Jordan's Bday celebration & Fall Pictures

We all got together Saturday night and enjoyed some chili, white bean chili, cake & ice cream and strawberry margaritas for Jordan's birthday. We had a pretty big group over and not one bite of chili was left over. I didn't get very many pictures because I was spending my time enjoying myself. :) I did, though, get a picture of my Boogs with his cake during the Happy Birthday song!

We had a good time with everyone besides watching TN lose to AL.

As I mentioned in my last post, I took Buddy outside Sunday afternoon to get some pictures of him with all of our fall arrangements. I got a few good ones. Here's a peak at what I got....

I did the best I could. Tuff has never really been the picture taking type. He could care less about the camera. I can hardly EVER catch a smile on camera. Especially when we pay to have them professionally taken. It's like he knows... :) But... He is a pretty smart boy.

I caught a few pictures of him during our routine sunday afternoon "play time." He has always seemed to have some kind of crazy fascination with shoes. He loves to play with them, throw them and try them on (his size or not). I've caught him a few times within the past few weeks in my closet with mommy's heals on. Shhh.... don't tell his daddy. Hehe. Anyways, Sunday afternoon he was going through his shoe basket in his closet and found a pair of rain boots my mom had bought him a while back. He insisted mommy help him get them on....

Checkin them out...

And showin them off...

He played in these for a while before he started squealing and pulling at them like he wanted them off. But as soon as daddy woke up from his nap, he wanted to put them back on to show daddy :) This was the end to our busy weekend.

As far as the beginning of the week goes, I am tired! We had some storms come through Sunday night so I was terrified. I'm always a big baby when it comes to storms. This being our (me and buddy) first stormy night alone (without daddy) since we moved into our house didn't make it any easier. Before Jordan left for work he laid out a flash light incase the lights went out. I said "The heck with lights, what if the tv goes out? How will I know what's going on?" Sure enough, a couple hours after Jordan left, tornado warning.. headed straight for us. I searched for a radio that took batteries and was pretty distraught when I figured out we didn't have one!!!! WHAT? Who doesn't have a battery operated radio... Add us to that list! Haha. Before we bought our house, we bought one of those news operated radios. It picks up all the local weather info and keeps you up to date on what's going on. Well... it worked perfect at Jordan's moms house. As soon as we moved into our house, it quit working. Jordan thinks it needs a special kind of intenna. So...... Sunday night, around 10 p.m., no radio, no satellite to tell me what's going on and the last I heard before I lost satellite was to take cover. Oh me. Just got Tuff to sleep. Got in Jordan's closet and cleared out a spot on the floor for buddy, put a blanket down and moved him to the closet. And this is how that turned out....

Haha. He never even budged. The best part to the story, about 60 seconds after I got him in there, mom called! She said "They just dismissed the warning!" Fantastic. So, moved Buddy back to the bed and finally laid down sometime close to 11. With it storming all night and buddy sleeping with me, I got little to no sleep at all. Then I was so tired all day yesterday thinking about how great I'd sleep last night. WRONG! Jordan was feeling bad last night so he called into work and left to go the ER around 7. Along with being up and worrying about him, Tuff did NOT want to be in his crib last night. He usually does this every night after getting to sleep with me. So after trying to get him down, I finally caved and put him in the bed with me. As soon as he fell asleep I moved him to the crib. It wasn't long before he was up and screaming again. This went on all night long. He is trying to cut molars so I think they were bothering him. Needless to say, I'm exhausted. I feel like a walking zombie. Praying for some sleep tonight....

As for my boogies, he's not been feeling well for the past few months. He's been having real bad headaches and high BP(blood pressure). Last night he was feeling so bad his mom decided to come get him and take him to the ER. When he got to the ER his BP was 169/109. For anyone who doesn't know, that is HIGH. After running several tests, they determined he had severe sinus infection in his head causing his face to swell and his BP to rise. They also found bacteria in his kidneys. The doctor has told him to drink lots of water to clear the bacteria from his kidneys and prescribed him 3 different prescriptions. One for BP, one to take the swelling down in his face, and a new sinus med. He was already on sinus meds, they just changed them. I'm just glad everything else came out ok. Please pray for my boogies to get to feeling better!

Tonight we will be going to watch Courtland play his first official grammar school basketball game. Good Luck Courtland!!!! Hopefully once we're home, we will all sleep peacefully.... ALL NIGHT!!!! :)

Happy Tuesday!!!

The Alford's