[IT'S ALMOST CHRiSTMAS]

Since I just realized that I forgot to write about our Christmas tree and everything in my last post that I would just give it its own. We went and got our Christmas tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving from Jack's Creek Tree Farm. It is our tradition! I was glad that we went earlier than we did last year because we had a really good choice of trees. It only took us about 10 minutes to find the perfect tree! I was so glad because it was really cold. So once me and G-Baby decided that it was the perfect one and what we thought was the perfect size Daddy cut it down. I was so excited and I couldn't wait to get home and put it up! Well when we got home we were getting it off of the top of the Explorer and the netting got stuck on my earring somehow so I immediately paniced!! But Daddy very carefully put down his end of the tree and came to my rescue :) So then we managed to get it in the house without knocking my wreath off the front door. The when we went to stand it up there was a little problem...it was to tall!! By about a foot! I guess our measurement of the tree was not very accurate and we didn't figure in for the tree stand. I was pretty upset because there was no way that my Christmas tree was not going to have my star on the top. But Daddy assured me that he could fix it. So after some cutting and shaping it was perfect!! Also our tree is SUPER fat which is why I love it so much. But anyway... after we put up the tree we went and ate dinner with MiMi and P-Paw so we didn't get home until late so we couldn't decorate the tree. In fact we were so busy that we didn't get our tree decorated until this past Sunday... a whole week after we go it! But I must say that it looks great! We even got a special pregnancy ornament that has 2010 on it so we can always remember our "1st" Christmas with G-Baby :) Also over the weekend I got most of my decorations out and got the outside of the house decorated. And I must say that it is very pretty! It has grapevine wreaths with pretty red bows that I made on each of the windows, garland on the front porch rails with bows on the posts, a big red bow on the mailbox, our cute little light up deer in the yard and my awesome Christmas wreath on the front door. I wanted to put up icicle lights on the house but I only have 3 strands that my Nanna and Pape gave us and I haven't had any time to get anymore. So I haven't decided if we are going to go through the trouble of putting them up this year since there is only like 2 weeks until Christmas. We will just see I guess. But other than that all of our Christmas stuff is perfect!! Except there are no presents under the tree yet. I know, I know... I have only bought 1 present and I haven't even wrapped it yet. I guess I better get on the ball with things because Christmas will be here before we know it!!

I will try to remember to put some pictures of the tree and the house on here when I get a chance :)

[G-BABY: 11-16 WEEKS]

I cant believe that I am 16 weeks and 4 days pregnant today! And that I will be starting my 5th month on Monday! It is crazy how fast it is going by. I went to the doctor on November 29 and G-Baby was PERFECT!! MiMi went with me because Chaz had to work and she wanted to hear the heartbeat again. So we got to see it and hear its sweet little heartbeat. I was so excited that we got to see it again! I have had an ultrasound every time I have gone to the doctor and I really hope they keep doing one every time. It is so exciting to see how much it has grown in just 4 weeks! Also my due date was changed from May 26 to May 23. Every time I have had an ultrasound the baby has been measuring 3-4 days ahead of my due date so the doctor decided to change it. The day of my doctor's appointment was also even more exciting because i felt the baby move for the first time!! It was the most amazing feeling ever!! Me and MiMi think that it likes Starbucks because I had just got done drinking a peppermint mocha when it moved. haha. I felt it move 2 times that day and I have felt it a few more times since then. It is so exciting! I cant wait until it really stars kicking and Chaz can feel it too.

My sickness has gotten much better in the past 2 weeks or so but I still have my days and certain things that make me sick. Also last time I went to the doctor I had lost another pound. So all together I have lost 14lbs. and I am still 7 lbs. less than when I got pregnant. I guess that is not really a bad thing because hopefully I wont gain to much weight since I'm almost 5 month and still less then my pre-pregnancy weight. My doctor doesn't seem concerned about it at this point so neither am I. I am getting bigger but I am still not very big, A lot of people cant even really tell that I am pregnant. But I am getting bigger and bigger everyday so hopefully soon I will look pregnant!

Yesterday was an exciting day as well! I was just pushing on my stomach a little just trying to feel the baby move and I felt something hard. When I told MiMi to feel it it was gone and then I felt it in another place! MiMi never felt it because I guess I was pushing it away when I would feel it. But later that day I felt it again! And this time Daddy, MiMi and Uncle Trey got to feel it!! I think it was a little foot because it was something small. And then a few minutes later it was gone again. It was so neat! Now I am feeling my belly all the time trying to feel something. haha.

This week there was a book sale at work so I bought about 10 books for G-Baby and me and Daddy have been reading a book or 2 to G-Baby every night! It is so much fun! I cant wait until it is actually here and we get to read to it.

We now have the nursery almost done! All we need is the changing table which P-Paw is going to make. I LOVE everything that we got! The collection is called Barn Dance. This is not a great picture and it is on the toddler bed but it has different farm animals on it and it is just PERFECT for G-Baby!!

