MARTIN GOT HIS WORK PERMIT 2DAY!!!

Today was a regular day, so while i was on the computer at like 4:30pm, Martin came RUNNING in through the back door, he had a huge grin on his face and im like 'what the hell is going on?!' then i seen he had the mail in his hand!

HE GOT HIS WORK PERMIT!!!!!! we were sooooooo excited!!! he looked like he was about to piss his pants LMAO! And there was also a letter stating that he has been approved for his I-765, which is his EAD (work permit). Im so happy he got it so quick!!!! he called Steve right away! Martin said that he was supposed to be off on Monday cuz of this certain job that he couldn't go to cuz martin still didnt have his work permit, so Martin called steve to ask if he can go monday and Steve was like Hell yah!! lol

So then Martin went to the DMV's office real quick before they closed (at 5pm) and he filled out some paperwork and he couldnt get his license re-newed! wanna know why?! CUZ HE FORGOT TO GET MONEY!!!! He had to pay $20 and he only had $10! ughhhhhhhh so that sucks, and the lady he talked to was a TOTAL BITCH! damn, i hate those rude ppl who work there, what gives them the right to treat ppl like pure shit? ugh anyways! I guess he'll go back on tuesday or something to go get it! So now all we are waiting for is an APPROVAL for his I-485, which is his GREEN CARD!!! Here is what has all happened for his AOS:

1/3 - Married!
2/12 - Sent in AOS packet to Chicago Lockbox
2/14 - USCIS recv'd our AOS packet!
2/24 - Checks cashed
2/25 - Recv'd NOA
3/15 - Biometrics appt. [day 32]
3/15 - RFE - Needed sponsors BC
3/25 - sent BC for RFE
4/4 - Touched
4/18 - Case transferred to California
5/9 - EAD card ordered! [day 87]
5/12 - Touched
5/13 - Touched
5/14 - Touched
5/16 - Touched -- stop touching and APPROVE US!!
5/17 - EAD R'CVD!! [day 95]

We've been waiting for awhile for this!!! And its been stressful as HELL! But its way worth it in the end!!!!

Okay, so tomorrow im going to my moms to see her, pop, joey and cassie will all be there too, i think its something my mom wants to do for joey for his bday. So that should be fun tomorrow, anything to get out of this house!! lol

We are still so freakin broke and its driving me crazy! In a few weeks, I am going to Nashville (god i cant wait!) and then the FOLLOWING day im going to Myrtle Beach (ahhhhhh) but i am soooooo BROKE!!! Okay, i did something a little crazy but i really think it will work out in the end, gosh i hope! Well on May 14th, there was a Pre-Sale for American Idol Live tickets and i woke up early in the morning to buy these tickets as soon as they went on sale! I bought 2 floor seats to the show in SAN DIEGO! I paid $175 and im hoping to at least double the money! Well the crazy thing is, i had only $7 in my account! So now im NEGATIVE $202, that is the tickets plus 1 overdraft fee which is $35. So if i double the money of what i paid for these tickets, i should be able to put the money back into my account and then still have money left over! If this works out, then im a genius!!! LOL if not, im a total idiot!
I'm also selling a few things on ebay, a lingerie outfit that i NEVER wore, well 2 actually, and a toy of allies, tumble tigger, whatever its called. I hope i can sell those and i really hope i can sell these American Idol tickets!! I need extra money for Nashville and Myrtle Beach! I need money soooooo bad!
Another thing that im irritated about it my tax money!! I still haven't gotten mine and im so scared that i wont be getting a check! I still owe my dad like $250, $200 is for the Carrie Underwood tickets and $50 is just from other little things i've bought. I hope i get that tax rebate check, or else that sucks so bad! I'm hoping to get $600, but even if its $300, its better than NOTHING!!

I put my video camera thats broke on ebay and it sold for $57!!! And its broke! haha I sold it AS-IS, so i guess this person will use it for parts or something, who knows. So with that money, i bought a Barbie ceiling fan for Allie, i didnt think i was going to win that on ebay but i did! I big $25 and thats all it is for the fan! Well besides $17 for shipping, but thats an awesome deal and its such a CUTE fan! It retails for $120 at Target, so i got a good deal!

