It's my Birthday!

Hello! It's my birthday today and I am very blessed! I am so happy (except I would LOVE to have my house organized), but otherwise super happy! I had a great day. I played hookey from work again today. That makes 3 days now. Luke was a little under the weather on Friday and yesterday Matt had gotten strep and today well...today I just wanted to stay home. I was doing some things around the house. I finally finished my book, Breaking Dawn! LOVED IT! Then I got the call that Matt wasn't feeling well at school so I went and got him. We came home and took a little nap and then I went and got a facial. It was a very nice day. My 3 boyz got me an IPod! I have never had one and finally decided I was ready. After I loaded some songs onto it, we plugged it in and we danced. It was a GREAT day! Thank you to everyone for loving me and always being there for me! I truly am blessed! Hopefully, I have written enough to push off those pictures of me in my uniform. If not, I will have to make another post! Tee Hee
Love you all!

Tiger Scouts

Matthew is starting cub scouts this year. He will be a Tiger Scout! Somehow, my wonderful, generous, and most thoughtful, husband of mine, volunteered me to be his Den Leader. So all summer I have been stressing out about the "uniform". The day finally came and we had to go sell Scout-o-Rama tickets last Saturday at the grocery store. The boys looked so cute/handsome in their uniforms. Not a big fan of the Den Leader's uniforms, but I decided to take one for the team. Matthew was excited that I had a uniform too...and I guess that is all the matters.

I can be fun too sometimes!

Don't know what came over me tonight, but had a little fun with dinner. Had gotten these alphabet tator tots at the store the other day so I decided to bake some chicken nuggets and tator tots. When I was putting them on the plates, I thought "how fun...I can spell their names out" then I thought "I can make some smiley faces and use their tator tots as the mouth" So I did. I called Matt to eat and he jumped up to the table and asked for something to drink then he was surprised at what he saw. He said "It's my name! How cool"! I said, "I know...isn't that fun!" Just wanted to share a grace filled moment I shared with my son tonight!

Here are my masterpieces! I know...I am such a dork! I really don't have that much extra time...something just came over me tonight!

August Birthdays!

Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to .....

Yesterday we celebrated all the August birthdays (TJ, Brad & Chad's...Aunt Carolyn too). Mom had everyone over to her house for reubens and maid-rites. Yum Yum! It's always fun to get everyone together. Brad didn't have to work on his 40th (yesterday was his actual birthday) so they brought over some mojito mix and they all enjoyed those! Amy had to leave a little early since she had to work last night. Aunt Carolyn's birthday was yesterday as well, but their family went to Flagstaff to visit Miles at college. We had a great time eating...talking a little politics (and I mean a little since I don't like to talk about politics), drinking a little (TJ & I didn't partake since we had to work today!), and laughed a lot! Since Amanda was coming over, Mom was hoping to get a family picture, but it didn't happen so I took a picture of the cousins instead. Look at how Ben & Morgan have grown. Ben has his permit now and his parents enjoy having a driver! Morgan is growing into a beautiful young lady.

It was also my friend Niky Cross Taylor's birthday yesterday. Niky if you are reading this can you believe that I still remeber that? I can still remember all those sleep over's at your house! See what you have to look forward to! :-)

Girls Night In!

A couple of Fridays ago, I had some gals over for a Girls Night In. We had a "passion party"! It was a lot of fun and for a night the men USUALLY don't complain about having to stay home to watch the kids! Tee Hee Anyways, had some fun, drank a little, ate a little, and learned a little...we could all use a night like this one to help liven things up some! Just wanted to share some pictures from that night. I am only posting the G rated ones because I don't want the other ones to surface if I ever decide to run for public office someday! :-)

This is my sister, Amy with me and then my adpoted sisters, Amanda and Bri.

Amanda & Me

Don't I look so innocent and angelic? Let me just say that my "halo" was actually a ring from one of our games...the ring toss.

I love having Amanda over. Whenever she comes around she has her camera and takes these really GREAT pictures that can make anyone look good...Thank Goodness for cropping! I think Amy might be having one of these Girls Nights soon with some people from her work...hope she invites me!

Twilight Series

It has been the BEST reading I have done in a long time! The author, Stephenie Meyers, is from Phoenix so they reference here alot which is so cool! Morgan and her friends were into the books so Stephanie read the first one last year and gave it to me after she read it about 3 times...in a row! It is one of those feel good books that when we all get together and we bring up the Edward & Bella...we all have smiles on our faces. Morgan is also in love with Edward. I kind of feel badly for her because I think she might have a false sense of how guys are...or she might use it to her advantage and be super picky until she finds an Edward. The newest book just came out on August 2nd and the Butlers were up in Greer at their cabin. They drove to the nearest little town to buy the book and MOrgan and Stephanie had the book almost read by the end of that same day! I think Morgan has read the last book about 3 times already. She is very good about keeping it a secret because I try to get some info out of her and she won't spill! I think EJ is even into them? I could go on and on about the books, but once you start reading them you will understand why a 36 year old married woman is in love with a Vampire! :-) I encourage you to get Twilight!!!! Let me know when you do. I gave my book to Amy so she would start reading it and she hasn't yet! Hello....Amy....get with the program!

Football Begins

Well it's that time of year again for football. I can't believe it is here already! TJ & Matt have season tickets to the ASU games and the Butler's have season tickets to the U of A games! Today was the first home game for both. TJ took Matt and one of his friends to the game today. They left about 3ish to go tailgating. Quite an event. In my opinion they shouldn't have any home games in AZ until October...it's still too stinking HOT! But....the NCAA doesn't ask my opinion. Anyways, TJ got a picture taken with this BOYZ before the game. They were all in maroon today and I bet if we had cameras over at the Butler house they were in red! Trying to keep Luke, atleast hoping to keep Luke, on the Wildcat side. Matt has gone to the dark side and has left me in the dust and tells me all the time "no pitty for the kitty!" I try not to let the words hurt, but they do sting...yet it is tooooo adorable seeing a 6 year old so pationate about something. Here are the little Devils!

Poor Luke has to stay home with Mom for now. He doesn't realize what wonderful bonding time this is for him. We made cookies, watched the Princess Bride, went to the grocery store, made some spinach eggs for our lunch tomorrow and were just simply lazy. I was going to do laundry, but thought since TJ was out having fun that I should have some fun too so I got Luke to bed and posting this blog and then if I am still up I plan on reading Breaking Dawn. Don't think I will get it finished, but am super close! I LOVE EDWARD! Here is a quick clip of how much fun Luke and I actually had! It really doesn't take much to entertain us! :-)