Pooped.......

I am absolutely worn completely out! I crawled into bed around 2 this morning I believe after the party at my parents house. I felt like I was non-stop all day, until the fireworks started then I got to sit for a while. I know my mother was worn out, but I think she had a good time too.....everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves.....I felt bad like I didn't get to mingle with everyone but there were so many more people this year, and I tried, but I felt like I was getting pulled so many ways.....
So anyway I'm too tired to put up all the pictures from the night, I might try to do that Tuesday night once the kids head to Mamaw's......today we relaxed! I threw Pioneer Woman's Pot Roast in the Oven (a must try if you haven't already) and just let it cook , we rode out to my parents to pick up everything we had been taking out there all week and to see if there was anything we could do.....so I took some pictures of some of my mom's flowers.

I've been messing with my camera more lately , trying to figure out how to use more of the settings, and I'm actually starting to read the book, honestly and truly I wish I had read the book that went to a camera years ago! I could have been taking better pictures! Though on the blueish purple flower up above I wish I had picked the dead ones off first before I took the picture.
Anyhoo.....I think I'm just going to finish sipping on my home-made chocolate shake that James made me and put on my jammies and head to bed! I'm positive I'm going to have a long day at work tomorrow, we have two docs coming back off of vacation, and it was a three day weekend for all and a four day weekend for some, so we have a lot of catching up to do!
And here I'll leave you with a little teaser......

Happy 4th of July!!!

It's the 4th of July!! This is one of my favorite Holiday's! It's really close to Christmas for me, except I like Christmas better because it more a season and not just 1 day....but still it's very close.
And we are all about the fireworks.....this is a little one James set off in our back yard the other night....this is like a baby one compared to the ones he will be doing tomorrow!
My parents have a HUGE 4th of July party every year...this year I think we have grown the biggest we have ever been, we have around 120-130 people who have RSVP'd, and I honestly have lost count! Every time I call my mother, she goes I have 5 more people. I had to honestly ask her yesterday..Mom who else could there possibly be??? lol But my mother is thriving on this and loves to cook for a big crowd so she's in her element today...doing all her prep work!

Yeah I know today is the 4th, but they moved it to tomorrow the 5th because we have a bunch of people coming in from out of town, and we wanted to give them travel time!
And I have a bunch of stuff to make today as well.......so I'll be spending a lot time in the kitchen!
I think we are going to grill out tonight at home and set off a few little fireworks like this one for the kids and watch neighbors fire works.....cause all of the big ones have already been shipped out to my parents house.

See these......these are the Big un's........These were purchased after careful internet research and watching of umpteen videos or different fireworks. My husband tells me in the middle of the Phantom fireworks store and I quote " Is it bad that I like buying fireworks more than Jordan's" FEAR, fear hit me.....Jordan's are his obsession...I've never met a man who loves shoes like my husband...and every time a new pair of Jordan's comes out he has to have them....so a fireworks obsession made me clutch the checkbook! This cannot be good. I LOVE watching fireworks...so I love the big ones....and now he's obsessed....um who is going to reign us in! We NEVER have the same addictions that's how we balance each other out!
Well.......................................
This was our first trip there!! lol But then we made a second trip.............


In the end.....after I figured up everything that we spent, everything my brother in law spent....and all the free stuff this cool guy at the fireworks place hooked us up with we have over $2400 worth of fireworks!!! (Keep in mind fireworks were buy one get one free) And that's not counting what other people bring to my parents house!
So I'm really looking forward to tomorrow!!!!!

Uncle Tommy's 60th Birthday Party

Last Saturday we went to my mom's brother's 60th birthday party. And we had a really nice time, the kids had a blast!


