Some parents should not be blessed with babies!

On my way to work this morning, I just happened to get behind an explorer, and I kept seeing the person in front of me just whaling in the back seat.... at first I guess it wasn't registering what was going on, then it clicked after the next time she went back toward the back seat with her fist.... I blew my horn long and loud enough to where she knew someone was watching.... and then I thought about it longer and got sick to my stomach realizing that I couldn't see the lil person's head over the seat so they had to be a lil person... I called the Nashville Police Department, gave them her license plate number and description, I pray to God she at least gets the crap scared out of her and she won't ever raise a hand to her child ever again.... Why is it the ones who can pop kids out with no problem, have no problem conceiving and have one right after another one; aren't responsible enough to even take care of themselves let alone a little human being, are the ones who don't deserve them at all.... and then the ones who absolutely want one, more than anything in the world... struggle to get a baby? ... it makes me sad. I just pray that that child is ok.
My parents will tell you, well most of my family will tell, my poor brother and sister can definitely tell you that I was born to be a Mommy.... I used to mother those two around like no other... I have just always wanted to be a Mommy, so I just can not fathom wanting to hurt a child, ever... I could go ON AND ON AND ON, on this subject....

Quote

"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and light for the way."

I loved this quote so I felt like sharing....

I will write more later.

Forgot to post finished kitchen pics

Well, I was looking through all the hard work that Jay and I have done on our house so far,
and realized I hadn't posted any finished pictures of the kitchen and breakfast nook.
We've been living there for a week yesterday and are absolutely loving every minute of it
we got all of our stuff out of the apartment yesterday so we have only 1 place now.... no more driving 20 miles one way to pick something up, and then 20 more miles to go home.
Unpacking won't be that bad, because I already have this mental picture of where I want to hang all of our stuff up. Its been fun, and its been super nice that most of the house has been painted and feels so much cleaner.... we still have the sunroom, our master bathroom, and that nasty spare bedroom, that has all the colors in the florescent world in it... we also got a new faucet, thanks to my parents and one of my boss'. We have definitely been blessed beyond belief.

Veggin Out

Beau is absolutely loving his new backyard. He will lay in one spot for a little while, get up.....

And move to another place in the yard, just chillin! Its pretty funny!

Random thoughts

I never thought that not being able to watch Texas Tech, Texas, and OU football would be an issue, but living in Nashville, I am now in a completely different division. There is a package you can add to your cable so that you can watch it, but for some strange reason MY HUSBAND doesn't want the package... and then it just hit me, its because we are back in the division of football he grew up watching, so he's watching the teams he wants to see so why would he want to watch my teams? I do miss it, there's just something about college football, I absolutely love it way more than Pro, they are definitely still playing because they love it and not for the $$$. I've never really gotten defensive about anyone bad mouthing a player, but since Vince Young was such an awesome player for Texas, I am a little offended when I hear that the Titan fans can not stand the poor guy. He screwed up on a game and now he is on their shit list and they are wanting him to leave, every Monday morning I come in to the office and have to hear about how horrible he is, and how he's going to cost them the season.... well I've got a news flash for you people, the Titans aren't the greatest Pro team anyway!
I know shame on me, but dang.... LET IT GO!!! The poor guy messed up, I'm sure we've all messed up at one point in our lives and didn't have to do in front of millions of people!
Enough about football....
I'm bored at work today and everyone is gone to a Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon and unfortunately I have an appointment soon, so I wasn't able to go... hopefully next year.
Well, this is our last weekend before we are completely in our new home.... I think its almost easier to move all at once instead of gradually because once you get your necessaties over at the house your going to be, why would you want to go back to that apartment.... anyway, we are finishing getting the rest of our stuff out and cleaning it... It is so nice to be able to sit outside on our front porch and hear the frogs, and crickets and QUIET!! There are no sirens, there is no blaring music, there is no one who thinks that its a fun toy for their toddler to play with the alarm on the vehicle so your constantly hearing the freakin horn honking FOR 2 HOURS STRAIGHT, you can actually hear your conversations in your own home because you don't have some dumb ass kids upstairs blaring their electric guitars and the amp as loud as it can go..... being a home owner is definitely a blessing!!
So we are excited, I'm ready to start decorating now, and hanging up all our pictures! I miss walking by a wall and not being able to see my Niece, Nephew, God daughter, my brother, sister-in-law and sister and of course our parents hanging on my walls, crazy as it may sound it kind of makes my homesick (sadness) go away (very little), but it helps to see their faces.
18 more days until I get to see them and I am so ready, it sucks being away from them for so long. My husband and I were talking the other night and we both got kind of sad when we realized we don't really know our nephew as well as we do my niece, so we are both looking forward to seeing him and getting to know his little personality, we are SO READY! I wish we were flying out today! Not much else going on in the crazy life of the Henegars, stay tuned that could change at any minute... LOL

What a year!

