Where did June Go??????

Seriously, time is flying by!!! I haven't posted any of our June happenings, so I'll give you a quick recap!!

Rob and I had our 11 year wedding anniversary on June 7th. Another, wow, where has all the time gone!!?? I'm so lucky to have Rob in my life! He is a great husband, a wonderful Daddy, and above all, he puts up with me!! LOL (just ask him, I'm not the easiest person to live with!!) Yes, sometimes he makes me crazy, but I can't imagine my life without him in it!!! I love you baby!! Here we are 11 years ago!! I would do that day all over again, and not change a thing!!! I had such a perfect day!! I have to tell you that I was really lazy getting this photo on here! This was the first photo that I came to and I took a picture of a picture!! Yep, pure laziness!!!
I got my hair cut again!! I get board so easily! I just want something fun and summery!! So I let her go at it and she cut it and gave me some caramel highlights to blend and hide some of my gray!! I know this is a bad photo, but ya know, I just can't take a good photo to save my life!!

Rob celebrated his 47th Birthday on June 22nd. We always go out to dinner with the family and the birthday person chooses where we eat. Well, Rob ALWAYS chooses the same place, cause I don't EVER go there. So we all headed to Red Lobster! Rob was a happy guy. Lily and I also took Rob to Red Robin for his free Birthday burger, now that's my kind of food, no seafood please!! Lily loved it when we embarrassed Rob and had the staff come over and do their Birthday thing!! She especially loved sharing a sundae with Daddy!!
Lily is doing great! Rob and I took last Friday off and took Lily to the zoo! She had so much fun, and it was great to spend some time with my two favorite people!! Lily was an angel!! She loved every second of checking out the animals. She got to pet sting rays, crabs, and a shark, she got to pet goats, sheep, cows, and chickens. She loved watching the crocodile. She liked the frog exhibit. She thought it was great that the bear was swimming in his pool, and the monkeys, she loved watching too!! We needed some quality family time, and it was wonderful!!

We are heading Up North on Thursday and will be gone on vacation for 10 days!!! Woo Hoo!!! We are camping at our favorite spot on the water!! We are going with Mom and Dad, Robynn and Wally and the three of us!! We are really looking forward to no work, no worries, just pure relaxation and fun!! (Yes, I am bringing my scrap stuff) We will be doing a kayaking trip, this will be Lily's first time in the Kayak for any length of time, should be interesting! I'm sure I'll have lots of photos upon my return!

I hope you are all having a great summer!! Take time and enjoy!!!

Scrappin' A Princess

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I Do Not Have A Green Thumb!!!

I'll admit it, I'm not good with flowers! I love to go and buy them and plant them and put up hanging baskets and make the outside of our house look pretty....I go with the standard easy care kind ya know! Anyhow, I always put 3 fuschia hanging baskets in my front windows. They usually do great until I go on vacation in July and people forget to water them, but I've only had these damn things for 2 1/2 weeks and one is dying??? WTH?? I bought them all at the same time, from the same place and they are hanging in the same place, getting the same sun, being watered at the same time... so.... how can one be dying????? Anyone?? Can you tell I'm a little irritated??? I did some research and It's possible that I over watered it, but why aren't the other ones dying?? I use Miracle Grow and it has always done wonders for my plants, but I guess not this time. It also said if I did over water it, it probably won't come back, so I haven't watered it in like 4 days and it's not looking any better. I give up, I think I need to buy another hanging basket! Damn!!! Ok, rant over!!

I have been waiting to put Lily in her cute outfits I bought her in February and it's finally warm enough!! She looks so adorable!!! Sorry about the bad photo!!

I was in bed at 8:30 last night, I've got ANOTHER cold!! Let me tell ya, daycare at home makes for germs and sickness everywhere!! I have this dry hacking cough that just wouldn't stop last night so I drugged myself up with some cough medicine and some advil pm and crashed for the night. So far today I feel pretty good, let's hope I'm on the mend!! Nothing worse than a cold and cough when it's finally getting nice outside!!

We've had some very humid weather the last two day and rain. I know we need the rain, but we've had like 4 days and more to come! I need sun in my life, otherwise I get a little crabby!!

It's almost the weekend, YAY!!! We have another weekend of staying home and hopefully getting some work done planned!

Give a Man a Chainsaw......

