It's a 4-wheeler/golf cart riding kind of day.

Seems like we have been a busy little bunch today. Tad and I got up first thing this morning and took B to his Papa T's house and we were on a hunt for B a new bed. If you all know, he already has a bed. He has one of those beds that have the drawers up under the bed...I can't think of what they are called at the moment. Wel 2 of the drawers have completely came apart for the THIRD time. I noticed the other day that the wood up under the mattress is coming apart from the side of the bed, I tried pushing it back together but it didn't help. My mother and daddy bought the bed for Brayden, they wanted to buy his bed and of course I couldn't turn that offer down :) It took mother and I a couple of weeks to find a bed we liked for him. When we got the bed in they only sent "some" of the parts and some of what they did send was damaged. Mother called the comany and told them about it and they sent us another bed. Well...when the new bed came in, we were missing a WHOLE other box. Tad and I finally got the bed together,it took us awhile just because we had Brayden home with us and we had to do alittle at a time. The instructions for the bed weren't easy to understand either. Anyway, thats a little background on the bed we have now. In the past week Tad and I have decided that its time for Brayden to start sleeping in his own bed. So, this means we have to get him a new bed. I feel horrible that the bed mother and daddy bought is going to be trashed, but I just don't know what else to do...The drawers are broke and I think the middle is coming apart. I hate that their money is practically being wasted. We have decided to take pictures of the bed to email to the company and let them know whats all happened to the bed. Brayden's new bed will be here tomorrow afternoon, and his new chester drawers. I started a budget yesterday for Tad and I, we each get $300 every 2 weeks. It includes anything we want to do,eat, groceries, play golf...anything but bills and gas. Whatever we have left over each week is our choice what we want to do with it. Tad says he's gonna save his for his hibachi grill he wants when we build a house, I think I'll just save it for a rainy day! :) I really hope we can go by the budget and hopefully save ourselves some money and be able to put back more for a house each month. Today was so nice outside.. Tad,B and played on his swingset for a little while this afternoon. Then while Tadpole and my daddy put the blades on the lawnmower Brayden and I rode the 4-wheeler and the golf cart around in the pasture. We both enjoyed that very much. I haven' done that in a LONG LONG time. Tad and my daddy are grilling pork chops, I've got some quash and eggplant cooking on the stove,YummY and I'm printing coupons :)!!!   We've had a great day and I hope you have too :)

Short Sleeve shirt in February???