Well i guess thats it, i thought i'd come and write about Martins work permit, i really dont want to forget this day and i want to talk about whats all going on with this process so i will remember it forever! lol yah im a nerrrrrd! haha

niiiiiiite!

This year has been going great so far!

So much has happened this year...the money sucks! But my dad and brother have been helping so much! My dad has been pretty much taking care of us for the last few months cuz of Martin not making good money. But other than that, i have done a lot, sort of! lol Last year was HORRIBLE! I MEAN HORRIBLE! I'll never forget that year for the rest of my life! That was the time when i went through that time with Martin being mexico, i was so miserable!! But he did finally get to come home, which was AWESOME! Then December, we moved here to McDonough and got a BEAUTIFUL house! Its a 2 story house and the rooms are all huge and this house is just so big and pretty! We all LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! Then Jan. 3rd, martin and I finally got married!!! Good way to start out our year! We've been to the zoo this year, allie had a blast and i've gotten real close to Pop and my mom. Martin is learning this job with my aunt Denise, and it looks like it will be good in the long run, well i hope so anyways, i really hope so!

In March, we got a brand new furniture set, its a sectional and its sooo pretty and so comfortable! Way better than the smelly crap we had before, omg that other crap was so bad! So then in April i had the concert, that was the best time of the year, i think so far lol could be better, possibly =]

So last thursday, May 9th, i woke up and did the usual, turned on the tv and then got on the computer and i checked my mail and one email said 'CONGRATULATIONS! You have been invited to Carrie Underwoods Fan Club Party!" I FREAKED OUT!!! I was sooooo happy, i almost cried! LOL Its in Nashville, TN - June 3rd. I cant wait!!!!!! Then i went to Mistys house that day and stayed awhile over there and just hung out. When i got home, martin watched some program on tv and i checked my mail and there was 2 emails from Immigration, my heart jumped to my throat! I opened it and i said OMG! GUESSSS WHATTT!!!!! to martin and he was like omg what?!? And after i got done reading both emails i ran over and jumped on him and said omg omg omg omg u are getting ur work permit, u were APPROOOOOOVED!!!! And he was also approved to travel outside the U.S., so that means we can go to Mexico to see his family this year like we hoped!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh he was so happy, i was so happy!!! that was just an awesome day!! soooooo awesome!!!! And now, i still check our case online everyday for our I-485, to see if anything has changed on that one, cuz if he is approved for the I-485 he will then get his Green Card! So they have been touching his case everyday!!! They touched it May 9, 12, 13, 15 (today), so i hope we get a decision soon!!!!!! And then that means i did everything RIGHT!!! I would be so proud of myself cuz gosh i stressed out so much during it all and that AOS wasnt as hard the HSL i had to do but it was pretty complicated!! And this is a huge part of it, it determines if Martin will become a Permanent Resident here in the U.S. or not! So i hope we get an approval for his I-485 soooooon!!!!

Okay, so ill be going to Carrie's FC Party June 3rd, martin and allie will be going up there with me and while im at the party, they are going to the zoo, which is like 10 miles away from where i'll be, so they should have fun too! gosh i cant wait!! And then when the party is over, we will go home, and then hopefully go str8 to bed but i doubt it, with allie, and then we have to wake up at like 8am and Misty will be picking us up and we will be on our way to MYRTLE BEACH! FOR A WEEK!!!! Misty got a hotel for a week for FREE!! Its a 2 bedroom hotel and its right on the beach! There is so much happening during that week and a lot of it is free, i cant wait to go!! And misty will make it fun too! Im just worried about being with her family, idk how that will be, hopefully fun!! I think it will be! I just cant wait to see the beach ahhhhh i havent been in FOREVER! Martin and Polo wont be able to go cuz they have to work, but im hoping martin dont have to work on saturday and him and polo can come up on the weekend and martin can spend the weekend with us too and he wants to see the beach too! soooooo that will be a blast!

Joey's bday is next tuesday, a few days away! And i got him tickets to go to the braves game and he has NO IDEA! I got AWESOME seats, i cant wait to go!!!! They are playing against the mets, so that will be a good game! I got 4 tickets, so ill be going, martin, allie, joey and cassie, so we should have a lot of fun! I know Joey is going to flip out!!

