A fun weekend

Well we had a great and exciting weekend. First, Grandaddy J came to visit and the boys loved playing with him and were very excited when he came with daddy to pick them up from school! It was a short visit but the boys really enjoyed it!

Then Sat. we headed to Nashville to see Thomas. We left B at home with Granny because he was feeling under the weather and we didn't think he would tolerate the trip very well. D loved riding the train and the activities that they had there. Maybe next year we can take both boys. As we passed some old train cars another mom told her son that those were the "troublesome trucks". Well D had to correct that saying" Those aren't the troublesome trucks, they don't have eyes!" That's my boy!! Extreme attention to detail!!:)

Sunday Me and D headed to the hummingbird festival(yes you heard me right)with Dad and Dee. B stayed home with daddy, again a little under the weather. It was very interesting.It was the Annual Hummingbird Migration We saw many hummingbirds, we even got to watch them tag their legs for tracking and I got to feel the hummingbirds heart beat. It was very cool. It rained off and on while we were there putting a little damper on things (ha ha). But then we had lunch at a Catfish resturaunt and then home for the eve. B is still not himself I think he's getting a cold. I hope he is better soon, I hate it when they don't feel like themselves!

I start my new job on Thurs. I am looking forward to it. I won't officially start until the 20th after my last day at my current job but Thurs will be like an orientation.

Congrats to Tim and Amanda for selling their house. We are excited to get them close to us!

Some pics from the weekend

Here are some pics from the weekend. The kids had a great time at Sesame Street! B was only scared for a minute and then he was yelling "HI Elmo" and dancing to all the songs. D liked it too and of course we had to get some popcorn. We were able to talk the kids out of one of the $8 Elmo head balloons! Bry loved baby Adam and acted like he was the babysitter. He was so cute.... All the boys really loved playing at the waterpark. Mom had decided to make a suprise visit over and just barely caught us leaving the neighborhood so she joined us at the park. It really exhausted the boys and they went right down for nap when we got home and we had to wake them up at 4pm, they were still knocked out from all the excitement! Dad and Dee came by on Monday for a cookout and the boys had a good time playing trucks with Papa. The girls from STL were as fun as ever, as you can see they are cuttin' a rug at Linda's poolside!! Linda made a great tomato pie(sounded wierd to me but actually tastes great!) that I'll post the recipe later.
CONGRATS TO ME!! I got a new job! I am so excited. I am turning in my two week notice tomorrow. The new job has NO CALL!! They are only open Mon-Fri with no weekends or holidays, yippee!! I am also getting a raise and they also have other great perks! I will be working 32hrs instead of 18......but I will still have one day off during the week so I am happy about that. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
Congrats to Teri and James on the arrival of their new baby girl!! 8lbs. 10 oz! Pretty good size, good thing the twins didn't weigh that much each... ha ha. I had to tease her though about the mini van thing....I guess if three kids means getting a van then count me out for sure, ha ha!! Look out Susan....three means a van!!!???????Congrats on the news of a baby boy! Love the name too!
Well that's all for now. We are going to Nashville this weekend to see Thomas the Train, the boys will enjoy it I know! I'll post pics when we return. Hope everyone enjoyed the long holiday!

Happy Weekend

Wait??? Is he doing a kid 'n' play move????? Hee hee!!

Anyone for a Conga line??

D and a few of his friends..

I am so excited that it's the weekend and I'm actually not on call!!!! Yesterday I stopped by D's school at lunch. they were having a Hawaiian luau day, it was really cute and the kids seemed really excited.

Then I headed to Linda's house because our STL friends were in for the weekend. We had a great time lounging in the pool, eating snacks and drinking of course. Donna made an absolutely great drink, orangetini I think. I'll have to get the mix recipe from her. Then Linda made a to die for tomato pie. I'm not the greatest lover of tomatoes but this recipe was great!! I'll post soon as I get it from her. Her homemade chicken pot pie was delicious also. They are in for the weekend but yesterday was the only day I could hang out with them.

