Birthday party

Today was a great day. It did not start out a great day, but it ended up being a great day. For the last week, I have been spazing out over the weather forcast. Each and every day, I checked the forcast for Sunday, each and every day, it said there would be rain, not just rain, thunderstorms! The forcast called for rain on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, not Saturday but back on Sunday. Each and every day, the weather forcast had been wrong. I held my breath, hoping that it was wrong for Sunday too. No such luck...we get up this morning and it is raining. It rained off and on all morning. Finally we got up and started getting ready to leave for the party. I was getting phone calls, text messages, facebook messages, you name it...people wanted to know if the party was still on. My answer was, "Yes! Rain or shine, we are partying!"

On the way to the party, I posted this on my facebook status..."Sing with me, Rain rain go away because we are havin' a party today!" Well, guess what? There must have been some serious singing going on because our party was from 3-5 and it stopped raining at 2:58 and started back up at 6pm! Now that is what I call a great day. I am sure it did not hurt that I prayed for my little boy to have a perfect, fun, not raining party today too. He deserved a perfect party and a perfect party is what he got!



Thanks to everyone who was able to make it, we missed those of you who could not. We hope those of you are feeling under the weather are feeling well again soon!



Here are a few shots from the party. I had quite a few more from my camera, but they all were of other people's children and I did not feel comfortable posting those. I had a friend shoot some too so when I get those, I can see if any of those will be able to be posted.



The kids had a great time. Yesterday, I went to Target and picked up lots of things that we could do under the pavillion in case of rain. We had connect 4, we had hungry hippos, giraffe limbo, ring toss, bean bag toss, tattoos, and the all time favorite...a bubble machine!



I will venture to say it was probably one of the best parties we have ever had!









I cannot believe my baby boy will be 5 on Wednesday...someone asked him at the party today how old he was. He replied, "4." They said, "No, you are 5 now," to which he said, "nope, not yet! Today is just my party." I love that kid.

Happy Birthday...

to my one and only...
to the man of my dreams...
to the father of my children...
to my best friend...
to the man I cannot wait to wake up with beside me for the rest of my life...
to the man I cannot imagine my life without...
to the man I love with all that I am and with all that I have.



Happy Birthday to the most wonderful, amazing husband and father a girl and her kids could ever hope to have.



We love you more than life itself!

Boys, and lots of 'em!

This is what happens when you try to take a picture of 5 nosey boys, at noon, in a busy chic-fil-a parking lot, with cars, trucks and semis passing by!

Apparently he can say "bubbles..."

and it's his favorite new word.



All day, every day, he walks around the house saying, "bubbles," but it is more like, "bubbles?" As in, find them and blow them, or just give them to me and I will pour them on myself!



And honestly, who could say no to that face? I know I cannot!



These were actually taken a few weeks ago, I know...bad blogger lately.



They have a water table out in the back yard and someone, not mentioning any names *cough Boog cough* dumped some bubble solution in with the water. It was like a huge sink full of bubbles and dishes, you know...minus the dishes and the sink. Someone decided to stick his head into the water table and get himself a funky new do! :)



And someone else had a great time wrecking himself and getting wet. Boy did he have fun though.



All the way up to his elbows kind of fun!



Hey, maybe he really was washing something.



Digging for more bubble buried treasure.



Ooooh, soap!



I have bubbles on my hand!



Using mommy's dish towel to dry himself! I think that was daddy's idea! Silly daddy!











Someone was not fond of being all wet...

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

First let me just get something off of my chest. Today is not the first day back at school since spring break and I am not sad about it. I did not enjoy getting to sleep in (ok, well maybe we didn't do much sleeping in) and not having to wake any children before they were ready to get up. Nope, I am thrilled that the kids went back to school and that I had to set my alarm clock this morning.

Next, let me add that we did not get to keep the pre-school mascot over the entire spring break! Nope, how lucky would that be!



Said panguin (penguin...Gingerbread Man) did not hide from us and make us come looking for him either.



He did not get into any mischeif while he was here. Nope, not Gingerbread Man!



He was not found this morning "Crocodile Rockin'" either. Nope, not our Gingerbread man!



He was not so tired from all of the mischeif that he had to climb up on the couch with two tired little boys either!



Last night, I did not have the pleasure of chatting on the phone with one of my dear bloggy reader friends either. Nope, that would be too weird and her husband might think I was going to chop her into little pieces through the phone. That would never happen. Right, Lindsey? :)

I am not so ready for the school year to be over that I can hardly stand it either...Nope, I bask in the glory of getting to set my alarm clock. EVERY.SINGLE.MORNING.

What I am not looking forward to is my baby turning 5 next month and starting kindergarten in the fall. NOPE...I am not happy one bit and you can take that to the bank. NOT HAPPY. If I keep chanting that, do you think I can just keep him at home with me forever?

Good thing about summer approaching, we are going back to Disney World! Woo hoo! Cannot wait!

Happy Monday, even though it is Monday and even though it is the Monday after spring break...UGG. I had to remind myself. Hop on over to MckMama's and see what everyone else is denying today! :)

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

First let me start by saying, it is not my kids spring break this week! Woo hoo! I am not excited either.

I am not tickled pink that I do not have to set an alarm clock for 9 whole days! Nope, not me! I love the sound of the crazy alarm clock going off when it is still dark outside.

It is not my kids who, since daylight savings time began, that have slept until 7:30 or 8! No reason to get excited over that one, it is technically the same time they normally get up but there is just something comforting about seeing a 7 or 8 that makes it easier to get up and face the day.

Today, we are not expecting a friend and her 2 boys to come over and spend most of the week in town! This is not one of my dear friends from high school that I do not get to see nearly enough. We are not so excited we can barely contain ourselves. Nope, the kids were not up at 7 asking when they would get here!

Tonight, we are not going to grill burgers and hotdogs to celebrate their arrival either. Nope...not gonna happen.

I did not go buy the little boys some summer clothes last week because our weather went from snow one week to 85 the next, only to return this week to highs in the low 70's. Nope, I wait until I am sure the warm weather is sure to stick around before I submit to panic mode and go nuts looking for the latest in summer fashion. Oh, and I have not done this EXACT SAME THING EVERY YEAR for as long as I can remember either.

Now, hop on over to MckMama's and see what everyone else has not been doing.

S' Never too late for Snow...

A little late, but here they are...a few weeks ago, it snowed, AGAIN! Well, if you really want to call it that. It snowed for a few minutes, big fluffy flakes, but by the time we dug out jackets and put shoes on the kids, it was more like really wet snow flakes, on the verge of just really cold rain. Oh well...I still got some pictures.

The way the little boys were acting, you would have thought it was a blizzard, they were super excited. Silly boys.



Tutti-Frutti was not sure what to think but he ended up having the most fun. He fell a few times and got soaked, his face and hands were red but he did not care.



He toddled all over the yard and up and down the sidewalk and driveway. Smiling the whole way. :)



I could not find any gloves but what surprises me the most is that he actually kept the hat on!



Do you see the white blur in the lower right hand side of the picture? Haha...that is the plastic bag that I had my camera in while taking pictures. The snow was way too wet to just have my camera out. :(



I'm pretty sure he was saying, "Yay!"



Not sure what he was thinking.



The poser is back.



Randomness...







Uh-oh, got my boots wet.