But I must say that it looks much better with our crib :)

But that has pretty much been all that has gone on! I have my next doctors appointment on December 29 and I am getting a detailed ultrasound which I am pretty sure is a 3-D one so we are SUPER excited about that!!

[G-BABY: 6-10 WEEKS]

I cant believe that I will be 11 weeks pregnant tomorrow! It is unbelievable how fast it is going by already. Well in the past 4 weeks G-Baby has been growing a lot and is about the size of a peanut now! I had a doctors appointment and ultrasound on Monday and I was so amazing to see our little baby! MiMi also went with us to see G-Baby and she was very excited to get to see G-Baby in person! G-Baby was very active during my ultrasound which was AMAZiNG! It was kicking its little legs around and moving its arms all around and even waved at us and then it looked like G-Baby was sucking its thumb. G-Baby also had a good strong heartbeat of 160bmp. It sounded like a little horse galloping around. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. I cant wait to get to see G-Baby again!

G-Baby has been doing wonderful! I cant really say the same for Mommy and Daddy. G-Baby has been making me quite sick for the past 7 weeks. I have lost about 8lbs because I have been so sick. Lately it comes and goes so I am doing my very best to take care of G-Baby even though I am sick all the time. My doctor gave me a prescription for Zofran and it worked for about 2 weeks and now it doesn't help so much, but I am not as sick as I was more towards the beginning so I am dealing with it a lot better now. Daddy has had a very bad cold for almost a week now. I have been feeding him drugs to help him feel better but they seem to be only a temporary fix. If he is not better soon I am definitely going to make him go to the doctor because I cant afford for it to turn into something else and then me end up catching it.

We also celedrated our 2nd anniversary on the 18th. We had a lovely dinner at Olive Garden, it was soooo good! I cant believe that we have been married for 2 years already and are getting ready to welcome our first child into the world! I must admit our lives are pretty amazing and we are very blessed!

So that is how we are doing right now. Hopefully my sickness will go away soon since I am almost in my 2nd trimester and hopefully Daddy will get over his cold soon too. Pray for us and G-Baby that everything continues to go good! :)

[+1]

Its official... WE ARE HAVING A BABY! I will be 7 weeks tomorrow and I am due on May 26, 2011. We have never been more excited! We went to the doctor on Monday and got to see our little one and hear and see its heartbeat. Its heartbeat was only 100bpm but they said that when I come back in 4 weeks that it will be at full speed. It was the most amazing thing in the whole world! Also we are not finding out what it is :) its going to be a surprise! We cannot wait for it to be here but I also want to enjoy being pregnant. It is just amazing to me that there is already a little heart beating inside of me. So far I have just been very tired and had all day sickness, so I will be glad when that goes away. But other than that everything is perfect. We are so blessed to have such a little miricle on the way :)

[ACADEMiC HONORS]

I have some exciting news to share. I got a letter in the mail on Friday saying that I have been selected to in the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society. I must say that I was pretty surprised and excited. I get to go to a new members reception to recieve my pin and my membership certificate sometime in the next few months, Im not exactly sure when it is yet. I will also get to wear society honor cords when I graduate which I was actually not planning on walking at but my Mamma informed me that I am going to walk at graduation, so I guess I am. But since my school is in Ft. Lauderdale I guess that means a mini beach vacation too! But that wont be until next spring so I still have a few more months to go. I just hope that it goes by fast becasue I am starting to get tired. But each day I am closer and closer to being done, I just hope that it all pays off one day.

That is really all that I wanted to share. We are still doing good, just trying to finish getting the new house in order. Hopefully it will all come together soon.

We hope that everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!

[A FEW PiCTURES]

Cam wanted to be a catfish so he got in the aquarium. :)Bentely & Cam... my sweet baby boys!!

Bentley helping his Daddy drive.

Lexi (1 day old)

Lexi (1 week old)

Lexi (5 months old)

[CATCH UP]

