WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

I have learned that being alone isn't as bad as I thought. *Just when I think it couldn't be any worst something comes fallen in, I later find out the worst wasn't as bad as I thought. * It hurts when I fall on a wet floor. *Tender, love and care really does cure a tummy ache of a child. * Just cause someone thinks something, or says it out loud does not make it true nor the only way. *I can't fix everything. * I will never be able to train a Jack Russel no matter how much time I invest. *Just be myself no matter who is present. * No matter how many times I ask my boss I will not get that raise *Unconditional love is the best gift. * I have a wild side in me waiting to come out. * Look the other way even if my neighbor is judging me. * On Star is a handy investment. * To love Lisa. * It is ok to take advice even if I didn't ask. *I am very unorganized. *A smile really is contagious. * Every word to all the High School Musical songs made. *Not everything is meant to be funny. * I will never win the lottery no matter how much I play. *It is healthy to put my foot in my mouth a couple times. * Who my friends are. * If my pants feel uncomfortable after 7 hours take time to look at them. They might be on backwards. * To laugh at myself. * I do not know how to repair a lawnmower. * To hang my keys on the key holder. *My daughter is growing before my eyes. * Never take on a major project without my husband. * Even though my best friend is across the ocean, we still make each other laugh. * It is ok to cry every now and then, and it is ok for others to see me cry as well. * Television lies. * How to be happy for others. * Flip flops doesn't match everything in my closet. * Never lie to my tattoo artist. * Just because I take a shower doesn't mean I am clean. * I can't always count on people. * I don't need to find all the answers. * I don't need to answer all the questions one asks. * I will never be able to make bread no matter how hard I try. * How to live for today, tomorrow will be here when I wake up and it can wait. * Kiersten is more like her dad every day. * I need to take more time out for me. * Spending every holiday without my spouse really does suck. * A screw driver turned around isn't suppose to be used as a hammer. * No matter how big of a fuss I make the sales associate still will not give me the discount. * It is important to change your oil and rotate your tires. * 4:30a.m. comes to early no matter what time I go to sleep. * Placing a flag in your front yard makes your home more welcoming. * You can be to close to a friend to a point where others may think you are "gay". * I can always call my parents no matter how old I am. * Everything in my closet needs to been thrown away. * I have my faults as well. * 30 isn't old. * Innocence of a child. * It is ok to ask for help when I need it. * I am very blessed. Finally I have learned that not every ones priorities or beliefs are the same as mine. It is ok to be different, it is ok to just be me. Thank you for reading some of the things I have learned in the past 9 months.

Sunday already?

This weekend went by a little to fast for me. Saturday one of my friends and her little boy decided to rent a hotel for the night with an indoor swimming pool. Kiersten has been wanting to go swimming for so long now. This Texas weather has been crazy. No soon as the days come in beautiful and hot the rain or the cold fronts come racing in! We had a lot of fun. It was so nice to get a way. Even though it was only 5 minutes away. The kids had a blast. My friend Dena is a trip. She is almost as crazy as I am. After we checked out Jenny called and we headed up to Blora to try to see if we could catch some fish. Way to windy so again no fish. Her husband Matt is fixing to held back to Iraq. His R and R flew by. I took a lot of pictures for them while at the lake. It is so nice to have the whole family in a setting of a picture. Mine are either Kiersten and I, or Ryan and Kiersten. We have very few with all three of us. I was honored to do that for them. It is almost 5 pm here, I have a couple of hours to do my "house work" and then it will be off to bed for another work week. Good news is that there is only 48 more days of school left in our school calendar. Can you believe that one? Seems unreal 48 more days for Kiersten's school and my work then we are on summer break. I almost would like it to slow down a little. Yes, Ryan will be home during our summer break. I love him and wish him a safe and fast return. Lord how I want him home. Saying that, this whole 48 school days left til summer break is making me a little sad. Kiersten will be going into the 1st grade. I am not ready for her to be in the 1st grade. It was ok when she went from Pre-K to Kindergarten. Now she is entering into a number, 1st. I just need to except it. Kiersten is growing up. Just like I have said before enjoy life day to day. You can not fence in time. Wish everyone the best. Have a wonderful week! ENJOY EACH DAY AND ALWAYS HAVE A SMILE!

