Our Weekend

Caden and I had a great time this past weekend visiting my family and going to my cousin Lundy's wedding.

When we got to Mom and Dad's house Friday afternoon Dad took Caden on his first ride on the tractor. Caden had a blast! We were so surprised the noise did not scare him! He just kept growling trying to mimic the sound of the tractor. I posted a video of him on it as well.

After the tractor ride, we had to explore all of the property! Here is Caden running up and down Dad's flatbed trailer. Saturday we celebrated Dad's birthday. Here is Caden being lazy on Mommy's lap.

Poppa and the grandbabies. You have no idea how hard it was to get them all looking at the camera or at least a picture without Avery or Caden trying to wriggle out of Dad's lap.

Here is Caden with his camera trying to take pictures.Lundy's parents, Mona and Doug just before the ceremony.Here is Kari and Lane. Lane stood at the front and handed out programs. Isn't he handsome???The room that the attendants got dressed in had a bearskin rug. Here is Lane and Macie (Lundy's niece).

Here is Luke (Lundy's brother) sitting beside Mona before Lundy came down the aisle. My Dad is in the background (he performed the ceremony) and Rusty (Lundy's husband) is beside him. Incidentally, Dad also performed Mona and Doug's wedding over 30 years ago!

The proud Mom watching her baby girl come down the aisle.

Proud parents watching Lundy and Rusty dance.

The Reaves.

Here we all are after the wedding. From back, Logan (Lundy's brother, Lundy, Luke, myself, Kari, and our grandparents. The beautiful bride!
My Sista and Me!
Nannie and me.
The wedding was so pretty and we had such a great time getting to visit with everyone.

Sunday Caden and I went to church. Here we are after church just before leaving to come home.
After driving home, Caden played with Daddy while I took a nap to recharge so that Tim and I could go to the Stars game last night! What a long day! Thank you Grammie for watching Cade Man for us. Tim and I had such a great time getting to go out and cheer on the Stars.

This Weekend

This weekend Caden and I will be traveling to Conroe for my cousin Lundy's wedding. I brought him to work with me this morning so we can leave from here. Here are some pictures of him before anyone else arrived this morning.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Caden loves the Itsy Bitsy Spider book. He does not however like for Mommy to read it because apparently I do not read it like Daddy does. Once he brought the book to me and I started reading it and he took it out of my hand and said, 'DA!' and took the book to Tim to read! Here is a video of Tim reading the book to him last night. Caden has this fascination with his belly button, don't ask!

Happy Birthday Dad/Poppa!

Happy Birthday!

We love you and hope you have a fantastic day!

We cannot wait to celebrate with you this weekend!

Whose Child Is This?

Tim's Mom, a.k.a. Grammie, watched Caden last night while I went to my hair appointment. I came home before he went to bed and as I turned the corner into the kitchen he ran to me, gave me a big hug and a kiss and SMACKED ME ON THE FACE with his hand! I disciplined him and promptly sat him down as Pat was telling me what a model child he had been all night. As I am trying to pay attention to her, my child whose brain has been replaced by that of a wild Indian came flying by the couch, and just bit the arm of the couch and continued running into the kitchen, around through the office and into the living room and slammed into me (I was sitting on the floor) and he bit me on the leg! I am thinking 'WHO ARE YOU AND HOW MUCH DO I NEED TO PAY YOU TO GET MY CHILD BACK?' I just looked at my mother in law who had this totally calm look on her face while she said, 'That's kids...they will do that every time you come to pick them up from Grammie's.' I ask you all, HOW IS THIS? One moment he's having a lovely evening with Grammie and Mommy walks in and the child becomes possessed??? I just sat there with my mouth open watching him RUN NOT WALK throughout the house touching everything he knows he should not be touching and then some! Anyway, it was a sight to behold.

I always swore to myself (in my head) I would never use those phrases our parents used on us growing up. Having said that, over the weekend Caden was climbing up on the ottoman (yes we climb now) and he started to topple off of it believing he was invincible and the following words just poured out of my mouth as if my MOTHER had taken over my body: 'Caden, watch out! You're going to fall and bust your head open!' Has anyone REALLY fallen and busted their head open? I mean really fell off of something soft onto carpet and their head just 'bust' open? I digress, anyway, he just looked at me and if someone had taken a picture I'm sure my face would have been that of horror! I just said what I hated to hear as a child! The next thing you know I'll be telling him to move away from the T.V. or he's going to go blind. Oh the horror!