I would definitely say that it has been a long time since I last posted so I will try to catch up on what all has happened. I know I have said this a thousand times but I am going to try to do better about posting. So anyway... here we go...
In February we celebrated my 23rd birthday, I'm getting old I know. Then nothing really exciting happened from then until June. The in June we celebrated Chaz's 22nd birthday. We also went to st. George Island, FL for a week with my family. We had a lot of fun. It was nice to be able to get away for a little while even though we were very busy on our vacation... buying a house!! To make along story short, the people that we were renting our house from lost it and just kind of forgot to tell us so we were not going to have anywhere to live because right after we found out about them losing the house it sold on the courthouse steps. It was a very very stressful time for us not knowing if we were literally going to be homeless or not even though we had done nothing wrong. But it ended up working out for the better. We ended up being able to buy a house! A little about our new house... it is in Fairplay, in Morgan County and it was built in 1937. The people that we bought it from bought it and completely remodeled it. It sits on almost 2 acres of beautiful land with huge oak trees around the house. It also has a huge fireplace and the most amazing screen porch ever. We love everything about it. It is the old farm house that we have always wanted. Now if we could just get everything in order and decorated it would be even better. We are still working on getting the yard like we want it but in time it will be perfect. We also have some wonderful neighbors so that is definitely a plus. Other than that we have just been working. Chaz still goes to Alabama to work on the weekends and I don't like it. I will be sooooo glad when he is done over there so that we can spend time together on the weekends since we don't ever get to do anything since there is no time during the week. I am also still in school full time. If everything goes as planned I should be done by this time next year, if not, I will probably lose my mind. I am so tired of school its not even funny. But I just keep pushing forward hoping that it will all pay off one day. All of our children are good, furry children that is. Cam will be 3 in November and is doing good, other than he seems to think that Bentley is a different cat since he went to the vet because he was sick. He would hiss at Bentley and run and hide under the bed. But he is getting a lot better. It was so weird I don't know why he did it. Bentley is also doing good. He celebrated his 1st birthday yesterday! And he also go fixed last Friday but he did very well and doesn't seem to hate me for it. Destiny and Ellie are also good. They are currently living on the screen porch until Chaz builds then a cat house as he calls it. Macy is also doing well. She has a wonderful big new pin that Chaz built her with some help from my Daddy and my Pape. I also painter her house to match ours, it is so cute. Maddie, Noel and Harley are all doing good. And I am please to announce that we have a new addition that made her arrival on March 18. Her name is Lexi, she is Maddie's calf and Harley's half sister. She is just as pretty as her Mommy and sister. I cant wait until she is old enough to be away from her Mommy so we can bring her up here.
But I guess that is pretty much all for now. Nothing very exciting but just getting caught up.

[DROPPiNG THE LBS.]

Chaz and I have decided to go on a diet. We have been saying for a while that we were going to but we just haven't until this past Monday. We are doing a low carb diet and as of yesterday we have both lost a little more than 6 pounds! So hopefully things will keep going good for us. I think that it has been harder for me so far than it has been for Chaz. I don't know why but the first day was very hard for me. Each day is getting better and easier though. I know that we can do it. We are going to start weighing ourselves on Mondays. We cheated this week and weighed ourselves yesterday because we wanted to see if it was working but we are not going to do that anymore. We also measured ourselves so that we can see where we are losing inches as well. I cant wait until you can start to tell that we have lost weight. I want to lose at least 49 pounds but I would really like to lose 59 so we will see. I am just going to set my goal at 49 for right now and then once I get there I will set a new goal for the other 10 pounds. Chaz wants to lose about 28 pounds. I know that he can do it. But it seems more discouraging when I see how much more than him that I have to lose. But I can do it... I hope. The way I see it though is that it can only get easier from here since each day our bodies are getting more used to it. We are also going to go join the gym tomorrow. I know that I am going to go everyday so I hope that Chaz will too. It is so much easier to tackle something like this when you are not alone in it. So I am very glad that we have each others support.

Wish us luck :)

[JUST SOME PiCTURES]

I was looking through the pictures on my phone and had some very very cute ones so I just thought that I would share :)

Bentley sleeping (that crazy little monkey is hanging off of the bar):

Cam & Bentely love each other so much:
I got a Snuggie for Christmas...Bentley thinks it is his:
Sweet Macy-Mae playing with her toy that she later destroyed:

Ellie's first outside adventure:
Crazy Destiny, she got on my Jeep and the jumped on the roof:

We love all of our crazy babies!!

[MERRY CHRiSTMAS & A NOT SO HAPPY NEW YEAR]

Since I last posted we have had 2 holidays. I cant believe it. Everything has gone by so fast.

We had a wonderful Christmas and got lots of great things. We went to my Pape and Nanna's for Christmas Eve like we always do. Then we went to the Christmas Eve service at our church. On Christmas day me and Chaz got up very early to do our Christmas together since I had to work on Christmas Day. It was fun even though it was very early. After I got home from work Chaz's Dad, Mom and his brother came up to have lunch and open presents with us. After that we went to my Dad and Mamma's house to have dinner and open presents. So we had a wonderful 2nd Christmas together and we cant wait for many many more!

