Along the Way..

For sure going to HAVE to try this...

2011-12-29T22:16:00.005-06:00

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.

2011-12-23T13:59:00.004-06:00

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~

2011-11-23T23:09:00.000-06:00

Buurrrr Rabbitt

2011-11-22T22:48:00.000-06:00

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

2011-11-08T22:26:00.000-06:00

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

2011-10-23T22:35:00.002-05:00

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!~

2011-10-17T15:41:00.003-05:00

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

2011-10-14T20:13:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-05T12:47:00.000-05:00

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~

2011-09-21T12:30:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-16T10:29:00.008-05:00

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~

2011-09-11T12:18:00.002-05:00

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....

2011-09-06T11:48:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-05T10:41:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-01T10:02:00.000-05:00

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

2011-08-31T10:39:00.000-05:00

Hot Thang!!

2011-08-17T12:31:00.004-05:00

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

2011-08-16T19:02:00.003-05:00

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

2011-08-12T17:20:00.006-05:00

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..

2011-07-28T21:59:00.002-05:00

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...

2011-07-22T10:28:00.004-05:00

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

2011-07-16T09:49:00.004-05:00

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!!

No Reunion for ME!!

2011-07-13T13:59:00.000-05:00

As one can probably tell I am from a small town. I went to a smaller high school than most. We had 150 or so people in our graduating class. Do y'all remember the days of senior pictures when you had to wear those feather wrap things? Or was it just us that did that?
I think back to how lucky I was to live in a small town and graduate when I did. I don't feel like we had ANY of the pressures that kids today face. Nobody seemed to care who had money and who didn't or what brand of clothes you wore or what car you drove. Good thing because I cruised around in black king cab truck from the old sonic hill to the mall like crazy on a Friday night. Wore cut off shorts and cowboy boots like a CHAMP!! Maybe I've just forgotten - but it seemed pretty Mayberry-ish to me.Did you go to high school in the early 90's? If so - then you might identify with having HUGE hair. We would hold our hair out on the sides and spray hair spray on it and then hold the blow dryer on it to keep it out. And my bangs could bounce concrete off them. We tight rolled our jeans and wore swatch watches and Esprit sweaters. We didn't have cell phones - I would have to call my parents from the pay phone inside the gym after ball games or from a friend's home phone. We didn't have internet or facebook or twitter or blogs. (I'm sort of glad - aren't you?) We learned to type on typewriters and used those for papers in school.
I found out this weekend that my high school class is having our 20th class reunion in a State park in a town next door to our home town. Part of the group is playing golf, some are hiking, who knows what the rest are doing. There is a dinner that night at our yucky Country club that is dated back to Miami Vice style. They are going to have the day catered and want us to pay $100 per family..ok really?? Then it is off to hang out in what they call "the alley" with 3 bars and look at the losers that are left in small town USA...in 2 whole weeks. They pretty much planned all this via the social media route. Although, I just received my formal invite in the mail this week. Nice real nice gives us plenty of time to make arrangements. YA THINK?? So needless to say I am skipping mine.. decided I have better things to do!! My dad and I are hitting Las Vegas wide open!!

I think it will be a much better time indeed... my daddy has never been to Vegas and well I need a break from a computer and a cell phone in a bad way. One never knows I am pretty good on a Blackjack table.. I may be able to come home work out my year as a millionaire and move on to the beach. You guys look for the beach party invites next Sept celebrating my 40th Millionaire Party rockin it out!! I mean really who cares about going to see a bunch of people who have been starving or pill pooping for weeks to get skinny and gonna lie about how great their life is for hours on end. Not I !!!! I had rather go drink and hang out by the pool and enjoy life. I graduated high school 20 years ago and moved away from po-dunk for a reason. Ahh those were great times... you guys have fun but I will think about you with my High school skinny self in Vegas baby!!

Look OUT Vegas here we COME!!!!.

Haaayy Beebbee!!

2011-07-10T12:24:00.001-05:00

If I do say so myself.... I think we get better looking every year... or WAIT could it be NO sleep, 2 babies, ALOT of work, travel, stressssss, did I say stressssss. Kinda looks like I am falling over and big sunglasses are coverin it up pretty good. Hell it could be a blow up doll standin there..hehe. NAHHHHH they don't make sh*t lookin that hot right? Like Cooper says Haaaayyyy Beee Beeeeee........

Happy Independance DAY!!

2011-07-04T12:58:00.001-05:00

5 Long Years = BLING

2011-07-01T11:55:00.000-05:00

It has been 5 long years of marriage. Not because my Hubby is hard to put up with by no means but because we have had several tough challenges that god has given us that most marriages never even endure. We started out by being told we would NEVER have kids supported by my uterus completely collapsing. Followed by a high risk pregnancy.... of course I am the "HIDE AND WATCH ME" kind of person. We moved on with the on set of Bells Palsy at 35 weeks of pregnancy. Then even further to 37 weeks to finally see a healthily, gorgeous baby boy. Continuing along a complete year of pain in my face and onset of headaches to finally figure out on my child's first birthday I had a brain tumor. This was alot to take in all at once, as there was not much anyone could do due to the location. If touched I had 80% of being a vegetable the rest of my life or I could take a test medication and see if would work. Well wonder what I choose here?? We carried on for several weeks on eggshells crying and going thru the motions. Meanwhile, I went back to the doctor and the meds had actually shrunk the tumor GREAT news which means it isn't cancer. The day we got the news is the day guess what God gave us baby #2. Being the meds had made me so sick and I already felt so bad I had no idea I was even pregnant. Once I figured it out they had advised against keeping him but again "HIDE AND WATCH" A lady told me during this "God does things for a reason and he gives us babies as miracles to heal". I have never ever forgotten that and never will.... I had my little guy at 31 weeks premature and they rolled in that night and told me God was going to take him. He might not make it thru the night. Now that was alot to take in how do you loose a child? It was a long long road for my entire family and a month's stay in the NICU unit. Thank the lord above we all are healthy and fine now and all better for it I am sure... all that in 5 years time!!
So on my anniversary this year my hubby gave me a Champagne Diamond ring. I figure I almost checked out of here once and ya know I know some women wait 20,30, 40 years of marriage for a ring like this.... but hell I may not be here that long. So why not now and enjoy it until I do check out. You only live one so get to livin!! I love my new BLING !!! now each one of my boys will have one eventually someday and hell I have worked hard for this one :0)

Blue Cadillac

2011-06-29T20:22:00.006-05:00

My best friend from back home just experienced the sudden loss of her father recently. It has been rough times for all of us. The most interesting story I have to tell you is not how strong my friend has been throughout the challenges. I have been amazed at her strength to get out of bed each day and merely carry on. Nor how awesome of a dad she had and how he fought for our country and was left for dead and survived and has been treated awful by our government for years.
The story goes like this ...my 4 year old little boy overheard parts of a story and came up with his own story. My best friends dad had buried his father not long ago prior to his own death. He had told his twin daughters that was the ugliest casket he had ever seen. He didn't want to be buried in any such thing. If he ever died he wanted to be buried in a green casket. He told them it reminded him of a green Cadillac. Guess he thought he was Hank Sr. or something going to heaven in a green Cadillac. :0)
Meanwhile, I had told my parents this story as well as mentioning to my own dad he needed to visit the local doctor himself. Due to his recent habit of smoking "Icky Sticks" has returned and he has an awful cough that mysteriously just isn't going to go away on its own. WELP little ears were listening to ALL of this and low and behold he processed it for several days. We returned home to Texas and here is what a 4 year old's little brain spit out. Early in the day on a phone conversation with my dad I went to hang up ending the call with "Bye Dad I love ya" normally we just call him PaPa so there is no confusion... my kiddo heard this and I got the questions... Mommy is that your daddy?
yes sir he is?
well George was Aunt Cole's daddy too Right?
Yes sir!
Does that mean PaPa is going to die too??
no Cooper that is not what that means... well mommy you told him he needed to go see the doctor and people see the doctor because they are sick...
Yes Cooper but PaPa need to go get a breathing machine like Luke had and Aunt Cole's daddy was sick and your PaPa isn't sick.
He seemed to be ok with all that and went on playing and never said anything else. We continued our fun filled day. Evening came and one would think all this was over but nope there is more ticking in little mans head... and it goes like this. Everyone was in bed I went to tuck the little guys in bed. My oldest ask me if I would lay down with him for just a few minutes. Well sure we can say our prayers. He prayed for all the sick, Aunt Cole's daddy..Aunt Cole & Nat not to be sad and mommy , daddy..Luke,Rylee,Olivia, Hunter, Hailey...the normal list we have every night. Then all of a sudden he says
Mommy, we are never ever going to have a Cadillac!!
Really buddy?
no mommy they are junk... it takes like 20 screws just to hold dos motors in
"hummmm Cooper that is interesting" I say
You know what else mommy they go super slow.. like turtle slow
wow I didn't know that Cooper.. but you know Cadillacs are REAL nice Coop everybody wants a Cadillac
no mommy if we eber have one it would be Blue they are the only good ones.. the rest are junk..for real.
hummm but Cooper Cadillacs are super duper Nice ya know have you ever sit in a Cadillac?
No way hosay neber eber mommy... we are never having one of those never eber only a Blue one.
Ok Coop go to sleep. So my kiddo thinks everyone goes to heaven in a Cadillac. He wants them to go slow and the motors to break down getting to Heaven. The motors only have 20 screws holding it in ya know? Quite the concept if I do say so myself...He knows my dad's favorite color is Blue because my dad is quite the jokester.He is always teasing him about taking his Piggy Bank money and buying a big blue truck.

