WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

Jenny and I have been best friends for, literally, all of my life. My birthday is October 15, 1979 and hers is October 17, 1978. Her mom and my mom were friends when I was born. We've been best friends ever since. Jenny has a 10 year old son, Anthony. In 2004, she decided that she was ready to have another child and I was ready to have my first child. We thought it would be so cool to be pregnant at the same time. In late October she called me and told me the good news-she was pregnant!! In late November I called her and told her my good news-I was pregnant!! What are the chances of that!! We spent the next several months comparing kicks, heart burns, cramps and pains. Her due date was July 18 and mine was August 7. We threw showers for each other and waited for the big day. We had no idea what a big day that would be!! On July 16, 2005 she called me at 5:30 in the morning to tell me that Jack was finally here! He had been born at 4:30. We talked for a few minutes and she said she would let me get back to sleep, however, I was sleeping. I had been having contractions for about an hour, sympathy labor? I told her I would be up to see her in a few hours. That didn't work out. I really was in labor. I called my mom and we went to the hospital. I still didn't believe it. There was no way we would have our babies on the same day!! Well, I was wrong. Alivia Marie was born at 5:57 pm-the same day!!!!! How weird. To top that off, my sister was also pregnant with her first child. She was due on December 2. (it's been a busy year!!) She had her son on December 6, 2005-this was also Jenny's son Anthony's 10th birthday. I couldn't have made this up!!

Adventure Club

The adventure club was named by Amanda, who ironically has never been to an adventure club outting!!! The adventure club is made up of several people who either work for AAA currently or used to work at AAA. We get together to have drinks, celebrate holidays or just hang out. We have been to six flags, floating, camping, skiing, pumpkin patches and many many bars. We now have a Jr adventure club! Made up of the members children. We try to celebrate birthdays, christmas, new babies, promotions and weddings. Anyone can be a member and we are always trying to pick up new members! These pictures are from our last get together

My Poor Puppies

Everyone keeps asking...How's the dog's? Do the dogs like being outside now? Well, here's the deal. This has to be the worst thing that has ever happened to me and the worst part is, I have noone to blame but myself. Everyone who knows me, knows that I have two beautiful and rowdy male german shepherds, Tiger and Zeus. I never really had a dog growing up. A few strays here and there but none that were ever a part of our family like Tiger and Zeus are to me. Tiger will be 6 years old on March 9, 2006. We got him from a breeder in Jonesburg, Mo. He was the cutest, fluffiest puppy I had ever seen and he was all mine. When he was 3 we decided to get him a brother, Zeus. We got him from a breeder in Desoto. He threw up all the way home in the car!! He grew up even faster than I remember Tiger growing up. Zeus will be 4 on June 22, 2006. In the early part of 2005 we found out that we were gonna have a baby and we decided that Tiger and Zeus were too big, too wild and too hairy to have around a baby, so we built them a huge pin outside complete with a doggie condo! I think they liked it pretty well, considering they were inside dogs up until this point of their life. There was only one problem, Zeus can get in and out of anywhere you put him. He has broken into and out of our house!! We got him fixed thinking this would help but it didn't! The neighbors were a little scared of them. How would you feel if two 100 pound dogs came running up to you!! What the neighbors didn't realize though is that they would never do anything to harm a human-dogs, however, were a different story. They were not nice to the neighbor dogs. Tiger had been to doggie jail before but he didn't learn his lesson, let's just say that Zeus never got caught! On December 8th, 2005, they got out again and took a spin around the neighborhood. We were awakened with a knock on the door from a policeman saying that someone had called because they had gotten out again. That evening we decided that we couldn't take the chance of them getting out and hurting someone so we needed to find them new homes. We decided to give them to the humane society to be put up for adoption. It was a very hard decision but we thought we were doing the right thing for them. A few days later I called the humane society up because I had found new homes for them, I was so excited. That was until the lady who answered the phone told me that Tiger and Zeus had been put to sleep. I was outraged!!!!!!!! I sent several emails to the director of the humane society and was told they were so beautiful and so good with people, but since they had aggression against other dogs-they couldn't be adopted out to the public. WOW!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE-Is all I kept thinking!!! It's been a few weeks now and everyday I think about them. All I know is, I will never own a dog again!!