[VACATiON PLEASE?]

He lately I have been very tired of going to work. I don't know why I just hate having to get up every morning and drive 50 minutes and then sit at work for 8 1/2 hours and then drive another 50 minutes home. I have just been SO tired the past few weeks... I am definitely thinking that I need a vacation. I just need some time to relax with Chaz before he has to leave again. I feel like I haven't had any time to relax in like 2 years. haha. I have just had some much going on the past few months with school, working 2 jobs, and Chaz being gone, that I have had no time to just go away and have fun with him. Well we really haven't been able to do that since we got married. I mean we have gone away for the weekend one or two times but that's just not enough. So... I think that I am going to plan a week long vacation for us :) i think that it is much needed. I don't know where to go though. I want to go to the beach but I dont know where. I would love to go to St. George but Chaz doesn't like to go to the same place a lot of times... weird... so I don't know. I guess I will just look at different places and prices and see what I can find. Or I mean if we could at least just go for a long weekend that would work too. I just want like 4 days and I will be good. I probably need to plan our little vacation for sometime soon though since we dont know when Chaz will be leaving. I guess I need to get planning then!

Nothing much has been going on other than us needing a vacation. I have been going to the physical therapist for 2 weeks now. I'm not sure if it is helping anything... it just hurts really bad. But I hope that it will work because I really don't want to have to have another surgery anytime soon. I go for 2 more weeks and then I go back to my orthopedic surgeon and see what he says. I have also gotten all of the information and everything about the school that I want to go to. The deadline for the application is September 1... I haven't done it yet. I guess I'm just scared that I wont get in. But I guess I just need to try, I have done this enough that I shouldn't be scared about it. I guess its just because this school would be SO good for me and I'm just scared because I want it so bad. So Hopefully I can get up enough courage to do it soon no that I am done with summer school and all of that crap. So please pray that I get in :)

Chaz will probably be leaving soon... and I am NOT looking forward to it. But when he does leave he will be in Georgia and Alabama so at least he will be close. I hate when he is gone :( And I hate that he will not really have a lot of notice when he has to leave either. He is just waiting for them to e-mail him and say ok, we are ready for you to come now. And then he will be gone in a few days. I just wish they could give him a date more in advance when they are going to need him. But I guess that's just life. At least he has a good job. Now if we could just buy a house everything would be PERFECT :)

[UNEXPLAiNED PAiNS]

Most people already know that I have a lot of knee problems. I have been going to the orthopedic surgeon since March trying to figure out what is wrong with my knee now since my surgery that I had in March of 2007 was a failure. In May I had a MRI and x-rays done. My MRI showed that I have chondromalacia patella which means that I have damage to the cartilage under my kneecap which causes me a lot of pain. The nurse described it to me as that my cartilage looks like crab meat, it is supposed to be smooth. So I went back to see my doctor last week and did some more test including a strength test for my legs. To mine and my doctors surprise my right knee, which it the messed up one, is actually stronger than my left knee which is kind of weird because of all the problems I have with my right knee. He is and has been very puzzled by my knee. He just cant seem to figure out what is wrong and he only wants surgery to be a last resort. He is also very puzzled about my last surgery that I had. I had a lateral plaque shelf removed, he has never even heard of a lateral plaque shelf which is very strange. So anyway he was telling me about another patient that he had that was about the same age as me and had all of the same symptoms too. he couldn't figure out what was wrong with her either. After months and months of trying to find out what was wrong he finally figured it out. She had a problem controlling the way she walked. It was not an obvious problem because you could not tell from watching her walk but it was causing her a lot of pain. So she did trunk strengthening exercises with a physical therapist and in 4 weeks her problem was solved! Apparently the way you use your upper body to control how you walk can cause you pain if you don't do it right. So he thinks that's what might be wrong with me. I go to my first physical therapy appointment this afternoon. I really hope this works because I don't want to have surgery again. I just don't want to be in pain anymore, or at least not as much pain. So I hope everything goes well! I'm sure it will not be fun but maybe it will be worth it in the end :)