Our New Year's eve was fun. We went to my friend Tiffany's house to ring in the new year. Then on New Year's day our day started out great! We went to my Pape and Nanna's house to have lunch like we always do. When we got home is when our good day turned to a terrible day. When we got home Chaz went to check on his deer corn and found my sweet precious Reagan... she had been killed :( I was devastated, and still am really. Its hard to lose one pet but to lose two in less than a year is more than I can deal with right now. We think that she was killed by a very mean looking stray dog that roams around our neighborhood. Next time I see it I am calling animal control and if they don't do anything about it I will. I just cannot believe my my precious Reagan is gone and I am beyond heartbroken that it happened the way that it did and that she had to suffer alone in the cold. I put up her stocking the other day and all I could do was cry. I want her back! And I still want Misty back too :( I don't understand why God has done these horrible things to me this past year. What did I do for them to deserve what happened to them?! I just don't understand why God took them away from me. I am still grieving the loss of both of them and I want to cry as I am sitting here typing this but I cant because if I do I wont be able to stop. I just have to be at peace knowing that they are together in heaven without a care in the world. I just have 2 guardian angles now :) And I still have all of my other babies that I love very much and that still need me so they keep me going.

I have since started back school, not a very long break but oh well. I am taking 3 classes this quarter. Everybody always asks me how much longer I have and the truth is... I have no idea. All I know is that I am not stopping until I am done. So hopefully this quarter will go as smooth as the last.

Chaz is still home which I am glad to say. We don't know when he will be leaving again but more than likely it will be either February or March. I personally would prefer it be March, that way I can spend more time with him.

More bad news from the Gibson family... The hospital that I work at has really been struggling for a little while now as far as money goes. This past week there were a lot of budget cuts and in those cuts my hours got cut. They got cut from 80 hours every 2 weeks to only 64 hours. Don't get me wrong I am very thankful to still have my job but that cut is really going to hurt us. And if it gets cut anymore we will lose our insurance which is my main concern. So just pray that things get better here and that my hours will go back up soon. And also if anybody knows of any places that are hiring part-time or for nights please let me know.

Well I guess that's about it for now... hopefully next time I will have only good news to post about.

[iTS ALMOST CHRiSTMAS]

I cant believe that it is almost Christmas!! It seems like it was just Christmas a few months ago. I love Christmas! I wouldn't care if I didn't get anything as long as I could get stuff for everybody else. I just like to see other people happy. I am pretty proud of myself because I am actually done with all of my Christmas shopping! I finished last Tuesday . I don't think that has ever happened before but I didn't really have a choice. I have worked everyday for the past 2 weeks and before that I have only had 1 weekend off since I started back working so I had to get it done a lot sooner this year but luckily I managed. I have to work on Christmas again this year which just totally sucks : / I have Christmas Eve off though and I am so ready for it! By the time it gets here I will have worked 14 full days straight and needless to say I am VERY ready for a day off even though it will not be a day that I get to rest. I am baking a pecan pie and a chocolate and strawberry celebration cake (if you have seen the Christmas Taste of Homes magazine it is the one on the cover) so I will be up early to get everything done in time for dinner at my Pape and Nanna's house. I love going to their house on Christmas Eve, we always have the best food and so much fun! I cant wait until Christmas gets here!! Only 4 more days!

I am FiNALLY done with school...for this semester at least : / I don't have my grades yet but I am about 98% positive that I got all A's! So I hope I did. Now at lease I have about 2 weeks off from school. I don't think that is going to be long enough at all but I guess it will have to do.

Chaz finally came home this past Friday and its a good thing that he did. He was in Philadelphia and he flew home the day before the snow storm hit there. So it was just in time or he probably wouldn't have been home for a while. So I was very glad about that!

But I guess that's about all has been going on! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

[LONG TiME NO TALK]

Wow! It has definitely been a VERY long time since I have posted on here. I would like to say that we have been very busy... but that would be a lie up until last week. So I will try to update on what all has been going on for the last month and a half.

I am now almost 3 months post op from my surgery. I am doing VERY well thank goodness. I am still going to physical therapy 2 times a week. I am not sure how much longer I will have to go but I hope it is not very much longer . I am just tired of having to go to Athens at least twice a week every week. But I am very thankful for my physical therapist, Trey, he has definitely helped me a lot. I went to see my orthopedic surgeon yesterday and he told me how he could still see the inside of my knee plain as day. He said that the other day that he was thinking about me the other day and thinking about how weird my knee was. He said that he has probably done 7,000 to 8,000 arthroscopic surgeries ( which is what I had done) and that he has NEVER seen anything like mine before. So I guess that makes me pretty special. haha. But anyway I just pray that it is fixed for good this time.

I am FiNALLY back at work! I started back last Monday. I am so glad to be back. I was getting bored sitting at home so much. But ever since I have been back I have had the worst cold ever. I just cannot seem to get rid of it. One day I will think that I am getting better but then it will be worse again the next day. But hopefully it will go away soon. I definitely think that 2 weeks is long enough for it to run its course.

I am almost done with school for this quarter. I only have 2 weeks left thank goodness! I am just ready for a break. But I really like it there so I am happy.

