'm off tomorrow too, but not the whole day. I have to take my certification test for The State Board of Pharmacy tomorrow at 12:30 in Springfield, IL. I'm nervous about it because I've taken it once and I failed it by 8 points. :( But I do feel more confident this time than I did the last time. I really hope I pass it!!! Prayers, please! :)

Luke decided that he wanted to go to Sunday School with Grandma Stella this morning. He said he had a lot of fun and he wants to go back the Sunday. He brought some books home and he was showing us.

Jason's 25th birthday is tomorrow. Luke and I picked out his birthday present and Father's Day present yesterday. We will probably make him a cake tomorrow. I have to work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and then I'm off of Friday! Then I work Sat and Sun, but I think I'm off the following Monday. Our town is having a BBQ this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Mom (and maybe my dad) and Travi will be coming up. We should have the kids, too. They have a carnival, BBQ, games, entertainment and all that usual stuff.

Travi III graduates grade school this coming week! I can't believe it, he'll be going into middle school this coming up school year. Ah! And Daniel graduated Kindergarten! My goodness! lol

My dad just had another appointment with his doctor a few days ago. He is seeing a new doctor now, though. His old doctor misdiagnosed him. Instead of having ulcerative colitis, he has Crohn's Disease. But the pharmacists that I work with told me that they're both very similar and sometimes it's hard to tell which one it is because they're so similar. Dad says he likes this doctor a lot. He thoroughly explains things to him to where he can understand it.

Well, I think that's all for now. I'll probably have pictures to post in about a week. :)

Until next time,

-Cole- xoxox

Engaged for 1 year today!

Hey everyone!

Can you believe it? Jason and I have been engaged for a full year today. It was technically on Mother's Day last year, but last year, Mother's Day was on May 11th. I was off of work today and I wanted to get my hair cut, so I did that today. Then after that we went to Applebees. I had remembered going to Applebees a few years ago after a school dance, but I don't remember what I ordered. Neither one us were that impressed with what we ordered. We took the majority of it home. Oh well. We're just sitting here watching TV right now. Back to work tomorrow. :(


Until next time,

Cole xoxoxo

Almost two years ago...



And now...

Happy Mother's Day!

Hey!

Two posts in one day are a bit rare from me, but I didn't want everything in one post, so I decided to do a separate one for Mother's Day. Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the mom's out there.

We did have the kids this weekend, unfortunately we had to take them back early today. I did not have nearly enough time with them, but at least I did have some time. The kids made me a bunch of pictures...they all had mom written on them. They were so cute. And Jasmine made two things at school for Mother's Day and she gave one of them to me. It was a coupon book for different things. If you're a mom, chances are you've gotten one before. lol So I can turn it in for a back message, a night out of doing the dishes, making the bed, etc. They also got me a gift bag full of stuff. I was upset about not getting to spend much time with them today...but Jason made me feel a little bit better...and so did grandma Stella. She bought a carnation flower and put it in a vase and said, "Here, this is for you...thank you for being such a great mommy to my great grandkids." And I had to fight back the tears. It was really sweet.

As I said in my last post, I bought my mom a card and made her the scrapbook. I talked to Glen for a few minutes this morning and he said that mom was showing it off. :) I told her that I wish I had had more time to work on it and she said that since there were more pages in it still, I could take it back close to next Mother's Day and add more stuff to it. That way I can add more stickers and pictures, and even more pages if I need to.

I called my Aunt Joyce to wish her a Happy Mother's Day. Connie answered the phone, so I got to talk to her for a minute or two. I think they were all getting ready to go out to Olive Garden for lunch. I called grandma to wish her a Happy Mother's Day too, along with Eve and I sent a bunch of mom's on Myspace little Mother's Day messages. Kelly wished me a Happy Mother's Day today and I told her I'd have the kids call her before we took them home...but I forgot that she'd still be in church by the time we took them home. So I recorded a short little video of the kids wishing her a Happy Mother's Day and sent it to her.

