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Ok today has been THE longest day EVER! We got up at 6:00 am to get all ready for this paintball tournament. We had to drop the kids off at Chris's parents house for the day and be in Springfield by 8:00 am. Everything went smoothly and we got there early :D because I drove :p. (No offense to Chris's driving)

Ok so this is the first real tournament two of us on the team have played. We're Bomb Diggidy :p that's our team name. Anyway Chris T. is a friend of ours and he and I have only played one other tournament and it wasn't on airball and I don't really consider it a tournament. My Chris has played some, but not for five or six years. So this was supposed to be a Novice Beginner Tournament. Two of the teams were way over qualified to be in this game but no biggie. There were a total of twelve teams. We made the finals in second place in our division and then took fifth place overall.

I'm not complaining cause I had a great time but there paintball is all about cheating. I called all my hits and didn't try to play on but there were some really scandalous players out there. To top it all off the reff's were super lazy AND we were all using this dark blue paint that was impossible to see anyway. So there were three games I know FOR SURE we would have won had it not been for cheaters but I was able to walk away happy with the way I played. I really thought going into this that I would be really ticked off by the cheaters but I was having so much fun I really didn't let it get to me. Chris T. our friend on our team was fighting mad when we left though. Hopefully he'll cool off after a couple days. He had a right to be mad considering how scandalous things were but, it is afterall just a game. I had a blast. In the pictures I am the one in the black with the beanie cap on... Chris Thomas is in the blue and my Chris is in the black and yellow pants.

After the tournament we had to rush out to our field because there were people waiting to play. I swear we are cursed. The days we go out and open the field we don't get hardly any players, but the few times that we are actually unavailable people are lined up to play. We've decided to end games on Sundays and play on Saturday's and Thursday nights. I'm really sick of running around like crazy trying to go to church and get out to the field on Sundays. We'll be able to spend family time together and relax which is something we really need.

What a day this is going to be. I'm skipping out on paintball this afternoon so I can do some chores. Having small children is so overwhelming at times. Emily is a super big helper. She can't do much yet since she is only five, but she helps a lot by picking up and putting away. I started having her carry all the dirty laundry to the basement, which is a big job but she gets it done. Logan is three so whenever it's clean up time I have to keep telling him constantly to pick up. He helps some but he mostly tries to find hiding places so he can get out of picking up. If he's wanting to play on the computer I can get him to help out by telling him he can't play until it's done. Brett is only one but he likes to put things in bags. :p He will pick up blocks and stuff but he doesn't know he's picking up. He usually dumps them out right afterwards too so it doesn't really count.

So I was sick yesterday and left work at 10:30 am and came home and crashed on the couch until 3:00 when I had to go pick Emily up from school. I am still not feeling well today but there are no clean towels and no clean bowels or cups :p so I really need to find some motivation to get myself moving. We've locked Brett in the kids room with the baby gate and he's really hating life. Even though there are mounds of toys in there he just wants to stand at the gate and cry at us. He likes to get into the stuff under the kitchen and bathroom sink. Little stinker.

We have a paintball tournament tomorrow. I'm so nervous. I love playing paintball but only for fun. I've watched some videos of professional tournaments and if this one is anything like those I will never play another one. I don't cheat and I don't want to play with cheaters. It seems like the "thing" to do in pro-paintball. When a guy gets shot he'll take off running up the field trying to shoot people from the opposing team. The reff's have to pull you if you have any hits so even though the guy that took off running was out if the reff's don't get to him before he shoots someone else then they're both out. I don't like those rules and it's gonna make me mad if people try to be scandalous to win. Oh well, I shouldn't be so worried about it. I even had dreams about paintball last night lol. I'm totally freaked out.

My mom flew out of Hawaii yesterday to go to Las Vegas to see my brother. She is going to try and keep me posted on anything new that's going on with him. The only thing I really know right now is he'll probably be in the hospital two weeks longer and they still haven't done surgery on his foot. They are waiting for blood circulation to return before they operate. I don't remember if I posted that in my last blog post :p so if I'm double informing you, forgive me please :p.

Emily still has not lost her tooth yet! I thought for sure it woulda came out by now. It's still loose and she's still wiggling it. Surely it won't be in there for another week. :p

It looks like I'm going to be taking a road trip soon! March 20-24 is spring break for Emily so I'm thinking about driving to Las Vegas to go see my brother. I will pick up my sister Misty on the way through Oklahoma and we'll go together. I think my mom is leaving today for Nevada which kinda stinks. It would have been cool to get to see her when we go out. JR should be out of the hospital by then and Misty and I can bug him all the day long since he probably won't be back to work yet. I'm excited to be going, well hopefully to be going. I haven't even talked to Misty yet to find out if she can come with me and there's no way I'm driving all that way alone.

