Searching for Sanity: Gamecocks

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Gamecocks 9:50 AM

We had a whole bunch of nothing planned for the weekend since Chris had to work. I like it like that!

Friday night we went over to Spam and Stephanie's house for dinner and wine. Our friend, Bethany, came over too and we had a great time catching up while Cam and Madison ran around like crazy women. I haven't seen Bethany in a long time, it's been about 6 months, which is sad considering that we live in the same city! She is one of the most cheerful people that I know and is a lot of fun to be around. I have missed talking with her so much! Chris and Spam made us manicotti and canoli. Well, let's be honest, Spam made it, Chris supervised. It was SO yummy! Thanks, boys!

Saturday, Cameryn and I stuck close to home. I had some cleaning that I needed to get done before we have company this week, not to mention plies of laundry. How does a family of three end up with so much laundry? I think that I did 8 loads this weekend.
We have had disgusting little mice in our house. Chris wanted to be humane about it and get traps that don't kill them. So, we caught one and by accident released it in the backyard (we didn't know for sure that it was in the trap because we couldn't see if anything was inside) and it promptly came back the same night. We caught another mouse, Chris released it and watched it run far, far away across the street. We really thought that would be the end of Mousegate 2010, but apparently those little buggers had decided to call our house home. I found droppings inside of Cam's Little People barn in our family room! The damn things thought that it was like a funhouse for them! So gross. They also moved on from our laundry room, ran across the house and decided that the closet in the foyer was a warm and cozy place to shack up. Chris said that we should just get a cat and let the cat kill the mouse family. Since I'm allergic to cats and I don't want mice guts everywhere, I convinced Mr. Animal Planet (aka Chris) that people can kill mice, that it's part of the Circle of Life. We have had success with the new traps and no other mice have been seen. I am so glad that they are gone. Mice so disgusting.

We played outside on Saturday afternoon after Cameryn's nap. It was SUCH a beautiful day! There is nothing better than seeing a Carolina blue sky.

Gamecock fans were definitely feeling more than a little blue after the Arkansas game on Saturday night. Sigh. USC has a lot of work to do before going to the Swamp this weekend with hopes of winning the SEC East. I really don't want to be Gator meat. Again.

Sunday it was still cold but we went outside for two hours anyway. The poor girl was wearing three layers because she insisted that she wear her Phillies jacket. Cameryn kept running to the top of the hill and saying, "I UP HERE!"

We put Cameryn to sleep a little early last night. She has been struggling with sleep since putting her in her toddler bed. My child is 2 years old. She really should sleep through the night. But she doesn't. She wakes up and cries. And cries and screams. Not just once, but multiple times. Most of the time she will wake up and cry and stay in her room. The past few nights she has decided to come and wake me up herself. Apart from putting a lock on her door, I am really not sure what to do. Any ideas?

Something very exciting happened today that I am not able to tell you about yet. And tomorrow will be a great day too! I'll tell you soon, I promise!

A Bunch of Nothing

Gamecocks 4:38 PM

First, I apologize for the poor picture quality of all pictures in this post as they were taken with my phone. A new camera is definitely on my Christmas wish list this year!

Our weekend consisted of a bunch of nothing. Cameryn woke up early Saturday morning and we attempted to all climb back into our bed, but Cameryn didn't want to do anything but wiggle around and watch cartoons. Chris went to work Saturday afternoon, so Cameryn and I spent most of the day doing this:

Cameryn really wanted to spend the day in her moneky pj's but I finally convinced her to put on her (super cute!) USC dress so we could venture outdoors (with Shrek of course):

Speaking of the Gamecocks, we FINALLY won on the road! Woohoo! We haven't won a road game since 2008 so winning at Vanderbilt was a great momentum booster for our guys. We must win the next three games ( vs. TN, vs Arkansas, @ Florida) in order for us to play for the SEC title in Atlanta (which we have never done before!) Unless GA wins this weekend @ Florida. That would allow us to lose 2 of our 3 remaining SEC games and still win the East since we beat GA back in September. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because our game on Saturday wasn't pretty. But I'll take it over a loss any day.

Sunday I woke up and found bite marks on Cameryn's crib. My child was apparently trying to knaw her way out. I really wanted to skip the toddler bed but felt like it was a better option than having a chewed up crib, so Chris and I tackled the toddler bed conversion early Sunday morning. Cameryn wasn't thrilled. She doesn't adapt to change well and we normally try to prepare her for a big change, but we just went for it and paid the price later. She only napped for an hour and it took us an hour and a half to get her to sleep Sunday night. I'm sure that she will get used to it by the end of the week.

Cameryn decided that she wanted to wear part of her Halloween costume while watching Diego on Sunday. Because Diego had a lion and therefore Cameryn wanted to be a lion.

Cameryn loves flowers. She calls the buds "baby flowers." Chris was trimming the rose bush (it's seriously the largest rose bush ever) and he gave Cameryn a rose that was past its prime. She held onto it all afternoon and into the evening.

We went to Pets, Inc. Sunday afternoon. Pets, Inc. is a wonderful facility that rescues all kinds of animals from euthanization at other shelters or just the ones that are lost on the road. They had two Bassett Hounds that they named Hitch and Hike who were wandering along the road. They were taken to another shelter and were about to be euthanized when Pets, Inc. rescued them. I fell in love with them and cried when we left because I just wanted to take them home! They were just so sweet! We will definitely go back and adopt a dog from them when we are ready for another pet. I'm not a cat person, but this cat was super sweet and I actually liked her! Chris and Cameryn would really like a cat, but I'm allergic and after a few minutes with this sweet faced feline, I had to leave because my eyes were watering and my head was starting to hurt.

I really enjoyed our lazy weekend but I am also looking forward to Halloween on Sunday! I know that Cameryn is going to love it! She is already carrying around her pumpkin treat bag saying, "Candy! Treat! Treat!" I hope our neighbors stocked up on smarties!