28 June 2006

Tickle Monster

My favorite thing is to tickle my tater. she laughs and smiles. today we were playing peek a boo. she can pull the blanket up over her face by herself and pull it down by herself. really cute. so i was putting it on my face, and when i pulled it off, she leaned over and gave me a big kiss!!!!! in this picture i am ticking her and she is belly laughing. Posted by Picasa

Funny

Picture of Andy at General Assembly last week in atlanta with some friendly pigeons. Posted by Picasa

One tired Mommy

Today: Waffle house, walmart, Rite Aid, feed kate, children's museum, church, feed kate, change kate, let dogs out, check on puppies, be nice to people, laundry, clean out kate's poop from tub because she couldn't control herself, stopped up toilet, take out trash, try to catch up on real world, blog. Posted by Picasa
Puppy! Posted by Picasa

Rosie in all her glory

Finally some puppy pics. Rosie is being a good mom and letting them have a snack. They are getting so big. I think they are going to be huge. They are already wiggling around the garage. Sophie is in the garage as well as she cannot be without her mother.
I've been working around the house this week. Laundry, groceries, vacuuming, entertaining, etc. Kate has her 9 month checkup tomorrow with a new pediatrician. His name? Dr. Needle. I mean, what could be a worse name for a pediatrician? Dr. Stab? Dr. Disease? Dr. Molester? Ew. I'm nervous. Posted by Picasa

23 June 2006


Mosquitos are crazy here. i have so many bug bites. they are vicious-they even bite you through your clothes!
andy should be coming home late tonight. that will be excellent. i am finally finished with the unpacking, etc. all the furniture is in place. the only problems are:
1. they are still finishing the ceiling in the guest bath. should be finished today. then i can put all the stuff back in it.
2. garage door broke last night. gotta have them fix that.
3. they gotta finished the privacy fence.
the puppies are cute and doing well in the garage. kate is crawling all around and pulling up on stuff. yesterday was rough with her. she whined a lot and didn't feel good.
that girl kami that i met at walmart-she sucks. i've called her 3 times and she won't call me back. hint taken. however i have enjoyed meeting jean's wife kim. we hang out all the time and help each other with our houses. we have so much in common. she has 2 daughters, 9 and 10, that LOVE kate. so it's a perfect match. we are going to gulfport today for the assistant pastor's wife's birthday lunch, kids in tow.
everyone down here drinks barq's. i think it's really cool that i live right by the place where barq's was created. all the restaurants carry it.
ok i gotta go scratch my bugbites.

20 June 2006

Midwife-ing


Rosie went into labor today. I saw a puppy crawling across the yard and i said, oh no. this is it. 5 hours and 9 puppies later, she was finished. we lost one, but we have 8 healthy pups. she is doing great. sophie is perplexed. we don't know who the dad is but they look like black lab puppies.
andy is still in atlanta. please pray for me that i will be fine here in the new surroundings. i love this house. it's so nice.
andy is having fun seeing folks in atlanta.
we got our cable and internet hooked up at home so i feel connected.
not too much else to report! kate is doing well. she stayed up until 9 tonight because she had a 3 hour nap this afternoon. she's crawling around and snorting with laughter!

18 June 2006

first party

we had all the lagniappe interns over for dinner last night. grilled chicken, steak, potato casserole, salad, rolls. 15 guests total. we also had an unexpected but necessary visitor-the rotorooter man. our toilets were clogged but he said it was easily fixable. he came at 10 pm and we fixed him some food. it was strange but fun. the evening continued with playing "true colors" and then ended with one of our guests breaking her ankle. she misjudged the step to the backyard and stepped wrong. andy took her to the hospital where they told her she broke one bone in her ankle and is in a cast. man i felt so bad. she's a trooper so i think she'll be fine.
we have had so much help getting moved into our home. kelly stephens from chattanooga, who incidentally is the guest who broke her ankle, spent all day friday helping me hang all the pictures in my house. intern emily helped me unpack, adrienne helped me babysit, christy and ryn unloaded the grill that andy got for father's day, haley helped us move all the boxes to the street, etc. it's amazing how blessed we are to have such help.
church today was great. jean preached about our sinful hearts, and how they compare to rotten chicken. it's so true. God cleans out all the rottenness and gives us brand new hearts!
andy is leaving tomorrow for general assembly in atlanta for all week. i will miss him. it stinks because we spent all those weeks apart and now we are finally moved in and he has to go! i'll try to keep myself company with the interns.
i'm trying to talk kelly into moving here. she is so awesome. i pray that God will lead her down here! Posted by Picasa

Not for sale anymore!

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10 June 2006

fishing

this is what we fished by-trees with crap in them from the storm. Posted by Picasa

lot for sale

this was a house by the water but now is for sale. this is also a common sight. this lot costs at least 1 million. Posted by Picasa

A normal sight

Here i am complaining about my house and this is what most people's lots look like. at least 1 fema trailer or a camper.  Posted by Picasa

Chopsticks


I went by the house today and there were NO WORKERS. what!!!!! why aren't they working on my house????? i am still praying for them to be finished TUESDAY.
we can stay at jean's house as long as we want, his family won't be coming until tues or wed. so let's hope they can stay in memphis until we can move. isn't that selfish of me? i just don't want to go on another trip by myself.
i ate chinese tonight. that was weird-to be at the beach and have chinese food. kate ate a whole banana.
we are at lagniappe right now at a crab boil. i'm in the office in the air conditioner. andy is outside with tater. it's almost her bedtime so i'll have to take her home.
we have some babysitters coming tonight after she is asleep so we can go downtown and find some haps. (happenings) I drove along the beach again today, it was prettier than i'd noticed previously. debris is still everywhere.
pray for our house! we closed on our house in louisville and we are done with that. what a blessing!