I think it is amazing what his little brain pieced together and sadden at the same time that he worried his little brain with such complex things at such a young age. I will say I kinda like the idea myself, I mean we all have our time we have to check out of this world why not take our last ride in a convertible Cadillac drinking a cold one with the wind blowing thru our hair. One last slide sideways right into Heaven's gates. Wouldn't it be cool to pass each other in Heaven driving Cadillacs??

ROCK on MAVERICKS!!~

2011-06-12T21:43:00.002-05:00

I tell ya after being in Dallas for the entire 2 weeks for all the NBA playoff games it has been SOOO much fun. I have to say I am not sure what was more fun the games or seeing all the famous people roaming around in our hotel. I am so excited for those guys I feel like I am part of their team..LOL. GO DALLAS MAVERICKS....now is the time!!

Shewww Lots and Lots!~

2011-06-11T20:24:00.003-05:00

Well not sure where to start on my life update as I have been a work Hiatus I guess.. but I promise to get back to my blog as I love it so..I let a whole month pass me by but I will try to update you on some of the cool happenings. My little guy took us to Sea World as that is all he wanted for his birthday and we had so much fun!! Then I experienced my first NBA final playoff game or should I say games while in Dallas for almost 2 full weeks. I have to say never seen so many tall black men in my life....is that all that play Basketball? Just sayin..and man do they ever drive nice rides. WOW... I have several more interesting encounters but those are all separate posts to themselves.. stay tuned. LOL..

For now I am exhausted from traveling and still more to go and need some sleepy sleep while my loving parents have so graciously taken my kiddos for a complete month.

Blessed I guess...

2011-04-24T08:41:00.000-05:00

Every year we Catholics go thru Lent. For everyone, I am sure it means something different some pass it by, some never blink and eye, some just wait on the rabbit. It is kinda like a "Bring it Home" time a year for me and I love this time of year! It is like a renewal of your faith in god as a catholic you get to clean the slate so to speak and ask for forgiveness of all the uh ohs. Look around and all the flowers are streaching and blooming beautiful colors everywhere. It is like everything is springing up with a new start.
My family is healthy for the most part we dont count the sniffles. It just reminds me to be thankful for all that we have been given and remember to give to those who don't have near as much as we do. It is so easy thru out the year to get wrapped up in daily life and forget. You get what you give ... I believe that...
Easter at our house was all about cleaning out and talking about what god did for us. It was a really nice day. Besides our little being sick and my family being so far away..
Happy Easter to you all and God Bless!~

Life is good TODAY!~

2011-04-21T12:03:00.002-05:00

This little group called Blackberry Smoke opened for Zac Brown and they were quite good themselves... not so hot to look at but had their own look for sure.

Zac Brown Band Rocked the house and played for almost 3 hours... of course I Love Love Love these guys!!~

Toes in the water, my ass in the sand, not a worry in the world a cold beer in my hand,...LIFE IS GOOD TODAY~ I love these guys and had a chance to sit front row basically with one of my girlfriends. The show was simply amazing and you can tell they love doing what they do...

my wittle rabbits

2011-04-19T20:12:00.002-05:00

Luv these guys!~

2011-04-02T17:27:00.003-05:00

I know I talk about them all the time but they have to be my favorite subject..... Crazy how fast my boyzzz are growing up. I love spending my weekends with them and listening to them tell their stories and the innocence. Seems hard to take it all in some days.. I am so afraid I am going to miss a minute...and oh how precious they ALL are...

St Patty's Day!

2011-03-17T21:09:00.001-05:00

Well dern... I like this holiday. Not my favorite by no means but its up there and I didn't even have a green shirt get that@!!! So needless to say I got a few pinches!!

Hope you all have a great one and drink plenty of green beers, I know I am!! :0) I am taking a few mommy days with a girlfriend to decompress and enjoy!!! ahhhhh post pictures later!! meanwhile here are my littles..it their green get up!

Some things make you scratch your head!!~

2011-03-13T15:12:00.004-05:00

Ever notice that some things in life just aren't worth your energy anymore?? Some things just make you scratch your head and wonder WTH?? I have come to those crossroads I do believe ... I find myself looking around saying Ahhh Haaa!! This is what they mean when they say you just all of a sudden hit that age where you don't give a Sh* t anymore about crazy ass friends, about stupid things around you that go on. Welp, I am super close to 40 somethin and maybe that is the magic age.
I heard it said very well by a girlfriend just last week... She is a team mom for her kids baseball team, she tells me she sets up her chair away from the other moms when I ask why.. she says " I have enough friends, I sure do not need to add more... and sure not the competitive physco stay at home mom ones. Humm I say.... my kiddo plays ball with a few of those as well. I left thinking the rest of the week on that conversation. Not sure if they even have to be the stay at home mom ones they come in all shapes and sizes...

Ya know maybe there really is that age where you just settle into life...mid life and enjoy the crap out of it. You know where you don't have to impress the other 20 somethin's by drinking like a fool or who worry yourself sick about who is mad at you... you don't have to keep up with the "jones" like to 30 somethin's go on big trips and buy big houses. Yeah 40 somethin' you wear flip floppers, drink a few beers, tell people to go to hell if they piss ya off . You know "say what cha mean and mean what cha say", enjoy your kids and keep right on truckin...go to the lake and know you have close friends & family you have had for years and years they know where you stand and you know where they stand you have that love/ love relationship. At the end of the day isn't that all you really need?? If you bump into a cool person along the way congratulations, if not, well no loss. Seems like maybe we should just start life in our 40 somethin's and go backwards.... Wonder what the 50's somethin's bring us??

Heck, I enjoy this not being wrapped up or worried about others bullshi@ and really removing myself from it... my girlfriend has kiddos a little older than mine and she has quite the humorous stories to tell about Crazy A@@ people. We will be real good Old Ladies laughing in our rocking chairs some day...

Bad Hair Day DAMIT!~

2011-03-01T16:22:00.000-06:00

See this?? Yeah Poor Phil he had a bad hair day and someone spent a long time fixing this up for him I am sure to prove a point in court that day. My point of posting this is cause I am having hair day issues... I want a cute hair cut again DAMIT!! I go thru this vicious cycle of growing it out... no now cut it short, go shorter, go shorter, now grow out again. UGH.. I refuse to have long hair again as 95% of the people you see with long hair wear it in a pony tail or it just plain looks nappy (that's my opinion) they needed a hair cut years ago. Anyway, I feel like a hairdresser whore I keep skipping around town because the person I love so dearly is of course in Tennessee. I stalk people around different places when I see super cute cuts asking "excuse me where do yo get your hair cut?" it never fails I get the answer "oh my friend cuts it she works in South Austin and she charges $100 bucks." Well if you have short hair and it is thick like a horses ass like mine you almost have to have it cut every 4 weeks. Then heaven forbid you want to look super cute and throw some color in there that adds another $100 to the price of your head. So maybe I should just look like ole Phil up above and start a new trend..and be done with it.

My Cool Dudes!~

2011-02-26T19:42:00.004-06:00

How funny Coop is trying to show Luke how to do the Cool Dude wave he says...

