This weekend we had such a fun weekend.

Too much to tell right now!

I'm so tired from spending the day in Savanah.

More about the whole shabang later to include

a big green egg

my grown up child that I adore

a to die for pork butt

a dance recital

the pirate house buffet

lo country boil

alligators

a lighthouse

a collection of shells

and lots

and

lots

of

fun

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Dining rooms linky party ...

I LOVE my dining room. A few months ago, I refinished my hutch and buffet and ended up loving it black. I got the idea from THE NESTER- she's brilliant, I love her decorating ideas. And speaking of girls with great ideas Kelly's dining room is awfully great isn't it? Don't you just love southern decorating? I know I do!

One of my favorite walls. I got all of it from goodwill.

My table and chairs were given to me by my mom and dad. We use to have a beautiful antique table but my very very sweet Kid3 is brutal on furniture. It wasn't Kid3 proof so we were agreed to switch to this one so he could join us at the dinner table again- it has stood the test of time for sure!

My brother gave my this table cloth for my birthday. He knows I collect 50's style table cloths, it was so sweet of him to pick it up for me. I had never seen this print and LOVE IT!

My plate holder with a few of my platters. I got this plate rack from a garage sale site locally. The bottom platter says "Give us this day our daily bread". It's so cute, I found it used.

Kid1 broke the bottom of my cake holder a while ago and I found this one at Hobby Lobby for a great deal. I love red, so this was perfect.

I still think my dining room needs a little something else? Have any ideas?

stalking corn

Today at the grocery store Kid4 asked if she could have some

"mini paparazzi"

and

"kettle corn"

If she thinks that this is 'paparazzi' and 'kettle corn' I'm good with it!

thankful

I became even more thankful for my car.

THIS car could do that for anyone I'm pretty sure.

Life is like a pair of dirty shoes

These goofy kids pretended to be Forest Gump

because their mother wanted a good photo op!

It was one of the many fun things we did in Orlando.

Kid2 was grossed out by the giant shoes. (understandably)

Kid4 wanted to have one of the chocolates from the box.

Next time I think we'll eat at Bubba Gumps.

"Not me" Monday

My very first "Not Me" Monday!

I certainly did not jump into the car on a whim when I heard my Grandpa was in Orlando and then once I got there remembered that two of us had Dr. appointments the next day (the kind that take forever to get)and cancel them because I wanted to stay and visit with my Grandpa. I never get my priorities mixed up! Not me!

I did not shamelessly make my kids pose with a NASCAR cut out even though we don’t even watch NASCAR. I was not smitten by all the picture taking opportunities and make my too oldest kids pose every few steps. I did not embarrass my teenagers! No way, not me!

I did not make my kids walk all the way around the Disney boardwalk twice because we lost Kid4’s favorite barrette in the boardwalk. (We never found it) When she was sad about losing it, I did not tell her that I was positive that a beautiful bird swooped down, picked it up and used it as decoration on it’s nest… nope not me- I wouldn’t do such a thing!

3-D friends

these are three of the SEVEN of our kids!

Have you ever seen pictures of people but never seen them, or not seen them in years? Mr. B. was/is in the Navy and when he was gone for long periods of time when he came home he looked so 3-D! It was weird to switch from looking at pictures to the real thing.

I had the same thing happen to me Monday night. One of my best friends from high school was on her way to Orlando and spent Monday night with our family. It was such a pleasure to have them and see her after so many years. For the first few minutes I would catch myself staring at them because they looked so 3-D! I had only ever seen in them pictures and I hadn’t seen Stephanie in 16 years.

It was so thrilling to have her and her family visit! I was so excited! It was just the push I needed to get some things done in the house that needed to be done and I LOVE having visitors!

Stephanie does NOT age! She looked just the same as she did in high school and it was so fantastic to see her and hear her in person! I was so excited to meet her kids because I love her blog and her kids are adorable, I even got to hold her little precious Asher and do a couple of puzzles with Clay. My Kid4 and her little gorgeous London are the same age and are pen pals, its thrilling to get mail as a little kid; they enjoy drawing pictures and sending mail back and forth. My Kid4 is not an early bird and wasn’t so nice to poor sweet London. Hopefully London will forget how rude she was!

It was amazing to meet her family and in-laws, what a nice family. We had a wonderful time and hope to see you all again really soon. Remember you’re always welcome at this house!

a cup of M&M's- hold the urine please!

Can I just say again how much I love Mt. Perfect?

I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!

I just found this picture from the last time we were there and it made me swoon about this wonderful town all over again.


I’ll tell you the story of why Kid4 is holding a urine cup full of M&M’s as I’m sure you must be curious.

Kid1 got bit by a dog while we were in Mt. Perfect last time. He also got bit by a donkey, there’s a picture for that too-trust me!

So- he got bit by a dog in town and it broke the skin on his hand. I called Mr. B. at home to see when his last tetanus was and confirmed that the dog was updated on its shots. Mr. B. called back to let me know that kid1 had never had a tetanus shot, hard to believe, but there was not one documented. As I ran around Mt. Perfect trying to find a place to get a shot (small town, they were out in two places) I was eventually sent to a Dr. where Kid1’s good friends mom works and of course because we knew her we were welcomed in like old friends. A small town is heaven when you need something like this.

He got his shot (he did not pass out thank goodness)

As we were leaving Kid1’s friend Brad came out with 3 urine cups filled to the top with M&M’s! I laughed so hard, but that’s part of living in a small town, they wouldn’t care that it was a urine cup (new and sterile by the way) they just wanted the kids to leave with something great and what’s better than a urine cup filled with M&M’s…? I’ve never had the privilege of having a urine cup filled with chocolate goodies… have you?

Oh’ the beauty’s and wonders of living in such a small perfect place never cease to amaze me! Life is about making someone smile not being grossed out and worried what someone else might think. The M&M's certainly made my kids smile!

THAT’S IT!!- this Halloween I’m handing out urine cups full of yellow jelly beans… what do you think…. too gross??

Did I say how much I love Mt. Perfect yet?

bored and sleepy but HOME

So this little baby girl got bored stuck stickers all over herself and then fell asleep.

Have you ever been so bored that you stuck stickers all over yourself?

I have a funny story about "stickers".

When kid3 was a little boy we went on a drive in the mountains to meet friends and as people passed me on the interstate they were definitely looking into my car. Some were laughing, some were waving, some were pointing.

I thought it was strange, I also thought that maybe I was being a little too sensitive, maybe it was just me.

When I got to our destination I got out and started to open Kid3's door when I realized what all the hoopla was about!

He had stuck about 5 maxi pads on his window, wings out and all. There was no doubting they were pads! I could have died from embarassment- seriously!

I was thrilled that she went for princess stickers on herself and skipped the window!

Thursday schmursday

The Disney boardwalk was really a nice place. It was beautiful and had really nice shopping.

**Expensive**

We didn’t eat there or buy anything. I thought 10.95 for a princess brush was way too pricey. I thought 15.95 was too much for a burger and fries... what do you think?

To be honest we rushed back to the hotel to watch Lie to Me, American Idol and ordered pizza. It was nice. So us.

I’m so excited about Kris Allen being one of the finalists! He seems so genuine, real and kind- I love it! I was sad to see Danny Gokey go and I really loved all the top 10.

Have a great Thursday, I know we will. We are meeting up with my Gramps, and then heading home sweet home. I love my home, I love heading home. I love saying home.
home, home, home

Happy Thursday friends!