FEMA

Some of you reading this post may be upset with me, but this is my thoughts. I think this is wrong in every way. While dad and I where driving to our designation to go to the diamond mine in Hope, Arkansas we came upon this. Field after field after field of camper trailers. Hundreds of thousands. LITERALLY. Campers where lined up one after another for achers. These pictures are not the same field. I could not get a good picture like I wanted to. In some of them you get an "idea" on how far back the rows went. The hurricane effected a lot of families. I was aware that FEMA provided these temporary homes to the victims. I just never thought what would happen to the trailers after the families was back on there feet. On top of FEMA having to make the purchase, which if you watched the news many of the families did not take care of them. But who does take care of things that are free? Now they are left in a field. Wasted money just setting there. Can you imagine the money every month going to the storage of these campers? I just can not believe that they can't find anything else to do with them. Nothing? No one can think of anything better to do with these. No, a camper isn't your 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom eat in kitchen home in the suburbans. But it provides shelter. A roof that someone out there doesn't have right now tonight as we are laying warm in our beds. I just think what a waste. Yes the hurricane victims needed them. I have no doubt in my mine. It is just sad that for what ever reason why they now just set parked. I have a couple of ideas off the top of my head. Try to sell the ones that wasn't destroyed by the families. They where new. They did not go through the hurricane. Not all of them where damaged by the families that just didn't care. We are talking about thousands of trailers. Looking at them MANY looked as if they still never had been lived in. Surely some could be auctioned. The remaining ones, how about we strip them down. Take all the metal off of them. The plastic and any and everything else we can and recycle the parts. That field is FULL of recyclables. The trailers did the purpose for the families now it is time to recycle them. I would love to see on the news that FEMA decided to recycle them, then to hear that they will be spending however much money a month for the storage for however long to do god knows what with. Former President Clinton came from Hope, AK. Maybe this is his land and FEMA is paying him for the storage. WHO KNOWS?

Luck NO, Fun YES

Diamonds, a girls best friend. To make a long story short Lisa didn't get her best friend! Kiersten and I had a blast trying. Dad, Kiersten and I arrived at our hotel after 7 hours and we called it a night. The next morning we woke up to pouring rain. My father wasn't feeling well so he stayed back. Kiersten and I put on our matching pink with horse's rain boots and we took off to get rich! The fields to find these diamonds was a swamp. I can not describe what a mud walk it took to get to the hunt. It was such a sight. Every time we would take a step one of our boots would be stuck in the mud behind us. All you could hear was children screaming and parents yelling at them to not get mud on their cloths.-HELLO- Kiersten and I turned to each other and started cracking up. We laughed so hard. Laughing did not one bit help us trample through the mud. Kiersten picked our lucky spot to dig for findings. There we was in the field of dreams! What would we do if we found a "BIG ONE'' I, of course I would have purchased Ryan his new bass boat. What else would I have possibly bought? I am so glad we took this trip. I just wish my father would have felt better then what he did so he could have went with us. I can not go without saying my Kiersten is such a good sport. She really truly tries pretty much anything you throw out there for her without complaining. I love that little girl. I am so blessed. I have so much fun being not only a mom but a mother and a friend.

Post will be coming

Sorry I haven't been posting in a while. My father is visiting so I have been a little busy. I have been told that I needed to post something that (and I quote) my blog was the highlight of their day!! Can you believe that? Someone actually enjoys reading a little about my life!!! Tomorrow Kiersten, dad, and I will be heading out for Arkansas to the Diamond Mine. Yes I hope to make Ryan and I rich. I have high hopes. I always do. At times that could be a good thing but in my life my high hopes always end very very bad.:) :) When Kiersten and I come back we will have pictures that I will post. I am excited. While in Alaska Ryan and I went Gold panning, it was a bunch of fun. This hunting for diamonds makes me excited. I guess some will never understand me! Anyways wish everyone a wonderful week. Take care and talk to you when we return..

FISHING FEVER!

The weather in Texas today was absolutely beautiful. Have you ever been outside and the temperature was perfect not to hot or cold? The wind blowing slow and the smell of the air indescribable? Today was that kind of day. I have always said it was Ryan's weather. I think of him on day's like today. As soon as I walked outside I had a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. It doesn't make a differences if he is deployed or here.
Seeing how today was perfect and last nights cat fishing didn't go as we had hoped we tried it again. Kiersten really wanted to catch a fish. This time her buddy's came along. Off to the fishing hole we went. Somehow I was the designated worm killer. Jenny wouldn't even touch the worms. HELLO!!!! It is a worm. We had baby wipes to wipe off the yuck. The sweetest thing was said from the little boy named Tanner. He came to me with his hook. I said "grab you a worm and bait that hook" he said so sadly "but they look so cute I just can't" Of course I couldn't say no. I expected to do it for Kaitlyn she is just cute like that. Jenny come on. You didn't do or say anything cute. Why did I bait your hook? The funny part was Jenny's was the one that I had to keep baiting. The rest of our worms managed to stay on. Maybe it is because they didn't come out there with a PINK open face fishing pole. The reason for buying it for the sol purpose of it being "pretty" There is NO pretty in fishing! As you can tell from the pictures Kiersten and Kaitlyn decided that walking in the lake was better than fishing. No one caught anything again. :(

GETTING OUR LINES WET

Kiersten and I decided last night that we wanted to do some cat fishing! We had such a good time. She loves the outdoors so well. My fishing tackle is in the storage building, Ryan's is here at the house. I debated going ahead and using the "man's" tackle. I didn't choose death. I made a trip to Wal-Mart. Kiersten said "Mom when we go fishing with daddy I catch fish. Every time I go fishing with just you I don't catch fish" I looked at her and said "well honey this time me and you are cat fishing, I should have used the bacon instead of the hot dogs" Then she so sweetly replied with "right, right tomorrow we will use the bacon and catch a catfish!"