Fun Times= hard long days

2011-02-25T16:59:00.000-06:00

SO here are a few pictures of my week at this event... we had fun as you can tell but long 16 hour days in heels made it rough on a momma!! Then the fact of not seeing my kids for over 8 days straight.. yikes!~ I am so glad to be home now if I can just stay awake :0)
The Bear Bryant hat was super popular but no one had much of a clue

Not sure the blond Dolly Parton hair do was working out for me.. but I loved loved loved the Alice in Wonderland hat.

Happy Birthday PaPa!~

2011-02-14T07:40:00.001-06:00

(this is me w/ my PaPa on the left)

My PaPa's birthday is actually on Valentines Day..kinda crazy I never really knew knew him but I think of him every Valentine's Day and every Year on my Birthday. If it sounds weird well it probably is his birthday is on Valentine's Day and he went to heaven so close to my birthday and I remember it so vividly. I was super young 3 days away from being 6 years old. Amazing how such a man could leave such a impact on such a little girls brain, but he was quite a man I do tell ya. Here is what I remember:

he was a big man (looks at his hands above)

he always stopped at the back kitchen sink to wash his hands

he never let me touch the TV NEVER

he was VERY dark complected-that has helped me out thanks PaPa!~

he always sat on the back porch in a black metal chair watching the pasture field

he never laughed much

he always sat at the end of the table for dinner and drank tea out of a green rippled glass

he kept his car spotless

he helped me eat a peach & showed me how to plant it :0) - that thing really grew too

he always let me ride the tractor with him

The ONE thing I remember the most is the man wore a full set of dentures and he would pop them out and put them back in his mouth several times and just laugh. It would scare me if not gross me out but he loved it! Now my dad does it to my kids ..LOL and my littles think they can take their teeth out of their head like that too.

You know... I think about all these things as I watch my dad with my kiddos and know they are making great memories too. So glad my kids call my dad PaPa and kept a great thing going.. Miss you PaPa and thank you for the wonderful memories.. I know you are keeping them all straight up there in heaven and will straighten the rest of em out when they get there... :0) Happy Happy Birthday to You !~

My Little Cupids!~

2011-02-13T16:35:00.006-06:00

My Little Cupids!

We had our traditional Valentine's Day weekend. We ordered a heart shaped pizza and watched movies. We had the valentine's gifts and my boys are so good to their mommy I tell ya some girl is going to be lucky some day...meanwhile I am a lucky mommy!!
I got flowers, a sweet little Pandora charm w/ red hearts on it to add to my bracelet, and cookies that are pink with sprinkles they thought I would just love (wink) that they have eaten almost every single one of them.. don't cha love it.
I think the Bobber pictures are almost over but we still have fun trying to make them work..LOL.

Girls ~ Girls ~Girls

2011-02-09T20:45:00.000-06:00

Too cute of a kiddo.. thiskid cracks me up it was so much fun to be around girls for a weekend.

OK stand up and act right... NO Renee hasn't had any beers and NO Buffy (aka Magda) didn't have to put a ciggie down for this picture..LOL

These girls are the best ever and for sure their mommy made over..well the oldest is a clone. YIKES~

AS always we are the two left to goofing around..and well 38 years later much hasn't changed!! We have already started planning the 40 years we have blessed this earth and believe me a few of you may feel it shake...there is your 2 year warning. Bahh Haa Haa

Thelma & Louise

2011-02-05T14:18:00.007-06:00

This river is called Snake River and it twisted and turned for miles like a snake it was so far down on the sides and so pretty... all I could think is wonder how cold that water is??

You only ever see these mountains on postcards but they are just as pretty in person...and from the car it was burrrr rabbit there but they claim it was a heat wave. I say if it is cold enough to snow it is to damn cold :0)

Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, & Nevada~ I saw those four states all in 48 hours. We were movin on like Thelma and Louise I tell ya. My bestest friend since kindergarten and I decided to do a girls weekend. We had so much fun did a little gambling and lord a beee... I have decided those people all need help. They sit all day smokin, drinkin, & dumpin money in machines shewww I work a little too hard for those green little presidents. Either way we had a wonderful time and have decided it is now a tradition to carry on and we are gonna add peeps to our list.. great friends, old memories, making new ones, and a much needed weekend to just decompress...

THANK YOU SANTA for my tickets you are the BEsT!!~

My Little BoyZZZ ~

2011-02-03T13:24:00.000-06:00

You can tell Cooper is all about a camera and a smile but Luke is all about get me outta here!!

One Great Party!~

2011-02-02T12:02:00.001-06:00

Party would not have been complete without the singing Elmo balloon. :0)

We had my youngest 2nd birthday party and look out!! after a woork week that consisted of 70+ hours. I still pulled off quite the party if I do say so myself, a little tired no doubt. Look out SAHM's its a new revolution!~

Of course, we had to throw in the sprinkle covered marshmallows my oldest kiddo made them himself for his brudder. It was a great party and we all had a blast ...thanks to all you guys coming over to share the wonderful day with us...

Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!~

2011-01-30T20:33:00.007-06:00

How old are you Luke? He hold his little fingers up and tells ya Two...

The all famous Age one cake all over the face... he looks so happy huh??

My little guy turned 2 today and wow what a 2 years.. I sat to reflect today about how many blessings and lessons in life this little guy has brought to me and our family. A few people have said wow it doesn't seem like he should be 2. I say well speak for yourself cause me as his mommy all 730 days 17520 hours have been a true challenge. Of course, I will never forget the day he arrived and the emotions we went through getting him through his first few days. Then as I left little man there to go home to my other little guy. It is a feeling and a time I never wish to go thru again. I tell ya it is amazing the things you learn and the things you figure out one body is able to endure. Over the past two years, I see the world through a set of completely different eyes. I used to tell people I was ten feet tall and bullet proof I think I had no clue, or I am even taller now and full of steel.

Luke has finally turned the corner I think we haven't even been to the doctor in months.. knock on wood.. I hope I am not speaking to soon. I had to get a letter for the Williamson County office telling me I am past due for immunization. Ha Ha I laughed out loud and thanked god at the same time.. REALLY?? That is a good thing and I will wait for the next letter I say. As if they only knew I had been paying their salary for the past year and a half cause I was literally there every other day with a sick preemie...SO WHAT!! I MISSED ONE DAMN SHOT..

Luke truly has a personality all his own he is strong willed, and you sure know when he is mad. "NO" he will say..and pout it is quite cute but still I hold my ground and carry on with his punishment. He is still running a little behind on a few things..but he will catch up still not anything to worry about the doctor says. He is talking and saying a few words... of course he is determined NaNa will be the last one he is going to say. :o) El-mo-Mo, PaPa , two, Bubba, Woody, Juice, Daddy he has more he is working on we will get there. One thing is for sure he has the monkey climbing down pat. Look up and he has scaled the shelves in the pantry or on top of the garbage can in the back yard looking over the fence. He is truly a blessing and a joy to be around he is always laughing and in a good mood. I will say he has hit terrible twos wide open so this should be fun times. I wouldn't trade any of it for the world... I am truly blessed to have both little guys and love the stories my oldest comes up with and love the antics the little one pulls. Happy birthday little man you are a wonderful blessing. Love you to the moon and back!~

Oh no ... Batman!~

2011-01-23T20:15:00.005-06:00

My oldest kiddo has this thing about telling stories these days, not lies, just stories. He gets it from none other than his PaPa no doubt. Well here lately he has been telling me about old people almost daily, how they have wrinkles. Yes yes they do Cooper but they are still really nice people and they have great stories to tell you should listen to them. He tells me how they die and go to heaven cause they are old well you can't argue that cause eventually that happens too. So smart this kid at the age of 3. Well who would have thought he would have pulled this one off... I should have known better...
We went to a birthday party for my sister-in-law and her grandmother-in-law has to be one of the most precious lady's I have known. She is very old fashion especially when it comes to children and personally I love that. Either way Cooper was sitting on an old radiator heater and she was telling him that those were old heaters used in the old days to heat houses when she was a little girl. Cooper looks at her and says "it's not hot" she says "oh, I know baby it is old like me it doesn't work anymore" So Cooper looks at her and says" That means you are fixing to go to Heaven cause you are old"
Oh NO BATMAN... he just didn't.. she thought that was so funny!! She has a great sense of humor and she laughed and so did I. The innocence of a child is amazing. She told him eventually she was going up there but not anytime soon. I made him apologize for being rude and explained what he did wasn't nice. Some days I have trouble with these lessons as they are true and he was just trying to work through his thoughts and put pieces together and BooM got in trouble.