Well, Sunday Jason and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary, and were thinking back at how much has happened in our 1 year of marriage! We got married September 21, 2007, we moved to Nashville in March, he started his job April 1, I started my new job April 7, and we bought a house in August.... so we got married, we moved, we started new jobs and we bought a new home, 4 of the 5 major stressors in life! And we survived them all! Its definitely been a ride the only other stressor in life is adding a baby to the mix... and unfortunately for us we aren't prego yet!
We've been staying in our home since Sunday and its amazing, I can definitely say it feels like home, we love it!
Yesterday hmmmm......
My company will pay its employees to go to a "community day" where you can pick a non-profit organization to do community service for, you get paid to go... pretty amazing, I've never in my life worked for a company who is all about community service. I've done several community service things, and fund raising type deals, but not as much as I would have liked. Now.... I can go and volunteer anytime I want and get paid to do it, if I miss work because of it.... Anyway, I went to the Sexual Assault Center of Nashville, and wow what a blessing! All that I can remember was having call centers about 10 years ago, but this is a building where anyone can go, get free therapy for as long as they need! It was heart wrenching in that 70% of their clients are children under the age of 12! After yesterday, I completed training and education and now I am an ambassador for the center its exciting, this is the type of work I have always wanted to do and to be able to do it, makes me feel great! We will be having an Open House, (they just moved into this great building) Nov. 14th, so I will be there giving tours of the new building to clients, there is going to be a huge 5k walk in March that I am way excited about and have already recruited half of my floor at work to go...
Not much else has been going on, I'm counting down the days when I can go see my Niece and my Nephew, I absolutely miss them so bad! 6 months without seeing them has been super hard, the last time I got to see my lil man he was 3 months old still on baby formula, and now he's walking all over the place, eating table food and has teeth!! It goes by way to fast, there are days I wish I could twitch my nose and have them in my arms in a second! Not long only 20 more days to go!!!

I will be sleeping in my house tomorrow night!!

Well, I have been able to take off early from work the last two days. I had a huge meeting the last couple of days at work and was coming in way early, not taking a lunch and staying after work to finish what I hadn't gotten done during the day.... ANYWAY I got off early yesterday and Jay and I got pretty far on the house last night, he is finishing up the Master Bedroom trim and then we are going to be CLEANING fools tonight! We will start moving our stuff over tomorrow! We are so excited and can not wait to SPREAD OUT!! Woo HOO!!
Anyway, I will post the finished product whenever we get out internet up at the house, it should be up tomorrow, but it never works the way you want it to at first. I am so glad its Friday and can not wait to be getting ready for work in our big master bathroom, in that awesome shower!

Sunday, Jason and I will be married ONE YEAR!! For those of you who have been in my life for the last 12 years or so, know how awesome this relationship has been for me, I am amazed that we have already been married a year. My 1st marriage with in the first year we were seperated 3 times and 3 weeks before our 1 year anniversary, he decided he didn't want to be a husband anymore.... THANK GOD! I wasted WAY TOO MUCH OF MY LIFE trying to fix it....

Anyway, although our 1 year has been filled with HUGE life stressor events (getting married, moving across the US, Starting new jobs, and buying a house) Jason and I's relationship has stayed strong and has gotten stronger, but relationship wise this has been the EASIEST, I just keep saying I never knew it was this easy (don't get me wrong, I know marriage is a full-time job, but compared to the first one, this is HEAVEN). I never knew that this is what it was supposed to be like, thank God he brought Jason in mine and my families life.

OH, and I GOT FANTASTIC NEWS!!! My Goddaughter who is 5 years old, started ballet about 2 weeks ago, and my best friend Tana took her to audition for The Nutcracker with the Lonestar Ballet, and lil miss tootie fruity MADE THE CAST!!! I can not wait to plan a trip to watch my lil doodle bug be up there hamming it up! Stay tuned for her lil pictures! Well, I need to jet and go help the hubby clean our home!!

Ta Da!

