Post #50!!!

Well we got our first round of engagement pics done today, very excited. This weekend was the craziest and it is not getting any better. I feel like I have not stopped, which usually is good considering all I usually do is clean on weekends anyway but this is the weekend I really wanted to just clean/veg in my house but with all this crazy stuff going on I couldn't :( March is already looking busy for me and April is our Tampa trip among other things. I am not complaining just making an observation. Then with this spring forward crap I really feel like I have less time today.

Friday night was Mama's bday so Jus and I headed that way after work. We got there about 7ish but by the time we were ready to leave it was pass 11. We had the bright idea of letting Jus take the car home and I stay put until the am. Well Justin woke up late (shocker) and FINALLY got to my moms around 10 am. I told him we had a long list of things to do since our pics were the next day and he had to go to work. We got many things done with Kendi's help when I realized that the shirt I had planned to take my pics in was just not going to workout. So I was off to the mall when I realized the time. I had to pick up Laila (back in Arnaudville) When I got there Kendi and Laila each had a friend. Two thirteen year olds and two twelve year olds and I trapped back to Lafayette to the mall. Needless to say we got back about 11pm last night!

Then this morning I was up and at'em for 7am (so much for sleeping late on a weekend huh?) I got half way ready and drove back to Lafayette to wake up Justin and to finish getting ready for pics. All went well but we took a little longer then we all expected. It is now 3pm and I just got a call that I need to pick up Kendi and be at church in BB by 5 or I can drive all the way back to Lafayette and go to church at 6:15. I have a MAJOR list of things that needs to be done in my house so I will have to decide quick! plus I have to pick up food for Just on my way out of town! So much for a veg weekend :)

will post new pics soon!

GREAT NEWS!!!

I got ANOTHER raise and a promotion to boot!!!! I will have my own office, my own cell phone, and many other luxuries I did not have before. I love the position that I have now but I am surely up for the challenge of the new one. I will have to work a lot more but I think it will all be worth it.

Justin also got a raise yesterday! I am so proud of him and all his hard work and well earn achievements. I can not wait to say "that is MY husband!" He will never know how much I love and appreciate him.

To celebrate we bought our wedding rings!!!!! They are PERFECT!!

Good News

I was suppose to write this yesterday but oh well, Sarah, you are the only one that reads this and you know anyways...lol

I finally found someone who will clean my dress. They are in Baton Rouge but I am ok as long as they get it done. It is also not that bad of a price anyway.

I called LaBelle Masion to make sure my reception was still on the schedule and it is!! Now I just have to double check with the church.

I GOT A RAISE!!! $6000.00 more a year to be exact!! I am so excited! My boss had nothing bad to say about me!!!

I am thankful for all of these good things in my life. Now on to even more exciting news. We planned our Tampa trip!!! We will leave Tuesday April 15th after work or school and drive all night to Tampa. We will then stay until Sunday after lunch and drive back. I am really excited!!!!

Thankful and Loved

I have come to realize the only way I am going to be happy with having to sleep in Arnaudville is to be there as little as possible. So now I find myself getting there at the latest possible hour and waking at the crack of stupid! Sunday morning I woke up at 7am on my day off to drive back to Lafayette to avoid any conflict with my mother. I arrived at my house and did chores, visited Jus at work and watched my Desperate Housewives on my laptop (since I can not do that on my 3 channel tv).

Needless to say that by the time Jus got home from work we were both sooo tired. When he got home we both studied for a bit then decided to take a nap. When we both woke up it was just so amazing! We both felt refreshed and awake!*no pun intended* We decided to be lazy for the rest of the day. We baked a pizza (since we are to poor to order one..lol) and watched movies together. I didn't realize how much I missed him. Crazy huh?

I just feel so loved and happy to have him around! We will get through these five more months and will be all the stronger for it!

