Penny for My Thoughts?

OK well you don't actually have to give me a penny for my thoughts. I will just give you my thoughts for free!

Lets just start out with how crappy of a day this started out being. Well in all honesty it started out good. Got up on time, took a nice shower, fixed my hair and make up, left the house on time...Or so I thought. Yes this morning I had a test. Most of our test start at 9am and this one, I thought, was no different...Until I got to school at 8:30. I get to school thinking I'm early, text one of my friends. Who does not answer. So I call...still no answer. OK I think her phone is just on silent. Call another friend...NO ANSWER. Decide well I'll just go to the floor where the test is going to be. Usually test day there is a crowed of people waiting in the hall today NOBODY!!! So a panic comes over me. I start to think maybe I'm in the wrong place or even worse I am LATE. Well the latter of the 2 options was the actual reason. So I pull out my phone and look at our schedule and it says the test started at 8. So at this point I am really FREAKING. I get to the room where the test is at see the teacher and ask if I can still come in? At this point I am just shaking and in tears I was so scared they were not going to let me take this test. Well nobody had left yet. THANK YOU FELLOW CLASSMATES!!!! Therefore I got to go in and take my test. Still upset and trying to pull myself together but none the less I was going to take this test. I ended up making an 87% which was just fine with me but I think this was one of the most anxiety inducing moments of my life! Oh this test was supposed to be last week at 9am but due to snow they changed it to this week. UGH. Oh well it is over and done with. Only 86 more days (but whose counting).

Another thoughts....
I LOVE my husband so much. He is an amazing man. He has his times of temper tantrums (really who doesn't) but he is so supportive and encouraging to me. I just adore him.

I love Jayci being 4-years-old. It is absolutely FABULOUS! I can't explain it. It was like everyday I wished she were a little older but now I just want her to stay this age. I know as babies it is so cute and fun to watch them explore but it is hard (at least for me it was). It is hard because they can't communicate very well, they cry for everything, they are into everything, and many other reasons. As toddlers it seems they become whiny and are just testing boundaries constantly! Oh this drives me crazier than anything. Even at 3 Jayci's boundary testing would drive me up the wall. I used to say "A 2-year-old will make you want to run away but a 3-year-old will make you want to send them away." It's like when they are 2 you just feel like you are not doing anything right and at 3 sometimes you just want them to go away and to understand. Now I know Jayci has only been 4 for like a month so the change has probably been gradual but I like it either way. She is much more obedient. A lot less whiny. And I just love watching her intelligence grow. Don't get me wrong she has her days but for the most part it's like we are finally getting it. I don't know if it is her getting older or me just finally "getting" this whole parenting thing down a little better. Maybe it is both but whatever it is it is working out for us.

OK I think those are the only thoughts I have for now. My tummy is growling so I can't think of any other ones! Hope everyone has a great weekend. Mine is filled with working and studying. Oh and a birthday party (that I will probably take my books to so I can study there as well). Oh well 86 more days!

It's been a minute....

Yes, so it has been a minute since I have updated my blog. It has just been so busy this semester that I feel so overwhelmed. However, late Sunday night it started to sleet/snow and didn't stop until Monday afternoon. That just does not happen here in Arkansas. We got like 4-5 inches at our house. Which is just complete craziness for central Arkansas. So I thought I would share some pictures of our two snow days that we have had here. Oh yes everything shuts down when it even snows like 1/2 an inch here so we have been at out of school for 2 days now.

All that being said I thought I would update with some photos collages....

We had a Princess Tea Party for Jayci's 4th birthday.

I think everyone had a really good time. I know Jayci had a blast. I would recommend Parties Ect. in Bryant to anyone that asked. It was so easy. All we had to do was show up and take pictures. This is only some of the like close to 300 that I took that day. No I'm not obsessive about photos at all...

The birthday was in late January so that tells you how long it has been since I've updated about our family.

From then until this week I haven't taken any pictures so here are some from our 2 days of being at home because of the snow...

After Jay came home from work on Monday we went out to his dad's house to ride 4-wheelers and just hang out for a little bit.

The heart shaped picture is Jay & I, of course. We are about to leave. I was still warm, DRY, and cozy at this time. The left bottom is Jay going up a pretty steep hill. The bottom right is Jay's dad, Dennis. The water right there does not look that deep but right behind him, where he came from, came up over his head lights. I DID NOT venture into this.

The top right picture is ME! I will be the first to admit I am pretty girly but I really enjoyed going riding this day. It had started raining at this time but I tried to be tough and just stick it out. I think I did a pretty good job. The mud that I was driving through right there was not at all the deepest water I went in but I made Jay stop and take a picture of me driving. I know silly but Whatever! I think I made my husband proud because I didn't argue and trusted him while I was driving. If he said I could make it through I tried. Well all except the very big water you see behind Dennis. That was a little too much for me! Plus I'm always nervous of messing up Dennis's stuff.

On our second day of being snowed in we went outside and attempted to build a snowman. Well all the snow had frozen over night so it was pretty hard. But as you can tell from the pictures we had a pretty good time. I just love watching Jay playing with Jayci. She thought she was so funny throwing "snow balls" at him. It was a great time!
I hope everyone has a Fabulous rest of the week. I am going to go finish up some vegetable beef soup and make some corn bread to go with it. YUMMY!!! OH and watch American Idol...Can't wait to see Ellen on there. I just think she is so fun!