Happy Birthday, Nash!

Nash turned 12 today! I can't believe how fast she's grown up! I remember going to see her in the hospital the day she was born! I love ya girl! Happy 12th Birthday!

Precious :D

Have you seen this? I didn't until Lindsey showed me on Saturday... I keep thinking about it and have to share. Make sure my music's off so you can hear it. Oh... and I noticed that it doesn't show it all the way on here so if you right click and then push show all it should show you the whole thing (for all of them)... if not you can always watch it on youtube but it's sooo adorable!



How cute is that!? What good parents to teach their child what to do in an emergency like that. And how calm she was! I only hope that when I get married and have children that I can teach my kids how to be like what if an emergency ever came up. Precious huh?

Here's another one... this one is adorable too! I love this commercial!



"HAVE YOU EVER CATCH A MINCED FISH!?" I just love how she says that too! Oh! And people wonder why I love kids soo much! :D

Haha Lindsey... haha! This video reminds me of your wisdom teeth story!



Haha kids are the greatest! There wouldn't be nearly as many laughs and smiles if there were no kids... at least that's what I think. :D

Party at the Cranney's!

So Saturday, because I had work off, my family and Lindsey's family planned a PARTAY at their house! It was fun! Parker and I went and sat with Lindsey at her work until she got off at 5 (we watched yummy Jacob Black and his shirtless werewolf indian friends... MMMMMMM!) and then we went back to her house while the parentals were still at Tai Pan and Quilted Bear and whereever else they went. We played Mario Kart Wii and waited for food to come because we were starving! Then we ate the Red Velvet cake that Deborah made for her birthday and the homemade vanilla ice cream that my mommy made for Deb's birthday :) SOOO good! While we ate cake and ice cream we watched the recording they had of "Dancing with the Stars" (yes... we're addicts hehe)! Then... we played Apples to Apples! One of my favorite games ever!!!.... with Curses shortly behind hehe thanks to my favorite Pike family :)Anyways... I swear that we played for like 4 hours... we ended at like 12:45 in the AM! haha it was great!
Here are some pics... I even got picture of my mommy and she hates pictures! haha! :D





My dad thuggin' it! haha remember, it was almost 1:00 AM so he was pretty tired!


Parker and Deb were picking each other's cards... they claimed it wasn't on purpose hehe. Yeah yeah yeah... they were helping each other out! ;)


Mom and Dad were a team together haha (Mom's not a huge game player but she wanted to help Daddy)


My Uncle Claude :) He's awesome! One of my favorite uncle's!


Parker and my Aunt Deb again... Deb looks like she's trying not to look at the camera but I caught her looking! haha!


One of my favorite pics of me and Lindsey :) Love ya girl!

It was a great weekend! I wish I had every weekend off so that I could PARTAY more like that :)

Exceptional

So you all know that I've been having a hard time lately and it's been kinda pulling me down. I was listening to my Jojo cd yesterday after I got off work and this song came on and I listened to it about 30 times because I needed to hear it. I love this song! It helped me realize that even though I don't think very highly of myself sometimes, it doesn't mean that other people do and it doesn't mean I'm not loved. Here is the music with the lyrics underneath. Sorry the video is just a picture. I couldn't find a music video or just a mp3 of it... so you get to see the pretty picture of her haha and read the lyrics with it.



You're beautiful but you don't know
Can't see what's there inside your soul
Always feeling like you're not good enough
You wish you could be someone else
Sometimes you just can't see yourself
But I can see just who you are, who you are

You're exceptional the way you are
Don't need to change for nobody
You're incredible, anyone can see that
When will you believe that?
You are nothing but exceptional
(Yeah)

You never think you measure up
Never smart or cool, or pretty enough
Always feeling different from all the rest, oh
You feel so out of place, you think you don't fit in
I think you're perfect in the skin you're in
You're just perfect just how you are, just how you are, yeah

[chorus]
You're exceptional the way you are
Don't need to change for nobody
You're incredible, anyone can see that
When will you believe that?
You are nothing but exceptional

If you could see the one I see when I see you
You'd know how lucky you are to be you
I see through into you
And you are

You're exceptional the way you are
Don't need to change for nobody
You're incredible, anyone can see that
When will you believe that? (You are)
You're exceptional the way you are
Don't need to change for nobody
You're incredible, anyone can see that
When will you believe that?
You are nothing but exceptional

I'm about 100 times happier today then yesterday or the day before. So please, if you're feelin low and not like yourself, just read these lyrics or listen to the song because it's true. Everyone is spectacular... no matter what you all think!
I love you all! Remember that! :D

Wow.

