It was special................

my 40th bday. Didn't do too much during the day. Me and Jaden went to the pool for about 3 hours. He played while I got some sun, and listened to Matts Ipod.
Then we decided at VERY last minute to go to the Titans game. It was great. We won, and I spent about 100.00. You would have really thought this was Jadens bday. Ha.

But as the story goes.......$60 for 2 tickets in the lower level,$15 to park, $18 for chicken fingers, a pretzel and a coke, and $25 for Jaden a football and tee..........PRICELESS! When my kids are happy, then I am happy!

Jaden taking it all in at the Titans game.
#10 Vince Young
Yo' Vince. Jaden wants to come down there with you.
Check it out! Bob Parks Realty! Jaden noticed it first.

This is the card that Matthew gave me with a gift card to Chilli's. Do you think he is wanting me to take him to dinner... Ha. Real cute Matt.. Oh yea, the card also played music.

I got these lovely flowers from my Aunt and Uncle in W.Va. Thanks Allen and Jup( not her real name, its a nick name. Real name Margret).

39 and HOLDING on for Dear LIFE!

~~~Oh crap, tomorrow is the day! ~~~What day you ask? It is the day that I have dreaded since my birthday last year when I turned 39, and knew that they next one that came around if the
good Lord allowed it was gonna be 40.
WHEWWWW!

I actually can not believe it if you wanna know the truth.
The good part is for the most part I don't feel it. I have 2 of the most wonderful kids that keep
me busy.

Oh yea, my dear son Matthew started his SENIOR year today at school too. Now that makes me feel OLD. And then tonight at dinner, Jaden said "Hmmmm, you and Dad both are now 40". Thanks Jaden, words of wisdom. I said "yes Jaden, but your Daddy will always be older than me" .

This week was a busy one. Jaden had school all week , but today . Today I took him, Kassie and Kolson to the pool. It was a BEAUTIFUL day. I laid out in the sun and took in a few magazines and tried to relax.
~Tuesday I want to meet Jadens teacher. It seems that my name was the only one on the sign up sheet to "HELP" out in the class with parties and all that. I thought I was signing up to help but since the name Michelle was the only one on there...... you guessed it. I am the room Mom! I think it will actually be ok.
~Thursday we watched the D'man, better known as Dawson. He was so cute! Jaden loves him a lot. So do I . He brings us a lot of JOY. We had a little blow out in the Huggies, so we had to give him a little bath in the BIG jaccuzi tub. He loved it, and all was good. Wraped him up in the towel, held him and he went to sleep. He is the sweetest!

Matthew worked a lot this week with it being back to school time. That was a nice break.... get him out of the house some. It seems our house is the hang out place..... ha. Anyway, he is glad to be back to work after a longggggg summer of baseball. He is gonna be glad for that nice PAYDAY!

Also, I came across this blog from another one that I read. If you get a chance to look at it try to.
Pray that her baby will get the healing he needs. She is a trooper.
Go to http://www.mycharmingkids.net/


Have a Great WEEKEND! By the way , tomorrow is also the 1st Titans game of the year. Go Titans. :)

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL

I am so ready for football season to start. Last night's pre-season game just got us

in the mood.

Love my Titans, and go BIG ORANGE!!!

What does August 4th and Monday mean?

It means that this is the downhill slide to
Saturday August 9th,
which is also my 40TH b'day!

YICKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not, not, not looking forward to it. Why you ask........let me break it down for you.

1. The idea of 40 or 40 something is not my idea of fun.

2. You will soon be in the category of having other medical things done and tested. It is when the word cholesterol, or mammogram become common words.

3. I am already noticing that you wake up each day with a different pain in your body.

4. Your kids all of a sudden think you are OLD. And Jaden thinks old means you die.

5. Gray hair (most of mine are from KIDS).

There are many more things that I could touch on, but I will save you the agony.

But all in all, I still feel young at heart, my younger friends (you know who you are) keep me up to date on all the "young" trends. And of course my kids keep me feeling like I have no choice other than to keep up. I still will crank up the radio on a good song. Ha.
Guess all in all, you truely are only as old as you feel, so I guess I am really only gonna be 25 (I wish).

I had said a few years ago that I wanted a convertible by the time I was 40, and that I wanted to be out of M'boro ( like out of the country) when I turned 40 but none of this is gonna happen. Maybe when I am 50. By then I will have a child that will be 27 and maybe grandkids, and Jaden will graduate high
school.

Have a great week friends and family............... and I am going back into my shell. Ha.

~~Michelle

The start of Senior meltdowns......

Well today we had to go and get Matt's senior pictures made for the year book. As we are driving down the road on the interstate what does it start to do?

It started to pour down rain. Lovely.

I was gonna do a few pictures outside, but that got washed out.

We are going somewhere else to do the "REAL" pictures anyway.

Anyway, we walk into this OLD house that is the studio and Matthew can barely walk thru the door frames because they are so short and he is so tall.

First it was the nice TUX picture (not), then it was time for the cap and gown. Ok people, really could someone have warned me about this. I had a melt down then he ordered his class ring, but seeing him walk around that corner with a cap and gown on was more than my almost 40 heart could stand. It was a REAL eye opener.

And as you can see, Jaden had to get his 2 cents in also.

God prepare me for May 2009 as I let my first baby

meet the real world.

This will be my last blog posting

about baseball for a while. We finished up this weekend!! I am sure all you non baseball people are happy!!

How hot is it out here... dang.The whole team at lunch after game 1 win.. Downtown Nashville
Matt getting the 2nd place trophy.

Last team pic. So much fun. See ya next year.



Yes,I spent my entire weekend and I do mean my entire weekend at the ball field in temp' s of about 97. Heat index in the 100's.

Matthew played in another World Series Tournament . They came in 2nd place again, but

they played hard.

Anyway... here are a few pics.

Next he will be doing BOWLING for the High school.

By the way.... Matthew will be a Senior this year .. CLASS OF 09'.

July 24th

Ok,people! You have exactly 5 months til Christmas Eve. Start shopping!

Just thought I would share that with you.

Today is a Gorgeous day in Middle Tennessee. The sun is shinning , and it is a nice dry temperature of about 65. You can't ask for a better day than that.

Don't get excited though, it is gonna hit 90 today and mid 90's by the weekend with the great, bad hair day humidity coming back. But I LOVE SUMMER!!!

Will post more later.

~~Michelle ;)

Jaden's 1st day of 2nd grade!!!

Look out girls. Like the duds?
Get my crayons out..looks like we gotta do some coloring.
See ya Mom. Pick me up at 11am.
Lets see, what color should I use.

Yes it is back to school already, and no I AM NOT ready. I actually have had a very hard morning with it. But on the bright side, Jaden was ok with it (for now).

I got up at 5:45 am and got stuff going, and then Jaden got up at 6:40 a.m.

He was tired, but for the most part sorta anxious.



Oh, and have I mentioned what we go thru when it comes to what he is wearing to school. He has to have his own outfit picked out. He is worse than any girl. I am not sure where in the world he gets this from (me).... LOL.

Wish my teenager cared like that......... :)He is 17 and I usually put his clothes out so he will match! (kidding)

Jaden gets out at 11:00am today, and then we will be doing a fun afternoon at the pool with Lauren, Dawson, Eric, and Brandon. It is just suppose to be 96 today...