Saturday, November 27, 2010

An Aggie for a Day

So every year it is the Aggies vs Longhorns on Thanksgiving night. It is a Texas thang for you Tennessee peeps reading. So this year I decided to go for the Aggies since we already knew who the winner was.. hehe. Our friends had a get together for the big and little peeps and we had so much fun...
Doooohhh Dawn we might be in trouble..



and then we party on wayne.. like Aggies do!! hey this aggies thing aint so bad..my hubby didn't think so he didnt like the longhorns getting beat. Hey they have had such a bad season and loosing all their games..they should be used to it by now right?? Either way it was a great party and a wonderful Thanksgiving with a great group of friends!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

How did they know?

So between big a picture freak and a Christmas card freak Shutterfly is screaming my name tis season.. do you hear them?? So listen to this..if you are a blogger you can get 50 free Christmas cards.. WHAT Really?? and have you seen how cute the cards are?? I have no clue which one I would really choose.. of course I send way more than 50 out so I could pick 50 of one kind and then just50 of another kind and 50 of another kind.. Yeah.. now we are talking!! Ahh I love this company.. yet another company doing Customer Service right!! I also just ordered Calendars from them as I do every year and this year they stepped it up. They put the persons picture on the day of their birthday.. super duper CUTE!! Love IT!! You just can't beat all this personalization and all these things I get to do with all these pictures I take cause anyone who knows me knows my middle name is KODAK and I take tons and tons of pictures. Here are a few of the cards I am debating between what do you think? You have to go out to Shutterfly web site and check out all the new cool stuff they have this year ..they have really changed stuff around I am liking it... http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards I have our Christmas pics ready to drop in..tis the season thank you SHUTTERFLY!!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

150% customer service








These days customer service is all but gone out the door. So if and when I ever get good customer service I am sure to tell the world about it. So here is my screaming from the roof top about this one. I have had a Pandora bracelet for quite some time now and have loved it since day one. Don't get me wrong it is expensive to add to it. Each and every charm means something to me and every single time I look at my wrist I smile at each charm I have and that is enough for me. The past almost year I haven't wore mine because the bracelet has stretched because of the weight of the charms and was just irritating. Then I took it to the mall to find out the store I normally went to quit selling them.. Well that did it. NOW WHAT!!
Only to find out randomly over a lunch date that guess what?? If they still stock what you have they will trade it no matter how long you have had it. WOW really.. and now they have a Pandora store that has everything not just a select few pieces to choose from. OK now we are in business. so I went over to the store to make sure it was all true.. and the women in there were so sweet they traded out my bracelet cleaned all my charms with a smile. It was the best experience ever not to mention it is a GREAT piece of jewelry and makes it easy for your friends and family to shop for ya. Makes ya wonder why more businesses don't follow in those footsteps??