Chaz has been doing good too. He was sick a few weeks ago. He is the one who got me sick! How nice of him right? haha. But anyway he is back in Philadelphia now. He left on December 1 and he is supposed to be coming home on the 12th. Since I last posted he has worked in Alabama and South Georgia. I am not sure where he will be going next. He was supposed to be going to Ireland in February of March but he told me yesterday that they might get a job in northern Canada. So I guess we will just have to wait and see! But where ever he goes I am definitely going to visit.

We had a good Thanksgiving and I hope that everyone else did too. We ended up going to Florida to spend it with Chaz's family. I was very very sad that I didn't get to see my family because I have NEVER not seen them on Thanksgiving so it was pretty hard for me but we did have fun in Florida and it was good to get to see all of his family. Now I am just getting ready for Christmas to get here! I am not really anywhere near done with my shopping so since I don't have to work this weekend I am going to try to finish as much of it as I can since I don't really have a lot of time to go shopping these days.

All of the animals are doing good. Bentley is getting so big! I cant believe how big he is! Chaz thinks that we should give him some kind of medicine that will make him stay small forever. haha. But he is a good little baby. Cam is doing good too. He is still my little baby boy. Him and Bentley both sleep with me every night. Ellie, Reagan and Destiny are all doing good too. They play outside all day and have made friends with the neighbors cats. They occasionally invite them over for dinner which makes Chaz mad because he says that we are not going to feed all of the neighborhood cats. haha. When it started getting cold I bought them a bed and a kitty tower and they love both of them. I think Destiny claimed the bed because it seems like she never gets out of it. Harley and A-1 are also doing good. They are getting so big too. We have started feeding them hay in addition to their feed since all of the grass is almost dead. We also have a new addition to our family! We adopted a 10 month old yellow lab that we named Macy. She is very sweet and has lots of puppy energy. She also loves to play with Jett, my mamma's black lab. But he has gotten a little fat lately so she wears him out pretty fast. haha. But we are very glad to have her as part of our family now!

We went and cut down our Christmas tree on Sunday. It is very pretty if I do have to say so myself. We are very happy with it. Now I just have to fill up around the bottom with presents! Bentley loves the tree. I think that he thinks that it is a toy. He has already taken off a few ornaments and played with them around the house. He also has taken some of the lights off too which he got in trouble for but it didn't seem to phase him any. He only messes with it when the lights are on. I guess he thinks they are pretty and he just wants to touch them like a little kid. But he has been getting better about not messing with it. I will try to remember to take some pictures of it and post them on here. I will also put some pictures of Macy on here.

Well... I think that is pretty much everything that has been going on lately. I will not wait so long to post again! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

21 DAYS UNTiL CHRiSTMAS!!

[iT'S BEEN A WHiLE]

Its been a while since I last posted. We have actually been pretty busy the past few weeks. So here it goes...

It has been 5 weeks since I had my surgery. I have still not been released to go back to work and needless to say I am very ready to go back. I have been going to physical therapy twice a week in an effort to regain my range of motion and my strength. My therapist seems to think that I am doing very well. The only thing that my doctor is worried about is the fluid that is on my knee and the swelling. For the most part it has been feeling pretty good...until today. For some reason I have been a pretty good bit of pain. I don't know why but I hope that I feel better tomorrow because I have physical therapy. But over all I am doing well. I go back to the doctor on November 5. So I hope he will say that I can go back to work then.

Chaz has gone back to work. He was in Opelika, Alabama for 3 weeks. He has got to come home the past 2 weekends to that's always nice. This week he is Bainbridge. I'm not sure how long he will be there. He says that it is very boring for the most part because pretty much all he does is just sit there and wait for something to happen. But at least he is getting paid for it! haha.

School is going good for me. This is my 4th week and so far everything is moving along smoothly. I just hope that it will stay that way once I go back to work and don't have as much time to do school work.

This past Sunday was mine and Chaz's 1 year anniversary! I cant believe that it has already been a year! We spent a lovely weekend together. Saturday night we went and had a lovely dinner at The Melting Pot in Duluth. It was so good. I love that place. Then on Sunday we didn't really do a whole lot. We just spent the day together. We ate our wedding cake, which was delicious I might add. Chaz said that it wasn't bad for year old cake! haha. We also had some wine that we had bought in Helen on our honeymoon to have with our cake on our anniversary. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband! I cant wait to spend many many more amazing years with him.

Well I guess that's pretty much it for now!!

