Fair Week

Well this past week was the Hillsdale County Fair also known as "The Greatest Fair on Earth"!! Mark, Kendrick and I enjoyed Thursday and Friday nights at the Alpha Omega booth. At least I enjoyed it, Kendrick was ready to do more interesting things after about an hour. Tonight we went for some "Family Time" and Kendrick enjoyed his first ever pony ride. HE LOVED IT!!! He has really taken a liking to horses. Every night we were at the fair he had to go through the horse barns. I wasn't sure how he would actually do being ON a pony rather than just seeing it from a distance. At one point they stopped the pony's so they could clean up a "deposit" left by one of the pony's and Kendrick started waving his hand saying "Go, Go, Go". When the ride ended he started crying he didn't want to leave the pony's. After we walked around for a while and enjoyed "fair food" we let him have another ride. We also got our second annual photo key chains made tonight, I haven't figured out a good way to get a pic of the pic in the key chain, if I do I will post that pic as well. Here a couple pics and a video of Kendricks Pony Ride!

What a turn of events

For the past year and a half I have been volunteering at our local pregnancy care center. A couple of weeks ago the CEO of Alpha Omega asked another volunteer and myself to meet with her one Friday morning. Thinking nothing of it and certainly not expecting to be moved even further from my "comfort zone", which for all intents and purposes was demolished the moment I stepped into Alpha Omega. We had our meeting. In the end Kathy asked my fellow volunteer and I to pray and consider a change in our roles at AO. At the end of the two weeks she gave us to pray and consider we had yet another meeting. At the end of the most recent meeting Linda was named Executive Director of Client Services and I was named Executive Director of Office Operations. I am scared out of my mind with this new responsibility, but I know God has led me to AO and He will continue to guide and lead. Please pray for all the staff as we go through some MAJOR changes. On to a much more thrilling turn of events. Our own Gloria Vear, co-founder of AO current board member and true legend in the Right to Life movement will be honored this coming week in Washington DC when she receives an award from President Bush for her years of sacrificial giving of time, money and energy in defense of innocent human lives. Congratulations Mrs. Vear!! We are proud to call you OURS!!

THE MOUSE MURDERER HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!!!

This is an urgent demand from the MMPD(Morgantown Mouse Police Department). All mice MUST stay in their own homes for the remainder of their lives!!! An unsuspecting juvenile was discovered last evening in the home of none other but Miss Becky Junod in Morgantown WV. Once again, Miss Junod went on a destruction spree within her home. Last evening around 10pm Miss Junod's partner in crime Ms. Gretchen Gordon, called Miss Junod to see how she was feeling. Miss Junod had been sick with the flu this week which really wasn't good considering how Monday was Miss Junod's 32 birthday. While on the phone Ms. Gordon was talking but not being heard, Miss Junod was chasing a poor unsuspecting, juvenile mouse around her house. Once again Miss Junod was armed with a glue trap, some peanut butter and RAID. When the juvenile (we are suspecting that it was indeed a child of Minnie and the Late Mickey Mouse) would venture out from behind the refrigerator Miss Junod would spray the poor thing with RAID (now we all know that RAID is ant, roach..... killer, but Miss Junod was using it as mouse killer last night). The RAID did nothing but make Miss Junods floor EXTREMELY slippery. The poor mouse was unaffected by the whole RAID incidence. Even the glue trap was ineffective as the mouse was so little and light that it could steal the peanut butter off the trap but not get "stuck". When Miss Junod saw that she was going to have to take drastic measures, she started throwing YES THROWING, traps at the mouse. Finally when Miss Junod was getting to the VERY END of her patience for the poor little thing, she heard a noise and sure enough the mouse had "stuck" to a trap. Now the only problem is only the TAIL was on the glue trap. Now we all know that Miss Junod DETESTS mice of any shape or form. When she saw the mouse stuck only by its tail, she used a weapon to flip the rest of the mouse on the trap. Once securely on the trap, Miss Junod used a gruesome form of execution. She picked up her nearest bottle of FANTASTIC cleaner and finished off poor Jr. Mouse. After the chasing, the panting, the ranting, the raving, and the near insanity, Miss Junod is once again mouse free. Hopefully this time after using TONS of duct tape and aluminum foil (go figure DUCT TAPE??? she really has turned into a hillbilly) she is and will remain mouse free. For 2 hours Jr. Mouse was hunted, stalked and ultimately killed by Miss Junod. Once again all mice in the Morgantown WV area PLEASE be warned there is a ruthless mouse killer on the loose. Please stay as far away from Miss Junod's residence as possible. Once again reporting from Osseo MI, this is Miss Junod's partner in crime Gretchen Gordon.