So far behind...

2011-01-15T15:44:00.004-06:00

Well Well Well .... here I am!! I have found my way back to my blog for a minute. I know you guys thought I was LOST forever...I love this place!! I use my blog to write to my friends back home, to vent about idiots I cross paths with in the world, my kiddos, blessings in my life, you name it this place is my get away when I find time to get here. As you can tell life has been somewhat crazy lately. Looks likeweeks at a time are missing on my blog, my poor kids blog looks awful. It hasn't even been the holidays that got me.. it has been my new job!! I took a new job or it took me I guess you say...in Sept and it has slowly been kicking me right on down to the ground. I used to leave work at 4 pm yeah not anymore.. I used to go to bed right behind my kids at 8 pm... Yeah I do good to make it before 1am. I am still trying to make it to the gym I tell ya my New Years resolution made it a whole 2 weeks I do believe.. YIKES not good. I feel like this lady..actually my belly might look like that too. I havent seen it in some time to tired to look down afraid I might fall down and never get back up. I find it so much easier to use my blackberry torch to hit Facebook for a one liner than to log on here.. but I realize this is much better as I may not piss as many people off as I probably don't have as many stalkers. well it has been nice chatting I need to update my other blogs and back to work I go.....

‘Wonderful Mother’ Went Out the Window

2011-01-05T21:38:00.002-06:00

A good friend of mine posted this and I have laughed so hard that I had to repost as I am not so sure I may not rename my second child to Caveman...LOL how true this is and if you have more than one child you can so relate....

Back when I only had one child, I was a wonderful mother. I could go anywhere with Princess, my well-mannered daughter, who would sit quietly and play appropriately with the toy I’d brought to occupy her as she snacked on whole grain crackers and fresh fruit. I accepted the compliments of strangers graciously. I beamed with pride at her nice manners, at her ability to wait her turn, and at my obvious mastery of modern parenting techniques. Although I knew part of what made me a wonderful parent was my naturally compliant child, and I spent time fearing that she’d grow up to be a people-pleasing pushover, I was more than a little proud of myself.
All this easygoing compliance lulled me into a sense of security, and I’ll admit that I did get a bit smug about it. When kids ran around like lunatics at story time, I’d wonder why their parents didn’t do more to stop them. When mothers screamed at their toddlers from across the park, I’d secretly think that speaking quietly on the child’s level was a better technique. And I wasn’t wrong—it is a better, more effective technique. The problem is that you can only employ that technique consistently if you’ve only got one child.
When my pregnancy with Caveman hit the third trimester, the yelling across the playground began. I justified it by telling myself I was pregnant with a 10 pound baby. Then Caveman was born, and I spent the first seven weeks or so of his life convinced he hated me. I thought (hoped?) he had acid reflux, but apparently he was just a “high needs” baby. I 5 S’d the heck out of him, but he’d still scream. Princess got considerably less attention and considerably more yelling. Things got slightly better around 6 months, but Caveman didn’t sleep through the night for over a year, and he refused to nurse unless I was sitting in a completely dark room. It was a long year, and you can’t cross the room and speak softly to a child with a 25-lb baby vampire attached to your boob. Still, she remains mostly well-behaved. Caveman, however, has morphed into a two-year-old Neanderthal.
Here’s one thing I know about having two mobile children: if you set them both loose, they will run in opposite directions. As a result, Caveman is rarely set free from the stroller in public. He’s fast, fearless, and doesn’t listen to “no” or “stop.” On those rare occasions when he is paroled, he gets drunk with freedom and goes nuts. He climbs things. He does not sit still. He touches EVERYTHING, pushes buttons, and throws things. He runs faster than any person with 12-inch legs should run. Heaven forbid I wear slip-ons on a day when Caveman is set free—running shoes are my usual footwear of choice. We don’t go to story time, because he lasts about as long as the package of goldfish I use to bribe him to sit still and then runs circles around the bookshelves. When we get to a park I survey the equipment and “exits” and try to figure out what his escape route will be and whether or not I’ll be able to fit in the spot where he’ll likely get stuck. During a recent trip to a kid’s pizza place, I had to send a friend’s older daughter up into that hamster trail thing they have to retrieve him. I didn’t think he’d be able to get past the first part, where I could reach him. Obviously, I was wrong.
And now, I’m the person the mothers with one child look at in public. I’m the one they wonder about, silently judging my desperate attempts to keep both kids safe and happy while maintaining my sanity. As their lone children (usually girls) sit and look at books or play appropriately with toys, Caveman throws things across the room and roars like a dinosaur, stomping and gnashing his tiny teeth. And I accept their stares because once, I was just like them.
And I secretly hope that sometime soon they get their own little cavemen to make them realize that once upon a time, I was a wonderful mother, too.

New Year Resolutions

2011-01-01T03:44:00.004-06:00

New Year Resolutions.. I always have a tough time keeping up with these kinda things for long periods of time. Bad habits all ways seem to sneak back in on me somehow. Although, I will say this time last year as I lay on my couch with a metal plate and 8 screws.That I so graciously got from the fat man in the red suit. What most would say or at least my work out watch said for a long time OBESE keep dancing in my head. It was awful getting around on crutches with 2 babies and being overweight too. I wondered if I had weighed less if it might have prevented the tumble down my staircase or maybe even been somewhat easier to walk with crutches. Never mind the fact, I might even feel better a few pounds lighter and my cholesterol numbers would be lower. hummmmmm what a concept!! I knew then no bad habit was sneaking anywhere around me. I vowed then I was loosing all the baby weight plus whatever had snuck in since high school and middle school. I didn't say anything to anyone just did my own thing and waited to see if anyone noticed. That was almost the fun part as I saw my family back home several times and it wasn't until almost 30 pounds down they said anything to me. These are the best pics I could find to the Left was in June of last year and to the right was in November (so I am actually smaller now) kinda hard to tell in these pics I think.. So poof here I am ...this year 45 pounds lighter and face to face with another resolution to make..not to gain any back and then this year I am going to DRUM ROLL PLEASE......ANOTHER DRUM ROLL PLEASE... (that's so I don't forget!)

1. make more time for MOMMY yes ME as I seem to not so that at all these days...

this kinda falls in the group above but more time to get to the actual gym to swim. As I have committed to a Triathlon in June I had set a goal for myself years ago that I would run a marathon before I turned 30 and welp I checked that box years ago and I said I would do a triathlon before 35 but I got waylaid a few years so I reset to this year. Heck it has to be easier than that dern Marathon.. I have faith.. and work out buddies!! :0)

Happy New Year to you all and may god bless you all for a wonderful year.

Charleson Rylee Carr

2010-12-31T20:33:00.003-06:00

Little Robby Carr finally arrived Dec 15th and of course we were all so excited to see him.... it was the best Christmas gift and right in time. He is so precious and hard to believe they are ever that little. They really do grow fast... and I guess I have just gotten started but man my first 4 years have flown by that is for sure. Welcome to the family little man you are truly precious.

one great SOUL

2010-12-14T19:38:00.002-06:00

just simply the best... sometimes in life you just run across the best souls!! Well this has to be one of those. They say in life people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. I totally believe people do come into your life for may different reasons and god knows what he is doing when he aligns people and sends them rolling in your direction. Veronica "VERO" is what my kids and I call her is a really special person we love her and her family dearly. My little loves her husband even though (he won't tell you) he carries oreos around and Lukie doesn't take up with to many peeps. Either way I am thankful that I get to bend her ear when I need to, cry when I need, and we laugh all the time too... and always ask about CHUNK and FLEAS on FLuFfy cause we sure do laugh alot too... thank god there are great souls left and god knows what he is doing when he sends us lifetime friends. God Bless!!~

My new Talent

2010-12-12T20:04:00.003-06:00

I went with a few co-workers and discovered I have this new hidden talent. Check it out.. I got home and my husband even ask me where the numbers where..as if I did a paint by number. I couldn't even manage those paint by number paintings as a kid. I had so much fun. You drink a little wine and paint... drink a little more and paint.. this may be my new hobby. Not really as if I have extra time or something HA!. Nice thought but I really did enjoy myself and it even turned out quite nice if I do say so myself.

