I bowled a perfect 300 Game!

So last night I had my Thursday night bowling league. I started off the night bowling average shot 214 the first game and 206 the second game. I would have done better but I kept on leaving 10 pins. So its now the last game and I just said to my teammates that the night seemed long and I was ready to go home. Well its now the 3rd game and I am shooting very well. I had the front 9 when I realized that I just got the hardest strike out of the way and as I was walking back to my table some of the other ladies on the team noticed that I had the front 9 started getting nervous which was making me a little nervous. My mom of course could tell and tells me that its going to be ok, you can do this take your time. So I go up to the lanes and let the one lady next to me finish her frame and I started the 10th frame. I was nervous as this was the lane that I struggled with all night leaving 10 pins. But I threw the 10 ball perfectly fine not scared or nervous at all. It was flush in the pocket, everyone cheered. I walked back and looked up and there was so many people standing behind me watching. I got up to bowl the 11th strike and my legs and arm were jello, I was thinking oh no Im going to screw this up. I threw the ball and according to one of the girls I pulled it, but I was so in the moment I couldnt tell I just wanted the strike. Well somehow after pulling it, I managed to find the oil and bam flush strike again. Everyone screamed and cheered. This time I walked back and never looked up, I stared at the floor till I turned around. I grabbed my ball and took the approach. Now the legs more week then the last ball I got up on the apporach and told myself at least if you dont shoot the 300 you can still shoot the best game ever in your life. I threw the ball feeling like I had no power and week in the knees. Bam flush perfectly in the pocket. Everyone cheering and I so about to cry, cant believing that I just actually threw a perfect game. I walked back and everyone wanted high fives or to hug me I felt so special and that everyone cared. Thank you to everyone that congratulated me. It was the best experience I have ever had bowling. Because of shooting the best game of my life I no longer hate bowling and cant wait to go back.

My Little Man Tanner

Ok so I have a dog that loves to play in the snow, not only does he play in the snow, it looks like he is trying to swim in the snow. I have a picture of his face covered in snow to show this time, but next time I hope to have a video of him playing.

Training in Virginia for my Job

All Site Admins

MaRhonda & I

Lisa & Tia

Last Night Together @ TGI Fridays

Famous Daves

Lisa enjoying those Ribs!

She didnt know I was taking this picture, I caught her off gaurd!

Previous Boss Gena & Lisa

All the Site Admins

So all of you know I am a Site Administrator that works for VSE Corp. We have several sites all over the world. And our Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. But Here at this site in Hamel, IL we restore military equipment. My job is to maintain all the paperwork, and get parts or items ordered needed to get the jobs done, plus tons of other office duties. But ever year around March all the site Admins all fly into Virginia and we have a meeting and learn new training. This year was fun, this is how my trip to Virginia went:

