Here we go again.

The boys had their 1st day of school for the 2nd time this year. They did great and had an awesome day! They both seemed to enjoy it. It was a long morning though because this new school starts an hour later than their old one so it was a long time waiting on school to start. They are such early birds so it was a long time till 830. :-)

They insisted on a football pose!

You can tell they like their football around here, wow! Check out these chip bags in Target. Of course I had to get them for the boys!

Just a quick post for you for now. Toodles. Time for homework!

Settling

We are slowly getting settled into our new place. Wow, this is going to be interesting. It's very wierd being in a new town, new streets, new shops, new everything! The boys are adjusting and trying to figure this whole thing out too! Visited a nice church today and hoping to check out school for the boys tomorrow. Just wanted to drop in to say we made it and are doing good! Many thanks to our family and friends for all their help with our move, we couldn't of done it without all of you! Love to all....be back later this week hopefully!

Did you think?

Think I'd never be back to blog?? hee hee , I'm still around just busy. Our family trip was awesome!!! We had a great trip, great weather, great ship and great family time!
This is a busy week!! It's almost outta here time!! yikes! This is short but I hope to be back next week with some blogging. Toodles for now, we are doing good just busy! Love to all!

Well, well, well

I'm finally back for a few words. Like I said busy, busy, busy! Let me start by saying we celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary on the 30th!! Wow, that's kinda hard to believe when I really think about it, time has flown by! Unfortunately Mike was out of town working, but we celebrated in spirit! But our list of coincidences continues!! He comes home tonight and had bought both boys a Nike shirt while he was out of town. Funny thing....I bought the boys the same exact shirt yesterday but just different colors!!!!! Now is that wierd or what? I mean really, the same exact shirt??? Plus he got his from the NIke outlet and I was shopping on the Kohl's clearance rack..LOL! What are the chances really of us picking that same Nike sleeveless sports shirt? Now to the 2nd part....then we exchange anniversary cards....I bet you know what I'm going to say.....YEP!! We had bought each other the SAME EXACT CARD!!! All of these things are just so funny that keep happening....I just feel relaxed with the thoughts that all of this that is happening must surely be meant to be!!

So today was my last day at work! It was a happy but tearful day! I am really going to miss my job and the people I worked with!! It was a tough day, and sorry but I won't recap it right now so that I won't drop tears all over the keyboard!

Next the exciting part...CRUISE!! oh yeah baby!! I will be MIA again for a little bit on this blog, but I'll be back and try to at least say Hello, then we will only have one week till moving day! I'll try to get on here with short updates, and I will definetely be back on here after the move with lots of stories to tell I'm sure of it!! I have several girl's lunch out dates and a dinner night out with other girlfriends. Getting all of my girlfriend time in before I go. Everyone is sad that there won't be a cookie party! I guess they get a break from baking all the cookies, but who knows what I might come up with!! hee hee

So I'm also praying for the coincidence that we'll get an offer on the house while we are on the cruise!! So you all pray too! Our agent will definetely know how to contact us for when it happens.....   :-)

Well that's my short update and I'll be back shortly with updates from our wonderful trip!! Bon Voyage!

More fun and stuff

So a couple of weeks ago shortly after we put our house on the market my in-laws sent us the St. Joseph statue to bury in our yard. He will help us sell our house!

We went out and found the perfect spot for the statues.

We have been having alot of coincidental things happening with this whole moving event. But this statue came with a card telling the instruction of how and where to bury St. Joseph and the prayers to say and everything. Well on the back of the card it tells of how this originated it starts to mention St. Teresa of Avila!!!!!!!what??????? Believe this or not, but that is the name of the school in the town we are moving that the boys will be attending....how about that??!!!!  I couldn't believe it!! Must be meant to be!

Dev decided he wanted a snorkle set. I told him that would be great and he could use it on our cruise! So he thought it would be a great idea to try it out in our tub!! Ok....why not?....so he did!! It was funny, but he did a great job! I can't wait to see him and get pics of him snorkeling in the ocean right off of Disney's private island.....nice!!

Back to share a few more pics of my niece's play date and the kids all playing.

This pic is kinda blurry, but I really like it! Except that the boys are looking so grown!  :-(

I can't wait to bring this pic back out when she's like uhh...let's say 16!! LOL!

Follow me!!

Well we haven't had anymore showings yet...hoping we will get at least one and more would be great this weekend!! Kinda a bummer to keep the house sparkling and no one is coming by to see it!!