Can you believe it February and we're wearing short sleeve shirts? Tad has even been wearing shorts around. It's just crazy how this weather has been lately. We've been a busy little bunch since last week when I blogged. We took Tad's truck back to Enterprise last Wednesday to be fixed. That afternoon Tad had a doctors appointment and found out he has a hernia :( On Thursday, Tadpole went and played golf with some friends and B went to his Granny's house for the day. So I went to Andalusia to do my couponing at Fred's and Family Dollar! I know we have a Fred's and Family Dollar in Opp, but for some reason I like their Fred's better. After I did my couponing I went and visited Tiff at work. We got to catch up and she cleaned my wedding rings for me :) They're all clean now! During our visit I had people calling me from Birmingham from where we bought the truck because Tad and I had been trying to get ahold of them all day. Bondy's in E'prise had called twice since we took the truck over there to be fixed that something else was wrong with the truck. I KINDLY told the manager in B'ham that the truck was practically brand new and should not be having this many problems with it when we've only had it 2 weeks. He of course agreed with me, and I expressed that Tad and I were not going to pay for this truck to be fixed, that if they wouldn't pay for the broken parts then they would be getting that truck back. The manager up there was very nice to me, as I was to him. We got everything straightened out finally, thankfully! Tad and I had already decided to take the lift off the truck, so that meant we would have to pay for that..When Tad picked the truck up Wednesday afternoon, they didn't charge us near as much as they were supposed too. Thank you Bondy's Toyota! Tad had to be at church Thursday night to get meat ready for the Wild Game Banquet on Friday night. B and I ate supper and went to visit Izzy and Papa T since we hadn't seen them in a while. Friday, B went to daycare, Tad was at church all day and I needed to go to the Andalusia Police Department to get fingerprints for substituting. I had to go by the Christian Book store for the church to buy 21 Bibles...Do you know how much Bibles are??? EXPENSIVE! I couldn't believe how much they were. Its absolutely crazy. So whoever won doorprizes at the Wild Game Banquet Friday night got themselves a nice Bible! :) Saturday was great, we actually got to spend time with our Tadpole. We had to go to WalMart for diapers. B is still not potty trained, but we are working on it still. We went to our friends April and Shane's house that night to grill steaks with them and Paul and Tiffany. We had a wonderful time hanging out with all of them. We went to church Sunday morning and after church around 2:30 B's fever spiked up to 104.5, he had been running low fevers around 101-102 since Saturday at lunch. I thought it was his teething because of the fever and some of the diapers he had had that day, plus his gums were white. Anyway, I made my mother come to the house and she put him in the tub and cooled him. It worked for the most part. He still ran fever throughout the day and night. Tad went to church without us..so I missed hearing the Lester's sing on Sunday morning because I had child care and I was going to miss the last night Not a Fan :(. Brayden woke up around 4:50 yesterday morning crying, so I changed his diaper, gave him more juice and he wanted to watch TV. Tad took him in the living room and laid on the couch with him so he could watch TV. I went back to sleep in the bed. Again he ran fever most of yesterday, but a low fever and would break every couple of hours with medicine. We went to the grocery store around 3:30 and came back home about an hour later and his fever spiked back up to 104 and he started constantly crying about his tummy hurting. :( He hasn't had a dirty diaper since Saturday night at Shane and April's house. So I know his tummy must hurt. He finally stopped complaining about his tummy about and hour later and ate some supper and his fever went down. This morning, he has had NO fever all night long! YAY! Today is house cleaning day for Tad and I. We can barely walk in our closet to get something out to wear. So we are going to clean it out today and hopefully tackle B's room too. Tonight we are having supper at the Colquett 5's house. Church tomorrow night, I think we'll eat supper there too! :)

Mommy and B being silly :)

This would be my extreme couponing! 5 things of Tide, 2 Degree Deodorant, 1 pack of Dove soap, 1 bottle Rob-tuss,1 bottle Nyquil, 7 things of toothpaste, 1 thing of bounce dryer sheets, 2 bottles of Scope. :) I saved almost $40! 

B says I'm so cool, I wear my sunglasses at night! 

Miss Sophie! Isn't she the cutest thing :) 

Me and Sophie :)

Sophie had a photoshoot! 

Toyia and KC, Tad and I will just take Sophie off your hands for ya'll :) She would fit right in with our wild child, and she likes to eat just as much as we all do over here at the Tisdale house! HAHA!


I would just like to say that prayers work and God does answer your prayers! I have prayed for a long time now about a few things and in the past couple weeks, God has answered my prayers. I want to thank those that were praying with me about it and I'm grateful for our friendships :) God has a plan and sometimes its not always clear BUT he always has a good reason for everything!!!

So glad to have a new week!

This was last Saturday night, Brayden wanted to join in on Mommy and Daddy's game.

My 2 crazy boys! They are such a mess.

 
Potty Training is going good, the only thing is he will only go if he has his potty. Tiff and I had a great day in Dothan shopping last Tuesday. So on Tuesday afternoon, Tad calls and says I think somethings wrong with my truck, okay now we just bought this truck on that Saturday. He took it to Ballard's and they said that the barrons were going bad. So, he just went ahead and took it over to Enterprise to Bondy's. They said they same thing. Then they tell Tad they can't fix it because it has a lift and the warranty is voided...OHHH NO! They tell Tad its about $3000 to fix it, needless to say Kayla and Tad aren't paying to have it fixed. Anyway, they told us to come back over there on Thursday morning, that the general manager would be there and see what he says about fixing it. We got over there on Thursday and they are going to fix it! We have decided to go ahead and take the lift off just in case something else happens and they won't pay for it to be fixed next time. Well Wednesday night B starts coughing and having trouble breathing while he was sleeping. I just watched over him and made sure he was breathing okay. Friday night we went bowling and right when we got home, we gave B some cough medicine and Tad just got him in our bed when he started throwing the medicine up! UGH!!!! Tad had to go down to my parents and get some more sheets. Long night..We woke up Saturday morning with a fever :( I went ahead and took him to the doctor. Thankfully his doctor's have a Saturday and Sunday clinic! :) Of course I drove all the way to Dothan and paid a $20 copay for the Doctor to tell me that I'm already doing everything I can do for him. It was also Landon's birthday party day, and we weren't able to go because of B's 102 fever he ran all day.. :( I felt horrible for missing it. Thankfully Nina understood and hopefully isn't to mad at me :)