[LONG WEEK]

It has been a long week this week. Chaz left Monday to go to Alabama to work. He was supposed to get to come home today but he has to stay for at least another week. The man that he is covering for had to have surgery and has not been released to come back to work so Chaz has to stay there until he can come back, which will probably be another week or so. Then once he is done there he will go straight to Bainbridge. I'm not sure how long he will be there but it will probably be a few weeks. Also it is now official that he will be going to Spain as soon as that job starts which will more than likely be before the end of the year. There is also still a possibility that he will be going to California. And there is a good chance that he will be going to Ireland in March. So it sounds like he will be busy and not home for any extended amount of time anytime soon :( I don't like that at all. But you have to do what you have to do to survive these days. But I am excited about him getting to work at all of these neat places because that means that I get to go visit him there. So I guess that means that I need to go get my passport soon :)

Here is an update on my knee: I went back to the doctor on the 1st. He has still not released me to go back to work because of the swelling and the fluid that is on my knee. I go back to see him on the 15th and if the fluid is not gone he is going to drain it : / I am not looking forward to that. Because from the way that he said he might have to drain it it sounded like he didn't think it was going to go away on its own. But he did say that this is a very common thing to have with this procedure. There is nothing that I can really do about it, it just has to go away by itself if it is going to. I have still been going to physical therapy 2 times a week. I think that it is helping because after my surgery I couldn't really bend my knee at all and now I can barely sit indian style and it is not to painful. So we are definitely making progress and my physical therapist is very pleased with my progress. I hope that after I go back to see my doctor that I will soon be well enough to go back to work. Because now that Chaz is gone and I just sit at home by myself a lot I get really bored. My Mamma does come over a lot and help me do stuff so that I'm not just here all day by myself. But I am still just ready to get out of the house and do stuff.

I started school on Monday. I haven't really done anything so far since it was only the first week all we did was just introduce ourselves. I think that it is probably going to be a long quarter but I know that I can do it. I am just looking forward to really getting started.

As for everyone else they are doing good. Bentley is wild as everything and Cam and Ellie are slowly learning how to play easy with him. At first they were scared of him but I think that they are pretty used to him now so that's good. Destiny and Reagan are doing good too. They just sleep in the garage on my Jeep most of the day. But now that it is getting nice and cool outside they like to sleep in the flower bed under the bushes. Reagan has also made friends with a cat that lives down the road. They like to sit in the driveway together and enjoy the weather. Harley and A-1 are doing good also. They are getting so big. Before Chaz left I was not able to go and feed them because of my knee. But now that he is gone it is my job to take care of them. I am glad to have that responsibility back because I love getting to see them and pet them. I just miss being able to wash and walk Harley because I am not allowed to do anything that I could hurt my knee doing, and playing with her is one of those things :( But hopefully I will be able to do it again soon.

So I guess that is pretty much all that has been going on. Nothing to exciting but I just thought that I would share :)

[SCHOOL, WORK & THE NEW BABY]

I just found out like not even a week ago that I got into the BHS program at NSU. Well I got an e-mail welcoming me to the program and all of that stuff and how to sign up for my classes and to do my orientation and everything. Well I didn't get to do all of that stuff until yesterday because I had a hard time retrieving my PIN from them to sign into all of my things. So I finally got to sign into everything yesterday and if I read everything right... I am supposed to start classes TOMORROW!! Everything that I read before I even applied said that it started in October so I have no idea what is going on. And I don't know how on earth they expect me to do that! I mean I don't have my books or anything. So I don't know what I am going to do. I guess just order all of my books ASAP and hope that they get here really really fast because from all of the syllabi's for my classes it looks like there are going to be assignments due every week. So now I am super stressed out and trying to figure out how I am going to pay for my books and everything because I cant figure out my financial aid stuff... like if it telling me that I got it or not. I don't know what I am going to do! Its pretty bad that I am already this stressed out and I haven't even started my classes yet. Oh it is going to be a long quarter.

Chaz is going to be leaving tomorrow morning to go to Opelika, Alabama. He will be there for about a week and then hopefully he will get to come home for a few days and then he will be going to Bainbridge, Georgia for a week or two. Then he will probably come home for a few weeks and then he will be going back to Opelika for a few weeks. After he is done there he will hopefully be going to Spain or Ireland. We are just waiting to hear which place and when. But it wont be until the end of the year probably. So that means that I have to go get my passport so that I can go visit him. I am going to miss him very much but I am excited and I cant wait to go over there! It is going to be hard without him here since I am really still getting over my surgery and cant really drive yet...or not long distances anyway. So I'm not to sure how my drive to Athens 2 times a week for physical therapy is going to go but I'm sure that I can make it okay. At least my Mamma is close by now and I'm sure that she will take good care of me :)

We also got a new addition to our little family last week. He is furry, gray tiger striped and white, and very very tiny. He is our new sweet little 5 week old kitten, Bentley. He came from the same place that Cam did and we are pretty sure that they are full brothers because one of the other kittens in his litter looks identical to Cam. He is very sweet and super playful. We love him so much already :) Ellie is very good with him but Cam is still not used to him and when Bentley tries to play with Cam he really scares him. It is so funny because Bentley is so small compared to Cam but Cam is still scared of him. Here is our sweet little Bentley sleeping with his toy lion the first day that we got him.

