My Life as Mama Jodi

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WEEK IN REVIEW

Week’s Weather
This is for this coming week

Sunday Sermon I had nursery duty today, so I am not sure what the sermon was about. We did have 2 guest speakers though.

Life lessons

Favorite Meal(s) Sesame Chicken Pasta Salad that I made on Tuesday for my lunch.. Mmmmm

Treasured Moment(s) spending time with Kellie and her kids, along with Robyn and the boys!

Simple Pleasures shopping with the girls

Talked with Robyn and Erica

Impacting News

National

Local  Andicott Flowers closed, lots of brides without their wedding flowers.

Personal

Things I Read Allison’s Journey by Wanda E. Brunstetter ~ love my Amish books!

Movies/Videos John and I watched “We Were Soldiers” ~ I have reminded him that if I ever suggest another war movie, he is to tell me NO! I can’t handle them!

Interesting Internet Wikipedia continues to impress me!

Places We Went The zoo, Old Navy, Michael’s, Marshall’s

Budget Savers/Busters Gas continues to be a buster. Savers ~ Old Navy had 50% off their clearance, so I got a few shirts for Trent for school, for $3 each!

Blessings

Challenges Trying to get through to West as Home to figure out what to do next…

Accomplishments

Family Happenings We have a church picnic at Jo’s, lots of good food, fellowship and even a water baptism in their pool.

Tried Something New Orange chicken at a Chinese place in the mall

Photos

Trent having fun in the pool

We went to the zoo today. Family Fare (a local grocery store) sponsored a $1 zoo day. It was so stinkin hot today! I don’t know why they don’t do this in June instead!

Enjoy!

The purpose of this meme is to record a weekly memoir of your life to look back on for your own personal reflection/enjoyment and for your children/grandchildren to enjoy and learn from your experiences. Don’t you wish your parents/grandparents had left something like this for you?? I do!! Feel free to answer all or any…whatever you want to share and record, and feel free to add any subject I may have overlooked.

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Week’s Weather:

Sunday Sermon ~ our service was a little different today. We celebrated our Pastor’s wife’s 60th birthday today, so we honored her with a slide show, and then a luncheon afterwards.

Life lessons ~

Favorite Meal(s) ~ strawberry & banana creme pancakes from Bob Evans - oh my, heavenly!

Treasured Moment(s) ~ spending some time with my hubby this week, after this week he is back to work

Simple Pleasures ~ laughing with Cohen, raspberry cheesecake

Impacting News

National ~ Former Bush Spokesman/ Fox News Sunday Anchor Tony Snow Died of cancer

Local ~

Personal ~

Things I Read ~ my devotional book, no books on the shelf waiting to be read yet

Movies We Watched ~ none this week

Interesting Internet ~ Stacy Clack Photography, I found this blog and love her pictures. One of her photo shoots was of a friends little boy, and I plan on going to the place she took these photos at, so I can get a few photos of my friends kids, to get my own portfolio started!!

Talked with ~ Robyn (of course), and Jeanine - we have her party finally scheduled

Places We Went ~ Brigg’s pool, Olive Garden with friends on Friday for lunch - mmmm

Budget Savers/Busters Buster & Saver: ~ saver - I love 49 cent sale at the Salvation Army night. I got a pair of khaki shorts and a cute dress for a whopping $1.04!! This has been a huge saver for me, as I can continue my love of shopping and not put us in the poor house while I am not working. I have gotten a lot of cute clothes for next to nothing. My best find was a few weeks ago when I got a pair of Lee jeans for 49 cents!! They were in perfect condition!!

Blessings ~ honoring Pastor Judy’s birthday, what a wonderful woman of God she is!

Challenges ~ getting my laptop back up and running after doing a recovery scan! Ugh!

Accomplishments ~ see above

Family Happenings ~ we had a lazy week for our vacation this past week

Tried Something New* ~

Photos ~ I didn’t take any photos this week, something must be wrong with me!!

I spent the morning garage saleing with Robyn and Erica, and NO kids!!  Yay!  We hit a few neighborhood sales, I found a cute top, but that was it for me today. Robyn got a few vases for her upcoming wedding.  We then went and had lunch at Olive Garden… Mmmmm.

