Facebook

As some of you may or may not have noticed, I unfriended almost my entire list of friends on facebook.  I am left with 29 friends and I have never been happier!  If you are not one of the 29, I ask you to please not take offense.  I would like to explain so there aren't hurt feelings.  And if you are someone who never signed up for facebook, you may or may not understand.  Feel free to quit reading the post at any time!  :)

I signed up for facebook a really long time ago.  When I first signed up I thought it was so cool to reconnect with people from high school or people that I used to work with or family that lives far away.  And before you know it you are friends with everyone!  It gets a little out of control. 

So as years passed and my life changed and I had Lyla, it was great being able to share special moments with everyone I knew by making one simple post.  "Lyla took her first step!"  Done!  Now everybody knows and nobody feels left out!  But then I got to thinking, EVERYONE knows... everyone I have ever met now knows everything my daughter has done in her first year of life.  And I know so many things about people who I haven't actually spoken to in over 10 years.  Things I don't feel like I should really know about them.

Another reason I got rid of a bunch of "friends" - I get annoyed very easily.  Its just part of my personality that I have just learned to accept!  But I will get on and look at some people's pictures or comments and I am just instantly annoyed.  I decided I need less triggers to annoy me - so poof - I got rid of everyone!

Another group of people I unfriended were my little cousins, friends daughters, anyone who is in either high school or college.  I love them all and I did all the things they are doing.  But I don't want to know about, let alone see pictures from their crazy weekends!  #1, I'm jealous that it isn't me having those weekends anymore!  #2, it makes me feel awkward when I talk to their parents!  I'm at a weird in between age where I'm not young and cool anymore but I'm not as old as their parents yet... I don't know, its a weird situation!

At the end of the day, it leaves me with 29 facebook friends.  These people are still there because they are my best friends for starters.  A few of them that is the only way we talk a lot of the time.  I got rid of extended family that I know read my blog and I can keep them updated that way.  And if they don't, I see them on a regular basis.  It wasn't a "I like you and I don't like you" kind of decision.  It was more a "are we benefiting by me keeping you on here, if yes, then you stay, if not then you didn't."

Ok, I'm done with this rant.  I love you all and if your feelings are hurt that you are no longer my "facebook friend" then I think we have a lot more issues to deal with other than facebook.

And for the record, Gary thinks I'm insane and I have too much time on my hands to worry about such things.  And that's just fine so he can keep as many facebook friends as her chooses!  That is why we have separate accounts!  ;)

No Words... ;)

My husband is by no means a stupid guy.  He is actually a lot smarter than I am when it comes to a lot of different things.  But last night he shocked me!  haha  Let me set the scene:

We were just finishing up dinner.  Lyla was still eating so I was helping her finish and Gary was starting to clean up and pack his lunch for today.  He went to get an orange out of the bag on the counter.  (side note - don't store oranges in the bag on the counter - they don't survive)  There were three oranges left and when he looked at them they were covered in mold.  So we are talking about how odd that is and he walks over to the garbage can, I assume to throw away the oranges.

So I keep feeding Lyla and Gary goes over to the sink.  Next thing I hear is a loud grumble grumble and the floor starts shaking!  I yell at him "you didn't put those oranges down the garbage disposal did you???"  Gary starts laughing, I keep screaming at him to turn it off, turn it off!!!

Back story - I grew up always having a garbage disposal in the house, so I know all of the garbage disposal rules.  Never turn it on without the water running, never put big things down it, don't put hard things down it like apple cores or ears of corn or THREE WHOLE ORANGES!  Gary did not grow up with this education, so we have to cut him some slack!

So we turned it off and luckily were able to get the oranges out and I don't think anything got broken.

And now our kitchen has a wonderful orange smell!  :)

Professional Pics from Em's Wedding

Here is just a small sampling of some of the professional pictures from Em & Gerald's wedding.  There are over 400, these are just some of my favorites!  Starting with a picture of the new Fairchild extended family!  I'm so excited to have a nice family picture of the whole crew!  Mom, Dad, Me, Em, Gary, Gerald and Lyla!  :)

The Happy Couple

The Beautiful Bride

Sweet Flowergirl

Sisters  :)

Bride, Groom, Matron of Honor and "Best Man"

Whole Wedding Party minus Miss Lyla

Em with her "big brother" Gary

And last, but not least, this picture of my dad because I just think he looks super cute in it!  :)

Pappy's Pumpkins

Pappy brought Lyla some special pumpkins when he came to visit this weekend!  He grew them especially for her!  :)  She wasn't so sure about them on Saturday, but yesterday she kept taking me outside to check on them and to try to lift them!

The Burges Love The Canons

This past weekend we had our annual Fall visit with the Canons.  For the past few years we pick a weekend, usually in October, and Gary and Jim go to a WVU game and Karla and I play with the kids.  And we spend the night at their house, so its an entire weekend of visiting! 

All the kids get along great and play together!  Lyla is so in love with Naomi!  They were hugging and playing and laughing the whole time we were there!  Its so fun to watch them together!  And Lyla and Nathan shared very well (which is a big deal at this age)!  They are just practicing for when they get married some day!  ;) 

Since it is almost always October when we go down Karla and I like to dress the kids in their Halloween costumes so we can take pictures of them together.  Well we got them in their costumes and then Lyla refused to cooperate.  So I have pictures of them separately, but not of the three of them together.  :(

Naomi and Nathan are being Woody and Jessie from Toy Story.

Lyla Bean is going to be a honeybee... buzz buzz buzz

And while I am on the topic of how much we love the Canons, they were so sweet and got us a new couch as a housewarming gift.  We appreciate it so much! 

Our Little Night Owl

I'm starting to think that Lyla might take after her dad and be more of a night person, which is bad news for me!  I like to go to bed EARLY and then I like getting up early and starting my day!  Lyla has been pushing back her bedtime every night this week.  Her bedtime is supposed to be 8:00.  A couple nights this week we didn't get her down until 10:00, last night I was lucky and got her in bed at 9:00.  Ugh...  I don't like when she goes to bed later because then I stay up later than I'm used to because I still have all the thing I like to get done after she is asleep!  So anyways, all this lead up is to show you the video I took of her last night.  While I am sitting in her room waiting on her to go to sleep she likes to go in the hallway and pull out all of her books and play.  So last night I went out to join her for a few minutes! 

And for the record, I LOVE that she loves reading so much!  I really really do... I just wish we could not do it at 9:00 at night thats all!  :) 

Breaking News!!

OMG!!! 
Kate wears glasses!!!

I tore my contact yesterday morning.
So I went home at lunch and got my glasses.
I wore my glasses again today.

I really do not find this to be anything worth talking about, but apparently everyone I have seen in the last 24 hours feel differently!  All my co-workers, the people at Lyla's daycare... everyone has to make a comment and discuss the fact that I am wearing glasses!  Just to let the world know, I have worn glasses since 1st grade.  Its really not a big deal, I promise.  But just to keep them talking I'm going to wear them again tomorrow... lol   ;)