[BEACH WEEKEND]

Me and Chaz had a WONDERFUL weekend! He took me to Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island in Florida. We had SO much fun! We found lots of sea shells and ate at some really good restaurants. He also got me a new bead to go on my Pandora charm bracelet to remember our weekend get away by. Its a light green and light blue glass bead and I love it. He is so sweet :) We had so much fun just walking on the beach and riding around looking at the island. We also went downtown to all the little shops, which I loved. One of the places that we ate at was called The Crab Trap. It was sooooo good! I could eat there everyday. The food was amazing. We also went down to the marina and looked at all the boats. Then on Sunday when we checked out of the hotel we decided that we would drive over to Jekyll Island and spend the day there since it was on the way home. We did pretty much the same thing there. We walked on the beach for most of the day and we had lunch at a little place called Zachary's, which was very good. The we drove down to the pier and around the historic part of town. It was so much fun for me to go back there since I haven't been in so long. Its funny how everything looks the same but how so much has changed. I still love it down there and we are already planning another trip back down there. It just brings back so many great memories being down there again :) While we were walking down the beach I saw a place where it looked like something had started burying itself so i started to dig it up. Well Chaz came to help me, bad idea! I had found a conch shell and when Chaz went to pull it out his finger slipped and it cut his finger open VERY bad. He probably should have gone to the hospital for him to get stitches but of course he wouldn't have that! So we just washed it and put a band-aid on it. Poor baby :( but I'm pretty sure he will be ok. That was they only bad thing that happened on the whole trip which was good. Well except that i got like 10 sand spurs in my foot! That is the one thing that I do not miss about Jekyll! haha. So we had a fantastic time there! Then we decided that we would ride over to St. Simons. So we did but we could never find out how to get to the beach. Every little road that went to it was a private drive so we just gave up on it and decided to head home. We took the scenic route because we were tired of being on I-95 after only about 25 miles and still about about 70 miles to go. It was nice to see some different scenery. It was a great weekend! I wish that it didn't have to end so soon but now we are back to reality and I already cut my finger at work first thing this morning. What a way to start my week. haha.

[SURPRiSE]

Nothing has really been happening lately. We are still in the same place as we were as far as trying to buy a house. But hopefully something will happen soon. Chaz is still at home. He is supposed to be going to Bainbridge and Alabama sometime soon. I'm glad that he gets to go there and doesn't have to go anywhere far away. I only have 1 week of school left this semester and then I am done with GPC and am going to apply to NSU and hopefully get to start in October.
Tomorrow is mine and Chaz's 9 month anniversary! We are going on a surprise trip! He told me at the beginning of the week that he was going to take me somewhere for the weekend because I have been wanting to go somewhere for a while now just to be able to get away from everything and be able to relax... which is something that I never seem to have time to do. So I'm really excited about that! Now if my day at work will just go by fast, which so far it is not. It seems like I have been here forever but I still have about 6 hours before I get off :( I am just so ready to get away and not have to worry about anything for a few days. I know that we will have a great time because we always do :) But I just realized yesterday that we will be away on out little trip on our anniversary! I thought that it was neat. So we will probably go out and have a nice dinner tomorrow night. I must say that I have the best husband in the whole universe :) He really is the best thing that has ever happened to me!
I realized that I haven't said anything about Cam and Ellie in a while so here is a little update on our little babies. Came is doing great! He is getting so big. I thought that he would have stopped growing by now because he will be 2 this year but he just keeps getting bigger and bigger. He goes through these phases where he wants to run out the door every time you open it. He hasn't done it in a while but he started it again this week. Every time I try to go out I cant get out fast enough and he is already out the door and in the yard. He just goes out there chews on the grass and sniffs all around. Usually you can catch him because he is a little scared of the outside and wont run away from you when you go towards him. Well he ran the other day. We were grilling out and I went out and got out and I was going to put him back inside but Chaz said to leave him out and just see what he does and that he would watch him. Well Cam made a run for the woods with Chaz running right behind him! It was quite funny I must say. But Chaz caught him just before he could get to the trees which was good because I just know that he would climb to the top of one of those pine trees! But other than his phase he is doing great! He is just as sweet and lovable as ever :) Ellie is doing great too. She will be a year old next month. She is getting so big! She is a good girl, she doesn't try to run outside like Cam does. She prefers to stay inside and sleep on their bed in front of the window. She does get her crazy bursts of energy where she just goes nuts running all around the house. Its funny though because I think that sometimes she gets to running so fast that she scares herself! It is so funny! So she is just as sweet as ever too :)
Well I guess that's all for now! I cant wait till this afternoon when we get to leave for our trip :) I hope everybody has a great weekend!