We have friends coming in town today to stay with us. They came to visit not long ago and are coming back so we can take their 3 boys and our 2 boys to Sesame Street Live! I can't wait to see how the boys react to Elmo and all his friends. It should be alot of fun. I'll post pics prob tomorrow or so.

We hope to take their boys also out to our favorite water park for a little water fun before they head back home tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Oh happy day!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US........HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNNIIIIVVEERRSSAARRRRYYY TO US......
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today is our 10 yr anniversary! We are going to spend the day together, with a trip out to the casino's for lunch, maybe some shopping(i hope!) and then a few rounds on the slots! Wish us good luck to hit it big...ha ha! I don't usually have that luck except for last time when I won $200 bucks! A girl at work won 10K (yes, 10 thousand dollars!!) just the other day. Of course I have no idea how much she had to spend to win..
Today also means only one month till my baby D, now getting to be big D will 4 yrs old! wow, how time flies, I can't believe it! I look forward to having a little party for him, hopefully Mimi and Grandaddy J will be able to make it up for it!
Well off to spend the day with my honey of 10 yrs!!!Time does fly, it doesn't seem like it's been that long, it has been wonderful. He is a wonderful man, partner and daddy. I look forward to spending the rest of our hopefully long lives together!

Belt testing!

D had his belt testing tonight and did wonderful. He wasn't as timid as I thought he might be. He was so excited to get his new belt. B was happy too and wanted to join in the fun even though he is too little. He did give out a big TKD yell while everyone was quiet. He got a few giggles for that!

Mike did great too. We didn't get to stay for the whole testing, it was getting to late. But now he's only two belts away from black belt! Time for me to find time to get back in TKD so I can get my black belt too! When we quit we were only one belt away at our old school. You have to kinda regress a little at a new school, but the let you catch up pretty quickly! Congrats to my boyz!!!!

Check out our front door delivery..

Hey, look what was on my front door mat, two adorable bunnies. One was perched so sweetly on the doormat and the other was more on the defensive. They were so cute, they even let me take a few pics.. I tried not to scare them off because last year we had a baby bunny that got scared and ran from our flower bed to the neighbors back yard. Needless to say I cried like a baby...they have a golden retriever and he got the bunny and played and I think even ......well you get the idea. So I made an effort not to scare these off into forbidden territory!! Just had to post these adorable pics for you!

Happy 30th bday DAD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! Hee-hee, 30 huh? those were the days right?! Had a great birthday dinner with Dad , Dee and her mom, daughter and grandson, Jen and Bucky joined us also. Our camera taker must have already had a drink or two, but at least we are all in the picture!(barely). Mike and D weren't able to join us, Mike's grandad is in the hospital and they went down to Mobile to be with the family. I am on call (yet again!) so B and I were unable to join them, but we did get to spend time with Dad and the family, so that was good!

Finally got a few pics of the birds that perch and snack on the Black eyed Susan's outside my kitchen window. someone told me they were Finches, not sure though. Dad and Dee enjoyed them so much the bought some flowers for themselves, hopefully they might get a few birds too!

One of our tin foil barbs died! It happened right after I painted the kitchen a new color, he must not of liked the new paint! D hasn't even noticed yet, I am very suprised. I had to throw him in the pond though, he is too big to flush! I am worried about the other one now though, we have always had the two and I've been told they like to be in pairs, we'll see. I don't know the life expectancy of them, we've had these about 3 yrs. They were just babies when we got them and they grew quite big as you can see!!Well I think I might turn in for a early night, I am feeling a little under the weather, my sinuses are acting up. Happy weekend to everyone and again Hope you enjoyed your birthday Dad!

Painting.....????? Again...!!!!!