The remainder of my day was spent dealing with my computer.  I had so many issues with it, to the point I had to do use the recovery cd and set everything back to the factory settings.  What a project!  I have everything back up and running, but now have to add back all my bookmarks… one by one at that!  Ugh!

So far everything seems to be working properly.  I have a lot of work to do with my paid blogging, and today’s escapades has set me back.  I did get the one assignment done that was due by tomorrow.  I am hoping to get the remaining done before Monday morning so it makes the cut off deadline for payroll.  Wish me luck!  Tomorrow its supposed to rain, so I think I will get things done.

I guess I should head off to bed for now, as its w-a-y past my bedtime!

I love getting together with my friends and their kids. We always have a good time. We were over at Robyn’s for an impromptu porch party, that got moved indoors, as it decided to pour! Not much went on, we just sat around and talked most of the evening, and had the yummy trifle I made!

A few pics

Nicholas talking to Cary

Isn’t he a cutie?

Cary had to go home, but Robyn and Erica didn’t want her to go (Aden had to get in on the act too!).

One of my bestest friends and my partner in crime had her baby yesterday. He weighed
8lbs 9oz and 20.5 inches.

Tonight I went out to dinner with a few friends, and then we went up to the hospital to meet Brody. He is so perfect!!

I love newborns, they are so sweet!

Congrats Kel!! Love you!

The purpose of this meme is to record a weekly memoir of your life to look back on for your own personal reflection/enjoyment and for your children/grandchildren to enjoy and learn from your experiences. Don’t you wish your parents/grandparents had left something like this for you?? I do!! Feel free to answer all or any…whatever you want to share and record, and feel free to add any subject I may have overlooked.

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Week’s Weather… we were in the 60’s in the mornings, 70’s in the afternoon/evenings all week.

Sunday Sermon… “Fearfully and Wonderfully made”

Life lessons… don’t do anything that will make you later regret it

Favorite Meal(s)… sizzling chicken and cheese from Friday’s

Treasured Moment(s)… spending time with my mom friends at the baby shower

Impacting News

National… Scott Kalitta was killed at the drag races in New Jersey last night (Sat)

Local… The GR pools opend up on Saturday!!! YaY!

Personal… John and I recognized as new members of our church today.

Things I Read… “Like Dandelion Dust” by Karen Kingsbury

Movies We Watched… didn’t watch any movies this week

Interesting Internet… just that I am fascinated with the “Hatchery” on Facebook

Talked with… Robyn, Erica, Kellie, Grace, Cary, Tricia and Tina

Places We Went… Garage saleing, Friday’s, Target, Wal-Mart, Meijer’s

Budget Savers/Busters… garage saleing.. I found some great shirts for next to nothing!! ~ busters-buying the bed (but was needed)

Blessings… becoming members of our church

Challenges… getting the bunk beds put together, but only we made it into a loft bed instead for Trent.

Accomplishments… got the bed done!

Family Happenings… Craig’s graduation open house. (Hubby’s nephew)

Photos…
membership

the completed bed

good times…good friends

graduation

Trent has his conference meet today. I didn’t know if they would actually have it, as we were getting hit with some lovely stormy weather, but at the last minute the skies cleared up. The girls ran first, I think I only took one picture of them.. oops. Trent did pretty good he came in 153 out of 200 boys!!

(our team is in blue with white stripe and says Knights across the front of their shirts)

This weekend was a busy one for me! Friday night Trent had a Cross Country meet, he is doing really well at. After the meet we went and got some movies, Waterhorse, Firedog and Snow Buddies. We watched two so far, Waterhorse and Snow Buddies. They both really really cute movies!

Saturday was my day for very little breathing.. LOL. I had my cooking class in the morning, this week was all about cake decorating. We had a lot of fun with this one!! This is my cake, I think it turned out pretty ok!!

We ate this yesterday at a family gathering.

Then it was off to my niece’s 3rd birthday party. Where does the time go? I can’t believe she is 3 already!

Then back home to change and get ready to head off to my final destination for the night, Grace’s baby shower. We went to the Beltline Bar for yummy Mexican food!!! What a fun night, with great food and great friends!!

We had a great time last night!! When we got home he smelled the rubber and knew we got him a bike.

I put all the pictures on a slide show, enjoy!