Carissa's Early Birthday Surprise

I surprised Carissa with an early birthday present... Seeing the midnight showing of the latest Harry Potter. The night included watching the previous 2 movies before the new one. She had a blast and was completely surprised.

White Oak 2010 Talent Show

Carissa was in her schools talent show with the dance club. She was too cute and shook what her momma gave her!

Herman Cain's Take Back Our Government Tour

The kids were so excited to go see Herman Cain. They have listened to him with me on the radio and it often gives us a chance about politics and explain the way the world works. It was a little chilly but a good time all around.
At the end, Caitlin sneaked pass security and was standing right in front of the stage just listening to Herman (wish I had a picture) and then got to shake his hand. They also got to meet Krista Branch, a former American Idol contestant. It was a great night.

Muffins with Mom 2010

Trunk-or-Treat 2010

This was our inspiration.

We had a fun time, only wish Eli could have come. We won for family costume.

Caitlin's Birthday Weekend

We had a fun weekend celebrating Caitlin's 6th Birthday. We started the weekend going to the Gwinnett Gladiators hockey game. Nonna, Poppa, Corie, Wendi, Maddie, Wesley and Grace (Carissa's friend) came with us.
Saturday was the big party day. We had the party at Imaginations at Play in Buford, Ga. Most of Caitlin's friends from church, neighborhood and school came. Caitlin had so much fun playing with all her friends. Nonna made an AWESOME cake, exactly as Caitlin requested... Ariel holding Flounder with crabs around the cake. We ended Saturday letting Caitlin be the princess and opening all her presents at home. She loved everything she got and couldn't wait to play with everything. Can't believe my little girl is six! She is such a joy and always keeps us laughing with her wit and charisma.

Weekend Project...

Before

After

Our latest Saturday project, BUSHES! I have always hated the way the little landscaping we had looked. Originally the side was a 6 inch strip of pine straw all the way down the side of the house with out any plants at all. For mother's day we widened the flowerbeds and put in some flowers for the summer. We finally put in bushes this weekend and I LOVE IT! A shout out to my design team...BRANDY!

Dollars for Darby

Check out Darby's story.

http://www.dollarsfordarby.blogspot.com/

Our NOT Garage Sale

So we have been needing to clean our garage out for a little while now. Not only was there bins and tool drawers that need to be cleaned out, but our bins didn't match our decor. If you me, you know I am a little OCD with stuff matching, organizing and cleaning. It bugged me every time I pulled into the garage, so I finally bought matching bins and a matching cabinet for all the tools. So this was the weekend we tackled the daunting task. We started by taking everything out of the garage, and I guess we have some pretty good stuff because we began to immediately be bombarded with people getting out of there car to shop from our stuff. Before we could even say "Not a garage sale," people already had there kids out of the car heading towards our stuff. After having to say "Not a garage sale" over a dozen times in less than 10 minutes I came up with a plan... PUT UP A SIGN. We quickly learned we had written it the wrong language, so we called a friend and got our sign translated. It helped some but we still had to stop some shoppers. We also gave our neighbors a good laugh with the sign.

Our final results... an organized, matching garage!

Labels make me happy! :)

Bikinis for dinner?

We were sitting down to dinner tonight and Caitlin chirped up, "What are we having again?" Before any of us could answer her she answered herself..."Oh yeah, bikinis!" We were having paninis! She is our constant comedic relief! I love that girl.