A New Found Obsession

Eric brought this home from the store on Monday, and I am hooked. I LOVE Sonic's cherry limeades and Sunkist is not as good as Sonic, but it's nice to be able to go to the fridge to get one whenever you want instead of actually having to drive to Sonic. And I was doing so good not drinking soft drinks. I'll blame Eric for this. LoL.

Extremely random post today. Taking Payton shopping for fall clothes today. Love that! What's more fun than clothes shopping for a little girl? I'd much rather shop for her than me. The clothes on the rack look even cuter on her, for me, well quite the opposite. The clothes look much cuter on the rack. Sigh. Oh well.

Still painting like crazy. I never dreamed my paintings would do so well. I have sold 10 sets and am working on more. Keeping me extremely busy. Thank goodness I love painting. LoL.

Loving the fall weather. If only it could stay like this. Hopefully it will. It just seems early this year for some reason.

And on a totally unrelated, yet wonderful note: the greatest tv show on earth starts a week from tonight. LoL. Yes, Lost makes its return in a week. WooHoo! So excited. There's never been a non reality show that Eric and I have both been so into. It's both of our favorite. I actually started watching it before him and he joined in about half way through season 1. We have actually laid in bed for an hour after the show finished and talked about what happend. Yes, we have issues. LoL.

Have a great day!!!!!:)

Saturday was...

One wet birthday party. Yeah, it pretty much rained the entire time. And when the party is at a go cart place, that's not necessarily a good thing. Although Eric says otherwise. He actually enjoyed riding go carts in the pouring down rain. Go figure.

And after riding go carts in the rain 3 times in a row, they played the water balloon war. Now I'm sure they thought there was a point to playing the water balloon war in the rain, but we sure couldn't see it.
Luckily though, there are so many things to do inside that the whole day wasn't a bust. There are tons of games, a ball pit, fun jump and all that kind of stuff inside. And on a good note, the cake looked awesome. Here is the proud bday boy with his Herbie cake.

And another shot of the cake. Cameron enjoyed his party, and that's all that matters I guess. I couldn't help but see the irony (see last post) with something going wrong for his party.

On Sunday we went to a bowling party for a friend. I couldn't resist this pic
What a little cutie in her bowling shoes. I didn't even realize they made them in that small of a size. Anyway, that's our weekend in a nutshell. Hope everyone's was great!

This Little Cutie...

Turns 5 this weekend. And I've never felt older. LoL. To have a child that is 5 is unbelievable to me. Here he is at Payton's age. Seems like such a long time ago. I wanted to put a baby pic of him, but this computer doesn't have any. And well I'm feeling a tad on the lazy side today. Woke up with a sore throat and very stopped up. The weather is its funky humid self again. And Cameron didn't have school today, so, well, I'm still in my Pjamas as Payton calls them.

Went with my mom and Payton to a local show yesterday called Tinsel & Treasures. So many cool things to see and food to taste. They have it every year. It's a good place to Christmas shop. I have never seen so many fleur de lis things in my life. Bought Cam's teacher a pair of fleur de lis book ends. She mentioned at the beginning of the year how much she loved fleur de lis, so it was a good place to shop for her. The one bummer is that they don't allow strollers so we carried one little blondie way too much. It's too crowded already and strollers make it worse.

Party weekend for us, hopefully lots of good pics to share on Monday. I am praying that the rain holds off, since the majority of the party is outside. Cam is due for a good party year. His first birthday party was great, second one he had salmonella and basically slept through the entire party. (By the time he got sick it was too late to cancel). That night we took him to the hospital b/c he looked dehydrated and he ended up staying for three days. His third party was fine and his fourth, a hurricane hit. So thus far, he has had good and bad, and he's due for a good year. Have a great weekend everyone!

So Apparently...

The weather reads my blog? After Monday's post, the fall weather arrived that night and has been here since. Although according to Rob (the local weatherman) it is going to be very short lived and although fall officially starts this weekend, summer weather will be back in full force.

Must share this pic of Eric. He made this pendant for a customer at work (a rapper, nonetheless). It says "It's Nothing". The thing weighs more than Cameron. And Eric could not resist modeling it. Hilarious.

