Edit w/ pictures

The BBQ at Pat’s was SOOO much fun.  We went about 2… last night when Jerry and I finally went to bed, it was after 2 in the morning, because we were talking in the kitchen after he finished talking to this guy… they’d been talking about harmonic convergences, and how things were coming together, etc… and I told Jerry it was funny, because I had been reading my diary, and one thing I wrote was how I brought money to people around me, so I just needed to bring money to Jerry, then he could share it with me… Jerry laughed at that, but I think there’s quite a bit of truth to it.  Jerry’s always brought money to himself, and I never did, but since he and I have been together, really, neither of us have done better in our lives.  We’re good for each other on so many fronts, but both of us are willing to take risks to have the life we want, on the other hand, we both know (him better than me!) how to really conserve in the lean times.
ANYWAY, that wasn’t even my point, except that I do see things getting better, and I’m having a birthday, which for me means the start of a new year… LOL… the new year starts a new year, then half a year later my birthday starts a new year.  Same for Jerry, his birthday is a week after mine!  So we went to bed, and Sammi woke up… to be expected.  I was armed with a bottle, as I’d written I would be.  Well, she didn’t want to be in her crib, and I was just going to let Jerry deal with her, right?  I should NEVER have done that.  He let her cry, and I could hear him willing her to go back to sleep, and I thought, don’t do that, she’s going to wake up, then she’ll be awake for two hours.  Next thing I know, he’s put her in the bed… so I’m laying there, half asleep, while she tosses and turns, hitting her head into mine, pulling on my hair and it HURT, and basically just playing with me… finally I wake up completely, and decide to go downstairs to sleep, because I’m not getting any laying there with her, and maybe she’ll turn her attention on Jerry.  Well, I get downstairs, and he’s SLEEPING ON THE COUCH!!!!  That BASTARD.  I was SO mad.  So I went back upstairs, and put her in her crib, and she just cried and cried, so I went back downstairs to get her bottle, can’t find it anywhere in our room, so I figured Jerry must have put it in the fridge, which is exactly where I found it.  And it’s 3:30 a.m.,  So I gave her the bottle, and I figure she fell asleep at 4.  At 7, she woke back up, and was awake.  I made her a bottle, and I actually forgot what I did next…at some point Jerry took her, thank goodness, and I went back to sleep.  I slept until 12:30 when Shabree burst in and said we needed to go to Pat’s.  The party started at 1, but we didn’t even get on the road, I don’t think, until 2, so we were a BIT late, but we still had fun.  I’m pretty much dragging butt though, even now, even with all the caffiene I had to drink.  The girls REALLY had fun, because there were a bunch of kids there, and 3 of the girls were right around my girls’ ages… so that was nice, plus their mom was really cool.  Various people held Sammi…she only got a half hour nap, and didn’t go to sleep until about 11 when we left… when we got home, she woke up, but was REALLY easy to put back down, go figure, lol…she should be exhausted, and I hope because of that will sleep more hours… I should go to bed, in hopes of getting a decent night’s sleep for once myself.

Hopefully I can upload some pictures from today and show them tomorrow.  I’m just not up to it right now, I don’t think.

I’m going to go lay down and see what happens… even with that soda two hours ago, I’m just yawning my head off.

Yea, good night.

Okay, I promised pictures, so here they are:
This is our friend Pat, he’s pretty awesome.  He used to sell houses for us when we were doing real estate:

This is a picture of 3 of my girls, and I believe, 3 other girls that belonged to another family at the BBQ.  Yep.  Sydni’s on the end, in red, Shabree is in white making a peace sign, and Sammi of course, she’s in green.  We matched yesterday, because I was wearing a TInkerbell shirt that was about the same color.

Here are Pat and Jerry enjoying a drink:

Here are Wanda, Pat’s wife, and Renee, his daughter,  and oh, I  couldn’t  tell from the preview… me, on the right.  And you can barely see Becca on the right in the chair.  Jerry must have taken this picture.  The kids on the floor are Pat’s grandchildren… one got sunburned BADLY.  He was shivering from the fever he had.  Hope  the poor thing is all right.  Always wear sunscreen (though with Sammi, she needs a hypo allergenic one, because the one at Pat’s house caused her to have a slight rash on her cheeks… I bought baby sunscreen today for her because we bought a pool at wal mart…18 feet, not nearly big enough, but oh well)
I guess that’s all I’ll post.  I got some pictures today of the kids in the pool, but I’ll wait and post later.