Turkey Bowl

2010-12-01T20:30:00.007-06:00

Every year we have an Annual Turkey Bowl and it is so much fun BUT this year we got our very own team in the Annual Turkey Bowl!! and boy did we come out with a BANG... loud and proud, I say!! We did a WHOLE lot of smack talkin. We told our bosses they were going to be shakin in their boots we didn't think ours were going to be blown off our feet... now we know where they hang out during the day when they are supposed to be in meetings. :0) We had color and the gobble gobble walk down pat so no matter what they say we won the spirit award. We will get em next year!

For the record we look pretty good holding the trophy too... I mean we could say WINNER WINNER TURKEY DINNER!! it is all in the photo ! It was a great day and loads of laughs... these girls are for sure a hoot... I can't wait I am gonna start practicing now heck I may join a league and get my own ball too :0)

An Aggie for a Day

2010-11-27T16:31:00.006-06:00

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!

How did they know?

2010-11-20T21:27:00.011-06:00

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!!

150% customer service

2010-11-14T15:56:00.006-06:00

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??

Rose Colored Glasses

2010-11-12T19:32:00.003-06:00

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!!

Ya Ya Somethin...

2010-11-10T23:38:00.000-06:00

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??

A HUGE-mongus shower

2010-11-07T19:27:00.011-06:00

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..

Great Halloween Fun!~

2010-11-02T11:28:00.008-05:00

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)

Pun"kin Creations& Fall traditions

2010-10-23T18:20:00.005-05:00

Not sure who is cuter the pun'kins or the kiddos... umm yeah I am goin for the kiddos..call me partial!! :0) we had a blast with the carvin and then we baked the punkin seeds and watched movies and had baked pun'kin seeds umm yep may be a new tradition at our house.. yummy and fun can't beat that!~

Hill-Air-eeiiasss

2010-10-20T12:37:00.002-05:00

My parents came to visit for my birthday! The boys love their bones jammies they got and laugh like crazy...not sure why maybe cause they glow. I just love this picture of my parents and the kiddos..it just cracks me up.

There baaacckkk..

2010-10-19T09:11:00.004-05:00

Ahhhh how I love thee foam hand soap.. and guess what?the Christmas scents hit the shelfs this past weekend. Guess who was first in line? Yep it was me... I am so glad Christmas isn't far away! I love the season and I love this soap!! Not sure why maybe it is the smell. They have every smell you can think of to choose from and great ones for your kitchen too. Maybe because it is so easy for my kids to use. It is kinda fun so it encourages them to wash the germs off. Maybe because there is no mess from a bar of soap laying around and even looks a little better. Either way call it high maintenance all ya want I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!! If your stocking is at my house Santa usually leaves one or two. He knows and is watching ya know :0)

The Greatest PunKins Ever~

2010-10-13T20:28:00.004-05:00

One Great Night~

2010-10-10T11:51:00.005-05:00

I have been a Tanya Tucker fan since I was a little girl and when I say a fan it is probably like no other... if I ever have a little girl she will be named Delta Dawn.. It was on my list of names for my boys Grayson & Tucker (still not sure why I didn't at least get one of them?) My favorite Uncle Bud used to sing Delta Dawn to me as a little girl. I still hear him sing that song to me when it comes on the radio. We used to sing that whole album together so it holds a special place for me.
So when my husband called after a oh so crazy week, I hadn't been home had any sleep or even seen my kids all week. Yet it was Tanya Tucker and we were guest listed really NOWAY not missing that no matter if I was running on empty or not. It was oh so worth it hands down the best show I have ever seen... I think I have such a draw to her cause she has always been the bad girl of country. Never really gave a crap about what the rest thought said what she wanted, for sure was always different, she always stayed true to herself. Plus, back in the day she was a pretty hot lady.I just have always loved her voice and her music and I guess her rebel ways. I have to say I think I have every album she has ever put out and probably lost a few and bought them again. We hung out with her kids after the show and they are just as amazing as she is and all have wonderful voices and just as distinct as hers. Paul Overstreet showed up as a surprise to celebrate her birthday. We had been across the street for a few beers before the show and Paul came over and took the bar stool beside me that our friend Jayson was sitting on (he was on a potty break) which was kinda funny. Great guy and still has a great voice as well. Too bad we can't trade in these Justin Bebers, Hanna Montana, & Taylor Swifts and get back Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and a few others from the 80's the music from that decade just seems so solid. I will say the place was packed and sold out at $40 a ticket which I though was a little crazy but now oh so worth it I will so pay to go back. One observation I thought was interesting it was full of OLD people wasn't sure if I was gonna have to catch dentures or a depend undergarment..

Bright and Shiny People

2010-09-23T10:02:00.004-05:00

Ohh feelin the pain a little here on this one....

Not sure how we all looked at the same time and half way got a smile out of any of us but Waaaahhh Laaa.. shewww what a long hot day!

Pretty cool too..

2010-09-19T19:19:00.005-05:00

So a new toy for mommy and I loves loves loves it...not sure how my boys heard I wanted this new camera/play toy called a Kodak Playsport. Granted didn't really need it and if it were left up to me I would of never bought it for myself but hey I guess those are the best gifts to get right?? Yeah the ones you woulda never bought for yourself....welp someone whispered it to my kiddos. They are so smart they know how to use the computer and ordered it right on up and had it delivered to me for my birthday. Shewww kids these days...they are so smart!! :0) So check out this little clip I haven't got the cool new crazy card that goes with it yet but you kinda get the idea... I tell ya I love this thing it is awesome!! waterproof, shockproof, fits in your purse or your pocket, plays video on HD TV. SOLD I LOVE IT!! Psssttttt even fits in a stocking !!

Sweetest Birthday gift ever~

2010-09-16T14:24:00.001-05:00

I just LOVE simple and what is better than a box cake with sprinkles made by my boys for my birthday. Ahh I love it!! How flippen cute?? Little Luke (aka BullDawg) just couldn't keep his fingers out not sure if he is singing or being cute and inching towards it to get his fingers in there again..hehehe. I guess at least when he did get a finger full he shared with everyone around the table. :0) Good news is Cooper can officially write his name all by himself so he signed my card it looks wonderful!!

I have always said I measure a year by my birthday and yep the year is over and here goes another. So here is a brief reflection trying not to look back to much Bernice (Hope Floats) says it is bad luck. I started last year out with my baby having major surgery. The very next night sitting at Dells Children's in the emergency room literally all night with a preemie baby. Hopefully NEVER AGAIN!~ The year moved on and my oldest came down with the Swine Flu now that was some fun times...we literally went 3 months in a row visiting our pediatrician every single week usually on Friday. For the most part it was Luke no one ever warns ya about the ticket the entry you get when you have a preemie baby. Dec 19th got here and I fell down our stairs and got a metal plate and 8 screws in my ankle for Christmas. Not sure if any of you have ever got a gift like this but I have had 2 very tough pregnancies and I will gladly take 3 more than to have to take that pain ever again. Oh me that was awful and still is on some days. We have had a few other medical scares within the extended family but all are well and still kicking. I did fit in a weekend or 2 with my girlfriends for a mommy break sheww that was nice! My parents made it down this year for my birthday and it was a nice break for us all. I thank god everyday for my babies that they are healthy and bring such happiness to us all. Even though we have had a super tough time and learned a lot having a preemie baby it has made us that much stronger and appreciate the simple things in life. I am very thankful for such a great family and to be surrounded by great friends and the awesome support god knows without you guys I wouldnt be where I am... Now here is to a better year and going for NO WHAMMIES!!!~

Eeyore or Tigger??

