BIG, BIG Weekend Plans!!

 Please pray for me.  Baylee (my 11 year old) and I are joining her BFF and her mom for a weekend of shopping, girls' day out and wait for it..............a JUSTIN BIEBER concert!  Heaven help me!   It has been Bieber Fever around here ALL WEEK as the concert gets closer!

This will be Baylee's first ever concert and she is sooooo excited.  Really......I am too!  Not necessarily because I like Justin Bieber, but because it is just going to be fun to have a girls' weekend with good friends and the girls are really and truly pumped up.

I will share all the details next week!!

If Only.....

......there were more time in the day!

Have you missed me?  I have been getting myself adjusted to my new job.  The work itself is easy but getting used to being away from home for 9 straight hours is taking some getting used to.  Not to mention turning in my t-shirts, athletic shorts and tennis shoes for heels and dress clothes.  I really am a casual kind of girl.

I am also trying to figure out how to squeeze everything into my newly crazy days.  Could there just be a few more hours in the day to get it all done please?

Home decorating has been on my mind lately and I have lots of ideas.  I started browsing one of the CSNstores and came across a great bookcase headboard that really makes me want to do a little bedroom re-do for the girls.  How great are these??  A product review in the near future?  You will have to wait to find out!

Lastly.....today I am celebrating my birthday and am blessed to have such great family and friends in my life to celebrate with.  They are keeping me sane as I get adjusted.  I am hoping to be blogging more regularly soon.  I miss it.  Just need a few more hours in the day.....

Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

Mollee.....

 Sometimes kids can be so easy to please.......

All she wanted was a Starbucks Caramel Frap.  It didn't hurt that neither her sister nor her brother were with us to get one too.  :)  Sometimes it is nice not to share.

We're BAAACCCKKKKKK!!!

 Hi everyone!!  Did you miss me?  We are back from our week long vacation in Panama City Beach.  It was a whirlwind of a trip that seems like it went by REALLY fast.  We got home around midnight this morning. 

Baylee played with her select team in the USFA World Series and did really well.  The final tallies haven't come out yet but we are pretty sure they tied for 13th place out of 70ish teams.  Not bad for their first trip.

Baylee catching during our first bracket game.

The teams had trading pins and Baylee had fun trying to get as many different pins as she could.  What a fabulous keepsake for her to remember the trip.

She even lost a tooth.

We did manage to get some relaxing done.  The beaches were gorgeous!  Only a day or two of yucky seaweed.  This is the view from our balcony.

(NOTE:  All pics shares are unedited from my iPhone.  I will download and share pics later).

One of the Calypso pools.  Sorry for the weird angle.  I am too tired to adjust the orientation of it.  You forgive me right?

Got to visit with one of my bestest friends, Mandy, who lives in Tennessee.  Her and her family came down the same time we did.

We hit the beach, the pool, did some shopping and relaxed when we weren't playing softball.  The kids even say Despicable Me.  We had lunch at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville.  YUM!  The ritas and food were good but I have to say that Pineapple Willy's have the best margaritas.

We are tired but happy.  Looking forward to just chilling and unpacking today.  As much as we love the time away, it is always good to be back home.

And one of the funniest things that happened.....we were mooned while driving through Baton Rouge.  Thank goodness the kids didn't see but Troy and I cracked up!  It has been a while since I have seen that kind of moon.

Back to the grind tomorrow.  My machines received their TLC so I will be picking those up tomorrow.  And I am extremely happy and blessed that many people did not wait for my return to place orders.  I will be happily starting lots of orders placed while we were spending some much needed family time.  Thanks everyone!!!

I promise.....more pics to come.  Just gotta get back into the groove of things after being gone a week.  Hope everyone had a great week!

It's A Birthday Party!!

Oh my sweet baby boy is growing up too fast!  He turned 7 on June 7th and I cannot believe how fast time flies.  He wanted a swimming party at Maw-Maw's house so that is how we celebrated!

Isn't he handsome?

He wanted a particular theme....

Yep, Sponge Bob it was.  Wal-Mart had the coolest Sponge Bob cake.  HUGE hit although it was so dang hot that the icing was start to melt so we had to snap pics and sing happy birthday quickly.

Blowing out the candles.

Opening presents...the pilllow pet was a HUGE hit!

The kiddos waiting for the cake to be cut.

Some of the Prioux clan (my cousins).

And the newest member.....Sweet baby Grace.

The kids had fun!  It was hot as can be but they didn't seem to mind.  I still can't believe how fast the years have flown.  It seems like just yesterday I was trying to track Troy down at work to tell him my water broke.  The phones were down at work and his cell didn't get good reception!  Thank goodness for email!!  My sweet boy weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 15.6 oz when he was born.  He is tall and lean now.  You would never guess that he was born so dang big!

Looking forward to watching him grow!!  He will always be my baby though.  Sniff, sniff.

Birthday Breakfast

Monday, June 7th were my two favorite boys' birthdays.  Both my husband and my son share the same birthday.  My girls decided that they wanted to make Daddy breakfast and surprise him in bed.  Only one little glitch....Daddy got up first.  Baylee still wanted to make him breakfast (Mollee was still sleeping) and picked a cheese omelette as the birthday breakfast.

