It's summer here!!

Not technically summer but here, it is!! Courtney is officially out of school so that is the start of summer for us! I'm hoping it's not going to be a long one too. The kids are great except when they spend too much time together - they begin to fight.

Courtney will be doing Vacation Bible School at the Methodist church where our Brownie troop meets - she has friends attending :-) which makes it all worth it to her. Plus Mrs. Donna and I met yesterday to schedule some weekly activities that the girls can attend but aren't mandatory - such as FREE movies (can't beat free!), Oak Mountain State Park, bowling, skating and all sorts of stuff. Should keep both Courtney and CJ busy.

I still can't believe next Friday we will be leaving for Texas!!! I'm so excited and so are the kids. CJ picked out his own luggage which is twice the size of him...lol. He keeps begging to go to 'June' since he knows that is when we are heading to Aunt Marti's and Uncle James' to see the goats which he has named 'Sally and Flo' (of course, from CARS!). It'll be so nice to see everyone again and the kids get to see both Aunt Marti and Aunt Misti plus Uncle James and Uncle Brien AND....Josh!!! Both Tyler and Hunter are already in Florida so we won't see them but I'm sure they'll be here in AL to visit soon (hint, hint hint Misti)

Well, it's time to get the whole day started away from blogging....post office, bank and all the other errands I have to run.

Hope everyone had a relaxing Memorial Day.

I did it!!!

I just sent in an application for a scrapbook website Design team!! I've never tried out for one so I'm a little nervous about the whole thing. Deadline to enter isn't until May 25th and the annoucement is on the May 31st. They are looking for 3 scrappers to join. It's actually a brand new site so it's the first Design Team put together. It's really exciting but nerve wrecking all at once. I will never know unless I try so I finally tried.

I did submit some layouts to an idea book but those weren't chosen - which is fine. I know now that I actually have it in me to submit :-)

Here's a few layouts I've done - just to share :-) These are not ones I've submitted though.

These are pictures taken when I was in Texas in March.

This is a page from my Book of Me album I'm doing.

Have to include these two....both are a few of my favorites...

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Wishing everyone a wonderful Mother's Day!!


Today, Courtney, CJ and Jason took me out to lunch at The Loop before Jason had to work at 2pm. Of course, since we were near The Great American Cookie Company, we HAD to buy cookies for both kids! It's becoming a tradition for CJ to get cookies every time we go shopping just so he'll be happy to sit in his stroller.


As I was looking at the blog, I realized I don't post a lot of pictures of CJ so here's the most updated picture of him...he is growing up way too fast.

Time to catch up!

I must say...last weekend was great. Courtney was beautiful on Sunday!! It was a perfect day and couldn't ask for much more. She was the only girl making her First Communion with 5 other boys. Even my friend Summer came to help celebrate.

Here's a picture of her with Fr. John



















We certainly had a busy week too leading up to this weekend.

• Monday - Grammy and Papa left


• Tueday - Meet Jason for lunch with both kids and his mom. And then Gramma left afterwards. Courtney had dance practice


• Wednesday - FREE DAY!!!


• Thursday - Courtney had dance practice again plus we had our Brownie meeting in the evening. During the day I was preparing for the meeting - almost our last one of the school year.


• Friday - Jason was off so we went out and about. Then Courtney had dance recital practice from 5:45 until 8 pm at Springville Middle School which is about 30 minutes away.


• Today - Jason worked this morning and then Courtney had to be at the school at 3pm for her recital at 4pm.

Courtney did a wonderful job!! She did "Barbie Girl" with her jazz class and then "42nd Street" with her tap class. I'm so proud of her.

Spoke too soon!

I should have known. CJ woke up with a 101.6 fever! Thankfully the Tylenol is working right now and he is in a better mood - watching Monsters, Inc. He really wanted to go to Mother's Day Out today to play with his friends but that will have to wait. I do have a few errands I wanted to do but they can all wait except the post office (which I'll go when I pick up Courtney from the bus stop).

Both kids are really excited about Gramma coming tomorrow. CJ can't wait to go to the airport (he thinks Gramma lives there...LOL). He keeps asking me if today is the day to get her. They are also excited about Friday night - Grammy and Papa are coming too.

We finally figured out what time Courtney's First Communion will take place. Fr. Jim will be doing 4 masses that day as First Communion will be at 2pm with a small reception afterwards. I hope to take some pictures and share. I actually had Courtney put her whole outfit on and she looks beautiful!

OK...off to watch Monsters, Inc with my little sickie.