Target Practice

For months now I have been wanting a handgun. Well for my 30th birthday I finally got one from my hubby. And yes, if you look close, it has a pink handle....although we do have a black handle to put over it for Tyler to feel more manly when he decides to use it. Okay, so my ultimate goal is to eventually get my carry permit, but I've definitely got to get more target practice in before I go that route. Anyway, since we went to Lexington this weekend and my mom lives out the country, we took advantage of the open land to get some practice in.

Tyler trying to make the pink handle look more manly

So we decided to start shooting at a coke bottle, that way we could tell for sure where we were hitting it. This was my first try and I shot it right through the O in Coke, yeah I'm that awesome...or just that lucky

That's right, that's the face of someone you don't want to mess with

30th Birthday Celebration #1

Well most of you know that Tyler had been planning a surprise 30th birthday party for the last month or so, but due to the massive flooding most people couldn't make it so we are having to postpone. Since all of our out of town people couldn't make it, we decided to still have a get together with our local friends.

Grace concentrating on getting the cards back in the box while Kelsen looks on in amazement.

Linda, Christina and Greg playing a mean hand of shanghai rummy

Kelsen still working on getting the walking thing down

So stay tuned for birthday party #2 coming up this weekend when we head to Lexington for Mother's Day. I might as well get in all the celebrating I can....I mean you only turn 30 once, right??

Welcome to May.....aka Tornado Season...

So, as most of you know we have had some serious flooding here in the volunteer state. It all started yesterday morning when I got up, checked facebook (of course) and saw these pictures from my hometown Lexington, TN. Never in my life do I remember water like this growing up. I couldn't believe my eyes. If you're familiar with Lexington then you should be able to recognize these pics and where they're taken in town.

As the day went on and the rain got a lot stronger, Tyler and I sat in disbelief watching the news about I-24 and I-40 being shut down. Everything just seemed so surreal. I felt awful for those people floating in their cars, crawling out the windows and trying to jump to the concrete barrier in the middle of the interstate....good grief I couldn't imagine! I've seen flood waters on tv in other states, but never thought I would see water like this in Tennessee. As we sat watching the live TDOT camera on I-24....what is this we see....a mobile home floating down, passing cars and then watched before our eyes as it breaks apart. Wow!! Did that really just happen??? We find out later is was a portable classroom from a local school.

This has been one crazy and very unusual weekend to say the least. Last night Tyler and I also went out to dinner to celebrate by birthday coming up. Well, all night I could tell something was wrong. He wasn't being his usual upbeat self, staying quite and not talking a lot....very unusual. Finally I got it out of him. He had been planning, for the past month, a surprise 30th birthday party for me on Sunday. It was going to include my family from West TN, my best friend that lives in MS and several others that live in Nashville. Well obviously it now has to be cancelled since I-40 and I-24 are shut down and people can't get here. I feel more disappointed for him after all his hard work and planning and keeping me completely clueless! We've decided to still have a small get together with our local Murfreesboro friends (excluding Wendi & Alan since they're stuck in Lexington) today and then reschedule the big party for later this month hopefully. Total bummer, but very thankful we are safe and dry without any flood damage unlike so many others.

The World of Clomid

So today marked day one of starting Clomid. For most of you out there reading this you already know Tyler and I have been trying to have kids for the past year. We have also endured the many questions such as when are you going to have a baby, or when are you guys going to have kids....I usually just smile and say your guess is as good as mine, but I have also learned many questions that I will never ask a young couple ever again. This past year has been pretty challenging to say the least. I never dreamed it would be this difficult. I mean aren't you suppose to get married, buy a house, have kids, etc? No one informed me how long and drawn out it can be. And for those that know me well, you know patience is not one of my best qualities. So, the reason for this post you ask? Well if anyone reading this has ever taken Clomid let me know how your experience was. I keep hearing about all the possible side effects which freaks me out, so let me know your story. I'm sure that in future posts I'll keep you updated on how things go, but in the meantime keeping your fingers crossed for us and prayers are greatly appreciated.