So everytime I do a paint project I always say I'll never paint again myself, that I'll hire someone(which we did 1 time and it was wonderful!). Well here I go again. I am in the process of repainting the kitchen. So this is how the story goes...Friday eve we spent part of the evening shopping. We have been wanting a new kitchen table for some time and also some bar stools for our island bar. Well we finally found both! The table (click this link to see the table)is nothing like I started out looking for. But I love it. It's black with chairs that have burgundy, gold and dark green stripes on the seats. The colors match our home colors well. I bought some new paint of the color we already have throughout the house to start doing some touch ups from the kiddie prints. Well also I had picked out a gold color(that I saw in a room at work) and I was going to repaint(ha) the bedroom. I had previously tried to pick a gold color and we ended up with French's mustard yellow in the bedroom. Well as it turns out I've decided to paint the color in the kitchen and it will go well with our new kitchen furniture. I will have to paint in sections due to my limited free time, but I'm excited believe it or not to be painting. I have only done some of the trim around the baseboards and door frames but the color is looking wonderful! I hope to have it done before the new table arrives in about 10 days or so. I am actually getting better at painting although I can't say it's one of my favorite things to do.

We enjoyed a nice weekend although the temps were in the 100's. Our date night went well with dinner at the Thai resturaunt, furniture shopping and browsing the book store before time to get the boys. Sat am I was up before the sun and headed to mom's for the yard sale. We sure had some early birds show up but the first customer spent $25, yippee! It went very well and we sold alot of stuff, I can't believe all the people that were out in the heat but hey we sold our stuff. We have decided to do one more this coming Sat. We had so much stuff that we didn't get it all out, so we'll do it again. MOM, I don't have any of your 35 cents either!! ha ha!! We made quite a bit of money, although mom was mad that I made almost twice as much as her. Hey, I sold alot of stuff!! :)

I spent the late afternoon watering all the thirsty plants. The boys love to help me, but get soaking wet in the process. But they didn't mind, seeing that it kept them cool. They are so cute going around and using their little watering cans to water the leaves and mostly grass and most of all their own shoes, but hey they are helping right!

Today we got up late, a little tired from the overeating of mexican takeout and two margaritas each! We packed up a picnic lunch and headed to the water park. This was daddy's first time to go with the boys. WE had a great time, it's wasnt' too hot as long as you were in the water occasionally. That place has become one of my favorites spots, and D loves that we take a picnic lunch. Everytime we get there he plays for only about 5 minutes and then he wants to eat his sandwich! It was alot of fun. Then home for naps, while I did the painting. It was a nice weekend just doing things here and there. Back to work tomorrow, which is another long story in itself.
Oh well, back to the last of the laundry and settling into my PJ's. Oh yeah, and Debi, I'm glad to know you're out there!! :)

Fun day out

Today we went to a new place that just opened by us. It's kinda like Chuck E Cheese, but since it's new we were the only ones there!! It was great, like our very own play place. D had a great time, he especially loved the race car game that we probably played about 10 times or more. We even played all 100 tokens that we had!! I thought surely we'd have about 50 left over, ha I should have known. It was alot of fun and D got to pick quite a few little toys with his tickets, we made sure to pick out the Bubba teeth too!!

The weather was a balmy 100 degrees too!!!! So we spent hardly a second more than necessary outside!

Thanks to Dad for the extra weight watchers books and stuff, I hope to buckle down seriously again next week, you know it's a rule that you can only start on Mondays!

Having a garage sale with mom on Sat. I hope it's only about 95 at 6am so we won't be too hot!! Ha ha, I think we have picked the possibly hottest weekend of the year so far to have a garage sale, but we'll see if anyone bears the heat for our junk, I mean goodies!!

Another date night tomorrow night. The school is having parents night out again, bless them! We won't be early birds this time! We are making plans for the entire evening, dinner prob at the great Thai place again, then some furniture shopping, and then to a movie I hope, not sure which one yet, but as little as we know what's even playing we'll prob just pick out of a hat. Happy weekend to everyone!!

