So it's been a while...

Lots going on in the life of the Cox house. You lose time before you realize it. I haven't blogged in quite some time now. Anyway, summers been good. Only 1 more week until vacation, yippee!!! Let me just say, it is WAY overdue!! I'm definitely gonna cry when I have to come back, lol. We're going with Sam's family, and mom and Ronnie to St. George Island in Florida. Hoping the beaches are not filled with oil, but if they are, I'll just have to play in the beach house swimming pool. We even have our own jacuzzi too. Maybe God will slow down time so we can enjoy it and get the much needed rest that we deserve. Everyone deserves at least a week of undisturbed peaceful vacation. I realize not everyone is privileged enough to take getaway vacation, but I thank God that we are, and that we can do it would our family.

We've been enjoying the swimming pool A LOT this year. Its even warm enough now that we can swim in the evenings. Very relaxing, I must say. Caitlyn is having a blast!! Last weekend, cousin Regan came and stayed. The girls had a great time playing in the pool and destroying the house. I guess I'm used to Caitlyn playing with a few things at one time then we make her put them up. But when friends come to play, they become a tornado force and next thing I know, I walk in the playroom and you can't even see 1 inch of carpet, lol. I'm not even going to try imagining life with another child. I really wish I would go ahead and have another child so that Caitlyn wouldn't have her sibling too far apart, but its been an ongoing battle to get my body back to where it was pre-pregnancy. Very depressing I might add. Its tough!! But me and Shawn are working on it and we're doing pretty good I think.

Did I mention vacation is next week????

Vacation

I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday. This week is going way too fast. But I've gotten to spend some sweet time with my babies, got my hair done, and am now down spending some time with my family. I ordered Nikki's house warming invites and some business cards for myself. Can't wait to see those when they come in. I need to finish some more marketing packets. Anyone need any product?? Business cards, flyers, anything?? : )

It's almost Halloween. Caitlyn was going to be a ladybug, but she meow's everytime I turn around, so we went out and got her a cute little kitty outfit tonight. So she's going to be meowing in her cute little kitty outfit. She'll be so cute! Haven't decided where we're going yet. My neighborhood is pretty boring, plus RPM will be in Atlanta on the 31st. We'll be singing at a crusade down there. We'll figure something out though.

I'm in the 'writing songs' mood but have no keyboard down here. Kinda wanna write some regular songs versus worship songs. Just have this feeling, plus Shawn and I have talked about possibilities for RPM. Anyway, such random thoughts I know. Really tired, I should just go to bed. Okay, goodnight : )

Vacation

I think I need a vacation. I am very exhausted. I'd love to get away for a week to somewhere like the beach or even the mountains to a nice cabin. I need some get-away time right now. Anyway, really random thoughts here, every time we come to Greenville, when Shawn drops me off at work, Caitlyn cries, no mama no, no mama no!!...as we approach my company's street. Breaks my heart to pieces. I'm going to eventually go back to being a stay-at-home mom, maybe starting my own business, I mean just continuing more heavily what I've already started. I enjoy working in the work field, but I miss my baby too much. And she will eventually be going to pre-school and I want to be able to pick her up from school and go to her little class things and events, games. Yes, I think I want to be a soccer mom for a living, lol. Anyway, I know that's a ways away, but as I'm told, it sneaks up on you before you know it.

Thank God we have a 3-day weekend this weekend. I'm gonna rest, maybe do some resting, and probably rest some more, lol. Maybe we'll actually get to hang out with our friends for the first time in like, forever! We used to hang out every weekend, but lately one or the other has had something else to do. Anyway, its almost time to go home and I'm about to fall asleep. I gotta go walk around or something.

I'm tired...

OMG, I did not want to get out of bed this morning for work. I think I hit the alarm a total of 8 times, and managed to only be about 10 minutes late. I'm starting to regret changing my holiday to the Friday before my week long vacation. Since I work on the BILO account but am actually employed by another company, our holidays are different. We receive Memorial Day off but BILO doesn't, so between the 6 of us, we have to split up and some have to work on the holiday. So I took my holiday Friday before last so we could leave early for vacation. Whooo, I'm tired.

