Sweet Caroline

We kicked off the weekend with a girls date…my mom and I took Collins to see the “big girls” dance at the concert on Friday night…she LOVED it.  Our dance studio does a concert and a recital, the recital is for recreational classes and the concert is for their performance and competition teams…it was amazing!  We spent  Saturday morning  being busy bees getting packed and ready to head straight to Beaufort after Collins’ dance recital.  We met up with my parents and Mikey’s mom for lunch before the recital so we could get on the road as soon as it was done.  We were SO proud of our girl at her second dance recital,  she was in three dances and did SO good!  She kept saying over and over “and mama I wasn’t even shy!”  She’s made such progress in the past year with her shyness…she was a leader on stage and was so proud of herself!  I just love watching her get excited over something!  After the recital we booked it to Beaufort…even though stupid Tropical Storm Bonnie had other plans for

First point I’d like to make: our den looks like this for about 5 hours a month, right after the maid comes every other week!  Our den is “done” …in this house.  There’s only so much you can do with the configuration with that sectional…and like I’ve said on repeat…I don’t want to buy furniture for this house, so although I’d love two new chairs, the set up here isn’t right for what I want.  I do like how light and airy the room is and even though our kitchen/breakfast area is small…I love the open floor plan between the two and the den.  I’ve decided against getting 6 custom made panels for this room…I already had two, which I just moved to the dining room.  But, those bad boys are expensive!  No point in spending that money in this house, I wouldn’t mind getting some inexpensive plain white ones…if I ever get around to it.  But, for now…this room is DONE. *all we did in here was paint and install new ceiling fan. Slowly but surely getting this house "market ready!"  😜    

Last Wednesday was Collins’ last day of school in the 3’s class.  Ugh, I just hate how fast time goes…I swear it was just three months ago that she started in September.  She absolutely adored her teachers and classmates and learned SO, SO much this year.  They had the sweetest little singing performance and then cookies for a little reception after.  Tear, another year passed.   With her sweet teachers  Love these girls  My girl :-) dance pics round two on Thursday, long live the sassy pose! Well, after all that complaining I did…it didn’t even rain this weekend!!!!  * See Mikey, maybe bit *hin’ about something does pay off….;-)  We had such a good weekend.  We started off with a date  night Friday night…we went with another couple and our friend Shayne (whose wife was out of town) to ESCAPE PLAN Columbia…so fun.  We did  not  escape, however, ha!  The guy said the room we did only has a 25% success rate of people escaping and we did really good with only five people.  We were THIIIII

What a weekend, wow.  As I had mentioned, we had another wedding weekend…but, this wasn’t just any wedding weekend…this was MY BEST FRIEND’S wedding weekend.  And it did NOT disappoint.  Seriously, the whole weekend was nothing short of perfect.  The bridal luncheon was sweet and pretty, the rehearsal dinner was fun, the toasts were funny, and the food was yummy.  My other bestie, the bride and I spent the night together  Friday night  in a hotel room…the two matrons of honor with our bride!  All the girls came over Saturday and we spent the whole day together, eating, drinking, getting ready and chatting.  The bride was SUPER calm all day and it was just so fun.  Our little flower girls (Collins and Mary Brooks, daughters of Jill and I, who are best friends…and our girls are too!) met us around  4:30 for pictures before the ceremony.  We had my awesome babysitter come over to get them ready, b/c daddy is good…but we don’t quite trust him to curl hair yet;-)  We wanted the girls to get

We haven’t done much at all in the bonus room, but this is a PRIME example of what paint can do. The bonus room was painted this dark,  horrid orange color. And THEN…two walls had some sort of sponge paint application…in purple or something heinous like that.  This was another room I lived with this awful color for WAY too long.  But, we really don’t use this room all that much so it didn’t bother me.  Our bonus room is rather big…and it’d be perfect if our kids were older and played/hung out more independently.  But, they aren’t.  So we don’t come in here all that often.  It works well that it is big enough for a bed and “den” set up though since we do have guests stay pretty regularly.  To give an idea of just how big this room is…there’s a queen size bed, night stand, full dresser, chest of drawers, tv stand, couch, a closet AND a treadmill in this room and it still has plenty of floor space!   When  I work out…this is where it goes down.  And sometimes the kids will play in here in

To My wild, crazy, sweet, funny, busy baby boys. You two boys keep me on my toes like no other, but you can make my heart melt in a matter of seconds as well.  I can’t even get over how much y’all have grown and how big you are getting, it really makes me want to cry.  It’s been a while since I’ve updated on you two crazies…so I figured I needed to jot some things down for my memory….here we go:)   Thomas:  Your giggle lights up a room, little boy.  Your smile is absolutely infectious and you make me laugh constantly.  You are SO full of life, at all times ;-)  You are NON stop go-go-go, and you are not afraid of anything!  You climb on tables and chairs all the live long day, you LOVE water and are the only baby I’ve ever seen who will lie on their back in the bath tub almost fully submerged in water!  You have NO fear and that gives me anxiety a LOT…but I know I just have to let you fly, baby boy.  You “cut your eyes” whenever anyone asks and it is HILARIOUS…and immediately after you

Another gorgeous spring weekend in the books…. it was a good one, how could it not be though when it’s mother’s day weekend?  We had the sweetest little Mother’s Day celebration Wednesday at Collins’ preschool, she was SO excited for me to come and see the hat and necklace she made for me!  Just the cutest!   On Friday night , we hung out with friends and cooked out at our house.   Some of our best friends are moving towards us and went house hunting, so we had a little get together afterwards ;-)  The first part of Saturday was spent running errands/playing and doing chores around the house (you gotta have a little time for that every weekend, right?!)  After naps for the kids (and me!) we headed to the zoo.  Our zoo just opened the BEST new water park area…complete with a splash pad, wading pool, playground, huge sand “box”, and tons more!  It was SO fun and we had to take the kids out kicking and screaming!  (seriously, Thomas pitched a FIT when it was time to go!)  We ended the day