Happy New Years Eve everyone!!
I really thought that when I married Ben I had come to the end of people screwing up my last name. I can understand people having problems with Caughlin, but Werner, how simple is that???
Well today I guess I'm feeling a little extra spunky, so when the phone rang this afternoon and it was the number that shows up on my caller ID like 5 times a day, I thought I'd finally answer it so perhaps they would stop calling.
Well the conversation went something like this:
Me: Hello (in a not so thrilled attitude)
Caller: Is this Rhonda Wiener
Me: No that's not how you say my name. Let me ask you something....how do you spell wiener?
Caller: w i e n e r
Me: Right, do you see an i before an e in my last name, no, so until you learn how to phonetically pronounce my name, I'm not taking your call. Click.
Who knows if they will call back, but I felt better!
Enjoy whatever you do tonight!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
New "Life 2009" in Video
Ok, so since I figured out iMovie I'm all about making these little videos! So, this is updated from the one I posted below with just picasa slideshow.
Enjoy, I'm sure next year I will have tons of these with new baby!!
Enjoy, I'm sure next year I will have tons of these with new baby!!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Christmas 2009
Christmas 2009 is over and behind us, the travel is done, stuff is unloaded, and we are back settled at home!
Overall this Christmas was good, typical, but good. Everyone is ready for next year when there will be 6 month old entertainment to make things more exciting!!
Ben and I had our Christmas at home Wednesday night. Deer nuggets, fried potatoes, beer for him and then presents with each other and Tucker. Tucker seems to hit the mother load every year, and this year did not disappoint. He's quite fond of his new bed, and got lots of toys and treats!!
Of course, this was our first Christmas without Grandaddy, and that was a big difference without him, but we had so many great Christmas' before with him, so we could just remember all the good things about him.....and still harass the dog Sadie!
We had Christmas Eve at Memaw's, which always involves eating way too much food, presents and dressing up Sadie in leftover gift wrap!!
Not sure what the bond is with Matt and Sadie, but it's caught on video on the post below and then we have the "posed" picture, here....so funny!!
We then got to spend Christmas morning at Mom and Dad's along with Memaw and had a relaxing breakfast and then grazed over all of mom's goodies for a quick lunch before we hit the road to Missouri.
We headed up to the nursing home in Perryville, MO where Grandma Lilly is at. We got to spend about 45 minutes with her before it was their 4:30 pm dinner time. She seemed to be better to me than when I saw her last this summer.
We made a brief stop in at Ben's Aunt Donna's house in Frohna to see that crew and then on to Lucy's house for Dinner. Got to see Uncle Terry and all of Lucy's family, great bunch of people! Someone else even makes Ham Ball like mom, so I got my ham ball this year even though it wasn't moms!
Finally headed back to Sikeston to open presents there with Bud, Susan and Micah. We also got to skype in to Ben's Aunt Janie's in Lost Springs, KS so we got to see all of her side of the family as well. It was nice to see everyone on Christmas night even if it wasn't in person.
The rest of the weekend consisted of being lazy. Ben went up in the woods in Frohna muzzle load hunting both Saturday and Sunday morning. I even got up at 4am on Sunday to go with him....I didn't hunt....to cold for me, but me and Tucker stayed in the cabin in the woods with the heat on high and slept and then played games on my ipod until Ben gave up on deer for the year. Got to see some other friends Saturday night, the Lorenz's and got to see Parker!!! He's such a cutie pie and looks just like his daddy Nathan.
Finally headed back to Utica Sunday evening and was very very happy to be sleeping in our own bed, and that includes Tucker! He was so hard up for a bed Saturday night at Ben's parents that he slept on Ben's coat in my suitcase! He's a creative dog!
So hope everyone else had a great Christmas!!
Overall this Christmas was good, typical, but good. Everyone is ready for next year when there will be 6 month old entertainment to make things more exciting!!
Ben and I had our Christmas at home Wednesday night. Deer nuggets, fried potatoes, beer for him and then presents with each other and Tucker. Tucker seems to hit the mother load every year, and this year did not disappoint. He's quite fond of his new bed, and got lots of toys and treats!!
Of course, this was our first Christmas without Grandaddy, and that was a big difference without him, but we had so many great Christmas' before with him, so we could just remember all the good things about him.....and still harass the dog Sadie!
We had Christmas Eve at Memaw's, which always involves eating way too much food, presents and dressing up Sadie in leftover gift wrap!!
Not sure what the bond is with Matt and Sadie, but it's caught on video on the post below and then we have the "posed" picture, here....so funny!!
We then got to spend Christmas morning at Mom and Dad's along with Memaw and had a relaxing breakfast and then grazed over all of mom's goodies for a quick lunch before we hit the road to Missouri.
We headed up to the nursing home in Perryville, MO where Grandma Lilly is at. We got to spend about 45 minutes with her before it was their 4:30 pm dinner time. She seemed to be better to me than when I saw her last this summer.