A little of Lisa's touch

To the family, who has been asking to see this picture. The larger "thingy" is the tuna log. Ryan's aunt has this recipe for a tuna log. I decided to make it a while back one fine Sunday for some of the ladies I know. Of course I added a "Lisa's touch" to the recipe. I think I may have forever more tainted the family recipe!! Yeah my cookbook isn't going to get any bigger if I keep doing things like this to there recipes that they ever so nicely pass down to me:) ;)
The cupcake. Do you see a pattern with my food? Some call it skill, and others well they just plan call it sick. Anyways, one night I was being cool with the kids while Jenny was off doing what ever. Her daughter had this kick butt cupcake maker. After the children did what children do and made all their cupcakes and ate them. They ran outside to play. I wanted to make a cupcake. I was all alone:( I just jumped right in there and whipped me one right up. I saved it for Jenny to enjoy. She said it was the best thing she had ever tasted!! No actually it was hard for her to eat it. I have no clue why!! Anyone that would like me to bring anything to their BBQ's or pot locks just let me know, okay?

She is PISSED

Okay. As you all know I am employed, but many of you may not know that I have a second job! I am Mrs.Kris King's assistant and she is pissed! She works a LOT. She is always out of town for her job. Her house is under complete construction. It makes me so nervous and it isn't even my house. She has so much to do and a lot of stuff on her plate. I would never want to eat off her plate! I am here for her. I am making her appointments and trying to be at the house when she isn't able for the services. She has completely turn this Jacuzzi into my hands. Not only do I have to deal with Shawn and his men who seem to think that we are lesbians but now I am going to have to deal with the electrician whose days just seem to "fall apart" on him so he can't make our appointment. I am not making this lesbian thing any better with this company. I find myself on the phone with them saying stupid stuff like "we just want to do this as easy as possible, or Kris and I just want this Jacuzzi in as soon as possible, and we just want to get in it and relax after a hard day of work!!" Note to Lisa, SHUT UP. After all this is taken care of. I will have to make another appointment for the pool service man to come out and clean out the pool. We will not even say why we need that appointment to be made:):):) I hate to do bad at my work. This assistant thing is so overwhelming! I can't sleep at night thinking how I will take care of all of it. Roger is fixing to come home. I want so bad to have there house DONE!!! The contractors are working trying to get everything fixed. SHEWWWWWWWW Kris Roger I love you all. I know with all my heart that they love me TOO! Even though Roger makes fun of me, makes me cry, debates all my views, yells at me and does not hesitate to slam a door in my face I know deep down inside of that cold, cold heart I am able to warm it up just a little. No? Not even a little bit? I will keep up the good work!! I will make you proud of me!!!!!! YAY FOR ME!

Kiersten

Ryan, here are some pictures of Kiersten. Isn't Buddy getting HUGE? He was so small when you was home for R+R! These where taken after Gymnastics class. Enjoy them. Love you! It is green leopard print. She told me she really has seen a green leopard walking around!

To Be or Not To Be Lesbian

A week ago Sunday my girlfriend (ha ha) Kris and I attended this lawn and garden show in Temple. While there she purchased a SWEET hot tube. I was all excited getting into the tube pretending there was water in it. The sales associate actually said "man you would think there really was water in it" Anyways, before the sale she was talking to Kris and I in this weird manner. Yep she thought we was an "item". Kris very welled cleared that one up for us. I was laughing. Oh how Lisa was laughing. Kris wasn't laughing. She was more like - NO, we do NOT live together, we are NOT a couple bla, bla, bla it was funny. After that I started to pretend like I was some kind of an assistant to Mrs. Kris King. When she would pull off her coat I was all like " would you like me to hold that for you mam'' and I did a couple more things. Well of course I did. That is just how Lisa works. That poor lady. Kris bought the Jacuzzi. Thank you Kris. Friday Kris, well Mrs. King had to work. Like a good friend who wanted to get in the tube on Friday night. I was there so it to be installed. Hours later the delivery men arrived with it. They was staring at me in this weird way. A way that was familiar. I don't know kind of like the way the sales associate was staring/talking to us. Finally he couldn't hold back any longer. He was all noisy and this dude just came out and asked. Is this "our" first hot tube purchase. Does Mrs. King and I enjoy hot tubes, have we been in them together before.. So I about spit out my drink and I kind of said a bad word. " @#$% NO we are not Lesbians, we have husbands which are both deployed together, we are real good friends who take care of each other and not in that way" then he started giggling. I was cracking up. Kiersten was rolling her eyes like she knew what the men was implying laughing along with us. He said "sorry, I just thought" I then told him that if I was I would be the man of the relationship. How strange not even in a weeks time period two different incidents being questioned if you was a lesbian. The tube couldn't finish being installed for what ever reasons, this company is going to call me to make an appointment cause Kris works out of town. They asked for my name and I couldn't hold it back. I said "Lisa, Lisa King" then he is looking at me all cocked eyed. I never told him anything different!!!! I think this week I will just stay at the house. For real I think it is hard enough for Ryan to put up with me many of the times. Could you imagine if I was married to a woman? Oh I just about threw up on that last sentence. Kris I love you an all but no, I just don't think our relationship would work out if we was to get married. You would sure take care of me though!!!!! You would be my Sugar mama!!!!