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Today we were so lucky to have Karston, Cami, and Kaden over to play. We are so glad we met ya'll.

Allisonology

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1) What is your salad dressing of choice? Outback's Tangy Tomato Vinaigrette

2) What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Macaroni Grill

3) What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of? Macaroni and Cheese or Raisin Bran

4) What are your pizza toppings of choice? Just Cheese or Pineapple and Canadian Bacon

5) What do you like to put on your toast? Butter and jelly

6) How many televisions are in your house? 3--living room, bedroom, playroom

17) What color cell phone do you have? silver with a blue cover

8) Are you right-handed or left-handed? left-handed this has always made me feel a little special. :)

9) Have you ever had anything removed from your body? too many things. But the two best things were Adiah and Ava. :)

10) What is the last heavy item you lifted? 3 40lb bags of salt

11) Have you ever been knocked unconscious? nope

12) If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? no because I would just worry about everything way too much.

13) If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Shasta just kidding

14) Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? no way. I would definitely end up in the ER. I think my stomach might explode.

15) How many pairs of flip flops do you own? I have no idea. Way too many

16) What is/are your goal/s for the year? get fit, stay happy, be a great mom

17) Last person you talked to? Jason

18) Last person you hugged? Adiah

19) Favorite Season? Summer

20) Favorite Holiday? Easter

21) Favorite day of the week? Tuesday. I don't know why. I just like it.

22) Favorite Month? March. It's my birthday It's my birthday!!!

23) First place you went this morning? took the girls to school

24) What's the last movie you saw? Slum dog Millionaire

25) Do you smile often? Yes

26) Do you always answer your phone? nope

27) It's four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? Crystal--she's a night-owl

28) If you could change your eye color what would it be? I like my eyes the color they are. I wouldn't change them.

29) What flavor drink do you get at Sonic? lemon-berry slush or a big diet coke

30) Have you ever had a pet fish? Yes in college. Angela and I had two. We had a beta and a goldfish in the same bowl. Nobody told us that the beta would eat the goldfish.

31) Favorite Christmas song? Jingle Bell Rock

32) What's on your wish list for your birthday? anything for the house

33) Can you do push ups? probably two

34) Can you do a chin up? no way. NO upper body strength

35) Does the future make you more nervous or excited? both. Everything makes me nervous if I think about it too much. My imagination is way too big.

36) Do you have any saved texts? yes

37) Ever been in a car wreck? yes And I've also run into a pedestrian. No I'm not proud about it. I just think it's kind of funny.

38) Do you have an accent? yes but I didn't realize it until last Sunday. A lady at church said, "You have a great accent. I love to hear you talk." What? I guess it's an ET accent
39) What is the last song to make you cry? I don't get into music that much anymore
40) Plans tonight? plans to sit right here on this couch and relax

41) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? yes

42) Name 3 things you bought yesterday. baggies, yogurt and tortillas

43) Have you ever been given roses? yes

44) Current hate right now? listening to Paula Abdul judge American Idol

45) Met someone who changed your life? yes

46) How did you bring in the New Year? with my friends in Tyler. Jason wasn't with me. :(

47) What song represents you? Boom Boom Pow--the Black-eyed Peas

48) Name three people who might complete this? Melissa, Jami, Tracy

49) What were you doing 12 AM last night? Watching reruns of The Real Housewives of New York City

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? I need to make lunches

Beach Run

These are pictures of what I was able to enjoy on my jog.
The mean sand before I turned around.
Pretty palm tree lines streets.
Christus Spohn Shoreline. Maybe Jason will be here one day. Because remember...we are not moving again. :)

Skate park next to the water.




After much encouragement from Jason I decided to go for a jog down on Ocean Drive this morning. I parked at FBC because I was scared to leave my car in one of the park lots for fear of it being broken into. Ok, things are looking good. It's a nice day. The wind is blowing a little but, not too bad. So I take off down the sidewalk along the water. Wow, it's so pretty and calm. I'm feeling pretty strong so I think, oh I'll just run as far as I can. Maybe run down to the American Bank Center. Not thinking about how far I would be from my car when I got there. So I'm coasting along I've got a good tailwind feeling confident. During this time I decided that I was being a bit overly ambitious so I decided to turn around about 2 miles into it. Ok, that's not bad. Just 4 miles. I can do this. But, wait, the wind seemed to be blowing much harder in this direction. What was going on? What happened to my speed? I swear the wind must have been blowing 40mph. I am not exaggerating. Shortly after I turned around the sand began flying too. Almost immediately I was covered in sand as it pelted me in my face, on my arms and my legs. Ouch!!! I got a little nervous because I knew I could not feel this kind of misery for two more miles until I got back to my car. Fortunately once I got past a hotel the sand pelting stopped. Thank goodness. But, the wind did not. I honestly started choking on the wind. I was dry heaving. What??? I honestly think it was rattling my uvula. (you know that hangy down thing in the back of your throat?) I don't know what else it could have been. Let me tell you, I must have looked a mess. Struggling against the wind covered in sand and dry heaving for two miles back to my car. Neadless to say, I will not be running that route again. Sorry Jason but you can have Ocean drive. I'm going back to the neighborhood where I have a wind break. :)

Our Backyard Beach

What a handsome man!!!
Just hangin out waiting for the fireworks.
Checking the water level this morning.
My little Diva.
Soccer Star

Are those monkeys?
Adiah wanted a picture of the water ripples.
Trying to stay warm.


