Buck Rubbings

This weekend Jeff was doing some much needed yard work, when he came upon some deer rubbing's on one of our bushes in the front yard. There is always deer here in the neighborhood but in the 3 years that we have lived here we have not ever seen any in our yard. Right after the hurricane we drove around and did see about 10 bucks in someone else's yard about 1/4 mile from the house. However normally we don't really get to see them until around Christmas/ January. So this was a nice little treat. The funny part about all of this is that last weekend we were out of town for 4 days. And when we got home we noticed that the branches on a bush right next to the air conditioner were broken. And like always we blamed it on reckless kids riding their bikes or whatever through our yard. When really it was taken out by a deer. *Sorry Kids*

Woody Wood Pecker

This is what we woke up to yesterday.. This annoying little bird pecking the crap out of our neighbors tree, that pretty much hangs over our back yard. I let Spencer out in the back yard and thought for sure he would scare him off. Well I was wrong! I had Jeff grab the camera and I think I was able to get some pretty good pictures of the little fella. As he was pecking away on their tree we noticed another one come up, but before I could get my camera focused they were both gone. It was really neat to watch but I hope they don't come back anytime soon!

Little Man

Doesn't this face just make you smile? I just wanted to share this picture with everyone. Connor has went from a cute baby boy to such a handsome little man. He too is growing up way tooo fast!

Mr. Potato Head

I know every kid growing up had a Mr. Potato Head. You remember it was the big brown potato and then you would stick the eyes, nose, ears and mouth on it. And no matter how crazy looking it really was your parents ALWAYS told you how cute it was and that you did a really good job!!! Like it was really hard cramming body parts into a plastic potato, and remember it had a "flap" in the back to store all the parts when you were done playing. Anyways getting to the point. My sister bought this cute little "decoration" for Kinley's princess party this weekend and I thought it was absolutely to cute. And I have to admit, it was a little fun putting it together. The only difference was this one was called the "Party Princess Pumpkin". I guess a party princess potato didn't sound as appealing. Anyways it was cute no the less.

This is the Mr. Potato Head that
we all grew up playing with!

And this is the Miss. Princess Party Pumpkin
of today. Pretty CUTE huh!!!

Misti's Baby Shower

This past Sunday I helped host a baby shower for my friend Misti and her new baby girl Emersyn. Misti has 2 boys already so when we found out she was finally going to have a little girl to love as well. We all went nuts, and I think she is all PINKED out now. She got lots of cute girly gifts and pretty little bows (props to Nicole for her newly found talent of bow making). We all had a really good time and I was excited to see all my friends from Providence. I miss you girls something awful..

Cake table

Emersyn's tutu!

the presents

the guests

pink pedi peds

I had her bobby pillow embroidered with
Emersyn's name

~* Congratulations Misti I cant wait to meet little Miss Emersyn Brooke*~

What a difference a year makes.

Just a quick post about Kinley again. I was looking back at some pictures of her over the past year. And my gosh how she has changed. Since we live in Houston and don't really get to see her that much to us she looks completely different every single time we see her. And looking back at these pictures I realized just how much of the past year I really did miss.

1 day old.

1 year old.

Kinley's 1st Birthday Party!!!

Well I absolutely can not believe that Kinley is a whole 1 year old. It seems like yesterday that Shelly told us she was expecting. She has went from a beautiful baby to an even more beautiful little girl. And I fall more in love with her every single day. She is such a sweetie pie. I know how much I love her so I can't imagine how much I will love my own kids. Craziness!!!!

Saturday was Kinley's birthday party. It was all PINK, frilly and princessey(is that a word). Just as you might have guessed. Everything was just perfect and Shelly really did a great job making sure everything came together just so. She had a lot of friends and family come by to help celebrate, which was great because I don't get to see them very much since we all live all over the place. She LOVES birthday cake I might add and she had a blast in her bouncy house. All in all she had a very good day. And we all look forward to what her next year in tales.

**Auntie M loves you Kinley and I hope you had a great birthday!**

Princess Cake

dont you LOVE her TUTU

Me and Kinley
(the best picture i had )

yummy delicious cake

enjoying her cake

fun times in the princess
castle bounce house

4 Day Weekend...

So we are off for a fun filled 4 day weekend in Waco. We are so excited and can't wait to get home. We both have to work a full day tomorrow and then we are headed out. We are going to be staying at Jeff's parents on Thursday night. We are ready to see if the new house looks any different since the last time that we saw it. Then Friday I am going in for a much needed HAIR CUT!!! And can hardly wait for that part. Sad huh!! Then Saturday is Kinley's 1st birthday party. This for me is probably the most exciting part of my whole trip. It is so hard to believe that she is that old already. There will be alot of my family there that we do not really get to see. So that should be fun. THEN Sunday I am helping host a baby shower for one of my EX-coworkers. I am excited about this too because I miss these girls so much and I hardly ever get to see them. So it will be good to catch up with everyone. Sunday we plan on just hanging out and then we head back to Houston sometime on Monday. Not really my idea of a "relaxing" 4 day weekend, but a FUN/BUSY weekend none the less.
So im sure that i will have lot's of good things to blog about when we get back.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!

Well yet another year has come, for me to turn yet another year older. Actually this year turning 31 did not seem as bad to me as last year. It's funny how the older you get birthday's just do not seem as important as they used to. My niece Kinley's birthday is 4 days after mine and even though she is not my daughter, I have looked so forward to her day and her party and have not even really thought about mine.

However, we did celebrate my day. We went out to dinner at FoGO de Chao with Scott and Lori and then went out downtown to Sambuca's and had a few drinks. Yet sadly enough we were home by 12:30. I think that is how you know you are getting old. Happy Birthday To ME!!!!!

** Thank you to all of you that called, text, and emailed. I appreciate all the wishes**

(Here are some pictures from my night. They are not real great ! It was humid what can i say.)

Me and Jeff

Me and Lori

Lori & Scott


FoGo de' Chao

yummy

tasty wedding cake martini :)

I almost forgot... How great is my husband ~ today on my actual birthday he cooked me my FAVORITE for lunch. Pot Roast.. AWWW I love him

Flash Back

So I kind of "stole" this post from my sister. But the way I see it she's my little sister and I have had to put up with alot over the years, so if "stealing" her post is the worst thing I have ever done to her, then I think im okay!!

Anyhow! We found this really cute website called YearbookYourself.com You upload a picture of yourself and it lets you see what you would have looked like back in the day! It is so funny to see all of the different pictures that it comes up with. But of course I was the only one laughing, I don't think Jeff was quite as amused as I was..

Check out our pictures. I bet you had no idea just how HOTT we both were!

me in 1960

1966
(i see my mother)

1968
(i think my mom has this exact same picture)

Check out my HOTT husband!

1956
(he looks like his dad)

1970

1978