We made a brief stop in at Ben's Aunt Donna's house in Frohna to see that crew and then on to Lucy's house for Dinner. Got to see Uncle Terry and all of Lucy's family, great bunch of people! Someone else even makes Ham Ball like mom, so I got my ham ball this year even though it wasn't moms!
Finally headed back to Sikeston to open presents there with Bud, Susan and Micah. We also got to skype in to Ben's Aunt Janie's in Lost Springs, KS so we got to see all of her side of the family as well. It was nice to see everyone on Christmas night even if it wasn't in person.
The rest of the weekend consisted of being lazy. Ben went up in the woods in Frohna muzzle load hunting both Saturday and Sunday morning. I even got up at 4am on Sunday to go with him....I didn't hunt....to cold for me, but me and Tucker stayed in the cabin in the woods with the heat on high and slept and then played games on my ipod until Ben gave up on deer for the year. Got to see some other friends Saturday night, the Lorenz's and got to see Parker!!! He's such a cutie pie and looks just like his daddy Nathan.
Finally headed back to Utica Sunday evening and was very very happy to be sleeping in our own bed, and that includes Tucker! He was so hard up for a bed Saturday night at Ben's parents that he slept on Ben's coat in my suitcase! He's a creative dog!
So hope everyone else had a great Christmas!!
My first attempts at video editing....Matt & Sadie @ Memaw's
My first attempts at making a video with my new camera and editing it, adding music, etc on my mac. Not great, not bad, and I'm sure Matt will be thrilled that he is my first project!
Here's Matt and Sadie (Memaw's dog) at Christmas Eve at her house, 2009!
Here's Matt and Sadie (Memaw's dog) at Christmas Eve at her house, 2009!
The Ultrasound Pictures
Ok, these have always weirded me out a bit, but it's a beautiful thing, and will share with immediate friends and family, will NOT be posting them on Facebook for the world to see, so enjoy if you like.
Here comes the pink mossy oak camo!
Or at least that's what Ben proceeded to say when the ultrasound tech determined that it appears to be a girl. And she wasn't too shy about turning upside down and showing us her spread legs so we could get a really good look. Hopefully that trait will stay in the womb, no strippers in this family, LOL!
So, no one thought it would be a girl but Ben, so he's right and he's very much enjoying the fact that he was right in picking the gender.
Everything appears to be developing along well. She's quite the wiggle worm and was moving around like crazy. She's a swimmer! Or she takes after Ben and will never be still, not sure which. Also appears to be stubborn in showing the tech various parts and staying still, so that would be me coming out in her!
But, don't run out and buy girly stuff just yet, we will go back on the 25th of January and they will do another "gender check" with the ultrasound to confirm indeed that nothing has "grown" in the next month! She's been at this for a while, so she seems to know what she's talking about.
So, just wanted to update everyone, and if I can figure out how to post some pictures I will, and then I'll do a Christmas update as well!
So, no one thought it would be a girl but Ben, so he's right and he's very much enjoying the fact that he was right in picking the gender.
Everything appears to be developing along well. She's quite the wiggle worm and was moving around like crazy. She's a swimmer! Or she takes after Ben and will never be still, not sure which. Also appears to be stubborn in showing the tech various parts and staying still, so that would be me coming out in her!
But, don't run out and buy girly stuff just yet, we will go back on the 25th of January and they will do another "gender check" with the ultrasound to confirm indeed that nothing has "grown" in the next month! She's been at this for a while, so she seems to know what she's talking about.
So, just wanted to update everyone, and if I can figure out how to post some pictures I will, and then I'll do a Christmas update as well!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Welcome to our Blog!
I figured since our family will have a nice little addition soon and we are always traveling around all over the place, it would be a good time to start a blog so friends and family can keep up with us better. Facebook is fine, but there's stuff that I will not post on Facebook that I will put on here for family!
In baby tracking news, we are on week 18, the week of the sweet potato, or at least that's what thebump.com tells me our baby is the size of. Sweet potato has a nice sound to it!
Next Monday the 28th we find out if it's a girl or a boy. I feel like it will be a boy and Ben thinks its a girl, so we've both got a 50/50 chance of being right!
This week will be busy since it's Christmas week. I have a Junior League Christmas party that we are putting on for underprivilidged and foster kids tonight at the local skating rink, so that should be rewarding. Neither Ben or I will be working Thursday, so we will be off to Mom and Dad's sometime mid moring on Christmas Eve for Christmas at Memaw's that evening. We will then have breakfast at Mom and Dad's Christmas morning and then off to Sikeston via Frohna first for Christmas with Ben's Dad side of the family in the little town that he is from. Probably stop in and see Grandma Lilly in the nursing home and then back down to Sikeston for the rest of the weekend.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
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