Reality here we come...

... well our little vacation is about to wrap up! We have had the greatest time escaping it all and I mean ALL!! Can't wait to tell you all about it and post some pics. But for now, just wanted to say a little Hey Y'all and I will be back soon!! {have enjoyed the internet access here at the hotel to do some catching up with y'all... FB is a wonderful thing!!}

Busy Mom, OUT!!

I have left you with some pics in the following posts of what all has been going on this month... crafting, swimming, eating, more swimming, crafting.... You get the picture.

It is my parting gift to you as I go on a little blogging vaca. I will return but not for a while.


Please don't forget about me while I am gone...

July supper club fun...

Summer Swimming Season...

Little Re-do.....

No...

I haven't disappeared, been kidnapped, fallen off the face of the earth.... it's just been busy! We are trying to soak up all the summer we can before school starts back. {Plus, my computer died so I am sharing Number 2 son's computer and can I just say... I'm not much of a fan of the laptop.}

We have spent time at the beach {first time this year}. We headed out yesterday to see some friends back home. It is ALWAYS fun to HANGOUT with the Smith Family. It had been a while since I had seen them. The boys were able to visit during Spring Break! So we enjoyed the afternoon on the beach! Then we went to dinner together. We had the BEST waiter, Nate!! He was so great {lol} and was such a cutie pie!! Oh to be young and single again!! Afterwards we all went to a little Putt Putt place and yes, I had to show them all up and be THE CHAMP!! Sorry, we can't all be winners!!

Today was finish the housecleaning and running errands then off to see the new Harry Potter movie!! It was GREAT!! But I am partial!

We had a horrible storm Monday night and it took out some plugs, the router, sprinkler system, refrigerator, dvd player, you get my drift. Oh JOY!!

{Sorry, this is so a random thoughts post!!}

We went to supper club last weekend and had a blast!! Our other supper club meets this weekend and I am taking my cherry cobbler and ice cream!! YUMMY!!

We are just a few short days until our family vacation. We are headed to the mountains of NC!! We have never been and look forward to it! We will come back through ATLANTA and the boys want to go to Six Flags {I think I will shop} and then we are meeting some friends from home and going to Braves/Dodgers game!! Won't that be fun!!?!

I did the cutest project the other day.... I have a set of buffet lamps that I added some trim to and then had this little bunny that I had gotten at Target at Easter so I turned him into the cutest tassel to go in my kitchen. I had found some bunny finials at Tuesday Morning to finish off my little project. It's quite cute if I do say so myself. {I'd post pics but I'm telling you this laptop thing just makes it difficult cause I'm just not used to it! I promise some pictures soon!}

The boys have a big swim meet tomorrow and Saturday. I hope the afternoon thunderstorms hold off!

Oh and on a sad note, my favorite Zumba instructor is leaving for several months. She is going to St. Simon's Island. Rough, huh?! Anyway several of us took her to lunch yesterday. Do any of you Zumba??!! It is the GREATEST workout EVER!! Try it if there is a class near you! {And let me know what you think} There is another girl that teaches on her own and I go to her classes too but I just like gidget's better. I even had her come to my school and teach my older PE students. they had a BALL!!!

I guess that is about it!! Hope all is well with you!!

Surprise!! Happy 4-oh to my McSweetie!!

Because I'm Just Nosy...

... I've been checking on my favorite ebay seller {not}. It seems that she now has 27 negative feedback comments. What a scammer!! I hope that all those people are as fortunate as me and gets their money back. I still have not purchased the cricut expression. But I did go to my scrapbook closet and scrapbooked until midnight last night. And I wonder why it is so hard to get up at 6:45 to take Number 1 son to swim practice.... hmmm!!

Anyway... had a great day at the pool. The new pool area opened this past Friday and it is
N-I-C-E!!!!! Number 1 son went with a friend on Monday and he came home saying it was
AMAZING!!! {That's what I should have given McSweetie for his birthday... a membership for the family... hmmmmm}
So today I went and I have to admit, it is pretty A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! I just sat in my chair, chatted with my friend and then read my book after she left....

It was the perfect day. And it has ended with a family dinner and McSweetie taking the kids to Sonic for dessert. {We are so NOT going to win the Biggest Loser Family, it's just not even funny}

Well, I'm off to read while it is peaceful and quiet!

Night y'all!

Prayers...

a classmate of my son's was killed yesterday. I am just heartbroken over the whole thing. I think it hits close to home not only because she was his friend but also because I could have been in the same boat back in the spring, with son number 2's 4-wheeler accident. He fortunately was not seriously injured! That was truly by the GRACE OF GOD!! Unfortunately this young lady was not spared. I am just having a hard time processing this whole thing. There was a candlelight service this evening for her at the Pier and it was so moving seeing all the friends, teachers, staff and family that turned out. The sweet words her friends had for her.... Remembering her pony tail. She had beautiful long blonde hair!! Always smiling.... When she finally got a cell phone....

Just pray for her family, peers, teachers, etc. The whole community is hurting right now!!

