Happy 40th!!

Happy 40th post to me. Happy 40th post to me. Happy happy happy. Happy 40th post to me.

Now that my song is out of the way I can get down to business! I encourage my readers to check out Todd's blog as he has posted some pics from our trip to Wichita!! Great adventures! And never a dull moment as we act wacky crazy like dorks. yep that would be our middle name...dork!

So not much to write about since it has been either rainy or crazy hot in B'ville. Let me tell you when it rain it pours! When the sun it out, the sun is indeed out and bright and hot.

We have been watching Tennis on tv and we are inspired! Tonight we are going to the courts. Is that like going to the mattresses? Like I said...dork.

To my friends and family who read, WE MISS YOU! See you soon.

Do you smell Cookies??? Or is it Cinnamon Rolls!?!?

Ahh ha! The wonderful aroma of Homemade Cinnamon Rolls and Chocolate Chip Cookies baking in the oven has filled the Ferguson house for the last 2 weeks. Oh yes! And to much surprise we have not eaten them all ourselves! I went on a big...HUGE baking spree for Relay for Life. Instead of walking for the cause; I baked....Todd and I baked. As noted on Todd's last blog he and his work (Gap) were raising money for Relay For Life and that is what we did. So I brought in samples of some yummy treats and everyone gave me an order...several orders. The end result was 9 dozen Cinnamon Rolls, 8 dozen Choc Chip Cookies, Peanut butter balls, Oreo balls, Buck-A-Roos, NoBake Cookies, and White Chocolate covered pretzels kept me in the kitchen for 2 weeks with donations totaling over $400. How awesome is that?!!?!! It sure did make the nights on my feet up to my eye balls in flour sound a little better! I'm not sure on the actual Total that Gap employees raised but I do know that Gap is going to match $1 for $1. So we really raised over $800. WOW! Praise God! I'm sure Todd will post on the ending total...if he ever gets around to posting again...hehe

On a different note, Todd and I will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary this Friday!!! What an adventure it has been thus far! I can't wait to see what the next 5 years and the next 30 years bring us. Babe, I love you more today than yesterday...of course yesterday you had dinner ready for me when I got home....and today you are working late....but I still love you more than I did yesterday! I appreciate all you do for us! You bring me such happiness and love. I don't know what I would do without you! Thank you for loving me and treating me as your beautiful bride. You are the greatest! LAFY
To celebrate our anniversary we are headed to Wichita KS for the weekend. maybe an update of the fun stuff when we return.

2 weddings and a baby shower

That is what I have been up to for the past 3 weeks!!

Wedding 1 - Memorial Day weekend. Shane and Rachael gettin hitched on Sat. Todd and I headed back to Spfld on Thursday night (Todd was able to switch work shifts for us to head back that evening instead of early Friday)!! Friday we all met at the church to decorate for the wedding and then it was time for Rachael's Personal Shower....no details...no comment! :) The wedding day arrived and it was get hair and makeup done and make sure that it was Rachael's day with no problems...not to mention a 3 year old ring bear who wet his tux pants...always fun when we have kids involved!! The wedding was beautiful and of course the bride...how pretty...Rachael was just glowing all day! Her snow white dress was gorgeous on her and made her look radiant. The sage bridemaids gowns looked wonderful with the touch of lavendar daisies and yellow roses cascading the church. The highlight of the ceremony was when Shane got all choked up when he saw his bride for the first time walking down the aisle...then he had to play his guitar and sing to her...breath taking! They ended the night saying goodbye to USA and HOLA Mexico! (more details on their honeymoon click on the rachael and shane link)