Brayden and I had a wonderful Friday, we just played and played. He needed a fort so I built him one :)

 I was getting ready to head to Enterprise on Friday night for a friend's birthday and while I was getting dressed I caught B in the bathroom. *L* I think he was getting all "pretty" for Sophie! *bahaha*

 This was on our way to Enterprise, he wasn't very happy that I was taking pictures of him while he was watching Scooby Doo.

Daddy and B watching somebody bowl, B was very WILD at the bowling alley! Whew!

My sick baby boy, he fell asleep watching a movie on my phone.

I'm hoping that nothing breaks, nobody gets sick and that Tad kills a BIG buck this week! :)

Potty Training.

Well I started working with B last week on potty training and it didn't go so well. So, I tried again on Sunday after we got home from church and he did great! He used the potty several times. I did put a diaper back on him before we went back to church though..I didn't want any accidents! Since we were home all day yesterday and didn't go anywhere ( We let Tadpole do the errands :)) He either had his big boy "panties"as he calls them or would just go commando! Tad wasn't big on the commando thing so he had to wear his "panties" most of the day. He did wonderful, he only had one accident the whole day. So proud of him... Maybe he's actually getting an interest in it now, before he could care less about going to the potty. I've explained to him that his Best Friends Karter and Landon don't wear diapers anymore and they are Big boys rather than little boys in diapers! Anyway, our weekend was good, Tad got home around 5:30 on Friday,so it was nice to have him home pretty early ;). Saturday we got up early and headed to B-ham to get Tad's new truck...He got a black Tacoma..Its very nice, and I hope he's happy with it! :) Thankfully Tad's dad was able to go with us and drive the Tahoe back home...I've never drove on the interstate and I didn't want to start on Saturday by myself. I haven't mentioned in my previous blogs but Brayden has been paci free for almost 3 weeks :) YAY! I have been forgetting to mention that in my blogs, and its something that I'm very proud of B for accomplishing :) Today, Tiff and I are going to Dothan to get Landon a birthday present for his party Saturday and I need to get some paper to do a bulletin board and I'm also going to start looking for stuff for B's b-day party :) I need to get a head start.. Sooo... I do have new pictures over the past couple of days BUT Brayden is begging to watch a movie on the computer, so I must let him watch his movie while he eats breakfast ;) Have a nice week everyone!!!

PaJama Day(s) :)

Monday B and I had the most wonderful day. We stayed in our jamma's all day long. I didn't even get a shower until 6 last night...thats how lazy we were. We watched movies, played with his toys, and just laid on the couch as much as possible. Last week it seemed like we had something we had to do everyday and didn't get to just relax any. I know most people work and don't get to relax much, but if you know me..I need my laziness. I don't function well on low sleep, not enough relaxation, and having to much to do.. I will stress myself completely out and my body just shuts down. Anyway, our day was great, but would have been better if Tadpole would have been home with us. Tuesday, B went to school while I went grocery shopping, came home and cleaned  bathrooms, vaccumed, washed clothes, and did the dishes. That pretty much consumed my time till around 2:10 when I had to head back to town to pick up the kids from school and get B. Tiff came over around 4 and we broke out the new Just Dance 3 that I got for my birthday. We did a few songs and we're TIRED*L* haha, B even did a couple of songs with us. We went over to Nina's around 6 to cook supper and watch our tv shows and let the boys play...well fight with each other *haha* I love when we all get together and cook supper and hang out, and of course talk about everything we can think of :) We didn't get home until 11:35? I think...It was late and yes those 2 boys were still awake and running around everywhere.  Yesterday, Brayden and I had a mommy/B day. We did nothing..I did get a shower and get dressed, B however stayed in his PJ's all day. Neither one of us felt great, his nose has been running like crazy and my throat started hurting Tuesday night. Yesterday it just started getting worse, like every time I swallow its like swallowing needles :(  We did go to town to pick up the kids from school and take them home.  I felt so bad last night, B asked to go to church, but my throat hurt so bad and my head hurt..I just didn't feel like getting up and getting dressed. Awful I know, I did have a small meltdown yesterday, don't ask me why... So today, I have taken B to school and dropped Tad's truck off to be washed and cleaned. Thankful that my MIL doesn't work today and was able to pick me up and bring me home and will come back to pick me up and take me to get the truck when its done. Tadpole comes home tomorrow, I'm super excited :) Anyway, I've got more clothes to wash today and I need to wash the bed sheets...Hope everyone has a great Thursday and Friday and a wonderful weekend :)

What a week!

