Babing Suits

We are heading to the beach with a Pink and Green theme. Everything must be monogrammed. I am dieing over here!
I will not be wearing the pink or green babing suit. I am all for a navy suit that makes the a** look as small as possible. And a cover up. I will be out shopping as soon as I get some sun, cellulite looks so much better brown. When at the beach, I like a nice solo cup full of adult beverage and a book. I am easy. My kids will have PBJ for lunch and chicken nuggets for dinner. And they want to be left alone in between, there are waves to splash in and sand to dig. I am watching, with the threat that if they drowned each other I will kill them. By the end of the week they are very brown and happy as can be. I will be the Mom in the group that is not going to care enough to color coordinate my kids with my wrap. ;o) I hope I don't embarrass my friends. Just kidding!

My boys like to pick out their own clothes. They are very picky like their Daddy. J says, "Babing Suits have to have sharks or fire." It is all about being cool at the pool. Rock on 6 year old! Little boy's bathing suits are one step up from the tattoo that they want. I have little pirates on my hands, I should buy them swords and eye patches. If tattoos were acceptable at the Baptist Church my boy's would be asking.

Rain, rain, go away...

We had a great weekend, besides the in-law's!
Saturday night we went over to ACE's house for dinner with another couple, Beach bunny and Drug boy. We were supposed to eat outside, but we were rained in. ACE is a great cook and loves to try out new recipes. We get to eat the results. We had the most amazing dinner that night. ACE started us off with a guacamole shrimp bruschetta that was out of this world. The greatest combination of flavors.
Shrimp Bruschetta with Guacamole- make this and you will love me forever!
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1542958

The boys went outside to discuss the grilling process of the bacon wrapped filets and the girls finished off our first bottle of wine. And we ate more bruschetta. Beach Bunny and I had figured out that we are going to be on vacation the same week. At the same beach. Our boys play great. We play great. Its going to be FUN. Beach Bunny invited ACE and Mr. ACE to come down for a long weekend. I hope they get to come to the beach and play with all of us. I am going to have the best summer ever. When Paint boy and Drug boy found out about the vacation plans, they really started planning- the boys (all 6 of them) will be going on a deep sea fishing adventure. The girls will be hitting a spa(Yeah, massage!). All of us will pack into one truck and head over to Island's of Adventure one day. (I hope this is early in the week so that I can get that massage after a day at the amusement park.) Beach Bunny is from there so she has babysitters available and we will get to go out and eat without children. I am very excited!

We planned all of this and it wasn't even time for dinner. This is what happens when you get too many JLs in one room- we can solve the problems of the world, plan a major vacation and drink a couple bottles of good wine.

Dinner was bacon wrapped filets, fresh green beans sauteed with shallots and the yummiest macaroni and cheese with roasted red peppers. Everything was delicious. Eat-every-bite-even-though-you-are-full delicious! ACE is not a dessert girl. When you go to her house your dessert is another glass of wine. I love it! The older I get, the less I want sweets.

On Sunday we went with the Lawyer family to the Taste of... event. It was so fun- until the rains came. Paintboy and children eat there way through the Taste every year. No worries. Paint boy went back to his gallery and got umbrellas and the Lawyer's wife and I headed over to Doodlebugz and bought new umbrellas. If you get a fabulous silver handled umbrella with your monogram on it for your birthday, don't worry, I tested it for you! In exchange for the purchases our boys received free Webkinz! Yeah for FREE! Welcome to the family, Snowbell. I love the Taste event because I try all the new restaurants without the commitment. It is like "Speed dating." For $3. They laid it out differently this year. Everything was very spread out. It was good, sometimes you feel like it is a crush of humanity. Some of these people only come to town once a year for this event. I am serious. There were some strange people standing in the rain to eat food on a stick. It reminded me of the Fair. Yikes!
Starbucks was there passing out free small coffees, I had 2. I love some coffee, but not while carrying an umbrella, bag of fliers my kids kept picking up, somebody's water bottle and my purse. We had come straight from church. I was getting done.
The kids were great and had a blast. The Lawyer's wife and I laughed about everything. Paintboy was wet and they weren't selling beer until 12:45. It was time to go. He was all done.

Since I am not eating many sweets,I am enjoying drinking my calories these days.

Which leads to a funny story- J watched me make a cocktail on Friday night, not the first time that I have done this, just the first that he has noticed. I usually drink wine.

J- What are you doing?
Me- Making a Cocktail.
J- That's a funny name, what's that you're pouring?
Me-Cranberry juice mixed with vodka. and now the lime.
J- What's Vodka?
Me- Its like wine.
J- huh.

So tonight Paintboy is pouring a beer and J asks, "Do you need the vodka to mix with it; because Mommy has started mixing Vodka with her wine." Paintboy said,"It doesn't surprise me." Yeah, I had to explain that Cocktail thing again.

