Easter

On Easter we went to Church and it was a great service, although Easter service is really loooooooooong!!! :) Plus its usually more crowded because of the Lily catholics that only come on Easter. LOL Our church as well as other churches I'm sure have Lily and Poinsettia members, those are the ones that only attend church on Easter and Christmas! Oh well, we're all busy right???!! My mom went to Church with us, that was nice. Then we went to Cracker Barrel for lunch and then to my parents for the rest of the evening! It was a great Easter. Welcome Spring!!!!!!!!!!





I always try to make time to dye eggs with Abby, she loves it! This year our packet of dye had brown in it, so I threw it away, who wants a brown egg??? Then had to dig it out of the trash when Abby decided to make her daddy a football egg. Shes so funny and creative. Then of course the Easter Bunny made his delivery!!!!





Saturday April 3- We spent the day at Cove Lake State Park at Chad's family's annual egg hunt and picnic. The kids always have some much fun at this get together. Abby loves to hunt eggs and this was Brady's first egg hunt. He did a pretty good job with Daddy's help!!

Just A Little Humor----

Here's a little joke I saw and thought it might brighten your day!!!

Two women friends had gone for a girl's night out. Both were very faithful and loving wives, however they had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers.

Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in the cemetery.

One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought She would take off her panties and use them.

Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive pair of panties and did not want to ruin them.

She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she proceeded to wipe with that.

After the girls did their business
they proceeded to go home.

The next day one of the woman's husband was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said:
'These girls nights have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst. My wife came home with no panties!!'

'That's nothing' said the other husband,
'Mine came back with a card stuck to her butt that said....

'From all of us at the Fire Station.
We'll never forget you.''

Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!!

Flower Power--Flowerbows!!!

My new hobby is to make flower hair/hat bows. I made all the flower bows above! I discovered these flowers at the Women Today Expo and they seemed simple enough to make. I found a bag of flower heads on clearance at Walmart for $1!! I had a blast making a few flowerbows and I cant wait to make some more. I am also in the process of making a bow holder for the ones I made Abby. I will post a pic of it when I get finished.

The Haircut!!!

Before




After

Wild---thats the word that best describes Brady's hair. It's thin, acts like it wants to curl but not quite!!! Well, after taking pictures the last few weeks I was so frustrated with it and I would wet it, gel it, comb it, nothing helped!! So after my mom said he looked like Donald Trump today that was it!!LOL I broke out the clippers and put the longest setting on it and away we went.

I was afraid he was cry and have a fit but it was just the opposite. He laughed and would set still waiting on the shears to run up his head. It was so cute!!!! Needless to say, I am a huge fan of boys with really short hair and looks like Mommy will be keeping him clean cut from now on!!!!!

Meeting Jennifer Stone

Abby got to meet one of her idols at the Women Today Expo this weekend. Jennifer Stone. Jennifer plays Harper Finkle on Wizards of Waverly Place and will be starring in the movie Harriet the Spy soon.

She hosted the Girl Powers fashion show at the expo. Then after the show she did a meet and greet and Abby was so excited. We had to go to Kinko's and print off a picture for her to get autographed. We stood in line for over an hour but it was well worth it to see her face when Jennifer said Hi to her!!

Opportunities like his are few and far between so I was so glad to be able to take Abby to see her!

Women Today Expo 2010

Well, I survived another year at the Women Today Expo in downtown Knoxville. I first experienced this event while working at JCPenney and they sent me there to work one year. OMG! I fell in love instantly, its such a fun experience. I love it and I have went every year since 1999!

We took Abby with us so she could meet Jennifer Stone. Jennifer plays "Harper Finkle" on Wizards of Waverly Place and is starring in the up coming movie Harriett the Spy. She hosted the Girl Power Fashion show at the Expo this year then did a meet and greet. Abby was so excited! She stood patiently in line for over an hour to get her autograph and it was WELL worth it!

I discovered the new trendy crochet hats with flower hair bows you can attach to them. I had seen them around but Abby didnt seem interested until today. She tried on on and fell in love with it. The booth for Clover Cottage in Fountain City was selling the hats for $2.99 and the hair bows were also $2.99. We ended up with 2 hats and 2 flower hair bows. After looking at the hairbows I KNOW I can make them so I told Abby we would let me try to make them and then all we would have to do is buy the hat!! SOOOO at Walmart I found a bag of flowers on clearance for $1.00 (Looked like where they had fallen off flowers and they put them all in a huge bag for a buck, not tooo bad for my test run)!!!! We will see how I do!





I also discovered International Flair in Turkey Creek! Oh my, what totally cute stuff they have. They sell the following plus more:
Kameleon Jewlery: Interchangeable fashion accessory system where you can interchange the JewelPops between necklaces, earrings, rings, sunglasses, pins, braclets,just about anything you can think of! So cute, will definatley be checking it out more soon.
Pandora Jewlery
and they are hoping to be getting Brighton soon.
I also got a really cool necklace for $8.00. But Im not sure what you call the style of this necklace but they had tons of choices and colors and I loved it!!



Thats what I love about the expo, they sell stuff way under what you would pay if you went to their stores! Great place to find cute stuff and cute ideas.

Overall it was wonderful as usual and I am so glad I can go every year and just enjoy all the shows, events, booths, and freebies!

Spring has Sprung.....I think

Today was an awesome day! It didnt start out that way but definately ended on a great note. Abby got up this morning and couldnt talk and she felt pretty bad, so we decided to let her stay home and rest. We ended up sleeping late (930a and thats SUPER late for us!). Then we met my mom in Oak Ridge for lunch. On our way home I mentioned what a pretty day it was and that Abby should ride her bike. She said no way it didnt have training wheels anymore (we took them off last summer as motivation and the bike just sat there, she was scared to ride it). So when we got home I just went and got the bike and said here get on it, she looked at me and said "you promise not to let me go until Im ready?" I said yes, she got on it and took off!!!! I didnt even get a chance to hold her or guide her!! She rode it for about 2 hours this afternoon. Needless to say she is sore and proud!!! I hope this is the beginning of a wonderful spring and summer!!

Words a mother will never forget: "Mommy I can feel the wind!" Thats what Abby said as she rode past me on her bike, smiling ear to ear! I almost cried!!!