Winner Winner...Chicken Dinner!

Hello friends! We have a winner....drumroll please~ it's Kelly my sister in law! Congratulations Kelly! :)

Thank you all so much for entering!!

Friday Favorites: Giveaway Edition and a Lollipop

Hello friends! We are having a great day today! It's overcast but not raining, so we're good. Yesterday, I gave Anderson a lollipop that was shaped like a cow and again when he bit the cows ear off..a meltdown occurred. Ha! But when he was finished with the lollipop I swear he looked like he had a 5 o'clock shadow and needed to shave!
And this morning when I was getting ready. Anderson REALLY wanted to watch The Tigger Movie. I couldn't figure out how to get the DVD to work. But you know who is pretty smart
Yep...that is the DVD cover to the movie and it's in the VCR(yes, we're probably the last people on the Earth to have a vcr...but I really like the vcr) I think that Anderson was thinking "geez lady...sometimes ya gotta matters into your own hands"! Today is the last day to sign up for Angela's giveaway of a handmade children's outfit. Sign up here!!!!

Children's Outfit Giveaway!!!

Hello friends! How would you like to win a FREE handmade outfit for a little one in your life? Well you totally can! Here are the details:

1. The winner will receive an A-line dress for girls or a short-all for boys or shorts and a t-shirt for older boys. The outfit will be a solid outfit and you may have an initial or number on it.
2. Contest open to those people in the U.S. only(due to shipping costs;)

And this is ALL you have to do!
1.You comment in my comment box(don't worry, you can comment even if you don't have a blogger account, I opened up the comment section for anyone. You just make sure if you do it anonymously, that you tell me your name AND email address)
2. You can comment as MANY times as you like!
3. If you have a blogger account, click the button on the right side of the screen and follow me.
4. Finally and most importantly go to www.etsy.com and register with them. Then go to Angela's store on etsy and make her a favorites on your account. It's FREE and EASY to do!!
5. And if you want tell other people about Angela and her children's clothing business. :)

Good luck every one! The contest closes on Friday night at 7:00p.m.

Anderson's 2nd Birthday Party

Hello friends!! We had Anderson's 2nd birthday party last Saturday in Dothan at Landmark Park. It was so cool, because they have a neat playground that keeps the kids happy AND neat farm animals.The first thing that I HAVE to say is...how AWESOME is that cake??! My friend Laura made it. She used to work across the hall from me at Prattville High School, she taught Gov't and Economics too. She can make you one too if you are in the area! You can contact her here.
We had quite the spread. You can't see the signs that we made telling exactly what the food was but...Chick-fil-A nuggets(of course), pigs in the blanket(get it;), chicken feed(corn salad), pig slop(pork and beans) and cow patties(Nanny's chocolate peanut candy).
Anderson kept wanting animals off of his cake and since it was his birthday...he got them! Ha!The birthday boy and Momma and DadaAnderson had a great time playing on the playground with his Dada and all of his cousins and friends!
Nanny pushing Aaden(Anderson's 1st cousin)
Elizabeth, Jana, Nanny, Mimi, and Grandmomma Key
Uncle Matt, Dana(his mom) and his kids Brooklyn and Bryant(who are quite possibly the cutest kids ever...well except for mine;)After his birthday party. We headed over and walked on the boardwalk/nature trail. And then over to where the farm animals are. Anderson LOVED that. He kept wanting to know their "name" and so we would all make up names for all of the animals.
Today, Anderson and I went to the Ft. Worth Zoo and it was beautiful! My mom always wants some video footage of Anderson...so here you go Nunna! Sorry, momma...it's at the very end of the post :)

Don't forget TOMORROW is Angela's BIG Children's outfit giveaway on my blog.
Remember ALL you have to do is:
1. Follow my blog, if you don't have a blogger account. You can tell me you don't have a blogger account and that's fine.
2. Add Angela's etsy shop as one of your favorites on etsy.com. You DO have to register with Etsy to add her as a favorite. It's totally FREE and EASY!
3. Add a comment with your name (as many times as you want)
4. You can register tomorrow and Friday and contest will close on Friday night at 7 p.m. and winner will be announced after that.

The Circle City Recap Continues

Hello friends! We have been busy today. We've been walking this a.m., ate at Chick-fil-A and played and then went grocery shopping at Wal-Mart (or as Anderson says Mal-Mart). It's getting so warm out here, I betcha it's gonna be a hot summer. Yesterday, Anderson played in the sprinkler in his bathing suit at our neighbors house. It was pretty hot.
While in Dothan last week, we spent the night with Daddy and Mimi one night. I haven't spent the night with them since I was 19. We had a ball. We ate at the BBQ Shack. It's really good. We also went to my nephew James' baseball game. He's good. He's a pitcher...I'm seeing University of Alabama in his future. Ha! They are Auburn fans.

