For sure going to HAVE to try this...

Check this out..this could be a SERIOUS way to start the New Year off to a bad start!! I will have to try this out soon as my husband LOVES them both dearly. We have been wanting to throw a Pot & Pub party and what a way to add this into it... Hummm..not sure how many people have really heard of those around here but they are really fun if you can get people to show up and enjoy! Meanwhile I will for sure have to test these little boys out.

http://www.1finecookie.com/2011/06/beer-cupcakes-with-beer-bacon-frosting/

So FARRR Behind.

Sheww as one can tell I am so far behind on my blogging, 2 months. I have been on Facebook way to log and this new thing called Pinterest. I mean who came up with this time consuming idea? I like the fact Facebook it is so much more convenient to hit a one liner on my phone to update Facebook and move on through out the day. I will admit I do Love my blog and have missed it so..it is a outlet for me but truely my only FREE time has to be between 2am-4am. Not sure I am ready to give those precious hours of sleep up just yet.
I plan on updating on a few funny happenings on my blog, as I have as well been traveling quite a bit the past 2 months.. I am actually on my 4th trip I do believe. So lots of pictures to share and funny stories. My end goal is one day to get this printed out into a book to keep but again this Pinterest thing has caught my interest and man the hours I have spent on there and the ideas these creative people have in this world. I know I have heard from several of you closest friends of where have I been..LOL. well hopefully I am back to keep you updated we all know I am not good on the phone either.

Wordless Wednesday~

Buurrrr Rabbitt

Here is what the "FLU" looks like in Oregon to those people. Actually it was ALOT worse but you kinda get the idea..that green thing didn't help and the smile didn't last long after that. :0) Sorry Buff you really have to PACE yourself...

Finally I made my way this year to Denver, Colorado. I have to say it is not what I was expecting of Denver, my thought was tons and tons of snow everywhere. We missed the snow by a few weeks. I will admit I didn't research like I should have BUT like always we had an absolute blast. My long time friend that I have known since I was 4 years old... we are like sisters took another trip. Look out, the world is not going to be the same. I will FOR SURE be going back and taking the family this time as well. I thought the cold weather would be dreadful because I am NOT a cold weather person but it was great. I actually enjoyed the weather there.

We did learn how to ride the railway that was to take 15 min across town.. and yeah took an 45 min one way. Fun TIMES as the little kids and bus driver thought yet again we were from Greenbow, Alabama (home of Forrest Gump) keep in mind both of us have been away from home and that accent for over 12 years.

My Hangover Friend..these guys were great. They were actually dentist who had been in town the entire previous week giving to less fortunate kids with dental work. They had stuck around for the Denver Broncos game to watch ole a$$ clown Tebo play. :0)

Rubbin is Racin

My dad and I took a trip to the race track in Dallas... after a real short trip to Fort Hood.. LOL. We had pit passes for the weekend then the rest of the family joined us for the big race on Sunday. We stood in Kyle Bush's pit while he ran 14 laps for the truck race before he ran Hornaday in the wall and was pulled from his car the rest of the weekend. Needless to say we still had to party on and pick another driver.

We are looking MIGHTY fine DAD...

Bama vs. Tennessee

Who really goes on a girls weekend for a rivalry football weekend with the "enemy" ?? LOL. It was all in good fun especially when we had them at half time. Soon after that is was all over for Tennessee. Hey we had the most wonderful weekend and tons of great laughs. My girlfriend Tammie has to be the best thing ever but never ask her about COOLANT because she really doesn't know..hehe :0) I kinda liked that hat anyway,,,

At least everyone knew who we were for while we were in that bar ?? NO DOUBT... I mean pretty obvious. We weren't loud or nothing..Nah... Did I tell you she is from Tennessee too??

Two Hot mommas hanging out for one wonderful weekend..cant wait til we go again.

Whoahhh Nelly!~

I have to share some shocking facts I just learned.. I think I knew it in the back of my head but when you are kinda told out loud and you repeat it… You hear FAT Asssssss Echo across the room.