Halloween Party

So for those of you that may follow us on facebook, you have probably already seen these pics so I apologize, but I'm still in the process of getting the blog updated. This past year for Halloween Ty and I decided to have a costume party. It was actually more my idea simply because I'd never been to a costume party, so we just decided to host one ourselves. As you can see I was obviously a witch and Tyler was a redneck....or as he liked to call himself a UT fan. As most of you know Tyler is a big Auburn fan, as where I am a huge UT fan...so football season can be very interesting in our house. Anyway, we all had a great time, but I soon realized it was a lot of work to get ready for, but totally worth it in the end.

Ummm....yes this is my husband the redneck

Grace dressed up as a bee

Me still getting things ready in the kitchen

The Roper family representing Oz

Brian and Becky dressed as a Crow and Brian as Turk (if you watch Scrubs you'll get it)

Me with the best costume winner Kayley

Dave...no explanation needed. However we realized later we didn't have a picture of Sam, but she was dressed up as a devil

Brian holding Kelsen dressed as a cow

Morgan and Ayden

And what's a Halloween party without nerf guns???

Babies of '09

Okay, I know this is really really late updating. I know Tyler posted back a couple of months ago about all the babies we (and when I say we I mean our friends) had born in the last year, but he didn't post any pictures which bothered me because why read a blog if you don't have any pictures??? So since Tyler and I don't have kids yet, we are loving this time of being the unofficial uncle and aunt of these babies. I know these are all old pics, but never fear I'm sure you will see a lot more of these faces on future blogs. The only one I don't have posted yet is our cousin Liam Bolling. We have pictures, but I can't seem to locate them at the moment, so you'll get to see him in another blog. So the baby kick off started with:

Kelsen Alivia Baughman 9lbs, 9oz on July 2nd.

The proud "uncle" Tyler

The proud parents Sam and Dave, which are actually now expecting baby Baughman #2. SURPRISE.....it was for them anyway!

So next we have Ayden Isaiah Gambill 8lbs 14oz. on August 6th. Little Ayden has shown all of us he is one tough cookie and a fighter......

Up next winning the biggest baby award is my cousin Anderson "Ridge" Thompson weighing 9lbs 15oz on September 10th

And last but not least we have Landon Cade Roper at 7lbs 3oz on October 1st. Since Wendi had a scheduled C-section (which is always nice for those of us that like to plan around things) I was able to take off work and be there for the whole thing. Since I was there 8yrs ago when Kayley was born, there was no way I was missing this one.

And here is a more recent pic of Landon on Easter. Hopefully I'll get more recent pics of the others up soon too and ones that include Liam.

So there you have it. As you can see we had a full year of babies in '09 and hopefully Tyler and I will be adding to the group in the near future. Next up though will be my friend Rachel with Lark #2 along with Sam & Dave with Baughman #2 both due in October so stay tuned.....

Jack on The Rocks

So, since Tyler has been such a slacker about updating our blog, I have decided to take over for now. I have to say I'm not typically the blogger, but have decided to give it a try and apologize in advance if I'm not quite as witty as Ty.

Now....on to the blogging part. So a few weeks ago around the beginning of Spring, I woke up to a gorgeous Saturday. I absoultely love being outside when the weather is nice and I felt this was a perfect day to be out and about. We had talked about visiting the Jack Daniels Distillery once the weather was nice and I thought this would be that perfect day. So we called up the Baughmans to see if they would be up for it. So a couple hours later we were off to Lynchburg and with a couple of wrong turns and one very scenic route later we were there.

We lucked out when we got there since there was a huge wait, but when we went in to get our tokens someone happened to be returing some tokens for group 1 and the lady working there handed them to us.....awesome! Although I think it was the influence of Kelsen, I mean seriously who can resist that face?

So, we headed out for the tour and had a blast. Our tour guide was born and raised in Lynchburg with the accent to prove it....man I thought I was country. Fortunately we were all able to translate, but was feeling sorry for those from the north and the couple that spoke little English. Overall it was a great day had by all with some great friends. Okay, so enough of the blogging and time to enjoy the pics.....

And here was our free shot of jack on the rocks.....