The Day After!

Last night we went to Ichibon's for dinner with the family for Trey's Bday. We had 14 people and overfilled a hibachi table. It was great! He got Fried Ice Cream for his dessert and Morgan and Eleanor ate most of it. The kids enjoyed the Edamame the most and even Eleanor ate it with chopsticks!I can't believe we forgot to get a group picture! Dang... oh well, we'll all be together for Morgan's 2nd Birthday in a few weeks. She was a bit freaked out by the noise and the fire especially. She hung onto Mimi and Poppy for dear life! She got used to it though and enjoyed it eventually!

The chef was great and what a hoot and he cooked my steak and shrimp to perfection! I took lots of pics and got some good ones, but I won't bore you with them all! Just a few more! ;)

Oh and the "gang" consisted of Trey, Nick & Me, Mimi & Poppy (my parents), Nanaw & Papaw (Nick's parents), Kevin, Alicia, and Morgan, (my brother, SIL and niece), Grandad, (my Dad's Dad and Trey's Great Grandpa), and our best friends Einar, Mary and Eleanor.

When we got home Trey and his Dad put together some of his new Lego's. I went to bed around midnight and they were still up. Boys...

After school starts we'll have the friends Bday party. Most of Trey's buddies are out of town for most of the summer, so we'll wait and have another blow out in September! YAY....not! That's all for now! See ya later!

Happy Birthday Bub!

Today is my baby's Bday. He is 9 and I can't believe how fast it went by! It seems like this was yesterday.---------->

and this--------------->and now he's this-------->

and this too------------->

but I cannot complain, he is a sweetie and he's mine! Doesn't mean somedays I don't wanna pinch his head off, but he's a great kid and a great son! 143, Buddy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREY! XOXO, Mom

Is it time for school to start yet???

Man, if I have to go through another day like today, I will end up in the loony bin! It is flippin 100 degrees outside and in since none of the kids that are running in & out all day don't know how to close doors! One thing they do know how to do is eat all my food! You would think they are homeless as much time as they are over here! I love that Trey has friends and they do keep him busy and not hollering for me constantly, but jeeze, when there are 6 of them, things happen. I was trying to vaccuum and it only took an hour (which is usually a 20 minute job) because people kept coming in and out. A neighbor just stood there talking my ear off while I had the vaccuum running! I left it going on purpose, get a hint, but she didn't! ;) and the door was wide open! I laughingly said, "you're just like the kids, go in or out"... but she didn't get it! I should have bet money when these certain kids came in they would be down in 5 minutes to ask for food, well it only took 2! Then once they came back from her house to ask for a bottle of water!?!?!? I said, "Don't you have water at your house?" I am PMSing so that is part of it and hopefully Trey's friends won't think I'm the Wicked Witch or something, but it's like this day in and day out! Oh, and get this... the Dad of 2 of them was complaining to someone that he only got them for a month in the summer, but on his day off, guess where they were?!?!? HERE! Hellooooooooo... spend some time with your kids! I had one of them for 3 days without him even going home! OK, that's enough, I'm sure you are tired of my piddly drama!

I did get all the Yard Sale stuff priced and boxed up and in storage. We decided to wait til after school started (if that ever comes!) and then it'll also be a little cooler! So we'll have it in Sept or Oct. By the looks of all my crap, I hope to make some coin!

I have not scrapped in ages! I'm trying to get going on our Myrtle Beach album, but I've been going thru 300 some pics and need to just order them instead of printing them myself. But... sometimes I like different sizes of pics and it's easier to print them as I go. I guess I'll have to pick the best ones and not print hundreds!

I'm hooking up with an old friend of mine who's going thru a rough time and we're gonna lay out by the pool and just talk and tan! Looking forward to that later in the week.

Tomorrow is my baby's Bday. Can't believe it, I'll post about that then. We are going to see my Gma with my Mom and niece, then all meet up for dinner at Ichibon's for some yummy steak and shrimp cooked on the hibachi! Trey picked it, he loves the cooks and their tricks!

Going to chill for a bit, check ya tomorrow! Thanks for hanging in w/me today!

Word of the day...WHY?