We are 3 days away from the party. And for once in my life, I am completely finished and stress free. Well except for the stress of how many kids are actually going to show up. Over half of the kids I invited have either a soccer or football game that afternoon. Bummer! I guess it's just that time of year. Last year, hurricane Rita hit on his party day, so it had to be pushed back a week. Anyways, having it at the go cart place actually turned out to be a really good thing. The party is a racing theme so I bought some checkered flag fabric for goody bags and my wonderful mom sewed them all. Thanks mom! All I really have done was make the invites, buy the favors and put them in the bags. My sis in law is doing the cake. Wow. And I thought I would be sad to not be able to do it all. Turns out, it's pretty darn great! Especially with all the painting I have done in the past few weeks.

So anyway, hoping to get some scrapping done today. With all of the painting, I haven't really scrapped at all. And I miss it. Happy Wednesday everyone!:)

Monday Monday

This weekend went way too fast. Too much going on so that made it fly by. I bought Cameron's gift on Saturday. He wanted the Gameboy Advanced and Mario Bros. So I bought him that and the carrying case. That tells me how big he really is getting when he asks for video games for his bday. He is ready to turn five though because "all his friends at school are five and he is only four." Yeah that was me too. Except I was only four until early Dec. So I was way younger than my friends.
Here are some recent layouts to share.

Hope you all have a great day. It's dreary and rainy here again. Where oh where is the nice fall weather? I know it's a little early here for fall weather, but a girl can dream right?

Safety First

Apparently swinging is so dangerous these days, you need to wear a baseball helmet? LoL. Not sure what that's about. Just my 2 silly gooses. Walked outside to find this one afternoon and had to get a pic.

Not much going on over here except painting, painting and more painting. Working on some new things to get on Ebay. Thankfully, everything thus far has sold really well. My poor hand and fingers have cramps like you wouldn't believe. LoL. I'm gonna try and take most of today off though. I've been painting all week and need some mommy/Payton time today. She has been such a trooper. We've painted so much though, I think even she's sick of it. Will post pics of everything soon.

Lots going on this weekend. 2 parties, shopping for Cam's bday, crab boil at the in-laws tomorrow evening (yum). Hopefully some painting time in there somewhere.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Interesting Conversation...

Payton and I were at the art table yesterday (where else?), and she was singing away. "I love Jesus, yes I do, I love Jesus, how about you?"
So I ask her, "why do you love Jesus, what did he do for us?"
Payton: "Died".
Me: "Where?"
Payton: "on the cross."
Me: "Then what happend, where did he go?"
Payton: "Hobby Lobby."
Hehe, I see she's learning lots in our devotions. Either that or we just go to Hobby Lobby way too much. I'm thinking it's the latter.

And Cameron. Well he has grown up soooo much in the last couple of weeks. I've noticed that since he has started kindergarten, he has changed tremendously. It is so sad really. He comes home and eats his snack and wants to watch tv or play nickjr.com. He's not really interested in playing in the playroom with Payton. Oh my goodness and the attitude. It's gone from that of a 4 year old to that of a 14 year old in a couple of weeks. So very sassy. Hopefully it will get better. I know that some of it is because he is coming home so very tired.

My paintings on Ebay have been doing very well. So well in fact that I should be painting right now instead of blogging. I have sold 4 sets total. 2 just yesterday and I only have one done. I will be painting lots in the next few days. And my mind is racing with other ideas. I'm going to try to branch out to a few other things. So very excited. Eric is actually pretty excited about it also. He thinks he will retire on my painting. LoL. One lady emailed me and asked me if I could sign my masterpieces. LoL. Maybe she thinks I will be famous one day? Not likely painting children's art, but it's a nice thought anyway.

Hope you all have a fabulous day. It's pretty dark and dreary over here, but I won't complain. The rain keeps us from watering everynight.

September 11th

Hard to believe that it has been five years already, then again it seems like forever. There has been so much talk the last week about "what were you doing that day?". Well I was asleep and Eric called me from work to tell me that the country was being attacked and to turn on the tv, so I did. I was nine months pregnant, due any day. And I laid there and rubbed my tummy and cried for awhile. Scared by the world that I was bringing a child into. Cameron was born 13 days later. I remember praying all day on the 11th that he wouldn't be born on that day. I didn't want his birthday to be on that terrible day.

