Look Who's 3!!!

(Sorry this is the most recent photo by herself that is uploaded to our laptop.)

We welcomed this beautiful little girl into our family three years ago and she has blessed our lives ever since! I love my Katie Bug so much that I can hardly believe it! Every single day she makes us laugh. She is always giving hugs and kisses and says the most random, funny things that I can't help but smile. She loves her baby dolls and Barbie dolls, but doesn't mind picking up a toy car or ball every now and then. She changes her clothes at least 5 times a day and keeps me busy with laundry! She loves anything that involves princesses and getting all dolled up. Thank goodness it's never a fuss to get her ready for church. She loves going to nursery and adores her teachers, Brother and Sister Barr. She was able to talk to a few people on the phone today and she would say, "Hi _____, it's my birthday!" The girls and I went to the movies this morning and then spent the lunch hour at the park. We'll be celebrating with a "white castle cake" and ice cream per Katie's request later this week. I love you so, so much, my little Katie Bug! I'm so blessed to be your mommy and I'm glad you were born. You'll always be my baby and I hope you stay a mama's girl forever! Happy Birthday!!!

I'm Ba-ack!

I'm back in a couple of ways... I got home from girls camp last week and had an absolute BLAST! I am so thrilled that I was able to go and spend the whole week with such amazing girls. I LOVE my calling!!! I'll talk on that more later.

For now I wanted to say that I'm back to running! I have officially started my training for my full marathon. I'm a little behind in my own schedule but ahead of the schedule on www.marathonrookie.com so we'll see how I do. I have run on the track a few times and then started running on the roads this week. The best part is I have found a new running buddy!!! Angela had to skip out on running due to medical reasons. It really put a cramp in my style. :) But a few weeks ago Alysa was at the track and I suckered her into running with me. We had a great time and now she's training for a half marathon and has agreed to run 3 times a week with me! Yahoo!!! I'm so glad and now we'll just have to see how the bum knee holds up. Thanks for sucking it up, Alysa!!!

I'm annoyed!

Okay, first I have to say that we love our neighborhood and we've had zero problems in the past. Everyone seems to get along and are very pleasant. With that said I have to mention something that really annoyed me.

I'm sitting here trying to do some work while watching You've Got Mail... minding my own business... very late at night. When all of a sudden I got a tap on my door. It was midnight for crying out loud! My first thought was, "Should I go wake up Andy?" My second thought was, "Maybe it's Brandon or Brigetta... no, they would've called first." So I peeked out my front window. (This has happened before and it turned out to be teenagers being immature and they ran off.) Peeking out the window was practically useless. My porch light is burned out and I could barely see a silhouette. My heart was racing and I stood there for a second and thought, "Well, they already know I'm here. I've looked out the blinds and the light is on." I didn't really know what to do and then I saw a woman standing at the edge of the lawn. (This next part I realize was absolutely STUPID on my part.) I opened the door! Thank goodness it was our next door neighbor... but he wanted to tell me that our backyard sprinklers were causing a flood. What?!!! You scared the poop out of me to tell me that you want me to turn off my sprinklers? That really couldn't have waited till morning? And here is the dumb part--- I turned off our sprinklers and our neighbor behind us has his going and there is a run off from his, too. So really I don't think it's just ours, if any that's causing his flood. Maybe they are just watering too much!

Am I crazy for thinking that common courtesy is even if a light is on--- you just DO NOT knock on someones door late at night? They could have called first! I'm sorry, but I'm totally annoyed!

Goin' down memory lane...

Tonight Andy and I were watching a movie on television and one of the lines made me laugh and think of something that happened about 12 years ago. The line was, "Thunder Cats a go!"

When my little sister was about 2 we rented a movie and she loved it!!! She would yell, "Funder, funder, funder cats a hooooo!" It was so cute! Remembering that now I might have to give her a call and tease her about it later.

I need input!

I'm thinking of going private with my blog, but I can't quite decide. I like that when I visit a friend's blog and see someone else I haven't seen in years, then being able to catch up if they are public... and vice versa. I've found lots of friends that way and I am now able to keep in touch and read about new jobs, weddings, babies and lots more. Plus, it's another source of putting my business out there since it's linked on the right.

However, the other day I happen to see a Criminal Minds episode that freaked me out. I know it's creepy I like that show, but this particular one was really freaky. It started out that the unsub was able to find his victims through public facebook pages. And the second part that had my heart racing was that it was happening in a City not too far from here. I know we all secretly hope our parts of town are safe... but deep down I think we all know they are just the same as any other city.

And here is the one that is a kicker... literally the day before I watched that episode I received a comment on my blog that was totally normal and encouraging, but I had no idea who it was from. When I clicked on the name, it linked me to a public website (not a blog) that I didn't recognize. That has happened before but then usually the next comment is something along the lines of, "Hey it's Jane, btw... I was on my sister's blog."

I try not to give specific details of where I live, but do you think I'm being way too paranoid by going private? Lend me your thoughts, please!