Labor Day! 9-1-2008

We ventured down to Atlanta with the Peterson's and the Whites for a day of fun.

GO DEVILS!!!

Kenna & Daddy are twins! They both have camo pants and Devis Shirts.

Playing Soccer...

Kenna & Katrina are playing soccer with the neighbor kids, Brinley and her brother Drew.

Kenna and Brinley

Katrina is the GOALEE

Centipede!?!?!?

Katrina woke me up this morning by franticlly shaking me and saying "Mom a worm! Mom a worm on the book! Mom!" I told her to squish it. She said "No you get it" So I slowly got out of bed and told her to get me a tissue. She ran and got one and came back. I said "Where is it? She said "It was on the book!" I looked around and found it. I looked like a little centipede so insted of squshing it and flushing it, I put it in a water bottle that Tim thankfully left on the floor in our room. (Never thought I'd be greatful for that) I went down stairs and googled centipede. YUP! IT WAS A CENTIPEDE!! AHHH!!! I am so freaked out by it! My skin is crawling. It is still in the water bottle. I'm not letting it out until it dies in the bottle!

Here is the google pic of it....

Here are my pics...



Centipedes are land dwellers, but they do prefer moist habitats or areas of high humidity.
Centipedes do not carry diseases to man or to his animals and plants. They are usually considered nuisances rather than destructive pests. Centipedes pose an occasional threat to man because they have poison glands and will bite.
Description
There are many kinds of centipedes but all of them are more or less wormlike and have a flattened body. The largest centipede inhabits the tropics of Central America. Scolopendra gigantca is its name and when fully mature will attain a length of 12 inches. A closely related centipede, Scolopendra heros, occurs in Texas and may be over 5 inches long when full grown.

Like all centipedes Scolopendra can inflict a painful bite with a pair of poison claws located directly under the head. These poison claws, once a pair of walking legs, have undergone a drastic change over thousands of years and are now used for capturing and killing their prey instead of walking. So complete is the change and so close is the association with the head, the claws now appear to be mouth parts.

Most centipedes can only bite with their poison claws located directly under the head; however, Scolopendra can harm a person with the sharp claws of its many walking legs. Each walking leg is tipped with a sharp claw capable of making tiny cuts in human skin. A poison produced from the attachment point of each leg may be dropped into the wounds resulting in an inflamed and irritated condition. The best rule of thumb is NEVER HANDLE CENTIPEDES.

BIG BUGS!

I keep hearing about big bugs but havent really seen any so big. Until I saw this HUGE worm that looked so cool. And this HUGE (dead) bumble bee that totally freaked me out!

The South...

Sorry, this is long... If you don't have time to read, then don't. It's just my first expirience with a bit of culture shock.

Well, we have been loving it here. And more and more I am realizing that I am in the South. At church I keep hearing little comments about bits of persecution for being members of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints. I wondered what they were talking about? I figure since there are not as many members here, there are not as many that know about the church and so maybe people have neighbors that snob them or whatever because they are LDS. Well, it's more than that. One lady in our last ward, told a story that they were out for a Young Women activity in their neighborhood and a BIG man got into her face and started yelling at her telling her that she needed to belong to a Christian church and saying we were the devils church and stuff like that. She said she was so scared but was able to calmly explained that we are very much Christian. He didn't want to listen and stomped back into the house, unknowingly his son was outside watching and after his dad went back into the house he apologised to them for his dad's conduct. And I think he was later baptized. I thought wow, that is too bad that somebody would be like that. Then I heard another story like that, and another, I'm thinking wow! That is so abnormal for me to hear. Being from AZ, I guess most everybody there either is LDS or knows about the LDS church and sees that it is a Christian based church. Anyway, what got me on this subject is, we have a recent convert in our ward. (Our ward has A LOT of converts, but this girl is recent) She works at a pre-school ( for the past 3 years) at a close by Methodist church where she was a member and where her parents are still members. She was telling us last night at Enrichment that she was let go from her job on Monday because she was baptized in the LDS "Mormon" church. They told her that they were letting her go because, "her contract states that she must have Christian values and lead a christian life. And that because she is now Mormon that she is not a christian." That totally took me back. I was shocked! I couldn't believe that someone would be so naive about our church. I couldn't believe things like that still happen. (I've lived a sheltered life in AZ) She tried to explain that she is absolutely christian and quoted a few scriptures but she didn't want to hear it. I would have said, "HELLO! We are the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day saints, It's in the name, we revolve around Christianity, everything the church teaches is Christian. We have christian values. How can they not see that? It's because they don't want to see it. They are scared of the unknown and would most likely be baptized if they looked into the church. So instead they harden their hearts and are mean to those that are members. (We told her to give the lady the book, Are Mormons Chirstians?) Anyway, she was told it was the Pastors decision and she can't talk to him, mainly because they don't even know who the pastor is because he is new. WHAT? How can you not know who the leader of your church is? (Again, that is so forien to me. We always know who the leader is and who will be next if he dies. Like when pres. Hinkley died, we knew pres. Monson would probably be next.) WOW! Anyway, Many LDS families take their kids there for pre-school. They need to pull them out. Since apparently we are not christian and are not welcome there. They should go to the Lutheran pre-school around the corner that has a lot of LDS families there too and has an LDS Supervisor, that works there. And knows we ARE very much Christian's. Anyway, very interesting. Just thought I would share my bit of culture shock with you. Oh, that girls parents are no longer going to go to that church. Maybe that will be a stepping stone for them to investigate the LDS church? Something good will come of it, either way.

First Day of School!!!