Thank you to those of you who wished me a Happy Mother's Day today. I won't mention names, but last year, I called someone to wish them a Happy Mother's Day and what I got in return felt like a slap in the face. I was told, "Well I can't say the same for you...you're not a mother." That hurt me more than I let anyone know. I may not have given birth to those kids, but that does not make me any less of a mother. In fact, I'm the only real mother figure those children have in their lives. I hope that you all had a good day with your kids. Mine was too short, but at least I got to see them.

Love,

Cole xoxox




P.S. That multi-colored hat...it says "My mom is 21 and my dad is 24." Jas asked me how old I was, and I didn't realize why she was asking me until she gave me that paper.

Luke's 6th Birthday Party

Hey everyone!

Luke's 6th birthday was Friday, May 8th. We had his birthday party yesterday afternoon. Mom and dad came up and brought Travi and Daniel with them. I was really glad to see all of them. They were on the road around 7:00 and they arrived around 10:00. We visited for about an hour. Mom had Easter baskets for them (we hadn't seen them since my birthday weekend). We had decided to get some KFC chicken for lunch, so my parents and nephews headed to Jacksonville to get the chicken. In the meantime I iced the birthday cake and then we met each other at the park.

I bought a Pillsbury cake mix and it was the golden butter recipe. I've gotten several compliments on how good it was. I haven't tried it yet though...not a big cake person. I bought chocolate icing and it had sprinkles that came with it. Well, Luke told me he wanted vanilla icing and he wanted a cake versus cupcakes because he had chocolate iced cupcakes at school for his birthday. So, mom brought me some vanilla icing and I just used the sprinkles and kept the chocolate icing for something else.



I made mom a scrapbook for Mother's Day. It had a bunch of pictures of her kids and grandkids. The front page (at the top) said "Mom3GP5", which is her screen name. It means mom of 3 and grandparent of 5. I figured since I was making it with pictures of her kids and grandkids, it would be perfect. In the center it had a picture that was taken at my birthday party of my brothers and I. I'm the only one smiling, but I still love the picture. lol The picture had Glen on my left, me in the middle and Travis on my right. So, stemming down from the picture of me and my brothers, I put a picture of Daniel to the left of Glen, my kids underneath and a pic of Travi to the right of Travis. Mom really liked it and I think she was surprised. I also had two pages set aside for the animals. Can't forget them. LOL One page for the dogs and then the other for the cats. I meant to take pictures of it, but I forgot. I had a few pictures that Travis and Eve sent up for me for the scrapbook that I had to put in last minute, so I was rushed and I forgot. It's okay though. I got her a card also.

We all met at the park. They had a pavilion there, but it was really cold under it. It was pretty windy yesterday and the sun kept going in and out, so it made it a little chilly...but all the kids had jackets. It was really nice when the sun was out though. We let them play for about an hour and then we decided to do the cake and presents at home since it was windy. I had to work at 3:30, so we didn't have all that much time. :(

We came back and let him open his presents and eat cake. After that, I wanted some group pictures...then I had to go to work until 10:00. I really enjoyed getting to see my parents and nephews. I miss those little guys. Daniel said a few funny things to me. When he first walked in, he said, "Wow Aunt Nicole... you look bigger since the last time I seen you!" LOL And the other was, he asked me to give him a piggy back ride. I lifted him onto my back, but I couldn't walk with him. And he says to me later on, "How old are you? Like 19?" I said, "No, I'm 21." And he says, "And you couldn't give me a piggy back ride?!?! You should be stronger than that by now!" LOL Then, he came upstairs with me in our bedroom for a few minutes and on our bookshelf, we have some games too. He went downstairs to ask Jason if he had some game and he came back upstairs and told me, "Um...your husband don't know what game I'm talking about...um... you know...James?" And I laughed and I said, "You mean Jason?" And he says, "Oh yeah! I mean Jason...sorry, I'm bad with names sometimes!" haha

Anyway, as always I will post some pictures later. I'm uploading to Myspace now and I'm almost done. Love you all!

Until next time,

Cole xoxox

P.S. Here are some of the group shots I got also: