Beware of co-workers

What a great birthday I had yesterday. I just had to post some photos of what my 6 male co-workers did to my office area before I got into work. If you look closely Dora has the correct rank on and she has a propeller hat with the tiara to show who is queen. The brownie they had waiting for me showed I apparently turned 43 instead of 36. I could not even find the stuff on my desk and to top it all off one of them was waiting in my office with the video camera to capture my initial reaction. You have to be careful with some co-workers.






I got a new camera for my birthday. It's pretty awesome I must say. I got the Nikon D80 with two lenses. I did take some pictures with it but I have to figure out how to download them to my computer. Natalie and Sean came over for about an hour and a half for pizza and cup cakes. It was nice to see them even if for such a short time. Austin and Colby were of course right in the middle of all of it and we wouldn't expect it any other way. Pat promised next year I might even get to go to a restaruant for dinner. I was very happy to be home with my pizza and family.

36 years ago today!

This is my mom pregnant at 8 months with us. All my Daddy could say this morning about that picture was "she sure got a lot bigger over the last month".


36 years ago today two angels were born in Jonesboro, Arkansas to John and Joyce Gregson and big brother Johnny. I was born at 2:32 am weighing 6.6 lbs and my twin sister, Ann-Marie was born 6 minutes later at 2:38 weighing 6.13 lbs. Mom delivered us naturally though she passed out due to pain and didn't remember Ann-Marie being born. Sorry Anna! She actually went 2 days past her due date of November 4th. Guess my boys didn't get the same message that we got about going full term or at least close to it.


People always wonder what it's like to be a twin. I can only say I can't imagine not being a twin. I hope my boys have the relationship and friendship that we've had over the years and contiue to have. It's was always nice to have someone to play with even though we always had different ideas of what to play. I was more into playing school, house, beauty shop and Anna was more into catching bugs, climbing trees, or playing a sport of any kind. We were so different in many ways growing up and it's nice to see how similar we have become over the years. Ok so maybe being in the Army and being a Doctor is not similar but neither was me getting my ears pierced for my 6th birthday and she got a pocket knife.

Just some funny facts that some of you might not know but those that grew up with us will for sure get a laugh or two.

* I loved having curls in my hair and wearing dresses. Anna would only wear a dress to church if she had to and she usually changed straight into jeans.

* Anna was always the one you would see playing sports with the neighborhood kids and I was usually a cheerleader on the side.

* Anna would always pay me to eat her Broccoli and Rice casserole.

* My mom watched one day from the kitchen window as we played out in the driveway so nicely. Then she noticed Ann-Marie getting one of our tricycles and the little red wagon. I apparently stood by and watched as she balanced the tricycle on top of the wagon. I remember her telling me since I was older I could ride first and she would pull me. So I carefully climbed on top and with the first pull from Ann-Marie I went tumbling off the back. Needless to say she never took her turn riding.

* Anna won the bicycle at the Enchanted Forrest in Memphis while visiting Santa. I never won anything!

* One year I wouldn't have my photo taken with Santa so Johnny and Anna had it without me.

* We decided to make cookie dough one day just to eat and since Anna is not Betty Crocker she put corn meal in the mix instead of flour. Needless to say it was awful.

* Anna convinced me to stick a double peanut (shell and all)up my nose. It was soooo stuck that Mom and Daddy could not get it out so they had to take me to the Dr. Of course all the crying helped it come out in the office and so my Mom had us get shots while we were there. Anna wasn't laughing then.

There will always be stories and memories to talk about and I can't think of a better person to do it with than my sister.


My Sister
She knows the things I dream of,
the places that I've been,
she accepts the person I've become,
she's a very special friend.
She's always been there for me
no matter where I roam,
and whenever we're together,
it's just like being home.

I would just like to wish my sister, Ann-Marie a very Happy Birthday and many many more to come. Love ya!

Arrrgh! Happy Halloween

My two little pirates had one great Halloween. I was so surprised that Colby would wear his costume because every time we tried to just put his hat on he would immediately pull it off. But once he saw Austin all dressed up with his shoes on then he was ready. Austin scares very easily regardless of what his Halloween shirt says. He was so scared by Sean that he kept crying and crying. Thank goodness we did not see any SCARY people or houses or he would have been done for the night. We did have Shrek with our group and Austin didn't like him either. Heather was a huge help as always and was not only out trick or treating with us but was the photographer. Once I get the photos from her I'll put them on our blog.

Sean was also a pirate and a very handsome one I might add. He of course went out with 2-3 boys that live on our street and they brought back a LOT of candy. Colby and Austin actually let people put candy in their buckets. I guess since they had their pirate hats on they didn't feel the need to wear the buckets on their head but first thing this morning Colby had his bucket on his head. That's been the best $.88 I've spent yet.

I was in charge of Sean's school party yesterday for 23 4th graders. Only one mom out of 4 that signed up to help actually showed up. Thank goodness Pat was nice enough to take off work to go and help. They painted pumpkins, made Halloween bracelets and decorated sugar cookies. We played a Halloween memory game and of course what would a Halloween party be without the Mummy game with toilet paper. Sean's team won the mummy game both times. We had a good time but man did they have a lot of energy and I can't imagine all of them last night on a sugar high.

Ok well I wanted to just get a few photos out but I will have a lot more to post later. I hope everyone had a nice Halloween and got lots of candy. I will say now that have moved up to NSL Trick or Treating is not as easy but it's all HILLS. No need for the gym yesterday after all the walking we did.