[FiNGERS CROSSED]

Over the past few weeks we have still been having a lot of trouble trying to get pre-approved for a loan because of Chaz's job. My Aunt Wanda is a real estate agent and has been doing a lot of research for us and we think that she has found a mortgage company that will give us a loan. So we are just waiting to find out more about that this week and hopefully we will get to start looking for a house very soon. We are keeping out fingers crossed for the time being. So that's about all that has been going on with that. I don't want to look for houses because I don't want to find one that we like and then us not be able to get a loan and then we will just get let down again and I'm getting really tired of that lately so we don't want to get our hopes up about anything until we are certain that we will be able to get a loan.

As most of you know I am still in school... blah... and that it doesn't look like there is any end in sight. Well I think that I might have found an end! A friend of our that goes to our church just graduated from an online school called Nova Southeastern University where he got his masters completely online. So I thought that I would look into it and I am SOOO glad that I did! So I have decided to apply there and try to start in the Fall of 2010 because I think that is the soonest that I could start but if I can start this fall then I am going to do that. But either way I am going to go to this school. I don't care how many times I have to apply I am not going to let anything stop me until I get accepted. The program that I am going to do is the Bachelor of Health Sciences or B.H.Sc. It is 120 credit hours but I should already have a lot of them done and hopefully they will transfer there and it wont take me very long to graduate. The good thing is that all of the classes are all health related and none of them are stupid classes that don't matter like all the ones that I am taking right now. And they are all completely online. So after I am done with this semester it is good bye to Georgia Perimeter and hello Nova Southeastern! I am so excited and I cant wait to start everything! Hopefully this will be a good thing for me to do and actually benefit me in the future.

Another good thing that happened yesterday is that Chaz found us somewhere to put our cows for free. It is his moms friends land and they just want something to keep the grass down so that he does not have to bush hod it. It is 15.5 acres and pasture, hardwoods, a creek and a barn. And the best thing is is that we don't have to pay anything! So hopefully we will be able to get them up here soon. And now I can get me a baby red cow since we have somewhere to put them. So I am very excited about that! Now we get to go to sells and to different farms of people that Chaz's knows so that I can pick out the perfect one :)

We got a new boat about 2 weeks ago so we have been going fishing some. It has been really fun. We have been going to Hard Labor Creek because our boat is a little to small to to take to Lake Oconee. But we still have fun there and I get to work on my tan too. haha. Hopefully we will get to go this weekend.

We also went to my Aunt Chris and Uncle Art's 4th of July party that they have every year. It was really fun. They had a lot of good fire works and good food. I also held little Katelyn for the first time :) She is so tiny! And she is so sweet. It was fun getting to hold her after I got over being scared that I was going to hurt her because she is so little. She just slept and would wiggle around every few minutes. Then she started crying so I handed her off to Clay. haha. We had a great time though.

Well that is pretty much all that has been going on lately... nothing really that exciting. It has just been a boring past few weeks. But hopefully some exciting things will happen soon :)