Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today is my mom's birthday!! So Happy Birthday Momma Senorita!! We had a little party for her at the lake this weekend. We had ourselves a good time, despite the fact that it rained all weekend. We wouldn't want to go get ourselves burned on the first weekend, now would we? But anyways, mom got the roomba thing that she wanted from dad. I just call Matt my roomba--he is a good vacuumer. Well, Mom hope you have a fabulous birthday--you deserve it!! I love you!!

Weekend Recap

Here's a little rundown of the ole weekend.... p.s. this is our last week of school--oh let the celebration begin. Pumped!! This was actually Thursday. Mom and I did a little browsing at Target and she is going for this new look. We met dad for Mexican food after that.

Friday night and Saturday my friend Kristin and I went to the Extraordinary Women's conference. Matt --my fabulous Godly husband--bought me these tickets as a surprise. It was a weekend of great praise and worship with NewSong and Matthew West and some awesome women speakers. It was an encouraging weekend!! (Matt was suffering in Gulf Shores at a football game-terrible isn't it?)

Today we went to our friend David Tucks birthday party. This is us with David and Stephanie Dollar--sweet friends from our small group at church.

The church group friends from the party--we love these friends. Amanda planned this surprise party for David and we all hid and came running out when he came in. It's kind of like when you play hide and go seek and you always have to go to the bathroom once you hide. I get so nervous! Hope you had a Happy Birthday David!!

Going Away Party

All the Special Ed teachers at my school met for a little going away dinner party. We have two teachers that are moving and leaving us, so we wanted to have one last get together before the end of school. This group of teachers are really great and we have such a good time together. Fun times.. I will miss Holly and Michelle! Holly saw this car and remembered that she had one JUST like it when she was in high school....so she had to take her picture next to it. Although hers had hydraulics.

Me and Holly. Holly and her husband are moving to Mississippi....still close enough for her to come back and visit.

Michelle with her new baby, Natalie. She is so stinkin cute! Michelle and her husband are moving to Baltimore... long way away :(

The whole group. I know you want to know names... right... So clockwise--me, Holly, Anita, Mary. On right.. front row Allison, Tricia. Back row--Allison, Michelle. My school friends :)

And one last shot with me and Natalie. She is such a happy baby.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to a fabulous mother and a fabulous mother-in-law. We had a great weekend and were able to spend time with both moms. On Saturday we met Matt's mom for lunch and enjoyed getting to visit with her. On Sunday we had mom, dad, Keri, and Steven over lunch. Keri, Steven, Matt and I made lunch for everyone. Things did get into a little crisis mode when a major storm came through right before we planned to grill the chicken.. I told Matt just to put on his raincoat and go for it. He said no. Anyways, it was a happy day spent with family. Hope you had a great Mother's Day mom... you deserve it!! We love you!!

See this card... Keri was so sweet to get this for mom in honor of me.

Keri also brought Harley his birthday card. He now has a new friend.

Matt with his mom after lunch.

Happy Birthday Harley!

Well, it's Cinco de Mayo... otherwise known as the Harley man's birthday. We just had a little party for him with a special treat. And a special treat for him means anything dipped in peanut butter. He loved it! I will say this... you know we don't actually know when Harley's real birthday is (he was a rescue dog that was abused) so..when we got him I decided since he was from Mexico it would be perfect that his birthday be on Cinco de Mayo. In his honor.. we will eat a taco now. Happy Birthday to the best little buddy in the world (next to Domino of course)! Another birthday we cannot forget today.. I know I know..what's more important than Harley's birthday...well, our cousin-in-law (I guess that is what you call it... my cousin's wife) Katie's birthday today as well. So, here's a little shout out to her and hope you had a great birthday Katie!!

Stadium Fest

Well, if you are wondering what that is and who might be in that costume.. well, it's me!! It's Hermie, the caterpillar. Ever heard of him? I hadn't... until yesterday. Matt and I volunteered at StadiumFest yesterday.. an evangelistic outreach at Samford University. We got there and the guy said "You are down to be Hermie." I thought.. how bad could this be? Please let me remind you that yesterday it was like 89 degrees here and this costume weighed like 20 pounds and was made of straight up wool! So they dressed me in Hermie and off I went to the field to meet and greet the kids and take lots of pictures. Matt said no thanks to the costume and he was my "escort." The kids were great.. they were coming up to me saying (imagine this in a 3 year olds voice) "Hermie, I watched your movie this morning and Oh I love you Hermie." Here I am making my way out of the building. I do admit I started to wig out a little when they put the thing on because it was a little claustrophobic.

