No excuses...

Yep, it's been eternity since i posted..but I'm making no excuses this time, I'm just going to go right to blogging.

First up, is a Lily update. She thinks she's grown! She is such fun! We have had a great summer!

Most of this is for my own records, so just ignore some of it, but we went to her first movie in a theater - Toy Story 3 back in June and she loved it! She's all about Toy Story these days!

Jessie is her favorite!

She's also all about pageants. I finally gave up and ordered her a dress, and we are planning her "big girl" pageant debut, maybe in September.

She loves to play pageant and I have to "Present" her to the group. When asking her, her favorites, she reported the following:

Favorite Food: Tacos

TV Show: Toddlers and Tiaras

Movie: Shrek

Animal: Elephant

What she wants to be when she grows up: A woman so she can shop, Haha!

Her new favorite "pretend" game is to shop in her room. She gets her cash register and we have to shop and she "rings" her up. Too fun!

I love the whole pretend stage and never stop her from pretending. It's so hard to think she's going to be 4 in November, but time is something I can't stop so I just enjoy every day.

Here are a few pics from our beach trip in early July.

I'm excited about my next post. - I went to my 10 year High School reunion last week and I can't wait to post pics!

Not me! Monday

I haven't done a Not Me! Monday post in a quite a while, so I thought it was definitely time to talk about things I would never do, "not me!" After reading my post, if you would like to read more "Not Me's!", head over to MckMama's blog and check them out.

BJ and I definitely did not think we were having a great idea of buying Lily new bedroom furniture and swapping her bedroom to our bigger guest room. This would be a total mess and make us realize how small our house really is and that I absolutely have way too much stuff!!

We now have to repaint her new room and find somewhere to put all of my junk! I would never buy scrapbooking, sewing, floral, painting, gift-wrapping, and hair-bow making supplies and especially would never use them. I do not have time to do any of this and why in the world would I think I did? lol!! We spent a good bit of our Saturday cleaning through what seemed to get worse the more we tried to clean.

We spent Saturday evening involved in Amber's (my niece - BJ's sister, Michelle's daughter) 8th grade prom. I took pics and would never say I took over 250 pictures of her. I mean that would be way too many for pics for anyone, lol..the more the better huh? She did look beautiful.

Amber had the great idea of dressing Lily in her life-size Barbie's dress. Lily was so excited about dressing up like Amber.

On Sunday, Mother's Day was great. Church with my mom and Lily brought me the prettiest card and gift that her Sunday School teacher gave her for me. How sweet! I would never almost cry when I saw her precious self bringing it down the aisle at church to me. I am so proud to be her mommy or "mom" as she has been calling me this past week.

We had lunch with BJ's mom and sisters and their families at his sister's house. After lunch, we spent 4 hours on a homemade black plastic water slide...Can you say redneck? Yep, it was fun though. I would never in a million years get on it cause im usually a scaredy cat, but well, they convinced me yesterday and we had a ball. Lily slept 11 hours last night and my body is aching today, but we had the best time! Can't believe I'm posting this pic..but maybe you can see how much fun it was..horrible pic of me by the way :)

let's get this summer started..

BJ had some business for work in Mobile this past weekend, and Lily and I tagged along and turned this into a fun weekend.

We stayed at our favorite condo in Gulf Shores that belongs to this sweet, sweet lady that we work with and her husband. It was a short stay but we made the best of it and had a great time.

Every year at the beach is so different with Lily. This year, she loved the sand, seagulls, and the pool, but not so much the ocean or the waves crashing. She was terrified "that water gonna get me" so she stayed far away from the water.

As always, I managed to get a few pics. Surprise, surprise, lol..

We also enjoyed a lil shopping and Lily had the best time at the Track. A small amusement park. She wanted to ride everything and never has any fear. She told us this morning that she wanted to go back to the Track. Can you believe she rode this? It's for kids, but I didn't think it was exactly for 2 year olds?
Riding the go-carts with her daddyAnd finally, is this picture...not sure exactly what she was doing, but I think this pic deserves a caption. Any ideas, anyone? Please leave me comments...