Allie had her very first sleep over away from home!!!! It was April 30th, a wednesday. She went with my mom and allie had a blast! My mom loved watching her, which is great! It was so weird that allie wasnt home that night, me and martin didnt do crap either! He came home, ate, watched a game and went to bed! lol soooo nothing happened there!!!! Then mama brought allie home at like 7pm the next day and allie didnt even care to come home!!! hahah but they had so much fun, mama said that allie was GREEEAT!

The bad thing that happened this year so far is that im losing my medicaid for me and allie...i had to be in court for child support or whatever, it was in newnan, and i wasnt going cuz thats a long ways and plus i was scared about lieing, i could get in serious trouble for that. I really need the insurance so bad! But now that im married and now we have a little income, i doubt they will give it to us. Oh well, hopefully martin will get some dang insurance with the company soon! But i'll believe it when i see it!

alright, i wrote so much, my fingers are killing me! its 4:21am and im going to bed, im so tired!!!

goodnight!

Keith/Carrie CONCERT!!

That night was the most amaaaazing night of my entire life! Its been a couple weeks since the concert and i still think about it everyday lol Alright, lets start from the beginning...i was so anxious the night before, it was so hard to go to sleep! But once i woke up that day i was so excited that the day has finally come! We had the tickets before christmas!!!! So we waited like 6 months for this show!! Anyways, once i started to get ready and had the clothes i was wearing on, i started to get irritated, i was getting hot and nothing was looking right on me, so i was getting upset cuz i felt so UGLY! I hate that feeling and i felt like a awhile with the shirt i was wearing! god i need to lose weight bad...anyways!! Then my mom was running late, i was getting irritated by that, cuz she wasnt even answering her phone!!! So she finally got to my house at 4:45pm and i was scared we werent going to be there a little early for the show cuz of traffic..well we made it there right at 6:30pm, we got a good parking spot and then i was finally done with stressing out and relaxed once i was there! I was having fun with my mom so far and she was annoying me yet lol but i was hoping she would be good throughout the whole concert...ok, so when we were walking up to the arena, we saw Keith Urbans tour bus and mama asked some girl to take a picture of us, turned out horrible (of me) but whatever lol So when we got inside the arena, there was a big crowd around the area where they sell shirts, we went ahead and got in line for a shirt and I got a Carrie shirt and mama got a Keith Urban shirt, $30 bucks each!!! Thats crazy! but oh well!

Okay, so then we go find our seats, i couldnt wait to see where we were! So we asked a lady where to go and she told us some direction, when we saw the floor, my jaw dropped, we had to go down some stairs and it just felt like we were going down forever! I was so freakin excited! So then we finally got to our seats, we were soooooo freakin close!!!!!! omg!!!! i was going crazy, i couldnt stop moving!! We had about 20 mins left until the show started and we wanted to go get something to drink and go to the bathroom, cuz i wasnt leaving the show for a bathroom break!!! Well, we asked a guy if we could go up to the bathroom, we were dreading it cuz when we wanted to go it was a line way outside the door, it was loooong! So the guy said 'ohh no ma'am, there are bathrooms and consession stands over there to your right' and me and mama looked at each other and made a face like OMG! We had our own private bathroom for just the FLOOR only!! and there was not even a LINE!!!! there was like 2 ppl in the bathroom! Then we went to get a drink, mama wanted to share an alcohol drink and when they gave it to us, it was so small! I tasted it and it was AWESOME! You could barely taste the vodka! It was orange and cranberry juice mixed with vodka, or something like that, idk what it was, but it was yummy! haha

