Halloween Party

Instead of having our monthly Supper Club, we decided to have a Halloween Party instead for the month of October. The party was this past weekend and was SO MUCH FUN. I was a Toy Soldier, a.k.a The Nutckacker.

Is this not a picture that belongs in a frame?!

Oh my! I think this will be my new favorite picture!

Natalie & Bitsy • September 3, 2010

Natalie starts 4th grade!

I have been horrible about blogging lately. I would promise to be better about it, but who needs the pressure, right? Let's just say 'we'll see'...

So the kids went back to school on August 12th. Natalie went into 4th grade this year at the Intermediate School- no more Elementary School. She loves the new school because it is all big kids and a change of scenery and I love it because it is so much closer to the house and on my way to work.

She loves her teacher, Miss Roland. Miss Roland is actually one of my cousin Ashley's very good friends and Natalie adores Ashley so, naturally, when she discovered they were friends, she was thrilled!

Here are a few pictures from the morning of the first day of school. Natalie insisted on me curling her hair the night before.

Bitsy has new playmates!

My mom and sister got new puppies so Bitsy has playmates now! Bitsy has been playing with my parents' cats, who are bigger than her (I also think Bitsy might think she's a cat sometimes :), and Brocklee tolerates her because he’s older and wiser but doesn’t really play with her a lot- so it will be good for her to be around other puppies.

They just brought them home last night so no names yet but the brown and white one is my mom's and the black and white one is Kelli's but my mom is going to keep both of them together until Kelli's gets a little bigger. My mom still keeps Bitsy while I’m at work so they’ll have plenty of time to get used to each other. They are the cutest little accidents! They were born April 30th and are both girls. The parents are a pure-bred, registered, long-haired Chihuahua and I can’t remember whether the mom is a Miniature Rat Terrier or a Jack Russell Terrier but she is some kind of small Terrier- so they’ll be long-haired and small like Bitsy. The pictures do not do them justice since I had to take them with my phone- but they are so cute! They have the tiniest little heads and the fattest little bodies and are marked beautifully. I know all of the kids are going to love the newest four-footed additions to our family!


 

Big Boys!

Alex & Jaxon's spring scool pictures. They are growing up so fast! I loved these pictures- had to share! :)

Jaxon - 4 yrs. old

Alex - 4 yrs. old

Piano Recital

Natalie's first piano recital was on Saturday. She played "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Ping Pong". Her Mimi and Poppi came to watch her. She did great! I was so proud of her! She just grinned when she took her bow- it was so cute!

In Remembrance

In remembrance... Three years come and gone. Paul was an American hero and very much missed by many, including me.

Sgt. Jean Paul Medlin Memorial Page

2008 article about Paul

Paul and his sister, Silvia

Happy Birthday to Me!

Come on, 29... Let's see what you got!

 

Happy Earth Day!

 

April Supper Club

Supper Club was at Brio at Brookwood Mall last night. It was fun! Great to see everybody!

A Rarity

As I’m sure a lot of you moms can relate, Natalie and I are rarely in a picture together because I am almost always the one taking them. So I had to document these pictures from a couple of days ago. I wish we were not squinting! But it was SO bright outside. Not much longer and she will be taller than me! I even have on 4 inch heels in this picture.

Pollen, pollen, go away!

The pollen has been falling here & it has been horrible. Just ask Bitsy...

Thank goodness I don't have allergies but still, it's just yuck. I kid you not, there was literally a yellow cloud of pollen over our town on Wednesday. It rained Thursday and washed some of it out but the pollen just keeps falling. I'd love for it to rain- but not today. because today we are going to Pam and Kerry's wedding at Botanical Gardens- yay!

Concert Re-Cap

Well, if my midnight post on Facebook saying "Best night ever! I'm a little sweaty." was any indication, it was indeed a great night and a freaking awesome show. Do I love him more after seeing him in person? Why, yes I do! Center Stage was a very cool venue. Oh you don't believe me? My sister will tell you 88 times just how cool it was. Because we chose to hang out in the bar, we did not go down to the floor until the openers were done and the show was about to start and we were not close enough AT ALL. But after about the second song, I was like "screw it. we're about to piss some people off."  ...and we did but we got closer- all the way to the rail. I lied a lot, blamed other people pushing me, bribed with drinks, told people they were pretty when I couldn't even see their face, Karin told everyone it was my birthday- I thought some chicks were about to beat the crap out of us. Yep, we were those girls. But I was not going to be there and not get close- that would have been absolute craziness! I did not take much video because I could not be still. I did not take a ton of pictures either because I did not want to look through my camera the whole time at his royal hawtness. Oh, and Karin caught a guitar pick for me- which I promptly put in my mouth. Nice, huh. Do I want to see them live again? You have no idea.

 

Countdown: 1 day!

Had to save one of my favorite songs for the last day of my countdown. I would also like to go ahead and apologize to my co-workers if I am especially hyper tomorrow or break out in random moments of dance-fever.

Regression

I never idolized any musicians in my youth and was never infatuated with any celebrities. Sure, I liked New Kids on the Block. Who didn’t? (Joey!!!) But I did not scream and cry when their corny graffiti-filled, concert-shot videos were played on T.V. in between Saturday morning cartoons. I didn’t even have a t-shirt! Since I was deprived of the pure joy this can bring to a child, allow me to regress and make up for that now by saying… I heart Justin Furstenfeld.

Yes, I will be 29 in three weeks and my 9 yr. old daughter’s crush on Justin Bieber has got nothing on my Justin-crush. That is sad- yes. But I’m gonna roll with it.

I heart you Justin Furstenfeld.

I heart your insanely crooked teeth.
I heart your excessive use of guy-liner.
I heart how your weight constantly fluctuates just like me.
I heart the all-too-honest lyrics you write.
I heart your slightly goofy last name and how I feel goofier when I say it out loud.
I heart your incessant use of the F-word.
I heart that you’re a little scary, a little sweet, a little sad and a lot not-right-in the-head.
I heart your retarded mix of boy band-symphony director-mosh pit-schizophrenic-rage-dancing.
I heart that you genuinely, sincerely have a mad case of the crazy.
I heart that I get to see you perform live tomorrow night! Yaya!