Wedding 2 - The very next weekend my folks come down to deliver trailer load 2 and to pick me up for my cousin's wedding in Lawton, OK. Oh yes another wedding, but this one was only 4 hours away...a short trip...sorta. It was fun traveling with my parents, they are wonderful. We were able to catch up with our lives and different events going on. The 4 hours went by pretty fast. Once we arrived in Lawton it was time to change into our wedding attire and find the church. The bride, Meagan, looked stunning as she walked down the aisle. She had bright orange flower arrangement covering the stage and the bridesmaids wore blue gowns. A great color combination. Awesome!! After the "kiss" and once all the chocolate covered strawberries were gone we went on a caravan trip across Lawton. Very Beautiful! We headed to Fort Sill, Medicine Park, Cobblestone Village, and then to my cousin's house. If you are looking for a fun mini vacation not too far from home, you have to check out Medicine Park and drive up Mount Scott. BEAutiful! It was icing on the cake!

Baby Shower - Christina's little Madelynn is coming soon, so Angela hosted a baby shower in honor of the little one. We are so excited to welcome Baby Maddie in to this crazy big world. So of course we had to have cake...it's not a party unless there is cake!! My friend, Stephanie, make the cake and she did an outstanding job. Everyone wants her phone number...so Steph, get ready to make more cakes!! The cake was delicious and if Christina wouldn't have taken it home to Wyatt, I might of been able to sneak some home to Todd. Um Christina, if there is any left...you know my address!! What am I talking about, I know it's gone. Anywho, Welcome Maddie, we are waiting!!! After the Shower I headed for Cabool to see all my family. We were able to eat lunch with my aunts and uncles and then go to our little cabin in the woods. We had "homemade ice cream" by Blue Bunny and Grandma Mac's brownies. YUMO Little Logan is growing big and I just can't get enough of him. All Sat night we just watched him play with a string. How silly, but very entertaining.

Needless to say I have been very busy. Maybe things will start to slow down...what am I talking about...it's the summer...nothing is slow in the summer....well nothing but the weekends!
Enjoy your day! God Bless!

Church Hunting

Church Hunting. Sounds like a fun game, right? Wrong...well kinda wrong, kinda right. It's neat to see the different ways people worship and give praises to God. It's neat to see all the different bulletins that are handed out. It was really weird to see a flyer that said Poker Run and Bike Run that is hosted by a church. Poker and Church...sounds like a Full House! hehe. Each church is so different. Good stuff.
What are we looking for....a church that is ALIVE! After all Jesus is Alive, and we want a church that expresses that! We love upbeat music (groovin in our seat music), we like to see an inviting church, people that are not afraid to welcome us and introduce themselves to us. People our age would be nice. After all we need friends!!! And on top of that we want to stay awake during the sermon! A Bible driven church, That's all.
Get this...last Sunday (Mother's Day) we visited a church which had rock music going on! The head music singing guy was actually jumping up and down to the music. crazy wild awesome! Then the preacher started...and yeah it was a woman pastor! The husband and wife pastor the church together; apparently they take turns giving the sermons. and since it was mother's day...she spoke. It was like a woman's conference...but it was really grounded and Bible driven. A very friendly church with lots of young ppl. yeah. we will probably go again.
Bartlesville also has a Friday Church. So we will check that out too. Hopefully it will be a good fit since Todd does has to work some Sundays, so Friday would be a good day for us to still attend church together.
Everything is going good. We are just adjusting to all the new stuff. We miss you all!! See you soon!!

I have a job now!!

YEAH!!! I have a job. In Nowata only a few miles away from Bartlesville is my new job as a customer service/sales chick at Nowata Machine Works.

THANK YOU to those that helped us pack up and move to OK!!! We really appreciated the extra muscles! Remember we have a room for you so come and visit us!!

well this is short b/c I'm hungry! bye

Living Arrangements

What a crazy exciting time us Fergs. Todd has started his new job and is lovin it!!! I mean loving it! He's gettin the feel for the employees and the management staff. And taking advantage of his new employee discount!! Can't wait until I get my discount card!! Watch out world Mrs Paige hasn't been shoppin in months!! Don't worry people, we won't go overboard...afterall we are trying to figure out where we are going to live! Speaking of living.