More Lunch Time Fun With Amber and Jamie

Jamie and I decided to have lunch together today at Pei Wei. I got there after Jamie did only to learn they were closed for some reason (it was posted on the door but the lack of cars in the parking lot at 12:17 PM gave it away). Jamie suggested our 2nd choice of Subway down the road.

We had lunch and were standing outside on the walkway chatting before we left when this woman walked up to us. We both thought the lady needed to get by so we both in unison took a step back and said, 'Sorry.' To which the lady only stood in front of us and in a rambling partly incoherent voice said,

WHAT AMBER HEARD HER SAY: "Excuse me. Can either of you help me? I am homeless and I need money for a hotel room."

WHAT JAMIE HEARD HER SAY: "Excuse me. Can either of you help me? I am homeless and I need money to feed my children."

Regardless of what she said, Jamie and I in unison once again just stared at her at what seemed like an eternity (perhaps waiting for the other to say something).

We were not sure if she was finished speaking until she looked at us both and sighed. Then we clicked and once again as if we were in an orchestrated play grabbed our purses (like you would if you were to walk through a bad neighborhood in town-not that I do that, come to think of it-but YOU GET THE IDEA!) and at the same time we both mumbled something like, 'Oh, ummm...I don't have any cash...I'm sorry.' So the lady walked off, completely throwing off our train of thought from whatever we were talking about when she walked up!

Just to set this up...she had A LOT of foundation on (the color that even if you were in the dark would not match her neck or any other part of her skin). She came from the direction of a vet clinic and was carrying a blue animal cage with something in it. I think she also had A LOT of clothing on for such a warm day. The ironic part of this whole story (since no one will find humor in it but Jamie and me) is that we both did exactly the same thing at the exact same moment throughout this bizarre exchange between us and this lady. The most awkward part-in my opinion-is the length of time we both paused before answering this lady. It was like we were waiting on the other one to take the lead!

Not only did Jamie and I do the exact same thing with regard to this lady, but we both were wearing leopard print blouses today!

Oh well, never a dull moment in the lunch outings of ours!

Click here for Jamie's version of our lunch today!

Click here for the last funny lunch thing that happened to us!

I'm a Rock Star

So now that I've been on T.V. it totally makes me an official celebrity, but something happened today that made me feel like that even more so. (Although it was on a much smaller scale!)

Do you guys every walk through the frozen food section where all the doors and freezers are that are lit up? I went to the store today and I was pushing my cart down the aisle and noticed (at first) that the freezers were not lit up. Then, as if I were on a runway in Milan, as I would pass by the freezers, the lights would turn on. For a brief moment, I was a celebrity walking down a red carpet and the freezers were flashbulbs going off. It was great, then I nearly ran into some stock boy with a huge box of fish sticks. Snapped me out of that fantasy real quick!

I Did Not Get the Memo...

that after your child turns a year old, they quit smiling at the camera on command!

'I'm too sleepy to smile...sorry Mommy.'

'I'm smiling behind my thumb.''If I don't look at Mommy she won't see me.''Seriously Mommy, enough already.''Mommy, give it up.' 'Do I look like I want to smile? Huh?' 'I'm not paying attention to you anymore Mommy.' 'Telephone Mommy! It's for you! Now maybe you'll put the camera away.'

'I'm only smiling because Mommy is holding my favorite ball over her head and I want it.'

'Talk to the feet Mommy.'Seriously guys! What happened to THIS baby?

To Confirm Your Presidential Choice

A friend sent this link to me and I love it. ABC News has set up a test where you choose which quote from either Obama or McCain that you agree with-without you knowing who said it-and then the test will tally the score to see which president you agreed with the most.

It confirmed my pick that is for sure!

Try it by clicking here.

Happy 7th Anniversary Scott and Kari

We hope you both have a fantastic 7th Anniversary! We love you so much!