Even in this our God is sooo good!! He will guide everyone thru the healing process!!

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound...

Fun with our "royal" Friends!!

This is why I think people had the

right idea with arranged marriages!

We know the family {& really like them}

and then don't they just make a cute couple??!

I'm just sayin', LOL

We had the best time with our sweet friends this weekend! Once they finally got here {around midnight on Thursday!!} We enjoyed our Friday by eating at one of the many fabulous diners that Diner's Drive In's and Dives has featured and that would be our very own Panini Pete's. We enjoyed yummy panini's and burgers!! Of course you have to take a stroll around downtown where I found that my FAVORITE author, MARY KAY ANDREWS, had been in town the night before signing her new book, FIXER UPPER. Of course we both had to buy a signed copy. Then we strolled around some more. I am desperately trying to find some blue sear sucker tom's in a size six!! My favorite shoe store had gotten some in in red but had already called someone before me on the list. {I really think they didn't know to call me b/c in the book it didn't say which tom's I wanted, hmmm} Anyway after that we {some of us} headed to the scrapbook store that is soooo fabulous, Gigi's and then to the outlets where I found 2 really cute skirts.

We enjoyed a fun dinner at MellowMushroom then a little shopping at Sam's to get some rations for our River Wild trip on Saturday. Which was sooooo much fun!! We enjoyed a day of canoeing down the river. The older kiddos had their own canoe and were quite pros at it! Some of us had a harder time, not sayin' who!! Next time there will be some definate tubers instead of canoers. Then we came home to some very YUMMY BBQ that i had in the crock pot. {if i can get more pics to upload you will see the very cute dinnerware I had for the 4th!! Thanks to mom and her connections!!}

We went to the bay to watch the fireworks only to have a slight accident. Our littlest friend had cut her foot on something in the water. It was pretty bad... but a Dr. that was on sight said we should be ok and we cleaned it really well and bandaged it up! Once we got home our little friend said she wanted to sleep on the sofa in the living room with Number 1 son {who was sleeping on the other couch} {again if I can upload pics there is a cute one of her trying to coax Annie to sleep with her on the sofa!!}

Now Sunday am we had to watch Wimbledon. I watched til the end when I finally had to get in the shower and when I jumped out and ran in the bedroom Federer had just won!! I missed it!! oh, well!!

Then it was off to the races to get our friends out the door to head down to the beach for McSweetie's surprise 4oth birthday party! We arrived and McSweetie had no idea that all his friends and family would be at his parents condo!! We did it!! I was so afraid that he had found out. He knew something might have been up but that it would be later that night at our house!!

A BIG thanks to all our friends for making the drive to the beach!! Y'all are the BEST!! {hopefully I can upload those pics but they are on my camera which the program is on the dead computer!}

We had the best time this weekend and hated for it to end.

FORTY & FABULOUS...

that's my McSweetie today! Hope he enjoys his special day!!

UPDATE for the NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY POST..

REFUND!! In my Paypal account today!! And as of this morning there are now EIGHT feedbacks for this seller. I hope all the others receive quick refunds! Now on to purchase another machine at customcrops. {worth the 30 extra dollars to know I am GUARANTEED to receive my purchase. Now the question is.... which 2 cartridges do I want...

any thoughts on that burning question?!?

{thank you to all who comforted me during this difficult time! especially those who were listening to my rants and raves at 10:30pm last night!! Love you all!!}

Busy Mom and the TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY.....

SORRY, BUT I MUST VENT FOR A MOMENT!!!!!

i made a "significant" purchase the other day on Ebay. You might remember my mentioning my excitement of the purchase of said item. So I made my payment through paypal MINUTES after i purchased this item. And i have been patiently waiting for this item.

So today i am checking to see if i had ANY RESPONSE TO MY EMAILS {2 NICE ONES}. I go to the sellers ebay site and what do i read but NEGATIVE FEEDBACK for an item that was never received. So i do a little investigating...

• this item had been sold one day after the initial person bought it. So 2 have been sold but only 1 received.
• i purchased my item on the 20th and another one was sold on the 23rd and the buyer has received it.
• so i contact the person who left the negative feedback to see if they have filed a grieveance with eBay.
• come to find out ANOTHER PERSON HAS CONTACTED THEM SAYING THEY NEVER RECEIVED THEIR ITEM... A CARTRIDGE
• the other expression sold and RECEIVED ONLY HAD 2 CARTRIDGES WITH IT... MINE SHOULD HAVE HAD 3!!

Now is it just me or does this seem a little sketchy??!!

Please, do tell!!

Happy July 1st!!!

wow, another month has come and gone! this is a very busy month for us here "on the bay!" alot of traveling and swimming going on. then this month will end and it will be time for school to start. we have a fun weekend planned and i have alot to do to get there! but it will all be worth it! i love celebrating with friends & we have 2 great things to celebrate...

july 4th and McSweetie's 40th birthday! i cannot believe that i am about to be married to someone who is 4o!! {not that i am too far behind. but i do wait until next year!}

so hopefully i will have a post with pictures at the end of the week!

until then...