HEADED HOME!!!!

Hello Blogworld!!! It's been a while since I've updated... We were at my aunt's in Jacksonville and they don't have wireless internet so I couldn't get connected to update you on the happenings of my vacation!!!! This is just going to be a brief blog, we are sitting in the airport in Jacksonville and getting ready to board our plane to head home!!!!
This is Crocky... He's the alligator that lives in the retention pound behind my aunt Elaine's house. This picture was litteraly taken from her backyard with my not so great little camera!!! He is HUGE!!!! Every morning we would get up and look for Crocky... and every morning he was there!!! He'd basically stay in this same spot all day and sunbathe. I guess he never ate!!!

This is the Cobra towl that was waiting on my bed for me at Elaine's. She always makes these when people come to visit... I thought he was sooo cute!!!

This is Elaine and Mike's pool in thier back yard!!!! It's closed in by a screen to keep Crocky out!!

And who can go to Florida without getting a picture of a beautiful palm tree??? This is in Elaine and Mike's back yard!!! I LOVE FLORIDA!!!!!

We had a wonderful time, but I'm kind of excited to go home, I'm missing Brian!!!!

Well thats all for now, stay tuned for a much more indepth blog in the next few days, I've got all kinds of pictures I am going to post of Disney, the beach, and St. Augustine!!!!

FLORIDA HERE WE COME!!!

Mom, Emily and I are going to Jacksonville, FL for Emily and My spring break. My mom's aunt Elaine lives there so we will be staying with her.

Our plane left Louisville this morning at 9:10am, that means we had to leave my house at 7am. Thats a little too early for both Emily and I, but we managed.

Emily and I on our way to the airport, thanks Dad for taking us!!!

Due to the security stuff we got to the airport way too early and had to wait about an hour before our plane even got to Louisville. Naturally we had the loudest, most obnoxios 40 something cell phone user sitting behind us. I beleive the man was gay, which isn't a problem at all, that is just an important detail needed for you to understand the conversation my 14 year old sister, my mom and I overheard, at 8am, in the middle of a crowded airport. Here it is the best I can remember:

"Hey, sorry I didn't get to see you as much as I liked... yea I just didn't feel up to it. I didn't even see my mom much, I told her i was sick which wasn't a total lie..... Well next time I come up I'm bringing so-and-so, and my future wife..... yea she knows, she knows, shes cool with it, I figure it's the only way I'll ever be able to have children!!! Okay well those 2 pills I gave you, take them. One is to help you sleep and the other is if you feel like you're dragging at work... Yea the one is a Loratab and the other is just a Z, yea a Zantax."

This conversation went on for a while and I will refrain from going into much more detail, but as you can imagine all 3 of us were about to die from trying not to laugh!!! He ended the conversation with a great big "LOVEYOUMEANIT"!!!! That was a bit much and poor Emily just lost it!!!!

Naturally when we boarded the plane he was 1 seat ahead of us and right across the isle. The flight attendants came through and got our drink orders. He got 2 vodkas, a can of orange juice and 2 cups. There wasn't anyone sitting in the row with him!!! He drank it all before I could get my little plastic cup of Diet Coke down!!!!

Mom, Emily and I on the plane.

Now we are sitting in Birmingham for our 1 hour layover before we head down to Jacksonville. This week has a lot in store for us. A day at Disney World, a day or 2 at the beach, and lots and lots of shopping!!!! Stay tuned for updates!!! Have a great day.... LOVEYOUMEANIT!!!







Peace!!!

Happy Saturday!!!!

Wow.... long day!!!! Brian and I went to Bloomington with my family to watch Emily's tournament!!! They won 1 game and lost the other!!! Considering it was their first tournament together as a team we thought that was pretty good!!! My sister is pretty much a BAD@$$!!!! Ill have pictures on here tomorrow!!!

Now we are sitting here with Matt and Caitlin around the dining room table playing cards!!! I took a quick break to update blog world!!!!'

Megan.... I love your new pics and I can't wait to come by Monday so I'll have more to post!!

I've realized today why I love Brian so much!!! Who else that hates sports would HAPPILY spend the entire day with me in a gym watching my little sister and a bunch of girls he's never even heard of play basketball and love every minute of it??? No one but Brian!!! :)

You guys have a great night!!! More pics for updates tomorrow!!
Peace!!!

Here's to a great weekend!!!!

Just droppin in for another update on "The Wonderful WOrld of Audrey".

Brian and Matt are currently pulling the transmission out of a truck and I am patiently waiting for them to GET DONE so we can eat some lunch!!!! However I've learned that quick is not in Brian and Matt's vocabulary, so I may be waiting a while!!!