Reality

Yesterday evening Justin got a wake up call. While sitting at the airport talking to a couple pilots about tips and advice in his flight lessons, he found out what they where there for. He discovered that those pilots work for a medical company that flyes critical needs patients from one town to specialty hospitals and they were waiting for a male from here in Lafayette. Justin just sort of brushed it off since he sees this at least once a week. Little did he know that tonight would be totally different from the others. When he directed the ambulance in and opened the doors he was shocked. On the gurny was a small isollete with a tiny baby no bigger then his hand. He helped load the baby into the jet along with 2 doctors and 3 nurses. He fought back tears as the small little boy cried with all his might but sounded not louder then a kitten. Justin was in awe of how much everyone took control of there position to help this small little baby. Sadly the parents couldnt go with the baby the ambulance driver had said. I keep this baby in my prayers. I really hope he made it to Philadelphia safe and hope that he is able to grow healthy and strong. I pray for his parents. I am sure they, like most parents, hoped for a healthy baby and now have to struggle with their one day old baby being in a completely different state from them and the fear of the unknown. It makes you thankful for what you have and pray that it never happens to you. But now I hope that if my child or family member needs urgent care like that little baby that the medical team will be as caring a professional as that flight team was last night. Justin said he will never forget that small little tiny baby, scared and all alone but with so many around. It just makes you think.

Bridal Gown Drama!!!

I have the PERFECT dress! The only problem is it is used, no big deal, until the cleaner you bring it to is an idiot! Let me start from the beginning!

My mom called Camellia Cleaners on Kaliste Saloom last week, and asked if they cleaned wedding dresses. The lady told her yes but only at the store on Bertrand. My mom then procceded to call that location. The lady said that they did have someone there that took care of wedding dresses and heirloomed them. My mother told her we did not need it heirloomed just cleaned and they told her "no problem".

Fast forward to today: I called the Bertrand location to insure that they were open. The lady said "Yes, until noon." I asked is this the place that cleans the wedding dresses. "Yes, we can also heirloom them". I told her that would not be necessary since I need to wear the dress. She said "then I will tell them, just bring it by".

I drove from Arnaudville all the way to Lafayette. Laila and I walked into the store, carring my mammonth of a dress. When I walked the the bit...lovely lady behing the counter asked "are you the one that called about the wedding dress". Holding back smart ass comment, I say "yes, is there any place I need to put it" She said "Oh we dont clean them here." Fine, I ask if someone picks them up and does them elsewhere. "No"she said"we dont do wedding dresses at all" and my favorite thing out of here own mouth "I dont know who told you we did". My blood at this point is BOILING. I told Laila to go in the car. I turned back to the lady and informed her that she herself had told me and that my mother had called one week prior in order to get the dress to the correct place. Then she informed me it would be a $75 deposit up front! FOR WHAT?! Heirlooming!!!! How many times do I have to tell the woman I am getting married in Aug and would like to wear the dress to the wedding! and how in the HELL can you expect someone to pay for you to heirloom a DIRTY dress?! I will NEVER go there agian and have half the mind to call the owner!! If they didnt clean wedding dresses they just had to say so!!! Now I have a big wedding dress sitting in my car with my fiance near by!!! oh the stress!

Not so good day~

So it started like this, Thursday I had to work late. Justin came to be with me so I was not all alone at work. All of a sudden and completely out of the blue, an old ex texts me. I ignore him and laugh it off to Justin. Then he texts me two more times. I refuse to answer back and thought all was done with, then came Friday.

I picked up my friends little boy and was heading home. Justin had seemed aggravated each time I spoke with him. I thought it was all because I was interviewing a friend of mine for a position at work. Justin had called me and told me before that we would be going to a friend of his house. Fine we need to get out every once in a while, we are such homebodies. Well on my way home he calls to find out where I am and it all went down hill from there.

Trying to cheer him up I ask him how his day was and he began to tell me how bad it was bc he was mad at me all day long bc of the texts the day before...in other words he thought I was lieing to him since the ex texted me 3 times I must have texted him back! How horrible to think that I would lie about something so stupid!!! We, needless to say, went no where last night and I felt horrible bc I had told my friend I would keep her baby all night but wound up bringing him back. I am so tired today. I tossed and turned so much last night bc he was so mad for NOTHING!! If I would have been guilty I understand but nothing!

Needless to say it carried over to today. I have one of my sisters here and the other is at a science fair comp at the University so it is still a bad day, but it has gotten better now :)