Wow, ran 6 miles on Tuesday night and 2.5 miles tonight. I keep track of my running with an app on FB. Well I can't wait to see the total mileage the end of this month. I have been officially keeping track for just over a year. But there are runs that are logged before that. So I'm starting from last August to this August when I've been keeping a log. Amazing...I have ran at least once...hee hee..mostly more than once...but I have ran every month for the last year! wow! That's quite an accomplishment for me. So at the end of this month I want to see the total mileage, that's kinda cool. If I can get at least 20 more miles in this month I will have my 2nd highest mileage month all year from last August, but if I'm remembering right even if I don't get to 20, a few more runs and I'll be in the top 3rd month. The next week will be a little crazy with everything happening, but I would love to get another 20 miles in!! We'll see how it goes.

I can't believe I only have 4 more days of work left. I will really miss where I work. There have been issues don't get me wrong, just like every other place, but overall it's been such a great job and place to work, I can only pray I'll be blessed with another great job in our new city! Oh yeah...I forgot to mention a few other of the coincidences! So, Dev was worried about not having a bday party here, since we are moving one week before his bday. He told me he needed at least 30 days at his new school to make friends to have a party...LOL....I started to feel bad so I told him we'd have a party the weekend before we move with family and a few of his best friends. Well, some of you might remember and if you don't....we moved from STL about one week before Dev's 1st bday and had a party for him there right before we left! That was exactly 7 years ago!! Well, to top if off....so we've lived here 7 years and we previously lived in STL for 7 years!! Go figure! Isn't that wierd! I know....I'm seeing all these wierd things, but it's true though! Wow!! Go lucky 7!! what else?! I say our house sells Sept 7th!! yes...say it with me....sells on sept. 7th!!! LOL....but I do pray it's true!

Well I think that's all for now. Lots of other preparation for the move details but pretty boring about that so I'll skip it. Just to say everything is lining up. But, I'm looking forward to the cruise most of all!! 1 week and just a few days...yippee!!!!!!!!!

Toodles.

Fun

Here I am, I know the blogs have been scarce... I got to watch my neice one evening. She had alot of fun playing with the boys. What cute cousins!!  Sad that the for sale sign is in the background though...Ha...didn't realize it until after I had taken the pics and the kids ran off to finish playing.

Dev drew a scooter with the sidewalk chalk and decided to ride it!

Bry drew himself riding on his scooter!
Love the pics!!

We are steady busy around here lately. Lots of to do stuff!

We did go to the mall on Saturday while Mike got an eye exam. It has been awhile since I've been to the mall walking around with the boys. We rode a small train that rides around through the mall, and we rode the carousel and Dev did this trampoline jumping thing all while we were waiting on Daddy. The best part was when we went back to check on him, the girl told us that me and the boys could get some sunglasses if we wanted with my vision insurance and if they were under $100 we would only have to pay tax. Hmmm...why not?! hee hee. The insurance is ending this month and I've been paying for 2 months so why not? So I looked around and found myself a $99 pair of Ralph Lauren sunglasses and paid $5 for them! wow...can't beat that!! Then we looked for the boys....too funny....my boys both have Ray Ban sunglasses now! They cost us $4 and $5 dollars, normally $89 and $99!! What a deal! Ha...you can't even buy children's spiderman sunglasses for under $10! The best part is as the boys grow she said we could just bring the glasses back to any location and they can adjust them for free! wow! Yeah! We all left the mall looking pretty cool in our new sunglasses! That was funny!

I think I have some more pics to share, but don't have my camera with me right now.

Oh yeah, I did make another food creation for the boys this weekend! It was Angry Bird toast with jelly!
The boys loved it, I think it did turn out pretty cute. A friend on FB said her son saw the pic and was like "why do they get treats for breakfast?" ha ha...she figured she might try it too! :-)

Still been trying to get my running in. I haven't been doing too bad. It's pretty tough with all the schedule changes that I'm trying to keep us with, the to do list and the normal stuff too. But I'm hanging in there. I've actually added in a new sprint interval workout occassionally, and wow I have to say it has really helped. It has increased my regular pace by quite a bit. Very interesting!

Well I think that's my update for now.....

9 days till our vacation!! whoo hoo and 11 days till the crusie! I'm so excited!!!

Toodles!

Here I am

Well, things have just been busy busy. Not too much fun to report. Just getting things done around the house. The boys are doing good in school. They seem to like their new teachers.
We did have a house showing today...so lots of PRAYERS!!

Anyway, busy at work too, trying to get things lined up for my departure!

I know this isn't long and wasn't much fun to read. I'll try to have some fun stuff to post next time!!

First!

First let me recap to the first day of school which was last week. The boys were up and bright eyed eating their breakfast on the first day of school. Of course Dev was already playing games! LOL

Heading off to 2nd grade!! wow!

