New Blog Design & Birthday

Happy Hump Day peeps! Hoping your week is going well so far! Mine is okay, but definitely going a lot slowwwwer than I had hoped for. But, after 2 weeks with holidays in them, it's not surprising that having to actually work a full week makes things feel even slower than normal - HA HA HA

Anyway, I've been thinking about this for a while and I'm hoping that you wonderful ladies will help a sista out! :) I want to update my blog and bring it into the 2016 realm. I've been using free templates since the first day I started this blog many years ago and I want to give it a full face lift, so if you use someone great for your blog design, please let me know who they are so that I can hit them up about doing some work here on my poor little ole blog, um kay?! :)  Thanks!

On another note, today is this sweet and precious girl's 44th birthday - my baby sister! Isn't she beautiful! :) She is one of my best friends in the whole world and she and I live in 2 different states and literally talk on the phone every.single.day on my way to work each morning.  She makes me laugh and is always there to listen when I need to vent, as well as offer advice or just agree with me, if she thinks I'm right, or tells me when I'm wrong too.  I don't know what I would do without her and love getting to spend time with her as often as we can get together, which sadly, isn't that often anymore since we live so far away.

Happy Hump Day lovies and thank you so much for stopping by to say hello! Have an awesome day and thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to let me know you were here so I can visit you too! :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Friends, Football and Weekend Fun

Happy Sunday guys and dolls!  I wasn't sure I'd have time to post this weekend, but I wanted to put this on here anyway while I had a quick minute.  We had a wonderful weekend and it started off with a nice relaxing Friday night.  Then on Saturday we got everything together to prepare to watch our Hogs play the Aggies at 11:30 yesterday morning.  We completely lost 58-10 which was purely ridiculous to say the least.  All around this will just be a really bad season for our Hogs. :(

 

Later Saturday afternoon, our besties came down from Arkansas to spend the night with us and hang out before they left for their cruise to the Caribbean this morning.  We had such a wonderful time with them and miss them so much!  It's always so nice when friends and family come to town so they can stay and hang out for a little while.  We don't have that luxury very often, unfortunately. :(

Me and Tricia - I LOVE this girl!!



 

It was Joe's birthday on Saturday so we took him to our favorite little Mexican restaurant and they sang happy birthday to him and gave him a cake. However, he ended up buying dinner and wasn't supposed to. It was a nice thing for them to do - but silly when it was supposed to be our treat.

 

 Menu at our favorite Mexican Restaurant

 The birthday boy and his cake :)

 Our besties

Me and the hubby in our Oregon Ducks shirts (they won last night too - yay)

 

 Drinks were empty - it was time for round 2

 Oh well.... then we got up early this morning and Tricia and I cooked breakfast (white gravy, chocolate gravy, bacon, sausage, eggs and bisquits) YUM!  Tricia makes the BEST gravy ever and no matter how many times I have tried to make it I totally mess it up.  So it was a real treat that she was here to cook her famous gravy for us! :)

 

So... how has your weekend been so far?  Don't forget to stop by again tomorrow so you can continue with me through our Oregon vacation.  I can't wait to show you even more pictures! 

 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Partying It Up - Willy D Style

Happy Monday, my peeps!  How are you?  How was your weekend?  Great, I hope!  Ours was pretty good- but not all that great - it was kind of a tough one unfortunately.  BUT on Saturday night, me, hubby, baby sister and her hubby went out to celebrate my husband's 43rd birthday and my sister's BIG 40 birthday!  We started out at Outback where they came around and sang to them - which you know they just LOVED - NOT!!! HA!

After that we went to Willy D's in downtown Little Rock.  For those of you who don't know what that is - it's a dualing piano bar and is a GREAT place to hang out!  Check it out sometime if you are ever in the area! 

As you can see, we had a great time!  SO how was your weekend?  Do anything fun and exciting? Can't wait to catch up with you and your blogs!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to say hello! :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Walgreens Trip, Birthday Gift & Flowers

Happy Thursday my friends!  How are you?  How is your week going so far?  Great, I hope!  Mine is going okay - not too good, but not too bad either.  Last night on my way home I decided to stop at Walgreens and use my Register Rewards that I had earned to pick up a few things we needed at home and a few fun items for Halloween.  Check out my loot:

Glass Halloween Jar - $5.99

Sparkly Halloween Sign - $3.99

Poptarts - $2.99

Kraft Cheese - $4.59

M&M's - .69

Laffy Taffy - .30

Total - $18.61 with tax before coupons

After coupons - $1.31

Woo hoo!!!  See - I told you those coupons are paying off.  Once you learn how and get the hang of it, it really saves you a ton of moo-lah! :)

Also, I made a birthday present for our receptionist who is turning 30 years old this Friday that I found here and it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself.  I really think she'll get a huge kick out of it!  Take a look and let me know what you think:

Also, I have to show you another beautiful rose from our rose garden that my hubby picked for me and put in one of my pretty light pink vases that I picked up at a yard sale or goodwill for mere pennies - aint she purty :)

Well, that's it for today I guess.  I hope you lovies are having a wonderful day and an awesome week so far.  Only one more day til Friday and the weekend - Woo hoo!!!  Thanks so much for stopping by and saying hello.