I make you feel fuzzy

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A little notice please

Both boys had ballgames this morning at 9:00am and 9:45am. No problem! Yeah, until the phone call at 10pm last night- MIL and SIL were coming in the morning. For breakfast. At my house. That was NOT ready for MIL.
The woman's hobby is cleaning her house and her daughter's house. You heard me correctly. My MIL cleans my SIL house. Every week. She is happy when SIL and family put their dishes in the sink and don't leave them on the table. Monday mornings she does the dishes from the entire weekend. It is insane. I know. They see nothing wrong with it. Needless to say, I am overly sensitive to how my house looks when MIL is coming.
I stayed up until 1:30 am making sure everything was ready. Then got up at 7 am to start working again and get a little Continental Breakfast action started. They were running late. As Usual. They ended up meeting us at the ballpark. AAARRRGGGHHH! The only good part of all of this is that my house is clean.

Both boys had fantastic games today. A dad on C's team lost it on the coaches- Paint boy . (His son was pitching and walking everyone. The coaches put in a new pitcher.) It was so ugly that the umpires had to get involved. I hate psycho parents! I felt sorry for his wife and son. I will be happy when this season is over. This is the worst team and worst parents we have ever had to deal with.

C is off to his first Big time boy/girl party. These parents are crazy, the kids are going to be there for 5 hours. He is so excited!

Are you going to Taste of ... tomorrow? We will be there with the Lawyer family around 11:30. Be there (at the Square) or be square!

I committed

I finally broke it to Paint boy that the boys and I are headed to Seagrove this summer! He loves us and doesn't like our family to be apart. He will be lonely. We are already going as a family in July. All the usual excuses I get when I want to go away.Wah, Wah. I love him, but I am going to the beach.
We are getting a house for a week with The Lawyer's Wife and Kiddos and June Cleaver and Kiddos. That's right people NO Husbands! We are bringing a babysitter and a Wii. That should take care of the 2- 12 year olds, the 3- 6/7 year olds and the 2- 3 year olds. Yeah! Everyone has a friend!!!
Lawyer's Wife and I have one mission during this week; FIND THE RECIPE FOR SEAGROVE TEA. Do not tell June. She has one recipe that she will not share with anyone. I mean deathbed recipe. June is very sweet and will bring her tea to any function, but you are not getting the recipe. It is the most fabulous fruit tea that you can drink plain, with white wine, or add vodka. It is FABULOUS! For about 72 hours last summer I thought I might be receiving the recipe- Thank God that I didn't, but there is still a small part of me that can't wait to figure it out. Last summer, June would make her tea at the beach and take the trash out immediately. To the neighbors trash. So the Lawyer's wife wouldn't snoop. She is that serious. The neighbor's trash.
Even if I don't figure out the recipe I will get to drink massive quantities of tea. (and not have to be at a baby shower.)

Lock your car doors

I have watched the Duggars on TLC for years. Its like a car wreck that you slow down to see if you need to stop and help. I want to grab this girl and tell her to get a grip. I know that God has given her all these blessings. I know that they can afford all of their children. I know that she has enough love for them all. What about Time? Does she actually have time to hug and speak to all her children every day? It reminds me of "Horton hears a Who", where the mayor has 97 kids and spends 12 seconds a day listening to each.
I work hard to make sure that I have really spent quality time with my boys every day. It is hard between work and normal life, but I try. C has reached a critical time in his life- Middle school! I am so in love with the boy he has become. He is sarcastic and funny; very observant of the world around him. J is finally growing out of temper tantrums and whining. He has always been loving, but boy, what a roller coaster. Now we have more ups and less downs. He is turning into a little C. His idol! Our trip was the best thing ever for our family. C and J are now the best of buddies. How do you know who they are with so many?
How do you make time with more than 3-4 kids?

Shopping and freebies

I have to share my favorite store in town, Doodlebugz! I buy all my happies there. The couple that own the store are friends, but I would shop there even if I didn't like them. It is so packed with fabulous goodies that you have to make circuits around the place. I mean in totally different directions. Clockwise and then counter clockwise. IT IS FULL! I always stop in and just tell Stacy what I need a happy for and she has 6 or 8 suggestions. The girls know where everything is in that store and can help navigate. They have a gift for anyone- men and kids included (except my FIL, the cattle farmer).
I know y'all are wondering why I am talking about this but I saw Stacy yesterday and she told me about this great promo this weekend. WEBKINZ! If you spend $10 at the store Friday-Sunday you get a free Webkinz! FREE, people. Perfect birthday present, stick it in the closet. On Saturday they are going to have games and Webkinz prizes, in addition to the $10 deal. I am heading over and I am stocking up. Afro- check the stores in your area. This is a Webkins event not just a doodlebugz event.
Sunday is The Taste of event! I love this more than any other event in town. You can try all the restaurants in town for just a couple dollars. It is packed. I think it must be everyone's favorite event. My kids love the jumpies and the antique firetruck they bring out of the museum. We will be there chowing down and jumping around.