2010-09-09T14:40:00.005-05:00

Ewwwww EWwwww Ewww as Tigger says.
I have been quite here lately and not blogged on my blog much. Not cause I dont have anything to say HA you know me better than that... cause I have been by far way too busy!! Sheessh yep I am takin me a break and I am so excited. You know how this works right you take one big nap or blink of an eye and poof it is over! That is kinda what I am expecting here but either way I am excited normally I am in Rock Star mode and ready for an entire month of a party for my birthday. Not so much this year not sure why.. I guess old age has crept in on my old asss....humm wonder if Eeyore fits on here better? hehe welp I am off to enjoy a week of vacation without really having to travel anywhere no planes, trains, or automobiles and that makes me happy!! I get to stay home and enjoy my kiddos and log out of work and the stuipdasses that live there for a whole week. yeahhh me! So until next week have a happy week. !! Eww hoo Hoo

Monkey see Monkey doo

2010-08-31T13:00:00.004-05:00

We were loading up for school and my oldest wanted to take a picture and my little saying cheeesseeee but funny thing is when I got him and all ready for the camera poof it was over now he was all so serious... oh well

little monkeys

2010-08-25T09:54:00.000-05:00

Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Loa

2010-08-19T10:51:00.000-05:00

Meet my friend Heather Weather and her now most wonderful hubby Micheal. I have to share with you guys about her wedding. I have been friends with Heather for almost 10 years and love her to death she is one strong girl I tell ya. She is also one of the best people you will ever meet on this earth (her Daddy will tell you it is cause of him :0) ) and has been thru alot in life. That is why this day was so much more special than most. Most weddings are the same ole same ole but not this one not one single detail was missing not one. She must have been planning since the day her feet hit the ground on this earth. I am not really sure why this wedding moved me so much if it was the vows that were specially written so well, if it was the song "At Last" that was sang by her best friend during the ceremony, if it was the fact her mother wore her favorite color purple and looked simply amazing, if was the tear drop in her to be husbands eye when he saw her and then took her hand and whispered "you look beautiful", if it was that every bridesmaid truly was standing because they had fought the cancer battle right beside Heather, if it was her step son playing the trumpet at the front of the church to guide her in (now that was a tearful moment), if it was that each and every guest was truly hand picked to be there. It was a feeling that you just knew this was all meant to be it was so genuine it almost made you have butterflies in your own belly for them. I have to say the flowers were simply amazing words can not express how gorgeous. A man that works for Cirque De Soleil created the masterpiece (told you nothing was left out). The bride looked absolutely amazing just like Cinderella and we all knew one day her knight would come for our friend Heather Weather cause she is truly one in a million.
I will say I have seen some of the pictures of her dress the one above included and unless you were there and saw this dress in person it does it no justice... it was just simply beautiful.
Love you Heather and we are so so happy for you guys and so glad we got to share such a great memory!

My new line of greeting cards!

2010-08-11T09:29:00.003-05:00

Ahhhhhh at last !! I decided to share my feelings with the world... so here ya go world!! My new line of greeting cards you can find them at any Wal-Mart store near you. Hope you enjoy... the joys of being a mommy!!~

Apples just don't fall far...

2010-08-08T18:47:00.004-05:00

I was trying to video my little guy eating like a champ with his own spoon eating right along. My oldest and my hubby had a discussion going prior to this about eating broccoli and all of a sudden he decided to finish it when I hit the start button. Of course he did... it was being filmed. Well I have to say sometimes apples just don't fall far from the tree when it comes to the negotiating skills. Pretty good little man, I love the reason why it is you can't eat your broccoli and if you are coming up with these skills at the age of 3 the world better look out. So dat is da answer....

Yard Sale~

2010-08-07T11:53:00.000-05:00

First of all I am not sure how my son even knew what a yard sale was I can't stand those things. I normally give it all to Goodwill or find friends and family that needs stuff. Either way Cooper informed me that he and his friend Peanut were having a Yard Sale at 3:30. He dumped his entire toy box and started the sort... he ask his daddy to put the toy box on the other side of the room. Not sure what that was about but he even had his little brother in on the mission. They were going back and forth across the room...he was instructing his little brother where to take stuff and I could hear him telling Peanut that this was going to be "humongous". I ask Cooper what he was going to do with the money he made from his yard sale? not much of an answer just continuous work back and forth. It was an interesting set of choices he had of the things he was putting in the yard sale. Of course he started his negotiating skills with his brother for a few toys :0)

He told me they were getting ready for a party tomorrow. That he and Peanut and some more of his friends were going to have a party but he needed to have a yard sale first.

Peanut lives over behind us somewhere we aren't quite sure exactly where just yet. We do know he has a little sister she has blue hair and he has a little brother too and he has green hair. Cooper and Peanut also work together they are going to do some work for me next week but not sure what they charge just yet. This could work out real good for mommy!!

Partners in Crime ~ Already!!

2010-08-06T09:35:00.007-05:00

We have rules around our house and they are pretty strict I do have to say ~ you guys know the saying NO SHIT kids...NO SHIT kids !! One of those rules is no eating anywhere in the house except in the kitchen that is what it was made for...easy enough right?? For the most part my kiddos have that rule under control not sure if it was the full moon or what but here is the look I got when I reminded them......Yeah looks like they had never heard that rule before in their life huh?? Then I thought it was funny that they made the choice to eat in the floor side by side like two dogs and not at the table. Hey they were in the kitchen that is the rule..

Then I get this look... 'Cooper is like seriously mom I am so done with this I am a big kid now I know the rule you don't have to keep watching me. Ughhhh. Luke looks over at his brudder like yep I think she is serious can you believe it makes me so mad!!~

"Oh well lets just eat hurry so we can go get in trouble somewhere else... hurry hurry"

These 2 boys just crack me up they play together and seem to come up with some pretty funny stuff..I am sure I have my work cut out for me what one don't think of the other on is going to. Yikes... Wonder how many times it is again you can be checked into the nut house?

Date Night Out !~

2010-08-04T09:56:00.004-05:00

The hubby and I made it out to one of the best weddings ever.. that is for a whole other post. Kinda looks weird I have makeup on, hair is done, no diaper in one hand, kid on the hip, and the other hanging on the leg hollering "mommy". It was amazing we didn't even fall asleep when the clock hit 10pm. Shewww we are rockin now....

Cutie-Pa-Toot-ie

2010-08-02T11:16:00.002-05:00

This picture is a little blurry for some weird reason we had a amateur snapping shots... I just thought it was so stinkin cute I had to post...this kiddo just makes me smile :0)

June Clever

2010-07-26T15:45:00.002-05:00

Tell me it isn't so... I know I had to be seeing and hearing things. I took my kiddos into the daycare at church on Sunday. The lady in front of me turned and says oh go ahead I am waiting on my little boys. I am like humm that is weird you have a little baby baby on your hip and looks like a toddler already in the room really you have more?? So I sign my kiddos in and she carries on in her chipper June Cleaver voice about how "yeah they are all set she has back up clothes and everything.. as they are potty training". By this time I am way confused, I look around and up walk her two little twin boys. WHAT?? I back up to let them in and she says in her super chipper voice yeah I have a 3 year old little girl, 2 year old twin boys, and this little snug bug he is 7 months. She carries on to say that she is trying to potty train the little boys and she has a bunch of people saying prayers for them...yeah I bet you do! ~ So she went on to ask me about potty training my little boy and I shared what we had experienced and that was that we went on into church but they ended up sitting right over from me. I kept watching to see if the seams were going to come unraveled in church, If she was going to stand up and start talking in tongue. I was just in amazement as I know how hard it is at my house with 2 kiddos so close together and no help around for hundreds of miles. Some days it feels like a total mess and you just want to cry and hurry to start it all over again. Here June Clever walks up with not 2 but 4 all under the age of 3 and makes it seem effortless... and she literally looked like June Clever too. I think next week I am going to sit by her and maybe some of that super mom junk will rub off on me... sure not the fertility shit I don't need that. Sometimes I wonder what peoples secrets are, what meds they take, or if they just aren't as brutally as honest as I am and they walk around like June Cleavers... hummmm just to be a fly on the wall in some people's houses then you would know. :0)

A little piece of magic...

2010-07-20T11:04:00.004-05:00

I have a dear friend that gave me a movie during a rough patch in my life and I cherish it dearly. I pull that movie out to watch it every now and then... Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium. To most it is a kids movie to me it is so much more if you have not seen this movie you should it is great and I dearly love the story. I think it is a great message to most and to kids well the magic and toys and imagination make it just grand. The wooden block stands for a ton of things in my life and well my friends as well.. we tend to pass this around in our circle of friends and outside too. We have life sayings we have engraved on these blocks and we give them as gifts and then we each set them on our desk at work or home and pass the story along. I know it reminds me of the movie and its message as well as each little saying and for sure a smile each day... and how blessed I am to have the great friends and the blessings I do. During the movie one of the Quotes goes like this.. Life is an occasion rise to it.... how true this is so many people take it for granted and never take advantage of what life has to offer.

