Friday Friends

Number one son (on the right) with his swim friends!




Number 2 son (white t) with his buds heading to camp for the week!




McSweetie with Man's best friend. You can see she is thrilled!




Me and my gals at our big summer MG social!

Life is better when you share it with your friends!

-busy mom

Birthdays = GNO FUN

So my sweet friend Amy had it ALL planned out for the big birthday bash... Birthday girl was having a destination birthday but she had to choose from 3 envelopes.... So we all met at a local Pub for the drawing...

Birthday girl choosing her envelope...


Choose wisely





Then off we went.... Here



(notice we have grown by one)

To enjoy some of these...





And we were entertained by one of our own....




(if I didn't think she would disown me for life I would upload the video...but I do love her and some things just remain among friends!)

We somehow did not get a group pic at our final destination... I think we were too engrossed in the people watching... Harry Potter with Aids... Oompa Loompas, and a man in a green shirt and hat... "It isn't easy being green". And Vince... Oh MY! His significant other was none to pleased that he was talking to us, sorry!

So JACKIE... I hope you had an AMAZING BIRTHDAY!!!




busy mom

Well, It Wasn't So Bad...

having an empty nest.  We filled our time well....

Triple date to the movies!!

Work out!!

Meeting for McSweetie!

Yard work!!

House work!!

Trip to visit McSweetie's mom

& 

a YUMMY dinner at a new restaurant

a little DRAMA at said restaurant... 

{ waitress was having issues with a customer...

He was CREEPY!!}

Early church!!

Pool date complete with poolside lunch and drinks

and FRIENDS!!

and I finished my book!!

Dogs bathed!!

YUMMY dinner with friends!!

Boys made it home...

They are sleeping soundly!!

I have already been to bootcamp 

AND 

done some work!!

Now on to a little house cleaning...

Guess I cannot run the vacuum or that would wake the swimmers..

Dusting and Laundry it is!!

Happy Monday!!

Empty Nesters...

Well, only for the weekend!  The boys have taken a team trip to The Plains for a swim meet.  And from what I hear they are doing REALLY WELL!!

{Which I must confess, that I have been concerned that Number 1 was going to hang up his speedo because the last year or so has been BLAH!!!! at best.  I truly think that his diagnosis of asthma and the treatment he is NOW getting has gotten him back in the game/water!  WHEW!!!  I hated to think all of his hours of dedication...early morning swims, time away from friends... was going to be for nothing.  I am not saying he is for sure wanting to swim in college, but had he quit that definitely would not be happening!!  It also help this summer that he has two good friends back in the water with them.. one home from college and one back in the states. So things are bubbling up :-) }

McSweetie and I had a triple date last night with friends.  We went to see Rock of Ages!!  Story line kind of cheesy... {McSweetie had no idea it was a musical and was a little put off at first} but the music...  AMAZING!!!!!  I could have danced the entire time and SCREAM SINGED!!!


McSweetie is doing yard work... I am getting caught up indoors cause this week was AWFULLY BUSY!!!!

Father's Day will be bittersweet as we remember McSweetie's dad.  I am so glad we were all together last year for Father's Day!!  I treasure that picture!!

Hope the weather is as wonderful for you as it is for us this weekend!!

Loving the LifeProof Case

It has been so fun with my lessons to take pictures of my swim kids....

-busy mom

You Just Don't Know How Excited I Was...

To see this in the store the other day...

Cannot wait to start it!

What is on your summer reading list?


busy mom

Test, Test... Is this Thing On??

Did I run everyone off with my last post??

Summer= CRAZY schedules!!  I have felt a little overwhelmed this week!  Lessons, weather, starting my new job...CRAZY!!

I know I will settle into a routine... but I am a little crazy at this point and look forward to the weekend!

On a HAPPY NOTE... parents are coming in town for the weekend!  ALWAYS a fun time! Unfortunately Number 1 son won't be around much with this job schedule... but his bank account looks pretty good!!

Hope you all are having a RELAXING summer... mine will get there one day!!

Soap Box ( my first I think... You may just want to move on)

Seriously.... Move on now...

But I have been thinking about this alot and then I saw a post on FB today and thought ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

50 Shades of Grey...

Not reading it! If you are, that is fine. If you are posting about it on FB I think you would be quite unhappy if your husband or children were posting they were reading Porn. Soft porn... Mommy porn... That is PERSONAL PEOPLE!!! I am not judging you or what you and your SPOUSE do in the privacy of your own home ( or other locations) but for the name of everything that is good... Stop posting it on FB where your children and their friends see it!!

And when a local business posts who should play Christian Grey... Well I am just over it!! Cute stuff you have but I will not be shopping in your store. And you are not the first establishment or name brand that I have stopped using or buying or eating because you have SMUTTY ADS or are feeding into the frenzy. We then wonder what is wrong with society!!

It's called MORALS people! Have them!!! Stand up for them!!! And keep things that are private and personal... PRIVATE AND PERSONAL!!!

(Do I have any readers left??)
-busy mom

JUNE!!!

Why does time move so FAST??!!

Almost half a year is gone!!  We are half way through the year of grieving the loss of McSweetie's dad and ALL the firsts that go along with that.  That seems a lifetime ago!!  A difficult road for my MIL... a difficult time for McSweetie not that anyone would really know that.  He is quite practical and matter of fact when it comes to dealing with loss.  I'll never forget the death of a sweet child in our church.  She had been a Mommy's Helper after I had number 2 son.  She would come over with her goodie bag and just played with Number 1 so I could focus on the baby.  So sweet!!
I came home from teaching swimming lessons that Saturday morning in May and McSweetie just blurted out that she had been killed in a car accident.  WIND KNOCKED out of ME!!  Matter of fact... no sugar coating... just she was DEAD!!! She was a child... GONE like that!

Forward now and he is still matter of fact... Went by his dad's grave the other day because i had not seen the headstone... I think that was harder for him than I thought it would be.  Now he has been by there several times... alone.  He never made it sound like a big deal.  He still says it is strange not to be able to call him...to see him.  Thinking of him in the ground... it is kind of weird.  I still have both of my parents.  I have lost my grandmother but she was cremated... not a grave to to go... Where is she??  Sitting on my grandfather's desk in the box he picked her up in... {YES my family has some quirkiness too!!}

Of course there is other loss that has gone with his dad's passing... but that can be another post another day.. or not!

I guess I started down this rabbit trail because time moves so quickly!!  We should treasure each moment of EVERY DAY!!  EVEN when that day is CRAPPY!!!  {and no this is not a crappy day}


BUT...this is the WEEKEND!!  Time with family... friends... to be lazy or to get honey do lists done!  Whatever it may be.. do it with the knowledge that we are not guaranteed tomorrow!!  Enjoy today... make lemonade out of lemons....And have fun spitting out the seeds!!