My pictures didn't go in the order I wanted them... just wanted to show the progress that we have done on that AWEFUL kitchen, it looks so much better with out the wall paper, the grey is a primer we are painting it tomorrow or this weekend.
Anyway, I also included pictures of the dining room, I originally was going to do a dark earthy orange below the chair rail, but after Jay and I looked at it at different times of the day, we tried to make it darker by putting another coat of orange, well that just made it brighter. SOOOOO....
We then tried to do a faux finished with like a chocolate color, but that didn't work either, so we just decided to put chocolate at the bottom.
We are going to repaint the sunroom later in a neutral color, but not to concerned with it right now.

Just wanted to show you where we started and how far we have gotten. Its been a super fun project making it our own, but holy cow I will not EVER again decide to paint an entire house! I will be smart and paint one room at a time!

Boredom

Well, sitting at home by myself is not exactly what I enjoy doing. I didn't mind it so much in Amarillo, but when Jay is out of town here, it just makes me realize that I really don't have anyone to just hang with. When he was gone in Amarillo, I could always go over to someone's house or always had stuff to do. Being new here and not really having established friendships where you can just go hang on the couch and not feel like you have to talk the whole time has been tough for me. It just makes me miss my family more. I have met a lot of really great people here, just no one yet that I would really call up and go hang with them. I know that will come with time, but right now its pretty depressing.
I guess the positive to this is I am resting the ole' fingers, arms and back from painting the house. Jay won't be home until late tomorrow night. We only have to paint the kitchen and master bedroom to be able to move in, we are ready!

Almost there!!

Wow what a weekend! We worked our little fannies off at the house. We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel! All we have to do now to be able to move in; is finish up the kitchen, (we primed it yesterday) paint the master bedroom and clean the carpets. Beau is absolutely loving it, he thinks he has a football field for a backyard and that we are living in a castle compared to where we have lived since we've had him. Jason and I are really excited and the house is really starting to feel like our home now. We've done alot of work to it, and there will always be something to do until we get it exactly like we want it. When we finish with the inside we have tons of ideas for landscaping the front and back yard, we can not wait!

Well, I guess I am joining the blogging world, mainly so that my family can keep updated on our daily lives. Jason and I moved to Nashville, TN on March 24, 2008 and it was hard at first, I had never been so far from my family before. I was definitely out of my comfort zone and didn't like that to much, all I did for couple of weeks was cry and pray. My prayers were answered when I went to a temp agency and did some skills testing for them. They had told me that they wanted to send me to an interview with a major corporation downtown the next day. I had never heard of HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) before nor did I realize how big of a company it is! They implement the best practices for over 140 hospitals nationwide. Oh man, did God answer my prayers, I started working for them on April 7th and have loved Nashville ever since! I truly believe had I started a job anywhere else here, I would not like Nashville as much as I do. My team I work with are the most amazing group of individuals, I love it! I am the Administrative Assistant for Patient Safety, Pharmacy Services and Infection Control. My Infection Control department just started a nationwide campaign with Mitchell Musso ("Oliver" from Hannah Montana) called Clean Hands are Cool Hands. We are going into the grade school classrooms trying to start good habits with younger children about washing their hands, as this campaign grows we are going to be watching whether or not attendance improves. We have commercials airing in Nashville, Las Vegas, Tampa, and it will grow as the campaign grows! Its pretty exciting to be involved with this program!
Anyway, Jason is the Rivers and Streams Coordinator for Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency for the state of Tennessee. He seems so much more happier with his team than what he was working with out of Canyon, TX. Man, these guys actually feel blessed to have their jobs and work everyday! I can probably count on my hands the days Jason has actually been in the office. He's been learning the Rivers, Lakes and Streams all over the State. It probably helps out that he grew up in East Tennessee, and Kayak'd or fished on most of them! He's lovin every minute of it!
He and I closed on a home August 29, 2008. 3 bedroom 2 bath, house in a small town right outside of Nashville, it is the perfect place for us to live, small town values, with the convienances of Nashville! We have met some really good people since we moved here, its amazing how sweet everyone is here. Since we have lived here, working down town close to "music row" I have gotten to see several Country Music Stars. I have seen Todd Gentry from Montgomery Gentry, I have seen Martina McBride, I have seen Keith Urban, and saw Clint Black's entourage! There is kind of an unwritten rule here in Nashville that you pretty much leave them alone. Which is hard to do sometimes especially when your sitting at the table right next to Martina McBride at Pancake Pantry and you just want to go give her a big ole' hug! LOL I completely understand leaving them alone, they come here to get away from all the camera's and stuff.
Well, I am going to close for now, Jason and I are going to a football party tonight with several people from our Sunday School class, we are ready to break away from painting walls, texturing, and priming. Hopefully this weekend we will be done painting and can start moving in soon!! We are definitely ready to be in our own home! Hope you all have a great weekend!