Family Weekend and More

First I will start with something ironic. Lol. Me and Trent went to a Chinese restaurant the other day (just this week) and when he opened his fortune cookie he just laughed and handed it to me and told me to read it. Not verbatim but it said, No obstacles will get in your way next week (Boston week). We just thought that it was so ironic that it was for the week of Boston. As of now, No rain in the forecast other than possible chances on Sunday and it is only slight showers so it should not be anything too bad. We were also expecting other things to take place that week which had changed to this week. It was just so funny how we got that and everything is totally working out in our favor and going just as planned. (See end of blog for more working in our favor)

This weekend went great. I got off work Saturday morning and got a few hours of sleep then my sis and mom came to see me. We just hung out, halfway watched a few shows then got ready and went to ear supper with my Trentie while he was at work. We totally meant to take pictures of me, mom and Amber while we were all looking decent but that totally slipped our minds I guess. I did not even think about it till today. Oops too late now. Anywho, here are some pictures of Bullet with Mom and Amber. He has become a Monster since they saw him last. It has been since December when they saw him last.



Mom was laying on the couch and Bullet decided he would do her just like he does me. He jumped right up there with her and light right on top of her. He has always been a Granny's boy when she is around.

These next pictures are pretty humorous. K the pictures are funny but if you were actually here, me and Amber where dying laughing during these pictures.
In this picture you can see what was going on. Me and Amber was on the computer looking at something and she was leaning over next to me. Bullet the jealous little guy that he is decided he would crawl up on Amber and lay across her with his head in my arm. He is a mess.

Yes he is laying right on top of her head.

This picture, we were trying to get him off but couldn't due to laughing too much. In the end, he just ended up trampling her to death.

Overall, the weekend was great but it flew by however it normally does anyways.

On another note. We still do not have my car back. It is not horrible just frustrating. We hope to get all this taken care of before we leave for Boston. I have CPR class on Tuesday and I will gladly go and not complain this time in hopes that I will get there and back just safely. Lol.

Oh my gosh, Boston is so just right around the corner. It seriously is still just so surreal. It will really set in Wednesday night when we go to Nashville to stay and get ready to go. Our Red Sox are coming back. They have now won 3 games in a row. We just may be in luck for them doing well while we are there. Just as my previous post said, God is so Good. More has happened that we are just so Thankful for. When we bought Trent vest we was under the impression we would not get paid back until July. Well fortunately and we don't know what happened but when Trent went into work last night, he had a check waiting on him which was reimbursement for the vest. This is so great because now due to that, we will not have to get into our banking account at all for our trip. That is amazing and will help us our tremendously.

I have so much I need to be doing right now. Packing, cleaning, take boo out. Yeah I guess that means I need to get off here and get busy since it is almost 11.

GOD IS GOOD!!!

Well today we heard more on my car. They put the new fuel pump in and it continued to do the same thing that it was doing by not starting so they done further investigating on it. It was just as I thought in the first place. It is the Timing belt. They said that we were very lucky that it happened like it did becuase if I had drove another 30 minutes, the engine would be severly messed up to the point of just needing to buy a new car. Luckily all that happened was some teeth came off the belt and hit the crank sensor and that what made the car cut off. I know automotive terms huh. Basically the crank sensor gets the fuel to the car and when it hit the crank sensor, the car was not able to rev up. Now, the just have to replace the timing belt and the sensor. It did not do anything to the engine since it got the sensor first and immediately shut the car off. God sure is looking over us and helping us out in so many ways. This could have been so expensive but he prevented it for us. This should not be too much more than what the fuel pump was going to be.

Everything stil going just great. Here is a picture that I thought was good so I just figured I would post it. Mom you will be happy. Trent's head is not cut off like it usually seems to be.

Boo got him another pretty boy haircut today. He is such a rotten boy. It is so funny. Trent said when he went in to pick bullet up, he was standing up on his back legs with his front two legs on the door like he know we was coming. He done that last time too when I went to get him. The place we take him to is shutting down as of May 1st but the main lady that does the grooming is opening up a shop in her house and wants us to keep bringing Bullet to her. She is actually going to give us a discount if we continue to bring Bullet to her every month like we have the past few months.

I reckon thats it for now. Hope everyone has a great rest of the week.

Current Life Annoyance

K so just apologizing up front for this blog due to the fact that all I am doing is venting (until the end then it won't be me just whining). I have no clue what has made me decide to finally blog this but this has been bothering me for quiet some time now. When I say quiet some time, I mean several months. I am now coming to realize, this is also the reason that I don't care to have friends and my dear hubby is the only one I truly need. Here it goes.

