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Post Date 5/17/12 8:33 am
Topic: Pictures of Blake

I haven't seen some of you guys in a while. Blake is 16 months old now and growing quickly. Here are a few pictures:

Making "eyes" at his brother's girlfriend across the table

Our cashier's name was Blake too.

Love you guys!
Tracey

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. Walt Disney
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Post Date 5/11/12 6:25 am
Topic: RE: Friday WLS Express

LUCK!!! (that's what I say to my husband when he asks for the same lol)

How exciting!!! I was down to where I was contemplating it, had a surgeon do the consult and then my ins said it was cosmetic and wouldn't cover it. So I planned on having to pay out of pocket. In the meantime I had a baby, gained some weight and now need to get back down to goal so I can try it again. I have new ins so I am hoping that they approve it. After having the third baby it may not be cosmetic anymore either. lol

Post pictures. Update when you can. I'm so curious. GOOD LUCK! Hope it goes smoothly and you recover quickly!

BTW- who's your PS?

Tracey

Post Date 5/7/12 10:05 am
Topic: RE: Saturday WLS Expess

sent you a PM

Post Date 4/20/12 6:40 am
Topic: RE: Thursday WLS Express

Hey Vivian,
Here are some things from one of my favorite stores, Pottery Barn Kids. When you add Owls into floral you can get more mileage out of it and it can still be very girly. There's tons of owl stuff out right now. It reminds me of the motif from the 70's. Not to add to your addiction or anything but there's a PBK store in Dallas if you need to see anything up close and personal.

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/hayley-nursery-bedding/?pkey=bgirls-nursery-bedding

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/penny-and-joy-owl-plush/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/nursery-farm-hug-and-hide-owl/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C2&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/owl-bookends/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C3&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/personalized-owl-decal/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C5&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/farm-activity-gym/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C10&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/girls-applique-canvas-buckets/?pkey=e%7Cowl%7C19%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C14&group=1&sku=4938577&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-

Post Date 4/20/12 6:21 am
Topic: RE: FRIDAY WLS Express

Hey You Guys!

I lurk a lot but after I read I always have some fire to put out and never get to post. I guess its called job security.

Another crazy day about to begin. I have three ARDs that I need to dot i's and cross t's on so I can turn them in today. I need to see my lifeskills kids this morning, I missed them because I had a crazy ARD meeting yesterday that lasted way too long.

I have a meeting at admin at 11:30 this morning too. I refer to them as "admin beatings" instead of admin meetings. They truly are...ugh.

This afternoon Dirk has an appt with the surgical neurologist to check him out. He goes once a year to make sure all is right with a tumor they removed years ago. It was in his abdomen but it was situated on his spinal cord so a neuro surgeon was the chief dr. I plan on going with him to hear what the dr has to say. Afterwards we are getting something to eat and then going to Art Fest in DT FW.

Dirk had a pig processed last week and picked the meat up yesterday. I never spent any time with the pig and I told Dirk I didn't want to know ANYTHING. He keeps assuring me that its a completely different pig, I don't mind not knowing the truth....its better that way. Otherwise there would be hundreds of dollars of meat in our freezers that wouldn't be touched. I know that meat we raise and have processed is safer than anything we could ever buy at the store but the thought of eating something that used to be alive in OUR barn just weirds me out. yuck yuck yuck, sob sob sob. He wants to smoke a ham all weekend. We have a smoker at the house and at the lake house. I suggested we just go on down to the lake house...lol We'll end up going if I get my way. He'd rather stay around the house and do chores... how fun is that?!? So after tonight we will either be doing chores or having fun at the lake for the rest of the weekend. One way or another, "Big Pig" err I mean HAM is on the menu.

Congrats on TEN years GINA! Wow! Call me if you find some free time on Monday and Tuesday. I miss you and can't imagine life without you in it either!

Love you guys!

Post Date 4/19/12 5:56 am
Topic: RE: Wednesday WLS Express

I now have access to tractors and about 18 acres of woods...just sayin'..... I think the woods may need some "sprucing up" now and then- you know, with various plants and such, that HAVE to be planted 6 feet deep.