We are taking off early today to go out to the paintball field and practice for the big tournament. I'm so nervous! I play just for fun and I'm worried I'll come up against bad sports who will make me mad. I'm not afraid to get shot, that happens every week ;) But I am afraid of bad sportsmanship. Nothing is worse than a liar and a cheat and I would rather avoid those altogether in the game of paintball ;)

Well I suppose that's all there is to say for now. Not much is really going on lately. Lots of marital drama but mostly over my bad judgment. It's taken care of but seems to keep resurfacing. GO AWAY! :p I can't help it I make too many mistakes. I'm getting the hang of it though ;) Going on seven years being married. That is quite an accomplishment and I'm pretty proud of it. I'm not going to let anything get in the way and ruin it. Thanks for all the prayers for my brother and God Bless everyone.

How exciting! Emily has her first loose tooth. She noticed it the other night when she was playing on the computer and she totally freaked out. She ran over to the couch and was practically yelling at Chris and I, "MOM DAD I have a tooth and it's loose... IT'S A LOOSE TOOTH!" Kids are so funny. She was so excited because her older cousin Devin has lost two teeth already. Emily's is the front bottom tooth. When she went to bed Chris told her to be careful not to mess with it so she didn't choke on it in her sleep. Then she was all paranoid. When she got up the next morning she'd forgotten about it until I asked her. "It's still loose," she says. So I told her if she brushed her teeth it would probably help to loosen it up. She went in the bathroom and brushed her teeth for like thirty minutes! Crazy girl. She told me, "Mom I have a bloody tooth, and it's the loose one." It should fall out in the next few days and I'll be sure to post a picture of it.

I still haven't heard anything new about my brother. They say no news is good news, right? Well I didn't get any calls at all yesterday and I remembered to bring my numbers for the hospital and stuff with me to work today. There is a two hour difference so I am going to try and wait a few more hours before trying to call anyone. Maria and JR defiantly need their rest so I don't want to wake them up. I'll keep posting any extra information I find out.

Here I go again slacking on my blog postings. I'm sorry Mom! :) It's been an eventful week. To start out with I got in a bunch of fights with my husband. We worked things out of course, and are closer now than before. Marriage is great when you have someone who loves you so much that they are committed to never giving up. Plus I need lots of forgiving because I make some of the dumbest mistakes of all time. I have to say I have the most forgiving husband. He is great and wonderful and I love him. I just hope that I can measure up and quit being such a dummy so he won't have to keep forgiving me.

Ok now for the really bad news. My older brother JR has been hurt really bad. He was apparently grinding up the sulfur from matches to make home made firecrackers to scare moles out of their holes on a golf course. He knows the man who owns the golf course and he was trying to help rid him of the moles. Well there was an explosion and he was injured badly.

He lost his pinky finger on his left hand and his foot was badly burned. I've not had a chance to talk to my brother yet and this happened Sunday afternoon. I've heard from family that he had surgery on his hand yesterday and they are supposed to be doing surgery on his foot today. My cousin Jennifer told me she wasn't able to visit him after his surgery yesterday because when he woke up afterwards he was screaming and thrashing around because he was in so much pain. The nurses finally had to put him to sleep because the pain medication just wasn't helping him. I couldn't sleep at all last night. All I could think about was my brother and how he is in so much pain. I just prayed all night for him to be comfortable and not feel so much pain.

I am worried about him as well because the police are saying he was building a pipe bomb. That is a felony and if they press charges he will be in a lot of trouble. Please everyone pray for my brother and his girlfriend Maria. They are supposed to be getting married in June and I know she must be really going through a lot right now. Thank you everyone and I'll try to post more regular.

Lookie what I got for Valentines Day. I was actually surprised even. This is the very first year I have received a surprise on Valentines Day! I was just going with the dinner and a movie plan but now I feel like I should surprise Chris somehow. Oh I know! I'll let him pick the movie :p That will be a big surprise. What's playing right now though. I don't wanna end up seeing some Jackie Chan movie...