Friday, November 12, 2010

Rose Colored Glasses


I like to call these my mommy glasses.. I went out to eat with my family last weekend and had what they call a Ahh-Haa moment. I think because I was single for so long I became good at what I call cross table entertainment. So basically this means any table around mine I can radar in on the conversation and hear almost every word and still look at my husband and act interested in what he is talking about and interrupt him in mid sentence and say "did you hear that" ..is she kidden?"
Before dinner we had a brief wait and a few girls in their 20's looked as though they had gathered for happy hour drinks were giggling and carrying on ...one continued to carry on about how her boyfriend put butter on everything..even her bread.. I mean she said it 30 times. Then the conversation carried on to Levi jeans how it was a disgrace to wear them. Really? ummm So we sat still waiting to be called for our seat looking thru my mommy glasses as an older couple stood across the room smiling at our kids and as I sit drinking a beer out of a fish bowl thinking "god if they only knew the week I have had!!"..HELL surely they have kids she has been thru it she prolly has mommy glasses broken, twisted,& shoved somewhere in a drawer I am sure she KNOWS.. how damn hard it is to hold it all together!! Fu*K who cares if I wear Levis or if I have butter on my bread.. or if the older couple thinks I am of the devil for drinking a damn beer.. I DONT CARE.. I birthed these two damn kids I wear my own rose colored glasses and drink my beer with pride damit.. and listen to these conversations and giggle.
Then while we are sitting on the bench this lady leans over to ask how old my little is I say oh 21 months she says oh really mine is 19 months.. I am looking around like really cause I see no kid.. look up and he is clear across the room with his hand stuck up the bubble gum machine.. kinda funny cause as the night went on he was the kid that ended up at the back of the restaurant by us no parent in site for over 15 minutes.. his parents were somewhat (WHole LoTTA) over weight and stood up at the front and waited on him just to come to the front.. REAllY?? ok so the ROse on my glasses got a little red I was having to explain to my kids how that wasn't the right thing to be doing.. My oldest thought a monster was going to take him home.. umm yeah ok might be better for us all at this point honey!! yeah that was interesting conversation.. kinda messed up my cross table entertainment for a minute.. cause get this...
Ginzel "little man syndrome" and hottie hot sat down beside us not sure why she went on a date with this dude BUT she did.. my hubby knew this one was so over.. so just of the story went like this he had been married for super short time she was drilling him about why he got divorced he had no good answer imagine that.. he was trying to pump her full of Mexican martinis.. it was just so typical.. of course so funny I had mommy glasses on having flash backs and shaking my head... I rested at ease when she was flirting with my oldest. She then turned kinda for my approval and said I have a one year old at home.. ahh yeah ok well maybe just maybe she is safe not to fall for J-Hole across the table. One would hope!! So funny how you see things so different makes me wonder for real how my parents really kept their mouth shut and didn't say more than they did all those years. hummm. Anyway, I worked hard very hard to get these glasses and wouldn't trade em for the world.. just amazes me how different the world looks thru these things!! I guess once we each put them on we never really get to take them back off.. do we?? Oh and did I mention the fact how my husband cant stand that I can over hear all of this conversation and still keep up with his and get on to my 2 kids too...call it being a mommy!!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ya Ya Somethin...

Little Miss Prissy you should all watch for her in the movies one day.. it is coming soon!! I just know it!! You wait though Tom Cruise is pulling up to my house first Bhhhaaa haah ahha
Captain America is always up for pictures can you tell??



These are my girls from home I love them all dearly we always get together when I go home.. and here is our gathering on this trip. My how we change on every trip. I am going to have to start comparing pictures here...hummm little devil in disguise here I think??

Sunday, November 7, 2010

A HUGE-mongus shower

The expecting couple!! I had to put this funny picture not very often I catch a picture of Aunt Wee Wee goofin off... sorry Aunt Wee Wee but it was a super cute picture.
So I finally have some pictures rounded up to share of the largest baby shower in the south (200+ guest invited). HUGE-Mongus as my little boy says... so if you haven't heard already we are expecting an new little boy in our family soon and thank goodness I aint the one delivering this one Yee Haww!! We had put a cute little pumpkin in the invite asking the guest to sign a book instead of a card. It was a huge hit they got a bunch of super cute books for the new little guy. The boys and I flew home for Halloween (that is a whole nuther blog- flying alone with 2 kids) to throw the shower and trick-a-treat anyway here are some of the pics...


















The little spiders, baby bottles, and it's a boy pumkins were in jars on each table and were a HUGE hit... so so cute and such a PROJECT!! Thanks to my sister-in-laws for helping me pull this one off... These yummy popcorn balls were the party favors..and nope didn't even make them myself !!


Everyone had fun signing the banner I am sure little baby Seymor Carr (LOL) will enjoy it once he enters the world :0)






I took these pictures a little early before the food was delivered and the yummy cake balls.. of course I got carried away and didnt get one picture of the ghost cake balls and the choclate candy corn cake balls but they were for sure to die for yummy!! Thanks Kelly you Rock!!~

Of course as always all new parents need all the advice they can get so we built an advice tree it was full full by the time the day was over..

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Great Halloween Fun!~

My bestest friend and her twin get INTO some Halloween now... so this year they were vampires and yet again they out did themselves. I was so glad I was home to see it in person and my kiddos too but Cooper was a little unsure.. he would stand back and observe it all but no way was he taking any pictures. Buzz Lightyear was all for it of course.
This is Debbie my life long friends mom we have been friends since kindergarten love this woman she has always lived a road over from us and I honk like crazy every time I get in town so she knew we were coming..hehe :0) I thought it was great as we went to houses in the neighborhood I grew up. They had special bags made for the kids.. I think that is so special!~ I wish our neighborhood did neat things like this~




WE had so much fun.. my dad and brother were such sports they we all super heroes and made mighty fine ones if I do say so myself... (they do look a little confused)