A much needed weekend away!

I had a FAB weekend! Besides getting to photo shoot a beautiful senior- class 2010, I drank beer, ate BBQ, and partied my tush off with some wonderful peeps in a beautiful surrounding, what more can a mama ask for?!?!? I spent most of the time in the pool or eating, ha! The best deal, my 50 cent mustache I got out of a gumball machine! Enjoy a few pics.

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Snaggletooth, seriously?!

My snaggletooth hulk wearing one year old is out.of.control! That is one big tooth coming in- omg! I think it is a permanent one----I know I worry to much but what if?.......

He tears his diapers off so I have resorted to big brothers undies, isn't it SO stinkin' cute! I just wanna eat him up when I put them on him-

in love with my kids fa shizzle!

Secret/confession

Secret-
I am totally wanting to low carb it, but I know I shouldn't!

Confession-
I tried it for three days and I am just working out to hard to not have the carbs! This plato has me in a funk! They upped my calorie intake which is SO hard for me to swallow!

Why is Jesus on the hot sauce?

While out to brunch at one of our favorite hot spots- First Watch, Blaine politely and so innocently asks me "Mom, why is there a picture of Jesus on the hot sauce bottle?"




uhm........LMBO

Love this site, thanks for the reminder Shannon

LOL

Summer lovin' had me a blast

I puffy heart the summer and say bring on the heat baby! I would take 90 degree heat over snow and ice any ol' day! I love walking into a very cool house after being out in the heat. I love dipping into a cool pool on a hot summer day. I love sitting under a shade tree with some ice cold beer, I mean lemonade ha ha! Leelyn just wasn't sure about this pool....it takes him like 20 mins of crying and poking it before he dare dips a toe in it. But alas, he enjoys it. His excitement is hilarious, he screams DA DA DA DA DEE DEE, DA DA DA DA DEE DEE over and over! lol

Secret/confession

Secret- I am SOOOOOOOO tired lately! (no Karissa, not preggers lol)

Confession- I put the boys in the shower today so I could have 15 mins to lay down on my bed and enjoy some quiet. Don't worry, the shower is in my view, they were a mere 15 feet away. Before that I strapped Leelyn in his high chair and gave him and Blaine popsicles, another 10 mins. of silence that allowed to me to just sit and relax.
Leelyn has been in his crib playing for the last 15 mins. guess I better go get him and give him his snack.

To top it all off, I AIN'T COOKING TONIGHT- how ya like me now!

Guess I get the world's laziest mom award, darn?!

Case and Point

Okay so remember my post about Blaine and his salads and napkins.....I took the opportunity to snap a picture with the nifty cell phone, the third napkin is in his lap. One for his hands, one for his mouth and one for his nose...? I tried taking one away and he FREAKED out! Whatever- I also added a funny shot of him sippin' on da sprite looking like he has had a lil to much drinky dranky....lol

ase and point

teeth teeth and more teeth

It's official- Leelyn finally has 3 teeth coming in, woot woot! Two front top and one on the bottom.....I say bring as many on at once as possible and let's get this over with. I can't believe he finally has teeth coming in, sheesh

FEMALES, BEWARE ALWAYS- my sister was ATTACKED!

This is very hard for me to share and write--especially since I just found out Friday. My sister works about 5-8 blocks from her house therefore she walks to and from. She works 2-10pm. She has worked this shift for years. Usually her son or BF will walk with her for safety reasons of course. Well for whatever the reason Friday she had no one to walk with her and about 4 blocks from her home she was grabbed from behind by a spanish man. Now my sister is 5'7 and a light 120 pounds. She is literally a feather.
She bent forward and grabbed his foot and they both fell to the ground. He punched her in the face several times--she has two black eyes, a bruised nose, skinned knees and bruised arms. My father said she really got beat up bad.

He wanted her rings and cash. The only thing besides God that saved her life was this:

She maced him and then ran for her life.

I believe in dreams. I believe there are random meaningless dreams and then spiritual dreams. About two weeks prior to this happening I had a dream of my mother coming to me fearing for my sister to make a dream story short. I woke up at 3:06am and prayed to God that to watch over her and keep her safe. I called my dad and told him of the dream and we both just prayed for her safety. I really believe it was a warning and I believe our prayers were answered. This attack could have gone so many horrible ways.

So if you are in daylight or night...walking to your car or anywhere please BEWARE and carrying mace or something similar is a good idea!

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AWESOME NEWS!

It is official- one of my best friends is coming to the Lou which means not only do I get her to myself, but I also get to see my precious Godson and her other beautiful kiddos!
EEEKKKK I am SO EXCITED! I can't wait to hang with my girl! I puffy heart Kiwi berry! Girls nite, play date, BBQ, sight seeing, shopping here we come!

Now I must be patient for the next month and a half, ugh!
Good news for a change, gotta love that ;-)

Prayer request

My step moms nephew is 9 and he came down with a headache last Tuesday and he is now fighting for his life. They discovered a cancerous tumor on his brain stem. They operated and were only able to remove 30% of the tumor. He is hopefully being transferred to St. Jude's this week, if he makes it.