OKAY! So we get back to our seats, we have no idea who will be coming out first, i was hoping it would be Keith, so i could have Carrie last. Well there was a 5 min. countdown and i was soooo pumped!!! Then we found out who was first, it was CARRIE!!!! She came out singing 'Flat on the Floor' I was just in shock that she was right THERE!!! I was so close to her...i see her on tv all the time, well every single time, but it was just so surreal when i was seeing her in person! There were so many people at the catwalk, like a big crowd, i told mama to lets go over there and she didnt want to cuz she felt weird, but i did not care, i went over there!!! There was a point where i was over at the catwalk during 1 song, Carrie came and sang 'Just a Dream' right there in front of me at the catwalk, there was a big crowd in front of me tho but i could see carrie very good! I could literally see the hairs on her arms lol i was that close! I felt really weird when i was in this crowd of ppl all by myself, i was wanting my mom there but she was in her seat! So finally when the song was over, i told her to come over and she kept saying no, but then she FINALLY came over! I didnt sing to hardly any of carrie's songs, i just felt soooo weird and out of place! lol idk why but i did! I was just in so much shock that i was actually seeing CARRIE that i wasnt really enjoying the concert! She did awesome tho! She sang her song Dont forget to remember me and she started crying!!! bad!!! and of course, i was crying with her LOL like a nerd!!! Then Carrie left and i thought she was gone, it went by so fast! But she popped back up and started singing Guns N Roses 'Paradise City' and she did soooooo good!!! And then she sand a few of her other popular songs, then she was gone =[ it felt like it just fleeeeew by with her!!! So then they did a 30 minute break and then Keith would come out and perform. So my mom went out to go smoke and I told her while she was gone i was going to try and get closer to the catwalk...so i waited to see if there was an open spot, i didnt know if we could just GO over to the catwalk cuz maybe there were ppl that reserved it cuz of there seats, or what, i didnt know. I saw an open spot, just enough for 2 ppl, so i SHOT over there and when i got there, there were girls closing the spot, so all i had room for was my ARM! So i made myself squeeze in there, everytime they would move, id get in there a little more. Then my mom got there and she was like OMG!!! she was excited as hell! So she squeezed in there too...then BAM! Keith came out! I was next to a girl who kept on pushing me back out of my spot and kept rubbing her damn ass on me and mama kept pushing me into to her cuz that girl was being a total BITCH! I accidently bumped into her, well not accidently, cuz she was ON TOP OF ME! And she BUMPED her ass on my to back me up! She had a freakin gap between her and her friend and she was all over me! So during Keiths first song, mama was really into it but i was letting that girl get to me. So after Keith sang the first song, he started talking and then he started to perform the next song and idk what happened but i let LOOSE!! That girl was no in my head at all anymore and she was still on me, not as bad as b4 tho! I was dancing and singing to every single song, singing with mama, waving my hands, i went insane with Keith! Idk what Keith did but damn! LOL i just let it all out hahah He came down the cat walk so many times!! At the beginning he hardly came down, only once during like 5 songs. Mama then said she wanted to go back to our seats and i screamed NO!!!! ARE U CRAZY? ARE U BEING SERIOUS!!! and she was so serious, i kept saying no! ur staying! So she stayed, she didnt look to happy but i wanted to stay cuz i mean we were right at the CATWALK!!! We could touch the stage! So then keith came down the catwalk and he slapped our hands!! I screamed and so did all the girls next to us haha Then one of the band guys came right in FRONT of me and played the guitar, he was starring at me the whole time!! i just kept screaming but i felt so awkward lol he was so ugly but it was still so cool that he was right there in front of ME!!! Out of everyone, he was in front of me!!! Then when he was done, he winked at me and flicked his guitar pick at me! I flipped out lol So then mama wasnt wanting to go back to our seats! lol Keith then came to the middle of the catwalk to sing a song and he looked at us 2 times!!!! Then i swear he did a giggle at us, cuz i know i looked stupid cuz i went insane when he looked at us ONCE and THEN AGAIN!!!! And when i went back to look at him, he did a little laugh!!! i was flippin! hahaha Then there was a point where he came down the catwalk and he knealed down RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE GIRL NEXT TO US and played the guitar for her and was looking at her and SMILING!! I was rubbing his boot the whole time LMAO i kept screaming the whole time! Then he winked at the girl and gave her his pick!!! She was just in total shock!!! Gosh, i could see the sweat coming off his head, i was so damn close!!!! Then the last time i got to touch him was when he came down the catwalk the last time and he kept knealing down real close to everyone at the catwalk and he kneeled down right in front of me and i GRABBED his calf!!! lol i held onto it for like 10 seconds! hahah it was like a freakin ROCK!!! omg, i didnt want to let go, i just kept squeezing it hahaha Before that, he did a song with carrie, and it was awesome, she looked great and i was trying to get her to look at me, but it didnt work lol, cuz i was right in front of her when she was singing with keith in the middle of the catwalk.
Oh and i forgot to mention that this show was going to be on a DVD!! And i know me and mama are going to be on it! we have to be!!!! It comes out in November, i cant wait to see it!!!!
So then the show was over and i was just still in shock, I TOUCHED KEITH UUUURRRRBBBBAAAANNNN!!!! Now im literally in love with him, he is so effin sexy and god im obsessed with this guy LOL I was so down the next day when i was at home, i wanted to go to the show they were playing on friday night but i couldnt go, i was crying and everything, yah im a big baby! But i just had such a blast, i wanted to go so bad!! So i finally got over it and i ended up joining BOTH Keith Urbans and Carrie's Fan Clubs LOL!! Then a few days later, i bought 2 floor seats to carrie's concert thats in SOUTH CAROLINA!! I have a chance to meet her too, gosh i hope i can meet her!!!!! Martin is going with me and i think hes excited too, i know i am! And this time, im going to enjoy her!!! We have seats RIGHT AT THE CATWALK!!! So this time, i want to be there early and get closer to the stage at the catwalk, if i can!