So I go in for my “annual” and I love love love my doctor he is the most wonderful man ever. Of course his whole office is always cracking up and having fun no matter what and of course I always join in. So we get to talking about me having to weigh in like normal.. comment is made how much weight I have lost by his fellow doctor in the office. I respond yes I have lost a few.. His comment is a FEW?? Well a few looks really great! So I tell him” Yeah I am working on the Real Working Wives of Austin so trying to slim down for my new show!” So I get into my room do the usual opening to the back and my own doctor comes in and he comments on the same thing. So I wasn’t sure at this point if a fat roll had hit the floor because I had released what was all rolled up in clothing. Maybe a stretch mark had blinded him, or it is possible all that wiggly skin gave it away. Either way he ask how much I had lost?? I forgot they haven’t seen me in over a year. I was a little late getting back to see them.. OOPS! We continue on and I really don’t know exactly what I have lost in total. Guess who does ?? You guessed it good ole Doctor he keeps the records. He proceeded to take a look back for me and say it out LOUD.. now I am going to share with you OUT LOUD. Are you ready? Prior to having my first child my last visit with my doctor I was 225 in May 2007 (picture above). My last visit prior to having my second child granted he was super early Jan 2009 I weighed 208 lbs. Six weeks after having him I went back for my post visit I was down to 185lbs. At this point the whole room was echoing… and it was LOUD.. I know I was pregnant and had 2 babies got it. but still that is A LOT of weight for a 5’3” frame to hold even 185 LBS. SO after I stepped off the scales at 145 (picture above) that is a total of 80 LBS gone. The size of a damn 3rd grader almost…. Well no damn wonder my skin is Wiggly Jiggly and has to be rolled up and no way in hell it is going back in place now that you say those numbers out loud. That is A LOT of stretching so looks like Mommy make over is in my future.. Pregnancy just does it to some ladies, I am just not a baby making machine and I guess age didnt help me out..Humm a little late now but at least they are going to tie it all back up for me. AWESOME and god love technology.

Sweet Berry Farm

This has to be my favorite candid photo of the day, as my boys get bigger they are coming up with more and more funny adventures. This adventure was how to get this Tractor started because they were going to pull that load of punkin's (that was LOADED) to their Pa Pa's house. They both worked on it Luke was telling Cooper "No Cooper...key turn.." Cooper would say "Luke I know!!" Needless to say we are all still in Texas and the punkins are still there at the farm.

I just love this picture.. such deep thought over this one piece of hay. He stood out there under these 2 rolls of hay for some time just thinking.

This was my little Luke not so happy about the event his brother had chosen to go thru the corn field... I had to snap this one as he was pouting so precious but of course he got the old "unacceptable" right after this shot.

We took our kiddos out to the Sweet Berry Farm and wow that place is really alot of fun. You could spend an entire day out there. They do a great job of fun little events for kiddos. Perfect for picture freaks like myself, the backdrops are out of this world. I happen to take one shot of this little girl. Amazing how everyone else's kids were coropertaing for shots except for mine. Little Stranger Cutie is FOR sure County Fair blue ribbon winner .. HA ;0) looks like she picked a whole row of strawbeeries and took it back to the old truck for her grandpa. Precious.

Rockin On W/ Miranda

Are you lovin my Boots ?? My daddy bought me these on my 16th birthday and they still look just as sharp...I mean it was only 10 years ago :0)

