I'm Tired

After a day of 4 huge plates of food and 3 slices of pie, I was looking forward to a great nights sleep. Did this happen? Absolutely not. Why you ask? Because of all the times for my dog to get sick, it was on Thanksgiving night. I knew something was bothering her because she could not get settled in our bed. She then came up and laid across my stomach (which after 4 plates of food was not fun because she weighs almost 60 pounds). I finally noticed that her stomach was contracting really bad (probably stomach cramps), and she was whimpering a little bit. I finally told Joanna to get some sleep and I would take her into the other room (I am amazed at the things I will do for my dog...I really question it sometimes). Anyway,I lied on the couch and she moaned and groaned for a while on the floor.She finally started getting relief around 4 in the morning, which is when I went to bed. So, a full stomach with a sick dog and only 4 hours of sleep has left me pretty out of it this morning.


I think Cassie will look like this the rest of the day.

Figure It Out

Give me tragedy or crises and I will pass with flying colors, but if I should accidently drop my clean underwear in my dog's water bowl before people come for Thanksgiving (which happened today), and you would think my world has come to an end......go figure

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!

I hope all of you have a great thanksgiving. This is the one day a year I let tryptophan totally take over. I should look like the picture below by about 2:30 this afternoon.

Counter Attack

Well the counter attack has started on me. I posted yesterday about me shooting down a wasp nest. Today, I step outside and out of no where a wasp or a bee attacks me. I mean really attacks as in dive bombing at my head over and over again. And then all of sudden, I am covered in biting red ants from my chest to my shoes. I wasn't even near an ant bed. I am telling you I have messed with nature one to many times and they are taking their revenge. If I disappear, you all know what happened to me...don't even bother looking. Or if I come down the road looking like the guy below.....run!.....just save yourself.....save yourself.....

Shooting A Wasp Nest

The other day when we were at the Collins' house watching their kids (this is the family of Hannah Cate, who I posted about the other day). Their oldest son John Craig (11) came inside and said he had shot at a wasp nest with his BB gun and knocked a few wasps off. Now I know what your thinking, being the responsible adult I am, that I told him to stop because it was dangerous. But, nope, I said, "awesome lets go do it again". So, we went to the front of the house and he showed me the wasp nest. It was a fairly good size one and had about 4-6 wasp hanging off of it, and it had a ton of eggs in the holes of the nest. So, I took the gun took aim and shot. Being the great shot that I am, I shot the whole dang nest down. Now, we were within ten feet of this nest, and John Craig semi whispered "you shot the whole thing down"!!!

Now this brings an off subject question. Why do we whisper when situations like this occur? Last time I checked wasps can't understand us, and I don't even know if they have ears. Yet it is always my first inclination to whisper in those kind of situations also. Just wondering....


So, John Craig says "you shot it down" and I yell "run, John Craig, run". And I mean we took off running. About half way to the side of the house, I realized that I don't sprint at 28 years old quite like I did when I was 18. This became even more evident when we jumped through the bushes to get to the side of the house. I know your thinking that I had this revelation that what we did was dangerous and because of that I told John Craig that we should never do that again. But I didn't. Instead I suggested we sneak around the other side of the house and see what the wasps are doing. So, we sneaked over and as we suspected the wasps were not happy. What was my adult suggestion you ask? It was to shoot won of the angry wasp on the ground. Which we did and caused him to lose a wing and only be able to walk in a circle. I then suggest we steel the fallen nest. So, I sneaked up and quickly took the nest and off we went again. We sprinted back around the house away from the danger, and had a good laugh. It was not until the next morning that I realized I put my legs through alot and, therefore, they made me suffer for two days after the incident. I have to say it was well worth it, though. I haven't had that much fun with a BB gun in years.



This was about the size of the nest

I Have Strong Feeling of Disaproval for Tom Brady

Hate is a strong word and I don't like using it towards any body. So I have very strong feelings of disapproval towards Tom Brady. Why you ask? I really don't know, I just can't stand the guy. I don't like anything about him. Is he a good quarterback? yeah, he's a great quarterback. Is he a hall of famer? Yes he is. But I can't stand him. There is just something about him. I think it is because he acts like a robot. He controls the game like a robot. He shows no emotion at press conferences. All of his answers are patent answers. I agree with Mike from wunderkraut.com that he is a plant from the CIA. He has to work for the government...he has that kind of personality. So what I am saying is don't be surprised one Sunday when Brady throws a touchdown while taking out a sniper in the rafters, and then goes into hiding for the rest of his life. I really can't stand the guy.


Tell me he's not CIA

We Are Back

So I know I have said this alot lately, but sorry for the quietness on here. It has been a heck of a two weeks. We have a family of eight in our church (2 adults and 6 children 4 of which are home schooled) that we(mainly Joanna) helps 3 days a week by going out there and helping with the kids. The second to last child is 4 and a half years old and has down syndrome. Her name is Hannah Cate and she is amazing. We have been praying for her healing for a long time and know that God is going to heal her. Right before we left for California, Hannah Cate had surgery to have her tonsils and adenoids taken out and her sinuses and ears cleaned out. The surgery went great, but she did not recover well. The doctors ran her blood and found that she has leukemia. This was a big shock to all of us, and the next day she was taken to Atlanta to a children's hospital. The hospital has been administering chemotherapy and other treatments for the past two weeks. My sister watched the rest of her brothers and sisters last week and Joanna and myself took them this week. Well, Hannah Cate finally came home tonight. She was extremely happy to be home and see her brothers ans sisters. It was a great evening.

We are praying for nothing less than her total and complete healing. The enemy has stolen enough and its time it stopped. So we are going after this until she is totally set free from both down syndrome and leukemia. Please join us in our prayers for her 100% complete healing. God is not the author of any of this, and because of that we can pray His will (which is that she be completely set free from all of this). The picture below is our favorite picture of Hannah Cate. It displays her personality perfectly



You can find out all the latest updates on Hannah Cate at www.caringbridge.org/visit/hannahcatecollins

Heading to California

We are headed to Redding, California for a week to attend the annual Bethel Church Leaders Advance. It should be lots of fun...looking forward to what is in store for us. We are flying from Atlanta to San Francisco and then driving 3 hours to Redding. We have decided to spend next Friday in San Francisco sightseeing and then fly out Saturday morning. We will try to post while we are out there, but will definitely post with pictures when we get back. Until then...see ya.

Heroes

Well we have added a new tv show to our list. And that would be Heroes. We watched the first few episodes of the first season last year, but never watched again. We liked the show and decided to get caught up. So we read (yeah, I said it, read) every episode recap of season one on the internet. And then watched all of season two's episodes up to date. It took us three days, but it was well worth it. Heroes is an awesome show. We really need tivo though, it would make our lives a whole lot easier.