Lots of love and hugs,

They Say It's My Birthday

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Happy Hump Day my peeps and thanks for stopping by to say hello!  It is a very nasty day here today rain wise - but that's okay - I happen to enjoy the rain (most of the time) as long as there aren't any major tornadoes or storms in the area.  A little rain - eh - not a big deal.  :)

Last night, my good friend from work, E, took me to this delicious italian restaurant and all I can say is WOW - it was SOO SOO YUMMY and it was great to spend time (besides morning coffee and a lunch here and there) with her.  It was very relaxing and we enjoyed a nice dinner, wine and great conversation.  It was nice not to have to be running for a change.  I will put pictures up soon from the dinner as well as my cards my husband gave me.  Tonight he and the kids are taking me to dinner after work, so that will be a nice treat too.

Thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday for those of you who stopped by.  And I PROMISE to show off my extreme couponing loot very very soon.  My husband has to go out of town in the morning, so I will have time after work to actually get some posts together along with the pictures, so be sure and look for a post about it tomorrow morning.  I totaled everything up yesterday with my receipts and retail the total was $188 and some change - I spent only $44 and some change out of pocket.  While that was VERY good - I was kind of aggravated that I still spent that much - ha!  When they say "extreme" - they mean "extreme".  My whole attitude has changed on buying groceries now and I learned that while I was there my store that I've gone to for almost 3 years now doubles coupons every.single.day and always has - Whhhhaaaattttt????  Argh!  Now that I know that - I will be taking FULL advantage! HA!

I hope you have a great day and thanks again for stopping by to say hello! 

Lots of love and hugs,

Happy Birthday to one of my "Babies"

Happy Monday everyone!  Hope you've had an awesome weekend.  I had a very nice one - I even managed to sleep until 10:00 both days - THAT is unheard of in my house for me! LOL   I guess after my tough week last week my body finally said enough was enough and started making up for the lack of sleep I got.  Either way it felt good to sleep in!  After getting up, I had a very productive weekend and can't wait to show you the "befores" and "afters".  I only got 2 things accomplished due to them both taking me hours to get done each - but.... they are 2 more things off my list - WOO HOO!  So be sure to check back tomorrow so you can see the amazing transformations -  I think you will like it! :)

On another note - today is my "baby" boy's birthday.  He is 17 years old - ACK!  The time has flown by soooo fast like you wouldn't believe.  I can't believe he and my daughter will be grown and out of the house soon - she turns 18 this year! *sigh*  Anyway... here is a picture of my sweet baby - he had a birthday party this past Friday night and had people over for a bon-fire and a couple of the boys stayed the night.  Due to my work schedule I wasn't able to get any pictures of him with his friends, or anything else.  They turned 1/2 of my garage into a "band" room.  It was great listening to them all play music as that's the kind of house I grew up in - my dad and uncles and even my mom would play music and sing every weekend at my house and I loved it! So... this was just a nice reminder! :)

Sorry... I got off track a little bit - here is a picture of him and his card that we got him for his birthday: 

My future lawyer:

And this is his birthday card - when you open it up it plays:

 "I wanna rock and roll all night"

I totally forgot (cause I'm such a bad mom) - to get a picture of his birthday gift we gave him last weekend (he got it early).  It is a very nice Docker's brown leather jacket - which he L.O.V.E.D.   I will get a better picture of him and the jacket together and upload that another time. 

Well... off to get ready for work - it is pouring down rain here today so I better get moving.    P.S.  I need to get a "PR Friendly" button for my blog - does anyone know a place that I can get that done by chance?  I am also going to be revamping my blog completely very soon as well - so if you know of any great designers - please let me know!

Have a wonderful (and dry, sunny, warm) day and thanks for stopping by.  :o)

Lots of Love and Hugs,
 

Happy Hump Day - Birthday Style

Two more gifts given to me by my friends on my birthday:

This is a beautiful music box that plays "That's What Friends Are For" and it was given to me by my bestie here in NJ and I. LURVE.IT very much! :o)

These Tulips were given to me by a lady in my office who rides my bus to and from work each day with me and we've became really good friends - they were SO much prettier IRL but I LURVE them too! :o)

So.. thank you, Kathy and Ellen for the lovely and thoughtful gifts.  You guys totally ROCK and are pretty special people!  :o)

Happy Hump Day my friends! 