Flew out Monday afternoon and landing in Virginia at 6 pm. The hotel driver (Glenn) picked me up and remembered me from the year before we chated all the way to the hotel where as soon as we was pulling in my boss Lisa was calling. Lisa was calling to find out where I was to invite me to dinner. I advised her I was in the parking lot and would be inside in just a minute. When I got inside Lisa and 4 other Admins where sitting there on the couched getting ready to head to dinner but said they would wait for me. I checked into the hotel, ran upstairs to my room and headed back down stairs to meet the ladys. So this year is a little diffrent then last year that I was there. Last year I had a diffrent boss and she lives in Virginia. And last year when I went there was only 1 other admin and the rest were site managers. None of us had a rental car so we had to take the shuttle to dinner and the shuttle only went so far or to certain places. But this year I have a new boss Lisa and she is from San Antonio, TX and she rented a car. Having a car this year was nice. So back to the story we all loaded into the van and started searching for somewhere to eat. Well we ended up at TGI Fridays. The food was very good but the service was terrible. We all finished up and headed back to the hotel when Lisa says do you mind if we stop at walmart I need to get a few items for the meeting tomorrow. So we stopped at walmart all of us had to but something. I of course bought me my Mt Dew. I cant live without a Mt Dew each morning especially since it was my second week of no smoking. So after walmart back at the hotel we are, all heading to the elevator when this Lady stops me and asked me how the restraunt was? Lisa and I both said Food was great Serviced sucked. I was thinking to myself shes was staying at the hotel and was looking for somewhere to eat for dinner, but NO she was the GM and was with the owner of the Company and shewas learning how things were from out of town people. After she learned how our experience was she invites us back for another night of dinner on her. We all said thanks you and went on our way. Lisa invited us all up for some wine she bought, but I declined I went to my room and hoped on my computer and watch TV. Then off to bed. The next morning was breakfast then off to work. There we trained all day. Tue night Lisa and most of the others decided to stay in, so Lisa gave me the keys to the van so 2 other admins and myself met our old boss at Ruby Tuesdays. It was a long night of talking. Wed morning back at work and more training. Wed night we was invited to Famous Daves, when we got there, tons of people was there and munching away on food. We all sat down and joined in. Thur Morning back at work for one last day. Thur night we decided to go back to TGI Fridays we all met up there for one last meal together. It was a very nice night. We finished our dinners, took pics of ach other and then hugged each other good bye and said see you next year. Michelle and I decided before we got to dinner that it was our last night there so we was going to take the train and go site seeing and do some shoping. Well dinner ended up running later than we thought and good thing it did. The stop where Michellle and I was supposed to get off at, The pentagon City stop. At this stop there was a shooting where some guy shot at two cops gaurding the Pentagon. I guess the lord was looking out for us that night. So since it was late and the stores where all closed we decided to just hang out in Michelles room and just chat. But Elaina another Admin and I decided we wanted some wine so Lisa gave me the keys and we ran to Target. Back to Michelles room we went and Lisa ended up meeting us there later in the night. We ended up chatting to 1 in the morning, everyone started to get tired and decided to go to bed. I on the other hand wanted to stay up all night because I set my flight to fly me home at 7 am so I could get home early and sleep all day till hubby goto home from work. Well that didnt happen, I got to my room packed up my suitcase and decided I was getting tired it was now 3 am and I knew I had to be down stairs to catch the shuttle at 5 to catch my flight at 7. I set the alarm and off to sleep I went. I swear it seemed like it was 20 minutes but the alarms goes off and I get up grab my belongings and head downstairs. There I check out and sitting the lobby watching TV till the shuttle guy is ready for me. I get to the airport, check in, drop off my baggage and go to security. There the security was super tight for the day, because of the shotting the night before. It ended up taking me over and hour to get through and the guy that was in front of me, he held me up even longer cause they had to search him and his bags. Then they ended up searching everyone in that party. Im not sure what was worng, but I had a feeling they was introuble and up to something. Well finally I got thru and headed to my gate when I spoted a dunkin donuts, I was thinking sweet Im hungry . I ended up with a donut and a coffee. I finished it just in time the plane was loading and I couldnt be happier all I wanted to do was get home and see my hubby or at least call him. I couldnt even call him just yet cause it was 6:50 am and normal he is up that time to go to work but I am an hour ahead of him so it was only 5:50 and I didnt want to wake him. So I loaded the plane and it was so empty I ended up with no one sitting next to me. Sweet I pulled out my travel pillow, laid the seat back and legs spread all over the other seat and went to sleep, I slept all the way till we was about to land and the stourist woke me and said raise your seat please. I was so tired at that point I was kinda angry for him waking me, but then again I realized that we was almost home. Well we landed I was shuttled to my car. I loaded it and called my man we talked as I was driving the gas station to get gas cause on my way to the airport my light came on. Well I got my gas and headed home. When I got there I left everything in the car went in and went right to sleep. I slept till hubby got home. Wow that was a long tiring trip and now we get to do it 4 times a year now and not 1 per the CEO.

TOP 10 List

Top 10 List of things I want to do:

1. Concieve a Baby or maybe twins....Doug wants twins, I'm not picky

2. Take a honeymoon. Doug and I never got to take a honeymoon yet due to money circumstances, but eventually we plan on taking a cruise for a week to Alaska where he then wants to get off and caribo hunt for a week and then sail back. I just want a romantic vocation with my husband.

