Im A Slacker!

I know I know I said I was going to post pictures from SOAR when I got back but I have been so busy this week and I have been so stressed out (about several things)! Please just pray for me.... we are going to lads to leaders tonight and I want to have a good time... it will be stressful but please just pray that Eric and I get to spend a little time together! We need it! Things have just been so crazy.... I want things to get back to normal.... but hey what is normal anyways? Please just pray that the things I am dealing with will get better or at least easier to deal with.....Well, sorry for venting but I just needed it! So its off to HOT-LANTA for Lads-to-Leaders. Pray for our trip, pray for the kids and just pray for me! TTTTHHHHAAANNNNKKKSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

SOAR

We will be leaving today at about 4:30 to go to SOAR youth rally in Agusta, GA. Please pray for our safe return! I will have pics up next week! Have a great weekend!

I started a PartyLite blog!

I have kinda slacked these last few months with PartyLite (as most of you know I started a new job) and I am ready to get back to business! So I started a new blog just for PartyLite! I will have specials and all kinds of information. You can place a regular order and you can also order gift baskets. Just tell me what you would like in it and I will get you a price or you give me a price range and I will let you know what you can get for that amount! You can also let me know if you want to host a party or if you have questions...... so what are you waiting for check it out!

Updates on the tank situation!

Most of you guys know that I bought a saltwater aquarium this past weekend (after braving the cold weather for Katie's yard sale). My first two creature purchases were a cleaner shrimp and a SEAHORSE! I have always wanted a saltwater tank and a seahorse so I was so excited!

Katie got a Seahorse, Horseshoe crab (named Hercules) and an Arrow crab (that we call long legs because he looks like a grandaddy long leg in water).

As you all know from a previous post Katie's first Seahorse was attacked by long legs and he did not survive so I am housing him in my tank. I have watched him interact with my shrimp and I told Eric that he would have a free ride down the water slide (toilet bowl) the first time he tried to eat my shrimp. So then Katie called the store that we got our creatures from and they said that they would GIVE her another Seahorse since they were wrong about long legs being OK with him. So she went and picked it up Monday. I would love to say that our seahorse drama ended here but it doesn't. At night Katie's urchin likes to get near the water filter to eat and the Seahorse uses the running water as an amusement park. The Seahorse will get near the entering water and wait for it to push him along and then he whirles around the tank until he can catch something to hold on to..... (this is fun to watch). Well, Tuesday something caught him. Katie came in to find that the Seahorse had whirled right into her urchin! AAAAHHHHHH..... not again! She pulled them apart and the seahorse is still alive but even a day later I think he is stunned. Katie and I went to a different creature place yesterday and we hung out with the owner for about 3 hours. We learned so much about saltwater tanks and the animals..... even our little seahorses! We learned that they are a BIG undertaking for armatures like us! We found out what it really takes for us to keep these little boogers alive and we realized that we did not want to chance it with their survival at hand. We called the store (that we got them from) and explained that the new seahorse had gotten stuck and that we did not think that our tanks were the best place for them (we read that they should be in a tank with nothing but seahorses and be hand feed and we confirmed this with the new creature store). They have decided to let us bring them back along with long legs for an in-store credit. So Katie is taking them back today and she is going to get more live rock for her tank and I need a heater and a chocolate chip starfish for me! YAY! So as of this afternoon I will have a Cleaner Shrimp, an Urchin (that I bought last night), feather dusters, chocolate chip starfish, and of course live sand and rock!

~Creature problems~

As of this morning I have a new inhabitant of my tank, Katies Grandaddy Long Leg Crab! Sometime in the night Long Legs attack Katies Seahorse, which was still a baby. Her Seahorse did not make it through the night. She was VERY upset about this when she called me for our morning chat. Like me, she has always wanted a Seahorse and was so excited that they had some in the store that was in our price range. However, she is so upset because Long Legs is not an animal that she "has always wanted" and he is the one that killed her baby Seahorse. Matt was bringing Long Legs to my house and he is going to make sure that he does not mess with my shrimp......

Recap of last week!

Monday- I was off work because the doctor I work for was on his honeymoon! YAY! So I painted our bedroom...... It was long over due! And we had a volleyball game. Eric and I play Church League Volleyball and our team has improved so much from last year.
Tuesday was our anniversary and we spent the day together (it just happen to be on our off day). We slept in a little bit and then we ate breakfast together. After that I went to the spa to get a manicure and pedicure (2 hours of total pampering and relaxation). Then Eric and I both went back to the spa that afternoon for our couples massages!!!! It has been so long since we have had a massage..... it felt so good! Then we went home to get ready and we went to eat at Olive Garden and we went to the movies.
Wednesday- I worked and went to Church. After that a group of the Young Adults went to eat!
Thursday- We had a volleyball game and we did not do so well. We WON, but we still played pretty bad the first game....... Not like ourselves at all.
Friday- I helped my dear friend Katie get a few last minute things organized for a yard sale that Matt had planned. The we played Wii until midnight! I love our Wii nights with the Griffies'!
Saturday- I was back at Katies by 5:30 a.m. to get ready for the yard sale! It snowed on the way over their.... so that was nice to see. And Saturday afternoon I got a saltwater aquarium! I have always wanted one of these and now I have one! Katie is friends with Greg who owned Petsville and he was at the yard sale to visit..... so he got me a tank and then when the yard sale was over he went with us to WetPets in Montgomery and he showed me all of the things I would need to start a tank. I got a cleaner shrimp and a seahorse. However, I can not put my seahorse in my tank for a few weeks because Seahorses are a little temperamental and they need an established tank to live in so Katie is Seahorse sitting for a few weeks. Katie also got a seahorse, she watch this one for over an hour before she got him. She also bought a horseshoe crab (she needed a sand sifter to keep her sand mixed up and the horseshoe crab is way more active than a star fish) and a grandaddy long leg crab (we forget what the real name is but this crab looks just like a grandaddy long leg in water and his purpose is to eat all the bristle worms in her tank). We were so excited. We (Matt, Katie, Eric and I) set my tank up as soon as we got home so that we could put my shrimp in it. Katie took the rest of the sea creatures to her house.



We also had a bonfire devotional on Saturday. I love these devos because they are so much fun. The Brashers cook hot dogs and hamburgers to eat and then we had smores by the fire! What a Saturday!!!!!
Sunday- I went back to Church at 4 p.m. to watch our girls practice for lads to leaders and they were great! Speeches, song leading and scripture reading were all amazing! Then after church we had hot dogs at our house for a few people and we played the new Wii game, Super Smash Brothers Brawl. We had lots of fun! Sorry I did not post last weekend it was just a crazy week.