Fabulous Friday run down

Happy Friday, guys!

I am always a lover of Fridays, but this Friday is extra special for about 2,376 reasons.

Fabulous Friday Reason #1: Hubbs comes home!

Michael has been out of town all week, and is coming back today...HOORAY!! There has never been a time, in all of our years together, that I haven't boo-hoo'd like a big baby when he leaves town. I really do miss him when he's gone, and the kids miss him just as much. Silver lining? The chance to watch daddy's little girl beam ear-to-ear when he calls her for their nightly chat and prayers over speaker phone. She cannot wait to see him tonight and neither can I!

Fabulous Friday Reason # 2: Pink Impact tonight!

The long awaited PINK IMPACT starts tonight, at Beltway Park! Gateway church, in Southlake, hosts this ladies conference every year, and this year Beltway decided to host an extra one here. From what I hear, it's a life changing event! I seriously CANNOT WAIT for {my sweet friend} Mysti and I, to experience what the Lord has in store for us this weekend!

Fabulous Friday Reason # 3: Ehem....ROYAL WEDDING!!

Helloooo....how often do we get to see a royal wedding??!! This is a historic day! I wasn't even alive yet for the last one, so I am so excited to watch (the replay...was certainly not up at 4a.m.) all the festivites! Can we please talk about her dress? Stunning. Classic. Gorgeous. Just like her. LOVE it.

How exciting for a  "commoner" (as they keep calling her on Good Morning America) to become a princess! Kate Middelton to Princess Catherine. My husband (and his twin) were born on the very same day as Prince William, and for some reason this makes me feel more a part of it all. Next best thing to being on the guest list, right?

Fabulous Friday Reason # 4: What a difference a day makes!

Yesterday, in an attempt to look nice for my hubby's homecoming, I got the brilliant idea to wax my legs. Not only did it leave behind half of the hair, it also left me with (what looked to be) the worst razor burn of all time. It looked as if I took a rusted, blunt razor and shaved my legs dry. Fail. I then proceded to break out the tweezers and pluck what the wax had missed, and eventually just gave up...after half an hour got me (basically) no where. Thankfully, time heals, and they look much more like human legs today. And now my husband won't be repulsed by the mere sight of me. So that's a plus. And no...I will not post a picture, because I care, and  I don't want to give you nightmares. You will thank me later.

Okay, so that was only 4 reasons. It seemed like more initially.

Happy Friday, ya'll!

Easter weekend - in pictures

Good Friday Easter egg hunt...twelve classes of Kindergartners! Mass chaos!

Peeking at the goodies

Yummy sack lunches

Sweetest little Easter babies, being forced to take pictures before church...

Church is over...time to bust out the "skip-it" she got in her Easter basket

Resurrection eggs time!

A little sass added to her cast. Broken Thumb...more info on that later :(

Wouldn't be Easter without "the pout"

Banana pudding...mmm!

The fruit bouquet that I found here...and am oh-so-proud of!

My love.

My favorite little man

Best girl in the world

Hunting time

Most amazing and yummy bunny cake that our sweet friend Sharon sent for us! Thanks Sharon :)

Mila is obviously really into the indoor egg hunt...

As was Lola

and THIS is what we came home to this evening...

Yuck! 

Not so great. 

However, we are very thankful for the much needed rain, and that it was only a busted up car, and not us! God is good, all the time, even in situations that seem to have no silver lining.

Happy Resurrection day!!

Best girl in the West

Last week we had the pleasure of attending my big girl's first school play!

The theme was western, which was right up her alley. She has a deep love for all things cowgirl/western ever since she went to "saddle ridge ranch" VBS last summer.

My little cowgirl :)

There was singing, instrument playing (ahem...sticks and wooden blocks) square dancing, and she even got up and said a line on the microphone. However, the very best part of it all was seeing how totally excited she was about it! She wore her hat, bandana, and boots around the house all week long, while she rode on her brothers rocking horse, singing "Home on the Range" at the top of her lungs. She's pretty awesome.

{ you can barely see her little face under that giant hat! I wanted to go up on stage the entire time and fix it for her! }

Later that night, she decided we needed to video-tape her pretending to be "Abbie-Wild West-Cherry Pie" and me being "Princess-Star Glow" as chased down dragons with her light up drum stick  gun and horse. The video tape is beyond historical, and is complete with her excessive cowgirl southern drawl. I would love to share it with you, but she might never play "Cowgirl & Princess" with me again, and that's just not a risk I'm willing to take!

Bake-aholic

I love baking.