Let's talk living arrangement! Todd is in Bartlesville! That's his new home! He is staying with his bro and Rachael. We are so blessed to have them down there to have friends and to have a place to stay. Thanks!! Todd not only has to work, but also find us a place to live! We are looking at buying our first home...or renting.

I am in Springfield living by myself for the first time in 5 years...actually the first time ever! It's a bit lonely. My nights consist of me coming home from work, looking around at all the boxes (empty and full) and trying to figure out where to start. Depending on how hungry I am I with either start packing or start cooking dinner. By cooking dinner I mean, look in the cabinet and decide on soup or tuna or mac n' cheese or take-out. However knowing I don't have much food, the first night I decided to make cookies...and I ate half of the batch...oh let me tell you I only made like 10 cookies so it's not like I ate lots....however 5 cookies felt like lots, especially after my belly looked like a pregnant lady's belly. beautiful! The first night I was alone I think I ate all night and watched tv all night and was not motivated to do anything. Well until 8:00 at night, I caught a second wind (the the first wind) and packed a few more boxes. ((note to self, my readers are bored with your blog, spice it up, or speed it up)) Ok, so yesterday our Sunday School class had our married Bible study. We are studing the book Song of Soloman. Wow, it's spicy! Yesterday the subject was sex. Who would of thought the word of God has descriptive scripture of love making. I think the preacher on the tape, Tommy, said "Steamy" a couple of times. ((I wonder if that made a few reader decide to read the Song of Soloman as their next book to read??))

I am fortunate to have wonderful friends! Christina and Wyatt allowed me to stay with them Saturday night so I wouldn't be alone. They are great!! Thanks guys you are an amazing couple and I will cherish our friendship!! So now I am living among boxes again. I'm loving it! My sister says that my garage is gammed pack with stuff and it's a mess...and she wonders what it is...I'm like that is everything from inside my house, sis, I AM MOVING you know! OH yeah. I love my sis! ((side note: if you come over to my house, or if you are one of the lucky ones who want to help move us, you will notice we have gathered lots of boxes, lots of furniture, and lots of love through the years. Don't mind the mess.))

The plan this week is to get the entire house packed up and boxes moved to the garage. Then I will deep clean the house! The duplex is up for sale, so I can't leave the place a mess.

Thanks for your prayers and your love. Until next time! And just so you know there are more than just 2 things that live in Oklahoma. Now there are three... ____ and ____ and the Ferguson's!

Where the Heck is Bartlesville, Oklahoma??

The answer would be the new location for Todd and Paige!! Sad but true! We are moving to Bartlesville, OK! Todd has a new management job at the Gap store in the mall (starts Mon 4/9/07) and I am still hunting...or just starting to hunt for a new job there. Todd will head down and start work. My last day at Bolivar will be the 20th. It's really sad to be leaving a place I have been working for for almost 6 years.

So Why Oklahoma and Why Bartlesville? Well, simply because Shane and Rachael live there! Or at least that is why we started looking...oh about 3 weeks ago. We like the town; it's not a big city but it is bigger than Cabool. About 35k ppl and it has Wal-Mart and lots of churches and a good pizza place and a nice baseball field and it's home for Phillips 66 (which we only care about if I get a good job there) and it's about 2.5-3 hours away from Spfld. Not too far away!!! We are planning on getting a place with a quest room and yes it will furnished with a queen size bed for you to sleep comfortably!!! I'm assuming if you are reading this, you like us and you will want to come and visit! And we will make it baby friendly for all ya'll with little ones. And animal friendly for you crazy cats out there!

Please keep praying for us and our new adventure. Pray that I find a suitable job and that this transition runs smoothly. I know Shane and Rachael are more excited than anyone else, but hopefully the rest of you will be thrilled as well. Todd and I are excited, although we are going to miss our family, our friends, our church, and our normal Springfield routines very very much. We love you all and we will be visiting soon. wait...we haven't left yet. silly me.