WOW!!!

I love blog surfing. I like seeing what backgrounds people have (and where they came from). I like looking at other people's pictures and reading their posts simply to find out what they think is blog worthy. And I like to look for ideas for my own blog.


The other day I stumbled upon Emilie's blog and loved it! The design is awesome, her posts are witty and the wording for some of her "gadgets" is really creative (so I borrowed a few of them :-) She was also giving away a "hip, funky and downright wicked mix CD" of one-hit-wonders from the 80's to 3 people of her choosing (from people who left a comment). So I left a comment mentioning that I had stumbled upon her blog and that I loved "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. And Emilie chose me as one of the winners!! I was thrilled to say the least!!


But I was even more thrilled when I was showing Bobby her blog yesterday evening and there was a post about my blog. My blog!! Here I am blog surfing, looking for inspiration for my blog and I ended up inspiring someone else. She liked my Letters to Hannah & Letters to Samuel idea and has decided to do the same for her own children. I was so honored and excited. I love writing letters for my sweet babies on their own blogs and I'm glad other moms want to do the same. Personally it's so much easier than keeping up with a baby book or journal. And frankly, I'm terrible at getting my pictures printed out for baby books. So much happens in one day and they are growing at warp speed that I just want to remember as much as I can. I just sit down and upload my pictures while I quickly type up their letters. Fast, fun, easy.


Anyway, I just want to say thank you Emilie for picking me out of 40 something "entries" and THANK YOU for writing such a sweet post about my blog. I will forever be a follower of Emilie.

Happy Birthday Bobby!!

Today is my dear sweet husband's birthday - he's 32! Even though he had to work he still had a great day. Hannah & I made him a German Chocolate cake (his favorite) and wrapped the present we bought him. Hannah colored him a birthday card and wrote all the letters herself (with a little coaching from moi.) Then his dad took us all out to eat for supper. My mom called his birthday in to WGOG and he won a cheeseburger plate from Bantam Chef. Not a bad birthday at all. Also, tomorrow his boss and his whole department are going to take him out to eat and the kids & I get to tag along!


So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the most handsome, most wonderful, smartest husband in the world!! You're still as hot today as you were 12 years ago! The HHS love you very very much!!!

This is What Happens on Windy Days...

Today Hannah & Bobby were watching a movie and I was in the kitchen working on supper. I happened to glance out the window and the TRAMPOLINE WAS ON TOP OF THE WELL HOUSE!! I am not kidding. The wind has been terrible today but I didn't think it was blowing hard enough to tip over the trampoline. Bobby & I managed to get it off the well house but we're going to have to do some repair work on the bars (I guess I should say Bobby will be doing repair work :-) At least it didn't rip the mat or the netting. This is a very good thing considering we bought the "tramp" for Hannah for Christmas last year! I ran outside with the camera to get proof because I didn't think any one would believe us.

Random Pictures

I wanted to put up pictures when I moved Samuel to Hannah's room but never got around to it until today. Enjoy...

Hannah loves seeing Samuel first thing in the morning.

Hannah loves this neck pillow I bought for our trip to FL next week.

The golf set that Ryan & Bethany bought for Hannah. She loves it!

Peek-a-Boo

Snuggling with Lamby

Samuel and the Madagascar poster he ripped his 2nd night in her room.

Snuggling in Hannah's bed.

Hannah came running into the bathroom to help make the sign for potty!

BED....

....HEAD

Cue the sparkles. Cue the music.

Princess Presto to the rescue with the power to spell!

Chick-fil-A started their family night program again yesterday and this time it was Super Hero night. Your child could dress up as their favorite super hero and enter to win prizes. Hannah wanted to be Princess Presto from 'Super Why'. So she put on her purple dress & tiara and got out her wand. After I got her dressed she walked around singing, "I love to spell. S-P-E-L-L. I really love to spell!" I was amazed. I didn't realize she could spell spell!!
Anyway, we invited her "buddy" Jude Steele to come with us since we know he loves super heroes. He came as SpiderMan and I'm pretty sure he described all three SpiderMan movies (in detail) to Hannah on the drive to Seneca!! Hannah just quietly listened to every word he said and nodded like she knew what he was talking about. It's so fun listening to them talk when they're together!