Lots of love and hugs,

Weekend Recap - Birthday and Mother's Day Edition

Happy Monday my peeps!  How are you?  How was your Mother's Day weekend?  I hope you were all treated like the Queen you deserve to be treated as!  I had a wonderful weekend and Mother's Day yesterday.  I was spoiled beyond belief and am so blessed! :o) Friday night consisted of getting together with our friends and enjoying a great evening together.  They brought me over my birthday gift from last week and it was SO NICE and SO SWEET! These are two people whom I adore so much and it's so nice having great friends who live just around the corner.  On Saturday my daughter and I went for a manicure and pedicure and did the girly thing - which was nice!  Yesterday, I woke up at 11:00 (yes, you read that right) to my son cooking me breakfast which consisted of Eggs, Toast and Coffee - it was delicious!  Then my daughter gave me a beautiful scrapbook page that she made for me and then she and her boyfriend brought me a beautiful floral gift of Begonias.  Needless to say, I did NOTHING all day yesterday, which was just perfect! I didn't even get out of my pajamas! HA!  It was GREAT! (P.S. which is why you won't see a picture of me and my kids from Mother's Day - LOL)  My wonderful husband had to work all weekend due to inventory, etc., but once he got home, he ordered pizza and all of us laid around and watched the movie, The Blindside, again.  If you've NOT had a chance to see it - RUN and rent it - or even better - buy it to add to your collection, because after you've seen it once - you will NOT want to be without it!  It is such an awesome movie and is really what being a christian is all about.  To me and my husband, these are the best of Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw's movies - they really portray the family so accurately that it's scary - it could have seriously been these two who the story was based on. 

Anyway, I wanted to leave you with a few pictures from both my birthday and Mother's Day weekend - but the first 2 pictures are of the Mother's Day gifts I made for my mom and my mother-in-law that I had told you about last week.  The moms LOVED them! SCORE! :o)

In case you can't tell - this spells BOBO - my mom's last name:

This is my mother-in-law's gift that I made also:

This is a gift I bought for myself and put up last weekend: (it's a vinyl piece that I got at Michaels)

(Pictures from Mother's Day)

All of my wonderful birthday cards:

From my wonderful in-laws:

From my friends and sister-in-law:

From my 2 sisters and my mother:

From my husband:

Another one from my husband (one is a birthday and the other is Mother's Day)

My son cooking me breakfast yesterday:

My yummy and delicious breakfast:

Gift my daughter made for me:

Close-up of saying:

Her words in her own writing:

My beautiful Begonias from her and her boyfriend:

As you can see, I was VERY VERY spoiled and had both a wonderful birthday and a wonderful Mother's Day weekend!  I hope yours was just as special!  Sorry for the picture overload but I just couldn't leave any of them out.  Also, the gift my girlfriend and her husband brought me didn't upload for some reason, so I will have to upload it in the next couple of days.  It is a GORGEOUS music box that says something about True Friends on the front of it and plays the song - "That's What Friends Are For" and I.LOVE.IT!  One more thing I don't intend to leave out - I got to enjoy a birthday lunch with the lovely and beautiful Summer over at B is for Brown on Thursday.  She too spoiled me by taking me to lunch for my birthday but we both forgot to take our picture together - :o(

Well, you know the drill - I am running LATE, LATE, LATE, so I must hop for now.  I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed day today and I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend or just weekend in general and an even better day today.  Thanks for stopping by to say hello.

Lots of love and hugs,

 

They Say It's My Birthday

Happy Tuesday my peeps! How are you today?  I am doing pretty good I guess for turning the BIG 42 today! I'm alive to see another day, I have a wonderful family, a great job, wonderful friends, and great blog friends like you, so I'd say that I'm doing pretty darn awesome - don't you agree?! :o)

Due to my husband's work schedule this week we celebrated my birthday early over the weekend.  All I can say is that I am one spoiled and pampered girl and had a great birthday from my family.  Here are my wonderful gifts and cards that I received from my husband and kiddos:

The hubster got me some "soft" socks, a NY long sleeve t-shirt and my jazzercise class: And I forgot to include the BEAUTIFUL birthday card he gave me but will show that to you another time soon:

And this BEAUTIFUL cake from Costco that had vanilla mousse in it - OMG it was SO YUMMY!

I have no idea why it looks like I have a red feather here in my hair but it must be from the flash or sumpin:

 This is the package my daughter put together for the gift she made for me - isn't it purty!

 My card that was wrapped like a "present" that she made:

 The inside of my sweet sweet card:

 The candle holder that she made me:

 My birthday message from the family:

 Please excuse the next 2 photos as I am just keeping it real ya'll - I didn't feel like putting on makeup that day:  Also, ignore the background - I have YET to put away the Spring/Easter stuff but will be doing so this weekend as I've finally made more stuff to go on my table and such:

 Me and the hubster - again, ignore the background - it still has the Spring/Easter stuff in it as well:

Well, there ya go! Thanks for stopping by to say hello and I hope that you all have a wonderful and blessed day today.  On another note - for those of you who are my newest followers - WELCOME! I promise I will be a follower of yours as well and will get to your pages soon.  I've just not been able to do so yet, but have NOT forgotten you - PROMISE! I LURVE getting new followers and meeting new peeps and will always return the love! Have a great day my friends!

Lots of love and hugs,