This type of cancer responds well to Chemo however it always returns. They gave him a 20% chance.

I have to say that I have a hard time dealing with stuff like this. Just when you think you have healthy kids.......ugh! I hate hearing about kids going through things like this. It tears me up inside.

Please lift him up, glory be to God who can and does make miracles happen. Please lift his family up also---

Thanks, God Bless.

secret/confession

secret- I had french fries with my lunch yesterday

confession- I enjoyed every single one!

In my defense I took a VERY hard class last night @ the gym and probably burned 600 calories easily. This class was no joke and I thought about running for the door like 5 times! It had me jump roping people! LMBO

Only 2:30 and this has been how my day has gone

I woke up to this:



He not only took off his diaper, but the sheet to his bed. It was everywhere and I mean everywhere from the bars, to the wall in his ears, under his finger nails and toe nails-----I should have known it wasn't going to get any better!

I decided to take the kiddos to the mall, I needed to do a little shopping for our up coming mini vacation and in the car on the way Blaine screams as loud as he can "MOM A SPIDER" okay so the spider was right above Leelyn. I took my shoe off and smashed that sucker, HA!

Kids were doing great at our first stop- Dillards. I got what I needed and proceeded to Old Navy and that went fine also. I let them play for a while and Leelyn was all over that play area. I am amazed at how strong he is and DARING!

Then we went to Houlihans for some lunch---Leelyn choked and scared the poo out of me, Blaine spilled his soda and then started crying....

We headed to the Gap after lunch. For an entire 20 mins. there was this 5 year old BRAT following us around telling Blaine he 'wasn't cool and ugly' all the mean while his mom is doing NOTHING! I can't stand it when parents don't pay attention to their kids. Finally at the check out they were behind us and he once again for the 10th time called Blaine ugly and his mom says 'what did you say? Don't say that' AND THAT WAS IT! If my son said that to another kid he would be in big trouble! I was LIVID at this point and told Blaine loud enough for them to hear that we should never say mean nasty things like that to anyone and let's just mind our manners and not to worry about it that he did the right thing by not saying anything back. Only then did the mom half ass apologize....whatever, get your kid under control missy! LOL

My Blaine isn't ugly- look at his cute little round face!


Anyway- Blaine fell and busted his lip on the way out of the mall.....ugh, is it wine time?

What a weekend!

I had a FAB weekend. Nick Diaz (fighter) was in Whole Foods Market Friday evening---uh huh that is right! LOL I think fighters are hawt, but those that know me know that I like bad asses with tatts (AMI JAMES IS MY #1 after all and he boxes, oh and he has tatts all over, hmmmm) I think my ovaries just quivered.....LOL Is it getting hawt in here?! Okay I will stop.

I took the boys to the City Museum and I can't say enough wonderful things about this place! I will definitely hit this place up with friends for adult night out. If you are single- take your date here! Blaine had a BLAST! There is so much to do and see, I can't believe this was our first time there. If you live here in the Lou and haven't been I highly recommend going!

Blaine helped with much needed yard work. I am seriously considering a cleaning service, I just do not have the time to do everything these days.

So if anyone has any inspirational quotes they would like to share with me, please do. I am in a funk these days and could use some pep talking, i.e. 'the sun will come out tomorrow' 'the grass isn't greener on the other side' 'hang in there' ;-) xoxo LOL thanks!

I seem to have hit a plato in my weight loss (since Jan. down 26 pds) any tips to get through it??? I still have 25-30 to go.

Enjoy the pics.

It was....

a staph infection btw on Blaines ankle- The dr called us this morning to let us know. Basically he had a bite or sorts and his dirty little fingers infected it.....this is why I don't bite my nails, ICK!

Secret/confession

Secret- Blaine calls me DAD all day long

Confession- It REALLY annoys me since I do all of the 'important stuff'!

No amputation necessary

Blaine had some type of bite on his foot yesterday which I thought was a mosquito bite. This morning his ankle was swollen and red. We went to Wal-Mart and by the time we left his entire lower leg was swollen and the bite was oozing puss and very red. As I pulled in my neighborhood, luckily my neighbor that lives 3 houses down is a Pediatric nurse at St. Johns Hospital was also pulling in so I took Blaine over there for her to look at his foot. She tells me to get him in to the doctors office pronto or take him to the ER. Seriously- y'all know this is just my luck! Here I bought all this fun swimming stuff and pool only to be on the phone with the doctor. UGHHHHH! ARGHHHH!
Well- he definitely has a serious fast growing infection (with a fever) and he is on some serious antibiotics that they treat staff infection with. He is to keep it elevated and we are awaiting the culture results. Talk about just crazy! Enjoy the gross pics! These were taken early this morning, prior to the leg swelling and oozing puss Poor quality- sorry.

FINALLY- Let me officially introduce:

Aubrey Renee Mitchell
Born 5/22/09
11:55 pm.
8.13 oz
20 inches
My cup runneth over. I have been waiting to receive pics. of this miracle precious angel! Not only am I now a great aunt, my daddy is a great papaw and step mom a great grammy! I need a kleenex!