Here are a few others that we have put on our blocks

A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain
Where you end up isnt the most important thing. It's the road you take to get there. The road you take to get there is what you will look back on and call your life. Not reaching success isn't the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is.

PHYSCO Cadillac

2010-07-15T13:34:00.005-05:00

Well it is official!! I knew it was going to happen, you hear about it all the time, I thought we had awhile but NoOOooOo the time is here the "PHYSCO Cadillac" dad has appeared..yess sir ree.

So let me start from the beginning and tell you Cooper is taking swimming lessons again. So we show up for the first day of class kinda early and this cute little boy is there waiting by the little colored sign assigned to our class. His parents are standing there as well and we introduce the kiddos and say hi to each other and they seem pretty nice and normal. The teacher comes over ask the kiddos names and in order to waste a little time decides to throw little plastic balls. So Cooper gets the ball and rares back and throws an over hand ball and it goes past the teacher an ok throw... Next thing I hear is ok Joseph your turn..he is all timid and kinda flubs the ball. Dad has a vein that kinda pops out on his forehead "come on Joseph you know how to throw a ball overhand"..meanwhile my kid has bent down grabbing a grasshopper and doing his own thing. The dad leans over and says I coach t-ball, pop warner football, and soccer..Cooper speaks up and says I play t-ball too. I am like shhhh Cooper he will eat you for dinner dude! I kinda grin at the guy and say umm yeah great.. next thing I know class is starting out of no where come about 10 family members of Joseph's. Looks like a big ole Lebanese family. Grandma has a camera going, the mother just kept this smile painted on her face the whole time prolly out of embarrassment. The teacher was trying to get a feel for these kids and their level of ability I guess and ask them to scoop their hands, physco dad leans over to whisper to mom like watch this he is good he knows how to do this. Cooper of course jumps off the step and swims off into never never land. Now it is Joseph's turn..Joseph didn't do so well... so all of a sudden I hear the dad from the hot tub located beside the little pool that we were taking lessons in "JOSEPH YOU KNOW HOW TO DO SCOOPS".... ok so the kid had not even stepped off the kiddie step..poor kid. Look over and here comes the beast out of the hot tub the vein fully out of the forehead... "JOSEPH YOU KNOW HOW TO DO SCOOPS" ... I felt so bad for this kid he is for sure going to have a rough childhood. he had a rough class the dad didn't let up even after class was over the dad went nad had a talk witht he teacher...dude seriously it is a damn swimming class not the olympics and he is 3 for gods sake. The dad had to be that band nerd who the minute he had a kid signed him up for every sport (yeah at the age of 3)and now is the coach to ensure he is hopefully the cool kid. Shewwww I know it is going to get much worse as my boys get older and continue to play sports but I totally sit back in amazement as this guy went bozo pulling up his coaching shorts every 5 seconds on his shaved ass chest and pushing up his nerd glasses and pacing the floor sucking in his gut and trying not to look down to see if it was in far enough...we still have 3 weeks left of swimming lessons oh lord please give me the strength to keep my mouth closed.

Every rose has it thorns.....

2010-07-14T08:12:00.002-05:00

Finally, I got the rose bushes I have always wanted. They haven't bloomed out to be big and pretty just yet but they will I have faith. We kinda bought them at the wrong time..in the clearance out dead bin at the local Lowe's. I am not sure what my fascination with rose bushes is but I think they are so pretty. Maybe it is the fact you have to admire their beauty from afar if you get to close and touch they will stick you. kinda like a lot of things in life. :0) Keep your distance admire them and move on. My hubby even planted them in a small piece of home for me, a Jack Daniel's whiskey barrel.
I love it cause each day my little boy goes out to water them for me and comes in with a big smile to tell me "mommy I water your roses for you" my whole family even knows how much I enjoy them. Ahhhh they just make me smile..it is the small things in life I tell ya.

put a fork in me ...DONE

2010-07-09T09:36:00.004-05:00

You can sure tell by the looks of us it was one LONG day in the sun... the boys both wanted to hang out with mommy...I am so tired I am not sure how I got a smile out for this picture.

Ahh cheeseyyyy

2010-07-08T08:02:00.005-05:00

I have always loved these cheesey "stick your head in the hole" things that you do when you are a tourist or at some big theme park. Well I consider myself a tourist almost everyday of my life or at least I feel that way.. I constantly have a camera around my neck, dressed like a dork cause I have 2 little little kiddos, and heck we all know I get lost going anywhere. ummm that makes ya a tourist :0) So as we were out this past weekend I ran across the best one yet... I have both of my kids even saying "hey Boo Boo" hehe I love it~ fun times!~

da best!~

2010-07-07T09:54:00.009-05:00

As crazy as this picture looks these girls really do help keep me grounded... Poor Aunt Twinks looks like a Rock Star!! Hard night huh honey??

Oh my I think I missed the note that stripes are NOT flattering for a sista!!

I got to spend time with some of my bestest buds this past weekend. Of course we always have great laughs and some crazy pictures..hehe.

My Littles

2010-07-06T08:30:00.002-05:00

Cake & Great Parade if I do say so myself...

2010-07-05T12:32:00.010-05:00

Here is a picture of Cooper's birthday cake he made all by himself (not much help from the big peeps at all) for our Country's birthday. I think this may be a new tradition around our house..he seemed to have so much fun & mommy like the whole idea. God bless our country.

We took the boys to a 4th of July parade and it was soo much fun. I forgot how much I love parades... and especially for our wonderful country. It was really nice and people were more than gracious & so patriotic...I love small towns. We had a fun packed weekend and shewww not sure about having to go back to work, I need to recover...just a little. This year has to be one of the best yet... we loaded it full of fireworks, swimming, great food, and an awesome bunch of friends.

Little Masterpiece

2010-07-01T07:40:00.002-05:00

My oldest is learning about the 4th of july and what it means at school. It is so cute he tells me it is our country's birthday and how we should have balloons and cake for sure. Oh yeah and can we sing he says?? I thought these pictures were just great that he created at school and he is also very proud of them.

This one in case you were wondering is fireworks.. you see it all now right??

My little FireCrackers!!

2010-06-30T08:10:00.001-05:00

Yummy for da Tummy

2010-06-29T08:04:00.002-05:00

I love me some homegrown tomatoes!! How to better use them as to cook up some good ole bacon and have Bacon & Tomato sandwich morning, noon and night. I did just that this weekend it was sooo hot outside and we were out all weekend. It sure hits the spot. I can't get enough of them... Yummy for Da Tummy.

Ahhhhhh

2010-06-28T09:47:00.008-05:00

Dang can you tell how tired this momma was... LOL Care bear you look great as always!~

I have to say I have a great hubby... he offered to watch the kiddos for an over night outing. It was so nice to get away and drink a beer and just enjoy great music. My girlfriend and I LOVE LOVE Jimmy LaFave and have been so called "groupies" for years now. We determined that being a "groupie" hasn't been so bad. Afterall, that is how she met her now husband is from leaving one of his shows and of course have to many drinkie drinks combined with my big mouth. Either way it was sure nice to get away and unwind from a crazy month so far... thanks honey!~ Oh and did I mention we got to sit and hang out with Jimmy and talk about his new album? yep...and as a groupie would do, I bought the new CD and had it signed.. Lord I said I would NEVER EVER be a groupie. Good news is he knows us by name and we always have nice conversations when we make it out to see him. Some how he always knows to play "Don't walk away Renee" Such a great guy and a awesome artist.

Let it be Already....

