Let's Talk About Food

Yes, this is Chicken Nuggets! If it were not for these processed disgusting little bites, my child would have blown away by now. He has lived off of Nuggets for the last eight years. He will cry if he doesn't get them on a regular basis (like every day). Hmmm, maybe we should have bought stock in these! Anyway, Daddy got fancy when he made these for Camden's lunch one day. He is trying to out shine Mommy!

I made Tim my homemade Lasagna a few weeks ago. This is his favorite meal of all time and I only make it once a year! Ha! He loves this and nothing else, just Lasagna and bread. We ate until we were in pain, but it was so worth it!


Also, I have to do a special shout out to our new best friend, Blair! Since we have been banned from the internet at work, Blair has been hooking us girls up with our daily blog read! You just never know how devastating it is when you can't get on the internet until it happens to you. I was just getting ready to throw myself into oncoming traffic! (Just kidding!) Next thing we know Blair comes along and saves the day! Blair, you are awesome!

My View

This was my view this weekend. I had a lovely time celebrating my birthday weekend at the beach with my two favorites, minus Bentley. He didn't get to go with us because he exceeds the weight limit at our pet friendly hotel. We thought about putting him on a diet to get him under 70 pounds but decided not to!! Ha!! Here are the crab hunters! They love hunting crabs at night with a net and flashlights! It is not my favorite pastime, so I chilled in the room so I could read without any interference.

"Look Mom, I caught a minnow!" Please tell me we don't have to eat that for dinner!!

It was so nice to just relax and celebrate! Listening to the waves is therapeutic and it just makes me feel close to God. I love the beach!

My "Keep Calm" Party

I had the most fabulous birthday ever! My super work friends made it very special with a "Keep Calm" theme party. Seriously, they should start a party planning business! It was incredible and so much fun. I laughed the whole day and by the end my face was hurting! These are just a few of the signs that were on my desk.

Me and the girls! For some reason Susie celebrated my birthday at the beach (without me!).

 I got some great gifts! These will come in handy at the beach this weekend. I LOVE my camera bag too!! Just what I wanted!

I also had a very special visitor!!!

Thank you Stephanie, Amanda and Susie! You guys are the best and you make me want to celebrate a birthday every day! Ha Ha!

It's My Birthday

Yes, friends, today is the BIG day. Wow! Time is flying by and I am definitely starting to feel my age! Thanks family for the gifts! And a special thanks to my husband for the awesome camera and to little Camden for the special bear. Now I am off to a day of work and I am going to party like a rock star because, Lord knows, I am not getting any younger! Ha!

 On a side note: We are no longer allowed to use the Internet at work except for business. Will I be able to survive without the Internet? I am going thru some withdrawals and feeling kind of lost....stay tuned!

Almost.....

It is almost time for a little of this! For some reason Tim likes to build sand castles this way. It is so very strange and sort of a close encounter of the third kind. I am sure that he will never win any sand castle building contests! However, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Ha! And we can't forget about Bentley Bear. He loves the beach as much as we do!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Tim! 

 I hope that our son will always look up to you. And I hope that you will always be a spiritual leader to him, someone he can confide in when needed, a source of comfort, a protector, a patient teacher, a best friend. My prayer for you is that, in turn, he will forever look at you with this same feeling of awesome love:

 

Just Camden

Camden and I were watching a cute little Blue Jay sitting on our fence one afternoon. He says to me, "We should kill all the birds that haunt us and the ones that make us mad, even the ones that wake us up in the morning!" What!?!? What happened to my little Nature Boy who was chasing birds all over Disney World and trying to feed them. Note to self: Don't let kid play Angry Birds anymore!!

Camden asked me one morning, "Mommy did you know that when you jump your whole body lifts in the air?" I sure hope he doesn't stay awake at night pondering these things!! Bless his little heart!

Camden wrote in Daddy's Father's Day card this morning: "Hope you have a good one. I am sorry that we work you so hard!" Really, is that so? What, does Mommy NOT do any work? All he wrote on my Mother's Day card was "Thank you for the food that you cook!" I found this just a little sarcastic since he never eats the food that I cook! Ha Ha!  

Coca Cola 600

Over Memorial weekend Tim and Barry had the pleasure of going to the Coca Cola 600 race. They had such a wonderful time and really enjoyed it. Thank goodness Barry went with Tim because there was no way that I would be going. Not even kicking and screaming! There were so many great tributes to everyone who has served their country.

This flag was being pulled by a helicopter.

Tim said there was about a thousand people carrying this flag and standing under it so it wouldn't touch the ground. Very cool!

And these famous horses even made an appearance!



Twins Birthday

On Saturday afternoon we headed over to the sweetest baby's birthday party, London and Urban. They celebrated their 4th birthday and it is so hard to believe that it has been 4 years. I remember the day they were born like it was yesterday!

 Of course Camden had the time of his life because a pool was involved in the celebrating!

  Susie, Stephanie and me striking our movie star pose! We were missing Amanda though! It might be a good thing that she wasn't there because a clown was included in the festivities. She would have needed a Barbie Tart for sure!

 You can't have a party without some awesome cake!

 Isn't this a cool cake? It looked like a butterfly inside! Susie cut me half of the birthday cake. I told her that it was too much and she told me to share it with Tim. As luck would have it, he didn't want any cake! It was a tough job, but I managed to eat it all! Yummy!

Such a very sweet party for some very sweet babies! 

Last Day Of School

Camden got to dress up as a pirate this week to celebrate the end of school. They had a treasure hunt with a map and a huge party. He was excited about being a pirate! Can't you tell? Camden told me that next year he was going to ask his teacher to give him extra work so he could learn a lot! Oh wonderful!

So any old way, today was the last day of school! Can you hear that? It is my sanity letting you know that it is still there! Boy, has it been a long year! But, he made it and we are off to the Third grade next year! At least I will have the summer to recover and get rid of the gray hair! Ha! Camden is going out to dinner tomorrow night to celebrate. And a BIG shout out to Tim for his MSM award that he got today! So proud of both of my boys!

God's Country

We recently went to God's Country with Uncle Randy. It is a sporting goods store and they were having an open house. We took full advantage of all the fun! Camden did a little kayaking. Then he showed some mad skills with a crossbow. Is this thing loaded?

Then he did a little rock climbing. If you can climb a rock wall wearing flip flops then you are somebody!

 He performed some stunts on the slide. For some reason when he got to the bottom he stopped sliding and flipped head over heels.

 Camden had so much fun and even got a really cool hat!

Going To Church

You know it is going to be a great day when the first thing your child does at church is make a paper airplane out of the church bulletin! We have been having such a time with Camden not wanting to get dressed to go to church. He complains and complains and whines a lot! He told me one Sunday that the rear end of his foot was hurting because of the shoes I had made him wear. (I think he meant to say his heel! Ha). 


He tells me every Sunday that he looks ugly and I make him wear clothes that don't match. Oh my, I guess it is time for him to have his own style. I am quite sure that his style will not be the cute young boy clothes that I have in mind! Besides that, ever since warm weather has gotten here he has been trying to wear socks with sandals to church. I think he does this just to irk me. What could he possibly know about fashion for goodness sake?


This morning Camden was wearing black dress shoes and white socks and he had on plaid shorts and a yellow polo shirt. I very carefully pointed out that his brown flip flops would match better with what he had on. After going back to his room to change shoes he came out and said, "I do concur, this really does match!" Did he really just say that to me? I asked him if he knew what he said. He replied, "I don't really know what concur means. I just heard it on TV." I had a very good laugh at that and then I shook my head for a long time.