I've got tons of family in this week and we all went out to eat last night at Buckhead's. It was only the 2nd exposure to a HUGE group of my family Brian has experienced! This could turn a lot of people off... My family is crazy!!! They tend to be a little loud, the throw paper wads in the middle of dinner, and it's not uncommon to see a glass of beer sitting infront of one or more of my uncles. Lucky for me... Brian loved them, and they loved him. (Ofcourse why wouldn't they???)

Yesterday was my mom's birthday, thats kind of another reason for out dinner outing. Brian was so sweet, he went and bought her a card and everything. Then on the way to dinner it fell on to his floorboard and he couldn't find it when he got to Buckhead's!!! Bless his heart. Then on the way home he found it!!!! So Mom, you'll be gettin a belated birthday card!!!

An update for those of you who also follow Megan's blog. Her and Lincoln are home and doing great.... Megan is adjusting to motherhood amazingly (who'd be surprised at that??) Keep them in your thoughts and prayers!!!

A quick shout out before I eat some lunch, GO CARDS!!!! Even though I'll be working tonight during the game, the girl I work with and I are bringing a TV and incase that won't work, a radio so we'll be cheerin them on!!!!!

Dinner tonight at Mamaw and Papaw's. Im sure Papaw will con Brian into helping him put some part on the T-Bird, and bribe him with a trip through the woods in the Jeep.... Thats what we call cheap help!!!!

The boys are finally ready to eat lunch!!! Can't keep them waiting!!!!
Peace!!!

WE HAVE A BABY!!!!!

Well... WE don't have a baby, but Megan and Chris do!!!! Lincoln Michael Birke!!! He was born this morning at 4:11 am after 22 hours of agonizing labor. He was 9 pounds 3 ounces and 22 inches long. Basically Megan popped out a toddler... He was actually walking himself down the hallways of the hospital!!! Okay, maybe I'm exagerating a little, but what I'm getting at is that he was a big boy!!! And most definately the cutest baby in the world!!!!

I got to the hospital around 11:00am yesterday. It was a long day!!!! Brian came in the evening because he had a lot of stuff to do, but he still didn't miss much!!!! By about midnight all of us were so tired we were delerious. We were laughing at things that weren't even funny!!! When he was finally born everyone was so relieved that both baby Lincoln and mommy Megan were healthy and okay!!!

Megan and Baby Lincoln today when I went to the hospital to see them.




The proud dad and Baby!!!!





This is Megan's cousin Johnny sleepin with his mom's jacket over his head. He'd been sleeping laying down and changed positions to sitting up without even waking up!!!





Mike and Carl sitting in the hallway waiting for Lincoln to come.

Josh (Megan's brother) passed out in the hallway.

Kelsey passed out in the waiting room. She was so tired!!!

Poor Brian. Snoring in the waiting room. He was such a trooper hanging out with me until the wee hours of the morning!!!

Im putting the pictures on here of Maggie and Brian at Kansai that I promised Sunday!!!

Maggie can use chopsticks!!!!

Eating her rice and shrimp!!!

Maggie and Brian. She wanted to put those chopsticks in her hair!!!

Have a good one blog world!!!!

Peace!!!

WHAT A WEEKEND!!!

Okay... so here goes my weekly update for blog world...

This week flew by it seems!!!! I went by Megan's this week and took her lunch from Cheddar's... Its one of our favorite places to eat lunch. We usually switch off between Cheddar's and Olive Garden!!! But since Megan is 9 months pregnant and pretty much miserable I figured I'd just take lunch to her rather than taking her to lunch.

We talked for a while and she helped me bring my blog to the 21st century!!!! I now have music and a tracker.... so I know how many people view my blog and all that good stuff.... So if ya visit... leave me a comment!!!! I'd love to know what you think!!!

When I was there her Doctor called and she had to go in that day. They scheduled her to be induced at 6:3o TOMORROW morning!!!! Yay... I can't wait to be an aunt.... and Brian is just as excited to be an uncle (sort of)

Saturday was super busy!!!! We went to Greensburg for a cookout for Brian's friend Pat. He's in the military and was home on leave. It turns our Pat had just proposed to his girlfriend (now fiance) Blair that morning!!!! Congratulations Pat and Blair!!!! Maggie went with us and made some new friends. Maggie and Pat's neice were "digging for treasure" in Pat's parents yard!!! Talk about a mess!!!

Then we had to go from Greensburg, Indiana (about 1 1/2 hours away) to Clarksville for my mom's birthday dinner. We left about 45 minutes before we were supposed to be in Clarksville. Needless to say.... we were late!!! We went to Kansai the Japanese steak house. If you've never been there, they have some of the best Sushi chefs around!!!! There were 15 of us there for Mom's birthday and we had a blast!!!! Maggie loved it when the hibachi chef cooked infront of us, and she at ALL her shrimp. Then she took some of our chopsticks and put them in her hair like a Chinese lady!!!! It was so cute, and I have pictures but I'll post them later!!!

