Last day before school starts

Tuesday we headed to the Aquatic Center at Tiffany Springs. It was a pretty cool place, but potentially dangerous. Both of my kids nearly drowned a couple of times. The center has a lazy river, a whirlpool, huge slide, olympic size lap pool, and a fun area that had lots of little people slides. The kids had a great time and Aubrey took our next door neighbor Serena.

Last night after supper and baths, we had a party with games and cake to celebrate Aubrey going to Kindergarten!!! She is so excited.
 

I am officially 30 as of August 13th! Wow it is finally here. We have been celebrating for 2 weekends. I am so blessed to have so many special people who care about me. I hope the next 30 years are as good as the first 30! 

Party Weekend

Hi all! We had a All Star Baby shower for my brother Todd and Michelle. It was a grill out man type of shower. We all wore sports themed shirts and had coozies for party favors. But what was really funny was the game we played. The game was called what is in the diaper. All the guys were freaking out. You melt different types of candy bars in the diapers and you have to figure out what kind of candy bar is in there. Some examples included were Baby Ruth, Reeces, Peppermint Patty, Snickers, Three Musketeers, Twix, and many more!! We are so excited about meeting Baby Luke! Only 5-6 more weeks!





The last picture is of my brother Daniel trying the carrier on with his niece Lydia. We were laughing so hard! 

No eyelashes for Aubrey

Here are the pictures of my dear daughter's eyelashes and eyebrows (what is left of them). You can see she didn't get all of them on the inside of her eye. She told me " Mom, I guess I wasn't using my thinking cap." Hopefully they will grow back b/c she had amazing long eyelashes before. I looked it up and it usually takes 90 days to grow back.



Also I have a funny story about my son. I don't like coffee but my brother has turned me on to Chocolate covered expresso beans. They are awesome. If you eat two or three its like a whole cup of coffee. My brother gave me a huge jar for my birthday. The other day I was taking a shower and I thought Nick was watching cartoons, but he wasn't. I yelled for him after I got out of the shower and he came up the stairs carrying the jar of Choxie expresso beans and chocolate all over his face with a smile. I wondered how much he ate, but I found out it was quite a few. I later was drying my hair and I heard this loud boom and he was up on the counter in the kitchen getting into the cabinet getting sprinkles out of the spice cabinet. He was shaking and having trouble getting the lid off the sprinkle jar. I then realized he probably had too many chocolate covered expresso beans. Nick was very shakey, he couldn't make his hands work because he was so hopped up on caffiene. Pretty funny! Moral of the story, don't feed your kids chocolate covered expresso beans!!! 

ok I have to vent!

I came home a little early tonight b/c I am having a hard time realizing Aubrey is going to Kindergarten next week. I wanted to spend a little time with her and tuck her in. When I got home she had not picked up her room and she was complaining her eye hurt. I looked at her, dismissed it and went on. Then a couple minutes later after getting her room picked up I noticed something. I took a good look again, and asked her if she did anything she shouldn't have, and she said "I cut my eyebrow." Ok I took a deep breath, "What?" She said " I cut my eyebrow and eyelashes with my blue scissors." I completely lost it. I really don't understand why she thought that would be ok. I had to walk away and take many deep deep breaths so I would not say something I shouldn't. She looks different and strange. We later find out that she also cut her brothers eyelashes on one eye. I do not know why she did it and I hope I can make it through this whole parenting thing without blowing a gasket in my head. I will take some pictures in the morning so you all can see what I am talking about.

30th birthday party

Here are some pictures from my surprise birthday party! Jay was very sneaky ! We had planned to go to a free concert and eat at the new T-Rex restaurant, but we needed to use my grandma's car (b/c it holds six people) so we pulled up and I thought to my self "That is wierd, I wonder who is having a party" I then dismissed it and started loading the car seats and noticed everyone going inside. It all started clicking when I looked around and recognized some of the cars. I was still trying to process it when I opened the door and before I realized what was going on everyone said " SUPRISE"!!!

I was so shocked b/c my birthday is not until this weekend. Jay had set up a seperate email account to invite everyone. He also arranged a touching video collage that was incredible and made me cry like a baby! We had burgers, brauts, and lots of yummy good food. Thank you Jay and everyone who made this the very best birthday party of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hi all,

Here are some pictures of Aubrey at Girl Scout Camp. She had a great time. It was good wholesome outdoor fun. It was called Twilight Camp at was held at Ernest Shepard area in Liberty. They had to wear t-shirts (no tank tops), shorts (Aubrey only own two pairs b/c she always wears skirts), socks, and tennis shoes(which she does not like, she wears sandals). They were also required to wear a hat or a bandana at all times. She looked so sweet.

