It's My Happy Place

Hello friends! I am SO ecstatic!!! You remember when I said I wanted to go to the happiest place on Earth? Well.... we are in July!!! I am seriously a little nutty(all the time) but especially when it comes to Disney. I LOVE Disney World and always have! I even get THIS happy and I think Anderson will too! This was taken at the zoo today and if you look closely...I don't think his feet are even on the floor!My mom, who is retiring by the way tomorrow(it's her retirement trip with us) is taking us and Bob's(my step-dad)grand daughters and his daughter. And do you know that tickets have really gone up since the last time we went in 2004. But guess what, this pack rat saved our tickets we got in 2002 that were Park Hoppers and we can STILL use them for 1 day! Can you believe that?!

I've gone a little Disney crazy and ordered a couple of things for Anderson with mickey mouse ears and his name written in the Disney font on them. :) Anderson and I have been watching this video and he keeps wanting to watch it "again" and again and again.

A few of my best Disney memories were: when Momma took my friend Tricia Woodham and me when we were 12. We had SUCH an awesome time. We even got our picture taken to look like a Teen Beat magazine cover. Pretty hilarious!

Another time my Daddy and Mimi took me and my sister Jana. I was 4 or 5 and I got SO EXCITED that when I got inside the gate, I just took off running. I think they found me like 15 minutes later....or something like that :)

Adam and I went with his parents and his brother Anthony and my SIL Kelly. We had a ball. We went to eat here. You've got to try it!!!

Okay, so we haven't been in about 6 years, so I need updates. Help me out and give me some advice. Especially advice for taking small children. Thanks!

Life is a sprinkler

Pretty fast paced and sometimes a little messy.

Hello friends! Anderson and I went walking again this morning for 30 minutes. I have vowed to myself that after 10 pounds are gone, I get new tennis shoes and after 20 pounds are gone, that I get to go to the tanning bed for 1 month. It's a good incentive. :)Yesterday, we had some fun in the sprinkler at our neighbor's house. I know I've mentioned it, but I'm really glad we moved into this neighborhood. We are all about the same age and so are our kiddos.
Anderson just would stand in the sprinkler, letting it hit him in the face!
All of the neighborhood kids are really sweet. They were even helping with disciplining him, saying "Anderson, we don't push, it's not nice".
The kiddos with their chalk drawings. Anderson was actually drawing a little bit and then he toted around an orange highlighter and paint brush that was in the chalk box. Ha!And splashing around in mud puddles too!!
We LOVE Spring and can't wait for Summer(it's almost here).

It's a park kinda Monday

Hello friends! We went to the park today and walked the pups and played on the playground. It was a lot of fun! Anderson had a blast at the playground with some other kids. I took all kinds of pictures to show you, but I saved them on my mom's camera's internal drive? And....uh...I can't access it. Oops! Oh well, it was beautiful, take my word for it.

We didn't have too much going on today. We just made a trip to the new grocery store in town. It's awesome and cheap! They sell only off brands of food, but seriously has some steals on their food items.

And of course, our Monday trip to Chick-fil-A. :)

I'm going to try and start going EVERYDAY (Mon-Fri)to go to the park to walk. We walk about 2 miles. It's part of my diet with Atkins. Yes, I know...a lot of people say it's not that healthy, but it takes weight off, and that's just what I need! Doing pretty good so far!

Happy Birthday Momma!

Hello friends! We've been doing our usual Friday deal. We've gone to the mall(of course) ridden the carousel, and played at the playground(complete with shoving a few kids too;)Happy Birthday Nunna! I SOOO wished we could be in Dothan celebrating with you! Please know that I LOVE you more than words. You are my momma and my best friend.
Reasons why I love my momma:1. She's a great momma.2. Great encourager of me, Adam and Anderson.3. She always tells me that I do a great job as a momma( I feel validated;)!4. She's a great Nunna!5. She loves me and Anderson UNCONDITONALLY!!6. She's a great listener.
7. She's ALWAYS told me I could do ANYTHING I wanted to do...like be President of the U.S.!( I believed her:)

8. She's has beautiful flowers9. I LOVE her laugh!

10. She's a great wife to Bob11. She's SO MUCH FUN!

I LOVE you Momma! Happy Birthday!!