And here we are with the never ending line of photo ops and hugs...sweet Hermie. Matt had to come up to me several times and say "Hermie, ya got a visitor down below" --I couldn't see real well. And he passed a few bottles of water up through the bottom for me as well.

After I took that costume off you wouldn't believe it... I really didn't know my body could sweat THAT much. It was gross!!

After Stadium Fest and a shower we headed to a shower for our sweet friends in our small group, Jonathan and Rachel, who are getting married in a few short weeks. We are super excited for them and after that it was time for bed for Hermie man!

Baseball Action

Friday night we went to the Hoover baseball game where they are now in the second round of the playoffs. Pretty exciting stuff if you are a fan of baseball. We did get to meet up with our dear friends the Kurvin's and Danny and Casey (soon to be married). They played 2 games, so in between we headed to dinner and then were a little delayed getting back and well, we only missed the first 5 innings of the last game. It was fine with me... less we had to watch. Matt gets real intense when he is watching sports.. we all know this.. and he kept ignoring me so I just decided to take pictures of him since he wouldn't talk to me. Despite the fact that we were at a sporting event that you aren't supposed to be real loud at--we had a good time. I love these friends!! PS---this is my second baseball game of the week...maybe that is why I wasn't so pumped up...our whole school went to the Baron's game this week--crazy!

Visit With Sister's Friends

Christie and Meredith came in town this weekend and they are long time friends of Keri's. They also brought along a few kids. Matt and I stopped by to visit on our way to the Hoover baseball game and boy was that interesting. We won't tell them that we had to take a nap in the car before going because we were worn out :) Those kiddie poos are fun!! We tried to get all of them in our laps to take a picture, but Lanie would have no part in it. She was scared of Matt! Keri, Meredith, and Christie were roommates some when I was just a measly ole high schooler. I always wanted to "hang" with them because I thought they were all so cool--little did I know back then. :) But anyways, it was good to see them and finally meet their cute kids! PS can you tell someone has been to Mardi Gras... Emmie or Lanie?

He Is Risen!!

He is risen! He is risen indeed! " They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered they did not find the body of our Lord Jesus....He is not here, he has risen! " Luke 24: 2-3, 6 We are so unworthy of the price that Christ paid for our sins. Thankful, more than words can express for what Christ did for us so that we could have life and have it abundantly! We had a great Easter with family and great friends! This is a little before and after lunch photo session we had. Our sweet friends Emily and Eric (you may remember Eric from Christmas pictures) came to have lunch with the fam since their families live so far away. They just jump right in with my crazy family--they are so much fun!!

Of course Keri, Steven, and dad hid 90 Easter eggs for us to find. Well, it looks like my winning streak is over since Matt won the hunt. Although he started before it was officially time, so technically he cheated. There were 3 prize eggs and my mom got 2 of them--little booger! I did bring bubbles for everyone and my dad thought they were silly, but I caught him blowing him by himself in the front yard! What a fun day!!

Saturday

Such an original title.. I know. We started off the day stopping in Oxford to see our friends, Mark and Carrie, who just had their little boy Kaedan this week. That is their other little boy, Ashton, who is my buddy. Carrie was a dear friend of mine when we were in Oxford and we were excited to visit with them and see the new baby. Of course I brought Ashton a prize too (in his hands) it was a big thing of bubbles-Carrie is probably going to kill me because he was using it as a sword when I was leaving. Sorry!! From there we headed to Jacksonville so I could meet my awesome long time friend Jessica. Jessica and I headed to Gadsden for one of our sorority sisters wedding shower. (Matt went to visit his parents--no showering for him) Amy, the bride, was one of our pledge sisters and we haven't seen each other in a while, so it was a fun time to catch up. We even played a game... where you had to find things in your purse.. and guess who won... ME!!! I knew I carried around a lot of crap in my purse for a reason. That is 2 weeks in a row that I have won a game... I am on a roll!!