On Our Way :)

Our Happy Little Traveler :)

I'm blogging to you all from the back seat of our Rendezvous in Georgia! Brycen is sitting here with his monkey headphones on watching a John Deere tractor movie in the DVD player. Ryan is driving right now and everything is going okay. My poor brother has been sick since Thursday night and so we've been having to stop quite often. If you think about it say a prayer for him. I know he is sooo miserable. I just hope he feels better before we get on the ship.. and hopefully none of the rest of us will get sick either, santizing wipes are our best friend right now! haha. But seriously, I do feel sorry for him! We stopped at cracker barrel for lunch and it took FOREVER... seriously! We just hope to make it to Tampa before our ship leaves tomorrow lol! I'm just kidding, but it kind of seems that way at this point. Anyway, I don't have much to say, I was just bored and thought I'd give a little update! :)

Show Us Where You Live--Children's Rooms/Nurseries

Today is once again "Show Us Where You Live Friday" hosted by Kelly! I'm going to start w/ B's room.
These two pieces are new to his room. The tractor desk (which he is absolutly in love with) and the big red barn that's for toys/books. We have all his farm stuff (which is a ton) in the big red barn. And The desk has a bench (you can kind of see it) that pulls out and also opens up for storage.

Here's a clock my mom got him for his birthday (he loves anything tractor).

Excuse the unmade bed, he was in it at the time :). The Uppercase Living above his bed says "Lil Digger" and then his name above the window.

His dresser (which is actually my old dresser from home) and his drums (which he plays VERY loudly!).

His hamper w/ his Bible on it. We read stories out of here each night.

this is above his closet... i love it b/c it describes him well :)

looking from his bed towards the door

this farm thing was Ryan's and in his room when he was a little boy

Brycen's cow chair (it also has a little foot stool that looks like a milking stool).

And the best part of the room... the little boy that sleeps in it :)

Now I will show you what Andon's nursery looks like... some of you have already saw these pictures because I posted them back when we were doing the room.

Heaven's Gift... how much more I get that saying now... This shelf now has some more pictures of him on it.

his bedding... it was all wrinkled b/c B liked to play in there all the time

the chest of drawers (huge) that Ryan made for him. (the handles are now on there)

what you see from the door

The darker blue wall with the crib on it.

Thanks for visiting our home again :)

Keeping Busy

Well, hence the title, we are keeping busy this week! Tuesday evening we went to Montgomery to Hailey's softball game. It was so fun, those little girls are just too cute to watch. It made me wonder if that's what I used to do out there when I was that age! haha. I'm sure it was. Some of them got sooo excited so easily and it was just adorable! Sweet Hailey Brooke kept waving at us when she got on base. :) She is quite the hitter now, let me tell you! She did so good.



B & Hailey after the game


B taking care of Miss Mya :) He's so sweet with her (well most of the time until she tries stealing him and Hailey's toys) :) hehe

After the game we headed over to Marilyn and Phil's and ate pizza. Ryan and B had to get hair cuts before vacation so Marilyn cut their hair. They look so much better! :) I love when they have fresh hair cuts. We didn't get home until after 10. I was so tired and had a migrane :( so it was straight to bed for me.

Yesterday (Wednesday) is my normal day off, but I came to work anyway. I let B sleep in a little bit, but since I'm going to be gone next week on vacation and had Monday off already I went ahead and came in. I didn't want to, but I did have stuff that needed to get done. Anyway, I worked until 2:30 and then ran to Washington to Wal-Mart. UGH (have I ever mentioned that I despise Wal-Mart??) haha, I know I have said that so many times, but I seriously do! Anyway, I had a ton of stuff to get for vacation. Ryan, B, and I all need different sunscreen, I think I spent like $40 just on sunscreen, ouch! That stuff is expensive! Anyway, I just had a bunch of odds and ends to get for vacation and we needed some new beach towels, ours are getting raggedy. When I got home it was time to get ready for small group. We got ready and went to that. We ended up not getting home until ten again! I'm soo tired and ended up getting another headache, except last nights wasn't as bed.