So it looks like we are going to have a busy next few months ahead of us with me trying to get used to my new school and him working all over the place. Wish us luck :)

[RAiN RAiN GO AWAY]

I has been raining for what seems like forever. I would have to say about 12 days because it started raining the day that I had my surgery. I have never seen anything like this before. Everything is flooding! I was starting to worry about the water getting onto our house because we had a lake in the backyard and rivers going down both sides of the house. The water was getting really close in the back... it was over our patio. But thankfully it has gone down now, but we still have a lake. I am ready for it to stop. I mean it is hard enough for me to get out of the house and do anything with my crutches but it is 10 times harder when it is pouring down rain. So hopefully it will stop very soon. There has already been so many peoples homes destroyed and as of this morning 8 people have been killed. It is so sad that so many lives have to be lost like this. All we can do is just pray for all of the families that have lost loved ones and or their homes. I don't think that I will ever forget this.

On another note... we hope that Chaz will be going to Alabama to work soon. We haven't really heard anything about Spain, Italy or Ireland yet but we should hear something once Chaz has his passport in hand and can actually go over there. So hopefully he will get his passport soon and we will get some good news. I still haven't gone back to work yet and I wont be going back before October 1.That's when I go back to the doctor after doing 2 weeks of physical therapy. So hopefully then he will tell me that I can go back to work.

Well I guess that's all for now. Nothing to exciting but I am bored being stuck here at home so I just thought that I would write something. I hope everyone has a good day!!

[ACCEPTED!!]

I finally found out that I got ACCEPTED!! It feels like I have been waiting forever! I was starting that think that maybe I didn't get it. But I checked my e-mail yesterday and had an e-mail saying that I had been accepted and that my acceptance letter and all of the other information were in the mail and should be here soon. I am so excited! I want this so bad. So now I am just ready to get registered, get all of my books and get started. I will hopefully be done by this time next year. Wish me luck!! :)

[3 LESS BODY PARTS]

I am only 1 day post-op right now but for the most part I am feeling okay. I had my surgery yesterday, 9.11.09 and 7:00am. Of course all I remember is getting my IV, talking to all of the doctors and going back to the operating room, then the next thing I knew I was in recovery. But anyway... now for the details. I had quite a few different things wrong once my surgeon got into my knee. My cruciate ligament was 4 times as big as it should be and was taking up the whole front of my knee so he took out most of it to make it the size that it should be. I also had a medial plaque shelf that he took out that should not have been there. He also removed some of the lining of my knee. He thinks that this should really help me because all of those things could have been causing me pain. He also told me that in the 25 years that he has been doing knee surgeries that he has never seen anything like mine... go figure. I guess I am just special. haha. So I am just really hoping and praying that this will help me. I think it should though. I am still in a pretty good bit of pain right now though, but the next day is always the worst day. I have just been taking my pain medicine every 4 hours and keeping it elevated, putting ice on it for one hour and then off for an hour, and only getting up to go to the bathroom. All of that is pretty hard for me to do because I don't like to be stuck inside on the couch. I also have to use crutches for a few days but I am doing good with them so far and actually using them. I tired to go outside earlier and sit on our bench but by the time I made it out there my foot was starting to swell and turn purple so Chaz made me come right back inside and back on the couch with my foot propped up. But I get to take all of my bandages off tonight so I am excited about that because they are starting to itch.

Now I am going to brag... on my amazing husband :) Chaz has been so wonderful! I don't know what I would do without him. He has been waiting on me hand and foot ever since we got home yesterday. He even got up with me in the middle of the night to help me get up and to the bathroom. Everything I have needed he has got for me. Including refilling my cup with juice every 30 minutes because my mouth and throat are still so dry from the anesthesia that I drink more than should be humanly possible. The he helps me get op to go to the bathroom ever 45 minutes to an hours because I drink so much. haha. And then putting on and taking the ice off of my knee every hour. He also gets me a snack every 4 hours so that I can take my pain medicine because I have to take it with food. And then on top of all of that he lets me watch whatever I want to watch on TV :) He also keeps me from doing the stuff that I'm not supposed to do because I am really bad about not obeying doctors orders when it involves me just laying on the couch and not being able to do anything for myself. I just really don't know what I would do without him. He is the best husband that I could have ever asked for! He is taking such good care of me. I love him soooooo much!

I have also had another little helper that has been helping his Daddy take care of me. Cam has been sleeping with me a lot since I got home. He is such a sweet little baby :) Here he is helping take care of Mommy a few hours after I got home.

