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Happy Thanksgiving

A very Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family. I pray that the day is bringing lots of food and joy to all of you. This will probably be a short post, I mainly wanted to be able to share a few photos of my poor little Roscoe and his injuries. Roscoe is the smallest of our three dogs, a couple of weeks ago he got attacked my my mother-in-law's outside dog, Toby. Toby is unfortunatley no longer with us, he was an american bull dog-boxer mix whose demeanor had changed turning him into an untrustworthy animal. It was a sad decision but Toby had to be put down, and my little Roscoe is thankfully still with us after the vicious attack. He obtained a few fractured ribs, a puncture wound on one side and a fairly deep gash on the other. The puncture wound side wasn't healing properly and started to develop fluid around it with no way of draining. So, we made another trip to the vet where they put in a drain that he has to keep in for the next week. Along with the drain he has to wear a cone around his neck that prevents him from bothering the drain. It's hard not to laugh when you look at him even though he is very pitiful.

So far on this very chilly Thanksgiving day we have enjoyed a hearty breakfast of Biscuits, deer sausage ( homemade from my dad), eggs, and bacon. YUMMY!!! I am so blessed that David is able to be home today, he'll be leaving to go back out on the road early in the morning. He has been able to be home since Monday night, even though this home time has not been as pleasurable for him since he had to have intense dental work done yesterday. Right now he's not showing any signs of not being able to eat so that's a good thing.

We will be enjoying our turkey with all the fixins a little later on today, but for now we are staying warm and toasty watching the football game ( well that's what David and his mom are doing, I've got to get back to the kitchen).

Just wanted to drop everyone a note wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving. May the Lord continue to bless all of you!

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On the road again!

Well, my husband has been back out on the road going on two weeks now, just one more to go and hopefully he'll be home for our second year anniversary. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll get used to him being gone all the time, but right now I don't see that happening. I can't remember if I've shared this in a past blog, but my husband is now an over the road truck driver. He stays out anywhere from three to five weeks and is basically only home for a few days once a month. After a couple of days of him being gone I usually get back into a routine of things. The end of last month had a lot of acivities for me while I made a baby shower cake, a diaper cake ( for a fellow co-worker's baby shower) and in that same weekend we had what they called Old Fashion Sunday at my church. They had a baking contest and I entered my sixteen layer chocolate cake, but several people told me later that it was about nineteen or twenty one layers. Guess I lost count, :) I was shocked when I won first place, I never expected to win I just really like any excuse to bake. I've been meaning to post some more pics, just haven't taken the time.
A little bit of an update for October, we had Vacation Bible School at church last week and I helped a few nights with that. My church has their VBS in the fall because there are so many things going on in the summer that it's better to schedule it when the kids are on their fall break from school. It started at 6:00 PM every night and usually ended about 8:30 PM. I really enjoyed helping out with the kids. I was supposed to have been out on the road with David this month, but things didn't quite work out, so I've been pretty much a home body. We have so many things going on in our lives right now (especially me) and many different decisions to make. For those of you who know me please pray that God will work all things out in His perfect timing. I am not working right now and we are having to get adjusted to one income, I need to find a different job maybe just part-time. David really thinks I should concentrate on doing my cakes, especially seeing as the holidays are just right around the corner. I am just a little unsure because I am trying to find a way to start school in January when the spring semester begins. There is a community college that offers a two-year associates program in sign language interpreting that I've been thinking about doing even before my father-in-law died last year. On a different page in our lives, we really need to be concerned about finding some different type of housing that would better survive the winter. Only God knows how much longer this house is going to last. Also my mother-in-law is trying to get things prepared for her to move back to Oklahoma come January and when that happens it will just be David and I ( or a guess just really me when he's gone out on the road). We have found a few single wide trailers that might be a possibility, but finding the finances to purchase one is the problem. I don't know, all I do know is I'm learning to trust God more and more each day.

Well I guess I better go so I might actually get something accomplished today.

Learning

So I haven't quite figured this whole blogging them out, but I'm trying my best..I was trying to add some photos of the birthday cake I made this past weekend onto this blog. Somehow that hasn't quite worked out and I created one just for the photos. The cake was for my manager's son's third birthday. I've been making his cakes every year so far. His first birthday I made a Sesame Street Big Bird cake and last year it was Thomas the Train. This week I'm also making two more cakes, one for a fellow c0-worker's baby shower and another for my mother-law's job. I really enjoy making and decorating cakes, actually anything to do with baking in like my passion. I've worked as an assistant pastry and pastry chef for two different restaurants, but I really enjoy doing it more on my own turf. I guess that's why for I've worked as a server for so long, definitely don't enjoy it but the money holds you to it. Anyway for now I enjoy baking on my own time.

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Introductions are necessary

Just to let all other interested bloggers know, yes I am extremely new to this whole blogging thing. I figure that as much time that I spend on the computer I should at least do something constructive. So a guess introductions are necessary, so here goes!



Hi, my name is Shea, or for those GBA people who knew me from Alabama it would be April. My husband, David, and I will be celebrating our two year wedding anniversary on October 27. In all we've been together for six years, he is truly by best friend and I couldn't imagine my life without him. As of now we don't have any children, but are working on it. So for the time being I am content with our four dogs, one horse and several farm cats.



Just to fill you in a little bit about my life, May 13, 2006 my father-in-law had a very serious accident and becamed paralized from his chest down. That was the beginning of our life being turned upside down. My in-law's live out in the country an hour west of Nashville on 18 ac. of beautiful land. His mom was inbetween jobs an knew she wouldn't be able to work for having to take care of her husband. So, David and I did the only thing we knew we could and moved in with them to help financially, physically and mentally. Nobody else had stepped up to the plate, so what else were we to do. Between May and October we went through several more turn of events and sadly my father-in-law passed away on October 5, 2006. Ya know it really is a shame how people are treated when they don't have health insurance. I truly think that if Larry (my father-in-law) had been gived the care that he was supposed to have had , he would still be with us today. He was a strong healthy 52 year old man that was in the process of building him and his wife their home until that tragic day. By the way I will post some pics of the house soon ( it's also the home we live in , even though it's not finished) . Larry was one of those good ol' country boys from Minnessota, you know the kind that never asked for help, but always found a way to do it himself. I've been thinking and remembering him more and more these day, I guess that's because next month will mark a year since he died.



So here we are living in an A-frame house that Larry built with his own two hands, yes it leaks when it rains for there is no roof on it just a plastic tarp, and there really is no way we can fix it. Nothing about the house is up to building codes, but it is our home for now. And even though it will probably have to be torn down, there is still a lot of meaning behind this house. Thankfully my mother-in-law received a bit of money from their accidental life insurance that was able to pay the land off. She signed it over to David and I because her and Larry had already decided long before that we were the only ones that they would want to have it. So now David and I have a deed free and clear to our 18 ac. of property. My mother-in-law has just recently decided that she doesn't want to live here anymore, she can't enjoy it as much anymore without having her husband to share it with her. So next spring she will be moving back to Oklahoma where her younger son an sister , and most importantly to her is her first grandchild (a girl) Sunny that was born back in June. I think she is now ready for the next chapter in her life.



So you might ask where does that leave us? Well you see last May David went to school and got his CDL license and is now an over the road truck driver. Going from being a sous chef to a truck driver is a mind boggling change, but he did it for us and the opportunity to make better money. So I guess after his mom moves that leaves me here and my husband on the road three to five week at a time. We are hoping come spring we will be able to start building our house. Believe you me I have a lot to keep me busy! Well I guess for it being my first blog I've filled you in on enough for now.