a Day to Celebrate..

Yayy me..two in one day...really I was on my desktop and I rarely am anymore, so I wanted to share with you my wonderful group of mommy friends!! I don't know what I would do with out these women, when I am down they are there, to help celebrate, laugh, cry they are there!! they are all very special to me and hold a dear place in my heart!! So if you read this, I love you very VERY dear to me! That said, our Big *3-0* MNO BDay Celebration...Christina, Marci and I recently turned 30 - and thats not all- Helen, Shanz, and Kimberly also have a BDay within days or so (just not 30) so we went out and had some fun!

Plan was the patio at Blue Canyon - then it started to rain...the weather had some "red" so they went ahead and moved us in...which wasn't what we wanted, but didn't stop us.... SOOOOO BC has Ladies Night 4-7 all you can drink domestic beer and wells...well they didn't TELL me that it ended at 7 over the phone, so I got my drink on...remember I am SAHM - drinks are HIGH so I was getting my $10 worth...hehehe but that also with an empty tummy made me tipsy early :) so sorry if I embarassed myself, I had tons of fun!

Thanks to Sabrina, Marci, Chel, Christina, Jen, Kimberly, Laura, Shanz, Linz, Stefani, Helen, Heather, Dawn and Samantha for helping everyone celebrate the big day!! Bdays are important and everyone should be celebrated!! so with out further adu' the pics :)

the BIG *3-0* Crew...aka christina, me and marci

jackie, marci, me, christina and jen
jackie, marci, me, christina, helen, sabrina and chel
dawn, me and linz
me and kimberly - we share the SAME bday :)

and just because I haven't shared pics, here are a few from Scarborough Faire....

McKinlee with the dress I made ALL by myself! :D

Riding an elephant

My bro, Justin and Tanner

and a Recent Pic of Gracie and Tanner :)

Happy Mothers Day ...

a day late!! but better late than never, right!!

I had a good day!! I had gotten my ipod from Chris and the kids, so I spent some time loading some CDs - then we went to moms - saw Nana and visited a bit, mom and family got a foosball table so we had to play a few matches!! i stink at that game!! always have!! then we went to the MIL...and ya know how that goes...but it wasn't bad there were other people over at Chris's gmas across the street - so they had a blast and that makes me happy!

we got some the home "staples" from walmart and came home to cook Hotdogs...family time is always fun!! so all in all a GREAT Mothers day!! hope yalls was just a fabulous!!

Can you believe it!!

I am officially OLD!! my birthday was 2 days ago...and I am no longer a 20 something...that seems soooooo odd to me! but Hey, like the song, the Next 30 years will be the best years of my life!! My kids are getting older, we can have lots of fun!! I had a great Birthday - Both kids had school, so I went to lunch with some friends - Kimberly even shares birthdays with me! so that was cool! i got to scrapbook some and then that night Rachels Challenge... a bit on that...

Rachel Scott was the first student shot in Columbine. I can't believe that was 9 years ago! I remember being so sad, but know as a parent...I can not imagine - sending you child to school and them just not coming back - you take things forgranted - did you tell them you love them - did you kiss them enough...well went they get home - its just school, right?!?!? Seeing her dad and the 123,000 acts of kindness and compassion that was completed in the last year was very emotional for me!! both sides of the stadium was full and standroom as well!! a great turn out and a great birthday, if I can say so myself!! going out tonight with a group of great moms tonight to celebrate Marci, Christina and My next 30 years!!

Also, my brother turned 16 on Wednesday - yesterday he got his license...watchout Texas Travis can drive! We had dinner at Kyoto on Wednesday and then dinner at moms with some of their friends last night, Mom and I made Travis an IPOD cake, which is fitting since it was for me as well, and I got my first IPOD as my gift! :)

on the kid front...school is winding down we had teacher appriecation this past week - we did something everyday for the teachers and then a huge lunch on Friday - I got to go sit in McKinlees class for about an hour - I have so much fun, but man her class is CrAzY!! but it was mostly recess so not bad, tanner even went he LOVES those boys!

This week is Tanner end of year program - McKinlees Field Day and I am sure Im missing something...but those are the most important...maybe I will remember to blog on the desktop so I can share some pics with you! :) Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Put your mind to it...

and you can remember to blog :)

See it hasn't been a month!! yaayy!! What a fun TIRED weekend...I have been working on McKinlees "author debut" for school this friday...The weekend started Thursday I helped mom at the special events center with Travis' gymnastics meet, then that night went to watch him compete, im sooo proud of my lil' bro - he has coem very far in a short amt of time!!! GO patriots!! (they got 3rd overall, not bad really!! there were a lot of schools and a lot were really good!!!) and then this past friday McKinlee's Girl Scout troop spent the night at the Museum of Nature and Science . . . and I was a chaporone...fun, but man the floor was H.A.R.D. - they were doing things until about 11 pm and man where those girlies TIRED! they woke us at 7am, we had to wake up and get our stuff to the car so that we can see a Dallas movie and a Shark movie on the IMAX screen, can i just say SOOO Cool!! some pics from then...

after the sleep over kimberly, chance, mckinlee and I RUSH home to change there clothes and off to a soccer game, we get home about noon from it all and I just soo tired...we do a few things and mckinlee goes to spend the night at chances, and I trying not to fall asleep start on her reinassance dress since we are planning on going to scarborough faire this weekend...it is coming a long and looking nice - If I can say so myself **just don't look to hard at the stitching, I am no professional by any stretch of the imagination!!** I watch 2 weeks, since Chris left to help his dad...(a sad sad movie, left me in tears) then I pass out on the couch with Tanner...

