Christmas Parade

It was FREEZING. We sat in the car till like 2 minutes till it started. Ava loved it. I was afraid she might be scared of the loud sirens, but she loved it. It was so cute. She just waved at everyone. Bless her heart, I had mittens that didn't fit good and they kept falling off. At one point a man walked up and gave her a sucker, but she couldn't grasp it because of the stupid mittens. Yes, note to self to buy new ones.

She looked like a Eskimo. I had her in many layers!!!

I just love the parade. Yes its very small and redneck but its sweet!! I want Ava to have good memories of Christmas festivites like I did.

December begins

December is such a busy month. Its full of holiday parties, Christmas plays and parades,family get togethers, shopping, and extra tasks at work.

First of all an update on my grandpa. He is doing so much better. It amazes me how much he has improved over a few days. I hope we will hear something today about rehab. Saturday afternoon I went to see him. He is such a mess! He was talking about how white and pretty my teeth were. :) That's grandpa!!! The road is going to be long, but he seems to be doing so much better.

Saturday I managed to go to the Craft show in Huntsville. I love going to that. I didn't buy much, but its still fun looking. I also got to visit some people in the hospital along with my grandpa.

Tonight is the Christmas Parade and I am excited. I know we are going to freeze, but its tradition.

My sweet grandpa

Sunday morning my grandmother called me early. I knew when I saw her name on my phone something wasn't right. She said that grandpa had fell and she thought he had a stroke. My grandparents are 90!!!! I hurried and called mom and she rushed down there along with my Aunt. He was in bed and had apparently had a stoke and couldn't get up. They talked him into going to the hospital.
We were all afraid it was something he suffered from years ago.....a bursted blood vessel in his brain. After a cat scan they confirmed no bleeding but did confirm a stroke.
He is stable and doing ok. The main problem is his speech. His brain is telling him to say one thing but something different comes out. You just have to know my grandpa. He is probably one of the funniest people I know. When I walked in to see him I clearly understood him say "Hey". He also asked how Ava was. He was obviously telling jokes because he would say something then die out laughing. I just laughed with him. LOL
Today we are hoping for major progress and the swelling to go down!!
Prayers would be appreciated!!!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

It all started Wednesday. I worked and my boss let us go early. My brother came in and was at moms so we had dinner over there and spent some time together. Thanksgiving we spent the afternoon with my moms family. We went to my Uncle Mitchells house. His house is amazing. He built this insanely huge house on the bluff. I am talking he did pretty much the whole thing himself which amazes me. Anyways, we had a Great dinner and spent a wonderful evening all together.

Black Friday:

Thursday night I went home and packed up some stuff then went to moms house. I put Ava to bed at their house and I laid down on their couch for a couple hours. Me and mom left her house at 12:30 and picked up my Aunt. We got to Old Navy at 1:30. It was crazy!!!!! The line to check out was like 2 hours long so I just skipped out on that one. I did some other shopping then got in line at Belks at 3:00. They opened at 4am and was giving out 250 gift cards. It was surprisingly fun. I dressed really warm and I had my coffee in hand. I guess the adrenaline was pumping or something because I enjoyed it. My gift card was only $5 but oh well. LOL

I found a few good deals. We were done shopping at 6:30 and had a wonderful breakfast at the Blue Plate Cafe. I really felt the affects when I got home though. Wow, I felt rough. My wonderful mom let me sleep a couple hours. I need to add I was already sick with a sore throat. I am sure that cold rain didn't help but Oh well sometimes I do stupid things and pay for them later.

OH and I got online at Old Navy when I got home and got all the things I wanted :) Yeah!!!!

A day of new things

I am proud to say Adam is finally done with this outage. It was a long month and a half! He is off this week and I am so thankful. We have so much to do.

You know I had posted a couple weeks ago about our stove and TV not working. Well we finally deemed them "broke". We made a trip to Wal-Mart and Home Depot yesterday. We got a new stove that was on sale. I am talking we bought this stove for not much more than the part cost. Crazy! We also bought a new TV. Its so nice to watch a large TV again. We are SO spoiled!!!!!!
I had racked my brain over Black Friday sales, and I was just like I am not standing in line fighting over a TV I may or may not get. I will pay a little more and get it now!!!
Don't get me wrong...I will be out early shopping Friday. Its an addiction!!

I am putting up my Christmas Tree today...hopefully!!! Sorry Drea! LOL

Christmas pictures 2010

Check out our Christmas pictures for this year! I was pleased, as always!!!

Go to http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=24646

Type in Estes next to the name and the password is nestes.

Let me know what you think.

20 Months

My baby is 20 months today! She didn't feel good yesterday but today she seems to be feeling good! This girl is hilarious!!! She loves to laugh and play. Her new thing is to hold something in front of her face when she is in trouble. Its like if she doesn't see me maybe I don't see her being bad. LOL The other day she was hiding behind my sheer curtains. She was really incognito!

My stove and TV are still broke! I am about ready to hit up the after Thanksgiving sales and surprise Adam with a 55" flat screen! I love this TV we have, but its trying my patience.