It seems like everyone wants to act like they are our best friends however they take advantage of us and only want to talk to us and be our friends at their convenience. It does not only seem to be friends but family too. Why? is a true friend and family not always supposed to be there and make joint effort to talk to one another often? We are always having to go to everyone to see them and then we ask them to come here to our house and they always say NO. Ok so we come to you every single time but yet you can not come to us for once. Seriously!!! We go 30 minutes to town to see people, a little over an hour to Al. to see Trent sister, 2 hours to see my family and that is just the basics of it. Also, there are several people I try to keep in touch with and I am always the one texting and calling to check on them. Do they ever go out of their way to be the first to text me or call me. Of course not. I agree, some family I don't call as often but I guarantee, if I did not call family I would hardly ever talk anyone. How about we do all the work to be friends and everyone else just sit back and take it easy. If someone is gonna be friends at their own convenience, are they true friends anyways? I don't think so. I know I have a very sucky attitude about it but it is just so hard not to. It seems like for so long now that this has been going on and it is getting very old. I like my house just as much as everyone else likes theirs and I would like to hang out at it every now and then. I quit. I now will let people come to me and call or text me and try to talk to me if they want to. I am not going out of my way anymore. I pray that God will help me to conquer this horrible attitude because I really should not be this way but I do feel that people should try more often and we should not have to be the ones constantly doing EVERYTHING.

On a happier note. Everything in the Haddock house truly is great. I know because of the previous paragraph it does not sound like it but it really is. We could not be any Happier and Thankful to God for such the wonderful Marriage and life he has blessed us with. Thankfully, all that was wrong with my car was the fuel pump. They checked everything else out and that was all they found. Me and Trent bought a new toy today. I know having to repair a car and buying new toys. lol. It was a change (coin) sorter. You drop all your change in it and it sorts out the pennies, dimes, etc. then rolls the coins for you. Trent saves his change like crazy and always puts it in a piggy bank then takes it to coin star. Well, coin star takes a certain percentage of what you have so we thought it would make more sense from now on to roll our own and then take it to the bank. Anywho, to the point of this story, My pa Bouton a few years ago for Christmas started the State Collectors coin folder from 1999? to 2008. He had filled it totally up from 1999? to 2005? and just asked that we finish it. Honestly, I have not thought a thing about it in probably a year and a half. I still lacked about 26-30 of them. Well while I was dropping all the coins in the sorter, I was checking the quarters to see if they were ones that I needed. I was so happy because I lost count but I think it was about 20 of them that I found in the change Trent had saved. I only need 6 more. He would be so happy that I am actually finishing it. He had started one for all the grand kids and I don't know if anyone else has done theirs or not but I was so happy that I have mine almost finished.

We have decided that we are just going to go to Boston and just wing it. I don't think we are going to plan our route. We originally were but it was way too much trouble. We know what all we are going to do but will wait till we get there to actually decide when to do each thing. Our RedSox are letting us down majorly. They are sucking it up this season. Their record is only
2 wins-5 losses now. They gotta pick it up before we get there. We gotta see them win. We are only about 9 days and 4 and a half hours now from taking off (flying in the air) and we are getting more and more excited. We gotta get outta here for a while. lol.

I reckon I am done with this crazy blog. Sorry to bore everyone. Hope everyone is doing great.

What a Morning

Wow. I had CPR class today at Baptist and really did not want to go. Well God granted me my wish. I was up, dressed, and ready to go. I jump in my car, take my provigil, set my GPS and I am on my way. I get about 15 miles down the road and the speed limit changed so I was speeding up and just as I was doing that, my car jerked really bad. I immediately looked down becuase I realized that something just wasn't right and the car was no longer running. The check engine light along with 2 other lights was on. I coasted my way to the side of the road and thought Oh Great. Trent had just got into bed about 2 hours before that and was sleeping all day becuase he has to work tonight. I had no other choice but to call him. Side note: trying to call Trent and wake him up while sleeping is near impossible. I had got stuck in traffic one other time and litterally called like 10 times before getting him to answer. Anyways, back to the story. I called once, no answer. I sat there and pondered only about 5 seconds. Thought about calling Ricky (Trent's dad) since I knew he was out of school. Nope called Trent once more and Luckily and shockingly, he answered. Poor thing got out of the bed and came to me. While sitting there waiting on him all alone, It just made me realize even more just how much it kills me how people do not get over in the other lane when they see people sitting there with flashers on. I thought at one point someone was going to hit me. I kept watchin in my rear view mirror and someone was swerving all off the road and finally straightened back up right before they got to me. Trent finally gets there about 15 minutes later and tries to jump start the car. Us not thinking that was the problem anyways but was worth a try. Obviously, that did not work. Trent dad ended up showing up about 30 minutes later and really thinking it was the alternator. We call a guy that Trent knows and went to school with and he has a Auto repair and towing service called Rails. He came and towed us away and we were talking on the way home saying this was the worst time for something to happen with our vacations coming up but luckily we have the money in savings. We would not want to spend it though becuase we heard and thought alternators were expensive. I teased Trent and told him that he was not gonna be able to go to Omaha cause he had to repair my car. Without skipping a beat, he replies, "no it is your car, so you can't go on your cruise." We are nuts. Anyways. We got a call once we got home and Rail's had said that it was the fuel pump. It had totally just quit working. He is checking everything else to make sure nothing else went bad but we are thinking just the fuel pump. This is a good thing becuase it is much cheaper than what an alternator would have been.