My Hubby got me tickets to go see Miranda (my girl) for my birthday but then he had a BBQ cook off that weekend so left me to invite a friend..PERFECT!! I invited my neighbor and boy did we have fun... never a concert with out some stupidity though right? well not when you attend with myself of course.. HA. of this time it was right as we walked in the door.. for real it couldn't wait?? Best to get it over with I guess.. Mr. Badge happy Barney Fife tells me I can't take my larger photo lens in..that it cant be any larger than his hand and that is 5 inches. REALLY I say.. humm thinking to myself what a dumb ass. so I say I valet parked my truck has already been pulled around he volunteer to walk out with me to have them pull it back around the show has literally 25 min before beginning.. everyone is backed up to valet park IS this moron serious?? Yep he is.. so we stop because I want to show him I pull the lens out and show him that the lens is no longer than my hand..and I am sure your hand is longer than mine.. Right I say?? He looks at me as he swells up and say well YES my hand is 6 and a half inches long.. OK I say then it won't go all the way to the end hold it up lets see.. he looks at me again like what the hell.. first he says no like it is some kind of joke I am going to put his own handcuffs on his ass. Finally he holds his hands up and I put the lens up there and poof guess when PRICK... the lens is not longer than your hand actually smaller..humm so by what your stupid ass had told me inside I am technically ok to go thru... so I tell him see it is OK to take it on.. he says no my hand is 6 and a half inches and there is nothing over 5 inches.. no stupid ass you said nothing larger than your hand. Either way I put the lens back in my truck point was made to the dip shit cop as I am sure he has no clue how long his ding ding even is.and how sad that must be.

With all of that we still had a blast and with the small lens Laurens I phone took better pictures than my small lens.. but with my camera we got pictures of ourselves as we were people watching and boot shopping in the lobby. :0) Can I tell you that Pistol Annies group is so wonderful..love love love me some Suga daddy I am comin for youuuuuuuuu. :0)

Fun Fun and lots O wine~

Ahhh How I love this dessert..it may not look like much but let me tell ya when you get past that top part it is ewwwy gooey brownie goodness. Did I mention their steaks are yummy too?

Heather Weatha and I decided to keep celebrating my birthday at a great steak house here in Austin my Favvvvvvv Sullivan"s..Yummy Yummy Tummy (as my little Boy says). It was so much fun I don't think I have literally sat in a restaurant for 4 hours and laughed and laughed some more...the wine was great the desert was even better. The funny part to the night any one who knows me my motto has always been "don't follow me I get lost going home" well guess what? WE DID.. we were staying downtown for an event an had walked over and sure enough got lost "turned around" going back. Maybe a little to much wine mixed up or GPS system. HA :0) Never fear we rocked it on out found our way and went out with the littles around town and man do they make ya feel old.. thought I was going to have to go ahead and buy stock in Depends Under Garments. lol... its ok I can still hang better than most I guess and always in for good times and lots of laughs with great co-workers and great old friends. thanks for making my birthday great and a month long event.

It's My Birthday..yeah yeah yeah

Whelp, I have said it before and I will say it again, I start a new year over on the day I was born. After all that was my grand entrance into this great big world not Jan 1st..DUH!! I like to reflect back on all the things I learned and and the great things I got into thru out the year. So here are just a few..
I learned from my wonderful hubby that mayonnaise NEVER expires
I learned that a 2 hour flight can turn into ETERNITY.
I learned that In home daycare just isn't the place for my kids
I learned that it really is true negative energy IN is negative energy OUT
My kids have taught me that snakes really have bones :o)
I learned that some close friends really do move on and it is OK
I have learned our parents are really getting older.. and not so fun accepting those things that come along with that :0(
I have experienced life long friends all the back to grade school that I love dearly and what a great feeling.
I learned there are some CRAZY Bitches that blog out there...
I have learned that hard work pays off..SOMETIMES
So a few more things I have to share.. I have been on this weight loss journey for a little over a year now and have been looking thru pictures for a project at work and noticed I am the only one holding the camera 24/7 and well probably cause I was a fatty fatty 2x4 for a few years. I was never ever big before it was just thru the stint of having kiddos and I guess everyone goes thru it but sheww I can see where people get into depression mode over that stuff.. UGH. Anyway, I found a few pictures I wanted to share to show how far I have come keep in mind they are mostly head shots.. silly me. Not anymore!! :0)
I have had a pretty good year lots of crazy things have happened but for sure looking back have made me stronger. I flew out to Oregon and visited with my childhood friend from kindergarten and went gambling we had so much fun..CraZZZyyy Thelma and Louise trip I do say... I went to Dallas for 2 weeks for the NBA playoffs was quite a different experience. I walked beside my best friend loosing her dad this year and that was quite a journey. I also have met the sweetest little old man along that flight home. Along without even knowing boarded the plane with him again after getting phone call to fly home in response to a heart attack with my own father. Funny how God watches over us. We are now very good friends and probably will be for life. I am blessed with a wonderful family and great friends. I am now counting the days roughly 730 days from today I will have my mommy make-over and laying on the beach with my life long girl friends from grade school we have all pinkie swore we would Ya Ya Sista on a beach for our 40th.. No one is taking a MILF.. bahh Haaa Haaa. ahhhhh getting old and having more insurance and slidding sideways is feeling quite nice I do believe...and who said getting od was a bad thing??

