Weekend Update

Our weekend was actually a pretty good one. I spent Friday night decorating a Cars 2 themed birthday cake for a special little guy. I have already decided that I have been the cool aunt. I may be the lazy mom and order our kids' birthday cakes instead of making them. That's a time consuming thing to do!

Saturday morning I got up and went over to Mom's to decorate for the party. Luke and I escaped alone and went to my house to finish up some laundry. He knew we were going out for a special birthday lunch alone and I guess I took too long on the laundry. When we were finally heading out the door he told me, "It took you long enough!"

I asked him where he would like to eat and he told me Pizza Hut. I asked what kind of pizza he wanted and he looked at me like I had a second head growing out of my ear or something. "I don't eat pizza," he said. I asked him why we were going to Pizza Hut then. This was followed by another annoyed look for the stupid adult that he was plagued with the company of. "I like their pasta!" Oh! Of course.

We met Randy at Pizza Hut and had a great lunch with a very well behaved little boy. After we ate, we went over to the cotton gin to see my dad and give Randy a tour. It was so great seeing some of my old co-workers too! I seriously LOVE where I work now, but without a doubt I loved that group of people more than any other group I've ever worked with. I really miss them!

After that, we went home and got ready for the party. He had a great time and scored some pretty cool gifts.

Ben with his daddy and Starla.

The cake. Not my best work, but he was happy and that's all that matters to me!

Some new Cars pajamas from Gran-Gran!

A new Thomas movie and Cars 2 game for DSi from Nunni and Randy.

Sunday was definitely a great day. It is no secret that anything involving staying at home is a great day. We went to church Sunday morning and since there were no services that night, that gave us an entire afternoon to do nothing. Randy did some cleaning and I helped by flipping back and forth between Lifetime and Real Housewives of New Jersey. As much as I loved Teresa and Caroline the last two seasons, I want to slap them both. They are both as classless as you can humanly be. I won't go on a tirade about that, but I will say that they both have some fault in the issues that are going on.

I did finally offer to shred some of the papers for him that he was sifting through, even though it did affect my ability to hear everything that was going on.....ha! Sunday was one of those days that I seriously hated leaving Randy. Those alone moments have been few and far between on weekends that have been full of parties and other stuff. It was nice to spend the day just laughing and talking. I seriously can't wait to marry him. In case you haven't caught on, I really love him! ;-) 25 more days!

A week is better than a year!

I guess it didn't take a year after all to get the pictures from Randy. Of course, that might have had something to do with me just uploading the pictures myself from his camera instead of waiting on him to send them to me. Ha! As promised, here are the pics from the party last weekend at Stephanie's.

This is Stephanie, our beautiful hostess.

Me with Sonja and Rhonda.

Stephanie and Lia.

This is Ray and Sarah. These two are seriously one of the cutest couples ever. I loved watching them interact. They still act like newlyweds. I hope we stay like that too!

This was our first attempt at a picture together and Kim jumped in. I had to use this picture even though Randy's head is cut off and Kim's eyes are closed because we didn't get another picture of Kim. Kim is Stephanie's husband. They are another cute couple.

This is Stephanie's brother, Todd.

We didn't manage to get pictures of everyone that was there, but that is the majority of them. I know I said it before, but it was such a fun night. We still have two more in Monroeville and Randy has another one at work. Whew! We are definitely going to be partied out by next month! I will do a weekend update once I have all the birthday party pics uploaded.

Happy Birthday Luke!

Seven years ago my heart was touched in a way that words cannot express. I held in my arms for the first time a beautiful baby boy that stole my heart. He was perfection.

I remember rushing to the hospital with Madyson and making it there about 30 minutes before he was born. I took her to the window to see her little brother and I remember sobbing like a baby. She was in love with him at the hospital. I took her everyday to see him and she was mesmerized. He was without a doubt the sweetest baby in the world.

When he came home, Madyson was no longer impressed by him. He was called "it" and "that baby" for the first six months of his life. I remember thinking he was broken or something. He seriously never cried and he was always happy. He was the polar opposite of his big sister who came into this world a firecracker. They are now best friends and their relationship makes me so happy. I hope they always stay as close as they are now.

I can't believe it has been seven years already. Time really does fly by. No matter how old Luke is, he will always be the first little boy I fell head over heels in love with. I hope he always stays the sweet, lovable, sensitive guy he is now.