Anderson LOVED being at the ball park, he ran all over the place. I was dreaming of him becoming a college star pitcher and then in his 30's a U.S. Senator. Is that bad to have expectations this early for your children? Adam, my daddy and Anderson all ran and chased balls. He ran himself silly!

We also went to a shower for my friend Jessica(the one who just had Wesleigh). They live in Denver and we never get to see them much. Aren't little girls clothes just precious? If we had a little girl, I would not know how to shop for a little girl. It would be so weird for me. After all this...now the pressure was really starting to mount about us having another baby. Eeesh!!

The next day, we went out to eat with my Papa Ivey(who is almost 93) and a WWII Veteran and worked with artillery. Adam and I are currently watching "The Pacific" on HBO and so that was super interesting to me. He showed us a picture that he found that was taken back in 1944 of him and his buddies in Hawaii with a Hawaiian lady in his lap. Hysterical!! I SOOO wished I had taken a picture of it.

We visited with Nanny, Adam's grandmother and had a great time!And I realized that I have been telling you all about Angela's BIG children's outfit giveaway(THAT IS THIS THURSDAY APRIL 15) and haven't even shown you a picture of her work on his birthday outfit. She did such an awesome job!!! Get ready to register her giveaway on Thursday! All you have to do is:
1. On Thursday follow push the button on my page to follow my blog
2. Add Angela's etsy shop as a favorite of yours. You will have to join etsy.com to do this...this is completely FREE.
3. And comment in my comment section on Thursday's post. (you can comment as MANY times as you want-it just gets you MORE chances to win:)
4. The contest will close on Friday at 7 p.m.

Home Again Home Again...

Jiggity Jig! Ha! Hello friends!! Do you remember that from Mother Goose nursery rhymes? Anderson LOVES that rhyme, he gets such a kick out of it every time I read it! We are home and are doing LOTS of laundry and trying to put away Anderson's birthday gifts from Saturday. We rolled into our driveway about 8 p.m. last night and the trees and grass was so green and beautiful! It was SO GOOD TO BE HOME!!We had a great trip home yesterday. It took us about 13 and a half hours, but Anderson was great the whole time!We have hunted Easter eggs, eaten at all of our favorite restaurants(Mexican Connection, Blue Plate, La Parilla and Old Mill) and had Anderson's 2nd birthday party on Sunday. I will only give you a couple days at a time every day so you won't get overwhelmed...okay?First, we pulled in Dothan on Saturday morning around 12 a.m. and it took us 15 WHOLE hours to get there. Of course we stopped 5 times and our GPS system tried to send us to Birmingham and THEN down to Dothan....stupid GPS system.On Easter Sunday, we first had lunch at Gami and Pappy's house(Adam's mom and dad). It was delicious! And when I said that this picture was going on my blog they all SCATTERED and returned with lipstick on. Ha!(Pictured are Nanny(Joyce McCord) Ta-ta, (Tami Roper), Aunt Ne(Renee Harris), Gami (Adam's mom) and Juke (Julia Lee)
This picture was a rarity because Adam's Aunt Juke is always behind the camera and I finally got one of her and her husband Carlos(whose cologne always smells so good;)

I have noted in blogs before that my mom always has a MASSIVE Easter egg hunt. Saturday night, I helped her stuff eggs (with whistles, candy, little balls, yo-yos, cars, finger nail polish, rings and even some squirt toys) and we counted a total of 270 eggs...CRAZINESS!!!!! But, really fun!

Anderson really enjoyed hunting eggs. Notice I didn't say, picking them up and keeping them. Because he was sooo uninterested in accumulating any eggs! He would examine the egg and then toss it back down again!
We had such a great time visiting with all of our friends and family members. This was one of my favorite days in Dothan.

We got to spend time at the Easter egg hunt with my sister in law Kelly and her son Aaden. Kelly is a good friend to me and I'm quite sure that Anderson and Aaden are going to be best buddies.
And my friend Jennifer who I went to college at Troy with(we had the same major, Secondary Education/Social Science). She has 2 precious little ones who are 18 months apart. She is SUPER woman! Why do I not have any pictures of Jennifer? :(

My friend Shelley, who I have been best friends with since the 6th grade. We always pick up right where we left off. Her daughter could be kiddo, she kinda looks like me:)And my friend Jessica( I have no idea why this underlining, but this is the second time I have written this whole entire thing and I don't care at this point!:)
Jessica and I have been best friends since 6th grade also and she has just had a precious little girl, Wesleigh . It seems that Wesleigh has made my mother want another one from Adam and me! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And my cousin, Allison(who is Anderson is obsessed with saying her name and her parents names in his thick southern accent, Aunt Kim( kaaaam) and Unc Joe :) Allison and I were always close growing up. She is due with their first baby in June.(She is going to kill for this picture ;)We had only a few "Mam-Mam- A" (Anderson's way of saying H*** NO) through the whole day so that was great!

Don't forget Angela's BIG children's outfit is THIS THURSDAY, April 15 and the contest closes on Friday at 7 p.m. So you can register as many times as you want!!