This morning I let B sleep in a little and came into work a little later than usual. Tonight is my brother's track regional so I'll be going to that. It is in Evansville, but his relay team runs at the beginning so hopefully we won't be too late tonight.

~*~*~2 days until we leave for our cruise~*~*~

WARNING-- graduation picture overload :)

My "baby" brother and I after graduation... I did survive-- w/out too many tears.

Ryan and I before graduation started.

Logan (my cousin Tosha's little boy who is 2) and B. They were so good during the ceremony.

My cousin Brooke, Brycen, and Logan

Brooke aka Booger :) and I before graduation

You can tell from this picture how much B loves his Uncle Joe!

Joe & B

Ryan, me, Bubby, and B :) (joe was not thrilled about all these pictures we made him take)

My brother, me, and our cousin Brooke

My brother and his best friend Taylor-- whom I often to refer to as "my other brother". They are rooming together in the fall at college :)

Me and "the other brother". They call me "big sister" but I'm pretty sure they are making fun b/c I'm not so big. haha

After graduation we went to my parents and had pizza (graduation took forever, it was 2 hours long). I had to finish up Joe's scrapbook so it could be out at his party Saturday morning. I still had track sectional and graduation pages to do. We didn't get home until 11:30pm. We crashed into bed as soon as we got home.

Saturday morning we got up and got ready and went to Joe's graduation party. I didn't get many pictures, b/c I spent my whole time holding this little sweetie.

My cousin Tosha's little girl. She was only 3 days old in this picture. Laila Nichole. She was born Wed. at 1:30pm and weighed 5 lbs and 5 oz and only 18 inches long!

Me & Miss Laila. She slept the whole 3 hours I held her. :)

After the party we came home and I cleaned the house and did laundry. Then we got ready and went to Evansville. We met some friends (Shannon & Chadd) at Red Lobster. It was delicious! Then we went to the mall b/c Old Navy was having $1 flip flops. They had hardly any left when we got there. I did get an extra pair of white just b/c they get dirty so fast. We walked around the mall a bit. Brycen made a new best friend in Chadd. :)

When we got back in the car I realized my cell phone was missing. UGH. and of all things Ryan had forgotten his at home so we couldn't call it. We were meeting at Cold Stone for ice cream w/ Chadd and Shannon so Shannon called my phone for me. Some lady answered it. I was so grateful someone had found it, but she gave me the rundown- I really didn't think she was going to give it back! She had found it in the parking lot at JC Penny's (where we parked). When we got there it was raining soooo hard, like a down pour. Sooo my phone had sooo much moisture in it. But at least I did get it back. It wasn't working very well at all. I always set my alarm on it and in the night the whole phone just died and turned off. So we didn't make it to church yesterday morning. I finally did get it to turn back on but certain buttons wouldn't work. We had two graduation parties to go to. First stop was Taylor's, he lives almost to Oakland City. We were there for a bit and then had to go to Evansville and run some errands, we followed my parents there. Then we had another graduation party in Newburgh. A friend of the family, Holly's. Dumb me forgot both of their cards so I will be getting those in the mail tomorrow! I left my phone in the car at Holly's and when we got back in all the moisture was gone and it worked just fine. I don't know if it was the humidity in the car or what, but I'm so thankful, because I really like my phone. We got home last night and just hung out for a little while before bed time. Ryan is working today so B & I are just hanging out. I need to get off here and do a little laundry and pick up some toys-- those thigns just seem to take over in a matter of minutes!

5 days until our cruise :)

Blogger Award

I was awarded this by L.H :) thanks girl!

The rules are pretty simple-- write 7 things you like and tag 7 people to do the same!

1. I like chocolate. YUM.

2. I like when I find a Bible verse that just really applies to what I'm going through right!

3. I like blogging- hehe!

4. I like soft carpet that squishes between your toes when you walk on it.

5. I like deep meaningful conversations w/ my BFF-- and also I like the silly ones where we only make sense to each other.

