"Abi did it."

I will begin my post with Olivia's new favorite sentence, " Abi did it". It doesn't matter what I ask Olivia, her answer always points to Abi. It is cute for now.
Olivia also correctly identified a horse in a pasture for the first time today. Typically she calls all of them a "moo moo tow". One more Olivia story and then I will move on, tonight after supper I gave Olivia some M&M's for dessert (they are her favorite) and she looked at me, smiled, and said, "Kank you, Isa" and then she immediately covered her face as if she was embarrased that she called me Lisa instead of Momma.

Alex sent me some beautiful flowers to work last week. We won't go into why the flowers were sent :o) but they are gorgeous.


We went to Grammie and Papaw's last Friday and spent the night. The girls had fun and I think the grandparents did too.





Grammie had a bucket for the girls to play with and they figured out a great game to play pretty quickly.


We stopped in Hot Springs on the way back home and went to the mall. Abi got a couple of pairs of shoes to start school with and we had a really nice time. We let the girls go to Candy Craze and pick out some candy. They LOVED that. Olivia got a whole canister full of, you guessed it, M&M's.

There's a funny story behind this gummie strawberry. While picking out the candy from the bins, Abi turned to Alex and said, " I think I need to get something healthy, so I will get some of these strawberries."


I told Abi this snake would creep Nana out.




Sunday afternoon we had a birthday dinner for Brent at our house. He is very paranoid and anxious about turning 30...in 3 years. So, being the considerate, sympathetic cousin that I am, I got him a cake that was completely appropriate for the occassion.


Little Livi rockin' with Brent.

A Whole Lotta Nothin;

I took off work Friday to stay at home with the girls. Mrs. Lisa wanted a day off to be with her family, so I got one too. I had intended on taking the girls to the museum but we ended up doing nothing. We cleaned house and played play doh. We had pancakes with peanut butter and syrup and listened to Elvis during breakfast. It was a nice day. Brent came up Friday night and we saw "Julie & Julia". It was pretty good. We had a good time.
Saturday was spent at home as well as a family day. After church today, we met some family at Hot Springs for lunch. We miss our families often. It was nice to see them.
We made brownies last night. Everyone chipped in to help clean up......





Shirley, Coy, Memaw, Nana,Seth, Alex, the girls and I all had a great visit.






We have had a rather uneventful, but good weekend.

The girls will be starting school soon and I must say that I am excited. Have you seen the Staples commercial where the dad is dancing in the school supply isle while the kids sulk through the same isle? It is GREAT and it depicts exactly how I feel as the school year approaches. It is bitter sweet. I am extatic to have a much smaller day care payment but I am not sure that I am ready to have a Kindergarten and First Grader.
Makayla is so excited to start school. She has her backpack and lunch box and can not wait. Abi is excited to be the big sister that can show her little sis the ropes of "big girl school".
And Olivia, well, Olivia is a two year old with attitude.
We are all doing well. Olivia has had an ear infection all week and spent most of the week at home with her daddy. She is doing better and hopefully will continue.
Have a great week everyone and we will see you again soon!

Party On

It has been a great weekend! Friday was kind of a mess for me, but after I got that over with, it has been great since. Saturday was Leslie's 4th birthday party. I can not believe that baby has grown up so quickly. Les was going to have a party at the water park but the weather was very uncooperative. So she had her traditional Pizza Hut party. The kids had a blast. Leslie got lots of great gifts.
My good friend, Karen, and I.

Some people really enjoyed the pizza.

We had a great time at the party. We then headed back to Bryant to Target for school supplies for Abi and KayKay. I just have to say that school supply lists have a tendency to get ridiculous! I know that this is just the beginning and things will get worse with each grade that the girls climb, but ugh!
And after school supply shopping it was time to get ready for Noah's 3rd birthday party. His party was at Jump Zone and the girls had a blast there too!


This afternoon Abi, KayKay, and I headed to Party City to look for birthday stuff. Their birthdays aren't until October but we are trying to pace our monthly money spending better this year by buying a little bit at a time. We thought one party favor in particular was humorous. You will probably be seeing this again in the future.

See ya next time!

Pardon My Language.....

In the words of my good friend Debbie....HOLY HELL.....


You know I couldn't just end it on that note. He is bald now. And here was the girls' reactions to the mo-hawk