Mom n Me Monday

It's Monday again! Time for Mom n Me Monday, hosted by Julie at The Peanut Gallery...Exit Here.

After a year of classes, service projects, retreats, etc...Shannon's confirmation into our church was yesterday! What a beautiful, special day. I have more pictures posted on my Facebook page...but here's my Mom n Me picture!



Oh my! My baby is now taller than I am! How/when did THAT happen?!?

Rabbit, rabbit!

LaLa! I remembered!

I'm here, I'm here...I'm just SOOO busy this week and next. Once I survive next week (see how optimistic I am? I didn't say "IF I survive next week..." lol), I promise I will be back in force. Right now I'm just running like a chicken with it's head cut off...but it's all good. Don't leave me, everybody!

Crazy weather!

Not the most thrilling of posts, I know...but good heavens!

Saturday, it stormed allll day long. Pouring rain with thunder and lightning. On Sunday it was over 80 degrees. Yesterday it was breezy and cool. Today? WINDY (like 30 mph sustained, with gusts over 50 mph) and cold! This afternoon we had a weird storm come through that had hail and a snow flurry!

What the heck?

A sweet weekend

I'm feeling pretty blessed tonight. It's been a really nice, family weekend.

Shannon and I had a fun girlie day yesterday. We started off going for haircuts, and then I finally talked her into get her brows waxed for the first time.

We had already planned to go bathing suit shopping, so after our brows were done, we headed down to the mall. We found two cute suits for her, and one for me. I also got a CUTE pair of sunglasses. All on sale! Woot!

After that, we just sorta mall-crawled for awhile. Went to Hot Topic, people-watched...you know, the good stuff. We were having good talks about growing up, who she wants to be, etc. it was just nice.

Shannon asked me if she could get her ears double-pierced, and I couldn't see why not...so I said yes. We went to Claire's, and as it turned out...Shan wanted a cartilage piercing. I've had that before, so I told her how much it was going to hurt, how long it takes to heal, how she wouldn't be able to sleep on that side, etc...and she still wanted it. I think I shocked her by saying OK, but you know what? It's an ear. It's really ok with me. So...she got it done! I sent Patrick a picture of it with the caption "Baby's First Body Mod." LOL! He wrote back and said "OMG! I'm 100 years old!" Ha!

After that we came home and watched movies, snuggled, etc. Just nice.

This morning, we dropped her off for her Confirmation class and Patrick and I went out to breakfast...alone! LOVELY! After we picked her up, Shannon commented on what a pretty day it was, and how it'd be a great day to go to the park. A new green space has opened near us, so I said that we ought to go check it out. We went over there...and OMG! It was sooo beautiful! Gorgeous walking/biking path...and it was SO fun! We ended up walking 3 miles!

We came home and Shan worked on her homework. Patrick watched NASCAR, and I laid out on the deck reading a Sookie Stackhouse book. FANTASTIC! Shan and I went to a Bible study potluck tonight. Good fun, good food, and good fellowship. When we got home, Patrick had vacuumed the entire upstairs, and cleaned our master bathroom. Talk about bliss.

I love my family.

A couple of pics from my weekend

My friends and I have some less than flattering shots of each other now...but we have mutually agreed to keep them to ourselves, lol. Part of our "mantra" of the weekend was "What happens at Hartwell, stays at Hartwell." But the other part was "No Facebook!" Meaning, we can't share any of that craziness in our FB albums, lol. Only too happy to oblige, lol!

But I do have a couple cute pics that I want to share!

First, a cute group pic, taken the first night we got there. We were sitting on my friends docked boat, after midnight...just laughing like a bunch of fools. I wanted to see if I could get my timer to work on my camera...and cha-ching! I could!



That's me in the foreground, in case you're unsure.

Here I am, with my friend Teresa, on my first-ever Sea-Doo ride! I went on many more that day...but this is my first! Go me!



And one of us, a bit closer in:


Me, on the boat...enjoying a fun and beautiful day!

Home again, home again

Jiggity jig!

I had SUUUUCH a great girlie weekend. I am blessed to have great friends, and we had the best time together. I went sea-dooing for the very first time ever! It was SO awesome! I also did jell-o shots for the very first time ever, and that wasn't so bad either, lol! Anyway, I feel a bit invigorated and energized after the time away. Also I feel blessed to come home to my amazing family...they always love me and support me. Wonderful!

I feel like I have to get back into the habit of blogging regularly. Spring time is notoriously busy at preschool, and it's easy for me to let this slip to the back burner. My Beth Moore reading has fallen off...I'm only on Chapter 4...but I'm still poking along. I just can't believe that it's already mid-April! My last day of classes is a month from tomorrow!!! Awesome, and scary all at the same time!

Ummm

Not sure if you can't see the pics I linked to in my previous post, or if no one is stopping by, lol! It's funny to finally post pictures, and then to be able to hear the crickets chirp! LOL! I'm actually giggling at this, not being sarcastic. I had myself in such a "yank" to get these pictures up, and now I can see that the unrealistic time-line was all within myself.

Even more ironic, is that I was coming to blog about how I'm ticking off things, one by one, from my to-do list...and I slowly feel like I *might* make it! Aaaaah...what's with me and time-lines!?!

I'm going out of town tomorrow afternoon with girlfriends...but before that, there have been SO MANY things that need to get done.

Laundry.
Shop for food to take on trip.
Prepare bible study lesson for someone else to teach.
Make poster to hang at art show.
Set up for art show (tomorrow after preschool).
Babysit this afternoon.
Babysit tomorrow afternoon.
Get Shan to her meeting with clergy session.
Pick up fundraiser check for Shan tonight.
Look over 3Day Crew paperwork...I think I'm signing up again! Woot!
Pack! (Oh yeah! Pack...I almost forgot that one. Srsly.)

I can doooo iiiiiit. I've been putting one foot in front of the other, just trying to get things finished.