Friends and babes

I had a great talk with my dear friend Meg today. Her husband, Kyle, is serving in Iraq until February. He's been gone since July 7. That's a really long time. And Meg is all alone in sunny Southern California (I think of worse places to be- but being away from your family and friends sucks no matter where you are- I, of all people, understand that!) so we have a lot in common right now. Once again, I firmly believe that God places people in your life for a reason. Thanks for the encouragement, Meg.

We have a friend that we worked with at American Funds who is having a baby boy in a few months. She shops a lot for him, lucky little man! Guess his name? JACKSON! Well, technically William Jackson, but they are calling him Jackson. She knew my Jackson. How could she not see that the name Jackson is trouble!? Each time I hear a mother scolding her son his name is Jackson. (My Jackson says this is selective exposure) It just cracks me up that she's having a Jackson. Anyway, seeing all of her purchases for little Jackson gives me the baby fever! And I am forbidden from the fever (by Deb Duck) until I reside in Indiana. I want to have Kate/Carter in mid-May. You see I love having a summer birthday (perfectly space for Christmas). I do not, however, want any chance of sharing my birthday with my beloved child. Call me selfish or whatever you need to- I do not care. I'm not sharing my day! As a tax accountant, I also do not want a chance of having a child during tax season (which is really mid-December through mid-April). So May it is. It seems safe to aim for mid-May because even if they're late (I was 2 weeks late! Ask Deb...she'll tell you all about it!!!) they still will not come on my day. We'll have to watch for them coming on Jackson's day, May 12, but what are the odds? Really. I mean CeCe was born on Tom's birthday (may 25) so the chances of that repeating are quite low in my opinion. All of this to say, I want a baby but I have passed my window for this year. Grr.

Care package!

Sometimes things come just at the right time to really make you smile. I have been extremely bored (already) with this whole job hunt thing. I've read. I've napped. I've cleaned. I've walked MacKenzie. I've applied for 6,000 jobs. You name it. Then I went for my daily walk (ok, I admit sometimes I stop in on my way home and skip the mailbox hike) to the mailbox- honestly a solid 5 minute walk- with MacKenzie and got a surprise! A care package from CeCe (Grace) and Kathi Coomes! I love these ladies! :) I got a sweet tea mix- yum! Some foot care cream- much needed! And bubble bath! Yay! They even sent Oreos for Jackson. Thank you so much ladies. You made me smile!
I also got my Proactiv Solution- thanks Susie! :) And our absentee ballot! I couldn't vote straight Rep. because of Dan Burton. So annoyed. I did my party though and cast my ballot. Whether you agree with my selection or not voting is really important! Rock the vote! :)
I think you can tell that I had my hands full on my walk home. Yay! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUCKIE!

MacKenzie has her party hat on- just for you! She hopes Macy did an ok job of wearing the birthday bandana that she selected at the Dog Bakery.

Breaking news!

MARION, INDIANA IS GETTING A MOE'S SOUTHWEST GRILL IN FEBRUARY 2009!!!!!! Click the title of this entry to be linked to the Chronicle-Tribune article.



I cannot wait to move home! :) Yum! Moe's! :)

MacKenzie's cookies

I just couldn't resist posting this cute photo of little MacKenzie watching Mommy prepare dog treats. She always knows when we're cooking for her! I love it! She'll watch them in the oven the entire 20 minutes- I always leave the light on for her. ;) Speaking of, I had better go help Jackson with cutting out the shapes.

65,000 Race for the Cure!

Just to give you an idea of the masses...this is an on-ramp to I-25 in downtown Denver FILLED with people and they just kept coming! There were 65,000 walkers today. They raised $57 million today alone. Total Susan Komen has raised over $1,000,000,000 for breast cancer research! Rock on! (They have a fabulous marketing department that I just marvel at as a degreed marketing person)

This was a nice view of downtown Denver- the Broncos' stadium is on the right. They played today and won! (The Colts also staged a strong comeback today- we are proudly displaying our garden flag!)

Just another photo of the masses

And one more photo to show that there were people everywhere!

Crowds are totally not my thing (I contribute this to my paternal genes since we all know Deb doesn't meet a stranger) and I was having a bit of a panic problem at first. Jackson was able to calm me down and keep people from bumping into me pretty well. I hate when people bump into me! Arg! Anyway, we got there late (do not get me started on parking in downtown Denver-GRR) so we had to park like 1.5 miles away. Yep, 1.5 miles just to walk 3.1 miles! Crazy! We booked it to catch up with Meg for a little bit. She did so well! She's a champ! We then hurried to finish as we were starving and ready for breakfast. We went to Cracker Barrel since we were half way there already. ;) It was so yummy and full of other racers! I guess we all worked up an appetite! We had a really nice time and plan to participate in the spring when they have a dog walk! MacKenzie would love it!

We're finally feeling better so I had to clean the house today to rid it of germs. (This is a process that Jackson just does not understand!) Everything looks good and we're almost healed. Praise the Lord! We're very fortunate that a nasty cold is as sick as we've been in a long time.

MacKenzie's play time

Jackson throwing to all 4 dogs- notice the pretty rainbow in the background

The black and white dog is Chloe and the all black mutt is Sam- the fastest little dog ever

We thought you all might wonder just who comes knocking on our door to play with MacKenzie so I took photos during today's ball session. We had the windows open so Sam saw MacKenzie and just had to play. He's lightning fast and wears Mac out big time. She's already in bed!