6.17.10

Horrible news this morning. One of our best friends and neighbors..Heath Brown's house caught fire this morning. Not only has he lost "needed" things, but also a lot of memorabilia. He had many old things that belonged to his family, pictures, etc..just so hard to understand why things like this happen. I know this is a very tough time and will be tough for a while for him. He's such a good hearted fellow and I hate to see him having to deal with it. But he will prevail, I know it.

Just to give a background, Heath's father was good friends with Bill's father, Benji. Benji wrote to Heath's father while fighting Vietnam. Luckily Heath had given that letter to Bill a while ago so it's at our house and Heath had given me two old pictures of his family and Bill's together too..so it's saved as well.

Hopefully more things will be pulled from the home that can be saved...let's just hope.

Sweet Girl

Just wanted to share a cute little convo Chloee and I had yesterday....Chloee was playing down at the building {Bill was down there with her} and I was up on the back deck...she yells across the yard, "Mommy!!" "Can I come give you a hug and come back down here?" I said well of course you can!! A lot of times I tell her that if she's coming inside {when it's later} that we are going to take a bath and stay inside...so I guess that's where THAT came from...The smallest things MELT my heart.

MOTHER~DAUGHTER WEEKEND 6.11.10 - 6.13.10

Just a PREVIEW...The two middle pictures will be 16x20's {The 3rd one over with her sitting down, she actually has our wedding rings on her toe...beautiful picture!!} The 2nd one with her standing, holding LuLu...really "captures" a day to day moment of her and LuLu. And that is what I was going for. If Chloee is holding LuLu, it normally looks JUST like that.

Chloee with Melissa at her graduation party Saturday..

Chloee sleeping Friday afternoon, on the way home from having pictures made of her and LuLu..{outfit has already been changed..thank goodness..note blue face and blue sucker}

Mine and Chloee's weekend began EARLY! Friday, I took Chloee and LuLu to have their pictures made. Saturday...Melissa {the absolute best babysitter ever} graduated from Cherryville High. We went to her graduation party Saturday afternoon. Daddy had left Friday evening for his annual boat poker run trip in Santee, so he missed the festivities at home. Chloee and I went Sunday to Hickory && shopped at the new TJ MAX..we got LuLu a "posh" new bed..{leopard print} oohlaalaa. AND Chloee some nail polishes {that we fought about that evening because she wanted to paint her nails herself}...Then we trollied to Old Navy where I found Chloee a terry cloth bathing suit cover up & she found herself and $10.00 soccer ball {which was on sale for $5.99 when we rang out, yesss.} And THENN, because Chloee insisted on having biscuits and "taters" as she calls them, and I correct her with potatoes...lol...we went and ate at Cracker Barrel. I would have hit up KFC, but we had that the day before because she wanted "taters" and biscuits...Cracker Barrel was nice, enjoyed that a lot with just Chloee. As we left, I let her buy candy as promised. None other than Pez and Pez refills {something about Pez, it always pops up...Easter, Valentine's, Christmas, Mother-Daughter Weekends} I think it might be more MY infatuation with PEZ? Because I DID point them out to her...and she agreed...I would have to say that my weekend was great. A great weekend with total focus on my daughter. Although we did miss DADDY and we were glad to see him come home!

P.S. **GIRLS TRIP TO CHARLESTON JUNE 25TH - 27TH**....We'll see if Bill has as much excitement as we did on his Father-Daughter Weekend!!

SWEET PARKER

Amanda's youngest....Parker will be turning 1 soon!

Maddie's recital is the same day...soo we can't make the party..bummer..But I'm sure we will see him soon after if not before!! Congratulations Parker, you cute little thing!

Mommy's getting old..

So, Chloee has been practicing her toe touch {and has it very good to be 3 1/2}..Well she wanted me to dance with her to this Chick-fil-A dvd that she got that plays a song, Between The Lions {I believe that's the name}..So... I was to follow her direction and do what she did..Of course she threw in her fabulous toe touch, which hasn't been done by me for quite a few years, uhhumm. I would have to say so myself that I did a pretty good job considering I'm 10 years older now and no longer practicing these moves....but it didn't feel too good. SO, I decided I would practice it a couple more times after our "dance" was over, and every time it hurt just the same. So me laughing and telling Chloee that it hurt Mommy, Chloee decides to critique me..She's like "Mommy, you have to do it like this"...Ohhh and it only begins...

RANDOM SNAP SHOTS

These two pictures below look like I posed her to sit there {and she is fake smiling}...But I didn't pose her.....She was dressed for the day and was sitting at the table, turned around to look out the window and I thought it would be a cute picture..so I grabbed my phone. So yes, fake smiles..but no Mommy did not pose you. {for once anyway}

PICTURES FROM EASTER 2010

These are from Easter..I didn't blog at all in April. Chloee and Dayne are dyeing Easter Eggs at Amanda's.....Easter Basket is Chloee's very 1st REAL Easter Basket... {from the Easter Bunny at our house}...Since she was so young before, The Easter Bunny waited to do a real Easter Basket for this year. She got stuffed animals and stuff like that the past 3 yrs. We did the whole wake up and find what the Easter Bunny left for the 1st time this year..so sweet. The Easter Bunny left it right at her doorway....and Mommy couldn't wait to wake her up.