See that's them up above having a blast....well 2 of them, Brie's getting to the point where she just kind of hangs with the grown ups.....
That's my Aunt Betty (my mom's sister in law), Aunt Margaret(mom's sister, and Aunt Darlene (another of mom's sisters)
Here you have my crazy Aunt Patty, my mom, and my cousin Travis' girlfriend Kendra, she's pregnant...it's a girl! Also see the girl standing up behind my mom, that's my cousin Kim...she's pregnant too, but that baby is a surprise! I love the fact that no matter which side of the family I'm around people are having new babies...keeps my missing new babies away! lol
That's my Uncle Hank and my dad.....they were having a discussion on why my Uncle Tommy has screwdrivers stuck in the ceiling of his porch....the answer was because bees or wasps were burrowing or something...
See kid having fun again! lol
There is part of Chasity, my mom hidden behind a cup, my Aunt Donna (another of my mom's sisters) and Aunt Patty again!
Here are Chasity and Aaron...First I love these pictures because they are plotting together! And secondly because well their cute, and their mine! They are plotting to go ask Uncle Tommy if they can go swimming!
Chasity is saying see he's right there, Aaron go ask him....
If you note my kids are all color coordinated this day....my mother has this thing about color coordinating them I guess(they had spent the night before with her)....and I think the only thing that matches for all three are these outfits, because she put them on them a few weeks back when they went to a birthday party!
Here are all the kids in the pool! Hmm I don't know if I can get their names right....so I'm not going to try...some are like my third cousins...





Uncle Tommy spent some time opening presents......
He's a huge Yankee's fan, so he got a lot of Yankee's stuff...I personally loved this clock, I thought it was cool. in the bottom was 2 shelves with little Yankee's memorabilia that sat on the shelfs!
Aaron kept wanting to know who the Green man was on Uncle Tommy's cake. And now since the cake says David would probably be a good time to explain our family's use of names...
Apparently in my mom's nobody is called by their right name....take my Uncle Sonny who recently passed away..his name was Robert Andrew....but everybody knew him in the family as Sonny...that's what everyone called him. It was weird at his funeral when people from their church in the new town they lived in called him Bob...I'd never heard anyone call him that before. Bobby was his son....not him. Tommy's real name is David Thomas....but has been called Tommy since he was a baby or kid or something...that's what I've always known him as. But to his immediate family...his wife and her family...he's always been David....so that's why the cake says David.....I'll go ahead and throw in my Uncle Hank too that you saw in a picture above...his name is Morris K (K-stand for nothing it's just an initial, God bless my Granny Gunn, Hank was the baby, I'm thinking she started running out of names) according to my mom Hank didn't even know his real name was Morris til he started school.....because when he was born my Uncle Sonny said Morris is no name for a little boy.....I'm calling him Hank...so he's been Hank since then.......oddly enough my mom's other brother Kenny....that's his first name..well Kenneth..so I'm not sure why he didn't get another name...but oh well cuts down on confusion!
Look it's me........the girls wanted to take turns taking my picture....so here I am out from behind the camera...don't be scared!

Look at my little monkey's!!!!! I love this picture!

Me again........

I'm not mad...I think she caught me off guard I was listening to my Aunt Mary Anne I believe....or getting ready to talk....hmm not sure

Menace to Society!

Yeah she is still a menace to my society, well my house....and now we are looking for a home for her. I'm really sad about it...I mean I've been crying almost every night over it, agonizing trying to figure something else out.
She's a smart dog, and beautiful and I do dearly love her........but when I talked about getting a dog I talked about rescuing one from the Humane Society or a rescue group, I wanted an older one already trained. James brought home the puppy. But the problem with that is James is never home, and after working most weeks 7 days a week 12 hour days, it's me that's having to take care of her and I can't handle her. And I'm very fearful that she is going to knock one of my parents down, and that could be serious business after their recent surgeries. And my parents are at my home at least 5 days a week watching my kids most weeks. So it's not fair to keep her crated when they are here or stuck in the back yard.

In the end I know I'm doing the right think trying to find her a good home, where she can thrive as well as the family or person she is with, but I also feel like such a failure because this is the dog Chasity has always wanted, though she's not the least bit upset about it, and I can't control her and I can't make this work for my child, for the family.

On the upside is that once I do find a home for Licorice, my parents want us to dog share. They have a poodle about 2 that doesn't jump and is trained well, problem is they are here a lot and have been talking about how they really weren't home enough for her, but my kids love her so they were holding on...so this will solve two problems and I'm hoping work out for the best for both dogs, and us. Maybe we can start a new trend too, a dogshare program for busy families.