Emily gets out of school early today. It's a good thing because she was complaining about an ear ache and upset tummy this morning. I was going to keep her home and she was so upset because today was their Valentines Day party at school. Since it's only half a day I let her go. She brought Zebra cakes and got her teacher a stuffed Zebra. This is Z week apparently too LOL each week they pick a letter of the alphabet to study.

Well I hope everyone has an extremely wonderful Valentines Day.

I've been slacking in posts lately so I wanted to add these little cuties to spice things up :p Poor Logan needs his hair combed and face washed, but I was lucky to catch him long enough to take this picture. Boys are boys ;)

Wow I'm such a slacker. It's been days since I posted! I bet my mamma is about to kill me :p Sorry Mom! I'll try harder to think of things to write about. Poor Logan is still sick :( I had to give him a breathing treatment last night because he was coughing non stop. After the treatment he slept like a log and didn't even snore. I'm going to have to start giving him one a day until he gets over this cold. Brett still has the sniffles and a little cough but he's not had a fever and the shakes like Logan. Emily is still coughing her head off as well. I sent a note to school with her today asking that she be kept inside during recess for a few days. She didn't like that very much but I really think this cold weather is the cause of all her coughing. Tomorrow Emily's class is having their Valentine's Day party. She is so excited that she gets to give out Valentine's tomorrow. In preschool they didn't celebrate any holidays so this is her very first time.

I LOVE MY NEW PAINTBALL GUN! It is the coolest thing EVER! It's a Proto Matrix and it totally rox :p To make it even better I sold my old gun already so now my new one is paid for! I got to play with it Saturday. It was cold and snowing off and on but we die hard paintballers still snuck in a few games. It actually wasn't as cold as I was expecting it to be. We had a nice big fire to stand by in between games to keep warm. I had to be sure to keep my gun warm too ;) Not because I love it so much but because the lubricant turns to gel if it gets too cold, and then it won't shoot.

Poor Chris his gun has issues. He didn't get to play with it all weekend. He has a new Bob Long Intimidator or Timmy for short :p It's supposed to be an even better gun than mine is but he was having tons of trouble with it. He couldn't get the velocity turned down, it was shooting like 390 feet per second! We cap ours at 280 so that would hurt lol. Anyway it kept breaking paint and just wasn't working, so he took it home Saturday night and disassembled it completely. He cleaned every last piece of that gun. Then he put some paint in it and shot it out the front door. It worked perfectly other than the velocity was still extremely hot. So he took it out Sunday and it wouldn't work again. He took it to Springfield today to have it worked on. He was so disappointed to not be able to play with it. There's always next week though ;)

My poor boys are sick. Brett and Logan both have the creepy crud. Emily is getting so lucky this year. I'm crossing my fingers and praying she will make it the rest of the week without coming down with whatever the boys have. Poor little Logan has made about 500 trips to the bathroom today and he threw up everywhere last night. I would give anything to be sick for them. I hate seeing little ones not feeling well. I'll probably be going to church solo. Emily will go with me :). I don't want to spread the crud so gotta let Chris stay home with the boys.

Chris is still loving his job. I am so happy for him and I've even been a little less bored down here in the gunshop. I've been ebaying everything in sight LOL so that keeps me busy. When I'm not doing that I'm chasing down, and cleaning up after Brett and Logan.

We are getting the airball barriers for the paintball field this week. I am so excited! Chris bought me a new paintball gun too. We are entering a paintball tournament in Springfield February 19th. I'm so nervous! I am playing with my Chris and our friend Chris and they are soooo much better than I am. I don't really know for sure if I want to play in competitions. This will be my first real tournament so I guess I'll know after this. We're supposed to practice this weekend but I'm not liking the looks of the weather. Playing in the cold just stinkin' hurts LOL. I don't like doing it. When it's really cold I usually build a fire and sit and watch everyone else play. The Chris's won't let me this weekend if we have to practice. I know too many Chris's LOL.

Well I really haven't had any interesting bits of information to blog lately and not a lot is going on so suffer through my endless ramblings and misc pictures. I'm allowed though it's my blog. :D I'm going to have to start sitting somewhere else for my pics though. The background is the same in all of them lol. I'm always glued to my chair in front of my computer. I can't help it I'm an addict.