My picks for the finale of so you think you can dance...........I think the final four will be Danny(of course that little cutie), Neil, Sabra( I love her name!!, she's great) and the final girl.... a toss up for me, maybe Lauren. She has really come out of her shell lately! The other girl, who's name has escaped me at the moment, she's starting to annoy me a little. So we'll see, I didn't vote, so I'll just wait till Monday and see the results....outta here!

I forgot all about it!

As I was going through the linen closet to seperate out things for potential garage sale or pass down baby items, I came across this beautiful quilt that Dee made for Bryson when he was born. I had forgot all about it! Shame on me! Of course as soon as I saw it I knew I had to put it on his bed. It goes well with his room decor also. Thanks again Dee and sorry I had forgotten about it, it got put up with alot of other blankets and got hidden away. But alas! I am now going to get great use out of it!!

Finally caught up!

So, little to my hubby's knowledge I went to Walgreens online and downloaded the 337 pics that I have taken and not printed since Christmas. What a relief that I am finally caught up, now just to put them in albums. He was not happy to see the boxes of "did we need all those printed?" pics on the table, but hey what's done is done right?! :) I have decided to be more selective of what I scrapbook in the future; if anything? Not sure yet, I just don't have the time and all alone is quite boring! Missing my scrappin' STL chics! If I could finish Bry's 1 yr book, it might be a miracle, considering I am at his 1st Christmas when he's 2 months old! Yikes,, but it's my mission to get it finished eventually.

Zaxby's chicken by us had Elmo up there for kids night. I decided to take the boys, B was pretty scared of Elmo in person but Dev was so happy to see him. I was prob the only parent there without my camera(shocker I know!) But I had left it in Mike's car and he went out of town with it:( I did manage to take a pic with my camera but not sure yet how to get it off of there, if I figure it out with my braniac hubby then I'll be sure to post it! But D is a little to observant my little almost OCD child. He wanted to know why Elmo had a zipper(it must be the little Elmo from TV.. he says) Then he is puzzled why Elmo can't close his mouth(you know, it's how the people see out!) I was afraid he'd see the eyes looking around, but thankly he did not. And as we were leaving, Elmo's furry feet had emerged one shoe! He saw a black shoe and was not happy that Elmo had shoes on(He doesn't wear shoes.. he says, Then he tells me that someone's daddy is in there!!) I just kinda shrugged it off and and away we went. When he told daddy the story of seeing Elmo he didn't mention all the quirks he observed so I guess they didn't harm his idea of Elmo just yet.......

My schedule at work has changed and boy does it have me confused! Needless to say I'm none too happy, I also have been having to take alot of call all of a sudden that the other's can't, it's not fun. In the scope of things, I left work at 3:45 today, picked up the boys and at 4:38 on our way home I get a call that I have to go in to work for a patient(EEEEEKKKKKKKK!) So I take the boys home and all the round trip get to work at 6pm and finally roll back into the garage at 7:15. Not the way I have wanted to spend the previous 2 1/2 hours that's for sure. And I have Sat and Sun to look forward too also. Hopefully things are going to be worked on and fixed soon at work, something has to change that's for sure!

I'm not sure what's up for the weekend with scorching temps with no outside activities in sight since we might melt you know, so we must be creative. We'll see what I can come up with to entertain the boys at home, since we cant' just take off somewhere since I'm on call !!UGH!!!!

Guess that's all for now..... Happy TGIF to everyone

What in the world?????????

Ok, that was pure disgusting. Don't know if any of you saw the girls movie on my blog but I DID NOT PUT THAT THERE! I did put the new page element to have Elmo dancing but then somehow(spam maybe) another video appeared there. I just noticed it today so I hope no one was offended by it, I didn't even watch the whole thing just deleted it immediately. Sorry about that!! I don't know how someone added that to my blog, but I'll have to keep an eye out for wierd things.!!