NEWS FLASH!!!

Minnie Mouse is a widow. Early this morning in Morgantown WV, Mickey Mouse was caught unawares by a glue trap in Miss Becky Junods home. Mickey Mouse had been breaking and entering for several weeks and had pillaged and ruined food items that Miss Junod had stored up for the first few days of fall semester. Miss Junod reported the suicide/murder around 10 am this morning. The details of the suicide/murder were ghastly to hear. Mickey Mouse was trying to support his family and once inside Miss Junods home he came across a glue trap. After much flopping around at 3am, Miss Junod carefully approached the intruder armed with nothing but a plastic bag and a toilet brush. After scooping poor Mickey Mouse up with the toilet brush (which then got stuck on the glue trap) she put it all into the plastic bag thinking that Mickey Mouse would suffocate. When Miss Junod awoke later that morning she discovered that Mickey was indeed NOT DEAD but had chewed the bag to shreds. It was at that point that she reported the findings. It was then agreed upon by her partner in crime Ms. Gretchen Gordon that the best way to dispose of poor Mickey was drowning. So Miss Junod found a bucket put Mickey (and toilet brush) in the bucket then poured water in the bucket. So that was the end of Mickey Mouse of Morgantown WV. There will be no funeral services or visitation as the remains have already been deposited in a trash bag ready for garbage day. Miss Junod may now go back to a peaceful life without worries of intruders. RIP Mr. Mickey Mouse.

15 Years Ago

This post is especially for the bestest best friend anyone could ask for. Beck it's hard to believe that 15 years ago this month we were both nervous, scared and YOUNG freshmen at Penn View. Our friendship has survived a lot of "stuff" from teenage crushes on the same guy, to adult problems like divorces, deaths of family and friends, miscarriages and even the happy times like finding my true love and the birth of Kendrick. We have shared the good, the bad and the extremely UGLY of our lives these past 15 years. I can honestly say I don't know where I would be if it hadn't been for you a few times. Thanks for never holding my faults against me. Thanks for being there when the world (including my parents) turned its back. Thanks for telling me I could when I thought I couldn't. Thanks for the MILLIONS of hours spent talking on the phone, the visits that always seem to go way too fast, the many hours of watching the same movies OVER AND OVER again, the shoulder that you have provided to cry on, and most of all the happy times where we have laughed for hours on end over nothing. I am so proud of you for following your heart and making your dreams come true. You have accomplished more in 32 years than most people do in a lifetime. Thanks for being you and for accepting me for who I am. You are the BEST of the BEST!!!

This is for you, my best friend, the one person I can tell my soul too

Who can relate to me like no other

Who I can laugh with to no extents,

Who I can cry too when times are tough,

Who can help me with the problems of my life.
Never have you turned your back on me

Or told me I wasn't good enough

Or let me down
I don't think you know what that means to me

You have went through so much pain and you still have time For me.

And I love you for listening even when inside YOU are dying

And I look up too you because you are strong, and caring and beautiful.

Even though you don't think you are.
And I hope you know that I am always here

To listen to you laugh and cry and help

In all the ways that I can

And I will try to be at least half the friend you are To me.
I hope you know I would not be the person I am today, with out you.

My best friend.

Laundry Boy

These pictures say it all, Kendrick is always getting into something. Oh the joys of boys!

Finally an Update!!

Well it was "lovingly" brought to my attention from my most faithful readers (thanks Beck and Lisa) that it has been a few days give or take a week or two since I last updated my blog. Not much has happened around here lately. We did take Kendrick for his 2 yr checkup and it was proof that he is getting to be a "biggie boy". He weighed in at 30lbs and is 34in. tall. We are so blessed with a happy healthy toddler. He has also "amazed" us with his ability to climb and be a typical 2 year old. Hopefully it won't be as long before the next update! But unfortunately for the blog things have been pretty mundane around here lately. Oh and Jessica if you read this I will be getting the video on here soon of Kendrick saying your name! It was great seeing you again and I hope you enjoy your time with Michael in Cincinnati.