Long Time, No Talk: Lewis from Nashville

Hello,
Life has been a whirlwind for me for the past 3 weeks, it seems. I've been traveling each week so far in November. I think Tracy said I was home for 3 days so far, though I think I've been home on the weekends.

The first week of Nov was my usually monthly meeting, and I travel for the week to spend time out here rubbing shoulders and doing stuff with the people. I get extra done and more productively here. I also like to keep myself visible.

All of a sudden, just before that trip, I was "invited" back for a meeting the following Wednesday, which would be the 11th. I was to return first thing the next morning, but after the meeting, I was asked to remain till Friday afternoon. Thank heavens I always pack with extra clothes after being stuck one time, so I have clothes and just enough meds to make it. At that same time, I was also "invited" to come back this week. I told them I could only stay thru Wed night because of my vacation for the race. They said okay, so here I am. I was originally to leave this afternoon to fly to LAX and then rent a car to home, but I changed that, with advice from Tracy, to leave first thing tomorrow and go to Vegas and she'll pick me up there on the way to Overton/Logandale. I'll still leave the office this afternoon around 3pm when I was originally scheduled to leave to put together the details for the supplies and consumables at the aid stations. I plan to drop those off around 3am Saturday morning, and I don't want to be guessing.

I will be home for Thanksgiving week, but am leaving first thing Monday to return to Franklin. I've made the flight arrangements but I can't remember the details. I just was asked to spend as much time here as I can, so I'll also be home for a week, then returning the week before Christmas, then again the week after New Year for the monthly meeting. I have so many trips planned that my corporate AMEX card is almost maxed out even though it gets paid weekly after each trip. I don't wait a day to do the expense statement once the travel is complete.

When I'm here, I work hard and long, so I've been quite negligent at texting and say hi throughout the day. An 8pm work evening isn't unusual.

Well, I'm off for milk and bagels. Have a lovely day and keep me and my family in your prayers!

Love, Lewis

Business

As you all know since I posted it on this very blog, that I have been making and trying to sell purses online. Well I have expanded my online store to include I Spy Bags. Mom and I made a couple while she was here. I listed a couple of them on my store on Wednesday and on Friday two of them had sold!! In the meantime Jason and I were selling something on Craigslist and the lady that called and wanted to buy it owns a children's second hand clothing store in Salina. During the conversation I asked her if she would be willing to carry some of my I Spy Bags to sell in her store. She was really excited to do that for me! Today we took up three bags (I wanted to put most of my finished bags on my online store because I was excited to have sales) Anyway, by the time we got home from doing our shopping in Salina I had a message on our answering machine from her saying two bags had already sold!! She asked me if next time I brought up bags if I could bring about six!! YAY! It is nice to finally have success since my purses didn't go too well. Since it is the holidays however I have slashed prices on my purses and we are having a Holiday Sales Event!! Fell free to check it out... thepurseplace.etsy.com

This is the outside of the store where my bags are and here they are at the cash register in the store. She just opened her store a few weeks ago and the major advertising for her store begins Tuesday... I gotta get more bags up there!!

Gratitude

What are you grateful for?

As I think I already said, Lewis was in Tennessee the first week of the month, then had to go to Tennessee this week but was supposed to return yesterday at noon. Instead he had to fly home tonight. They also told him that he has to go out next week (he flys out at noon on my birthday) and will fly into Vegas where we will pick him at the airport and proceed to VOF. Now ta-dah he gets to go Thanksgiving week too! So on Thanksgiving day, we will have seen Lewis 7 out of 26 days. We will be very grateful to have him HOME!! What about you, what will you be thankful for on Thanksgiving?

Happy November

Happy November, Happy Birthday Martissa and happy new blog background as we enter a new season!

YEAH!!!

I know I am really late, but on October 7, I got my braces off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPEE!!

nice straight teeth at last.

Happy Halloween!

Here is our family picture. Jason designed the Cornwall Zoo logo. I thought it was fantastic! We sure love our cute little zoo animals!

We hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween night!!

Paisley's birthday and our fun week

Okay get ready for a long post. This week has been very fun but very busy. We first start out with Jarom being as cute as can be!Monday night we carved our pumpkin for FHE. It was a lot of fun. We went with a simple design this year since we had a couple nights of frost and made our pumpkin a little bit squishy.

On Tuesday the kids were able to wear their costumes to dance if they wanted, so Paisley decided she wanted too. She makes for a cute leopard!

Wednesday night was our ward party. We all got dressed up for the occassion but we unfortunately didn't think to take a picture since Jason and I were in charge of the activity we were a little busy doing other things. We are going to put on the costumes again so we can get a family shot. (SPOILER ALERT: since you have seen the kids costumes, this years theme was the zoo. Jason and I were zoo keepers, Paisley was a leopard and Jarom a giraffe.)

This is Paisley with her best friend Maisie at the ward halloween party.

Today Paisley had a great birthday. She loved all the letters and phone calls and especially all the sing to her. She was very happy to turn 4 and now considers herself to be "big". Here she is with her pile of presents.

She was much more than thrilled to get a lot of princess things for her birthday including a lot of dress up things!

Later in the evening our town had the annual trick or treat on main street and town carnival at the community building. Before heading to the festivities we went to Papa's favorite place (Braums) for ice cream!

Despite the rain this town party's hard for Halloween. We went trick or treating to all the stores even in the rain.

The carnival was a blast! Paisley loved all the games.

Paisley got some cute new jammies for her birthday and decided to wear them to bed tonight!

After a long day of celebration we came home to sing "Happy Birthday" and eat her princess cake. After the huge amounts of ice cream we had consumed earlier we all had very tiny pieces.

And I just wanted to show off how cute Jarom is in his "I love my mummy" outfit!

We've had a great week, with lots of fun. We are so happy to have Nana and Papa here. Paisley had a fabulous birthday, and we are excited to see how year 4 goes!