Football 2012

It's football season again!! Saira's doing her cheerleading and Ryan is playing ball for the Jr High. Busy busy!! :-)

13 Today

My Baby boy became a teenager today. I remember holding this tiny little baby 13 years ago. He was the most gorgeous thing I had ever laid eyes on. And now...he's the most handsomest young man! So sweet, so kind, and I love him very much!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY!! Mama loves you so much!!

My Loves BDay!

My sweetie mentioned he wanted a hamburger cake about a month ago, so I took mental note. ...and when it was time, I asked my cake lady to do her magic!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!

15 Years Today

Today marks our 15 year anniversary. I secretly ordered us a cake from our cake lady....and OMG, Chad secretly ordered from her too. She didn't know what to do, so she made both LOL!!

Still catching up

July 4th, I had my 36th birthday, and then was blessed to have a sweet baby boy join the special day of The 4th of July babies, Chad's best friends baby boy Weston. Is so adorable!!!

A great big random update

Going to try to update several months worth here...(pictures uploaded randomly, UGH!!)

Me and Niki on her birthday! (Feb)

My birthday present from my sweetie. Since I've gotten into reading. (July)

My baby boy had his appendix removed on the second weekend of Summer Vacation. Boy was he a trooper. You would never have guessed he had surgery. (June)

Mine and Chad's first vacation all on our own. We spent a few days in San Antonio at the Riverwalk. (April)

I started reading!! Never been a book reader. Reading always puts me to sleep. But I REALLY love this series. I watched the movie first, and then bought the books. (March)

Ryan's check up with Dr Wolffe, who did his surgery. (June)

Chad's Father's Day Caake! LOVE IT!!!!! (June)

Easter cake!! (April)

Mayhaw Festival, Saira's face painting. (May)

ANNIE!!!!! (April)

Saira's 9th Birthday! (Jan)

I got a Vue for Mother's Day!  LOVE IT!!!! (May)

KJ's bday!! (May)

Finished the Hunger Games, time to start this series.... LOVED IT!!(May)

Super cute earrings! I got them for my scrapbook retreats.  HEHE!!! (May)

Beginning of the Year

So here's a picture from Christmas time. Niki had me and Saira join her and KJ to watch White Christmas. which was amazing!!
And here's a couple of pictures from New Years! :)

Ready for White Christmas!!

Happy New Year everyone!

Updates

So much has happened since Oct 2011.
First off, myself and daughter are both a year older. She's now 9 and I turned 36. Major mile stone happened when the kids went back to school last week. My son is now a Jr High student. And at the end of this month he'll be a teenager. This is all so overwhelming.
Another major thing was, I sold my 2008 red Chevy Truck to a good friend and I got a new 2012 Silver Hemi Dodge Charger. ...OMG!!  LOOOOVE IT!!!

Ol' Girl will do my Ol' friend a good job. I'm glad she's going to a family I know and trust.

She's Hemi tough!!!!!

Isn't she beautiful!?!?

Breaking Dawn, pt 1

I've purchased marathon tickets for me, Chad and Andi to watch Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn pt 1. Starts at 4pm and we won't be back home til after 2am the next morning. Shesh...LOL  It's going to be FANTASTIC!!!  I totally can't wait!!  It's going to be so much fun to watch them all again with my 2 besties!  :)

My Birthday Boy

Can't believe my little boy is now 12!! Time just keeps flying by, with no slowing down at all.

The Best Thing In The World!!

This is it!!!!

Trip to CT

On May 20, 2011, my mom and brother and myself went to CT to watch my other brother graduate from Central Connecticut State University. He graduated with a degree in Actuarial Science.

This one didn't turn out that great. He was on the move, and we were on opposite ends of the arena from each other.

Johnedward's name was being called out. :) Very proud moment!!! :)

Already sitting back down. And I caught a few pictures of him looking for us. :)

Johnedward checking out his diploma.

Took a little while to get out of their and back across the street to our Hotel Lobby. But by the time we all got there, Johnedward was already there. LOL!!! His girls had gotten him a graduation balloon and a bear. They are so sweet! I told him to say "CHEESE" and I think I got him mid cheese. lol

Again, this was the most proudest moment in my life, other than my wedding and the birth of my children!! And I was so excited to meet Hilary finally.

OH MY GOODNESS!!

It's been over a YEAR since I last blogged, WOW! I can't believe it! There has been soooo much that's happened in the last year. Saira turned 8 and Ryan turned 11. He'll be 12 next month. Oh my, a pre teen!! I became another year older, 35. I've been to 2 retreats with my scrappy friends and to a NKOTBSB concert in June. OH MY! That was the BEST fun EVER!! This summer was really great. It was really busy at first, but then it slowed down which was great. Now we're all prepared for 3rd and 6th grade. My poor baby girl, she will be dealing with all that exit level tests, now called STAR tests, formally called TAKS. Surely she'll do just as well as her brother has the last 3 years, if not better. :) Our summer vacation is on a count down to being over... 4 more days.

I'm kind of glad that 6th grade stays with Elementary now. When I was in the 6th grade out in 29 Palms, California, it was in Elementary. Jr. High was only 7th and 8th. I think Ryan feels like he's ready to move on to Jr. High though. He keeps dissing the thought of having to stay in Elementary, "even though it's suppose to be Jr. High". That's what he's been saying all summer.

Both the kids have grown and matured alot this summer. My son has totally passed me up in height. I've known he has, but a few months ago it totally hit me that he's out grown me. :( Saira, her and I practically wear the same size shoe. Umm, you read above that she's only 8. What the heck?!?

OH OH!!! One other exciting, bitter sweet thing is that Ryan will be playing Jr. High football. Aww, I've looked forward to this every since he was born, but I don't think I'm ready for my baby boy to play with the big kids. ;)

Me, my mom and brother took a weekend trip to see my other brother graduate from College. That was one of the most awesomest family moments EVER. I was beyond proud of my brother. He's worked so hard for 7 years to get his Actuarial degree. Here you go, some more info on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science It's a pretty big deal... ;) Picture above is me and my sweet mama on our flight to see my brother! I'll for sure have to blog about that trip later. It was so awesome, and I can't wait to go see my Conneticut family again. Oh, yes, that's were my brother was going to College, Central Connecticut State University. I wish I could move there, to Guilford, CT where he lives. I loved all the history I learned in the 2 days we were there.

Ok, I promise to be back soon and blog again. I won't stay away for another year. LOL!!!

Memphis (2nd Trip)

We went on a 2nd trip to be with Chad for Easter. And the Easter Bunny even knew where to go.  :)

Chad and Saira coloring at Cracker Barrel

Still coloring/playing games.

The bridge that crosses over the Mighty Mississippi River over to Arkansas.

The bridge that crossed from Memphis Tn over to AR

Eating some AWESOME BBQ at the #1 BBQ place, Rendezvous

At Rendezvous

Dry rub ribs at Rendezvous

My bbq sandwich at Rendezvous and the best cole slow and beans EVER!! Their cole slow is different!

Rendezvous

Haaa!  Messy girl! at Rendezvous

Oh yeah!!!  That's a rib eating girl right there!! at Rendezvous

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

Mmm, their sauce is sooooo good, it'll make you slap your mama!

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Messy face, messy hands

Gee, they even cater

they are located in an alley, down in a basement...lol