I love muffins, cookies, brownies, and the like.

However, I don't so much like to fill my kids with junk 24/7, so when I found this amazing carrot muffin recipe, I knew that I had to have it.

Let me just tell you...they are out-of-control-good. 

Abbie doesn't care for cream cheese icing (I know, I don't know what is wrong with her either...) and Jaxon will only lick it off and discard the muffin, so Abbie iced a couple for me and we left the rest plain. To each his/her own I suppose.

 Obviously, my favorite thing about this recipe is that it is made with whole wheat flour, omega-3 eggs, and pureed carrots. My kids still haven't figured out that there are carrots in these muffins, and couldn't figure out why on earth I would put grated carrots on top of the one that I took a picture of. Shhhh...don't tell them. They might stop eating them.

Since it was 99 degrees out today, I figured I might as well make the most of my oven already being heated and make something else. I found this yummy oatmeal breakfast cake recipe and whipped it up quickly before the oven cooled off (which wasn't likely in this crazy Texas heat) I didn't think much about it when I saw it, and you won't either, but don't let the picture fool you, it is  f a n t a s t i c .

Don't judge it till you try it!

 My kids are just as tired of eating cereal on school mornings as I am of buying it, so hopefully tomorrow's morning meal will be a nice change of pace and maybe (gasp) Jaxon will actually eat his breakfast instead of decorating the floor with it. That would be a nice change.

Great I am

"The mountains shake before him

The demons run and flee 

At the mention of the name 

King of Majesty 

There is no power in hell 

Or any who can stand 

Before the power and the presence of the


Great I am"

Oh. Man.

 If these lyrics don't get you pumped up for Holy week, I don't know what will!

 I am so excited for what this week brings. Such an apparent reminder of all my Savior has done for me. What could be greater? 

Happy Palm Sunday!


{click here to hear this song...it's amazing!}

Photo booth fun

One of the many reasons I love Spring, is all the great weddings we get to attend! Our weekends have been filling up fast since march, I just love this time of year!

We went to a wedding a few weeks ago (okay...3 weeks to be exact) in Mansfield, and it was our first trip away from the kids in over ONE year, and only my second time to leave Jax over night. Needless to say it was long overdue, much like this post! 

I just love weddings. I love the chance to dress up. I love those warm feelings of reminiscing I get about my own wedding. They make me all sentimental about love and marriage and all that mushy stuff.  They give me a chance to get my money's worth from my waterproof mascara. And of course there is the food, drinks, and dancing on top of all the love. Weddings are fantastic!

After all the cute "posing" pictures were done, came the photo booth with the dress up box.

What a great idea, this photo booth. Can I go back in time and have one at my wedding?

This is me, with Hiro Nakamura.

I won't claim either one of them.

And by far my favorite picture of the night...

Ladies and gentlemen...my husbands best friend. He definitely keeps us entertained.

We had a great time away, but were more than excited to get back home to these precious babies, who were spoiled rotten by their Nana all weekend!

Couldn't love them more :)

P.S. I hope you like the new blog look! I did it all by myself (and by that, I mean I used a pre-made backgrounds/headers and watched lots of online tutorials about photoshop), and I am FAR from tech savvy, so I think it turned out pretty well, all things considered.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Thankful Thursday

I am so thankful.

Very thankful for this guy right here

He has been gone a lot lately with work and business trips, and it makes me all the more thankful when he is here. I'm not sure that I could even live without him, and am more than thankful for him (and the fact that he puts up with me and all my craziness...)

and I am oooooh so thankful for this...

That is right folks...we are in a big boy bed now!! And we have a big boy room to go along with it.

Paci gone...CHECK.

Sleeping in big boy bed....CHECK

Registered for college...well maybe not yet but he will be before I know it!

I'm thankful for this thoughtfulness

**please excuse my blurry blackberry pictures**

My sweet husband surprised me with both of these on Monday, the flowers while he was out of town and the picture after he got home. The picture is supposed to be a reminder for me that it is ok to just "drop" everything and enjoy life! Such a good man to think of such a sweet way to surprise me.

And I'm thankful for all the sweet birthday wishes this week. Thanks :)

But most of all...

I am thankful for this great gift. I am thankful for this season of Lent to prepare my heart and mind for the death and resurrection of the one who has never and will never let me down. The one who paid the biggest price. I am thankful for Easter and all that it brings with it. 

And just so you know that totally includes bright colors, pretty dresses, cute baskets, and lots of egg hunts. I love this part of Easter too!

Happy Thankful Thursday!