My little Kindergardner!!

I did manage to get a pic of me and Dev. Didn't get the Mommy and Bry pic yet....I'll have to sneak one of those soon!

Ready to go!

Aren't they so cute walking in with Daddy!

Dev getting all his stuff ready in his new desk.

Daddy helping Bry get his stuff put away.

No tears from Mommy this year. Wow!! The boys are pro's at this and I guess Mommy and Daddy are getting there too! But I did see alot of scared little faces in the school that day, especially the little ones. It was probably their very very first day!!

So, back to our big news! Yes we are moving to Baton Rouge. This has come as quite a shock but we will prevail. We' ve went down and checked out the area and little bit of the housing. So many things are happening so fast. I just pray that our house sells quickly! Mike is already commuting down for work for the next few weeks until we can get ourselves in order and get some temporary housing there. We are going to go ahead and get the boys tranferred into school down there also. I'm hoping the earlier in the school year, the better and easier it will be for them. This is all happening very fast. Plus, we have our family cruise coming up Labor Day weekend!! Really looking forward to that!!

Wow...lots on our plate. But we are taking it day by day and have our positive hats on knowing all will work out just fine! I will surely miss everything we have here, house, neighborhood, school, family and friends!! But, I'm trying not to think of those sad things and keep upbeat and positive for our new chapter in our life.

Well back to my to do list! I'll try not to be gone so long this time from blogging!! Toodles.

Don't give up!

I'm still here, it's just been kinda crazy.
We're moving!! EEkk!! Hubby got new job and we are moving in probably about a month. Things are very busy and I haven't had a chance to blog much. I'll try to get on tomorrow and fill in some details!!
We are all doing well though! We have our positive hats on and are walking through our new door of life!
Toodles.

Bee

Just buzzing in to say a quick Hi!

Busy busy bee around here. I'll be back soon.

Now this is funny!

This is one of the pages I told you about in the homemade baby book! See how my friend pasted Mom's face on the baby!!

Now Mom is driving the forklift!! Hysterical!

I will have to get pics of the rest of the book! It was so funny!!

Where to begin

 Let's see where I should begin.... I have alot to catch you up on.
Well on Mom's birthday I got to her house early and had to continue the fun 60's!! I had these paper plates and decided to decorate her house and hide the plates all over the house for her to find!!

For example, the dishwasher!! LOL... it took her a few days finding all the plates I hid!!

She thought I was taking her out to dinner, but she didn't know a few people would be joining us. She was pleasantly surprised!

She even got some gifts! A cooler full of beer!

An awesome scrapbook for the Grandkids!

She also got a homemade baby book! It was hysterical! I'll have to scan the pages and share them on here, it's hard to explain, but just know it was hysterical!!!

We headed down to Pensacola for the weekend for my 20th HS reunion. While we were there we got to visit with my inlaws and they took the boys swimming while Mike and I ran some errands.One of the days was a family day at the beach for the reunion on the Navy base. The boys had a great time trying to catch crabs and minnows.

While we were on the base we took the boys for a quick visit to the Naval Museum.

The boys couldn't wait to climb in the Blue Angel jet. Last time Bry was too scared to sit in it.

But not this time!!! whoo hoo!!

Dev got in too!

One evening we met up with some friends for a BBQ. They just got a new pool so all the boys got to swim. They also enjoyed the hot tub.

My reunion was pretty good. It was great seeing some of my ole buddies.

Bry had his preK graduation last night from his daycare. He has been going there since he was about 9 weeks old!! He did leave to go to preK but he came back for the summer and got to participate in the graduation! Love it!

Dev has been having his soccer camp 4 nights a week for the last 3 weeks. He has really improved with all the practice. I'm not sure when they start having games. This is his last week of the camp. He is really enjoying it, but very tired! LOL.

I think that's about all for now. Gotta run. Toodles!

THE day is finally here!!

Yes the day has finally arrived...

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY MOM!!

I'll always need my Mom no matter what age I am...My Mom made me laugh...wiped my tears...hugged me tight...watched me succeed...saw me fall...cheered me on...kept me going strong...and drove me a little crazy at times! But my Mom was a promise from God that I will have a friend forever!… (copied this from facebook.) But I love it!

I know she didn't realize a year ago when I starting counting down to her turning 60 that she would spend almost her whole birthday month celebrating! But hey why not?! LOL!!

I was sneaky yesterday and hid some flowers in her house and texted her this morning to go to the area for a surprise! I'm also taking her out to dinner to tonight so we can finish celebrating! I don't know what I'm going to do now without getting to give her the countdown!! ha ha....

Love you Mom!!