My girls!!

I am going to see these girls tomorrow after work and I am sooo excited!!


My bestest friends in the entire world! We are having a girls weekend at Ginger's new house in Birmingham and I can't wait!! I am only getting to stay one night though because my Mother's 30th baton recital is Saturday night! I can't believe she has taught baton for 30 years. CRAZY!!! So I will miss out on one night of fun, but at least I get Friday night!! There will be lots of good food, laughs and shopping which I am really excited about. I have to find an Easter outfit for me and David, so this will be a good opportunity to do so. Ya'll keep an eye out on David while I am gone... :) No parties at the Higginbotham House!!

It's Official....

The marker is in the ground...our place on the river is established!

Actually, I have been riding around with this flag in my jeep for over a year. I found this darling sign in Cullman at Monograms Plus and I fell in love with it! I could never remember to buy one of those ground stakes for it though, so I couldn't put it up. The other day, I was in Mike's Merchandise (interesting place for those who have never been) and I saw the ground stakes...so I picked one up. Wilson and I had a christening ceremony out at the river and put the sign in. David was busy shooting a wedding, but we can re-create the moment next time he is up there with us. My next project is to de-snake the place. I read about this mulch you can put down that will keep the snakes away, so needless to say I am buying a truckload of it. I am also super pumped because its almost time to get the boat out. After many months of deliberation, we have decided to put the boat back at the Brickyard in Decatur. For those of you that don't know what that is, it is a dry storage place for your boat where you call them, they fill your boat up with gas, and then put it in and out of the water for you. HELLO LAZY US!! What was amazing to me was that the first summer I had my boat, every Friday after work, I would trailer it down to the river all by myself, put it in and zip around. Never was a problem. Then the next summer I took it to the Brickyard, had someone else put it in and out of the water for me, so I got really spoiled. The following summer, we didn't put it at the Brickyard, and I don't even think the whole boat ever got wet. We might have taken it out once. So, needless to say, don't take your boat to the Brickyard unless you are planning on keeping it there forever...it makes you too lazy to do it yourself!! See ya'll on the river!!

Man I am too old for this....

Ahh...the old registration line for school...


So last night, David and I stayed up until 1:30 or so...wild night out on the town you ask...that would be a no. I had to register for classes for the summer semester. Registration starts at midnight, but rumor had it that they would be opening it up early, so I basically sat in front of the computer for like 4 hours refreshing my page and trying to register. Once midnight struck, the computers both started running so slowly and I was afraid I wasn't going to get in the class...which brings me to my next point. Why in the world is there only 1 night class of Microbiology available....and it filled up in less that 8 minutes. That should tell the fine people at the college something. PUT MORE CLASSES ON THE SCHEDULE!!! There is obviously a demand for the class, otherwise it wouldn't have filled up so quickly...oh and what was that thing we learned about in school...SUPPLY AND DEMAND!! Anyways, I digress, so this morning, I am not running on a full tank of gas to say the least. Everyone have pity on my because I have class Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights this summer for 4 hours a night....its going to be a long summer. :(

Wii....a game for all ages

I know most of you think I must be getting paid by Nintendo as much as I talk about my Wii, but I am not. I just really like it and think that it is a good family gaming system to have. Steven came by to eat dinner with us on Friday night and we played a little Wii after dinner. Now, I am pretty good at bowling, but he beat me in all the other sports....we had a great time! This weekend was pretty busy for the Higginbotham's to say the least. David shot a wedding all day Saturday and then on Sunday we went to Athens to go to church with my grandmother and they headed out to the river with some friends. Needless to say that my huge box of huggable hangers off of QVC have still not made it out of the box. I am going to get to those closets eventually!! :)

Sedating the Dog...

Most of you know our baby, Wilson, is a yellow lab. To some him up, he is "special" in many ways. We have wondered if he has a little touch of OCD at times, because he does strange things...for instance: when we let him out the front door, if the mat is not perfectly straight with the door, he won't go out....and if there is something blocking him from touching the dining room carpet with his right front paw on the way out, he won't go either. Let's just pray if there is ever a fire in our house that the rug is straight and nothing is blocking the carpet...He also freaks out during rain/storms. So, we went to see our vet, Dr. Ashwander to see what could be done about this. He gave us some sedatives to give him, and told us that since Wilson was such an "active dog," (that is a nice way of saying NUTS coming from your vet) that we could give him 2. I am weird about pills, so we started off with one, and thank goodness. He was comatose 5 minutes into the night. He didn't want to get out of bed the next morning, and when he did get up, he was walking like a drunk....stiff legged and sideways. I felt so sorry for him, I took him to the river to play later on that day. (during the tornadoes mind you) I think he played me there a little at the end, because as soon as we got to the river, the drunk legs were gone and he was running around like crazy as usual. Oh well, it was nice to get out there anyway! So, the moral of this story...always start out with a low dose of sedatives....

The Coupon Queen

Over the past several months, we have had a couple of transitions in our lives that have caused me to be a little more careful with our spending...now, its nothing dramatic, but I started this process when we needed it, and now that we don't need it , I am continuing it and it is really paying off. It is amazing to see how much money we really waste and it can all be prevented. I became the coupon/price match queen. Now, I know there are like a bazillion websites with helpful tips and hints and such, and some can be rather complex. My method of madness has been price matching/combining coupons. I tell you, once you get started doing this, its kind of like an addiction....to see how much you can save the next time. So, what I would do, is get the Sunday paper and get all the ads from all the grocery stores. I would see what was on sale and then make a meal plan for the week. But instead of driving to 5 grocery stores, I would take everything to Walmart and get them to price match. Now, most people will price match like 3 or 4 things....I come in with 30-50 price match items and the cashiers all cuss when they see me coming and turn off their lights. However, I have saved hundreds of dollars doing this, so it is worth a little extra effort. I have even gotten to where I will price match and item and have a coupon for it and so Walmart ends up paying ME to take the item. Its pretty cool. David sent me a link today for a blog of some friends of his from Athens who do similar things and they have lots of good resources...so check them out. Oh, and don't be afraid to get in a stare down with Walmart personnel...they will eventually back down. :)
http://twothriftysisters.blogspot.com/

P90X....did you come from the devil??

So a couple of weeks ago, David and I decided to order P90X. For those of you that don't know, its an extreme fitness program and when they say extreme, they mean it! I am in my second week, and I am really enjoying/hating it all at the same time. It is really hard, but you can tell that things are starting to happen. I think the main thing is to just stick with it, even if you can't do every single move. Some of the moves they do on the videos...especially the men, are just not natural. I don't see how these people get theirselves into these positions, but I am trudging along with the best of them. So, if I complete my 90 days....I will have to post some pictures of the results! Has anyone out there tried P90X and had good results??