6. I like how B makes me smile & laugh every day. He never fails to do this.

7. I like watching my husband do "man work" :) hehe.

~I NOW TAG~

Susie

Leilanni

Courtney

Shannon

Audrey

Sarah

Tera

~Have Fun Girls~

Show Us Where You Live-- Dining Room Edition (And a bunch of other stuff!)

Well once again it is Show Us Where You Live Friday! I didn't participate last week b/c it was the guest room edition, and our guest room was turned into a nursery sooo. Anyway, here is our dining room, which is the room this week that Kelly is show casing!

Here is our dining room looking in from the kitchen-- I really don't like the dining room b/c it doesn't feel "put together". All the pieces are mismatch and most really aren't my style... Hubby has a lot of influence of furniture pieces in this room.

This little white hutch we got before we the year we were married from Ryan's Grandma Lengacher's auction. We got it for only $25.oo. It is an antique, we seen it on the "antique road show" tv show and it said it was worth around $ 700.00. We got it for our first house b/c our kitchen was tiny (but had awesome cabinets and appliances!) and we had the perfect spot for it. We then found out it was Ryan's mom's when she was a little girl, she had it in her bedroom, so that makes it special! The bowls inside we also got most of at his Grandma's auction. The decoration on top is two things we got when we lost Andon & the Box Ryan made me and I put the "Home" on there, it is uppercase living!

These are our Place Mats. I got them b/c they are springy/summery and I like to decorate the dining room around the season. These come from Olde Country Barn in town and I really love them!


I thought this centerpiece was appropriate, especially for this season and for the season of our lives right now. It was a gift after we lost Andon as well, I think it could also be used as a garden stone.

I really love this little cabinet (way my style!) I keep extra pots and pans in here and a few extra cans of fresh canned green beans! I saw that towel idea at the craft store (yes, Olde Country Barn) and thought it was a cute idea, it really added a little something something to this cabinet :). I will change out the towel w/ the season as well (this was a new idea early this spring).

This cabinet Ryan got from his Grandma Knepp's auction. His Grandpa Knepp made it. Everything inside it we got when we lost Andon :( The two candle holders w/ sayings on top we also got then. The hat on top was Ryan's Grandpa Knepp's (cool, huh?!). The wooden photo boxes above it Ryan got me for my birthday a couple years ago. The wooden box underneath is the "fancy silverware" Ryan's Grandma Knepp got us for our wedding... I really need to find a better place for it.

This is looking into the kitchen from the dining room.

This is looking up into the family room.

This is looking from the family room down into the dining room. That door on the right leads to our garage. The tractor and trailer on the left (that you can kinda see) is of course Brycen's. I thought about moving it, but in all actuality, more times than not, you find it somewhere in the dining room (tile makes for great tractor riding!) :).

Well that's my dining room, thanks for visiting, I would love advice on how to have matching furniture pieces lol.

Last Friday we took church directory pictures on Friday evening. Ours turned out terrible. I didn't like them of any of us really... oh well, we were just not very photogenic that day. The photographer was super nice though and funny, he even had me laughing! Afterward we went to visit Shawn and Audrey and the girls for a bit and then we all went to Rich and Miss's for pizza. We watched a movie afterward and were late getting home, it was a good time though, as usual!

Brycen-- who knows? I think him and Akaysha were talking about something.

Saturday I had to work directory pictures all day b/c I am on that committee. I worked them with Audrey, and the day really flew by b/c we just talk a lot :). It was actually nice to have adult conversation. I also got to meet some people from church that I hadn't really gotten to yet, so that was nice as well. We didn't get out of there until almost 7, I was so tired! Ryan & B went to his Grandma Knepp's birthday party. I went to Wal-Mart since they were getting ready to leave the party when I got done at the pictures. I got groceries and headed home. While I was in Wal-Mart I got my brother's graduation card... Yah, I would like to say I didn't stand in the middle of the aisle boo hooing like a big baby, but I did. I'm soooo sad he is graduating. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of him, but I'm sad too. Anyway, I went home then and was in bed early that night.