She cracked and beat the eggs.... (please ignore the crazy hair...cheese omelettes taste much better when made with bedhead).

Now it is time to pour the eggs in the pan.

Coming along nicely....

Time to add the cheese.

ALMOST ready.

YUM!!  All done.

It must have been good because Dad ate all of it.

We had a mini-celebration later in the day but I have not had time to edit the pics.  Will share those soon.

Happy Birthday boys!!

River Weekend and a Bittersweet Day

We had a whirlwind of a weekend.  My little bitty godchild (who isn't so little now) graduated from high school this week.  It was bittersweet for me because I remember well the day he was born and when he was little.  It seems like the past 18 years has just flown by and I missed it all.  And now he is a man. 

We drove up to Wimberly (not far from Austin) to celebrate with Kaiman and his family this major accomplishment.  It isn't every day that you receive your high school diploma.  I am extremely proud of him and wish we lived closer to see what kind of adult he turns out to be.  I know he will do great things!  I will see him occasionally and get updates from his mama, but it isn't the same thing as having them close by.  Sniff, sniff.  Sarah and I have been friends since Middle School and she is one of those friends that knows all of my secrets.  Really more like family....both of them.  I love them both.

Ok, enough mushy stuff.  Otherwise I might cry.  I took lots of pictures.  The house Sarah rented for the celebration was AMAZING!  I apologize in advance for the picture overload.  I really did try and narrow it down.

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To start it off....

Proud mama and the graduate.

Just so you understand how big our little boy is, I am 5'8 and Troy and Sarah are about 5'11.  Isn't he handsome?

One of him and I.  Dang sun was BRIGHT!

Two of my favorite boys.....

And now on to the house.....I almost felt like I was in a modern day castle.  It has lots of natural wood beams and built ins, tons of stone and even a turret styled tower for the Great Room.  GORGEOUS!!

Isn't the "tower" cool?

Double entrances.

The ceiling of the Great Room.  How freakin' cool is that?  It forms a peak.

The really cool chandelier.  Not really my personal style but it fit right in the design of this house.

One of the back porches.  The stairs go up to an upstairs balcony overlooking the river.

Another view.

Another view of the front of the house.

The HUGE back porch.  I love all the windows. You can see the river from pretty much everywhere in the house.

Par-tay on the river!  I actually did not get in.  I saw a snake swimming and that did it for me.  I hate snakes!  In fact, Troy just killed a water moccasin in our backyard last week.  YUCK!!  But I did walk down, dip my feet in (a toe I think??) and enjoyed the view.  This view is from the back deck.

The view from the back deck looking directly out.

I want to move in.  Who wants to help me pay the mortgage?

Doesn't This Make You......

.......ready for Summer??

Baylee and a few pals the last day of school.  Luau (did I spell that right??) party.  I have lots more pics to share.

Extremely Blessed - Mother's Day Continued

 I am extremely blessed.  And my kids and hubby went out of their way to make Mother's Day very special for me this year.  

Ethan broke out the hat he just bought for a solo part in their music program this week.  Yep, we wore it to lunch.  Baylee loves hats!

A few traditions that I look forward to every year......breakfast in bed and handmade goodies from the kids.

The kids started off the day with breakfast in bed that consisted of scrambled eggs with cheese and toast. Mollee also decided that I needed something sweet to go with it and added a rice crispy treat (YUM!). But before I could eat, they had to give me some goodies. The kids surprised me earlier in the week with a new iPad. Most of you know that it was on my wish list!

But Mother's Day morning they also gave me some handmade cards, coupons for little chores and things (to make the bed, pick up their room, for a massage.....LOL!) and some roses. Sweet, sweet babes!! My kids have very generous hearts and love buying gifts for others. Just this weekend Mollee spent some of her money on a sprinkler that all three of them could enjoy. Not just something she could enjoy. All of my kids are like that. I really am blessed.

 
You see what is #1?   "I love my Mom because she works so hard at sewing."  LOL!  You can click on the pics to make them larger.

This one really cracked me up!  I have a t-shirt that says exactly that with yellow softballs exactly where she has them.  And she even gave me highlights and lowlights just like my real hair.  How is that for details??

The coupons were a fun little surprise.  Notice that she put on there "1 time coupon"?  LMAO!  She wants to make sure I don't keep using the same one over and over.  I wonder if she will do like they do at Joanns when you use one of their coupons and tear it up?  I will keep you posted.

After breakfast, I finished reading a book that has taken me forever to read.  It was worth the time but I am glad to move on to my long list of books.

We headed to lunch with my sister, my parents and friends of the family.  My sister gave me a gorgeous silver angel figurine!  I was eyeing them a while back.  

 Me and my sister.

Got home from lunch and put my jammies back on.  Yep.  Total bum.  Troy kept the kids busy while I relaxed and caught up on some shows.  HEAVEN!  It was so nice to take a whole day off.