Sorry- it's not more pictures..

Hey everybody! thanks for the comments! Eric is doing great and not crying much at all :) It's been nice! Thanks for your prayers! I'm getting pretty excited about this saturday!! it's the english country dance for this month!! Many of my viewers don't go to the dances, but you should if you live around here, because they are a lot of fun!!

On march 13th the PRC of Rolla is having their annual banquet. I know, now you're like- yea, so what?? ok, here's the weird part. I had registered to go to it, but then today while I was at work the executive director Joseph Dalton called me up and started by asking if I was planning to sit with anybody. I said I didn't know if there was going to be anybody there I know, so I guessed not. Well, then he asked me if I would mind if he put me up front. I said sure, that would be fine with me. And then.. he asks me if it's fine that I'm sitting there to look like one of the keynote speaker's date!! I was like- uhh... sure I guess. Pretty weird huh?? She broke up with her boyfriend and I guess she didn't want to look like she was alone or something.. it's going to be strange to be looking like I'm this girl Sierra's date and I've never even met until today... oh well, at least it's not really what you'd call a 'date' lol!! I wonder if people will ask me questions about her like they always are about somebody else?? at least this time I have a good answer!!
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[Update: I didn't sit in as Sierra's date, because she got her baby's dad (not her ex boyfriend) to come with her instead. I got to sit between Fr. Paul from Ft. Leonard wood, and the local head of the Knights of Colombus. Needless to say, I had some pretty interesting conversation with them, since Fr. Paul is in the Army, and the K of C guy is retired Army with a son and a daughter in the Army, and the guy sitting across from me is an MP soldier down at the fort. So, that turned out nicely :) ]

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Anyway.. hope you have a great day! Hello Meagan! Glad you like my song! isn't it cool?? I think I'll put in "we're all in this together" instead.. just kidding :)

Well, that's all I have to say for today! I'll try to get some more pictures of Eric soon if anybody actually wants to see them! Not many people look at my blog though, so maybe it would be just a waste of time.. anyway..

Here are some funny quotes I like:

~Those who aim at nothing will hit it every time~

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~Why did the chicken cross the road?~

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~Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down~

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~Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds profound)~

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~Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious~

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~Where ever you go, there you are~

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~Please, Lord, let me prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me~

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~Alone, adj : In bad company~

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~Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark~

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~I'm not offended by all the dumb blond jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blond~

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~The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad~

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~If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them~

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~Cat: The Other White Meat~

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~DARE to keep cops off doughnuts~

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~Don't play stupid with me... I'm better at it!~

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~Ever Stop To Think And Forget To Start Again?~

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~I can handle pain until it hurts~

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~I Just Got Lost In Thought. It Was Unfamiliar Territory~

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~If God intended us to be vegetarians, why did he make animals out of meat?~

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~The more I learn, the less I understand~

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~Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't~

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~Why did you just waste all that precious time reading those stupid jokes?~

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~God made you for a reason, and that was not to dedicate your life to annoying me!~

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ok- enough of the stupid one-liners right?? ok, that's all I'll put up today :)

More slightly better pictures..

Well, here are the new pictures! Feel more than free to post comments! My goal in life is to get people to comment on my blog! (ok, well, not really, but still...)

Anyway, He's really cute! I'm the one holding him in all these pictures. It was really hard to take the pictures and hold him at the same time and not make it look bad. Kristin took the one where it shows me holding eric on the couch from farther back. 

Little man Eric

Doesn't he look so peaceful when he's sleeping?? I tried to get a picture of him with open eyes, but he was sleeping too much ;)

What to say? take me out of the picture and it would be ok right?? (this is the one kristin took)

this one is blurry for effect on purpose.. it's not my photography skills lacking ;)

aww... those little socks are so cute! they fit my big toe just about right! lol

I have A new baby Brother!!

I am pleased to announce that at approximately 9:15 pm this evening my new little brother, Eric Charles Beaty was born! He weighs 8 lb. 12 oz. I'm not sure how long he is, but who cares anyway?? I can't get very good pictures right now, but within the next couple days I'll have some up here. For now here are a few. I feel a strange guilt at posting such horrible quality pictures, but In the situation, and with the equipment available, they're the best I can get as of yet.

Eric Charles

A curious 'big' brother!

Wow! I'm sure glad he wasn't looking at me when he made THAT face!! my goodness! lol

He is WAY cuter than he looks there!!

Now will you at least look at my blog??

Ok, so I've spent a couple hours spicing up my blog, hopefully my friends (if you are reading this, you automatically became one of my friends if you were not before..) will actually like this blog. Nobody ever comments, and I'm not sure why, but if you want to post ten comments a day all saying "hi" it won't annoy me! This blog is supposed to be fun, and feel free to use your imagination if you want to comment! :D If you see anything on my blog that you want, just let me know, and I'll help you out with the HTML codes so you don't have to spend hours looking for them like I did. At least mine didn't take as long s Kristin's!! I spent 3 1/2 hours last night working on getting her blog set up. Once you figure out the html codes it's easier, and if you already have a hosting site that you know of that makes it easier too. I hope I'm not sounding like a nerd talking about all this html and source code and all that stuff.. If you'd rather I can start talking in technical photography terms! I love that language! Jpegs megapixels, camera RAW mode, telephoto, light source, angle of attack, saturation... lol ok, I'd better stop now before I scare too many people away from blogs and cameras (two of my favorite things btw..)

well, have a good day, I need to be to class in about an hour, so I'd better get ready to go. (*cough* at least I don't take two hours to get ready to go like *cough* "somebody" I know.. ~no names mentioned for the personal safety of the author~ anyway..)

I'm gonna get myself in trouble if she reads this.. oh well, it'll be worth it to know that at least somebody reads this blog!

Sigh... I wish it were nice outside..

Yesterday the weather was SOO nice!! God gave us the most beautiful weather I could ask for at this time of year. And then today.. my least favorite kind of weather. I guess they say the Lord gives and He takes away. ;) Well, anyway, at least today I have to spend most of the day inside anyway because I have my college class and homework to do, but still I hate this weather :( 

Here's a poem (at least I think it's a poem.. or is it prose?? whatever.. I forget.. here it is)

Today I want to make a difference- I want to change a life- I want to bring one more soul to Christ- I want to open up a closer relationship with God- Today, I said "I'll do it tomorrow" and realized- that's what I said yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Isn't it time to stop this cycle of "I want to's", and start saying, today I did...??? It's time for action! Let's get moving!! God bless, and make today be yesterday's promised tomorrow.