Well, I guess you could say I've been busy this week! I have been in Shaggy's (Trey's new nickname) room for the last few days from sun up til dinner! He has so many toys and crap, I couldn't stand it any longer! He has a 10x6 closet that was packed to the gills, and shelving along one wall that was overflowing onto the floors. Not to mention a few toy boxes and drawers full of mostly junk! So since his Bday is Tuesday and he'll be getting much more stuff, I had to do it! I started taking everything off the shelves and dusting. I had been collecting that dust for about a year, and was sad to see it go, NOT! Then only putting a few things back up. The others went in boxes for storage, Yard sale or donate. He is a packrat like his father and keeps old broken Mickey D's, Sonic and BK toys... WHY??? so they are gone to toy heaven by way of the big blue monster(dumpster). Have I mentioned I love big, black lawn & leaf trash bags, the kind you can't see thru?? LOL! So then it's on to both toy boxes. One has his rubber ball collection, why again?, and all his naked Build A Bears. Why buy clothes for these guys? They never stay on!
I also went thru all of his clothes in drawers and closet and weeded out stuff. He is in a 8-10 and had size 4 shorts still! I got under his bed, which is a platform bed and has great storage underneath, and threw lots of stuffed animals in the Yard Sale boxes, but also found the Pooh talking bear and the singing Caillou and a few toys that he had when he was a sweet 2 year old. Memories.... I did keep a few sentimental things. I also went thru all 4 boxes and totes of old schoolwork, my lands, why did I feel the need to keep all of that? 3 trash bags full of old paperwork. I kept things he had made that were special, but ended up throwing most away. So, long story not so short... I have made 2 trips to storage so far and have 7 bins for Yard Sale in my bedroom and still need to price 3 of them, mostly hiding it from Shaggy, or he'll pull most of it back and stuff the shelves once again!

So, why Shaggy? Well, he goes to a private school and has to keep his hair short, but during the summer I let him go without a haircut. He is trying to be a Sk8terBoi and wants long hair like all the gromms he is riding with, WHAT??? anyway, his hair has a curl to it and now it's beyond looking cute, it's just plain shaggy, hence the name! I don't have any recent pics, because his hair always looks like crap! I'll try to get one soon! and no I didn't take before and after pics of his room, WHY? hmmmmmm, guess I'm not a true scrapbooker after all that would have made a great LO! That's ok, it'll be there again eventually! Not too soon for my back's sake!

Going to price stuff and get it outta here before he wants to see what's in all those boxes!! see ya!

Well, Hello Dolly.....

Well, Dolly has made her way into the Gulf. So far we may get some rain and storms, but she isn't supposed to visit the Houston/Galveston area. We hope she doesn't have a change in plans later in the week! This is just a "get ready" for the rest of the season!

Today we went Bday shopping for my baby... my 9 year old baby! His birthday is next week, but we were out running around and he found the skateboard he wanted, so it's his now and he's out riding as I type. Where did the time go? It is true, the older we get the faster time goes... how is it that for the kids, it still crawls?

I also found "the" purse I have been looking for! The hot color of the summer is a butter yellow, and I found it! I wanted a big enough one to hold my camera when I wanted to drag it around, and to hold all my crap! I am really picky about handbags, I like one strap, because if there are two, one always falls off my shoulder. It has to have a phone pocket so I don't have to dig and if there is any metal, it needs to be silver because I wear mostly silver jewelry. I don't want much do I? LOL!

Not much going on here except I need to do some scrapping. So... that's my plan for tomorrow!

Tonight I'm chillin and since we had a big lunch at Red Lobster (Trey's pick) we're having leftovers for dinner! Love their Cheddar Bay biscuits! We had Lobster Pizza and the Peach Bourbon BBQ Scallops and Shrimp and it was all great! Haven't been to RL in a long time, but it was really good! Have a great night!

Welcome to the Jungle!

NOT! Took Trey & Morgan to the Rainforest Cafe today. Thought Mo wouldn't be quite so scared. She will try anything and is usually into just about everything, except for the gorillas there! She loved the gift shop and the games out front, but clung to me and Mimi the WHOLE time! Then when the monkeys and gorillas would start she would squeeze tighter. She never cried or really freaked out, but she did NOT like it! Here she is saying . "No monkey, no..." We ate then went out front to look at the beach and the other animals out there and she played around a bit, but she wasn't happy.

Trey & I played a few games then we headed home. Didn't even try to do the boat ride! Here's me and my guy by the "not real" monkey.... she kept saying, "Monkey not real!"

We wanted to get a few pics on the seawall of the kiddos, but it was SO hot and windy we just headed back home for a nap! Not me, the little one! Maybe when it cools down a bit we'll try again! Next week we're doing something in the a/c and without monkeys! Hopefully she's not scarred for life and terrified of chimps! ;)