Whew!

Well,

Kristina looked as beautiful as ever at the wedding!


Opal and I got to hang out during the wedding!


And...Nate was there! He is always a breath of fresh air not to mention one of my favorite people.


Needless to say I didn't break out my camera until the last minute and didn't even get a pic of Matt and I! Go figure! But it seems that everyone else did so I will get some and post them soon! We had a great weekend last weekend. What a relief that that wedding is behind us and we can have a free weekend. We spent Saturday with Ashley and the boys at the TLC Easter egg hunt where they threw eggs from a helicopter and had 100,000 eggs on the ground for the kids (seperated into age groups) to hunt! The kiddos had fun and I guess that is what matters. As a result of the day see below........brace yourself....





Apparently when the sun is out you should put sunscreen on your kids. Hmmm. Yeah so Im suprised that no one turned me in to CPS after laying eyes on my babies with their "lobster" Easter look! I cant tell you how horrible I felt. But.....we did play Wii with Kyle and Kristina on Saturday night!



They brought it to our house..they are soo good and understanding to bring the fun for us as not to disrupt our kids routine! We put the kids to bed and the fun was on until well after 3 a.m. We spent Easter with them as well! They invited us to their house for lunch and we played some more Wii and stayed out of the rain!



When Ty got home it appears as if the Easter Bunny made a visit to the house!

Its my favorite to be Santa, Easter Bunny etc....I love it!

Things..

Well Matt came back from Lubbock. He had training for his new job (sprint) and he won a super cool new phone for me!! And I LOVE IT!! And as soon as he is back he had to go to the restaurant...didnt get home until 12:30...and was gone again at 5:30. He went to Vegas with our friend Kyle for a bacheloor party. They are coming back tomorrow. Basically they will be there for 24 hours. But those two can do some damage in 24 hours. Especially when Alchohol is involved. I dont think I have mentioned that our dear friends Kyle and Kristina are getting married on the 15th. Me, Matt, and Ty are all in the wedding! This is a rediculous picture of Kyle and Kristina...it was REALLY close quarters! We are going to Midland this weekend for the festivities! I'm so excited! Here is my dress for the wedding...I cant wait! I just love going to bridal showers, bachellorette parties, and everything else that leads up to the big day! Her roommate Stephanie and I threw the backellorett party last weekend, and let me tell you! i might almost be 30 but I still got it! I can still throw a kickass party! haha! But in my old age I can't hold my liquor like I used to could. I just cant hang anymore. I was sooo sick on Sunday!

Parenting Skills "101"

I must be the worst mother EVER! Ok maybe not EVER but I'm definitely not winning the "Mother of the Year" award! This is sort of how it went... Matt has been out of town for this past week, and it has shook our routine up quite a bit. Our morning usually consists of Me getting up at 7 and getting Ty out of bed. I make his breakfast which usually involves me pouring milk into a cereal of his choice...nice balanced diet of colored puffy circles, and to think I let the "mulitgrain" written on the box convince me it was healthy...and talking to him and making his lunch while he eats his breakfast. I get him dressed and hair combed and yell at Matt to get out of bed and take him to preschool at about 745ish. They leave, I wake up Raegan...feed her and put her in her bouncer so I can get ready...and Matt makes it back home to get ready for his day. I get crap ready, drive out to the sitter and drop off Miss Priss by 9 and proceed on to the restaurant (oh stop off to tan on the way to the restaurant but whatever you get it). Simple huh? Not too bad...right? Well when you take dad out of the equation it totally SUCKS!! I HAVE to get Raegan up too so we can ALL make it out the door and get Ty to school My day starts at 6 instead of 7. No big deal right. NOOOO you simple minded fools! It shakes up the whole day! When you are dealing with a 5 year old that has been up since 615 and it is 8PM it makes a difference! Well back to why I am writing this... We make a Sam's list once a week for the restaurant. I MUST fit this in at some point in the day when I don't have the kids...it becomes a circus if they are with me cause I have to go into Sam's and make it out with what I am supposed to get...drive back to the restaurant and drop off all the crap and try not to get tied up on a errand for Jared so I can get home and get on dinner for the fam. So I chose this morning after dropping off Ty as an opportunity to do my "list". Just me and Raegan. We were in and out in 30 minutes (a record for me) and as I am coming to the door to face the ice storm outside the sweetest little old lady is standing at the exit to look over my ticket so I can be on my way. Being the sweet little old lady she was...she chatted with me and suggested I "don't get that baby out in this weather" she said " you can just leave her here with me in the basket and go get your car. Just pull it under the awning here and you can load it here instead of getting her out in this nasty weather"..... I just don't know what came over me. I said "Thank you" and left my 11 month old baby with a STRANGER!! I literally walked out of the store and fetched my car so that I would not get wet while I loaded my groceries. RAEGAN...LEFT....WITH...SOME OLD LADY THAT WORKS AT SAM'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What was I thinking. I didn't obviously! I waltzed back in and thanked the sweet old lady for watching my kid and walked out to load my car. STUPID! I thought about it on my way to drop her off......and came to the conclusion that just ANYBODY can have children. Even....ME! I have established that I will NEVER win the Mother of the year Award, but this pretty much seals it!

Its Definately Monday!

That is what our cashier said this morning when I ask her how she was doing. And I must say that I agree with her! I dont know how the weather was where you are but here in San Angelo america it snowed.....i mean "iced" chunks of stinging ice fell out of the sky...so needless to say it was FREEZING! Ty was sick today.

When he gets sick he gets croup. It sounds horrible and even though he was not running fever this morning I just felt like taking him with me today instead of to school. I dont know how I am going to keep up with his attendance when he starts REAL school. What am I going to do when I am having one of those selfish days and I just want to hang out with him all day. Its going to suck.

Matt started a new job today. He is training in Lubbock for a new job with Sprint. I was very excited for him to get this job but not too enthused that he is going to be in Lubbock training for 2 weeks.....and the weekend in between (march 8th) he is going to Vegas for Kyle's bacheloor party. So basically he left me with kids and a resturant....I can handle it but will really miss him for the next 2 weeks. CRAP!

In other news my firend Kristina and I are trying to partner up and buy a business here in town. Pottery Ranch is our new business venture! I really hope the bank thinks it is as great of an idea as we do and loan us some money to get it! Ha! Keep your fingers crossed for us but in the mean time I have some pictures of it below. Keep in mind there is a lot of cleaning up to do and tons of changes we want to do once it is ours!!

Julie

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