Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the ole pops!! We had a little Father's Day celebration at the lake... a little yesterday and a little more today. We like to party all weekend. We all got dad some new shades for the day. Mom likes the ones that she got better... see below! Happy Father's Day to a great day!! Hope it was a good one--you deserve it. We love you!!!

Happy Birthday Matt!!

Well, today is the day... it's Matt's birthday. I know this is a little late but we just finished his birthday party so I had to include those pictures. We had some people over to grill out for the big day and I think it was a success!! Happy Birthday to my hubby. I hope you had a great birthday!! I love you big guy!! See that cute little guy below.. I love this guy!!! Our sweet dear friends from James and Rachel drove all the way from Oxford to celebrate with Matt and we just love to see their little boy, Wyatt. He is so much fun!! It was so great to see them!! We miss them!

We had some couples from our small group come help celebrate too. Top right is Jonathan and Rachel--the precious newlyweds and bottom middle--Heather and Gemini. Heather has herself a big birthday party coming up that will blow Matt's backyard birthday bash out of the water. Bottom right is Matt's coaching buddy Danny--who will be getting married in one short week.

And a few more snapshots. After the crowd left Matt opened his presents and he got some nice stuff. Keri got him a home improvement book that he wanted so hopefully he won't have the kitchen countertops torn out when we get home. Mom and Dad got him an AL picture and he almost peed in his pants. The Harley man was a little traumatized with all the action.. hopefully the little guy will sleep a little late tomorrow. Fun party--thanks to my kitchen crew aka keri and mom--you guys rock!!!

Sunday Picnic

Today we had a picnic at Veteran's Park with our small group from church. I didn't take many pictures... we had lots of activities planned. One of those was the water balloon toss. Matt, Amanda, David, and myself were modeling what to do for the contest and everything was going fine until we just got too far apart and I couldn't throw that thing as far as matt was. I tried with all my might but it fell just a little short and busted on his feet. Ooops! I am going to find me some water balloons so we can practice this and we will win next time.

Poor Guy

Poor Matty... this was last week on Memorial Day. He will give me a wedgie if he finds out I took this picture and put this on here. He was out. So matt got really sick on Sunday night before Memorial Day--Now I don't do throw up or other smells very well. I actually have a super sonic smeller and sometimes this causes me to gag... a lot. But this is the first time I have dealt with throw up in our marriage and I did survive. We had to take him to the emergency room and he got all kinds of medicines and had to have several bags of fluids. He is so much better this week.. it only delayed our trip to the beach for one day. In the ER they have these great travel throw up bags... while the nurse was out I got a few to stash in the car in case this ever happens again.

A Little Beach Trip

This week matt and I headed to the beach for a little summer vacay. We always go on a big trip for our anniversary but this summer is already jam packed and between grad school and matt's football--this is the only week we had off for both. Anyways... here are a few pictures from our week. Now you know when you go on vacation by yourself you have to take all those crazy arm shots of the two of you-so sorry you have to see our arm in most of these. I must get a little camera man to start coming along on our trips. Harley sure enjoyed his vacation too. It takes no time for this little guy to get settled in and relaxed. Matt is trying to eat solids for the first time since his sickness... more on that later..

You know matty and I do some crazy thing to entertain ourselves. So after dinner one night we stopped off at the ole souvenir place. There are lots of interesting things you can do in there and we enjoyed playing with their stuff. We stopped when the security lady started following us around.

And Harley man loves him some beach.. no matter that the sign said no pets. You know we love a good law breaking night. And you see that small picture on the right with the glass cup. Let me tell you about that... well, I am not a fan of bugs or any kind of creature that crawls.. who is!? Well, I see this little booger out of the corner of my eye.. I scream... matt is in the shower and I did the only thing I know to do when matt isn't available for a good bug napping... put a cup over it. I said hurry hurry I have caught a crab in the floor. He calls back--you crapped in the floor. No--I caught a crab! Matt picked that crazy thing up and took it back out to the beach. Such an animal lover. Fun week at the beach.....until next time.

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!!