Cody was determined to be a red Power Ranger for Halloween this year. No cute costume for him! So we made the best of it and he had a great time! We had dinner at Cooper's house and we all went trick-or-treating in his neighborhood. Next we headed up to Flowery Branch for us to be with our church. There was a hay ride (which we missed) and making smores! I think he had a great time! Enjoy the pictures! (Click the picture below to go to the gallery)
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We went to the pumpkin patch at Washington Farms Thursday with Cooper. The boys had a BLAST and they did not want to leave!! I think their favorite part was either the cow train or the corn box. They spent at least 30 minutes in that corn box!! Enjoy the slide show!! (You can click on the slide show to view the album and the pictures larger)
I finally have my computer back! We had to replace the hard drive so I've been installing everything back this afternoon like a mad woman! I really don't have anything else to report with the exception of boot camp is harder than EVER! She is pushing me really hard and wow...it is rough!
Oh, and prayers for our church would be AWESOME. If you don't already know, we attend a very new church and we don't have a permanent place for our church yet. We meet in a community center every Sunday and have to unload and load all of our production equipment and children's church equipment. God has given us an awesome opportunity to possibly have a permanent church home with a lot of potential and we just hope that this is God's plan for our church! SOO exciting! I hope everything works out so I can report more!!!
Other than that, I'll see if I can get some updates this evening with pictures from what has been going on this week in our little family life!
Yes, I was hanging out with a bunch of Georgia and Alabama fans but I had my AU pin on (which I'm not sure you can see it in the pictures). We had a get together at Tara and Greg's to watch the Alabama/Georgia game and we had a great time! 
This was on Tuesday afternoon. We've had a huge gas shortage since Hurricane Ike came through Texas and shut off our pipelines. This morning, things are getting back to normal finally. There have been lines all over town and it has been worse in Metro Atlanta. Out here in the burbs, we haven't had a problem until this past weekend. I had filled up on Thursday of last week so I'm still at 1/2 tank, but I'm filling up today because there is gas to be found!!
We've been really busy this past week. Soccer started and Cody and Cooper have had the BEST time! He is learning so many skills already and I'm very impressed!! The pictures I took during their class did not turn out good because of the lighting in the complex, but this was taken right before going inside.
We had our usual Wednesday playdate last week and we met at the mall. Cody and Erin rode on the carousel which was a great warm up because....
...we went to the Gwinnett County Fair that afternoon with Cooper's family. Cody and Cooper rode EVERY kid ride and had the most fun I've seen two little boys have! I took TONS of pictures, but here are a select few of the best ones.
If you can't tell, they had to ride the Speedway several times. Thank goodness it was hand stamp day so they could ride as much as they wanted!
On a personal note, I've been to boot camp now for almost 2 weeks and I can tell a HUGE difference already! I've enjoyed it and I'm continuing to go as much as I can. I've missed today because of these horrible allergies and a silly headache, but I'm back full force tomorrow!!!
These are the sounds we have heard in our house today!
First if you will take a look at the picture on the left. That is what I saw this morning when I heard the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP. It was time to get up for my first day of boot camp. Keep in mind I'm a stay home mommy and I'm blessed my child sleeps until between 7:30 and 8 every morning. 5:45 was WAY too early! Boot camp started at 6:30 and I had my buns worked off today. I was very glad I went even though my body hates me right now. It hates me because it has not exercised to that intensity in so long!! I never quit any of the exercises even though I thought I was going to pass out a couple of times. I'll be popping a couple of ibuprofen before going to sleep so I can get up again tomorrow morning at 5:45 and do it all over again!
GOOOOOOAL! We spent the afternoon with Gina and Laura Leigh at the Mall of Georgia looking for new tennis shoes and soccer socks. After they left, Cody and I found his socks at Dick's but they didn't carry his size shoe. SOOO...I didn't see any tennis shoes in the mall I liked, so off to Norcross and the New Balance store (a good 30 minutes away from where we were). We get there and they only have ONE shoe in his size. The ugly yellow and black shoes. So since his other tennis shoes do not fit at all anymore, we had to buy these shoes. I went ahead and got them since New Balance hold up very well. We'll find a pair of cute gray ones later. So when we got home, he wanted to put on his entire soccer uniform. He was running around and dancing in it. This was the ONLY picture I could get.
And finally...VROOM! Daddy brought home the most important thing of all. Since Cody is FINALLY potty trained and has gone over a week with NO accidents, he got what he wanted. The Lego Ferrari Racing Pit Stop. It took daddy and mommy at least 1.5 hours to put it together with stickers and all, but it was well worth it to see his excitement. He played with it for a while before going to bed and he did NOT want to go to bed. He arranged things the way he wanted them and had me take a picture. We are very proud of him and he kept saying over and over "Mommy is proud of me, Daddy is proud of me, and I'm proud of me! Thank you!" At least he was very grateful for it. Hooray for no more diapers!!!
We woke up this morning to clear skin! The hives are gone completely!!! So he was able to go to church and see his friends he has missed the past 3 weeks. He was VERY excited to be there. He had so much fun with Ms Lindsey and Ms Amy this morning. When we were packing up church (yes, we pack up church because we meet in a community center still) he was running around everywhere and I was sure he was going to have another outbreak. Nothing! Thank goodness! So this evening we went to Cooper's house for dinner and those boys did not stop even up until the second we had to go home. Cody was not happy at all to go home, but we'll see them again on Tuesday at soccer. Yeah, I'm a soccer mom now even though I swore I was not going to be a soccer mom. Oh well.