This morning I get mckinlee work on the authors thing some, we have a Bday party and then some shopping...while Chris works...he beats us home with a surprise... **GRACIE** has come to live with us...he had promised mckinlee a dog, so when his boss offered him one, he took advantage. So we have a new member of the family...i suppose...she is a 1.5 yr old cocker spaniel...quite cute...we think trainable and is already crate trained!

So that is our weekend in a nut shell, i hope everyone else had a great weekend too!

i know I KNOW!!

I am a big slacker! Im sorry! I really enjoy blogging, and I am sure in 10 years I will enjoy reading back on it...I will probably make myself tired then, since I can't seem to stop now!! lets see...it said I blogged last March 7..WOW really? that long? Since then, I Finished McKinlee's school yearbook ***YYAAAYYYYY*** I was so glad for that too!! Chris and I celebrated our 9 year wedding anniversary, McKinlee had a field trip, program, girl scouts, dance and started soccer, Tanner well is just busy all day regardless - loving school and learning lots all that and I am sure many many MANY more things!!

mckinlee trip on the bus...

Just this weekend Fri after school Sky came over, we picked up Chance and went to Zoobilee at the Dallas Zoo, I wanted to miss traffic so we got there at 5pm, and I am so glad we did it got SOO crowded but we had really done it all, at least the "line" stuff - we played at the childrens zoo after jumping in bounce houses, face painting, and riding the monorail.

Sat we went to McKinlees soccer game and ran errons with daddy!! it was fun, we were in the car a lot, but we don't get many daddy days so we took advantage of it!!

Today the kids went with papaw to visit nanny, to the park, had ice cream then we all had dinner at Salt Grass I got a lot of cleaning done and even some painting I am doing for mckinlees little graduation party.

we have a busy BUSY next MONTH, I am afraid of even thinking about it!! and really it will go so fast that I will wake up one morning it will be summer and then I will no longer have a 1st grader and that my baby boy is one year closer to starting school as well!! that makes me wanna cry just thinking of it!

I think that should bring me up to date, sorta... I know I left a lot of details out, but I know you don't wanna read over a month of busy...let me tell ya its tiring! ha thanks for hanging in with me!! smootches!

Only in Texas...

Last Sunday it was 70 degrees, monday barely 40 - wednesday, again 70's and then yesterday (thurs) SNOW...well in Plano/Frisco here in Rockwall we just had VERY cold rain and wind!! it did snow very late...or well VERY early this am - mckinlee still had school, I am very stuff but since this is one of tanners first snows, we went out for a bit...made a snow man off of my car!! He was so excited to throw it and watch it explode!! He kept telling me it was Christmas!! HAHA -

those of you north of me, SOO lucky!! I wanted it to really snow, my cousin in sherman said she went out with her ruler measured on her car ...they got 8 inches!!! WOW!! now, lets have some spring please!!

I forgot how much I LOVE Matchbox 20

First things first, my baby had her BDay last week - she turned 7 on tues...why is it every year that "number" just seems so big!! I can't believe it! We had a small little PD on her actual bday and she LOVED it...then on Sat we had some family over and had a small party after mckinlee sold her first Girl Scout Cookie Booth - which they sold 71 boxes ... BUT *I* bought 14 of those ***BAG*** so you need some let me know I have extras! :)

so the first of last week my GS Leader, Paige, called me!! she had told me about her tickets to Matchbox 20 and I was SO jealous, i don't get much of MY radio time or i don't think to grab MY cd's - but I do love MB20 - so imagine my surprise when she calls to say her hubby has to work and that if I wanna I can go....**BOUNCING with excitment I was** so Sunday i got up, packed my bag and she picked me up at noon and off to Oklahoma City we went...Rob was a waiting for us ;) We got there about 3ish changed in our awesome hotel room, and then went to Toby keith's bar and grill

**** funny story we walked past TK B&G in Las Vegas a few years ago, then I caught a TK documentary, and he talked about his restuarant and how the chefs were not happy that he had a fried bolonga sandwich...and turns out it is a top seller...so I *had* to have one****

I was excited to go and OF course I DID have my sandwich...it was good, YK it was a Bolonga sandwich.... we went back to the hotel to drop off the car and walk to the Ford Center (it was about 3 blocks away) well while there we heard there were Tornados and such...and lots of rain...but the show went ON!! and it ROCKED, I truly forgot how much I adore them and the music!! and double BONUS, Alanis Morissette opened...LOVE her!! and she even did Fergies Humps - i had seen it on you tube...rocks LOL...MB20 sang all the best, some new and just plain Rocked!!! we were 7th row on the left...it was great...lets see...some pics...

after the show the temp had dropped 20 or more degrees and it was RAINING...luckily we crossed the street and could catch a skywalk almost the full distance to the hotel! and the next morning, it was SNOWING!!! when we got there the temp was 68 degrees...Hello - I guess texas isn't the ONLY weird weather state! We stopped at Winstar on the way home, blew 20 bucks playing wheel of furtune, I got to spin twice, but nothing big :( I was hoping for maybe a hundred maybe hehe but no, they took my $$$ of course!!

got back in just enough time to get the Tanner from Moms and get home to get McKinlee off the bus! we took the night off since we have been soooooo busy and it was sooooo cold, but we are back in the groove today! go go go... I think that is my new stuff for today!! hope everyone in Blog land is happy and healthy!!