Anyway, Super Hero night wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. They didn't have games for the kids and there were so many kids there running around screaming that it was hard to hear each other talk. So after we finished eating we headed back to Jude's house so they could play without getting trampled by a stampede of feral children (seriously! We tried to play on the playground but there were too many unsupervised children running everywhere and climbing on the play land that we got out before we got hurt!)


I left my camera at home in my rush to get out the door but I do have one picture that I
downloaded from the Chick-fil-A website.

The Dillard House

Ryan & Bethany got in (from IN) on Friday evening and they're going to stay with us a whole week. We're super excited because we have so much fun with them. So one of the first things we did was take them out to eat Saturday night - to the Dillard house in Georgia. You know, the best southern restaurant ever!! You're seated and the waiters just start bringing huge plates of food and put them on your table. You help yourself to whatever you want and if you run out of something you just ask the waiter to bring more. And their food is so delicious. For more information on the Dillard House click here.

This is what we were served Saturday night:

Fried Chicken, Country Ham, Prime Rib, BBQ Chicken, Potatoes au Gratin, Green Beans, Creamed Corn, Fried Okra, Glazed Carrots, Baked Acorn Squash, Tomatoes, Onions, Cole Slaw, Melon, Yeast Rolls, Cornbread, Cobbler a la Mode

And here are some pictures of our evening...

Hannah & I stop eating to pose for a pic.

Ryan & Bess-a-nee (this is how Hannah says Bethany)

Samuel is enjoying his chicken leg & glazed carrots.

Lee & Emily have been kind enough to let Ryan & Bethany stay with them so we invited them along as well. We had a lively conversation!!

Sammy probably wonders why his dad is so crazy!!

Yard Sale Adventures

Well, our yard sale yesterday was a bust. Or at least it was for me. It was just too cold and there wasn't a lot of people out. Hannah on the other hand did great! Hannah has been wanting 'Rainbow Dashes Bedroom' (It's a baby My Little Pony) for a while now but it was $20. So Bobby & I decided that if she earned 500 stars on her Chore Chart we would buy it for her (which would have taken her 2-3 months). But after watching an episode of 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' where they have a yard sale and the twins sell drinks...I had an epiphany!! Hannah could make cupcakes and sell them at the yard sale to earn the money for her toy. She loved this idea and we had so much fun baking and decorating her cupcakes. She made Devil's Food with Cream Cheese Icing and Rainbow Chip with Strawberry Mist Icing. We decorated half of each batch with sprinkles. I must say that these c.c. were beautiful and tasty!!
I set up her little table and her chair along with the sign I made for her so she would have a "Cupcake Stand." She sold her c.c. for 50 cents each and she made $18 (which was a lot better than what I made!!) She wouldn't take "no" for an answer either! My uncle came out to look around and Hannah asked him to buy a cupcake. He said he wasn't hungry b/c he'd just had a big lunch. So Hannah picks out a cupcake and takes it to him. After he took it she just stood there with her hand out waiting for her money!! I think I need her sales skills with my Avon!
So that evening she took her $18 along with the $6 from Papa and headed off to Wal-Mart to buy her toy. It was one of those moments for me that makes me want to cry because I was so proud that Hannah had worked to earn the money she needed and had fun in the process.

Hannah also had a little friend to play with at the yard sale. Jessie was baby sitting her cousin (from her dad's side) and she brought him to the sale. His name is Kenneth but they call him Bubba (we are in the south you know). He's three years old as well and they had a blast!!! I got some really cute pics of them playing together.

It was hard not to eat all these while we were decorating them...
*sorry this picture is a little dark but you can still how marvelous they look!!*

Hannah's cupcake stand.

Bubba helps Hannah run her stand.
Looking for stray sprinkles (several times I had to reprimand them for picking sprinkles off the cupcakes!!)
Holding hands and playing.