Heather's Baby Shower #2

On Saturday, Lyndsey, Heather's mom and I threw Heather her second baby shower. It was so pretty and a lot of fun! She got a ton of stuff! It is hard to believe that Virginia Taylor will be here in less than 2 months! Oh my word! I am so excited! Enjoy the pictures from the shower!

The cake in transport.... I was nervous to be in charge of picking it up but thank goodness it made it to the destination in one piece.

The clothesline.... I made this! I was quite proud of it because I think it turned out super cute!!!

The cake table. The napkins say "Mommy to be" on them.

The diaper wreath!

The cute pregnant girl.

The food table.... there were SO many leftovers!

Heather and all her gifts... woah!

Heather opening one of my gifts!

Heather with her cake. The pregnant lady on her cake matches the pregnant lady on the napkins exactly! Edible Art is SO great!

Heather and I.... I was having a super bad hair day... yuck.

Amanda, Addison and Lyndsey feeling Gigi kick!

Lyndsey and Heather's sign...... Whitney made it for her and it is so cute!

Green Acres

This past Friday John and I went to Green Acres in Cary with the Browns and the Bennetts. I love going to pumpkin patches (but that doesn't mean that I love fall.... no, not at all). We took pictures with pumpkins, went for a hay ride, went in the corn maze, had a picnic and jumped in those bouncy house things (what are they called? I am drawing a blank). I am not sure why we thought the corn maze was a good idea. We got hot, the babies got heavy and the kids got hungry REAL fast. I had never been in a corn maze and it wasn't as much fun as I anticipated. Anywho, enjoy the pictures from the pumpkin patch! I don't have that many of John because I was switching back and forth between my camera and John's camera.

This is a cute brother picture!

Whats Andy got in his hand? Hahaha!

Haha, nice face Mecaden!

Camden, Anderson, Mecaden and Levi! John wouldn't sit down for the picture of all the kids!

Aww.... that is sweet!

M and C as cows......... MOO!

John on the hay ride! He was excited for the pond.... haha.

Mecaden on the hay ride!

While my camera was MIA.......

In the midst of me not taking any pictures, I also left my camera at my dear friend Kathryn's apartment. When I got it back last week, there were LOTS of new pictures on it and they were not taken by me. They were all surprises! Here are just a few that were on there:





Hope that doesn't embarrass you girls but you took em! So boo-yah!

Patrick

My cousin Patrick, from my dad's side of the family, thought it would be fun and cool to grow a funky looking beard. I went on vacation with him this summer.... when I first saw him I couldn't believe my eyes. Not to be mean, but he had the funkiest looking beard I have ever seen.... okay maybe not EVER, but I didn't expect my cousin to look like that after not seeing him for 7 months. He knows that I wasn't fond of it but a lot of other people weren't either. He totally loved it though. He recently had to shave it off because he is starting to coach a kids' basketball team.

This is his before picture:

And here is his after:

Isn't he so handsome with a clean shaven face? I think he looks like my dad here and I think my dad is super handsome too! Anyway, I am glad he shaved it off! He plans to grow a beard back though. We shall see. Patrick, if you are reading this, it is nothing but love dear cousin!

***This is my attempt at getting back into the blogging world! I have taken tons of pictures in the last 2 days so hopefully I will upload them soon!

SORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY!

Howdy.

I am so sorry I have been so lame about posting things. I have had zero desire STILL to blog about anything. But I think that I am getting back into it. I have taken ZERO pictures over the last month so NO picture updates for you.

Here are some highlights from my life:
-I am "blonde" again. My hair had gotten really light from the summer so it wasn't much of transformation for me. I got my natural hair color back and have blonde highlights. I like it a lot!
-I completed a 5k for Breast Cancer!
-I am helping to throw a 2nd baby shower for my friend Heather this weekend.
-I am playing softball on a recreational team and LOVING it!
-Bella has severely itchy skin. She won't stop scratching herself and it wakes me up at night. I need to find a remedy for this. No, she does not have fleas and yes, I am sure.
-Lots of people in my life are getting engaged...... it must be the season for it.


And here is an exciting story for you to read (at least I think it is exciting): So one of my guilty pleasures is to listen to Bob and the Showgram in the mornings on G105. I think they are really funny but sometimes I really don't enjoy their choice of topics. I don't get to listen to it much so it is really funny that I caught this. There have been so many times in the past that I have wanted to call and even attempted but then I get too scared and just hang up. WELL, they are taking emails now. So one day I decided to email them and THEY READ IT and talked about it on the air for about 10 minutes!!!!!!!! I was so excited! Bob referred to me as "this lady" which I find funny! I had emailed Bob to tell him that he should get a side job being a voice of a cartoon character. He always does different voices and accents on the show and he is SO good at it! So they talked about the different voices they could all do and the possibility of him getting that job!

Okay this is all for now. I will start to take pictures of my life again starting tomorrow morning. Hopefully I will have more exciting posts for you soon. Let's face it..... my life isn't that interesting without pictures!!!!!

Heather's Baby Shower #1

As most of you know one of my best friends, Heather, is having a sweet baby girl in December. Her first baby shower was this past weekend. These are not my pictures.... I stole them from Heather on facebook!

Heather's diaper cake! SOOOO cute!

The ALMOND cake.... my favorite!

Heather opening her gifts with two cute little helpers!

Everyone at he shower! It was such a classy baby shower! I have never been to a baby shower where you were served a nice meal! It was a great time and I can't wait for baby shower #2!

UGH.

Blogging has become more like a chore to me now. I don't know why. I hardly look at anyone's blogs and I have a hard time finding the motivation to update mine. I am trying to do better.

My camera is dead and I have failed to take a single picture in about a month or almost 2! So this will be a post with ZERO picture. I don't like that. My favorite thing about blogging are the pictures!!

What's been going on: Several weeks ago I went to the beach for the weekend with one of my best friends, Heather. Her family owns a trailer down at Garden City, which is just outside of Myrtle Beach and right by Murrell's Inlet. We got there late Friday night and left before lunch on Sunday so we didn't really have much time. On Saturday we went out to the beach for several hours, shopped at the outlets and then ate dinner at Drunken Jack's. It was so much fun! The next weekend I went to visit my cousin and Aunt in TN. The highlight of my trip was DOLLYWOOD!!!! I went over Thanksgiving and I wanted to go back when it was summer (for the water log rides!) Oh, how I love Dollywood. And I think I love Dolly a lot too. Something crazy that happened there was I was riding the scrambler (one of my favorite rides since childhood) with my uncle and it started POURING down rain. I was drenched and had racoon eyes (because of my make-up which is falsely claimed to be waterproof). After that it was time to go home. The next day was a more leisurely day with shopping and games. And then Monday (labor day) I headed home. I have been so busy but I don't really know with what!!!

Whats coming up: I am starting a recreational softball league with some friends. I will have a game every Sunday night until the end of November. Softball is not my sport. I am just doing it for fun so we will see how it turns out! I am also attempting to run a 5k in a couple of weeks (most likely I will be walking most of it) for Breat Cancer. I am "training" for it right now and Bella is training with me! I have also started a bible study that is every Monday night. I am so excited about the bible study. I am also helping to plan my friend Heather her second baby shower! That will be in 3 weeks and I can't wait! I love planning stuff like this! SO, I will be a busy girl.

I think that is about all for now. I know I am boring. SORRY. Blah. I will try to take some pictures of maybe something interesting. OHHH..... there is something big happening in my life tomorrow night that I will probably blog about on Thursday..... it's not really big for any of you...... and its not juicy. It's just a little bit of a change for me........