God is good all the time He put this song ......

My lil bro has taken some hard knocks over the past few years and has given my parents fits. I will spare you the details. On July 4th weekend he went to the beach with his fiancee and her mom, they have a condo. Her family is huge there are 7 kids and they are all married with kids, Aaron's fiancee is the baby by several years. Well on their way back his fiancee's mom was driving and had the radio tuned to a christian station. There was a lady on there giving her testimony, his fiancee was asleep so he was left with the only option of listening. While he was listening he decided to rededicate his life to the Lord!!!!! Yay, he has actually been going home at night to sleep at my parent's house and mom has noticed a huge change in his attitude!!! Now we are praying about the fiancee thing. It is not that we don't like her she is really sweet, we just don't think she is the right one for him.....

The girl name will be

Ella Kate and while I am not big on double names she will be called Ella Kate. Ella-all beautiful, Kate- one of purtiy/ beloved...

Names!!!!

Ok, so we have been thinking of baby names and we have one for a girl. The problem is we don't have one for a boy. Any suggestions? Eric likes Elliott, I don't, and August, I can see this being shortened to "gus." I like Zander (Zane), Sterling, Judson and Bryce, Eric is ok with Bryce but isn't quite sold on it.....

Doctor update

Well the doctor visit yesterday was great. Mostly beacuse my doctor is great, she is a wonderful christian woman. We didn't get taken back on time because my doctor had stepped over to deliver a baby. She wasn't on call but one of her patients was having major complications trying to deliver anda because that is the kind of doctor she is she wanted to go check on her patient. While others may look at that as being rude to you other patients I see it as good to know that my doctor would come check on me if I were having problems too. She really cares about her patients. All she ended up doing was feeling my uterus, giving me some vitamins that help with the nausea and was very excited about the baby. They said my due date should be around Feb. 22, which is what I guessed, with the help of ivillage. After she felt the baby though she said she wasn't positive about the due date, she said I have definate good growth, so apparently I am larger that she thinks I should be to be due on Feb. 22. So in 2 weeks we go back for an ultrasound to measure the baby and we get to hear the heart beat. She didn't want to say it but I could tell she was also running the possibility of more that one lil'bit, Thats what we call it, well it just sounds better than it.

My husband the cannidate!

Well Eric has been hot on the campaign trail, literally, its hot outside. He has been walking the streets getting support for the city council election that will take place in August. He has painted to town blue and white, bright blue, with his campaign signs. I have joined him only once on the campaign trail unfortunately it just doesn't work out for me to hit the streets with him because of my frequent bathroom trips. Besides 3 hrs of work = 1hr of a much needed nap. So, please be praying for favor in eyes of the people he meets. Also don't forget to go vote tomorrow for the Shelby County Comissioner race. Tommy Edwards came by the house Fri. to remind us to go vote (he and Eric are friends) he also brought us 2 bright red t-shirts that say vote Tommy Edwards. I honestly don't remember who he is in the run-off with. I just remember how I thought it was crazy for there to be a run-off because he beat all of the other cannidates by a pretty good margin but only needed a few more votes for the victory without the run-off.

We are also saying good bye to our kitty this week. Either today or tomorrow he will go to another home. Eric is having a hard time with the cat dander and I am no help at all. I can't touch the cat litter so Eric is having to do everything himself....

Yay me!

Well, today was my 1st solo CVS run. I think I did pretty well too. I did 2 seperate transactions cause you can't combine the $4/$20 and the $3/$15 but I did take them for all they were worth. While I was there I ran into the one and only Dawn Hensley, which made the whole trip worth while, we teach at the same school... an I had both of her son's last year. One for history, the other for history and Bible, poor thing I know. Any way I spent $8.22 oop and I still have $5 in ecb's. I got several things that didn't generate ecb's like the shampoo but for both bottles it was only $2 and I can't pass that up nor the comet 2/.99. The toothpaste didn't either but it was b1g1 and I had a $1.50 cupon.... So, while I know its not pennys I will get there one day.........

I know I am a nerd... but I can't help it!

I am so excited I get to go shoppin at CVS tomorrow. They have some great deals this week along with my awesome cupons I have a great transaction planned out. If all goes as planned I should get about $35 in merchandise spend $15 oop and earn $11 in ecb's. Since it is only really my second full shopping trip I don't have alot of ecb's saved up like the veterans do, nor the amount of cupons but we're workin on in. I think I am going to take my mom and show her how the program works, so we may go to the Helena store instead to the fancy new Calera store. I will let you know how I do tomorrow, since it will be my first trip all by myself!