I'll just begin with Tuesday! :)

Tuesday was B's first day back at daycare from a 3 week vacation. After I dropped him off I swung by my MIL's house and visited with her for awhile. Then I went to Maurices to see if I could find some straight legged jeans to wear with my boots and I had no luck, but I did get 2 cute shirts, 2 neckleces, and some fingernail polish. I came back to Opp and got a few groceries and cleaned up the house some. Before I knew it, it was time to pick up B and the Russell kiddos from school. They and yes myself needed a snack so we went by Mr.Henry's for a drink and chips! After Aunt Sam got home B and I went home to see Izzy and Papa T. They were finally home from New Orleans. We spend a few hours with them and came home around 8:30 for bath and get ready to watch Teen Mom 2! I love that show. :) Wednesday I had a hair appointment, so I took B to school again and I came home to wash clothes. My appointment wasn't until 2:30 so I picked B up from school and took him to his Granny's house to play for awhile. I was done around 4 something so I got B and we went and picked up Oki Grace from the after school program at OES. So, B and I came home to cook supper and get him a bath before church...Well after I ate my supper my stomach wasn't feeling so well.... And if you know me I don't go anywhere if my stomach hurts... Brayden and I just went and saw Izzy and Papa T for a little bit. When we got home there was a mouse behind my microwave!!!! I HATE mice....HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM!!! Of course I called my daddy and he wouldn't come get it for me :( He knows I hate those dern things! So I got the broom and used it to move the microwave and a few minutes later that little mouse ran out and went behind my stove. UGH! I was freaking out. I text Nina to see if she had any glue boards, she called and said she didn't... :( Then she said get a flash light and lay on the floor and see if he's still under the stove... WHAT?? I was SOOOO not doing that! And I didn't. Thursday I took B to school and I immediately went by Phillips for some glue boards...I got several! I put one between my counter and the frig..which is where I normally see them at. I was out of clorox wipes to wipe the counters off so I just had to put that off for awhile. Good thing is I wasn't home long. I got dressed and headed to Andy to meet Tiff for a lunch date :) We of course sat there forever after we got done eating. It's just our thing...We eat and then we sit there for an hour or two chatting. I stopped by Fred's on the way home and picked up lysol and clorox wipes :):) I didn't have time to clean the counters then cause it was time to get B and the Russell kiddos from school. When we got home I sure enough got my counters clean! I even moved the microwave so little mice can't hide back there anymore! By yesterday afternoon I still hadn't caught a mouse, but normally they don't come inside till night when it gets really cold. Nina and Landon came over to work on Landon's birthday banner for his party. Nina bought us Howards for supper for paying me for using my cricut! *L*... I didn't complain! haha... I enjoyed cricutting with her cause she had no idea how the machine even worked. I think she was a little fascinated. We did get the banner cut out and glued though and it is really cute! Thats my first banner and I'm glad I used Nina as a guniea pig because I want to do B's too! :) Now I know I can do it! Today I got up and walked into the living room to turn on the heat because B and I were freezing. We save money by turning it off and we sleep under our electric blanket :)Before walking back into the kitchen to fix my coffee I looked over at the glue board just to check to see if I had a mouse and guess what? I had gotten that little mouse!!!! I was SUCH a big girl and picked up the glue board and took it outside to the garbage! Now Tadpole don't expect me to do when your home :) So now we have Maxwell James with us, him and B are playing I spy on the Wii while I blog. Tonight my momma is taking me out for a girls night and we are going to Myori's. I wanted to go last weekend for my birthday, its kind of a tradition we always go to Japanese for my birthday. Last week just didn't work out good because of my daddy going back to work, and getting Tadpole ready to head to Houston this week.  So we are going tonight, Aunt Sam is going and I'm not sure if Aunt Gail is going or not.. Brayden is gonna go spend some time with his Granny and Pawpaw. I'm already craving some sushi and rice. Anyway I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)

The pictures from Monday

The Birthday Boy

I had to get a picture of Nina's belly! I sure can't wait to meet miss Baylie! 



