October - Bama trip at last

I had planned to just make one end of October Post but so much has been going on, I feel I better post before I forget or have no time to post. This post will be long and if it bores you sorry. Kyle and Chris both had birthdays this week, and seems we did not have time to celebrate properly, maybe we can fix that soon.

Busy busy week and I started out with car problems and put my car in the shop and rented a car because it was gonna be there for 3 days. It is impossible to do anything when you are working 12 hours. I sure miss having Pat around to do stuff when I am working. I had to fax stuff to the car rental place and get Tracy and Kyle to pick up the rental car for me. I hated the rental car and the kids had a blast laughing at me trying to drive it. The windshield wiper controls were where the gear shift is on my van (stupid idea only a Dodge Caliber has this I hope) so you can imagine how that went. I made 2 decisions on my next vehicle today.... it will not be a small car and it will not be a Dodge Caliber.

Work was up and down all week and I will just leave it at that, lol....I was trying to figure out if I was or if I was not gonna be able to go to Bama. Finally on Thursday morning my boss says work 12 to day and just 8 on Friday.. I let him know I needed to get of at 5 to take the rental back before they close. I called Mom to let her know I would be coming in on Friday night so she could bake Kyle the cake he wanted for his 18th birthday. I had made arrangements for Kyle to go pay for the van and get the key and then he and I would go get my van when I got off. The car repair place closes at 5. As it turned out Kyle missed the bus... How does an almost 18 year old boy miss the bus I ask myself and later ask him and find out ......ummm he was talking to a girl... pretty good excuse I guess cause Chris was talking calmly when I heard him discussing it, lol. As it turned out I had to get off at 4 in order to get my car because I was afraid Kyle was gonna not get home in time to go get it and it was pouring down rain and I sure did not want him to be rushing.


Thursday night I packed my van with everything but the kitchen sink and went to work on Friday loaded to head to Bama if no one said anything about me working the weekend. It was so nice to have my van back.. but something did not seem right as I drove to work on Friday, I decided it was just because I had been driving that newer car a few days. I headed on to Bama after work and even called Pat while I was in Jackson and mentioned I feel like I am having to push this van it seems like it don't want to go.. I stopped in Meridian to look for Kyle birthday present, which I found. As I cranked the van to continue my journey the van started but the CHECK ENGINE SOON light came on and the car was sputtering like it might just die.... I called Pat immediately and headed to get more gas just in case I really was pushing it and using more gas.. then the LOW COOLANT LEVEL light came on. I checked the level it was fine. Here I was half way and what do I do. Well no way was I going back to Vicksburg.. So I drove on calling Pat every 30 minutes or so... when I got to Tuscaloosa and I knew that on the crooked road I would have no cell phone so I called Pat and told him If I don't call you in 1 hour and 30 minutes come find me, lol.... and I will call you as soon as I get reception again. Well I made it to Bama just fine.. put the van in the shop at 8 Saturday morning and out at 11:30 and all was well...Lets see car rental and 2 repairs this week a total of 1300.00 and a promise of 1 more time this year and its shopping time... 2nd thought its shopping time to decide what I want.... so next breakdown I will know just what I want, lol.


Saturday was way tooo busy to enjoy .. I made my plan to do as much as I could but at 6:30 pm work was over and We would watch the Bama game. We went to visit Mom and Dad and to see Sherri, Vanessa and Nylah, when we picked up the van.. Mom was really bad sick and later carried to the after hours clinic... the Dr agreed with her diagnosis and gave her a shot to stop the vomiting ... seems she has a bad stomach ulcer. I hated it for her so bad cause she was so excited to see the baby Nylah and was too sick to even sit up. Hopefully she will get better and get to spoil Nylah before she leaves on Thursday. Our visit with Sherri, Vanessa and Nylah was short but least we did get to visit. Nylah is such a cutie and looks just like Eric. I sure hate Eric was not able to make the trip, but I hear when he gets in from sea he will be visiting during Christmas.



Saturday afternoon Pat and I managed to move all the bedroom furniture out of the den and into the room it belongs...That was a big job and we admit we aren't as young as we use to be or as strong.





Greg and Marcia came over to see the house and watch the game with us and we really enjoyed their visit... Greg and I will be retiring at the same time so we enjoy making plans of what we gonna do when we retire, lol.


This is Dad, you know Mom must be real sick for him to be sweeping. I know he helps Mom more now than he use to. I do remember when I was a kid that he and mom use to do floors at night after they put us to bed. I hear about him vacuuming and such on occasion. Notice he still has that same ole mischevious grin even when sweeping.


Hannah and Ali waiting patiently for baby Nylah to arrive.






Vanessa and Nylah finally here. Nylah was a lil shocked by all the folks, but she warmed up nicely.
Mom did get a chance to hold Nylah a few but very few. She did a good job not letting her guest know she was so sick for a bit.

Nylah playing and putting on a show.

Hannah and Chloe getting their baby fix, I am jealous cause I did not get my fix. Just not enough hours in the day.

THE LAKE HOUSE....... I am going to post a few pictures and even a film clip of my bedroom, but the major accomplishment is Pat got to sleep in a bed on Friday night for the 1st time in 3 weeks. The workers and Pat worked hard to make this happen, I was so proud of Pat for pushing on the carpet folks when they called on Thursday morning saying they forgot to order the pad I wanted and it would be next week before they could get it...He let them know they needed to find the pad where ever and go get it and get the carpet in as planned... woooo hoooooo ....just what I would have done... and you know what THEY DID! The carpet was installed on Thursday and my new bed delivered on Friday and set up. I brought the new sheets (800 ct I might add) lol and we slept in our new bed in our new room. The new bed is different than I expected it is very firm, not fluffy at all and it gives just where it needs to, I slept fine but just did not have enough time to check it out as long as I would have liked. I love my new bedroom, I can't wait to go back and get things all in place. We got all 3 bedrooms with beds moved in but the rooms are not fixed up just have furniture in them. Heck it took me half a day to find my tooth brush. I was just happy to get enough stuff out of the den that I could walk all the way around it.

The new washer and dryer are in place, there is still some trim painting to be done here then the doors will be installed.
Pat has been helping with some of the electrical and whatever else he can do. He did a great job of picking out lights for our closet and installing them.


Notice the archway opening to the entry hall, actually there are 3 different archways going out of the den area, this one then one to the hallway going to the bedroom area and one to the kids room which is where the back porch use to be.


This is a view from the entry from garage, standing in the kids room.

Closer view of my archway opening.

The carpet is in.
The bed is delivered and set up.

Pat sent me these fall pictures after I got home... I was shocked I did not even notice the fall colors when I was there. I guess I was busy, gone or it was dark. Thanks Pat, Maybe in 2 weeks when I go back it will still be fall colors.

The movie clip of my bedroom.