We had a wind storm the Sunday night of Memorial Weekend and a branch off of our tree in the backyard broke and landed on our roof. There was no damage to our roof on the house, just the back patio roof. The problem was trying to figure out how to take it down without completely trashing the back patio roof, cause the branch was partialy attached. So put my Hubby, my Dad and my BIL in my backyard with two chainsaws and yep, they got it down! Now mind you, some of the things they were doing, they had no business doing with chainsaws in their hands, seriously somebody could have gotten seriously hurt!!! Not to mention give my Dad a chainsaw and he'll remove every tree he can see! So not only did they trim the tree with the issues, but a few others too!!

The branch on our roof

Ladders, Straps, Chain Saws. Now look closely, if my hubby slipped with that chain saw, my Dad would have some serious problems. DUH!! Not to mention, my hubby is standing on a door across the patio roof, cause it's not meant to stand on!! HELLO!!

I mean seriously, how safe does this look to you??

I had to go in the house, I just couldn't watch anymore!!

Actually, I think this is what sent me in the house!!

Well, they got if off the roof with minimal damage to the patio roof!

Now after I've been in the house for awhile, I go back out to see what they are doing, and look what I find, my Dad up HIGH in the tree, with a chainsaw, tied to the tree with a rope.

Hello, dude, you are not a spring chicken anymore, what the hell are you doing???

Good God, somebody get my Dad out of the damn tree!!

Thank the lord, he is finally getting down!!

So somehow, amazingly enough, no one was hurt, not counting the scratches and scrapes!!
Thanks Dad and Wally for helping Rob out!!

Yep, I jumped on the bandwagon too!!

I decided to try out Scrapblog and see what I could come up with. Here it is. I did have fun doing this, I don't think I could ever go all digi. I like paper and embellishments way too much!! I'm sure I'll be playing around with this though!!

I'll be back soon with some photos of what happens when you give men chain saws to cut down one branch!

Memorial Weekend Fun

We spent Memorial weekend at home this year. We had lots of yard work to do, and we actually got it all done!! I went and bought flowers and got that all done, and I'm even trying to grow some sunflowers this year. Mind you, I am no green thumb, so my guess is, they won't ever sprout!
We spent Friday night at the carnival then the fireworks. Lily had so much fun!! As you will see from the photos, Papa and Grammy joined us and well, no one really exists when Papa is around! He rode almost all of the rides with Lily, I only rode a few. Thank goodness for Papa's cause there was no way my big ole' ass was walking back up the stairs to slide as many times as he did. I only had to ride once!!

Waiting for the firworks

Fishin'

Riding the dragon with Papa and Auntie Robynn

Look Mom, no hands!

Lily was giving a thumbs up to her entourage watching her ride

I don't even know how many times Papa and Lily rode this slide

Gotta love a Papa who will ride in the elephants!!

Watching fireworks. She loves fireworks, she calls them "bams"

We went to the parade on Monday and Lily loved that too!!! She waved to everybody and shook her booty when the bands came!! All in all a great weekend!!

Hope you all had a good weekend too!!

For Mature Audiences Only!

I'm finally getting around to posting a few photos of girls weekend Up North! Yeah, we're a little crazy when we get away, but we have some fun!!! Love these girls!!!

Heading out for the night

My Baby Sis

Now you may be asking yourself, WHY??? I had to try to get a photo of this! How much more wrong could you be?????? Seriously, this poor woman was the laughing stock of the bar, not just this night, but Friday night too!!! Where are her friends??? How could they let her leave home like this?? Ok, and on Friday night it was a string bikini top that was tied wrong. This is just wrong!

LoLo and Wendy

My Sis with the crazy eyes

This was at the end of the night and well, ya know what happens when you tell a friend you want to see her feet coming out of the sun roof!

Hanging out at the Oak Grove Tavern

Low, Low, Low......

Don't even ask!!

Yep, that's what she said!!

Don't Blink......

Cause you just might miss some Kenny!! The concert was amazing!!! He just gets better and better!! Kenny concerts are high energy, that man is all over the place (I wish I had that energy)! I took over 200 photos and some turned out ok, I was shaking so bad from all the adrenaline, but we still got some worth while! Leanne Rimes opened for Kenny and she did an awesome job! Now for the question of the day??? Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland showed up to sing a few songs with Kenny, so are they a couple??? If they aren't, they should be!! Uncle Cracker showed up too!!!! Got love when those two get together!! Here are some of the photos!!! Enjoy!!!

Thanks Robynn, Tracy and Lori for a wonderful time!!!

Stay tuned for girls weekend photos next!!!