2010-06-23T11:13:00.005-05:00

I tell ya why is it that people can't just know and embrace history? We have a group protesting the name of a building on the college campus here in town. Really do you not have more than to worry about whose feelings might or might not get hurt or who would or would not be offended on a daily basis??
The hall, which was built to house male law students and graduate students, was named for William Stewart Simkins, who taught at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law from 1899 until his death in 1929. Simkins was well known for his ties to the Klu Klux Klan after the Civil War. So really the diversity council is going to change the name of a hall because he had ties to the Klu Klux Klan?? Does that make students not want to attend the university? They probably have no clue to be honest. Also in recent years, statues of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan and Earl Campbell have been erected in prominent locations on campus. Is this not enough for diversity?? I just don't get it and it somewhat makes the hairs on my arm raise. For god's sake it is history it has made us who we are today. That is like me saying I am not going to drive down Martin Luther King Blvd. because he was a black man. Well truth be he is a huge part of history he had a opinion and he voiced it. So be it!~
I am well aware that times have changed ALOT but I still think it is awful that these people get on these bandwagons and slowly take pieces of our history away piece by piece by piece...and we sit and allow it! Like Tom & Jerry cartoons the picaninny was removed and a huge speech by our friend Whoopie Goldberg prior to the cartoon (previous blog post), some of the history pieces have been changed in our schools or better yet just left out, now we are changing names of buildings too. Maybe it would make our kids be more educated to have to look the guy up and know why it was named that to begin with not to mention my 3 year old child turned to me before his cartoon started and asked "what is a picaninny?" ...not sure he would have even noticed had our wonderful friend Whoopie not brought to the whole world's attention. Come on people it is our history quit taking it so personal and embrace it. Good or bad, it is what it is and you are NOT going to change the past my friend...

Heaven?? Really??

2010-06-20T15:17:00.005-05:00

One would think a free pass with all these things a BIG comfy bed, Nice pool, and in a hotel would equal paradise. Well not so much.. I have been hosting events all last week and again this week and it has been non stop work work work. I thought for some silly reason if I just got a pass to sleep until say ummm 8am I would be in heaven... nothing about it ended up heaven.. the area we stayed is on a some big go green campaign. So the AC is at a central location which means they have no clue how hot the damn rooms are..lol plus when you work all day and never make to this sweet paradise until sometime around midnight it just isnt the same. I will think long and hard before I am doing the nissan kick about NOT going home to my kiddos and hubby. It just isnt so bad I had much rather been awake'ned with a cry or "mommy da sun up you up time to get up it is gonna be a good good day." then a kiss from the hubby to start my day....

Happy Birthday Daddy!~

2010-06-19T16:08:00.001-05:00

This was soooo flippen cute.. Cooper picked this cake out himself. He was having nothing to do with anything else but this one. No ice cream cake, no Toy Story 3 (after seeing the movie on Friday) cupcakes...nothing not having it. He wanted this cookie cake with a bright orange pile of icing in the middle for some reason he thought they were flames and he thought it was super cool. "daddy gonna Wub it Mommy" and that he did... it was a great birthday/fathers day weekend. Cooper blew the suprise gift so daddy got it a week early and well mommy thought it was a good thing cause it was for the whole family. ahhh I love those gifts ;-0 Cooper picked it out all by himself ...it was one of the new Logitech remote controls so we are now down to just one remote not 6 to turn on a dern TV. Thanks Cooper what a genius idea from a 3 year old !!

Crawling around in circles

2010-06-14T09:32:00.003-05:00

Do you ever feel like you are crawling around in circles? This past week I had my oldest home due to sickness with the typical fever, headache junk that is going around. My oldest is never sick I can still count on one hand in 3 years how many times the little guy has been sick. Then whammie number 2 hit on Friday night 104 fever with baby #2 needless to say it was quite the eventful night at the ER and then home for an all night crying concert. Then back the next morning for follow up x-rays...yep Pneumonia got us. I think after this visit to the walk in clinic I have come to the conclusion they should just fire the "so called" doctors the have in those places and let mommies have part time jobs. I am positive they can do as well if not a better job than those that went to school forever that are currently staffed. As I looked around the place was full of sick kids. After going back to the room and going thru the motions breathing treatment, x-rays, oxygen levels..I already knew the routine. I am amazed at how those doctors work to cover their asses more than they tend to take care of the patients. After an all night visit you would think they had it figured out but yet still requested us to come back first thing in the AM to follow up with another shot. Only to get there and guess what they just wanted to look at him to check to see if he was better.WTH are you kidding me?? I know if my kid is better or worse I could have made that call all on my own to take him back or not..don't LIE and tell us we are coming back for a shot that you can't actually give but every 24 hours any damn way. Yap as you guessed it this mommy lost it right after the nurse told me she could tell we had been up all night...to that I responded with: it isn't because of a sick kid and being up all night that I am acting this way (like a full blown Bitch) it is due to you and your fellow staff and your incompetency to do your job. So yeah they assigned us another nurse.

Needless to say I will not be going back to that location my kids will go straight to the emergency room I hate to take up those doctors time in the ER as it isn't a REAL emergency but at least in the past they have always done something to make that baby better. Maybe it is just the particular walk in clinic that we go to or maybe all you other mommies out there have the same issues..and isn't it somewhat of a real nightmare that with Obama getting involved in this health care it is going to get even worse than this? Either way, I am so put out with them and soo tired I could collapse in this endless circle. Ahhh to a better week :0)

A FREE PASS.

2010-06-08T08:48:00.007-05:00

So livin in Texas with 2 kiddos 20 months apart and no family here to really help out makes it hard for mommy and daddy to ever get a free pass without hiring someone to come watch our kids. BUT this past weekend my girlfriend blessed us with a overnight pass. We headed for the river wide open... for good times, good friends, and good beers. These girls are some of my closest friends here in Texas... holy cow Texas has good people in it they just live too far away.. :0)

We got to go see my girl Miranda LOVE HER!!! She has to be the coolest chick on the planet I tell ya. We had so much fun thank you guys so much for such a GREAT weekend. Momma needed a break in a bad way!~

Awww Heck Yeah I see it..

2010-06-02T10:41:00.004-05:00

My oldest son has been working on potty training for some time now and have the whole Poopen in da potty out of the way. Not at any fault of his own that mommy had a little set back in the middle of the first go around. So now we are full force and headed straight for the sprinkler bug party. I told him several months ago that if he could pee pee in the potty all the time he would get this 15 dollar wonderful sprinkler. As usual he has been very NOT INTERESTED.
I know mommies who have given Sea World trips out for all this training. SOoo I figured a water party in the backyard seemed WAY more reasonable. Last night was a total victory he went all day and night with NO accidents! Yeah you read it right thru the night too. Why not do it all at once?? so we are all doing the Pee Pee Dance at our house... and so excited but we still haven't busted out the bug sprinkler just yet.. there has to be some sort of consistency here. :0)

YaYa SistaHood at its finest

2010-06-01T11:23:00.003-05:00

I have to tell ya about this group of girls, we all worked together for several years and been thru ALOT of life together. A few still linger around that same ole place-"the booty kissers" the rest of us went on our merry way. BUT we all still keep in touch for the past 16 years and remain the closest of friends. No doubt you could pick up the phone and any given hour and call anyone of these girls and they are either at your front door within minutes or they stay on the phone thru all the snot bubbles. I love these girls like the long lost sisters I never had and so glad to have so many. We all get together for laughs and that seems to be all we do is laugh the entire time we are together.

Southern~

2010-05-31T10:33:00.002-05:00

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you are born-it's an idea, a state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, sweet tea, high school football, beer, and acoustic guitars. It's being hospitable, being devoted to front porches, moon pies, sun drops, and each other.
We don't become Southern - We are born that way!~

yummy how I miss thy SunDrop & moon pies... Texas just aint the south (they think they are)

Change History??

2010-05-28T09:00:00.001-05:00

I was watching a Tom and Jerry video with my kiddos and right before it started, Whoopi Goldberg came on explaining that some of the cartoons featured the black Mammy character, the only human ever featured in the Tom and Jerry cartoons, and that there had been requests to delete scenes involving her or stop showing those cartoons because the depiction is racist. So wait--our apology to those who were treated poorly in the past is going to include pretending they didn't exist? Am I seeing this wrong or is that a bizarre solution?

Especially when it comes to the southern black housekeeper on Tom and Jerry. Whether we like it now or not, there were black women like this--strong, hardworking women who were raising other people's kids and caring for their homes who happened to speak with a southern dialect due to their geographical location. Do we really think they would rather we just pretend they never existed since they weren't treated well or paid fair wages?

And let's face it, Tom and Jerry smoke, drink, play with fire, shoot guns, flirt with skanky female cats and mice, destroy things and seem to exist only to emotionally and physically torture each other...and people have a problem with the black housekeeper who occasionally shoos them out of the house or feeds the cat?? Wow.They didn't delete those scenes since the cartoons wouldn't work without them and since the housekeeper was an important character, but the fact that they even needed to try to explain to kids that her inclusion could be considered racist (when there is PLENTY of real valid racism even these days, unfortunately), seemed unnecessary and absurd.