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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!!

Rain Rain GO AWAY...

Man, will it ever stop - we cancelled our Girl Scout Day Camp due to weather and it is STILL raining...yuck...enough is enough!! although it was nice, I went to lunch with some mamas from DAM. That was nice, Christina picked me and mckinlee up and so we got some girlie time!

Hope everyone had a great VDay!! we Did, my mom went to Tanners Party since his and McKinlee was at the same time, I had to be at McKinlees being room mom - each child did a poem then we made pop tart post cards and played picture bingo, i think the kids had fun! then we ordered out Applebees and got out the FINE China!! I have had my Great Grandmothers china since I got married, haven't used them once...so we did - and nothing was broken YAYYY!! the kids LOVED it we had candles and flowers too!! sooo sweet!!

Tomorrow we are heading to Medieval Times, so to prepare Chris and McKinlee watched Cable Guy (remember they go there in the movie) we are leaving Tanner with my mom, so hopefully we can have some fun! the Plan is to get McKinlee and her friend Chance knighted :)

Take Care, thoughts going out to Chelsea Grandpa...Love to you both and your family!! I think of you all the time, girlie!! (((HUG)))

Everyone sleep well and stay safe!! - HUGS

2 weeks

TWO WEEKS...and I will have a SEVEN year old little girl..wow!! we have lots of things planned, Medieval Times this coming weekend and then a Playdate w/ her friends on her actually bday and then a family party on the saturday after!! mix that in with everything else guess what...we are busy! SURPRISE SURPRISE...

Don't remember the last blog, I know at one time I blogged and it deleted, UGH...not much off the wall stuff happening...I get to make our dinner reservations for disney tomorrow!! chris thinks im insane but 180 days out, Im gonna try and book what I want! :)

I spent all day up at Shannon today, McKinlee just LOVES to have me there, i hope that never changes, but man oh man - I was taking class pics, and silly me I *thought* as the age got older it would be easier..NOPE...those 5 and 6th graders, good GRIEF they couldn't listen to save their life...I was about to just SCRRRRREEEEEAM!! I am done with that!! it will just be a 1st grade yearbook hahaha

Wasn't this weekend nice 75 degrees or so, and don't ya know we are in Texas - it is suppose to be 40 degrees this coming weekend and possible snow and again, wouldn't ya know...we have a girl scout day camp all day on sat...

I am out of things to say, I will try to come back soon, if not have a Happy Valentines day!! Hope you get all your hearts desires!!

WALT DISNEY WORLD!!!

Well I blogged the other day and posted and it said can not maintenance and then POOF gone :(....

Basically - I was super proud of the kids...McKinlee had midyear reading test ...and testing at a level 18 which is 2nd grade **yyyaayy** and Tanner shocked me the other day by counting in SPANISH!! almost all the way 1-10!! Then I mentioned I was trying to talk chris into going to Disney world....

WELL... a Few days later...

IT IS BOOKED!!! We are going...we usually just stick around here - San Antonio and Corpus once but really we haven't been on a major family vacation...Tanner didn't go with us Hollywood...and Chris didn't go with us to Disneyland...Im a bit nervous as Chris isn't a theme park guy - or at least he doesn't claim to be...so who knows!! But I am determined to have GREAT trip!! So watch out, Im sure you will be hearing a LOT about it soon! SO I appologize now for all of it!!

Not much else going on, McKinlee ended up selling 360 boxes of GS cookies *yikes* but I am so proud of her!! she did a lot of that on her own! I am really getting into Yearbook, I have to get that done in the next 1.5 months...So i am gonna be busy busy with all that and McKinlees BDay coming soon! Wish me luck!!

Hope everyone had a great groundhog day!! looks like 6 more weeks of WINTER...which would be bad if we could get one nice weekend of just SNOW!! Tanner hasn't really got to see snow!