Visit to West

The boys had a great week at VBS in Waco. Of course mom spoiled them everyday while they were visiting her. They went to the Children's museum, saw the movie UP, went to Lake Whitney and they "drove" a boat, and they played with her new kittens non stop. Always fun times when we visit West. We will be back in a few weeks for Grandpa's 80th birthday party. Here are a couple pics.

Work has been sooooooooooooooo busy lately. I can hardly catch my breath. Good thing I have great friends here to lighten things up when I need it. :) The boys last day of school is next Tuesday. I sure hope Scott knows what he's in for. It could be a wild couple of months at home with all 3!

Family Fun in Kingwood and Heading to West

Last weekend Scott's sister Gina and her kids Tyler and Kaley came to visit us in Houston. We all went over to GiGi and Grandad's house for the day and had a wonderful time hanging out and catching up. Aunt Lisa and Uncle John were there too with cousins Megan and Natalie. It was the first time all the kids have been together at one time since Ryan joined the family. We will have to visit Aunt Gina in Colorado very soon. :) GiGi had a ton of great food, we drank wine and played Mexican Train. Great Fun! Today Ryan and I are heading to West to visit JoJo and PaPa for the weekend. Jayson and Justin have been there for a few days already going to VBS at JoJo's church. They have been super spoiled while they have been there. I hope they dont think it will be that exciting once they get back home. They will be very disappointed. Anyway, I cant wait to sit out on the porch, drink wine, and take in the fresh country air...

30 BABY!!!!

Well I finally turned 30 on June 8th! I think I may be the last of my group of friends to cross that bridge but now I'm here. The birthday started off with mom and me going shopping. It was fun girl time. She took me to lunch at Joe's Crab Shack and then I got my haircut too. After that we rushed home so I could get ready for my fun Happy Hour I had planned at Chuy's! There were about 20 friends that showed up to celebrate my birthday. I was told I had to take a shot for each decade so I "had" to do it. I am pretty proud that I was able to take down 3 Patron shots and 2 margaritas and still walk out with just a slight bubbly happy feeling. I didn't want to be the sloppy drunk girl so I paced myself and did very well. My wonderful friends showered me with sweet cards, gifts, life changing margarita cupcakes, and great laughs. I will never forget the big 3-0! Thanks everyone!!!Then when I went back to the office, and my coworkers had a surprise waiting for me at my desk. Check it out... Anyone who knows me at all knows I love purple so it was so appropriate that they did this for me. Now we have these purple balloons all over the dept. There are literally like 144 balloons here. They filled every inch of my work space. ahhhh...makes me smile. Well, another birthday in the books. I look forward to many more.

Kenny and Ziggy's and Photo with a Celebrity!!!

JoJo came to visit last weekend so we could kick of the birthday festivities. It is a big one this year for me so we started the celebrating early with the family. Lauren (my bro's girlfriend) got tickets to see Fiddler on the Roof starring Topal for Saturday and we had a blast. The show far exceeded my expectations. It is still in town so you should go check it out if you haven't. My mom bought the show tickets and dinner to celebrate me and my brothers June birthdays. So after the show we headed to Kenny and Ziggy's to eat. I was pretty nervous about dining at a place that served tongue cooked many different ways. The menu was pretty extensive so our sweet waitress helped this first timer out and explained everything. My dad really knows how to treat us so he ordered a few bottles of wine to start of and then he ordered the tongue appetizer!!! We ordered several appetizers just to try different things but I was still forced to try the tongue. It wasn't terrible, but I just can't get the thoughts out of my head that I am eating tongue. Wheck! Dinner was fabulous and so was dessert! The eclair was so big that 9 of us split it. Just as we were finishing up, my mom whispered to me..."look who just walked in...It's Mattress Mack!" So at that point I had several glasses of wine in me and said "I want my picture with him for my birthday" As he was about to walk back outside, our sweet waitress ran from the back of the restaurant to the front to chase him down for a picture with me. I watched as he came walking back towards me with a big smile on his face. He came over and wished me a Happy Birthday and said I was making him blush. Awwww. He is pretty cute for an older gentleman...I'm just saying. Don't judge me. Of course the whole table of family and friends were cracking up at me (we had all had lots of wine at this point). It was such a fun night! Then Lauren and Jonathan came back to the house with her homemade Italian Creme Cake cupcakes. YUM! Thanks Lauren!!! It was a very memorable time to say the least. Here are the pictures.

Of course I have to post some cute pics of the boys too. Ryan has discovered the boys play kitchen and he loves it!!! He is just tall enough to reach over the top and play with the food and pots and pans now.

The big boys are excited about pajama and movie day at school today. I dressed them all in matching pj's and had to snap a photo. HA! Too cute. They also wore their slippers to school this morning. They didn't understand why mommy couldn't have pajama day at work today too. We had quite a long conversation about this last night.
They are only staying at their current school through June and then they will be home with daddy July and August until their new school starts in September. Good luck Scott! I will be praying for you each day. They are a handful.