Weekend Recap

I didn't get around to posting about our weekend yesterday. We had two showers over the weekend. Unfortunately the pictures from Saturday night are on Randy's camera and I may not get those on here until a year from next Tuesday. I haven't had that much fun in a long time though. The party was hosted by Randy's friend, Stephanie. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned on here a time or twenty that I just love her to pieces. She's so much fun. It was a perfect party with several couples and it was very laid back. I had met most of the people at this party at the beach in July. We all joked that we just all looked really different with our clothes on, wearing makeup and our hair fixed. I really do hope I get some of those pictures up this week to share with everyone.

On Sunday we had another shower with some of Randy's family. This group was much larger and I'm pretty sure I remember no one's name from that day. I'm terrible with names and I've met so many people lately that I may never learn them all.

(I should go ahead and warn you that I am featuring my man legs again in these photos. I guess wearing a skirt for pictures one time wasn't enough. Let me torture you once more.)



This picture proves what I've been telling Randy all along. He is convinced he is under 6 feet. I am 5'4" and I'm wearing my tallest heels (about 4 or 5 inches) and he is still almost a head taller. I'm going to measure him on the door frame that Dad measures all the grand kids and see how tall he is. HA!

This is us with Randy's mom and sister. I'm so excited that I'm getting a sister-in-law that I get along with. I've been down the bad sister-in-law road before and I'm so glad we get along.

I'm pretty sure this was taken while we were all picking on Randy about opening gifts. He is into this gift thing now. HA!

This was a gift from Randy's cousin and aunt. It was serving dishes, sheets and a box full of goodies like mixing bowls, spatula, dishcloths, spices, flavoring, etc. It was such a neat gift and I just kept pulling stuff out and handing it to Randy...lol. It was a good time to test and see how much stuff he can hold at one time.

I finally let him open one. I think he opened the last half. At least I know what makes him happy. Opening presents...lol.

He is holding a really nice knife set we received. Although, according to him, he received that. He refers to it as his. Of course, with that being kitchen stuff, I will let him claim it. The only thing I do in the kitchen is bake.

It was a great weekend and we received some really nice things. I can't wait to use those Lowe's gift cards when we start the kitchen remodeling! We'll be sure to take before and after pictures to share with everyone on here.

Please pardon the mushiness. I can't help myself.

I need someone who is prepared for:

- A million questions
- Uncontrollable laughter
- My family
- My appetite
- Musical Outbursts
- Random dancing
- My friends
- Sad/Happy tears
- Deep talks
- My imagination
- My dreams
- Walk in the rain
- Random texts
- Useless arguments
- and acceptance of the real me


I read that today and it's so exciting to say that I finally found that guy! I love him so much! Only 36 more days until he's my husband!

A day late and always a dollar short....

I meant to write this post yesterday but it was an insane day of work. The day was filled with calls that went something like this:

"Good morning (or afternoon). The Securance Group."

"Hello?"

"Hello."

"Hello??"

"Yes? Can I help you?"

"Hello?"

click

As much as I LOVE the "Hello Game", I played it just one time too many yesterday. In other words, I just didn't have time to write anything and if I did it probably wouldn't have been filled with kindness because I wasn't feeling it.

Tuesday night the ladies from Zion Hill had a shower for me and another bride-to-be. (I totally typed out bird-to-be at first and almost left it because it amused me so much.) I got some really nice things but I enjoyed seeing everyone even more. Have I mentioned lately how much I love those people?

Once again, I excelled at my inability to get photos worthy of the blog. Sweet Crissy took pictures of me opening gifts, but I wish I had some pictures of everyone that was there. If I'm this horrible at taking pictures of events, my kids will only have pictures of their 1st, 9th and 21st birthdays.

This is Halee and Mary. Halee is the same age as Madyson and I've known her since she was two. I think of her as my second niece. Right after I took this picture she informed me that she didn't like having her picture taken. Oh. Well, I'm sorry you're all having to look at this child who didn't smile from ear to ear because she doesn't like her picture to be taken. Mary is the piano player at Zion Hill and I love, love, love her. Her only flaw is that she's an Auburn fan. Ha!

After looking at these pictures, I immediately regretted my wardrobe choice. I look like I should be having a baby shower instead of a wedding shower. Good grief! I should also pack away all skirts because even after losing 40 pounds, I still have man legs. Geesh!

Our Alabama birdhouse that I'm holding backwards. Lord help Randy. Everything I do is backwards. Ha!

Super cute Christmas ornament for our tree! In an effort of compromising, I am giving up my pink, green, turquoise, purple and black tree with the feathers and glittery stuff everywhere. I am keeping the black and adding red and green. Randy said my tree looks like it should belong to Liberace. What do you think?

I had no intentions of talking about my Christmas tree today, but it happened. That just solidifies me as the most random person ever.

Weekend Recap

I had the BEST weekend. Lately, any weekend that doesn't have my time dictated by wedding stuff is a good weekend. This was the last free one before the wedding.