3. Build a new house. Right now our house is plenty big for the 2 of us, but as soon as we have a our children I wish we could have a bigger house. But the house plans are a long time away.

4. Remodel the house the I live in now. All new appliances, flooring, painting of the walls, getting the basement finished, new curtains and colors. This house is 10 + years old and still has the original everything in it. Hunter green is out and it needs to go.

5. Start saving up money to have for special things; Vacations, etc.

6. Talking my husband into letting me have a pool in my back yard. And I dont mean a Buehrer kiddie pool but a big pool. Doug tells me no that they cost to much to open and close and they are a pain to take care of . I told him he puts it up and I will take care of it. I will clean it daily and even open and close it. He says yeah right! We are not getting one.

7. I want us to start eating healthy and both lose weight. Since I am on all these fertility meds and I quit smoking I have gained 35 pounds. I would like to lose it all and get back to my weight before the babies come. I wish we had more time or we could start making more time to walk around the park or ride our bikes on thetrails.

8. This summer I plan on going more places and doing more outside. I plan on finding places for Doug and I to go to. Like Float trips, Branson, just mini vactions over the weekends. Possibly planning more bbq's or fish frys at the house. These are always a blast and it gets us all together which dosent happen as much as it used to. Or even spend more time with my family and take the kids places. To the pool or parades or amusement parks.

9. To have a very big yard sale and get my basement cleared out of old junk and things that have been collected that we dont need. I have already started this porject and I am not close to being done. And its already garage sale time. I better get on the ball and get this going.

10. Try to reconnect and meet with my sister for the first time. I would love to know all about her, her husband and my neice and nephew.

Congrats To the Toth Family!

Ok so I know I am a little late getting this up as Finley is now 8 weeks old. But I wanted to to tell Matt & Jenn congrats on their beautiful baby girl Finely. Matt and Jenn struggled to have a baby like Doug and I are so Matt and Jenn decided to do IVF and it worked and they now have a precious baby girl. Check out there blog stories and see pics at: http://toth2006.blogspot.com. Jenn hope you dont mind but I copied a few pics to post with my story.

I actually Did it! And I cant believe it!

I quit smoking, I actually quit, It wasnt an easy process but here is how I did it.
Well it started when my grandma got sick with cancer.Seeing her in the hospital in all that pain and not able to talk or do anything,especially when before she got it she was so healthy and could probably do more than some adults. She was very strong and looked young for her age. But it made me think that I dont want to end up like that or put Doug and my kids through that. My grandma smoked for 25 years and quit 20years ago. And even after 20 years she got lung cancer which eventually spread through her whole body till it took her life. I miss her daily and think that its not fair that it had to happen to her, why her? She did the right thing and quit so why punish her. But besides seeing my maw maw as I called her like that, I heard that she asked my aunt Kay as one of her dying wishes for her who also smokes to please quit. Since she asked my aunt that, I think that even though she didnt ask me that I should also do the same for my grandma because I know that is what she would have wanted. But besides all the I also wanted to quit for several other reasons. One I am trying to have a baby and smoking causes infertilty. Two because I have many breathing problems as it is why make it worst and three and one of the most important ones, cancer seems to run in my family severly and I dont want to die. I have to much that I still want to do in life and thats spend all my time with my amazing husband and raise a family. So I decided it was time. So this is what I did:
One since cigs are expensive I started off by finsihing that pack I had by cutting my cigs down to 1 or 2 a day, then after they were gone I used the nicotine patch. And so far so good, I have been a month and week now clean free and I plan to keep it that way. Yes granted at times I want it, but if I get busy doing something that craving feeling goes away. And just like last week I went to the boat and you can smoke there and after we got there I had one of those craving feelings and realized that I forgot to put my patch on. I thought oh great! here I am in a casino where you can smoke and have no patch on, but I ended up concentrating on playing cards and forgot all about it. I tell myself everytime I get that feeling to dont do it, it will go away eventually, and it does.