So that was my night at the concert, it was amazing and i will never forget it as long as i live!! Since im signed up to keith's fan club too, im going to go to as many shows of his as i possibly can! I really hope he goes on tour next year, but we'll see, i want to see him again so bad! lol im telling u, i am obsessed!
Alright, thats it, im about to write another blog about some other things going on right now! sooooooo byeeeee!!

These past few weeks have been AMAZING!!

I haven't written in awhile, i dont know why i wait so long and put it off cuz i have to write soooo much! lol Well right now, I just got done watching a movie 'Little Miss Sunshine' it was a cute movie, not great but cute. And now i'm sick!!! ugh, thanks daddy!!!! i felt horrible all day today! Yesterday i felt like it was coming, so i took some medicine and by the time it was time to go to bed, i hardly slept at all! I woke up every single hour cuz i could barely breath out of my nose, i was hot and i kept coughing...i fell asleep about 4am and then by 9am, allie came in and got in the bed with me and woke me up!!! I did NOT want to wake up but i couldnt go back to sleep...we went to mcdonalds and i got like 8 biscuits lol they were a $1 each, i got some for everyone in the house. Then 30 mins later, Martin woke up...so about 1pm, i couldnt take it anymore, i felt exhausted! So i went and got in my bed and i was OUT! i didnt wake up until 6:30! And right now its midnight and im still tired! Im taking sleeping pills or something cuz i want to be out tonight!

Well i finally went to the Carrie / Keith concert and omg it was a blast, the best night of my entire life, literally! I will write about it in another post, cuz thats a whole other story!!!! Ummmmm.....this past thursday (May 1st, i want to remember the date) Allie went on her first night away from home!!! My mom has been wanting to watch her for the longest time and have her stay the night and she finally got her last thursday. I was worried on how Allie would do but she did GREAT! She had so much fun with her grandma =] She was passed out at 11pm and woke up sometime after noon on Friday. They played cards and played outside a lot. I just can't believe how well she did, my mom said she never cried...my mom has also offered to watch her any time we want her to, if we need to go out for something or ever need a babysitter, she said she would love to watch her! So thats awesome!!!! It was weird not having allie running around that night and then me waking up and she wasnt even here, but it was nice! lol i've never been away from her, well i have when i went to mexico but thats becuz i had to and she was still at her own home and had her own bed to sleep in. But me and Martin did NOTHING! it was like a regular day! haha he came home, ate, we watched American Idol (Jason Castro was SAFE!! WOOOOHOOOO = ] ) and then he was passed out by 10 something, so then i was up by myself for a couple more hours, so it was basically the same as any other night! If we had some money, then yah, we would have went to a dinner and a movie or something, but we are totally broke, so its not like we could do anything!