As we were sitting there waiting on his dad to see what he thought, I was bored so I pulled out my camera to look at previous pictures taken. Trent says this is not a photo opportunity Ashlie. Ok yes I take pictures of everything but really was not going to take pictures of this. Since he said that, I just had to get a picture of him.

Poor baby, he really did need to be at home and in the bed. I feel so bad for him, now he is barely gonna get sleep before he has to work. Yes I know that is a hubbys job but gosh I just think he is the Bestest Hubby in the whole darn world. lol

Yeppers their she is, getting towed away. As we are hoping it is nothing too expensive.

Anywho, just figured I would share our fun morning with everyone since I sat there for about an hour and 45 minutes. Ugh. I shall never whine about having to go to CPR class again. Hope everyone has a Better day than what I have already had.

Red Sox off to a Great Start!

I had a great weekend in Manchester. Went by quick as usual but it was nice. We did not go to the concert but we still just hung out and that was good enough for me. I was gonna come home on Sunday night however mom and Amber convinced me to wait till Monday. Well Monday I was woken up to a phone call telling me I was being called into work. At that time, there was no point in going home I was just gonna leave from my parents to go to work. I got up around 1 and had a text actaully being called off. I then got up and went home with a date night in mind. Yesterday was supposed to be the REDSOX Season Opener so we were gonna sit at home and enjoy the night to ourselves and watch the game and get all excited. Well the game got postponed to Today due to rain so we decided as long as I did not get called into work, we would have the date night tonight. I got a call early this morning and guess what? I got called in. Of course. Which is fine, that means extra money. Anywho, I figure thats ok, atleast we will get to watch about 2 hours together before I have to go to work. We get up and get the tv turned on and guess what? Of course it was postponed so it was not being shown on a channel that we have so we did not get to watch it anyways. I pulled it up on the computer and was able to watch a play by play thing. I guess that was good enough to atleast know if they were winning or what not. Anywho, they are off to a great start. They won today. We are so excited. We can not wait to go. We only have 15 days left. We can not believe it is actually happening.

Yesterday we were all sporting our Boston wear to get in the mood. Yes including Bullet. Unfortunately we were not able to get pictures of all of us together in our wear but Trent and Bullet got a picture showing it. (still not a good one though). Anywho, here they are.

Bullet would not look at me. He was being too playful.

Bullet is getting so big and he is so spoiled. Speaking of the rotten dog. Everyone at walmart was laughing at us last night saying he must be spoiled with as much as we spend on his dog food plus we bought him a little kid pool for the summer time. Should be interesting to seee him in that. Anyways, we changed his dog food this time to see if it helps anything. We usually get him Beneful healthy weight but this time we got him Beneful healthy radience. It is supposed to be good for their skin and coat. I really am not going to think it will help with his skin but we will see. Our hopes are that it will make his skin a little healthier so that he does not scratch all the time but I don't really see it happening. I guess we shall see!

Reverse Psychology!

Just found this odd and kinda funny so I figured I would post a dream that I had.

I have come to the conclusion through my dreams that I have passed my test. Hopefully that is. I think my brain and head is trying to play a little reverse psychology on me. The last 2 times I had taken my test, I dreamed that I passed it but in all actuality, I had failed it. Well I just took my test a little over a week ago and I had a dream today that I failed it. Does this mean that I really passed it. Is it that some Reverse Psychology kicking in? lol.

