I know it's a shocker, I'm blogging. Just wanted to tell everyone out there Happy Thanksgiving. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend with your family & friends.
Here is what I am baking right this very moment:
Hope they are good. They sure look yummy. Next on the list to make is some mashed potatoes, rolls, and yams.
Then off to my moms to gain a few pounds.
I just wanted to do a little birthday post on here. I have been completely overwhelmed with the amount of love, and friendship I have felt over the past two days!!
I have the best family ever, who makes me feel loved, and cherished! Thank you all for your calls, offers to help in my busy week, & most of all my new camera lens. HA HA!!
These two days have made me realize how VERY blessed I am in friendship!! I seriously have the most amazing group of friends in the whole world. I felt love from ALL over the globe! Thank you to all the girls who took time out of their busy lives to call, email, comment on FB, and come to my lunch...just to show me they care. I really am feeling the love. :)
My birthday lunch was much needed in a hectic busy week. I was completely spoiled!! It was so much fun.
and here are all my wonderful, thoughtful gifts. :)
Thanks everyone, for my wonderful day!!
I've been asked by several friends to teach classes at my home, because we live so dang far from any scrapbook store that is worth going to, so I am finally going to bite the bullet & do it!!
I'm so excited!! Hope to see you all there!
Just wanted to share a little post about abbey's birthday. She has LITERALLY been asking me all year if she was 6 yet, and now finally, the day is here that I can tell her yes!
Dad ran & got her a sprinkle donut this morning from Dunkin...& she got to open a couple presents. Some headbands, a cute shirt to wear to school, and a new lunchbox from Bayley. :)
A few things about Abbey:
She loves having her picture taken, when Grandma was making clothes, she loved being a model for her
She can fall asleep just about anywhere! It always makes me laugh when I find her in random places...and there is usually candy nearby ha!
She's very good at reading
She loves to play with barbies...and often I hear her talk her dad into playing with her.
She makes friends easy, and it seems that her closest friends are always boys. Go figure.
She changes her clothes about 10 times a day, and loves it.
She loves to help me make dinner every night, and gets really excited to help when it's dessert, and she can lick the bowl.
She adores her grandmas & grandpas.
If I would let her, she would eat M&M's for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
She would rather get a movie than a toy.
She is always smiling, and keeps us laughing.
She loves school!
First day of preschool
(first day of kindergarten)
first day of 1st grade
She adores her brother and sister, and loves to hang with them
She's got daddy wrapped around her finger (I mean, come on, he plays barbies with her). :) She asks him to wrestle EVERY night when he gets home from work.
Abbey, you are my little angel. My best buddy. I've had a hard time this week with you being in first grade, and being gone all day. I miss you asking me to play with you, and read to you. You make me so happy. I love your kisses and hugs every single morning, I love your voice, and your laugh. You are such a tiny little girl, and such a HUGE part of our family.
HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY sweet pea! Love you!
Ever since stupid facebook entered my life, I've lost touch with the blog world. I'm hoping once school starts, and my kids are back on a schedule, I'll find my schedule again, and can keep up!
I thought I would post some pics from my Oceanside trip I took w/ some of my favorite girlfriends. We went at the end of June...and they haven't seen the pics still. Sorry girls!
We had a fun little photoshoot while there. :)
This is Brianne, Tiffany, Lisa, and I.
Aren't we cheesy??
Tiffy, you are one hot momma!!
Beach day...dont mind the NO makeup:
We shopped like crazy, and must have hit EVERY Marshall's in a 15 mile radious. Looking for the perfect Kathy Van Zeeland purses.
Oh, we also found some nice Mumu's :) Curtis loved it. LOL
We got some dang cute pedicures:
We ate at some yummy places...this is us with Pam (Tiffany's mom) she is the one who is kind enough to invite us to stay at her lovely condo!! She is so much fun, and had the cutest little "Pam's favorite things" gifts for us every day. THANK YOU Pammy!!!
I love you girls!! Thanks so much for:
the laughs till we cried
the heartfelt talks till we cried
the goofiness
the gifts
the shopping
the giggling
the jokes
the random question game where we learned so much about eachother
the tanning
the teasing
the FOOD
the borrowed clothes
and most of all the friendship!! I'm so lucky to have you all.
I pretty much forgot I even HAD a blog. It's been nice to not worry about it for awhile. Just enjoying the summer, and having my kids around.
I think it will be easier to post once school is back in, and we have a schedule...not to mention ALL three of my kids will be in school all day, what am I going to do with myself???
Here's a small or maybe it's large overview of our Powell trip. It was amazing, so much fun! We (my sister in law rhonda & I) took over 4,000 pictures in 5 days. WOW! Get comfortable...there's a lot of pictures. This may very well go down in history for the longest blog post.
Summer Dreamin 09
There's always tons of fishing going on:
We each have days where we cook. My mother in law always does a big themed dinner. This year was a Luau..the girls were standing at the top of the stairs to put leis on everyone:
The kids had some seriously crazy tube rides!!!
Alec & Bayley
Makenzie & Lauren
Sydney & Bayley
We even got Grandma & Grandpa to ride!!
What did the moms do while the kids were on the boat?
There's never a shortage of wakeboarding, the water was best in the evening..so the lighting isn't the best & they look a bit blurry (plus, I'm way too lazy to edit these before I post them)
not nearly as exciting, I know!
bayley has gotten so good...he's fun to watch
I'm really mad this is blurry
syd went for it this year...I think she'll be great next year
We had fun trying tricks on the tubes :) This may have been where we laughed the most...
fun with kayaks...(thanks Lisa!)
extreme cliff jumping :)
fireworks each night:
the highlight of each day for me!
crazy cooks:
Ok, maybe THIS is when we laughed the hardest!
I jumped from the banana boat to the tube...right on top of Rhonda & Susie...we were laughing so hard
we told Curtis not to hurt us...he didn't listen. I still have injuries from this trip...
lizard catching was a daily occurance:
the view:
and....family pics
Till next year....Lake Powell Forever!!!
So, it looks like summer is not a great time for me to be participating in scrapbook challenges! I just can't get it done. :)
I have made a few new necklaces lately though, so I thought I would share those with you!
I think this one has sort of a Betsey Johnson feel to it w/ the flower & the bow. Love it!
These chain necklaces have been really popular. This one was fun w/ the big blingy fleur de lis added.
Off to swim with the kids...have a great day!
