Adoption Day Pictures

Waiting for our hearing outside the courtroom. Uncle Bear is on the left and Uncle Moose is on the right. Grandma Goat is in the floral shirt. Cousin G-Money is the litle kid next to Cooter. Uncle Jeff is behind me and Aunt Patti is holding Jeff's Little boy, cousin Pooker.

The New family with the judge.

Me, Juju and Cooter. The little bugger is still clapping.

Cooters adoption cake.

Sleeping after a long day. notice the scrapes on his cheek. he got'em a few minutes after it was official. He fell in the courtroom. at least the judge saw it happen. lol

IT'S OFFICIAL

It's Official.... Cooter is ours. The Adoption Hearing was Thursday and everything went fine. We didn't even have to sign anything. Crazy. The night before we saw the family court judge at an event Juju and I attended. We introduced ourselves and told her we would see her the next day. Thursday night was the Crohns and Colitis walk. We had already committed to do the food for it before we knew about the meeting. So we invited all of our family and friends down to it to celebrate. The walk turned out to be a great event and so was Cooter's celebration.
Friday we went to Sissy, Turnbuckle and JJ's house for a party. Mostly for Turnbuckle's co-workers, but we know a few of them, so it was cool. Early to bed for me as it was Angelfood. (this week was the correct one) I thought it was last Saturday and showed up at 5 am at the food drop with the box truck to find no one was there. Crap! I went back home and back to sleep, but still getting up at 4am two Saturdays in a row is really crappy. Angelfood went fine. My parents came back from vacation on Saturday night (we were expecting them Sunday) so Cooter got to see his Uppa (grandpa) a day early. I swear, every time we go somewhere the kid just starts saying Uppa? Uppa? Uppa? You would think my parent spoil him or something (they do).
Sunday, Juju and the Goat went to the casino in the morning. They had “secret vouchers”, “up to $10,00.00”....they each won $5.00 in casino bucks... suckers. That didn't even pay for the gas to get there. Took my parents over to the new house. The deck in the back is freakin' awesome. They are supposed to start drywalling today....we will see. In the afternoon we went to Juju's aunt and uncle's house for a picnic. Juju's cousin Lexi is in town from Memphis for the week. We swam and ate and ate and drank....too much (ate too much that is). We were there a few hours and Cooter was crazy running around, so we had to go home. (it is a lot of work to keep him away from the in ground pool). Got home and watched an “Inspector Lewis Mystery” on PBS. Those British sure know how to write a mystery. I watched a “Miss Marple Mystery” earlier in the week... never saw the ending coming...

"white trash thursday"

Yesterday, after work we went to the house and i have the coolest deck in the back of the house i have ever seen. The insulation has been started on the inside so i really need to get all the hvac and missing cable and phone lines taken care of. I don't have the camera or i would post the pics i took. After the house we went to Valerio's where cooter had the chicken and fries anf juju and i split a chicken ranch calzone.... wow it was awesome. Neither of us could finish our half! After that we went to visit my brother Bear and his wife Candy and 2 year old g-money. They have another baby due next month. We are calling the baby Luc Luc as that is what g-money calls Uniqua of the backyardigans. The kids played in the kiddie pool in the front yard as we sat in white plastic chairs with or beers... so white trash. Lol we got cooter home about 8:30 and he was in bed by 9. he was putting up quite a fight, but was to sleep in all of 5 minutes. When we went to wake him up this morning he had a blanket on him.
It is the first time he has ever covered himself up with a blanket. It was cute.
Tomorrow it is angelfood ministries so to bed early and up at 4 am to pick-up food to distribute. I have a busy schedule on saturday. Julie has a family flea market in the church parking lot til 1 pm while i am in the church doing angelfood. then off to my work wife's housewarming party at 2 pm. A few hours there then off to a couple graduation parties.

i suck, here is a new post

Again, I haven't blogged in awhile. I suck. We moved poker to Wednesdays. Beginning a few weeks ago. I haven't been doing all that well, but last night i chopped first place with Cutter. Here is the lowdown. 12 players x 10 + 2 re buys x 10 = 140
3rd – Heather – 20
1st – Chop Me and Cutter – 60 each
I sucked out quite a bit. So i can't say i really did anything different. I really am not concentrating lately. I can usually figure out the reasons and the hands i misplayed to lose, but lately i am a chatterbox and am not paying the least bit of attention to my position or who i am in the hand against. I guess it is turning a bit more to the social side than poker side and that is ok, but damn it i want to play to get better. In addition the new poker night has thrown my weekly schedule off. I usually do laundry on wednesday and it seem thursday is always busy. So it accumulates til the weekend. Juju is on summer break and hopefully can pick up my slack.
Not a lot on the house front. It seems all they have done in the past month is put up the siding and roof. On a positive note the outside is buttoned up. The house inspector is making me put the deck on the back now. (i was going to do it myself after we moved in). I paid the extra money for the contractor to do it....so it gets done. Insulation is supposed to happen this week, but i haven't seen any yet. Then insulation inspection and then drywall. We are having a bit of trouble with the kitchen. Lowes gave us a layout and price. We shopped it around and are having trouble getting people to call us back. We got a cheaper price from a local kitchen place, but after our second meeting they haven't shown up to the house to take measurements.WTF
Well, a week from today Cooter will be officially ours. his adoption hearing is next Thursday. I took the day off. We are working the food at the annual Crohns and Colitus walk thurs. night so we will have a cake to celebrate.