Proud to be an American~

Sometimes a picture just says it all.
As the Statue of Liberty stood there 10 years ago today and watched our freedom being taken away do you wonder what she thought? This day forever changed all of our lives. Where were you on the day of 9.11? I have to say it is a day,a month I will never ever forget. It is a day that forever changed the world for us all and continues to change the world.. in my opinion it is for the worse.

I worked at IBM in Austin, Texas and walked into work that morning of 9/11 and everyone was piled up around a TV. When I heard the news and as it soaked in I was panic stricken. First thing that hit me was I WANT TO GO HOME. Well guess what all flights are shut down I was going no where...It was kinda scary cause no one knew if it was over or what was coming next. Eventually, it was under control but I remember watching day in and day out coverage just sitting on my couch and crying and crying. My heart broke for those people and their families and made me just want to be home with mine. Just an average day for the average Joe and out of no where corruption hit. Freedom taken.. people came together like never before, people prayed for strangers, people had more faith in God, it was a great thing to see but for sure a bad situation and a lot of innocent life's lost.

I will say it is an HONOR to be an American and an privilege to be FREE and we are all blessed to have the military men and their families out there doing what they do for us every single day. GOD BLESS you all and godspeed to those of you who lost loved ones 10 years ago today.

Animals..and More Animals....

I don't know who enjoyed the animals more my kiddos or myself. I was so amazed by the Sloth I had never seen one in real life and wow.... ugly ugly ugly so ugly it is almost cute. Slowest animal in the world. So this animal sleeps anywhere from 18 to 20 hours a day and can fall asleep eating. Always is upside down its insides are even upside down..so that means its everything is reversed on the inside. the Sloth lives in trees and comes down from the tree once a week to potty and when it does it can loose up to 5 pounds. Crazy huh?? Anyway enough about the Sloth you can see I get carried away we saw all kinds of different animals a black Scorpion, a Porcupine, snakes, Tranchela, Lizard, Hedgehog, "blue" from Rio. It was so cute as well that my oldest held his little hand up and ask a question or told a story for every animal... sometimes the animals got 2 stories.

HillBilly Handfishin

Here is our catfish .. doesn't look like it would be that hard right??

My oldest has been hung up on this new show Hillbilly Handfishin and we are all goin... want to join us?? the idea is you get yourself in a creek stick your hand under a rock and wait on the cat fish to bite your hand and then someone strings hims for ya. In Oklahoma where they film this show they call it "noodling". We took the kids to a "resort" ,as my oldest says, for the holiday weekend. Walaaa guess what they had... yep you guessed it a catfish pond. We sat out there and watched them and watched them.... and watched them. I also got tickled at my son leaned back crossing his arms and looked so much like my dad when another kid would walk up. He would start conversation with "I am going Hillbilly Handfishin.... know what that is??" " My PaPa is going to go too but he is scared... " I'm not scared.. I am going to catch one that is 50 hundred pounds"