Big thanks to Mom, for watching the kids last weekend. We had a great dinner out at a Thai resturaunt, it was very unique and good. The kids stayed at Granny's and we picked them up in the morning, it was nice to be able to sleep past 6:15 am! Thanks again Mom!!!

Just finished some more planting out in the yard. It is coming along nicely, we are trying to create a natural border that will give us privacy. I had to cut the project a little short today though with temps in the 95's!! Hot tamale!!

CONGRATS TO TIM AND AMANDA!! They are expecting!!!! They just found out and we are sooooooooooo excited for them!!!! It will be their first baby, I am already starting to set things aside to pass on to them if they are interested!! I did find an adorable little onesie that I had to send that said ---INSTRUCTIONS (not included). It was very cute, but of course Tim says he's already went to google and downloaded the instruction manual:) Ha ha....If only it was that easy!!
But we are so excited for you guys!!! The boys will be very happy to finally have a cuz to play with! Now you just have to sell your house and get up here!!

Well this is short, my days off have changed and I have so much to do and so little time. I have even tried to start scrapbooking again trying to finish B's 1 yr. book. So laundry, dishes and scrabpbooking are calling me!! Oh yeah, Dad the hair looks great, I know it's alot cooler for you!!

Till next time...............

Santa in July!

Not really, but it was fun for the boys to play in the bubbles. I haven't taken bath pics in awhile so I felt it was time! Another weekend ahead, not quite sure what we're gonna do yet. I am on call tomorrow though, so nothing too far from the house.
I start my new work schedule next week, yukko!! Instead of being off mon. and tues. now I will be off on Tues and Thurs. It will take some adjustment not having the four day weekends anymore! Everyone's schedule has been turned upside down, at least I didn't lose actual hours, only my days working changed. Debi, if you're out there, email me. We must talk about So you think you can dance!! I love that show, in my next skinny, no job and no kids life I will be a dancer like that! ha!!
We rented the PS2 game over the hedge last night for something fun and no thinking required. It was alot of fun to play, mom had to use her brain and coordination quite a bit though, ha ha! It was very fun though, I just might have to buy the game for some downtime fun occasionally. D is actually playing it right now, there's a section you can unlock and play bumper golf carts, he loves the crashing into things and it doesn't make you lose your turn like other car games. The whole idea is to crash the other carts as much as possible. I'm not too much of a video game player but this game is entertaining I must say.
Well that's about all for now, I'm gonna go see what's on the agenda for today, take care to all.

Nashville trip

Well we've made it back from Nashville. We had a great trip considering Dev had a fever on and off while we were there making him quite cranky. We did the best we could with the situation and Mike stayed in the room a little extra with the boys since Dev wasn't feeling well.(Thanks honey!) When we got there and checked in it was quite wierd. As we arrived at our room the number was 2051. The two was for the level of the tower we were on and the 51 was the room number. Well....... we were on this trip for my mom's birthday gift from us to her. She was born in the year 1951. It was really kinda neat and wierd at the same time:) We spent the first evening walking around the hotel which was very amazing and huge. We decided just to grab Mc D's for the boys and take it back to the room since D wasn't feeling well. Me and mom ate at a buffet. It was pretty good. We then walked around some more and then sat and had a drink on this revolving floor that gave you a 360 view of the hotel atrium. It was very nice! Sat. we were up early and out to the pool. We started out in the indoor pool until the outdoor pool opened. The boys had a great time and daddy had them swinging high in the air in the kiddie pool.!!Check out the pics! Then we cleaned up and headed to the General Jackson steamboat. It was alot of fun and D liked being on the boat and watching the huge paddle rotate behind the boat. We cruised down the river to downtown Nashville and then turned around and headed back. It was very nice and the weather was very tolerable thank goodness!! We then headed across the street to the Opry Mills mall. It was very nice. the boys did OK but D was starting to not feel well again. We ate dinner at the Aquarium which was very cool. It had a huge tank in the middle of the resturaunt with all kinds of fish, sting rays, sharks, eels and lots of other fish. The food was very good too. Then back to the hotel and mom and I freshened up for the Grand Ole Opry. We walked there and enjoyed a glass of wine and some outdoor live music before the show. The show was very entertaining. She recognized alot of the people from watching way back from when she was a kid. She even got to touch the stage since we were in the 2nd row!! And it is going to be her 56th birthday and we sat in seats 5 and 6(another wierd coincidence!!) She really enjoyed her birthday present. We headed home a little early due to D not feeling well again. He had times when he felt great and then times he didn't. Overall we did the best we could with a sick baby and enjoyed the trip very much. Here are a few pics from the trip! By the way D is doing just fine now,we don't know what was wrong with him but I'm glad he's feeling much better now

