Hold on by 33 Miles

I've been there a thousand times
I've felt the rain like a thousand knives
And it hurtsI know it hurts
I've been there like a fighter plane
Tryin' fly my way through a hurricane
And it's hardI know it's hard
Don't be afraid You'll make it through
Just call out to me and I'll come running to you

Hold on, hold on
When the current pulls you under
And your heart beats like thunder
Just give me your hand
And hold on, hold on
Unitl the storm is over
And I'll be fighting for you
Just give me your hand and
Hold on

I'll give you hope, I'll give you faith
And if it's dark, I'll light the way
For you, for youBy your side, until the end
Until you're standing tall again
I'm here, I'll always be here
And if the tide, sweeps you out to sea
When your strength is gone, and it's hard to believe

Hold on, hold on
When the current pulls you under
And your heart beats like thunder
Just give me your hand
And hold on, hold on
Until the storm is over
And I'll be fighting for you
Just give me your hand

Hold on, hold on
When the current pulls you under
And your heart beats like thunder
Just give me your hand
And hold on, hold on
Unitl the storm is over
And I'll be fighting for you
Just give me your hand
And hold on, hold on

Airmail

Can I be mailed to Iraq????

PLEASE!?!?!?!

Can I be mailed to Virginia????

PLEASE!?!?!?!

Fine! I can do this on my own!

Ok, I will stay here since I don't have any pants on and I don't know how to put them on myself. But will they come see me soon????

Weekend Trip!

My week finished alot better than it started, thank you to everyone who encouraged me :)

Andy, Glen, Amy, and I went to Mentone last weekend for a short little get away we left Aubrey and Jenna at home and we had SOOOO much fun! It was good to get away and play card games and just relax. We have been two times before and lets face it there is not that much to do in mentone so we were creative, but before I tell yall about that I wanted to show you some pictures from a little zoo in mentone. We found it last time we were there and we HAD to go back! I am not sure how it stays open and honestly I feel sorry for the animals but I wanted to take some pictures so we did not pay to go back through the "Redneck Zoo" but I did sneak in to see the lions and tigers and snap a few pictures.... check these out!

After we left the zoo we headed up to scottsboro to check out the Unclaimed baggage store. For those who are wondering it is not worth going unless you are just happening to pass by! When we were leaving though amy and I saw a sign for a Consignment sale starting the next day so the next morning we get up and head BACK to scottsboro well it wound up being nothing like we had expected but I got aubrey a real cute jacket and top. I dont think it was worth the hour drive but it was fun!

Everytime we have been to Mentone Glen wants to go find Randy Owen's house well I am like a teenager when it comes to famous people so I was ALL for it so after driving around for about an hour we decided to stop and ask if the lady in the gas station knew where he lived and of course she gave us perfect directions..... Andy could care less about any of this so he was less than thrilled but still he drove us around. So we get to his house and there are a couple of cars in the drive way so I tell andy to pull up to the gate and lets get out and see if anyone is outside well of course andy doesn't stop he just keeps going straight, well when we FINALLY turned back around because I told him I didn't get a good look at the house and I wanted a picture we get to the house and the cars are gone!!!! So andy made us miss Randy Owens! Well this time he pulls up to the gate and lets me take my pictures but he drives off real fast when I say I am getting out to talk into the intercomm attached to the gate! Oh well it was fun!

After we left Randy Owens house we went to Jeff Cook's Sound Studio. Somehow I managed to talk andy into going up the long driveway and he let Glen and I out we went inside the front door and we could hear music playing but there was a BIG metal door and you had to be buzzed in from inside that door. I dont know who but someone was behind that door playing music because they would stop playing and talk for a minute and then start back up. We had alot of fun though! I am not a Alabama fan really at all but Glen is....anyway Amy and I have decided that our next trip will be in October and we are going to go to Brentwood Tennessee because we have heard alot of Country Singers live there. Maybe we will run into a few :)

All in all we had a great relaxing trip and that is all any of us went for.

It is so great to have wonderful friends to spend time with and enjoy each others company! We were all so excited to get home though so we could see our girls.... Jenna was so excited to see Amy and Glen and it is so great to see them so happy as a family after all the prayers and all the tears to see God's little miracle and to once again be reminded of God's perfect timing!

Struggling

I am going to go ahead and worn everyone reading this I am having a bad day.... so stop reading now if you dont want to hear alot of whining :)