Best Friends

Ok So I have this best friend Amy Kerr that I met in grade school. She lived down the road from me where I lived at my moms house. I believe we started going to school together in kindergarten, but it has been so long I realy cant remember. But what I do remember is Amy and I were inseparable we played with each other everyday together. Then when our mothers would go out with each other and I had a babysitter of course Amy would just stay at my house. Well around 3rd grade Amy and her family (mother, mothers boyfriend, Brother and Sister) they all moved away. I wanna say to Belleville but that is when I lost all contact with her and never knew where she went to. Then one day Amy calls and leaves a message on my mothers answering machine with her new number, she said it so fast we couldn't catch it and I never could call her. That was the last time I heard from her. I guess she figured that If I didnt call her back, that I didnt want to talk to her. Which wasnt the case. Well its now been 20 years and after all this time we havent heard from each other, until recently. I got this bright idea since I had myspace and facebook to do a search and pull up ever Amy I could find and email everyone of them, just hoping one of them would be her. Well guess what? One of them was her and she emailed me back. We talked back and forth that night till we hours in the morning till we decided to exchange numbers. So now its only a few months till my wedding reception and I thought perfect timing I will invite her and her whole family, so I could see everyone again. The reception approached and they showed. Boy was I so happy to see them. Amy changed but she was still the blonde girl I knew when we was just little girls. Her mom didnt change a bit other than she lost alot of weight and got rid of her loser boyfriend Larry and married a great guy who takes care of all them. Then I got to meet Kenzi, by the look of her and her age I would have thought it was Amy's sister but it was her daughter. And actually half way thru the night and after drinking I said to Kenzi " go get your sister I mean Mom for me". So the whole night Amy, her family and I all hung out togther and her mom and mine tlaked to each other all night long. Then came the garter and bouquet toss. I had to bouquets one for the little kids and one for the grown ladies, I learn to do this from my first wedding. Well Amy and Kenzi ended up catching the bouquets. It couldnt have been more perfect. Then thru the night Amy had a crush on Doug's coworker Buster. Doug tried to warn Amy that he was a player and had a girl, but it didnt seem to faze her any. But Buster ended up catching the garter so I have a great picture of them two together. Plus one of Kezi with Ryan the son of friends of ours. I will get them post her very soon. So anyway to get back to the point Amy and I had not seen each other in 20 years and now even though she lives about and hour away from me in MO we still keep in touch and try to make plans together. We already have a vacation planned in May to go to Myrtle Beach together. It will be good times, and I will be sure to post pictures of our vacation. But I am so glad after all these years we can be best friends again! I love you Amy! :)

More Fertility News

Well I went back to the Doctor on Monday for my results of my bloodwork and what our next steps would be. He said that 2 of my levels were good, but my levels were I took the clomid were really bad and it appears that I am resistent to clomid. But he did say that my bloodwork showed no signs of PCOS. Thats a plus, but it still dosent explain why I have so many eggs lining on the bottomof my ovaries. So the doctor said that we our going to go ahead with the Labroskipi and Hystroskopi(Not sure if those are spelled correct or not) and check out what is all going on inside of me. Repair my tubes and anything elsee that needs to be done. After that the next month we our going to start 6 diffrent fertility drugs and day 14 do artificial insemenation. Continue the drugs and go in day 28 for a pregancy test.If it dosent take then we our going to try 2 more times. If these dont take we our going to go back to IVF. Right now its a waiting game. I will let everyone no more later.

Here goes: OUR STORY

1. What are your middle names? Mine is Kay and Dougs is Joseph

2. How long have you been together? 5 Years Total been Married for 2 years this April.

3. How long did you know each other before you started dating? Not Long at all.

4. Who asked who out? Doug asked me out

5. How old are each of you? Doug is 36 and I am 28

6. Did you go to the same school? Nope

7. Are you from the same home town? Nope, He grew up In Granite City, IL and I grew up in O'fallon, IL. We met through friends.

