Football Season is upon us....

I know many of you have noticed my tickers at the top. One is for football. Even though Ole Miss doesn't play until Saturday officially college football started tonight. That mean for the next 4 months my house will be filled with sounds of football every weekend all weekend long. I love college football, especially the rebels, really I do but by Dec I am definitely ready for a break. Of course watching the NFL on Sunday's is so much more fun when I have a vested interested in the players doing well, at least the ones on my fantasty football teams! I have one draft behind me and one to go next week.

This week we got Audrey registered for 'KidzPraise' which is basically a children's choir at church. She'll go to class on Wednesday nights starting next week and will actually sing in 2 Wednesday evening services and at Christmas too (I think). I'm sure it will be cute and we'll try to get some video of it when she does her performances!

I am walking (not running) in the Chattanooga Race for the Cure at the end of September. I joined the team we created for the ZTA Alumnae Chapter in Chattanooga. If you are interested in donating to this cause please let me know and I'll get the information to you.

Otherwise things here are good. I"m actually kinda of ready for fall because it is just not football season without some pretty leaves and cooler weather. Fall also means Christmas is getting close (the other ticker I have on my homepage) and my favorite holiday!

Hope everyone is having a great school year.

As Audrey says: You need me you call me!

Let the Madness Begin

Well it seems with children they can't really do much without their parents until they turn 3. We signed Audrey up for Soccer this past weekend. Games don't actually start until mid September and run for 6 weeks. I am both excited and scared to death about the new adventures we are about to begin on with her.
Otherwise not much else going on here. Audrey starts back to Mother's Day out this week and she is VERY excited to see her friends again. We continue to work on potty training with not much luck so all tips are welcome!

Happy Birthdays

Audrey turned 3 on Monday (8/4/08). She shares a birthday with my aunt JoAnne(a) who turned older than 3 on Monday! Happy Birthday to both of you!

Audrey had a fabulous birthday. Scott & I took her to build a bear & lunch in the morning. After a nap in the afternoon we were joined by Jay, Jamie, Clara, Mimi & Pop for dinner and cake and presents! She got lots of nice things: kids digital camera, a new outside playhouse, dressup clothes, softball glove, slippers, barbie laptop, flashlight, a salon chair for her dolls. She LOVED everything.

I can't believe she is already 3. Seems like yesterday we were scheduling the c-section to get her into the world. Time really does fly!!!

My Signature is getting Longer

I passed my test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those who don't know I studied FOREVER to sit for the CISA (Certified Information System Auditor) test in June. They say it takes 6-8 weeks to get your results and after 5 1/2 weeks of waiting I received an email stating:

Dear Mrs. Meredith S. Crawford:
RE: CISA Exam Result Notification -- Exam ID: 08298883
At your request (per your exam registration authorization), this email is being sent to notify you of your June 2008 CISA exam result.
We are pleased to inform you that you successfully PASSED the exam with a total scaled score of...

This is a very hard test consisting of 200 mulitple choice questions where a lot of times all the answers are correct but you have to pick THE BEST one. It is HARD. The questions are weighted so you never know what the questions are worth. I left feeling ok about the test but worried I missed all the high weighted ones and got the ones that were weighted the lowest or the questions were thrown out! I guess not.

Needless to say I was VERY EXCITED when I recieved the email stating I passed. I still have to actually apply for the certification but passing the test is the hardest part. Once I get the actual certification my new signature will be:
Meredith Crawford, CISA

Cut off your butter fingers

Well I'm still getting used to this blogging idea and our lives are pretty much the same thing everyday so not much to type about. I get up , get dress, dress Audrey go to work, come home eat dinner with Scott and Audrey and Scott leaves for work. Audrey and I play (usually outside) then she goes to bed. Pretty boring life : ) Although I've decided after having too much to do that boring is good. Plus Audrey will be 3 in about 2 weeks and that means we are getting so much closer to her being involved in everything. She's definitely into the sports aspects so I see some fields and gyms in our future. Tonight as we played outside we played golf (Laura I might have send her to Jason and Parker for lessons!), baseball, and football.

One cute story for you though:

Tonight as I was putting Audrey's toothpaste on her toothbrush I dropped the toothpaste like 3 times. I said "I've got butter fingers tonight". Audrey said, after looking at me very funny, said cut them mommy (she meant my nails). I said why should I cut them and she said you have bugs in them! To funny how they hear things at this age.

Here's another picture from our vacation. Scott, Saylor (my older brother) and Jay (my younger brother) did this thing together where they lift you up in the air and then release you and you fly through the air. We thought they were going to do it individually but when they got there they said they could do it all together. They all loved it but you can't really tell from this picture!

There is also one of Audrey waiting on the fireworks to start- when they did she hated them and we had to leave.

Back From Vacation

We just got back from a family vacation in Gatlingburg. It was so much fun and we didn't really want to come back or go back to work : (

This is a few pictures we took at the top of the sky lift in Gatlingburg. It was an awesome view.

1st Blog

Well I thought I would give this a try. I really enjoy reading so many that my friends so I thought I would give it a try. I also thought it would be a good way to capture some of the milestones and cute or odd things that Audrey is doing.

We moved to Chattanooga about 1 1/2 years ago. We really love this small town we live in and love being close to family. Scott is a stay-at-home dad to our daughter Audrey. Audrey will turn 3 in August, 2008.