Ok so I was taking pictures to update my profile. I like to do that about once a month or so. I mention to Chris (not my husband a different Chris) that I had to keep my donkey kong shirt out of the picture so no one would make fun of me. So he says "who would make fun of a donkey kong shirt?" So I said okay and took a picture with the shirt too. Now MR CHRIS is making fun of my donkey kong shirt! Scandalous friends :p

I signed into my MSN messenger this morning and as always that little pop up box with the latest MSN news comes up telling me the latest on the this's and that's. The Entertainment section never ceases to amaze me. Usually I just glance at the headlines, I'm not big on the what star is sleeping with what star thing that seems to be so popular so I rarely click on the links. Today there was something about Jessica Simpson and how she will not be outdone by her ex-hubby hooking up with some beauty queen... So she's been hooking up with three different guys... Uhh is that supposed to be a good thing? Anyway it was disgusting but from there I started looking at some other stuff and I remembered here a while back I was going to post my two favorite actress's. So since a blog is a blog here I blogged :p

Rachel McAdams and Scarlette Johansson

Happy Monday! Whew I am just glad it's almost over. This has been such a boring long day lol. My dad is in town and I got to see him, my sister, my little brother and my sisters two kids for about an hour. I'm pretty bummed I didn't know they were coming and couldn't talk them into staying here with us instead of somewhere else. I never get to see them and I wish I had more notice when they come to town. It's usually just a quick trip and I get the five minute pity visit as they're heading out of town. One of these days I'm gonna pack up my kids and go stay a week end with them :p That'll show them.

I picked up some library books for Emily today. She is still doing the book it thing at school and so far she has the most pages turned in from her class. There is one little girl catching up to her though so she's really excited to read some more books. I love doing this because it makes me take the time to read to her and Logan. It's so easy to make an excuse not to but when there's a little something extra to give me that push it helps a lot. I'm the worlds worst procrastinator.

Emily told me that the one other girl in her class who had perfect attendance missed a day of school. She was so sad for the girl but so excited that she is now the only one in her class with perfect attendance. Emily cracks me up. She got a little sick over the weekend but made it just fine to school today. We were a little worried Saturday and we stayed home from church with her to make sure she got enough rest. Emily has gotten so lucky this year. She's had a bad cough all year but everytime she's gotten any sicker than that it's been on a weekend. We just have to make it to May!

My mom told me her husband Ken broke his leg the other day. Poor guy. Apparently playing football or something. His birthday is tomorrow so if you're reading this Ken, I just want you to know that's what happens when you get OLD :p Bones get brittle. Drink more milk :p Oh and Happy Birthday.

The weather has been so nice here this last week. Now the big mean weather man is saying it's going to get cold again. I know its February but I was so getting used to the wonderful Spring weather. There is now snow in the forecast for Sunday. I suppose it won't be so bad and at least it's moisture in some form. The farmers will like that. :p I am just so ready for spring, my favorite time of year. Not to hot, not to cold, just right ;)

After dropping Emily off at school this morning Logan, Brett and I went to Wally World (Wal-Mart). I had forgotten that Chris was doing his route in town today so we were really excited to run into him there. I seen him as he was walking out the door so I whistled at him. It was so cute to see his head whip around trying to see who was checking him out. Logan spotted him immediately and said, "Hey it's Daddy!" He was surprised. I got to talk to Chris for a few minutes before he had to take of to do his route in another town. It's so great that Chris really enjoys his job.

I was going through the poor me's yesterday. I really didn't want to work in a pawnshop again after we sold our last business in 2002. Now that Chris has this great job he really loves it looks as if I have no choice but to work in our store. I'm trying my best to try to find a bright spot because I know God asks us to be thankful in all things. I know God has a plan and I really think this will be a really good business in the future, it's just getting through these hard times that brings me down. My biggest problem is feeling sorry for myself. Sure I have plenty of reasons to. I did say in the very beginning I did not want to do any of this, but there's tons of stuff I start out not wanting to do and then loving it. I originally never wanted to get married or have kids, or go to church. I do all those things now and love every bit of it. Why is it so hard to stay positive? :p I'm such a whiner.

There's lots of good things about being self employed. I should start noticing them more. Like I can go fishing anytime I want :p I can play computer games all day and no one can tell me I can't. I can surf the web and blog and chat. I get to bring my little kiddo's to work with me, I save a ton of money on daycare ;). My new goal is to try to be more positive. :D

Oh BTW does anyone have any good plans for Valentines Day? Chris and I have this agreement where we don't buy presents we just go out... Mostly cause he stinks at buying presents :p I'd like to surprise him this year though. He really wants a paintball gun but it's too much money... I could be mean and get him a picture of the gun :p