DISNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell I'm excited?!!!! Of course, I'm freaking out as well trying to get everything together. I hate to admit it, but I halfway understand why my mother was always such a basket case when we were getting ready for vacations! I think I'm in pretty good shape at this point.

Besides getting ready for our big trip, the girls and I had a busy weekend with our 2nd Annual Race for the Cure in Nashville! It ended up being a beautiful day and there was a huge turn out. They moved the course this year and it was pretty unorganized but we still managed to get our yearly cinnamon crunch bagels from the Panera Bread tent (we look forward to them every year). Unfortunately, the course was even hillier than last years! The entire first mile was all uphill! AAAAHHH!!! Luckily, it was only a 5K! Sadly, we put on In Memory Of signs this year for our friend Del's mom who passed away last month and we put his wife Andrea's mom's name on as well. When you put that on your back you really do feel inspired to run and lucky for your health.

Well, enough blogging for today. I doubt I'll get back on before Disney so I'll talk to you soon and have loads of pics!!!!!!

Also, I added pics from Rachel's game Saturday and Michelle's homecoming dance Saturday night!!!!

TWDKAK

Yes, it's time for another addition of "Things We Don't Know About Kelly!" You should all try this - it's a lot harder than you think!

Okay, let's see.....I really, really wish I had gone to college. This is one of my biggest regrets in life. And I know I can still go but with 3 kids it's hard right now! Maybe in the future...

I also really wish John and I had another baby. I wish we hadn't waited quite so long between Rachel and Stephen and could have squeezed in another one, or I guess technically squeezed out another one! Again, I know I still could but I think my time has passed. Maybe we'll adopt one day.....

I have a neighborhood nemesis! His name is "Kyle." (names have been changed because I don't know who might read this!) Now, don't laugh, he is 13 years old!!! I know, I know, I have major issues! My problems with "Kyle" started long ago. Well, about a year ago anyway! First, I don't like the looks of him. That sounds awful, but it's true. There's just something about his eyes. He also just screams goober in every single thing he does! He "invited" himself to Rachel's birthday party last year, didn't bring a gift (which I normally wouldn't care, but if you're going to crash you'd better bring a gift!). He then proceeded to be the biggest shit at the party! Just goofy, retarded stuff but soooooo annoying! Also, he ate almost an entire pizza!! The main thing is, he thinks he's awesome and he is not! Well, I had gotten over all of this and then 2 days ago I was putting an Obama/Biden sign in my neighbor, Christine's, yard. She had seen mine and wanted one and I got her one and went over to put it in. Kyle and his buddies were out playing football in the cul de sac. Now, their parents, like many people in Clarksville, are conservatives, which is fine. Anyway, I put the sign in and went back home. I see them out the window "accidently" throwing the football at the sign! I yelled out the front door for them to leave it alone! I start making dinner and Rachel comes down and says that Kyle has taken the sign out and put it in another friend's garage! I was livid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I promptly called over to said friend's house and told his father what had happened and that they better put that sign back! So they come out a few minutes later to put the sign in and of course I have to yell out the door that they had been very disrespectful! PUNKS!! Well, you'd be darned right if you think I probably got cursed out by those kids under their breath!!! You're darn tootin' I'll be watching those rascally kids from now on! You betcha I'm a gonna get em!!!

(did you catch my drift there at the end? In case you didn't, it was a thinly veiled stab at someone!)

Anyhoo, that's it for now..............

Let me just say.... I absolutely loved Paul Newman as an actor, philanthropist, outspoken liberal, and I really, really love his lite balsamic vinaigrette dressing!! He will be missed by many.....