Pictures--Hooray!!!!!

Hello friends! I bought a sim card reader that will read my camera's old sim card and I am borrowing my momma's camera until we can get a new one. So, we have pictures!! I'm thrilled!!
We've had a great day. Anderson is hitting less, that's always a positive. Guess all those time outs really work, cause spanking didn't, it made it worse...and I HATED doing it anyways ;)We've been to the library and I reminded myself why I don't take Anderson anymore, because he wants to scream and run around and pull books off the shelf...eek!

We also went to the Goodwill Store and got 11 books for $4.05. I'm telling you it's such a great deal to go there and they have GREAT books! ha!While Momma and Bob were here I took these pictures. I will have more tomorrow. :) Miss them so much already!
At the zoo with Momma and BobMom looks more excited than anybody to be there! ha!Nunna reading Anderson's FAVORITE book, Matthew Van Fleet's "Cat Book".I LOVE this picture of Bop walking Annabelle and Gus in the park. So sweet!This is from Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum in San Antonio. Anderson wasn't having ANY part of being still enough for a picture! And Adam and Anderson if front of the Alamo. I kept telling Anderson that the slogan was..."Remember the Alamo" and when we would mention going to the Alamo, he would say "member"

You can obviously see how much it was raining too...so glad it stopped!

One last picture, I thought this picture was a hoot that's Britney Spears at the wax museum...Ha!

Busy Wednesday

Hello friends! Anderson and I have been busy this morning. It's so hard to think back and remember how I got myself and Anderson dressed in the mornings. We don't get ready and out until about 9:30 or 10:00 a.m. When I worked, it used to be out by 6:30 a.m. Ha!

Anderson had to get his ears rechecked (because he had a double ear infection two weeks ago). They looked good!! Hooray, cause I hate keeping him on meds.

We went to the Post Office because my momma's birthday is on Friday. Anderson kept saying "play" and I kept saying "this is the Post Office, you can't play here". Ha! The world is his playground:)

Several of you suggested different types of cameras and I'm thankful for that. Cause I have NO idea where to start.

I am wanting a camera that is not TOO expensive but doesn't have a delay. One that when I take a picture of Anderson he's not all the way turned around before it takes the picture. Do you know any kind that are like that?? I get so confused looking at them.

I just watched last night's American Idol of Lee's performance. Can I just say, "If he doesn't win then something is absolutely WRONG". He's awesome. Just awesome. Just watch...don't cha think so??! And that is one of my favorite songs of ALL time, I just loved Jeff Buckley's version!

I'm still contemplating what to do in our kitchen. I've got some ideas of using my existing fiesta ware, but need to keep looking around for other ideas.

My low carb diet is working, 3 pounds so far!! :)

Oldie But Goodie

Hello friends! Seriously, not having a camera is making me a little wacky. I see Anderson doing something cute and I run to get the camera, but darnit...I don't have one.

We haven't done all that much today. We've walked the pups, gone to Target and played on the swings for 30 minutes. Seriously, I think Anderson could swing all day long. He has started making me swing beside him and I have to admit...It's still pretty fun. Although, I'm amazed the swing set doesn't come tumbling to the ground with all my weight on it! :)

I'm on this LOW carbohydrates diet and I am starving literally to death! But have lost 2 pounds since yesterday, so what's wrong with starving a little bit. I'll let you know how I'm doing.

I truly thought about putting up a before picture, but wouldn't do that to myself or you either, for that matter.

You are probably gonna think I am obsessed with the fifties, but I've been letting Anderson watch this and this -theme songs on you tube. I would watch these shows as a little kid on Nick at Night(remember when Nickelodeon used to do that)? I always thought Mr. Wilson on Denis the Menace was so stinkin' mean!

Please tell me that I was not alone in doing that?! Ha!