Post Date 4/18/12 7:49 am
Topic: RE: Wednesday WLS Express

I feel for you....one year I had a flower bed and a vine grew up so I figured I'd get the trowel thing out after it and dig it up at the roots...I got down past the water line (about 6 feet under ground) and STILL hadn't reached anything but vine and leaves so I cut it where it was at, put all the dirt back, packed it back down and watched it take over my garden within a few weeks. My green thumb applies to weeds only.

Good luck!

Post Date 4/2/12 9:31 am
Topic: RE: MONDAY WL EXPRESS

You remember the doctor said no housework for at least a month afterwards, correct?

Glad to hear you're doing so well!!!

Tracey

Post Date 3/29/12 11:11 am
Topic: RE: Thursday WLS Express

Hi!

Welcome.... there are a lot of very knowledgeable people on here. Just ask away- if someone doesn't know the answer then they will probbaly forward it on to someone who does. I'm sorry your surgery got postponed. Hope things are goign well now and you get a new date soon.

Good luck!
Tracey

Post Date 3/29/12 6:20 am
Topic: RE: Thursday WLS Express

Hey You Guys!

Wow! It's a short train today! Funny I should be riding it!! lol

I'm done for a few weeks being a potty monitor. It's more boring than anything...which makes for a super long day. I started reading Les Miserables and long about page 5 I found myself drifting off to nap zone. Luckily there's two monitors so I asked my partner in crime if she'd handle the fort while I got some coffee and a walk. Nothing too eventful happened thank goodness. If there's ever any type of problem then it has to be documented and sent to the state for review..yada yada... I'd hate to be the ONE that created long hours of written documents because I messed up. So crazy that there's so much pressure.

Love you guys!
Tracey

Post Date 3/29/12 6:12 am
Topic: RE: Ginny's Home

SO thankful she is home and doing better. I don't envy her those first few days, but they are nonetheless unavoidable...

I know she's considered surgery for a while now, I hope that she gets everything she hopes for and more from it.

Call if you all need anything! BTW- we are starting to meet again to get our "run on"..... I'm still carrying around (sigh) baby weight and I KNOW what I need to do to fix it. Whenever she gets to feeling better you all need to come walk/talk with us.

Take care!
Tracey

Post Date 3/27/12 10:50 am
Topic: RE: Surgery Update on GINNY Y

I've been stuck in a hallway all morning being a "potty monitor" so I haven't had any type of access to the outside world. She's been in my thoughts and prayers all day... sooo glad everything was uneventful. Prayers for an even faster recovery!

Thanks for posting!

Post Date 3/26/12 6:25 am
Topic: RE: Make room for me on the loser's bench.

I'm so excited for you!!! Prayers for you. I know you're going to do great at this- you already have a wonderful support system. If there's anything you need just holler-I'm just a phone call away.

Tracey

Post Date 3/2/12 12:22 pm
Topic: RE: What do you miss?

HA!!! You know it was Robbie that coined that term.

I have an ELECTRIC ice cream maker at the lake house that we can play with and try YOUR kind of milk and of coarse SPLENDA to make it work. Now the monkey sex.....I can't help personally BUT I have connections, although I heard it can wreck havok on the skin of your knees....

Seriously though.... lake house/summer...you bring the splenda, I'll get the recipe.

Post Date 3/1/12 6:27 am
Topic: RE: What do you miss?

When my band is at maximum restriction I miss a good ol' slice of pizza. There's nothing that I can do to offset it unless I use a cardboard crust which takes the point of WHY I like pizza so much out of the equation (all that heavenly carb crust). I can still NIBBLE so all is not lost, which is a good thing, because pizza just isn't really a food I SHOULD be eating anyways.

Feeling good and being healthy outweigh even the most perfect slice of pizza ANY day though.