Jay had a suprise 30th Birthday for me last Saturday night. It was amazing. He really did suprise me, and I had no idea. He is a really special person. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family and circle of friends. Thank you for everyone who attended. I will post pictures soon!

Have a good wednesday!



 

Happy Friday

Hi everyone! Hope you all made it through the heat. We have stayed in pretty close this past week and weekend. Just thought I would post some pictures of Aubrey and Nick attempting to roller skate. They thought it was sooo fun inside on the carpet and insisted we go out side around the cul da sac. Needless to say Nick wiped out almost instantly and could not get up. You can see he is almost in tears, but I couldn't stop laughing. Aubrey was very cautious (as she always is) and went slow and did great until the slope in the driveway and then slipped and fell. Aubrey is going to Girl Scout Twilight Camp this week. I will post some pics later. Oh by the way here is a link to my sister in law Kari's new blog. I think it is catching on !

 

The purses!!!

Here is the official display of Ginger purses! Don't they look fabulous! Ok Jason Aldean snagged one up and he said his anniversary was coming up and the purse would be perfect. Ashley Monroe which is the third picture love the white Aubrey Mae purse! Julie Roberts love the red football or Charlotte purse. Yeah!



Ginger got 10 on air advertisements and are taking custom orders now! I am so excited for Mom and Jeanne. All their hard work is now starting to pay off! Way to go girls and thank you for letting me go along, I had a blast!

 

Hello Billy! Isn't he cute! We were unable to get up and close to Billy but I did get a picture. He looks and acts more like a rock star. He had Van tennis shoes on and did a bunch of rock songs.

Here is us with Phil. Before the concert opened at 12:30, Phil was out exercising. He said he had a video coming up in two weeks and he was going to put nothing bad in his body. Phil was awesome! The third picture is him walking to his bus and of us backstage, you can see all the other people in front. Boy was it HOT!!!

The last pictures are of the Lost Trailers. They are named that because their bus with all their equipment was stolen three times. They were so cool and wanted to know our names and gave us autographs. Lost Trailers are a great band.

Ok just a couple more pictures!!




 

Yallapallooza !!!

Hey everyone! Sorry its taken me so long to update! It was a busy weekend. On Sunday we (my mom Paula, sister in law Jeanne, and I, Janna ) went to Yallapallooza 11 at Verizon Amphitheater. Mom and Jeanne have started a purse company and had the opportunity of a lifetime and that was to donate purses for the hospitality room behind stage for all the awesome country artist. The Yallapalloza artists were Phil Vasser, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Julie Roberts, Chris Cagle, Carolina Rain, Billy Currington, the Lost Trailers, and Silver Bullet. Despite the 101 degree heat we had a blast. We stayed back stage until about 6pm and then we headed to our awesome seats. Jeanne's good friend Allison is the marketing director for CBS and she is in charge of all the parties backstage. We were so lucky to have met some of the artists. We felt pretty special. They were all so nice. I even got to touch Chris Cagle's dog Capone! The first picture is all of us with Julie Roberts, and she really liked the purses. The next picture is of Chris Cagle and his dog. The next picture is Miranda Lambert (aka Jay's girlfriend). I am unable to post more pictures on this particular post so I will do it with another one.
 

Just thougth I would post some more. Saturday I cracked the whip and purged majorly at our house. I went through tons of stuff in the attic and sent 10 bags of cloths to good will. Jay was so happy. Saturday, Aubrey went to a slumber party and I went to visit some old friends in St. Joe. We had so much fun and laughed hard. We made a vow to do it more often. The next picture is Aubrey and Nick singing at church on Sunday. Aubrey had Vacation Bible School last week and had a blast. Nick decided he needed to be up on stage also. It's not the best picture. After church we headed to Columbia, MO for a baby shower honoring my new unborn nephew Lucas Todd. My brother Todd and sister in law Michelle are expecting thier first baby boy around Sept 17th. Doesn't she look great! Aubrey and Nick can't wait. We also celebrated my brother Daniel's 24th birthday! Happy Birthday D!!!