Happy Nurses Day!

So today is Nurses Day! I forgot all about it until I saw it posted on facebook this morning. I had already made an appointment to get a massage today. I took off work early and headed to Eden. It was AMAZING! One of the best massages ever!!! I will definitely go back and soon!

While I was getting my massage, Stephen was walking around Lowe's to pass the time. While he was there he pick this up for me. Its a kitchen aide spatula that is made to scrape out my kitchen aide mixer bowl. I was so excited! Now I want to make some buttercream.

We headed over to Peking for supper. I have not had many things on the menu and have not wanted to try too much due to my ginger allergy. I asked the waiter today about the sesame chicken. He asked the manager if it had ginger in it. She said it typically does but they would make a special order for me without it. This made me sooo happy. The manager double checked with me before they made it to make sure nothing else in the dish would bother me. That was so nice. I ate every bite!!!

Happy Birthday Tara

Happy Birthday to my friend, Tara!!! We celebrated last night. Dinner at Harveys and then cake and ice cream at the Blakes house. Followed by a couple rounds of the Newlywed Game. Stephen and I did horrible last night. We didn't score at all on the first round. Ha ha!

Made this for Tara, my favorite artist:

Time for presents:

The Story of the Goats

So you know, I have never been around alot of live animals except for the typical cats and dogs. Yes, my wonderful in-laws have a farm with many different animals but I just look out the window from safe inside and don't really venture out much. Well, I went to admit a patient last week. When I pulled up, I saw several cats and dogs. No big deal. They were all friendly. After finishing my admission, I was walking out to my car, I noticed several goats.

Not one that looked like this:

And def not one that looked like this:

Or this:

Or even this:

Unfortunately I did see on that looked like THIS. He was sitting under a shed and just watching me. I hurried to my car and drove off not thinking anything of it.
So, the rest of the story...I went back Monday. Got out of the car and headed inside. No problem. When I came back out, I walked around my car and saw that same mean looking ram standing right next to my drivers side door. Now, my sweet hubby, had a very bad experience when he was little with something that looked just like this and that story just kept going through my mind. I tried not to panic and hit the lock button on my remote to make my car horn go off. It scared the goat and he ran off. I quickly jumped in the car and started putting away my bags and writting a few notes. Then, I heard a goat making some kind of goat noise (sorry, Im not expert). I looked up and that's when I saw it. My car was surrounded by 20 of them!! Then some of them started ramming my tires (that are brand new by the way) and my back bumper. I immediately start FREAKING OUT!! Screaming and throwing a fit. After a few seconds, I realized "Hey! Im in a car! They are outside!" So I layed on the horn. Thank goodness this startled them and they ran off. I quickly threw the car into drive and took off! I called my mom to let you know about by not-so-near-death experience. A little later that day, I got a text saying I was going to be getting a package from my dad this week. Well, today I went to check the mail, and found this:

Notice the label:

Haha! Glad that I keep my family so entertained. Thanks Dad for the coffee. And just so you know, I smells nothing like goats. Think Ill go make a pot now. Goat coffee with vanilla creamer--yum!

Look what we found in our yard

Stephen was outside tonight and came in telling me he had found something new. I love that my husband said "Go ahead and grab your camera cause you will probably want to blog this." I love my hubby! I told him he got "giving me flowers" credit for this. Now I have a beautiful vase full of them sitting above my kitchen sink. So pretty! They make me happy :)

Severe Weather Day

They have been saying for several days that we were going to get some bad weather today. We get bad weather all the time in the spring here in west Alabama. I figured it was not going to be good since they started talking about it so early. We woke up this morning and it was quiet. So, I figured I could get on the road and start seeing the patients that needed to be seen today. Well, as soon as I turned on the tv, I realized that plan might not happen. It quickly got very dark and the wind has been blowing like crazy. So basically all I have been doing for the last 4 hours is watch the local stations and listen to James Spann's broadcast on USTREAM:

The laptop

The TV

We looked outside and saw that the FOX 6 storm trackers truck was ACROSS THE STREET from our house. Ummm, this was definitely a sign that some kind of bad weather was headed our way. Stephen laughed at me for running out to the carport to take a picture but hey, this does not happen everyday!! At one point James Spann said to not be on or near Hwy 17. Ummm, this is hwy 17 in the picture. My house sits right on it. Scary!!

This picture was taken about 5 miles north of our house. Looks like the worst of it went just north of Vernon...so far. The siren just went off again and we are waiting to see what happens next.

Me with my laptop and iphone, texting like crazy and updating my facebook status:

My crazy husband who went from window to window and even went out on the porch and then under the carport at one time. I was taking cover while he headed outside for a better view!! I blame his dad for teaching him these habits:

I called my boss and she told me to just stay home today and move all my visit to tomorrow. This did give me the opportunity to get some house work done. I also have all our meals planned out for next week and my grocery list made. Trying to decide if we should brave the store tonight or wait.

Here is Stephen's favorite weather report from today:

If you need me....

If you need me anytime in the next week, just find these two things. Im on-call again! So wherever I go, these two phones go with me. We have been begging my boss for a new on-call phone because this one is on it's last leg. Hopefully we will get one soon but Im not holding my breath for it:

Administrative Assistant's Day

So, today was Administrative Assistant's Day. I made a cake for our lunch at work to thank the girls that make my job possible. Our office would not function without Bjanka and Teresa. It was done very quickly last night after I got home. Not my best work. I usually draw out exactly what I want to do and even figure out how much of each color I need. I knew I had some chocolate icing left from Jim's cake so I knew I wanted to use it. I was not really happy with the results but everyone at work loved it and ate it up!! I only brought a small portion home for Stephen to have tonight!