Terrible Two's or High Strung Child???

To begin with, its been meltdowns meltdowns meltdowns at the Tisdale house... Saturday Tad B and I went to Dothan to have a day together and get Tadpole a North Face jacket since Eagle Eye was having a GREAT sale. We had a giftcard for Chili's :) I know your all surprised that we ate there*L* Brayden was so bad in Chili's, I think thats the first time that Tad and I have ever been really embarrased from all his screaming and crying :( I normally can tune it out and it doesn't bother me, but Saturday was awful.. I just wanted to cry. So we are as fast as we could and got out of there. We went a few more places after that and headed back home!!! We had a wonderful night, we just relaxed. Brayden went down to Izzy and Papa T's house for a little bit. Tad and I ate supper, watched a movie, finished the laundry and then I went and got B and came back home. Tad left early Sunday morning for Texas and Brayden and I headed to church. We started the Not a Fan series, which is sooo good by the way. I was looking forward to Sunday night after watching the first part Sunday morning. After church we are lunch with Nina and Landon at Rancho, by the way was packed out!! How did lunch go??? HORRIBLE! What did B do the whole time??? you guessed it...SCREAMED! I had to take him to the bathroom and have a come to Jesus meeting. So my nerves were shot by the time we got our food, his screaming and Rancho being packed out did not mix.. I don't do well in big crowds like that at all!!! When we got home I immediately changed both of our clothes and made B lay down for a nap. That didn't go so well so I rocked him..when that didn't work I made him lay on my bed and watch tv till he fell asleep...Guess what? That didn't work either! He cried and cried the whole day... Oh I forgot to mention that while we were at Rancho, he bit the fire out of right palm. It hurt so bad, but I just let him do it.  Needless to say Brayden didn't get a nap yesterday, and I was not about to take him to church for him to act a fool and his teachers have to put up with his screaming. So I had to miss the second part of the Not a Fan series :(. About 6 last night I just gave B a bath, thinking it might help him go to sleep.. When we get out of bath we always brush our teeth. Brayden of course had a meltdown about me brushing his teeth and bit my left arm. I have a huge bruise today. He didn't end up going to bed until after 10 last night.. I text Tad and told him I have no idea whats going on with Brayden but we have got to fix it! Then Aunt Sam called cause I had texted her letting her know why we weren't at church and text her a pic of my arm. After I got off the phone with her, I just completely had a meltdown myself... I just sat on the couch and cried my eyes out. I never cry, I'm NOT a cryer (sp?) at all.. But I had had all I could yesterday and needed to let it out. Today, we went to Dothan for Landon's birthday! He's 3 years old today!!! Happy Birthday Landon Parker, B and I love you bunches :) We celebrated his birthday at Chuck E Cheese's and the boys had a ball. We were pretty much the only people there so we just let them run wild for the most part. Nina and I enjoyed playing a few games too ;) Then we went and did a little shopping... So who do you think whose child has a meltdown leaving Hobby Lobby??? Yes, your right, My child! He was screaming, crying, kicking...everything you can think of. Nina said, "does he do this everytime yall shop" my answer was "Yes, Now you know why we shop while he's a daycare!!!!" So, no nap today either... The boys fussed half way home...They are more like brothers than best friends! It was that "he's touching me" kind of fussing. UGH! Nina and I just talked louder! *haha* Anyway, B just fell asleep and its after 10 AGAIN. It's back to daycare this week, but we are super excited that we will be spending our afternoons with the Russell Kiddos! I'm picking them up this week and next week from school. I'm praying that the terrible two's or whatever is going on with Brayden goes away fast. I love that boy with all my heart, but boy oh boy I could do without the screaming and kicking because I don't get my way meltdowns. I'm getting tired and I'm to lazy to get my camera and upload the pictures from today, but I promise to do it tomorrow ;) I hope everyone is having a great night!