Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts

8.08.2011

My Birthday Weekend

My birthday weekend started off wonderful!!! On Friday (my actual birthday) I got a call from a friend, Rhonda, asking me to meet her in my parking lot at work. I walked outside and out of her car she stepped with this (from Rhonda and my BFF Cristy)...
What a great surprise!!!

Then I got home and you know the cake I was complaining about my hubs not getting for me??? Well...
I cut into it before realizing I needed to take a pic!  This cake should have lasted forever... but with 5 people in my house it didn't.  I had two slices... and boy were they worth every single calorie!!! I mean it... they were really worth it!!! One piece was my dinner, and the other was dinner last night.

Saturday I feel like I ran all day. 
I was supposed to get up and run 5 miles.  I got up at 5am, turned my phone on and realized Cristy wasn't going to make it so I went back to bed thinking I would get up to go to bootcamp. Ummmm wrong. I forgot to reset my alarm.  I fell back asleep and slept until 9:30. Katelyn had to sell Pastalaya dinners for her high school Softball team, so she had to be at the school for 10. I ran her to school, went back home picked Cody up, got a call from Kate needing me to bring her something she forgot... so I went back to the school, then Cody and I went to Hammond (15 miles away)to get some school things. Rushed home to get Benjamin and his friend to take them to Hammond for a movie. Rushed back home to eat a little lunch and be back at the school for 2. The team was having a scrimmage against themselves, then after that they were going to play the alumni, then after that they were having a hit-a-thon.  We made it home for 6:30 that night... completely exhausted.  Being out in the sun for that long completely drained all of my energy.  I do believe it was 100+ on Saturday.  Oh... and I totally forgot the sunscreen.  What a dweeb!!! ;)

Here's a pic of the softball team. (Very blurry)
They were so tired after such a long day. They decided to get WET!  They found plastic and rolled it out, put a hose on it and well... there you go a homemade slip n slide. Yes we are from the country! hehehe

Sunday the hubs had me up bright and early. We went to the hot air balloon show with his brother and sisters & all of the kids. Well... Ben was the only one of our kids that would get up and go so early.  The dreaded alarm went off at 4:45am. Urgh... But it was worth it! 


This one landed so close to us.  The kids got an up close and personal view. These are my peeps in the pic. My lil Ben there in the white hat trying to put his shoes on. He was laying down trying to go back to sleep. LOL

After the sun finally came up we decided it was time to go (it's about 7:15am). We went to Coffee Call and had beignets and cafe au lait. YuM!!!!!!
When we got home it was time to clean up!!! We had so much to do.  Chris cleaned the outside of the house while I cleaned inside.  I love love love to listen to music while I clean so I cranked it up and danced my way to clean the living room.
We finally finished cleaning and had to take Kate to a travel softball team tryout. Man this kid keeps us busy!!! She hasn't really played ball in about a year in a half because she had back surgery... twice (another blog later). It was so hot!!! She was so mad at herself because she didn't do as well as she thought she could have.  She will get it back... She is AWESOME at what she does! 
My weekend ended with a BIG OLE Burger from Five Guys!  It was so delicious.  I managed to keep my calorie intake below what it was supposed to be for the day too.  That burger was so darn big and came in at a whopping 900 calories.  WOW... I didn't eat lunch though so I was pretty hungry.

Now that I have bored you to death... Toodles Peeps!

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.” - Edgar Watson Howe

8.05.2011

what a fun night!!!

I had so much fun last night.  Look how great our pictures came out!!! Katelyn and I decided not to do the reverse painting.  She is planning to do something different in her room, and said it wouldn't match. Boo!!!  Regardless... we still had tons of fun & will do it again very soon!

My beautiful piece of artwork!!! HA

Meet Katelyn! Isn't she just a doll? ;)

She got so messy!!! Look at my arm next to her... yes she even got paint on me!  Hehehe!!! Gotta love her!!!

If you haven't had the pleasure of going to one of these 2 hour painting classes... I suggest you try it.  This is only the second one I have been to, but they are so much fun! 

After class we walked across the street to a local pizza place.  They have the best pizza in the world!!!  I didn't have pizza though.  I had Pasta with Marinara.  I only ate about 1/3 of it because I wasn't very hungry.  It was just okay... Not great! Definitely not worth the calories!!!!

WHAT WAS WORTH THE CALORIES?????
I have the sweetest kids in the whole wide world!!!! I have been dieting and well today is my birthday.  For some reason I feel like because it is my birthday I am entitled to have cake.  My hubby is trying to be very supportive and told me that he wasn't going to do that to me. WHAT????? I am begging for this cake from The Cocoa Bean in Hammond!  They make the most delicious Chocolate Doberge Cake in the entire world!!! I told the hubs that was all I wanted for my birthday.  He declined! BOO!!! (But yay because he is helping me out... I would eat the entire thing for real)
When I got home from work yesterday (they started school today so they had to do it early) I had chocolate brownies waiting for me!  How sweet are my kids?  Katelyn said it was Ben's idea... she just helped him, but man I almost cried.  They knew I wanted cake and they did what they could to make sure I had something close to it!  Thank you to my sweet babies for thinking about me on my special day! Psst... I only had a tiny piece. Enough to get my chocolate fix & to show how appreciative I was of their super efforts!  Yay for the sweetest kids in the entire world!!!