The last 48 hours

The last couple days have been really weird here at the Neal house. I decided I would get my haircut on Thursday night. One of the hardest things about moving to a new place is finding doctors and hairdressers that you really like. You just really don't know. Anyway, I found a coupon for this place which I thought was close to our house, so I made an appointment. I was just planning to get a trim, but somehow the lady talked me in to highlights. Now, if you would have seen the place, you would have told me to drive past and pretend I never made an appointment. Can you say that I am WAY too nice and WAY too trusting of a very large, VERY southern talking, short-bleached blonde-haired lady! What was I thinking!!!! I walked out of there an officiall blond. Tim kept telling me I looked like Kirstie Alley with the big blonde streak in the front of her hair. HORRIBLE. ANyway, thanks to great advice from my sister-in-law JoAnna, I went to CVS yesterday afternoon and bought some Clairol dark brown and dyed over the crazy highlights. So, for less than 24 hours I was a blonde. I wish I had a picture to share, but I guess you will have to try to imagine me with bleach-blonde East TN hair.

And, Tim and I had our first date night here in the new city. A friend of our family goes to ETSU and she babysat for Isaiah and Ella. We went out to dinner and did some Christmas shopping. It was a great night. We got home and sent Courtney on her way and put the kids to bed. About 20 minutes later, we hear Isaiah get up and we go upstairs and he was throwing up all over the hallway. We got him to the bathroom and after it was all out of his system, we inspected the damage. He gave a new meaning to the term "blow chunks" (sorry for grossing anybody out). So, we spent the end of our date night evening, cleaning up Isaiah's puke. But, he felt much better and was happy as a lark, so luckily we all got some sleep.

And, Alyssa had her first sleepover last night. I was REALLY nervous about it and wasn't sure we should allow her to, but Tim talked me into it. It just seems that she wants to grow up so quick. Freaks me out!

Hello, again

Well, I have been a very sporadic blogger over the last few weeks and I apologize. Without pictures to share, it is just not as fun. And, the camera battery is dead, so I don't have any pictures to share with you today. Tim has been home now for a week and life is glorious. You would not believe the change in my demeanor just to know that some other adult will be walking through the door at 6 o'clock. It's like night and day! Now, we are looking forward to the holiday!

Some funnies from recent weeks:

Ella - We were at a friend's house for dinner last week and she has a son who is a little younger than Ella. He is her only one, so he is not used to being around older kids. So, Ella was running the "circle" in their house around the staircase through the front room and living room and kitchen. The mom asked the little boy to follow Ella or chase her ( I can't remember) So, Ella takes off and he kind of stops and looks at us like what am I supposed to do and she comes around the corner, stops right in front of us and says "I won". Can you tell she has older siblings who are slightly competitive.

Isaiah - He has developed a crush on a little girl in his class named Elliot. He told me that he is going to marry Elliot when he gets older. And, he told Tim last night that he doesn't like another little boy in his preschool class because he "ALWAYS" plays with Elliot.

Alyssa - We were playing charades a couple nights ago and Alyssa was on the bed in the bonus room. She kept standing up and emphatically falling right back down. She kept at it for a few minutes and We finally gave up and she said "I was a person in a wheel chair who kept trying to stand up, but kept falling down." I thought we were going to die laughing. First of all, that was SO on the tip of our toungue and second, there is something very politically incorrect about it that makes it hilarious.

2 words

HE'S HOME!

Today could be the day

Look in the sky today for pigs flying! Today just might be the day that hell actually did freeze over. Anything is possible today, because. . . . . . Isaiah is wearing jeans!!!!! By his own choice! Wow, I might go buy a lottery ticket!

Bring on the Gas

The best thing about gas stoves---------------------------------S'MORES!!!!!!!! Yes, I have been eating them every day now since Friday and my mouth is loving it!!! Some comfort food does a soul good!!!!

My vote is rocked!

Can you believe that I walked right up to the voting booth with absolutely no wait. I think God was granting me a little favor since I had all 3 kids in tow. Alyssa was interested somewhat in the voting process during the primaries, however, she was VERY into it this time. Her school voted yesterday and all the kids got to cast a vote. It was a great experience for her, however, she was not happy that John McCain got voted in at Towne Acres. Her passion was great though! Anyway, I let her push all of our selections and hit the red "Cast vote" button. She was stoked!

Did anyone else find it odd to see all the other candidates for president besides Obama, McCain and Nader? Who knew?

Add another dead bird on the deck to our tally! And, I am OFFICIALLY sick of eating kid food!