On a happier note, my friend Brandy's little girl (the one who was born with the heart defect and was in the middle of Hurricane Katrina) turned one in August. Well Saturday she had a carnival party and the kids loved it. They were so exhausted from all the excitement that Payton slept for 3 hours after the party LoL. Even Cameron fell asleep in the car. There were games, a magician, a face painter, balloon animals, fun jump, hot dogs, popcorn. It was a great party. Here are some pics of the kids.

Other than that, not much exciting happend this weekend. Payton got her first wasp sting at Eric's mom's house. I wasn't there but I can only imagine the amount of screaming that took place. She got stung on the finger while swinging. Poor girl.

Hope you all have a great day! Please say a prayer for our country today. :)

Happy Anniversary.....

To this cute couple.

Otherwise known as mom and dad. 36 years today. Hope you have a great day! I love you both so very much!

Me.

I know that my family and some very close friends read this blog. I also know that people that don't know me so well read this blog. So, I decided to do a post about me. Just random facts and things that my family already knows pretty well.
*I am very tall. 5'11". Yeah that's tall for a girl. I was VERY self concious about my height for the majority of my life. I would never wear high shoes. I always felt uncomfortable when standing around in a group of people and I am a lot taller than everyone else. Things became a lot easier when I started dating Eric. He is 6'3". It was nice to be able to wear high shoes.

*Sadly, I am a pretty impatient person. This is something that I try to work on. Having 2 kids has definitely forced me to try and be a more patient person. You know you are pretty bad when at 3 years old, your son hollers from the back seat of the car "Go Woman!". Yeah I'm not so good with being patient in the car. I think I have a mild case of road rage.

*I am a christian. I love Jesus, but am nowhere being where I need to be in my walk with him. This is something that I have been trying to give extra attention to lately.

*I love to eat. Yeah, I do. Especially eating out. I am not so fond of cooking. I enjoy it sometimes, but it's not my favorite thing.

*I have very bad eyes. Probably very close to legally blind. Without my contacts or glasses, I cannot see ANYTHING. Once I was asked to take out my contacts and read the smallest line on the chart that I could see. I started laughing because I could not even see a chart. Hoping for laser surgery one of these days.

*I find it hard to motivate myself. Especially when it comes to exercise and diet. Something that is really been bugging me lately because, let's face it, after 2 kids my body just isn't what it once was.

*I graduated from college in 2001 with a degree in elem. education. I have never actually taught. I graduated in May and had Cam in Sept. My plan was to stay home with him for one year and start teaching. Well that never happend. I am still at home and kind of hope that I never have to teach. Let's face it, after staying home for 5 years, my brain is not what it used to be either. LoL.

*I will be 30 years old in a couple of months. I think that I am ok with that. LoL. Sometimes I kind of freak out when I think about it. But really, I'm ok with it.

*I adore having a little girl. I love having a boy as well and it has been nonstop adventure since the day Cameron was born. But I love buying bows and fixing up a girlie room and one day soon buying Barbies.

* I love painting, scrapbooking, anything crafty really. I am trying to start selling paintings on ebay. I just sold my first set and about to sell my second. Pretty excited.

Well hope you enjoyed these random facts about me. As you can probably tell, absolutely NOTHING too exciting has happend around here!

YEAH.....

A three day weekend. Gotta love those. Cameron is actually on a 4 day weekend, there was no school today. Somebody, however, forgot to tell the kids that when there is no school, we sleep in. LoL. They were still up at the regular old school day time.

It has been feeling soooo good over here. The humidity has basically been gone and the mornings and evenings are so nice and cool. Love that! But the pesky mosquitos are still out and about. We have all been chewed up over the last couple of nights. So, so ready for the fall. Crazy that it is the first of September. I mean, where did the summer go? Cameron's birthday coming up on the 24th. I have already started making his invitations. He wanted a Herbie party and since we are having his party at the Kart Ranch, I liked the idea of Herbie and racing as the theme. The only problem being, there is absolutely no Herbie party stuff out there, so I am having to do it all myself. My sis-in-law is going to do a Herbie cake for him. She rocks the cakes, she really does.

This is the one that she made for Payton's poodle party in Feb. It had the little eiffel tower and poodle cookie on top. It was soooo cute! I found a vw bug cake pan so it should be really cool to see what she comes up with.

Have a fabulous 3 day weekend everyone!!! Gotta love Labor Day!!!