8. Who is the smartest? DefinitelyDoug. He's such a smart man, Sometimes I just feel like a big ditz around him.

9. Who majored in what? Doug Majoried in well I can remember, but I will tell you that he dosent use his degree. And I never majored in anything. Thats the mistake I made, I never went to college.

10. Who is the most sensitive? ME! I can cry just watching a TV show.

11. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? We went to Las Vegas together for the renewal of our vows and a bowling tournament.

12. Who has the worst temper? Me again! Especillay with the fertility drugs I take. And Doug holds everything in. But when it comes out, watch out!

13. How many children do you want? I want 3, I always tell Doug that I would like to have a set of twins. But I want to be pregnant twice.

14. Who does the cooking? We actually share the role. It depens on what is being made that night for dinner.

15. Who is more social? Doug, he cant talk to just about anybody and for no reason at all.

16. Who is the neat freak? I am, I can not stand a dirty house or things out of place.

17. Who is the most stubborn? Im not realy sure on this one.

18. Who wakes up earlier? He does, he gets up every morning with the Doug to go out potty. But it seems he cant stay in bed past 7. I could sleep all day. But that will change when we have a baby. I wont mind getting up then.

19. Where was your first date? We went to Applebees for dinner and it was his birthday that day also.

20. Who has the bigger family? Um I do. I have a large family on both sides. I have some many cousins that we have a family reunion every year and we still dont know everyones name. Plus new members are added each year.

21. Do you get flowers often? No, Doug bought me roses my first Valentines together. After I got them I told him to not buy me anymore, that they die and I would rather him buy me something that I can always cherish.

22. How do you spend the holidays? Well we spend the day times with his family and my familys at night.

23. Who is more jealous? Neither of us are really jealous anymore. But I admit I used to be a jealous freak.

24. How long did it take to get serious? We were both serious right away. I moved in a week after I met him and we talked about a family and marriage right away. We just waited 2 years.

25. Who eats more? Definitely him.Espcially when it comes to Chicken Wings, or Crab Legs.

26. What do you do for a living? I work as a Site Admin for a very large company that restores Military equipment. We have sites all over the world. Doug is a land surveyor.

27. Who does the laundry? Pretty much Doug, He started doing it because I keep the house clean and the dishes done. He hates to do dishes, so he said if I do all the he will do the laundry. But I am sure once the baby comes I will go back to doing it, cause he will get sick of seeing so much.

28. Who's better with the computer? I am for sure. I am a computer nerd you could say. I can do anything with a computer and even fix them too.

29. Who drives when you are together? Mostly him, but I do drive occasionally.

30. What is your song? We our wedding song was Brad Paisleys "When" it describes us to a tee! But when we first got together I always thought our song when we got married would be Rascall Flatts "Bless the Broken Road" it also describes us, but "When" was a better choice.

My two cats that we had to give away and I miss so much!

So back in 2004 I worked at a vets office. While I worked there a coworker of mine brought in this cat she found that was just declawed and thrown out in the world all alone. He was sick and needed attention, so Brandi came to his rescue. I took care of this cat daily I fed him, gave him his meds exc. Just as he got better they tell me that he has got to go. I was thinking no I have gotten so attached to him. So what did I do I took him home. Boots was a very smart cat.After a few months a friend of mine her friends cat had kittens and my first thought was Boots and you will see why we called him boots, needed a playmate so we adopted a kitten. We named her Trinity Autumn and she was my lovable lap cat always wanted attention and to be loved on. After a few years she started having problems and would pee all over my house. But the after she would do it Boots would have to remark the territory. So it got so bad that I when I went to Alexandria, Virginia for training for my new job Doug took my babies to the No Kill Human Society, I would have never been able to do that. I thought it was best, even though I never got to say good bye to them. I miss them both to this day. I did ask Doug when he takes them there to make sure they pleasa stayed together. Boots or Trinity would get depressed or mad when they were not together. Well that didnt happen, Trinity was adopted out and my Boots is still at the Human Society and will be there now 2 years on March 16t. It breaks my heart and if I knew he would pee all over my carpets again I would go and rescue him again.