Long Time, No Talk

Hello friends! I've been out gallivanting with my momma and Bob(my step-dad). We've been all over the Metroplex and then down to San Antonio last weekend. We had such a good time and I am VERY sad to see them go! Sadly, my camera broke and so I have NO pictures, and you know I'm a BIG fan of telling my stories with our pictures. Oh well, I've been wanting to get a new camera for some time now.

Mom and Bob drove out to Texas last Sunday. On Monday, we headed over to the Ft. Worth Zoo and had a ball. It sure is getting HOT out here lately. I am really dreading the summer heat!!!UGH!!

Tuesday, Anderson came down with a terrible runny nose and horrible cough and mom and I took him to the doctor. They tested him for allergies and put him on Claritin. Do you know that is a miracle drug? Cause it is. He totally has NO symptoms whatsoever!

Wednesday, we went to the park the one with all the wonderful trees. They LOVED it so much and Anderson played on the playground, which he LOVES!

Thursday morning, we got up and drove to San Antonio, for the weekend. We stopped at these AWESOME outlet stores, and did some shopping . I tell ya, I lOVE that city. I am trying to get Adam to find a job there in a couple years. It's that awesome!!

On Friday, it rained so hard, I thought we would need a boat to get out and sight see. We went to Ripley's Believe It or Not and after wards it got sunny so we hung out on the Riverwalk. Which is so beautiful and cool!

Saturday morning, we headed over to Sea World and had a ball! Anderson LOVES it so much and Mom and Bob did too! Too bad, I got burnt:)

Any ideas for what kind of camera we could get. Don't be giving me multi-million dollar ideas-ha! Cause I'm sure I'll want that!! :)

Peeking Back Out

Hello friends! We are peeking our heads back out into the world today. Anderson has been sick the past couple of days. He has a double ear infection and has been very fussy, and yesterday had a fever of 103!!! That is SO scary to me as a momma.

But today, he is doing great! A little slow moving, but doing good! We've been on the swing set in our back yard today and it's so nice out today!! Love this weather. I wished it wouldn't get any hotter than this(all the native Texans are laughing right now). I think it gets like Africa hot here! Yikes~~

On Sunday, Mom and Bob are driving over from Alabama and I'm so super excited to see them.

Next Thursday morning, we are leaving and going here. Can't wait!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mommas!!!

Just Peachy

Hello friends! We are doing much better today. Anderson is hitting less. Yesterday, he had 4 time outs...it was EXHAUSTING!!! He is such a sweet boy, he's just going through a hard phase....maybe!
We ran to Wal-Mart for our grocery shopping and bought extra food, because Mom and Bob are coming this Sunday(on Mother's Day)! I'm so super excited!!! Next Thursday, we are going to head down to San Antonio for the weekend and go over to Sea World. So EXCITED!!!
Our neighbors have this treeand I think it's a peach tree??

Anderson is obsessed with it and keeps saying "pick fruit" and we do.
We had a strong storm come through last night and it blew little un-ripened peaches all over our back yard.
Anderson thought he would tidy up! Ha! Look closer. Can you see the nice, neat tidy pile he's made?
After reading Abby's post, It makes me long for the white sandy beaches of Panama City, FL and the yummy doughnuts at Thomas' Doughnuts...OH July hurry up!

It's Hard Being Two

Hello friends! We ATTEMPTED story time at the library, but came home early. Someone was not cooperating. I don't get it, this is the only place where he totally acts up and doesn't mind me.

Maybe the library has a dark force about it! I'll think I'll go with that explanation.

I was so mad at him cause he embarrassed me in front of other mothers who are in our Sunday School class.

But seriously, I think I have like 16 more years of embarrassment coming or something like that...
Oh well, I've probably embarrassed my mother thousands of times. It's payback.

I told you Anderson is me through and through, hard headed youngin'. Guess that's why I love him so much and can't stay upset with him.

When we came home, I watered the plants and Anderson ran through the water a thousand times.

While watering a plant, mud flew up and got all over him...he laughed and I felt better.
I sure do LOVE this kid!

Hey, maybe somebody will give us a free dream vacation to the happiest place on Earth??! ;)

Prayers please for Adam's great aunt Juke. She fell and shattered her knee yesterday and is undergoing surgery today for a total knee replacement.