Looks like I might be starting back up leading worship. I did it for a little while last year, but kinda quit, cause its so easy to just let Shawn do it, lol. But he's going to be helping the youth start up a jam up youth band on Wednesday nights now, while I possibly take the adult congregation. I did it Wednesday before last cause Shawn couldn't be there, and I wasn't expecting to lead, I was just asked at the last moment. After freaking a little, I did it. And weirdly enough, it was nice, kinda refreshing. I think there's a calling for me to do that cause everytime I do it, its like very fulfilling in a way, but its just getting over the fear of being in front of people. And I guess for those that saw me at Restoration, you probably thinking, she gets nervous? But YEAH, in all reality, I enjoy being behind the scenes more than on stage, but I love to sing and can never get away from it, so I'm still struggling in what this voice is supposed to be doing. I laugh when people are like, you should try out for American Idol. That's how you know they don't know much about singing, lol. I ain't that good and don't even desire such a spotlight. So I don't know. I know what I would love to do, but it would have to be a complete God thing for it to come to pass. I still believe dreams can come true. And maybe one day it will.

Vacation to the Bahamas

Our vacation was great! We went on a cruise to the Bahamas. We first spent the weekend in Daytona beach where we stayed with Chris/Nikki's Aunt. We got to lay on the beach and do some fun stuff there. Then we headed to Port Canaveral to board our ship. The first day we were supposed to go to Cococay which is a private island exclusive to Royal Carribean cruise lines, but they had to push it off to Thursday because they said weather was going to be bad. So we went on to Nassau. Nassau is nice, but its very commercialized. Kinda reminded me of when I went to Israel. But there are lots of parts that are beautiful, such as in the image above. This was a beach exclusive to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, a small island that connects to Nassau. We toured the hotel; they have a casino, shopping, and a nice aquarium inside the hotel. Very nice.

We attempted Cococay on the last day of our cruise, and they said weather was still bad, so we didn't get to go there at all. But it was beautiful on the ship, so we're guessing they were running out of fuel and didn't wanna stop at another island, lol.

I sware I almost died in the taxi cab. Dude don't know how to drive. Well...none of them know how to drive there. It was crazy! Oh, and I couldn't find one last american on that boat, employee that is, that could tell me how I could watch the finale of american idol on the ship. I couldn't believe no one knew what I was talking about. Where are all those 80 million people that vote on that show?? Not on my cruise boat. So needless to say, I missed the finale. But I figured Chris would win, even though Adam sings rings around him. Christian/gay issue or not, its a singing competition. Oh well.

I missed Caitlyn so much. I believe next years trip will include some kiddy activities so Caitlyn can go. I thought I may have been sea sick on the boat to begin with, but I was just Caitlyn-sick. I did not want to leave her. So I was glad to get back and see her again. Or maybe it was that my mom made me sign a death release in case we died. I was so nervous for the first day on that cruise...thought I was gonna die, lol... The last day, we went through some storms that evening and the boat was so rocky. I wish you all could see the video Nikki took of the pictures on the wall going back and forth. It was hilarious, but not to Chris, he was running back and forth to the bathroom. Poor thing : )

Savannah

We went to Savannah this past weekend and was able to see some old friends of ours from school. They now have 2 kids and we took Caitlyn, so mine and Shelly's time pretty much consisted of watching the kids, while Josh and Shawn ran off and played like big boys...naw, I'm just kidding, but we had a lot of fun. We didn't get to see the beach, but it sure did feel awesome outside! We went through Columbia, SC to get down there and before we reached Columbia, it was like 53 degrees. Once through Columbia, it jumped to 70 degrees. I couldn't believe it. But believe me, the degree increase didn't come without the mosquitoes. They were everywhere when we got out of the car.

We went down to do the service at the church Josh and Shelly are attending. Great church, great vision! I think they're about to build as soon as they fill the place they're in, which they're almost full. But their building layout that they're wanting to build is so freakin cool. It's like a red chinese lookin dome thing...weird lookin, but really cool! We had fun ministering with them. The pastor and his wife are an absolute hoot. Funny to no end. But they have a great ministry.

We went to a restaurant which I've seen before, I just don't know where, called Sticky Fingers. By far, the BEST restaurant!! They gave us a sample of ribs. OMG, I about passed out they were so good. But idiot me didn't order them. Both me and Shawn got the BBQ sandwich plate. Again, OMG, freakin awesome!! He got fries with his and I got a loaded baked potato. The fries were better than Zaxby's fries. They're more stringy like Burger King, but the seasoning they put on it is magical, I swear. If you haven't been, ya gotta go. Trust me. We were shocked just sitting there. Everything we all put in our mouth was amazing. I guess its become my new BFF...R (aka best freakin food....restaurant).