Tracey

Post Date 2/28/12 6:34 am
Topic: RE: Tuesday WLS Express

Hey Meg-

They have it at Beaumont Ranch which is practically in my back yard. Let me shed a few more of these pounds and I'm game, heck, I'll even coordinate it!

Post Date 2/27/12 7:29 am
Topic: RE: Tuesday...

Congrats! Good luck on your journey.

Where are you a teacher at? I am a speech therapist in a school district. It's never a dull day to say the least!

Good luck tomorrow!!!

Tracey

Post Date 2/27/12 7:21 am
Topic: RE: Friday WLS Express

Sounds like another "Clampets take on Austin" road trip! Anyone for throwing $20 peanuts around the Driskill?!? "The light's green losers!!!" or maybe GINA! can give me money!!! hehe!
Seriously though...I have a blue and white striped shirt and an expedition that seats 20 comfortably, let's go!

Post Date 2/15/12 1:00 pm
Topic: RE: OT: Chase got an intern position at WDW!

He has like 77 hours from the jr college he went to. I was saying that he would be the only person ever to get a master's degree from a two year university. He finally transferred to UNT in the fall. So he's a jr, but about to be a sr. I'm not sure the amount of hours he's completed at UNT, but he's in line for being a senior. He was going to talk with the counselor today about making sure the Disney U hours are transferrable to UNT. From my understanding they are. With those hours and the ones he completes in the spring 2013 semester back at UNT, he'll be done with his BA degree.

He wants to get a master's though, so the college days aren't soon to be over any time quickly.

Post Date 2/15/12 7:10 am
Topic: OT: Chase got an intern position at WDW!

OK- had to share with you all....

Chase called last night from school to let me know that after waiting on pins and needles for months he got an intern position at Disney World (in Florida). He will have to take a semester off from UNT to go. He will be gone for 4 months and will work there part time and take college classes at Disney. He's not sure what they offer, marketing is a for sure, but otherwise he's not 100%. He is working towards a film major with a marketing minor at UNT so this fits right into his degree plan. He will work part time and make a little bit of money. They furnish the dorm and the food. He also gets free tickets for family members (go mamma!!- lol) He won't be able to come home during the four months so his mom will just have to go visit him. (it will be a "sigh" sacrifice!) Nonetheless what an amazing opportunity!!!

Post Date 2/15/12 7:03 am
Topic: RE: !! AMANDA !!

awesome!!! So excited for her. You know you have to be a good example so now you have no excuse but to be "the poster child for wls"...lol Good luck to her!! (and you!)

Post Date 2/10/12 6:18 am
Topic: RE: FRIDAY WLS Express

Hey You Guys!

Quick drive by! I have a crazy day ahead. If Gina is the self proclaimed procrastination queen I guess I get to be the princess. I THOUGHT I only had a few things to tend to today but then realized that I hadn't done my medicaid billing for the month that's due today. Then some of my life skills kids went to their inclusion classrooms and I missed time with them yesterday, And on top of it all I have a teacher who wants me to come listen to a kiddo in her room. I have a meeting/beating at administration at 11:30 and have to review ARD paperwork from the week. I am still making corrections on two. I also have paperwork to send home with a few kids so that I can get them tested. As Gina said- job security. ugh

Well I better get to it. Medicaid doesn't bill itself and they won't hire me a personal secretary (even though I've asked).

Love you guys!
Tracey

Post Date 2/6/12 5:53 am
Topic: RE: Hello from a stranger!

Hey Girl!

Glad you post on FB or I'd be going through withdrawals! I don't care where I get to see your pretty face as long as I do!

Love ya!
Tracey

Post Date 2/3/12 6:21 am
Topic: Friday WLS train

I guess I missed it or it's runnning late. I probably missed it, as I AM usually the one that's late.

Hop on!

Tracey

Post Date 1/31/12 8:27 am
Topic: RE: Tuesday WLS Express

Love you Meggie! New memories are going to be made in that house. Think of it as a blessing to pass on to the next family instead of a loss. Remember back to all the good things that happened to you there and know that the next family will make their own set of wonderful memories from it as well.

Big HUGS!!!