The Cunningham house has been a little bit boring for the past week with two exceptions, fireworks at the bay and our new little pool. Well, almost fireworks. Friday night we went out to CC Bay to watch the fireworks that were eventually cancelled due to high winds. Go figure, it was windy in Corpus Christi. Well, we had fun anyway. We sat on the cement steps at the water while the girls ran around for a bit and then snuggled and talked the rest of the time. I can get a lot more info from Adiah when it's one on one. It's nice to be reminded of how sweet they are and how fast they are truly growing. We don't spend time like that together enough anymore. Everyday seems so rushed and hectic. But, to tell you the truth I don't know what we are doing to make it so hectic. Life is pretty easy when I really think about it but I think the constant lessons and reminders that fill our days seem to make them seem more difficult. Consistency, consistency, consistency. :0)

We have been talking about this pool for so long and finally Saturday we went and bought it. No it's not huge or deep but it's wet and I can float in it. Yea!!! The girls are so excited! Jason has spent the last two nights getting it ready to use. I was fortunate enough to get to empty the forty pound bags of salt into it today. Ok, I have no upper body strength and it was torture but, well worth it. Hopefully, it will be in working order and ready for some splashing by tomorrow night.

Ava has her last soccer game tomorrow night. This season has been a lot of fun for her and I am sad that it is over. Saturday she will get her trophy and that is something she is really looking forward to. I don't know what it is about those little gold trophies but she really loves them. She has been known to sleep with them at times.

Adiah's arm is appears to be healing well. She is still not able to straighten it all the way but it gets a little straighter everyday. She is not enjoying the lack of activity but I don't think it will bother her too much once she is able to jump into the pool and swim. That is definitely something she can do.

Look Mom and Dad, I'm a brunette!

I guess this is better news than the day I told you I got my tatoo. :0) I'm just kidding. For some reason the title of this blog reminded me of that wonderful :0) time in my life and I thought of your reaction. I was really bored and unhappy with my hair so I went for a drastic change. I love it! Well not when I wake up in the mornings. I really don't look like myself at all. That's when I get my makeup on as fast as possible and then everything is ok. The worst part is everybody's initial reaction. I cringe a little everytime I encounter someone who hasn't seen it yet. So I'm letting you see me now so I can get this part over with. Remember, I like it!

Cast off!!!

What are we going to do with that stinky thing?

Adiah is jumping up and down screaming "It's off. I can't believe it's off!"

Aaaaahhh!!! "It's free."

Well today Adiah became a very happy little girl. We went to the orthopedist for x-rays and an update on her progress. After reviewing the x-rays the Dr. informed her that she no longer needs her cast. Yea!!!. She is so excited. I am happy for her but some concerned. The x-ray showed that there is still a break but it is healing very fast. He assured me that two more weeks of being very careful will be enough for her to be completely back to normal. Right now she can't straighten her arm and is still on restrictions from any physical activity. Ok, I'm sure I won't have any problem keeping an 8 year old without a cast from riding her bike, running with her friends or falling on her arm simply from clumsiness. These next couple of weeks should be fun. One thing we are really excited about is the fact that she can swim now. We have really gotten tired of the plastic bags every time we go near water or sand.

The Blue Angels

Well once again we have had an amazing day in Corpus Christi. We packed up the family and headed off to the NAS-CC with our friends to see an exciting air show featuring the Blue Angels. We sat just feet from the water's edge in perfect weather enjoying the sun, family and friends. How much better does it get? I just can't get used to all of the free entertainment that we have access to now. Not only was there an air show this weekend there was also a Windfest, SandCastle contest and Earthday/Bayday. No, we did not do everything but , it was all here within our reach.

Ok, I have more pics of the planes but, I can't find them on the computer right now. I'll add them later. :0)

Remember the Alamo

Me, Amber and Kayden




Wow what a day. I had no idea what I was getting into but my experience far outweighed my expectations. I am a little hesitant to try to explain the event because honestly I still don't understand what left-wing, right-wing extremist and radicals all really mean. What I do understand is that we were protesting the extreme spending which was bad with Bush and is continuing to worsen with Obama. I get that. It was a very peaceful calm gathering of concerned Americans-Texans first (right Amber?) except for this one guy who stumbled into our area arguing the other side. I immediately panicked when he started yelling at the other protesters. In my mind it was all over. LOL I have never been a part of any type of protest and from what I've heard they usually end bad. So in my mind the guns and knives were about to come out and I wanted us to get out of there before the kids got hurt. Fortunately, I overreacted. Go figure. The peaceful protesters ran off the trouble maker and everything went on as planned. It was great to be there for Glen Beck's show. If you look really hard you could see us to the left standing beside a big white sign with red lettering. Ted Nugent was great. I had no idea who he was either until I found out that he played Cat Scratch Fever. Oh yeah. That's when I got excited. He played the Star-Spangled Banner on his electric guitar and it was great. The sun was hot, the Alamo was beautiful and I stepped across Colonel Travis's line for the first time. What a great day!
Check out this blue flag. Apparently it is the Republic of Texas flag. Pretty cool
Before the show, Glen Beck enjoying his fame.

Kameron and Josh

Easter Egg Hunt

We had so much fun Sunday with our friends from church. A couple in our ABF class invited everyone who did not have family near to lunch and an egg hunt at their house. The girls had a blast and we had some great food and fun time with our friends. It's surprising how many people here don't have any family near. Adiah was a little disappointed that she couldn't swim but she had a great time with the egg hunt. Ava got right in and had a blast. Did you see the eggs in the palm tree? Isn't that great?