Hump Day and Weekend Recap

Happy Wednesday lovies! How are you today?  Great, I hope!  All is well here, just been a super busy last few days since returning from Arkansas for my daughter's baby shower.  Sheesh, who knew it could be so hard giving a baby shower? I am SO happy it's over, however, I think it turned out pretty awesome and she received a lot of nice gifts as well.  We had about 20 people total, which I thought was a great turnout. 

Here are some pictures from her special day - Warning, picture overload below:

The Table - talk about taking forever to do - that back wall was a nightmare and took HOURS to complete - but it was worth it in the end

 Me, Tricia (one of my besties and other hostess) and Alliye:

 My silly niece, Mayson and Alliye:

 Paula, Me and Julie - 2 more of my besties:

 Me and my TALL niece, Mayson Clai:

 Me and one of my other besties, Vickie:

 Tricia and her baby girl, Zoie:

 Let the present opening begin:

 Alliye and my wonderful mother-in-law, Olive:

 My wonderful mother and Alliye:

 Tricia and Alliye:

 The table before all of the gifts started covering it up: 

 Three Generations: Mother, Alliye and Me:

 Me and my beautiful baby girl:

 Decorations throughout:

 Guest Book before it was signed:

 "Love at first sight" frame with bear:

 

 Taken by my daughter's cousin - just one of her many maternity photos - I can't wait to see the rest:

 Me and my crew:

See... you were warned! LOL  This bottom picture is one of me and my absolute 5 besties and I don't know when, if ever, I've had them all in the same room in our lifetime, so I HAD to make sure we got a picture to commemorate the occasion for sure.

On another note, my Hogs whooped up on UTEP last weekend, so that was a WIN/WIN with a great shower turnout and a Razorback win!  Next up.... Toledo.  What did you and your family do over the holiday weekend? Anything special? Can't wait to catch up on your blogs and see how you spent your holiday.  Thanks for stopping by and please let me know you were here.

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,

Taking Time to Stop and Smell the Roses

Happy Happy Friday my friends!  This has been a long week and a week from hell and one that almost did me in.  But, I decided yesterday that I was going to get back to living my life instead of worrying about all of this nonsense stuff that has been happening in my life for the last 3 months.  So today, I am here "smelling the roses".  The pictures below are of roses in my "rose garden" that my husband made me many years ago.  I came home on Wednesday night to this:

Different types of roses and different colors,

and one rose for each year we've been married

which is almost 14 years! :)

He tells everyone he made this for me so that when he's in the doghouse he can just go right out and pick me flowers and bring them in to try and smooth things over.  LOL  Truth be known, he is the one with the green thumb in the family - I, personally, have a black thumb when it comes to growing things like plants! HA!

So... what's on your agenda this weekend?  Anything fun and exciting by chance?  I am going to dinner with my husband tonight and then tomorrow I am getting together with one of my best friends that I've not seen once since we've moved home and we are going to hang out and have lunch and just visit.  We were going to go hiking but it's supposed to storm instead so I think we are just doing lunch this time around.  The weather is almost perfect here for hiking and I am looking forward to a lot of those trips! :)  Sunday will probably be just a catch up kind of a day around the house - laundry, cooking, etc....

Well thanks for stopping by to say hello!  Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!  Can't wait to see what you have planned this weekend.

Lots of love and hugs,