WAY too close

As we pull back into town this is the sight we see...fires have broken out all over Austin. How scary? My husband begins to then find out his side of the family has been evacuated and affected by the fires. 2500 acres have now gone up in flames and it is still not under control. Several other fires have broken out around town. Some set by carelessness and then of course some set by kids having no idea what the implications would be . It got our family to thinking what exactly would you take if you really had to pack and leave...so we actually did the fire drill. Call me CRaZZZyyyy (as my little boy says) but heck you never know. So here is what we have a fire safe packed with passports, my original wedding bands, my moms rings, my pearls, old pictures, I copied all of my photos and music off of both computers and bought 2 hard drives and they are now in there. I also have back up money in there just in case. I put wedding license, insurance papers, wills, my hubby's release papers from the military and all the other basic junk.
My hubby and I talked if we get a chance to go back in for anything I want my wedding dress and the box of my kids baby clothes. I am actually thinking hard about buying another fire safe to put those items in... it isn't alot but for sure things you will never ever be able to replace. I just know as I am now older I have really appreciated the fact that my mother is a pack rat and saved all that stuff from when my brother and I were kiddos.
I feel so bad for the families that have lost everything and have to start all over from scratch. I am sure words can't describe what they are enduring. It is amazing that with all the acreage that has burnt only 5 lives have been lost. Godspeed to them all.

Wordless Wednesday

Hot Thang!!

Yet 2 hot mommas get together and Austin never knew what hit this town. My girlfriend came into town and we had yet another great night on the town. I sure miss her as we dont get to see much of each other but when we do...OH LAWWRRDD. This picture is awful thanks to my crazy camera phone.. Oh well. We will get some better ones on our next girl trip.

Oh My My

Check this out! I borrowed a few lines that most generally post every single day onto a Social Media called Facebook. Most all of us hate so much drama and deal with on a daily basis. A fellow blogger that I enjoy following called Texas Darlings had a interesting post about how funny Facebook is. The majority of her post about Facebook the world has said it a million times over out loud she is NOT the first,the rest of her post was quotes from Facebook. Therefore, not completely her own words furthermore falls no where near a copyright infringement. I re posted some of it and changed some of it as it applied to myself and deleted some of it adding my own words. Thinking no big deal I don't have 181 official followers like herself. I post only for my family and close friends who don't even blog any way a good way to pass along right? Well maybe not... seems as though imitation is NOT the truest form of flattery in this case. She was totally 100% offended went off about how she was violated as though she had been raped by some stranger. Got her whole posse of bloggers together to post with her and jump onto my blog and post comments. I became UN-Christian god doesn't like Christians. After all I stole her words... Blah Blah Blah... they all threw stones went on and on. How dare me I owed Becca an apology.. and I had a blog for 2 plus years and no comments, how nothing on my blog was ever the truth, etc. I felt like I was attacked by the local toddlers and tiaras of Texas or something. I am totally taken a back by such behavior by grown adults CLAIMING to be adults and judging some one they don't even know. I never meant to ruffle such feathers I thought the blog was funny and felt the same identical way.... it goes like this you win some you loose some either way it was funny and I enjoyed it . I did remove it from my blog as she requested. You should all visit her blog she does write very well and is very witty and funny regardless if she is touchy about being complimented. Something about these Texans I have yet to figure out... To each their own where we are from Girls you know what we say.... God Bless 'em... and Bless their Hearts !

Friday Day Dreaming

I have to say I was so so excited when I saw this posted on a friends blog. I had to share and post my own... I tend to do this day dreaming thing alot these days. Here is one that I love to daydream about that takes me back to such a great week..

A wonderful week with my wonderful new husband in a small town outside of Playa Del Carmen, Mexico for our Honeymoon. We had no real plans which is not normal for me and had gone into town for the day to walk around. Decided to take a seat have a beer under a straw roof at a bar called Tortuga. Sun was shining and all of a sudden it was pouring rain we both looked up and these gorgeous flowers that were across from us just draping down. I have since remembered that day just by this one picture as we sat and shared the dreams we had in store for our new life together. At that point in life we were told we would never have kids and wondered if whoever "they" were was right. It was crazy the way God just all of a sudden laughed (sunshine) and cried (rain) with us all in the same day it was great. We both cherish this picture and I daydream about it often. Funny how things take you back to that moment in time. We now have two very dear blessings of children and I so say god was there with us that day and heard us talking. I call them God Whispers and I think he was "whispering" in his own way when the rain started.. call me crazy but I have ALOT of faith. I love to daydream and I will go back to these flowers and I will cut some trimmings off this time to bring home to share with my dear little blessings and enjoy every single day of waking up and looking at these beautiful flowers. Godspeed and bless you all!!

Rollin Dice..

