Ohhhh!! Hi!!!!

Well, well, look who is back! I almost forgot I started a blog and feel pretty bad that the past several months has not been documented. CRAP! Here is the rundown...... May.....well May was a good month....Kristina and I implemented lots of changes at PR and I quit working at Roadrunners for the time being. Tyler graduated from PreK and was home for the summer. I had a sad attempt at keeping Raegan out of daycare and was taking her up to PR with me. Didn't work. She started a horrible daycare (I wont mention it of course) and after several weeks of sickness I found the ULTIMATE daycare in San Angelo! Mosaic Redwine is here new "home away from home". Not much else in May. Not exciting anyway. June....with Raegan in daycare I decided to have Tyler with me at PR for the summer. I had day camps 3 days a week there with different themes and a large group frequent us on Mondays when we were closed. It has been fabulous owning the Pottery Ranch and Ty didn't mind being there so much either! We didn't go anywhere during June since owning 2 businesses doesn't allow time for it! So much for summer vacation! July....I like to call it the dreaded month. We had a fabulous 4th here at our house with all of our friends! Jared and Heather even came for a visit and we were so glad to spend time with our dear friends who abandoned us. (I say that cause I know she will read this HA) No we love our visits with Jared and Heather and only wish they were more frequent. We went to Austin to see LaBecca and Nick get married! My mom came for the weekend to watch the kiddos so we could run off to Austin with Kyle and Kristina! We even got to spend a night and day in Fredericksburg! And if you know me you know how much I love Fredericksburg. We went to the outlets in San Marcos and even to Gruene to the Gristmill to eat lunch!! SO much fun! And then it happened!!! I turned 30! It sucks to hit a milestone like that, but I have great friends and family that made it really special! And as it turns out it isn't so bad! August....not much else has happened in August either. Matt turned 29 and we celebrated by going to schlitterbahn with his family! It was a blast! Pottery Ranch wound down and the restaurant sped up........oh and Tyler has started kindergarten. Ill tell that story in another post! That pretty much sums it up! Ill give more details later on the important stuff....but what matters is i plan on posting more frequently! So get READY!!!

Survey!

Well..... i got one...and as always I feel obligated to answer it! 1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? No not really I guess. My Dad wanted to name me Sloan but my mom won on that one and I got Julie. My middle name, however, Kathleen comes from my grandmother. It was her first name. She was my favorite and I miss her the most! 2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? This morning....I came home to find Matt sitting in the chair reading to Raegan. And when I sat down he quit reading and started talking to me. As we were talking Raegan was mimicking him and talking in an unusually sweet voice and almost a whisper and turning the pages to the book as if she was now reading the book. Just the sweetest thing EVER!! 3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? No! Absolutely not! I write like a third grader. It is one of my worst qualities. 4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey 5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? 2 beautiful babies. 6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Ummm. of course...that was stupid. I don't think of myself as a TOTAL loser! 7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Psht....um yeah. Again if you don't know me it is the only way I treat life. I try to sprinkle a little sarcasm in with ever conversation that I have! I think I appreciate it more than most! ha! 8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes 9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Yes...definitely. It would have to be totally sporadic though. If I had time to think about it I would chicken out. But I would like to think I would be the ring leader in getting everyone to jump. 10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Fruity Pebbles. Matt gets sooo pissed when I give sugary cereal to Tyler, and I find nothing wrong with it.....healthy smealthy.....It was good enough for me growing up! WTH? 11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? NO! I despise shoe laces. They really piss me off. Mostly anything that requires me bending over makes me mad. Im just saying! 12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Yep. I do. Well maybe not REALLY strong..cause I tried to prove it to Matt one day and figured that I was sadly mistaken. Ha! 13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Baskin Robbins Daiquiri Ice! LOVE IT! 14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Unfortunately I look for flaws in EVERYONE! I think that this is my WORST quality!! I am always on the look out for the obvious things to make fun of people....sorry its just me! I guess it makes me feel better about myself cause Lord knows I have issues!! ha! 15. RED OR PINK? Red 16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? See #14 17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My Grandmother. She died several years ago and I would really have liked for her to meet my children and hung out with her as a mother rather than a teenager...when I thought she was lame. Also I truly miss Tracie and George! I hate that they live in Florida! And I miss Jenn so bad I cant stand it! She is close enough I could just go visit and I don't know why I don't! Crystal....we don't get to spend enough time together , and when we do we both realize why we are still friends after all these years! And finally Rendee! I love her and am truly worried about her right now but she is the strongest woman I know and I know she will pull through! 18. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Ok, here is the thing about crayons....they don't have "normal" names anymore. There is no RED or YELLOW or ORANGE....I guess I will have to go with "Purplelicious" Ha! 19. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Texas Tech Football!!! 20. HAIR COLOR? RED....I hated it as a kid and insist it is still red. 21. EYE COLOR? Blue 22. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? no 23. FAVORITE FOOD? Mexican food....to be exact..11Q from Mamacitas in San Marcos. 24. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Endings 25. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? In the theater....No Country For Old Men. LOVED IT! I'm a big movie nerd! 26. SUMMER OR WINTER? SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER!!! Except this summer is my 30th birthday and I think I'm going to crawl under a rock for the entire month! 27. HUGS OR KISSES? Hugs from my babies kisses from my honey! 28. FAVORITE DESSERT? Raspberry Cheesecake from Olive Garden! 29. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? I'm trying sooo hard to finish Native Son. 30. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Club Luck logo for Willie Nelson's fan club 31. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? The Hills...BTW Audrina is a tool 32. FAVORITE SOUND? ummm.... 33. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? neither 34. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? New York City in 8th grade! 35. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I can Gleek farther than ANY man! 36. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Lubbock Texas

Happy Birthday Raegan!!

Here is Miss Raegan on the day she was born....

Here she is one year later!

UNREAL!! I can't believe how time has flown by!I hate it... It is the most depressing thing I think a woman can go through...watching your babies grow up. Over the past year she has grown into the funniest little person.....she has such a little personality and her facial expressions are so animated. For example:

This is her fake smile....she flashes it whenever you tell her to say "Cheese"! Ha! Such a little ham! She had a great birthday and several friends and family were there. We just had cake and ice cream not a HUGE bash, but we were thankful that everyone who came was there to celebrate with us.

Tyler is doing great! He is well on his way to getting the gerbil that he has been dieing for! He is rated with a green, yellow, or red face according to how he behaved for the day....I told him if he got green faces all month he could have a gerbil. Well he has one yellow face and the rest are green. I attribute the yellow face to bad parenting on my part (go figure). He stayed up entirely too late on e night and was a little crab all the next day. So I'm letting it slide. But crap.....a gerbil? Really? That little fart is going to "show me" and Matt is going to be so pissed when he comes home to find a gerbil has set up shop in Ty's room.

On another note..the restaurant is going great and so is the Pottery Ranch. We are slowly getting a routine down, and our first DIVA night was a hit! We had 8 people in attendance and 5 scheduled for this Friday! YAY!!! Its a slow start but we are getting it! Other than that things are fine and Matt and I are treasuring that hour we get to spend with each other. Literally we spend about an hour together and somehow....it is working. If I'm not with the kids then he is but never all together until Sunday!

Oh how I love Sunday!

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!