I am really struggling right now at this very moment, I want so bad to be a full-time mom I can hardly stand it and it just seems like I can not see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have 3 different ways I am trying to make money on the side to help supplement to make it easier to come home once we get a few things paid off, well so far we have lost money so I am officially hurting our income not helping in anyway shape or form! We would like to have another baby sometime in the near future I do not want my kids real far apart but the LAST thing I am going to do is have another baby and ask my parents and andys parents to keep the baby every day while I go to work. They have done enough just keeping aubrey..... I did not think I would still be working, when Aubrey was born I figured maybe a few months and I would be able to stay home with her well almost two years later and I am still working 4 days a week. I dont really know why I am spilling all this out there for who knows how many people to read but I am really frustrated and I just wanted to type it all out!
I wanted to blog today about my amazing weekend get-away with andy, glen, and amy and I will probably do so in the next couple of days but it did not take long for reality to hit today that I am no longer on vacation! This all started today from a girl at work being ugly....what can I say there are 6 woman who work together in a small office there are bound to be fusses and aggravations well today something that was said just flew all over me so I smarted back so she smarted back to me and so on and so on until we are now not even talking I know that sounds so juvenile trust me it sounds stupid to me too but I can not help that I am mad I know we will both get over it and move on but today.... right now all I can think is I am giving 110% I am not appreciated and I dont even want to do it! So why am I????? Well then it comes back around to I have to do it .....which brings me back to losing money in all my little ventures of trying to make money which makes me start crying all over again! So here I sit at the computer while the potatoes are boiling on the stove because I am supposed to take a meal to a friend tonight who just had a baby and I have already called amy and she is coming to pick up the potato soup and take it to them because I can not go anywhere looking like the mess I look like right now!

I just read everything I have typed most of yall are going to think I have completly lost my mind.... so instead of me going on and on will you just pray that God will make a way....because right now from my point of view there is no way! I just feel stuck in the mud right now and I guess I needed to get it out so there it is .....I just put it out there for everyone to read :)

Sick, Sick, and more Sick!

I thought this week would NEVER end!!!!! Aubrey was sick sunday and monday.... so I stayed out of work with her on monday and I started feeling bad monday night but thought it was nothing. I went to work tuesday and about mid morning I started feeling HORRIBLE..... we had a few cancellations that afternoon so the girls at the office thought it would be best if I went on to the doctor so I did. The doctor said I had a flu like virus.... if the doctor ever tells you that just take it that you have the flu. I had ALL of the feelings of the flu but the little cotton swab the stuck up my nose said i was negative of the flu! Trust me I had the flu! PLUS an ear infection in both of my ears.... now I know why Aubrey cries when she has an ear infection it felt like someone was stabbing me with a knife in both ears. So I went home from the Doctor's office and layed on the couch Aubrey spend the night at MarionLynn and Billyjoe's house and I thought I would be fine by wednesday well needless to say it is now Friday and today is the first day I got off the couch or out of the bed! Andy also has been just as sick so my wonderful parents and andy's wonderful parents have swapped aubrey back and forth so that we wouldn't have to take the chance of her getting whatever we had. I finally went and picked her up this afternoon...I sure did miss my baby girl. It is good to have her at home and it is good to be feeling alittle bit better. I dont know what I would have done if I would not have had my parents and my In-Laws in town to help me out because I have been useless this whole week! I have come to the realization that NOTHING comes on TV during the day but that doesnt mean I turned it off I just watched re-runs of Americas Next Top Model. It kept me pretty entertained!

Aubrey is talking more and more these days it seems like everyday she grows up sooo much more! She is remembering things.... I asked her the other day if she wanted to go see Baby Jenna and she said... "Mamie! Gen!... which stands for Amy and Glen so she is remembering when I see Jenna I see Amy and Glen also! There are alot of little things like that, that remind me everyday her little brain is sucking up so much information I just want to continue to fill it with things that Honor God! She has also been working on animal noises and animal names that go along with the noises.... she is picking it all up so fast! I LOVE this stage of her life I say this at every stage I know but this is my favorite stage so far of her life. I will try to write tomorrow to tell you more of what aubrey is doing.... I am mainly telling this stuff for Julia and Jonathan but the rest of you are welcome to read it....
Have a good weekend!!!
Jen

Sick.....

I am home today with a sick baby :( she woke up yesterday from her nap with 102.5 fever! She has not gotten up yet this morning for me to check it again, I pray that it has gone down so that we dont have to go to the doctor and catch something else while sitting in the sick area....

Making money....

So I have been hard at work making hair bows for a month now.... (thanks mom and mamaw for all of your help) :) I wanted to have 100 bows for the moms of multiples sale and I have made it to 100 so tonight I ordered 100 more clips! I have had 4 different orders from the hospital....amy showed off some bows that I gave her and so alot of those girls have been ordering..... as a matter of fact she called me tonight telling me she needed like10 more bows! And I did not have any of the colors that the girls ordered so tomorrow I am back off to Hobby Lobby and Michaels! I am not complaining..... just praying this keeps up!

I also had my first photography job (thanks tricia!) I have to admit I was a nervous wreck and I have alot more to learn.... but there is only one way to learn and that is to get out there and do it! I have a photographer friend..... I actually just started e-mailing a photographer in birmingham that I have been admiring for sometime and she has been so nice to e-mail back and forth and tell me some secrets! Anyway she just keeps telling me "Fake it until I make it" So right now that is my motto! So if you need a cheap photographer... I am your girl!

I started this post just so I could show off some hair bows on my new web site :) There are only 4 hair bows on it so far but I just started it tonight and I am proud of myself so I needed to show off! :) check it out if you get a chance! www.jendee783.etsy.com