Here is what Vegas looked like for me!! BIG OLE BOOTY CRACK. Actually, anyone who knows my daddy knows it is little booty crack.. LOL.

Welp guys and gals, I guess I spoke way too soon about rollin the dice and coming home a rich rich momma from Vegas. As luck would have it the day before my dad and I got ready to leave I got a phone call from my mother. She is on the other line telling me to cancel the trip..HUH?? Yeah we are in the ER they think your dad may have had a heart attack. WTH.. on the next plane home to check the situation out.

Turns out my dad is doing much much better after quite the scare. It was a long stay in the hospital. Those chairs just aren't as comfortable as they look ..OUCH! An interesting 2 days going thru complete bullshit with insurance and small town control freaks. We missed Vegas for now but it is a sign of good luck. :0) It is Billions once we make it there I just know it!!

I will say this thank god for good friends who have gone on to be heart surgeons, and good friends who cry on the phone with me while I sat at the airport. To my friend Ed who is my "god"knock friend that I keep meeting up with in airports..solid soul I say. I know several of my very best friends have lost loved ones just this month as I have traveled back and forth to be with them. It seems so crazy that we all get older and life is just inevitable. I am VERY thankful that God gave me yet one more blessing in life and that is to spend yet more time with my daddy. Love you DAD xoxo God is Great!!


Look out Vegas we are headed your way... and I promise you will never know what hit you this time.. Oh but wait did I say we are headed to the Nascar race first in Dallas, Texas then we will be there to take all your money!! :0)

Ever wonder...

So do you ever wonder why it is Monkeys throw their own SHIT?? or did you even know that they did? Welp I am here to tell you that in fact they do!! Also to tell you that this week some people have totally made me understand why that is...
Monkeys are said to be alot like humans. I am mesmerized by these creatures the most when I go to the zoo with my kids. I never understood the SHIT throwing until just this week I had a Ahhh Haaa moment. This one particular person just rubs me the wrong damn way. Constantly has something to say about everything. One would think the damn husband puts her pants on for her in the mornings. Meaning she don't put her pants on every morning like the rest of us normal folk. Her husband is the stay at home dad ,no issue with that at all, but she brags how even when she gets home she does nothing.. NOTHING and giggles.. almost carries on as though she may have her very own set of balls. She calls almost every female "Missy" ok bitch my name aint "Missy" it is Renee now get it right or that may another pile of shit to the face. See where I am going to with this?? She has a long list that could require a pile of shit to the head.. she may actully just need to invest in a shit jumpsuit.
They say Monkeys throw their own shit out of boredom and it comes from highly intelligent animals being held in captivity with nothing to do. So they see patrons pass by and throw a pile of shit to listen to them scream. It is a form of fun for them and something to do. Hummm pretty smart. It would be a form of fun I guess for me to throw piles of shit at this person but more importantly Just to see her damn face. spewwwwww splat!!

Happy 40th Anniversary Mom & Dad

What could be the secret to 40 years of marriage?? WOW my parents have been married 40 years today. That is a looong time. Look at this Groooovy picture of them back in the day!! Especially when you look around these days and you have Hollywood all but saying it is ok to have 5 kids without even being married. Then Liz Taylor she had what 7 husbands. Is it about all the change or maybe not so much of it... hummm cause my parents aren't much for change...

40 years married to the same person

38 years living on the same street

38 years living in the same house in the same town

38 years with the same Daughter -not that they would send me back to the Gypsy's

37 years with the same Son -not like they would have ever thought about sending him off

20 something years with the same business

? not sure how many years with the same cars my daddy sure drives one a long time

It is just a different day in time for the good or the bad we are here to embrace it for what it is I guess. Not sure what the secret to such a long marriage is but it is sure something I admire as marriage is a crazy road some days. I know my parents sure have great advice to share and some great stories to tell. I love the biscuits story how my mom couldn't cook when they got married threw them out and the local animals roaming the streets wouldn't touch them either. How my daddy sold tooo many "BUiCKS" oh well we all have to go to the car lot every now and then. Still funny stories.

HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY MOM & DAD..

Have a wonderful day!!