Happy Birthday, Madison..........

A week ago Sunday we celebrated Madison's 11th birthday! I can't believe she is already 11 years old! We went to Jason and Jen's for cake and ice cream. Madison loves the Chicago Bears so her cake was the Bears theme. I thought they did a really good job and the cake was awesome!

Madison got some nice presents as you can see above.................HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADISON! We love you!!!

Last week was pretty busy for us. Last Monday was Barb's birthday. Mom and I took her to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.
This is Barb with Sophie the day we moved into our house. Barb has a son, Jason, who is married to Jamie, and Barb desperately wants a grandbaby. We took this pic of her and Sophie to show Jason and Jamie if they had a baby girl, what she might look like when she is older! ha! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARB, WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Tuesday night I had a seminar to go to for work. KPI is promoting the DRS table(what I do there) and so I went. There was not a lot of people there but hopefully more people will call and inquire about it.

Wednesday night I went with my cousin, Becky and Lara, to a Beauty Control make-up get together. It was nice and I got to try some new make-up. After that, I was to go to Amy's for dinner and then down to Amber's to help her make stuff for The Paisley Moon. Well, I was leaving the make-up party and my Jeep would not start! It wouldn't even turn over!! So, LSS, Eric and Chuck came and took Eric's battery from his Jeep(we tried jumping mine but it wouldn't work) and put it in mine and it started! So, Becky took me to Amy's and Eric and Chuck went and got me a new battery! Thanks again guys! I was thinking it could of been the alternator so we were lucky it was only the battery!

Thursday after work, our office got taken out to Mountain Jacks

We had a very nice dinner and a very informative presentation. We all got appetizers, meal and dessert! THANKS AMY!!!

Friday, our good friend, Rich, came over and we went to dinner and came back and had some cocktails. He is going through a tough time now so please keep him and his wife in your prayers.

Saturday, we watched Beatty while Amber and Jay did the Layflats show. She was a complete angel and never cried at all!!! Kennady came over and so we went to Target to get Emme's birthday present. We took her to the Otterbein fish fry that evening and she slept most of the time, plus took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon! We put her down at 9pm for the night and she slept til 5:30AM and so I got up and fed her and she went back to sleep til 9AM!!! I was shocked! What a sweet baby! I think Eric held her more than I did! We really had fun and hopefully got a little practice of what having a newborn is like! Sunday morning I gave her a bath and she loves her bath. Always smiling and never crying. We hated to see her go home but I am sure her parents and brother missed her too! Thanks Amber and Jay for letting her stay with us!! Here are some pics of her(which I did not take very good ones). Eric had her laughing pretty hard but of course I didn't capture that!

Tonight, we took Kennady and Emme to McDonald's for supper and then we went and watched Eric bowl. I took these pics from my Iphone, so the quality is not the greatest but you can see they were having fun!! Their team is in first place and their name is "The Outlaws". ha!

Tomorrow is EMME'S 4th birthday!! We are going over to Mom's for dinner and cake & ice cream! This girl is so funny, you just never know what she is going to say! I will take pics and post soon!!!!

Happy 4th Birthday, Emme, we love you!

We hope everyone has a great week!!!

Three posts in ONE!!!

So here is the post from Labor Day. We went camping at Waveland with Eric's cousins and his aunt and uncle. We headed down Saturday afternoon---after changing a FLAT tire(thank goodness we wern't already there with a flat!). We set up camp and then all decided to head to Turkey Run State Park and did a trail. The weather was nice and a little muggy but we made it! Unfortunately, I forgot my camera so no pics from TR. When we got back, Amber started our wonderful meal. We had homemade vegetable soup and pork sandwiches. They were the bomb!! We sat around camp and talked and then fixed popcorn and smores. It was such a nice evening and we called it a night around 11 or so.

We got up bright and early the next day and Amber made bacon, scrambled eggs and toast. The food was so good and it was fun not to have to be anywhere. The guys took the kids to the playground and we sat around and talked. We decided to pack up around lunch time and head back home. It was a great time!!!Below are pics from our trip.........

From Left to right...........

Eric, Uncle Bill and Amy

Jason and Amber.....

Aunt Arlene and Chuck............

Aunt Patti..............

Maddix and a view of the campsite.......

Me and Beatty, Chuck and then Chuck and Sophie.........

Eric and Beatty.........Dinner... Veggie Soup and pork loin.......

Jensen and Alex, Maddix and Sophie..............

Yesterday Was the first PU home game. We got season tickets again this year. We headed over to the old Smitty's parking lot where we meet, reload and take less cars. We got right in on the golf course where we tailgate and started unloading. We set up everything, ate, played some cornhole. We walked around and saw a Follett's tent set up so we bought new t-shirts. They were pretty cool. We got the kids "P's for their faces. Here we are before the game............


Here is the view from our seats................GO BOILERS!!!!

A few pics from our seats.............

Here is Kennady. She was a trooper until the game was almost over. I think she had come down from her sugar high from her snow cone and she was jonked! She never fell asleep but I think if she layed there much longer, she would of!

On our way back to tailgate after the game, we came across this...............How cute is that dog!! I asked the gal if I could take his picture and she said sure! What a true fan! ha!

Today, we went to the park with Carrie and Cam. She loves swinging...............Uncle Eric looks like he is having fun, huh! ha!

She made her way to the slide and enjoyed it. She was too fast for me to get a pic of her on the slide!

We headed over to visit the animals after the playground and she could of stayed there all day long. She loved petting the animals and at one point, she asked us if she could ride them and hiked her leg over! It was so cute!!!

Look at these beautiful flowers.........I wish my yard looked like that!!!

Beautiful butterfly and the bald eagle.......

We headed over to see the ducks and it was hilarious! There were people there feeding them and one of the ducks would steal the bread from the others and then if they got the bread and he didn't, he would like bite at them! I felt sorry for them!! MEAN DUCK!! ha! If you look at the second picture of the single duck, you can see under his feathers a bright purplish color. How pretty is that!!!

Cam wanted to be close to the ducks................

Tonight we went to my brothers for cake and ice cream for Madison's 11th birthday. Her birthday is actually on Tuesday but we got together tonight to celebrate. I will post pics from there soon, along with a funny story!

Hope you all have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!! Until next time................