Well, it's been a while so I thought I'd better get on here and let everybody know what's been going on in the Turner house! We have been busy, busy, busy! The kids have been doing great so far in school. Rachel has started cheering and is having a lot of fun with that. Michelle is really getting into her drama class (imagine that!). We were going to have Stephen play football but decided to see how he was in kindergarten first. He's doing great! It's still a struggle to get him up and moving most mornings but he at least wants to go! He's a night owl! We had been gearing up for our nephew Ryan's wedding to Rachael and it was last weekend. We all had such a great time! Michelle did a reading in the wedding and looked beautiful and Stephen was the ring bearer and he was soooo adorable. He actually walked down the aisle and did a great job. We had soo much fun at the reception. It was at the Eiteljorg Indian Museum in downtown Indy and we all partied pretty hard. Lots of dancing and fun! Rachael, of course, looked beautiful and we are all glad she is officially part of our family now! Besides that we've been trying to figure out which new shows to watch. Unfortunately, we didn't lose a lot of shows from last year and have a whole bunch we want to add! Way too many conflicts!! I'll be posting soon with my annual review of the new shows. We've also been getting ready for Disney World! We leave October 12th! It's coming up soo soon and we're all really excited! Oh, I almost forgot! I also was busy for a week in September getting Rachel's room redone! That was her present for her 13th birthday! I have two, two!!! teenage daughters now!! How weird is that!!! AHHH!!

First day of school!

The kids started school on Friday! Well, kind of. They had a half day. Stephen actually had a half day and then will be off for two weeks and go in for two days of testing and then officially start full time on the 25th. That's not confusing for a bunch of five year olds, is it? Anyway, his teacher seems okay. We'll have to wait and see. He wasn't too thrilled one way or the other! Both the girls had a good day and are going a full day today. Yeah! It actually is really, really quiet around here!! Michelle, John, and I were up late last night watching the Olympics. We saw the swimming relay that was sooooo close. It was so awesome. I have been taping them all weekend and love watching! I really want Michael Phelps to do well. I also love all the little stories they do on the athletes. I will sit there and cry my eyes out at some of these people! Check it out!!!

Well, Karen has issued a challenge for me to post seven things on my blog that people may not know about me or some weird personal stuff. This is harder than it sounds!! As most people know, I'm pretty much an open book. Let me try to think of some stuff:

1. I'm deathly afraid of mice. If I see one I feel like I can't move and cannot speak.

2. I am also afraid to talk on the telephone if it's storming outside. I know, I know, a cordless phone should be okay but it still scares me.

3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my favorite TV show of all time. Also, I loooooooove TV and watch entirely too much of it!

4. I hate to dust. No one will probably ever come to my house again but I literally only dust my TV and tables. The mantle, pictures, blinds, etc. maybe only get dusted once a year! I also have lived in my home for four years and have never cleaned the windows!!! Ewww! Good thing my mother does not have a computer.

Well, that's all I can think of for now. I'll get back with some more later!!

Well, this has been an exciting weekend! Friday night Rachel had a bike accident and went over her handlebars and hit the pavement with her forehead. She was wearing a helmet but it was not fitted properly and was too far back on her head. She messed up her face and was scratched up but we thought she was okay for the most part. (Deneen, I thought you might appreciate her bike accident. All I can picture is our cousin, Jolene, running up and freaking out about your accident so many years ago when we were camping!!!) She ended up vomiting all night and had a fever the next morning so I went ahead and took her in to the ER and found out (after about 5 hours) that she had a concussion. There's nothing that they can do for that but we did go ahead and get a CT scan to take to her ear doctor in Nashville. She's supposed to avoid any major head injuries because it might affect her hearing. She had an awful night on Saturday, dry heaving all night, and really bad dizziness but after she slept for about 5 hours during the day she felt better and was able to keep some food down. In the middle of all of this I was getting ready for our garage sale and stayed up until about 12:30 Friday night pricing everything. Michelle got home in the midst of everything from her Florida trip and she helped me out so that was nice to get her home. So, I got up and sat outside for about 5 hours and made about $220.00 which doesn't really seem worth it but I will say I hardly had anything but clothing to sell so I thought that was pretty good since nothing was priced over $1.00. At about 7:00 pm on Saturday Stephen was playing in his playroom and I heard a bump and then crying while I was on the phone with Jessica. The next thing I know, Rachel is telling me that he is bleeding. Well, it turns out that he busted his lip somehow and it looked pretty deep. John and I ended up in the ER with Stephen to get stitches put in his lip!! I was afraid they might call CPS on us! Let me just say that it was no fun having him scream at the top of his lungs while they pulled that needle through. Although I will say that I at least watched while John had to look away! So, they are both on the mend now and hopefully that is the last we'll be seeing of our new hospital for a while!!!