I've been having pains in my wrist the past couple of days and today it was really bad. I was talking to Amy at church about it and she said he had the same problem and it was because she was sleeping on her hand funny. I went out and got a brace to stabilize my wrist and it actually has helped. I'm going to try and sleep in it. Well, off to bed! I have to get up at 6 AM for my first day of boot camp. I am so nervous about it because, well, I think there are only 2 of us that early and I know she is going to work me to death (and I need it!!).
We had a LONG night last night and a busy day today! Last night, Cody's rash got much worse. I ended up calling the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on call nurse and after about 30 minutes on the phone, she had me at ease that it was only hives and that we might not ever find out what caused them. According to WebMD they can be hereditary and Dennis has had them twice that he can remember. She did say that the red dyes in his benadryl could be causing the outbreak to be worse, so Dennis RAN to Walgreens at 9:45 (they close at 10) and got Dye Free Benadryl. Guess what...they have not been HALF as bad as they were last night. But just to be safe, Cody slept with us just in case he had breathing issues. All night legs and arms were flying all over me. Oh well.
We woke up early this morning to get him signed up for Little Kickers Soccer. We were there when the email said they were open at 10:00. There was already a huge line with kids EVERYWHERE! We got him signed up and he was able to participate in a quick 15 minute demonstration class and he had such a good time! Cooper was able to get in the same class as him, so they will be playing soccer together this fall! There will be tons of pictures to come!
He had his picture taken with Hopper the Little Kickers Bunny several times.
Listening to Coach Jason in the demonstration class.
Cody and Cooper with Hopper
They were very glad to see each other. It had been 3 weeks!!
Then it was on to his golf lesson with Mr. Peter. He actually played a par 3 hole today and did VERY good. I was so proud of how he is listening to instruction and doing what he is told. We were worried right when we pulled up. He said he didn't want to go see Mr. Peter. When we told him about playing the hole and getting a golf cart, he perked right up and was ready to go!
Mr. Peter telling him where he is aiming.
What form!!
In the golf cart. He still looks sick, poor thing!
Putting it in on the green.
And getting his ball out of the hole!!
It has been a busy weekend and it is only Saturday night! Auburn just won with the score of 3-2 so it was ugly, but hey...a win is a win! WAR EAGLE!!!
This morning started off with a little scare. Cody woke up with a horrible rash all over his body. I freaked out a little and called the doctor first thing. We rushed over there and the doctor looked at him. No fever, no infection anywhere. The doctor said it was an allergic reaction to something and 9 times out of 10 you never figure out what caused the break out. Well THAT didn't ease me because what if it happens again? So he said to just give Cody benadril and it will take a while for the rash to go away. We snapped the picture going across the Chattahoochee this morning on the way to the doctor since we were stopped in rush hour traffic.
We have been looking for the Rescue Heroes. They do not sell them in stores anymore, so I've seen them on ebay (but they were $10 each on there) so I have been asking people to look for any they might want to get rid of. Today we went to Little Lambs Consignment sale. I've never been to one before and wasn't sure what I would find. We ended up finding a new Tommy wind breaker, a cute Halloween t-shirt, LOTS of scrapbook supplies, and RESCUE HEROES! All of them! They were $2.50 each and he also found a Power Ranger for $1. Since he has been doing so good at the potty training lately, I was happy to buy them for him. He has been playing with them since we cleaned them up. They are in almost perfect condition. I don't think they have been played with before. Poor toys! :)
We NOW want the Ferrari F1 Pit from the Lego store. It broke my heart tonight to walk out without it for him, but I have to stick to my guns. If he stays dry the rest of the week and weekend with NO accents at all, I will GLADLY go and buy it for him. Thanks to Lori and Deb he now is a Lego Maniac! Daddy loves it by the way. We couldn't go to the Lego store tonight without him. HAHA!
Update coming soon!!
We are getting closer and closer to our Pat Pat Rocket! He has successfully finally gone to the potty like he needs to! We just needed the costume magazine and the toy magazine to help him concentrate. YIPPEE! So this afternoon we're going to the Lego outlet to get a new small bucket of Lego's to celebrate finally going to the potty instead of our pants (well, we had #1 mastered for a while now, it is the #2 we are celebrating)!
I was so excited so I snapped a very nice picture today that will be perfect to show the high school girlfriends and to put in his Senior yearbook! Join with me in celebrating! YIPPEE!!!
Since he kept his pants dry ALL last week, I let him go to Build-a-bear and build his own bear! Little K had never been before so she had the best time. Cody was an old pro and he finally picked out Clyde the bear. Clyde even has on his own 'bear big boy undies' so he had to go potty with us everywhere.
Little K made "Big Alice" because she is an Alabama Fan. I know, I'm working on it! HAHA
Loving on his bear!!
FUN TIMES!
We played golf this morning. I had my 2nd par ever!! I had several double bogeys and higher, but my par was AWESOME! On a par 4! Here are some of the sights and views from today.
If you could not tell from the previous post...I cut bangs again. I'm digging them so far...ask me in another couple weeks if I still like 'em! This pic was the day I did it (and no, I wasn't driving...I was stopped in the neighborhood!)
We had date night tonight! Since we are on a 'get healthy' kick, we decided to go bowling. It was so much fun and the place we went was VERY cool! It was nice to have a 'date' for the first time in a LONG time. We need to do it more often.
See...I DID make it to 100!