On another note, everything in real world is going great at this time. Me and Trent started last night planning out what all we will do on our Boston trip and have even mapped everything to decide what to do in the same days so that hopefully we will get to do everything we want to do. We are only 19 days away. Hooray. Also a good thing, someone called Trent today about getting him reimbursed for the vest we bought. Unfortunately it will be July when new budget comes in but Thankfully, we will be getting it eventually. That will be a huge help. Too bad that doesn't come before all these vacations. Not complaining though, at least we do get it. I will be going to Manchester this weekend while Trent is working to spend some time with the family. I am excited, I get to try on bridesmaids (maid of honor) dresses for my cousins wedding for next year. That will be fun. Also, I am going to a Cancer benefit concert with my mom and sister tomorrow night while in town. Scott Savol from American Idol Season 4 Top 12 will be there. I shall have a good weekend with family and return home probably Sunday who knows maybe Monday. Anywho. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

April Fools!!!

Ugh. I hate April fools. People need to make it funny and not scary. Usually I am not tricked but Dang ol' Trent got me at like 2:3o am after he realized it was April fools. He was working tonight so he called me and told me that he was hurting, he had just gotten into a wreck and Pope (one of the other cops) and an ambulance was on the way. I had just woken up from a nap like 2 minutes prior to this call so needless to say I was not fully awake and realizing things at this point. I was totally clueless and freaking out asking where he was and if he was ok. I kept yelling this is not funny don't be playing a trick like this on me and he kept repeating I am not playing, I really have had a wreck. (at this point still not realizing it is April fools) I continue to freak out and he finally says "APRIL FOOLS". I was not mad but I definitely did not find it funny. NO not even after it was done. He realized afterwards that it was not such a good joke to play but he wanted to do something that I would fall for. He knows I worry about him at work and that is the only reason it was not a good idea to do that joke. I definitely fell for it though.

So just to prepare everyone else, try not to get April Fooled today.

Other than that, life is great in the Haddock house. Still counting down days till Boston. We are now only officially 21 days away. Oh my gosh we can't wait. Lawrence County, hmm where to start. (lol) More has happened since our last post but we won't go into details on it. It should not end up being a big deal but definitely freaked me out in the beginning. On another note, things have happened (not concerning Trent) that I can't help but to laugh on the inside about. On another note, we have just found out that Trent good buddy Bradley is having to go to Iraq in May. This was a shock to us and we just ask that everyone keep him and his wife and family in their prayers. Other than that, it does appear that the crazy Lawrence County drama is finally calming down. Thank God. We have definitely had our fill of craziness over the past 2 weeks with Trent work alone and definitely need all drama gone and out of our lives. We are so happy with our lives and where God is taking us. We really could not ask for things to be any better.

I have always been the quiet type of person till ya really get to know me and I always try to make myself not be that way. Well I never really talk to anyone at Trent work or try to get to know them or anything but tonight was quiet a night. I won't go into any stories or anything but Trent has gotten really close with another cop on his shift named Pope. I had decided tonight I was going to text Pope and mess with him and oh boy, One thing led to another and it turned into me going to Walmart at 3am to play a joke on him. It was so funny. I kinda feel like I learned a lesson tonight that I really should learn to liven up and enjoy being around others and learn to talk more. Me and Trent were talking the other night and he thought I was crazy but in high school, I didn't have friends really. Everyone liked to party, be full of drama, and do things that I did not do so I just stayed to myself and went on with my life. In that aspect, I have always been a loner and really don't care if I have anyone. I have always needed Trent and his attention but other than that, I got him and my family, What more do I really need? Therefore, it is hard for me to this day to really get out and make friends and get to know people and if I do, it is just not so easy for me to take my time away from Trent to give to them. Like I said I got him and my family and I do have a few close friends but other than that why should I just go out of my way to be around others. I still see that even now 6 years after high school, people are still the same way. Full of drama, party people, basically just not my type of people. After tonight, I did kinda realize that I really should liven up and get to know people more. I do enjoy others company but can't get past some peoples ignorance, drama, childishness, complaining, etc etc etc. But I will try to do better and be more open to people. Key word is TRY.

During typing about friends and blah blah blah, I could not help but to think about my Heather. Gosh I miss that girl. We used to have so much fun in Winchester together. The things we would do to keep ourselves up and the things we would say. Oh them days. I give my Heather a big whoop whoop and "I will throw you in the hammer, I mean slammer." I love you girl. I can't wait till she has her little Alli. I will be an Aunt Ashlie.

Anywho, I guess that shall be it for now. Hope everyone has a wonderful April Fools without being fooled. At least not in a bad way.