Today we woke up to Matt having fixed breakfast for us!!! Thanks Matt, you're the best roomate/land lord ever!!! ha ha!!! Then we took Maggie to her mom. Later after everyone else in the world woke up we went 4wheeling in New Washington on a friend of Brian's land. They have trails cut back through the woods. There were some nasty steep hills and jumps.... It was a blast. But I'm absolutely wore out!!!

Brian, Ryan and I picked up a pizza and now we're watching Role Models!!!! Apparently its halarious. So on that note, I'm out!!!!

Stay tuned tomorrow for stories from the waiting room of the hospital when little Lincoln is born!!! Good luck Megan!!! I love you!!!

Peace!!!

Its been a while since I've updated blog world on the life of Audrey. So here it goes!!!

Friday we went to Tuscaloosa Alabama to pick up a truck for Matt. His has been breaking down extremely frequently for like well... every since I've known him, so he finally decided it was time to get a new one that actually worked. He asked Brian to go with him so Brian could drive Matt's regular back home, and ofcourse Brian and I are a package deal so I went too!!!

My aunt lives in Tuscaloosa, so Brian, Matt, Paige and I stayed the night there Friday night and got up early Sunday morning and drove home- with the new truck. The truck was nice except for the god awful picture on the back window!!!

We have Maggie tonight. She actually just went down to bed. I swear, all you have to do is pop a kiddy cartoon in the dvd player and the kid goes to bed and passes out. When I was 5 my parents were reading me 5 books, rubbing my back... anything they could think of to get me to go to bed.

We went to Brian's mom's for a little bit today and he washed one of the busses. Of course Maggie had to help. It was so cute... the long handled brush probably weighed as much as her... but she was trying so hard.

Shes scrubbin so hard!!!

It's about to knock her over...

Maggie and Brian.... how cute are they???

After they were both basically soaking wet and filthy dirty, we went back to Brian's. I made spagetti... They both claimed it was amazing.... What sweethearts!!!

Last weekend I'd told Maggie that we'd make cupcakes. Then we ran out of time, so it never got done.... well tonight was the night for cupcakes!!!

Maggie with the cupcakes that are ready to go in the oven.

Licking the beaters!!!!

Decorating the cupcakes with pink, and princess sprinkles!!!!

The chef and her finished product!!!



This was mine.... it was soooo good!!!!

A Relaxing, Lazy, Restful Day....

Today was supposed to be a lazy day. Brian is still sick and I've been tellin him he needs to rest, but apparently he just doesn't have it in him. So today..... he was going to rest. As I'm sure you can guess.... that didnt happen!!! Well I guess it sort of happened. At 3pm today we'd made, eaten and cleaned up from breakfast.... and that was it!!!!! So I guess that counted for our resting for the day.

Out here at Matt's, they don't pick the garbage up. So we have a pile of plum full garbage bags in the basement waiting for someone to do something with them. Brian and Matt come up with the wonderful idea to burn it.... so Brian cuts the top of some steel barrell and hammers holes in it with some kind of skinny ax and starts burning our garbage.

In the meantime I'd decided it was time for all of Maggies clothes and toys that have still not been unpacked (Brian moved into Matt's in DECEMBER) to find thier place in Maggie's room. So I lugged her clothes up into her room, only to go through them and realized 87% of them will not fit her now or in the summer (if they were shorts). Do I hear donation to the daycare????

So I put away her clothes that the poor kid will actually be able to wear, and boxed up the ones we are giving away. While I'm in the process of this, I hear a chainsaw reving outside. I tell myself it must be Kenny- Matt's neighbor- cutting something up. I look out the window and see who but BRIAN cutting up a tree that has fallen in the yard. Please keep in mind that Brian has pnemonia.... Naturally I am thinking what a dumb***. So theres Brian, not only cutting up the tree with a chain saw but splitting it as well with this ax thing. *For those of you who have never had the pleasure of splitting wood by hand, its very hard work, especially for someone who can't even freakin breath* But thats just Brian, I guess in a way its good, one thing I can say for the guy is he's not lazy.

So I get Maggie's clothes and toys moved into her room and put away. I had found some things that you can sit hot pots on in one of the boxes so I was looking for somewhere in the kitchen for it to go. I open a few drawers, and this one has a clump of stuff it in. Like torn paper and what looks like hair balls. I though "what the heck in Matt doing with all this crap" as I pick up the wad of who knows what a freaking mouse jumps out of the drawer and on to the floor in the kitchen. Naturally I SCREAM, run to the window and hollar down to Brian and Kenny who are outside (still burning garbage) that WE HAVE A MOUSE!!!!!

So now Brian's in the shower, and I updating you on our relaxing, lazy, restful day. We're gonna go grab a bite to eat, pick up a few things from Kroger for Teresa, and get a bundle of mousetraps so I'll actually be able to sleep at night!!!

Peace