My 26th and Comans 30th Birthday Party!

My birthday was March 19th and Comans's birthday was March 21, so we had a birthday party together at the Fox and the Hound for dinner, and went bowling on 280 after. We had so much fun! Thanks so much to my wonderful husband Brad, and my dear friend Brandy Comans (Comans wife) for planning such a perfect party for us. I did not get an entire group shot or pictures from bowling, so I will have to get pictures from people later. This is a picture of my mom, my dad, and my sister, and me at the Fox and the Hound. I am so glad they got to come! Love you all so much!

This is a picture of the cake. The picture on the cake was at the 2008 beach trip for Leslie and Cornbread's wedding. This was not one of our finer moments. Thanks so much for reminding us!

This is a picture of Brad and me with my sister Lindsey and Tyler (her boyfriend).

This is a pic of the birthday boy and birthday girl with our wonderful spouses! Brad and I have had so much fun knowing Brandy and Comans, and I am so glad that we were able to have this special night together with family and friends. Brad and Brandy's Birthday are also close together (May), so Comans and I are going to have to put our thinking caps on and try to beat this party that Brad and Brandy were able to pull off! We better start now if we are going to even compete.

This is a picture of Comans and me blowing out our birthday candles! It was a great night!

Snow Fun!

Shelby loved the snow Sunday morning! She loved rolling in it, eating it, and running through it. If you know me, you know how bad this stressed me out. Shelby stays in the house, so she needed a massive cleaning when she got done playing.

I love this picture of her!

This is her rolling in the grass. She loved it!

This is a picture of the house. I thought it was so pretty covered with snow.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to all! Brad is in bed sick with strep throat (we think), so we are hanging out at the house for valentine's day. I did get up this morning and take shelby to the doggy beauty shop. the flavor shampoo of the month in honor of valentine's day is chocolate covered cherry. she smelled so good, but as soon as we get home, she rolls in the grass! it never fails! she always does it after she gets groomed. Miss Holly (the dog groomer) always gives shelby a bandana around her neck (grandpaw cannon calls it a "necklace")! this time miss holly gave her a white one with red hearts. it was so cute!

"SCRAPPING"

i was tagged by Loni Hodge scrap about myself. the rules for "scrapping" are: first list 10 honest things about yourself 2. pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap.

1. I Love my husband and family more than anything! My husband and I live next door to my grandparents and parents. that's how much we love them!


2. My dog is like my best friend! Shelby Lynn is my now 3 year old chocolate lab. she loves me unconditionally and feeds off feelings that brad and i are feeling. she is the smartest and most beautiful animal i have ever known!


3. I am a little bit OCD. things have to be a certain way on my desk, in my purse, in my car, closet, you get the drift! I AM CRAZY! no, really, i am a very neat person and can't sleep if i feel that things might be out of place or if i might of forgotten something.


4. I wash my hands way too much and I know it, but i can't resist myself! (another embaressing aspect of my OCD). my hands will get so dry and cracked, and they hurt really bad sometimes, but i keep on washing. my theme is: I have the cleanest hands in the hospital.


5. I am addicted to several things: shopping, purses, shoes, jewelry, and mountain dew.


6. I love eating at Surin West. I love the super crunch suschi, crab angels, egg rolls, and Thai noodle. Me and my co-workers love to go eat there during lunch. it is truly one of my favorite places to eat.

7. I am like Loni also a people pleaser. i used to work extra shift after extra shift at work for the money, but also because i couldn't stand to say no for the fear that the nurses would be short. i also have never called in for work because i can't stand for the nurses to be short staffed. i also am not a good conflict manager. i will keep my mouth shut and keep enduring and enduring until i bust before i will ever speak up. I am very fortunate to have very outspoken friends (you know who u r), a very outspoken husband that takes up for me, and very outspoken co-workers. so i remain the people pleaser thanks to these people! It's all their fault that i am like this.

8. I love being a nurse! i have been a nurse for over 3 years, and couldn't imagine doing anything else. I worked on the floor for 3 years and just recently moved to the orthopaedic dept. (both jobs @ children's). i love helping kids and their families.


9. Brad and I have been talking about having kids soon! (we have the discussion on a regular basis) i'm not sure exactly when, but i believe that we are really serious about it this time.

10. I have a big heart. i can't stand it if i hurt someone's feelings, or make them mad. i'd rather hurt myself than have someone else be mad or hurt. some people say this is a good quality to have, but i don't know. it kinda stresses me out, but I've managed!

Now, time to list people to scrap:
kara reid
mandy davis
nicole stoddard
missy mccaleb
jamie carnes
kelly watson
jennifer spahn

Happy Birthday Shelby Lynn!

Today is my baby's 3 year old birthday! (for those of you who aren't dog lovers, you probably think I am crazy). This is a picture of Shelby as a puppy the day after we got her! There is a big picture at the bottom of the blog of her now. (she has gained a ton of weight, huh?) Brad and I love her so much! Just wanted to wish my furry child a happy birthday! We love you Shelby Lynn!

I've been TAGGED!

So, I've been tagged by Jamie (Wheless) Carnes & Kara Reid. The object is to pick the 4th album where you store your pictures on the computer, and pick the 4th picture in the album and explain it, and also you tag 4 more people to share their pictures. So, here is mine. This is a picture of the Gardendale Police Department's 1st Annual Charity basketball team. The team was put together in 2007. The police dept. played the fire dept, streets and sanitations dept, and parks and recs dept. for charity. The police dept won the tournament, but Brad had to cut the tournament short. He went out in the second half of the championship game with a torn ACL & MCL. It was not a good day for The Cotton's but for the Police Dept. it was a victory. I am tagging Nicole Stoddard, Nikki Runnells, Mandy Davis, and Jennifer Spahn.

More Gatlinburg!

Here are more pictures of brad and me at ober gatlinburg. the mountains and snow were beautiful! in this picture we are on top of mount harris at ober gatlinburg.
this is another picture of us on the mountain!

This is us on the ski lift going up to mount harris. i was super scared because: 1. i had on shoes that were slides and i was afraid of losing them. 2. the lift we sat on was lop-sided because brad and my weights are so different, i was up in the air! it was so scary, but i had fun and going down the mountain was much easier than gonig up.