Monday, Tyler started Second grade and Kenna started Kindergarten. I can't beleive I only have one at home! It is so nice and quiet. I should get alot done while they are away. But I doubt that will happen. :o)

MORE pics from the move and this last weekend...

The Peterson's and White's ward was going floating down the river in Helen, GA. So we went along. It was a little too chilly for our kids so we went and walked around the town. It is German town in Helen, GA. It was really fun. We went last year in November when we came out for our "House Hunting Trip".

I'M BACK!!!

We moved what we have been living on for the past two months in to our house on Friday. I took pics before we moved in. Yesterday (Tuesday) the moving truck arrived with all of our crap from AZ! Seirouslly. Tim asked if I was excited to get our stuff back. I said, "mostly no!" I'm excited to get a few things like, my "crapbooking" (as tim calls it) stuff back and a few other things. After moving out of our house in QC, I realized that we have way too much crap! I like the empty feeling in the house and don't want to fill it up again. Atleast we have alot more space for it all. So it might not feel like we have too much crap. I am excited to get everything in it's place and feel setteled. So I have very mixed feelings about all of our crap. :o) Today the Comcast guy came and hooked up our internet. So I am back! YAY!!! I have so many pictures to share.... my apolojies ahead of time.

The kids got tired of me packing and wanted to get out, so in the morning they started doing the dishes and cleaning so I would take them to the "Bouncy Place"

Packing!!!

Moving Day!!!

Our New House!!!

Last Weekend... (Sat & Sun)

Forgive my absence...

So I have been packing yesterday and today trying to get it all done by this evening for the move tomorrow. I'm just about done! I can't beleive the time has finally come. YAY! I'm so excited! I will post pictures as soon as I can. Two weeks ago, I called Comcast who does our internet to have it switched over to the new house. They said they couldn't come out until Aug 6th! Are you kidding me??? That is redicilous!!! I thought two weeks would be plenty of notice. Everybody else was fine with switching things over tomorrow. I gave two weeks notice! So anyway, please forgive me for the week long absence. Tim's work gave him a wireless internet card he said I can breifly use in the evenings when he gets home from work but he doesn't want me to do too much. SO...I will do my best. Well, I keep hearing thunder so I better go get the boxes off the back porch so they don't get rained on.

I'm So Proud of Myself! (in a humble way!)

I've been part of a Card Swap for the past year with an awesome and talented bunch of girls from my neighborhood in Queen Creek, AZ. Once a Month we make 13 cards with a theme(this month is 2 Tags) and then get together on the first Friday of the month to Swap them. (In my case, I mail them and miss out on the socalizing :o( so sad.) Usually I get an idea I think is cute and I do it. This month, the creative juices were flowing too much! I had so many Ideas that I couldn't pick one. And then, when I would sit down to actually do it, I would forget about my "great idea" because I had a new idea. It was actually very discouraging. I actually went to the craft store with no plans and ended up spending $93. DONT TELL TIM! I was sick about it when I got home (Major buyers remorse) so then I started over. I got an Idea, I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. I wrote down the supplies that I needed and I went back to the craft store. Returned most everything. I did get some things on clearance for .50 cents that I kept. And I bought a sticker maker. YAY! So I kept those Items and returned $60. worth of stuff. I went and bought what I "needed" and an extra Stack of Glitter Paper because it was So DANG CUTE! Then, I came home and got to work! I am so excited how my Tags turned out. I'm so excited that I came up with the cute idea on my own and it didn't look like my 5 year old did it. :o) Press F5 to refresh.

We are in the FINAL stages!!!

Tim went to AZ this past weekend. He met the moving truck at our storage unit in Queen Creek on Saturday. They loaded it all up in the "Big Truck". They had 3 guys not including Tim and they got it all done by 1pm. Only 5 hours! They told Tim that if they loaded our Storage unit, that we would have only had to use one unit. Oh, that would have been really nice!!! (I wish they offered that service.) Anyway, they only filled 1/2 of the huge orange Allied truck with our stuff. I'm SUPRISED! They have to go load somebody else from Tim's work Today (Monday) and then they will be on their way to GA. I guess we were supposed to be on the same truck as the Petersons but I guess the family they loaded before the Petersons took more room than expected or something like that, so they didn't have room for us on their truck. Tim enjoyed time with family. It worked out perfect that it was his Mom's Birthday on Saturday. So they did lots of fun stuff. I wish so badly that I could have gone. (Next Time!) Tim came home Sunday night. We move into our house on Friday with the stuff we have. The moving truck wont be here until next Monday or Tuesday. Here are a few pictures...



The Big Orange Truck!


One of our empty storage units.


Dinner with Tim's family. This is how Tim's brother Darell paid his tip. (A tower of dollar bills) In the picture is Tim's Older Sister Lynette and Daughter Jessica (she's kenna's age) and brother-in-law Lance Baldwin. (They came down from Jo City)His nephew Trevor Palmer and His dad at the end of the table with 1/2 his face cut off.

It's Offical!

There's no going back now... We are Georgia Residents. Sorry for the blury pictures, I couldn't have my DL information on the Web. You understand I'm sure.

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TIM!!!

It was more of a Birthweekend... We were going to go to Six Flags for Tim's birthday but spending $400 didn't sound to exciting right now, so then we decided to go to South Carolina and then found out it is a 4 or 5 hour drive and that didn't sound exciting either so....we went back to Stone Mountain Park. We have 15 Free nights with the Marriott because of all of Tim's traveling so we used one night and stayed at the Marriott next to the park. It was AWESOME! We went Friday and Saturday. Here are MORE pictures of Stone Mountain Park. I tried to not repeat pictures but there are still some repeats.