Back to the waterpark

I took D back to the waterpark and this time B and Granny went too! We had a great time as usual and the boys tried their best to get Granny wet! Next Mimi and Grandaddy J need to come up and play in the water too!! :) (Hint-Hint!!) Bry was a little scared at first but as the time passed he got braver with the water spouts and other stuff. We had a picnic lunch and then headed home for naptime. It was another great day at the free waterpark! :) :)

Tommorrow we are off to Nashville for the weekend for mom's birthday present. We are taking her to the Grand Ole Opry, I am not the country fan at all, but it's for her not me. I might just come home strummin' a banjo or playin' the fiddle. ha, just kidding! The boys are excited especially D and we plan to spend time playing in the pool at the hotel and prob taking a riverboat cruise on the steam boat. I know I'll have plenty of pics to choose from to post when we get back.

Susan!, I know you are prego and all and I hope you are doing a little better, but girl where are your posts????? Slacker.......yes you have an excuse but let's hear from you girl!

Well hope all have a great weekend and I'll return in a few days!!! Asta la vista baby!!

Pics of the boys

Here are a few pics of the boys that visited us. Unfortunately I didn't take any pics of the baby, shame on me!! Ryan did show my boys how to do some soccer tricks so they tried their best:)

Eat your heart out Uncle Tim!!

All is well here

All is well here, Our weekend was great. We had company with some friend that have a 3 and 5 yr old boys and an 8 week old. We all had a good time and the boys enjoyed playing together. We all went to the zoo, that was fun but I think mom with baby was getting quite tired and overwhelmed for the first trip with 3 boys! She also is nursing so that can be a little difficult at times while traveling. All in all though, we all enjoyed the weekend. We did get baby fever for just a MINUTE but then after being reminded how sweet babies are we also were reminded how much time they require and that they can't feed themselves, play together or just be occupied with a toy car or something:) I know we can never say never but it was fun to hold the baby, but then he went home with his mommy and we had a reality check:)
Time for baths and then bedtime, so I might post some pics later.

Dev loved the waterslide

We had a great time at the school picnic today. D loved the water slide. He was scared but loved it at the same time. B had fun too but would not do any of the water activities. Here are a few pics, Granny came by and joined the fun too!

You have to watch this video also, D is having sooooooo much fun! I might have to rent one of these one time for a party it would be very cool!!

Countertop done!

Yes, it is finished! We are very happy about our new kitchen island. We were hoping it would be done before the 4th and low and behold they finished it at 7:30pm on the 3rd!! Yeah! D likes it alot! We have had fun so far this week, yesterday me and the boyz went to the park for awhile and then some food shopping at Sam's. Today we played outside and then after naps the boys played in the pool. They absolutely had a blast splashing each other and anything else close by! Tommorrow they are having a fun day at the daycare. It's actually closed for the holiday but since they have just recently improved the playgrounds they are having a celebration on the 4th. There is going to be jumping things,(for lack of better wording) and a water slide as well as food for everyone. It should be alot of fun. I know D will love the water slide and B will probably try it since big bro will be doing it! Well happy 4th to everyone and more chat to come later.

BEFORE:

DONE!

So YOU think you can dance?

Anyone up for a dance contest?? HEE HEE