He is such a good little helper :)

So hopefully I can be on a speedy road to recovery now and that I can be pain free after I am healed. So please continue to pray for me! And thank you to those who have already been praying for me throughout my long journey with my messed up knee :)

[GOiNG UNDER THE KNiFE]

On Friday I am going to have knee surgery... again. This will be my second knee surgery in 2 years. I really hope that they can figure out what is wrong because if my doctor cant find anything then I will just have to live with the pain because we have exhausted all of the other options and surgery was the last resort... and here we are. So I just hope and pray that it can be fixed. My knee is very strange... the surgery that I had done in 2007 was done by a different surgeon than I am going to now. The surgeon that I got to now has never heard of the thing that I had removed from my knee by the other surgeon. So he is still puzzled about that he says. Also because nothing ever shows up on my x-rays or MRI's he has no idea what is causing all of my pain. So when I go in for my surgery he is basically just going to look around inside of my whole entire knee and see if there is anything that it not normal and hopefully he will font something and he said that whatever he finds he will fix. I know you don't want for something to be wrong with you but in this case I want something to be wrong with me so that my doctor can find it and fix it rather than me just have to keep going on with my life living with all of this pain. I go tomorrow morning at 8:00 for my pre-op. That's when they will tell me what time my actual surgery will be, how long my recovery time will be and all of that other good stuff. Hopefully I wont be out of work for to long because I definitely cant afford to be. But over all I'm not worried about anything because I have been through this before. This will be my 3rd orthopedic surgery in 2 years and overall it will be my 6th surgery. So all of this is definitely nothing new to me which is pretty bad to say since I am only 22. But I would rather get everything fixed now while I am young so that I can recover faster and then I wont have to worry about having all of this done when me and Chaz have kids. So please just pray that everything goes well and that my knee can be fixed.

If you didn't already know Chaz has not worked in over 3 months now. We have been waiting to hear something from his uncle about where he will be going. Well he talked to his uncle and he doesn't have a definite date or place but he will know soon, his uncle just has to wait for the boss to get back in the country and then he will be able to find out a definite answer. But as of now Chaz could go to California, Spain or Ireland. I hope that he goes to California just because I don't think that I will like him leaving the country for a long time. But we will see. I am just going to pray that he goes there. So hopefully we will hear some good news soon.

But I guess that's all that has been happening lately. I will hopefully feel good enough to post Saturday or Sunday about my surgery.


[JESSiCA CHERiSH♥CHARLES WESLEY]

[DiFFERENT STUFF]

Not much has been going on lately. I have just been waiting to find out if I got into NSU or not. I am starting to get very aggravated with them. In order to be accepted into the program that I am applying to you have to have at least 2 years or work experience in the medical field so you have to send them a resume. Well I was not aware of this but as soon as I found out that they needed it I was told that I could fax it so that they would get it faster than mailing it. Well... I faxed it for the first time on August 27. Two days later it was still not showing up on my account that they had received it so I sent them an e-mail asking if they had got it... they had not. No by the time I figured out that they had not got it it was Tuesday of this week. So I immediately faxed it again to the number that I was told. And as of today it is still not showing up on my account that they received it. I have since then sent 3 e-mails trying to find out if they received it this time or not. Well so far I have heard nothing. I sent one Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday. So now I am just getting ill that I cant find anything out. And mind you... I got a fax confirmation both times I faxed it. So I don't know what the problem is but I'm getting fed up with it. I mean school starts next month and I still don't know anything. That doesn't leave very much time to pay tuition, register for classes and get my books. So I just hope that I hear something soon.

On another note me and Chaz are desperately looking for somewhere else to live. We hate where we live now and do not feel safe at all. We do not feel safe because in the past week we have had 2 of our vehicles broken into and someone tried to steal our boat but we heard them and scared them away. It is getting ridiculous when you cant even feel safe in your own house. So if anybody knows of any houses for rent in the Good Hope, Madison, Bostwick areas PLEASE let us know.

On a BETTER note... I have been working with Harley a lot more and she has come a long way. Now you can walk right up to her and not have to chase her around to catch her. She loves go on walks and to get a bath. She is also learning how to eat sugar cubes but for now she just slobbers all over your hand while she licks the sugar cube. Its cute though :) She also likes to swing her tail all around when she is getting a bath just so she can get me all wet. She is so sweet though. I can stand beside her and she will put her head up against me because she wants me to scratch her head. I love my little Miss Harley! And I cant wait until I get to show her :)

♥ME & MiSS HARLEY♥

We now have 2 more family members at our house! Well they are not new to the family but they are new to our house. My kitties Destiny and Reagan now live with us. It took them a few days to get adjusted but they are fine now and they love it there. Destiny likes to prowl in the tall grass and see what she can catch. Reagan likes to lay in the bushes and watch my birds on the bird feeders. But she never tries to get them... she just watches. They really like to sit with Chaz while he grills out. I think that they are waiting for him to share the food with them. I am so glad that they get to live with us now. They are so loving and are always glad to see you when ever you are outside.

Well I guess that's about it for now. Nothing to much has really been happening. But just pray that I hear something from NSU soon and that me and Chaz can find another house so that we don't have to be scared that someone is going to break in every night.

JESSiCA CHERiSH♥CHARLES WESLEY