Sunday we went to church with my parents and brother and grandma b/c it was senior day at their church. They had a breakfast for the seniors and then honored them durning the service. It was really nice. I still can't believe my baby brother is graduating TONIGHT :(. After church we went home and hung out. We went to my parents for supper. We also went over to visit some friends at their new house.

Monday after work, me, my momma, and my cousin Brooke went to Washington and got pedicures! We had gift certificates so that made it even better, since they were free! :) Afterwards we went to eat at Masons, which you all know is one of my faves!

Tuesday night we were just around the house, I cooked supper and we all played outside really late! We also found out that Todd & Kayla are having a girl (my cousins that lost the twins!).

Wednesday I was off all day. Went to the dentist that morning for my check up, then had a few errands to run. I picked up B and we played all afternoon outside. Two very special babies were also born on Wednesday. My cousin Tosha had her baby girl and Bri had baby Abigail! Blessings all around :). I had supper in the crock pot so that was easy clean up and then we played outside that night again until dark! My mom and Grandma from Martinsville came over to visit for a bit.

Yesterday was a crazy day. I came into work until 9:30 and then it was off to B's field trip to the Washington park.

eating our picnic lunch at the park :) I <3>

B going down the slide, he called it "the circle slide" :)

"the digger" he said this is his favorite lol, doesn't take much to please him!

on the teeter totter w/ cousin Ashlyn :) he LOVED this as well

He had so much fun on this field trip. I think this was my favorite one of his pre-school field trips too, because it was so relaxed. The kids could just run around and play and they were all SO good! Afterwards, we ran to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple things and then we went home. We took a nap... we were both so tired, B ended up sleeping until 5pm! We all had to then get ready for his pre-school program! He got a certificate for knowing The Pledge of Allegiance and a certificate for completing the first year of pre-school. They sang songs and they were too cute. He also had a speaking part, his was, "The Leopard is a great climber. He spends a lot of time cat napping in the tree." He did sooo well! I was so proud of him! He got a little surprise from momma and daddy afterward. :) I can't believe he is done w/ his first year of pre-school, kinda makes me want to puke. hehe.

I couldn't get a very good picture, but here is B getting his certificate from his teacher Ms. Maria, or "ria" as he calls her. He gave her flowers before the performance and he thought that was just wayyy too cool :).

After the performance was over we had to rush out of there to get to Princeton to watch my brother in sectional. We barely made it, but we did get to see him! His relay team advanced on to regionals with a third place finish. They had their best time of the season. Joe got 5th place in the 3200 (2 mile), there were 12 teams in our sectinonal and each team can have more than 1 runner, so there were quite a few in his face. He was NOT pleased b/c his time wasn't as good as it was last week and he missed going to regional by 1 spot. My heart hurts for him b/c I know he is really bummed about it, but I would be proud of him if he got last place! 5th place is nothing for him to hang his head about. I just love him so much and hate seeing him upset.

Joseph Andrew Chamberlain, my baby brother.

After the meet we took B to dairy queen for ice cream in princeton (how dare they sell the DQ in petersburg, i was devasted!). We got ours to go and ate it on the way home. YUMMY! It was late when we got home (like 10:30pm!), it was so late since p-ton is an hour behind us. We were all very ready to get in bed!

Today it is so beautiful outside. I went and ate lunch w/ my momma, cousin, grandma from martinsville, grandma judy, and my aunt stacy. My heart is breaking and I have mixed emotions b/c my baby brother graduates tonight. I never thought it would be this hard for me, but I'm a person who doesn't exactly care for change in my life, and this is going to be a big change for all of us. I'm so proud of him and happy for him to be moving on to the next stage of his life, he has came so very far, but I'm devasted to not see him just whenever I want, to not have his unexpected visits to just pop in and say "hey", for him to be away for the majority of the next four years and miss out on B growing up (b loves his uncle joe!). I know we will still see him, but it just won't be the same. I'm so proud of the man he is becoming and very blessed to have him as my brother. He has such a big heart and he can always make me laugh.

We will have a very busy weekend b/c of all the graduation activities-so I'm sure I'll have another big post early next week-- then it's time to get ready for the CRUISE!!! :)