09 June 2006

Help the Homeless

This is an email I sent to prayer friends from our church.

Please put on your praying hats and forward this to other prayer warriors. The builder is taking extra time on our house, thus putting us in a bind. We are staying at our pastor's home while he is out of town but will be coming back in a few days. I talked to our realtor today for advice, and she said, "Just pray the house is finished by Tuesday and that we can close Wednesday." So that's our prayer! Pray that God will provide a place for us to stay while all this takes place. Truly, Andy, Kate and I are homeless but we know that God will provide something.... If you have any ideas, email me at swanky@swankygirl.com. I don't really want to take the baby away again for a week but we'll see what happens. Please pray with us that the house will be finished on Tuesday and that we can move on Wednesday!!!! Thanks so much! Cammie

I really am not feeling good about this and I had a good cry last night. I have no idea where we are going to be staying next monday, i don't want to uproot kate from her daddy and take her on a trip again unless i have to. i don't have the means to haul all the things i need to someone's house, and it will be major. i am really frustrated but i know that God is teaching me through this. think of all the homeless people after the hurricane. now i am seeing what it was like. not knowing where you will be....but i am not too worried because God never abandons us.

07 June 2006

Moving?




We still don't know when we can move in. I'm hoping in the next few days. I hope they are going to do the inspection today. The house we are staying in has mold somewhere because we are all sick. i can't wait to get out of there.
andy says we are going to do karaoke tonight....i'm excited. laura knows i love to be on stage.
i went to home depot and bed bath and beyond yesterday in slidell, about 20 min away. i got plantation style blinds for the house as well as new curtain rods. i also got some pillows, etc for the house. hopefully i'll get to order my furniture this week!
this is my beachy living room to be ordered.
they finished my jacuzzi tub yesterday at the house. i can't wait to get in it!

05 June 2006

We're expecting!

Rosie is pregnant!
That's all i want to say about that. we dont' know who the dad is. mutts on the way.
i called kami today, and she is going to call me back with the names of some good pediatricians, etc down here. we had a quick phone call.
i've been watching the first season of "arrested development." i've heard lots of people say how good the show is, and i have never seen it. it is HILARIOUS. i love it. we don't pick up any tv stations at the house so all i have is dvds.
i went to check on the new house today. they had the air conditioner going and it was looking good. we are closing on our house in louisville tomorrow!
i already went and purchased the new furniture so i can't wait until they can deliver it.
kate is doing well. she just had a 2 hour nap and is doing great. i've had a babysitter the past 2 nights-one night to go out to dinner with a couple friend of ours rebuilding in gulfport, and last night to have a "girl's night" with some of the staff ladies. there were 4 of us.
tonight i am thinking about cooking something, although we can eat 3 meals a day at the church.

04 June 2006

down in the wasteland

well on the way down i saw a sign for waveland that had the letters ST posted over the VE which makes it wasteland. i thought it was pretty appropriate.
we are staying in the home of someone from the church who is on vacation. it is very comfortable and nice and kate is happy. our dogs are there, as well as their dog, a golden retriever, so it's a happy home full of fur.
our house is still being finished but all our belongings are in the garage of the new house. i really like the house-it's really cute. really nice. you will have to come see it.
moving was one of the most stressful things i've ever gone through. i'd almost rather have another c section than go through what i went through again. it's mainly because andy wasn't there. i had to rely on whoever showed up to do whatever i could get them to do.....the truck was late, workers were late, kate was crying, i was crying, etc. but it's all in the past now. i cried the whole way out of town until i got to noxapater.
i made a friend already at walmart. she had cute hair, so i asked her where she got her hair done. she told me and we talked for several minutes. she had a 3 year old girl. i said, "what's your name?" guess what she said....she said "Kami." I said, "What? That's my name!" so we traded numbers and will call each other. i feel nervous-kinda like going on a date. when should i call her? when is too soon? when is too long? ha.
we went to church today. our church is in an old warehouse with no air conditioning. it was hot but i really learned alot from the preacher. the church attendees consisted of teams coming down to work as well as church staff and volunteers. i pushed kate around in the stroller in the back and she fell asleep.
well it's about time for lunch so i better go. i don't have internet access at this house but whenever i go to church i can get on the internet. please email me!

30 May 2006

moving soon



my mom came up today and helped me pack up the kitchen. i also had a babysitter help me but kate is really attached to me so it was rough. my mom did a lot of packing and sorting so that was good. i had some frustrating times with andy-we weren't communicating well, we had differing opinions, etc. i will be glad when we can all be together again! moving is so hard! especially when i only know a handfull of people down there-but the handful that i know are awesome.
packing up is hard work. i work like 8 hours per day and i'm exhausted, as well as playing with kate. she's so sweet.
my favorite new show is called "surviving motherhood" on TLC at 2 pm. i tivo it. it is very helpful to moms-i recommend it highly! goes through all sorts of scenarios. much needed.
i am heating up a potato casserole tonight-very tasty. i bet you want some. this is a cheesy picture i found on google. laugh at it.
there are new pics of kate on her blog! they are really cute.
i guess my next post will be from the bay! see you then! please pray for a smooth transition for kate. and mom.

25 May 2006

garage view

this is our new home in waveland. we will probably be moving next weekend, the beginning of june. we will close on our house in louisville next thursday. i am sad to be leaving but glad that God will guide us. this house looks cute, i've never seen any more than the pictures you are seeing here. the builder said we could move in anytime even though it is not finished. what a blessing-we can be a family again! Posted by Picasa

not sure which bedroom this is, i've never been to the house

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