On Friday night, I met Randy at an Italian restaurant for dinner and then we went to see Abduction. We were the only two people in the theater. Yes, we behaved. HA! I'm sure the people at the theater wished we wouldn't have been there so they could have left early. It was actually a pretty good movie.

Saturday morning I met up with two of my best friends, Kerrie and Tammy, for a little girl's day out. We saw Courageous and I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but bring a tissue! It was SO GOOD. I highly recommend seeing this one! I want to see it again!

After the movie, we ate lunch, went for pedicures and did a little shopping. I had so much fun with them. I can't believe it was our last girl's day out before I am a married woman! How crazy is that? I still can't believe it.

We got home in time for a little football and I definitely got enough sleep because I'm pretty sure I conked out around 8:00 or 8:30. Is that the first sign that I'm getting old? I just can't seem to get enough sleep these days.

Sunday morning Truth was in concert at church and they were great. If you get a chance to see them in your area, you should go! After church we decided to go for a walk. After 4.5 miles, the underachiever in me was totally content and ready to stop. I think Randy would have gone another 4.5, but bless his heart, he let me stop. I have the strangest pain in my left leg right now and I was pretty sure if I took another step my leg was going to fall off!

This was such a perfect weekend for me. It's no secret that my ideal weekend is sitting on the couch in pj's eating peanut butter or nutella straight from the jar. I like not having any schedule to go by and just being able to relax. I have been so stressed over wedding details that it was nice to be able to relax and enjoy time together. I feel so blessed and fortunate to have Randy and I can't wait to marry him. 40 more days! It's getting closer!

Who wants to save money?

I love cheap things. Well, that's not entirely true. I love expensive things, but I like getting them cheap. That's why I love daily deal sites and I just stumbled on a new discount site called Handbags.com . Here's the best part: If you sign up, they give you $10 for your first purchase. If you use my link, I can earn credit too! Purses on the site start at $11.99 and they have free shipping. It doesn't get much better than that!

Using sites like this is how I racked up on some pretty great Christmas gifts last year. Of course, I may just end up with a great new purse for fall for myself. HA!

Want to join too? Here is the link for Handbags. Signing up is super easy. It literally takes 20 seconds and your $10 credit arrives in your email shortly after.

While I'm at it, let me give you some of my other favorite sites to buy things for less.

My absolute favorite site for children's clothing is Zulily . They always have the cutest things and for WAY LESS than retail value.

I have also found some great deals at Rue La La. They are a daily deal site so it's hit and miss but sometimes you get something great. I got a pair of Sperrys for my nephew for less than $10 a while back on there. Just check them out everyday.

Don't forget Groupon. This is another daily deal site. I have scored some pretty great deals through Groupon.

All of these links are super easy to sign up for and only require an email address and password to start shopping. Check them out often. Happy Shopping!!

Weekend Recap

This was another busy weekend that left me wanting to retreat to a corner in the fetal position. I am easily overstimulated and overwhelmed by to many people at once. I do much better in smaller crowds but that was not a luxury I was afforded.

We started the weekend off at Randy's high school homecoming. I didn't take any pics of the night because I was busy meeting the 463 people he introduced me to. Yes, I remember them all. Just when I think I've met them all.....there's another crowd. I don't know how one person knows so many people and even more impressive that he can remember them all and everything about them. My memory is so far from being that great. I am doing good most days to know my own name and know a little about what's going on with me. Maybe when we're married he can keep me straight. That's a big job!

On Saturday we visited one of his best friends, Stephanie, and her husband, Kim. Stephanie is honestly one of my favorite people ever. I don't instantly click with many people, but I did with her. She cracks me up and she helps me gang up on Randy and give him grief!

Saturday afternoon we went to the Troy game with Randy's sister and what felt like about a thousand cousins. He happens to have some pretty fun cousins so it was a good time. I never actually used my ticket to the game because I was busy watching the Alabama/Florida game. It brought me joy unspeakable to beat Florida. Right after Auburn, they are my next favorite team to beat.

These are the only pics from the weekend. Sorry they are so small or not very good quality. I'm improving though. I actually HAVE pictures this time.

This is Randy's sister, Rhonda. She seriously cracks me up. Love her!
This is Jeff (love me some Jeff!!), Amy, Aunt Judy, Michael, Rhonda, Randy and me.

Sunday was awesome because we actually got to sleep in. I must have felt at home at Rhonda's because I've never slept that late at someone else's house. I so needed that sleep. We finally headed back home and it was time for that dreaded Sunday afternoon routine. I'll be so glad when I don't have to leave Randy for the week!