I got a new camera last night!!! Its beautiful!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Its a Canon S2 IS, here's what it looks like:

Isn't is BEAUTIFUL!!?? hehehe gosh i love it! I have been wanting another one cuz the one i have is like 2 yrs old and isn't the new technology they have out nowadays. My old camera had a 3x optical zoom, my new one has a 12X optical zoom!!! It has sooo many different settings, its just great all together. I found it off of Craigslist, she was selling it for $150 and i asked if she could go down to $130 and she said that was okay. I was skeptical at first cuz it is 2 years old and u never know what kind of condition it is in when someone has had it that long! She lives like 10 miles away from me, so we went over there at like 8:45pm last night and when we saw the camera, it looked great! Not even a scratch! It came with everything that it originally comes with and she even had the box looking brand new! lol All manuals, ect, and she also had bought a 1GB memory card, so thats great! She said she bought it $400 brand new, and i believe it too cuz this camera probably came out right at 2 years ago....anyways, enough about the camera, its awesome!!! and i love it! LOL

April 30th was kids day in Mexico and Martins mom sent Allie $187!! So we went shopping at Ross cuz Allie needed a lot of summer clothes, and Ross is the best place to get a lot of outfits for your moneys worth! She got like 6 outfits and 2 pajamas, she got a huge animal book that she loves and some keepers sake Tinkerbell boxes, they are so cute! Im going to put just special stuff in there through allie's childhood, i already have a lot that will fill up one of them. We got all that and only spent $75! So I had money left over. We went to the circus the day before and spent every last dime we had from martins check, we spent about $60 that night! So we just basically spent it all on Allie so she would have fun and get some toys, and just used the rest of Martins moms money for the rest of the week, which was like for gas and food and stuff...

The circus was fun, we went with Misty, Polo and their kids, the circus was alright that day but we were all together and the girls had a blast, so thats all that matters really. Some jerk at the games tricked me and i spent $20 on popping balloons for a freakin spongebob!!!! Gosh i was so mad!!!!! I couldn't believe i kept going, i was so mad at myself for doing that!!! He talked so damn fast, it was to hard to figure out what he was saying! The show for the circus this year was soooooo freakin boring! I couldn't believe how bad it sucked, i mean it S-U-C-K-E-D!!! Last year, i loved it, i was really into it that year...they didnt even bring out the bears this year!! Gosh i was annoyed about how bad it sucked, it was basically just dancing and then comedy with the clowns, it just sucked! i was really disappointed! BUT again, the girls still had a blast, they were even bored with the show, allie was dancing to the music and running around throughout the entire show lol here are some pictures:


So we did have fun all of us together, i hope next year wont suck like it did this year! LOL

Next month, June 2nd - June 8th, Misty got a penthouse suite in the Comfort Inn at Myrtle Beach for FREE!!!! We are staying 7 days, 6 nights! I can't wait, and the hotel is right on the ocean!!!! We are going to have so much fun, well i hope we will, im worried about Mistys family and me being left out, but maybe it wont be like that, i hope not!!! I'm taking my laptop, so i'll be posting up new blogs daily explaining what all happened that day. I really cant wait, and i gotta save up some money!!!! I am thinking of doing this, American Idol Tour 2008 tickets are going on sale May 17th at 10am, I am going to buy as many seats as i can, all the money i have and then sell them on Ebay for double or MAYBE triple the price, depending on how much others are selling them for and how much they originally are when i get them...so maybe ill make some extra money that way! I really want to see them in concert too when they come to atlanta, that would be awesome!! But thats all the way in august, I'd love to see Jason LIVE! I think he is AWESOME!! Ohh and the only way i can get these tickets is from the tax money ill be getting next week, i think its about $600, i owe daddy $200, so i'll have about $400 to spend, i hope it works out with the tickets, otherwise, IM SCREWED!!! lol

Okay, i wrote plenty tonight, im sure i could still keep going, but im tired and i need to get allie to bed! Im going to try and write tomorrow afternoon and talk ALL ABOUT Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood!!! Gosh that was a great night!!! So i'll be back tomorrow, hopefully!! hehe

~Amber