Ok. Seriously. Let's see how much worse this week can get for me.
I came home from hanging out with Holly (which was NOT the bad part of this week... and there's more fun to come but anyways...) and my dad was on the phone with someone. Turns out it was my aunt Kathy.
My Grandma Stringfellow isn't doing so great. It all started two years ago, when she fell and broke her hip. Then it's all kinda started going down hill from there. After she broke her hip and had been home for a little while, she started having mini-strokes (keep in mind the woman is almost 90 years old. Kinda has it coming to her. Oh and she's not my great-grandma. Some of you may be thinking that. She's my dad's mom...) Anyways, they thought they had that under control. A few months ago she found out that she has Diverticulitis, which is inflammation of your colon. Not fun. So they put her on a high fiber diet to helpfully help with that. She's been so bloated from it that she's got bloating pains and so now she's not eating well. She's on blood thinners and aspirin for her strokes, she's on high cholesterol meds,a butt load of other medications for tons of other things and she's on a high fiber diet, which apparently is not helping. She's on Lortab for her hip, her back... she's got Osteoporosis too and she's lost several inches of her height over the course of my entire life, her vertebrae used to snap and so she's so hunched over that her ribs are rubbing up against her hip bones and causing her that pain. She says that she can't go on without Lortab, which may be true but it's not good for her Diverticulitis, if anything it irritates her more. Kathy took her to the doctor today for an MRI and the doctor found some stuff that he didn't like. They are going to take fluids from her stomach next Wednesday to test her for cancer. He's pretty sure she's got it. He doesn't know what kind and if he does he didn't say... but he's pretty sure. That's why they're testing.
Anyways, my aunt was telling my dad that all of this is reminding her of stuff that Melba, her mom, went through before she died. She thinks my Grandma is giving up. Ugh.
Now, I realize that my Grandma is almost 90. I realize that all of this is a long time coming. But, if it's true, that she is giving up, I can't go through that. I remember what it was like when my Grandpa Stringfellow died the summer before my 8th grade year. I don't want to loose another grandparent. I love my grandparents, on both sides. I know that families are always together forever and I know that I will see them again, but it's hard. Anyways, more info to come when we find out what's going on.

On a more happy note, I did hang out with Holly tonight! We watched Vampire Diaries hehehehe! MMMMM Stefan! :D And then Shawn and I started watching the first part of Supernatural hehe and he thinks he may have found a new show to watch! haha! Poppa Shawn hehehe!

And Saturday, I get to hang out with Lindsey and Deborah and Claude and my mom and dad and Parker! YAY!

And... I'm off until Monday! How I scored Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off... I don't know but I'm NOT giving it up! :D

Ok... I feel a little bit happier after those last few notes.

Going Private (And not because you requested it...)

Ugh. I hate to do this. But because of recent events I need to go private. If you would like to continue reading about what's going on please leave me your email address and I will send you an invite. If you don't want to leave your email address on here as a comment, which is totally understandable, then you can leave me a message on my Facebook or you can email me (shelbystring@gmail.com).

I'm not doing this because a certain person wants me to, I'm doing it because I don't want them looking at my blog and knowing what's going on in my life. They don't deserve it anymore.

Really? I mean... Really?

Ok. So... I saw a little boy about the same age as Everett at work. And I started crying. :( :( :( :(



Ugh. I. Ruined. Everything. And what's worse. She blocked me from seeing her blog. So now I have no idea what's going on in my nephew's life. And I won't ever get to meet my new nephew when he comes.

This is when I'm glad I have Lindsey and Holly in my life.



I consider them both my sisters. But it hurts that my real sister doesn't want me as her sister. Really?

I need a vaca. I need to get away to help take my mind off of everything that's going on right now. Anybody wanna come?