Donnie's Bribe

 

Ok...i am posting this picture not because i like it but because it shows just how out of shape that i am..I have gained about 50 in 9 years (really less then that ..it all started after a thyroid surgery). Anyway this is what it all boils down too....The other night i walked into our bedroom and said " ok, we are gonna have a wedding(actually a 10 year renewal of our vowels). Monica is gonna be my maid of honor, Nick is your best man, Lane and Lauren are gonna be our flower and ring bearer and we will let Bronson (aka MR.MAN) be the honorary ring bearer or something...so i had it all figured out. Donnie said all i needed was a groom......hum...wonder who that would be??? Donnie never said anything else, but oddly enough i overhear him talking to Tim (our co-worker) about "my" plans of "our"wedding. Yes, all of this comes back to me constantly complaining that i am fat !!! So today, out of nowhere, we are at work and he says to me "ok, i have some incentive for you to loose weight. I said "ok". He said "are you gonna agree"?  "sure" i replied. He continues to tell me "you said you wanted to have a wedding right?? well here it is....you set a date before our anniversary and loose 40 lbs and then he would agree to have the wedding!!! So here i am wondering how can i loose 40 lbs...someone please help me!!!! I want my fairytale wedding. We were gonna have it on our 5yr anniversary and that was the year Harley was killed so needless to say, i had no interest in a wedding or anything else as far as that goes. Now 4 years later i want to do it next year for our 10 year anniversary. So this is the beginning of a new blog entry on my weight loss or lack of weight loss...we will see what comes of this!!! On a lighter note. our co-worker Tim and his Wife Darlene are at the hospital with their daughter Courtney fixing to welcome another baby boy into the world!!! It will be their 1st grandchild. I will let you know when he gets here.

Homcoming 2009 -our family pictures at church

Today was homecoming at church and it was extra special this year because we had Bronson  and also my sister Donna and her husband Steve were in from Texas. So we took some family pictures after church which was a few and far between photo opt with all 5 of us kids here... so here are a few of the pics that were taken today

                                                              

     Back row:   Steve (Donna's Husband),  Donnie (My husband),

John (#4), cindy(Ken's wife), ken(#3), brenda(#1),

jimmy(John& Mousies son),Selena((#5)me),

Ben(Donna and Steve's son),

Mousie(John's wife), Mom, Donna(#2),

Monica(mine and Donnie's daughter)

and Bronson(Monica's son)

This is mom and her 5 children: Front Row, Mom and Brenda(#5)

Middle row : Selena (me) and Donna                      

Back Row: John and Ken

                                            Me showing a little love to "Brother Love" as you can see the rest of them were laughing at me !!!!

Once again making them laugh.....strike a pose!!

Brother laughing cause the bench in sinking in the mud!!

The 5 of us kids:

Brenda, Selena(me), Donna

John and ken

Me, Monica and Bronson

Life is wonderful and it is not very often that our family is together as a whole.. we don't take it for granted any more, one minute we were taking pictures with Harley and the next she was gone, then there was Jeff , he was in our pictures , then he was gone. We cherish our family and every minute that we are together.

Ok, just had to sneak this one in..it was not took today at homecoming but a couple of days ago here at home...I love my baby Bronson

Bronson

this is what i came home to today.. Bronson was asleep in his sweet peace swing and Monica had cleaned the kitchen and  livingroom for me !!!! Bronson is 2wks and 4 days old today.

why i say "life goes on" part 5

The investigation into Harley accident took almost a year. I knew we were doomed right off the bat. We were called to the accident sight one afternoon by Travis Green who was doing the investigation on the scene. Just shortly after we arrived we were going over some of the details of the accident that night and there were a couple of things that didn't make any since to me. First of all my Jonathon Martins(the boy who hit her own admittings he was going 52 mph on a road posted 35mph so i ask Travis if he was at least going to get a speeding ticket and he said no, he was only going 7 mph over the speed limit and i said no he was going 17mph over the the limit. Travis continued to tell me that the speed limit on that road was 45 and not 35 (all speed limit signs are posted 35mph and below) .Then he said words that will forever be stuck in my head, he said "one teenagers life has already been ruined, why ruin another one"? I knew we were in trouble. Also by Jonathons own admittings  he said he stopped because he had to pick his mirror up out of the road because when "hit the dog it broke his mirror".....ok call me crazy if you want too, but has anyone ever hit a dog that knocked off their drivers side mirror???? He said he didn't even know he hit her until Boz (harley's friend) came to see what the loud noise was (the sound of the collision) and realized harley's shoe was on the side of the road..he knew she had been hit and starting screaming "where is she, where is Harley"? Then Boz jumped off the side of the road into cudzo and searched for her.  How do you hit someone one not once, but twice and knock your drivers side mirror off your truck and not even know you hit them???? This was the craziness that we were faced with.  Anyway , when Travis said "one teenagers life has already been ruined, why ruin another one" I like to have went postal on him. I knew nothing would ever be done to Jonathon. I looked at Donnie and told him to get the car and get me out of there before i killed him(travis). I couldn't believe this was the way the police were thinking, and at the same time, i knew that if it had been me driving that night and would have killed someone, I would be under the jail. Would they be thinking this way if it was their daughter???  Back to the speed limit signs. To show you how dumb out justice system really is. On the police report the speed limit was said to be 45 on that road (even though as i said before it was posted 35 and below) I had to go to the road dept. and have a statement signed saying the speed limit was 35 and not 45. (The report never changed). These are the officers that we have working for us. Travis was later fired for unrelated reasons but rehired about 1yr later. There were facts that we went far out of our way to prove right or to prove them wrong during this investigation, but nothing was ever done about it. It is really sad that a grieving mother was having to do her own investigating on he death of her own daughter because the law would not do their job in fear of "ruining " a teenagers life.