A view worth capturing

It's a beautiful one. We're here. I'm exhausted. But so happy we made it with minimal meltdowns. I'll put pictures up during the week. No oil anywhere on the beaches here. Lots of seafood in my future. So tired my eyes are closing without my consent. Night night from Florida :)

Have shoes will travel

She gets the chubby feet from me. She got the shoes from Target. On sale right now for $7.99 FYI. If they made them to fit me I'd totally rock them.

Totally.

Tomorrow morning Charlie, her shoes, Ty and his Momma (that'd be me) are leaving for Florida. I'm so excited mainly because for about a month it's been touch and go as to whether or not we would go for it, oil spill and all. I'm so glad we're going there and not just because of the seafood. Our back-up plan was South Padre and they have seafood too.

Its more than food. I've made some great memories on this trip over the last four years. Spending hours on end sitting in that kind of humidity really bonds you with who you are with. Travelling bonds you too even when it's stressful.

Speaking of that, I'm getting on an airplane tomorrow morning. Prayers for an abnormal, (for me) drop in anxiety level would be awesome. Many thanks and I'll see you in about a week.

Unless, of course, I take pictures and can't stand not sharing them.

Highly likely.

Earring Giveaway Winners

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:2True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:12Which means that the winners are #2 and #12, Amanda and Emily

Send me your info, girls, and I'll send you your earrings. Congrats! As usual there are crazy things highlighting and numbers changing from 20 to 100 but all is fair in blogland I can assure you. Sorry I'm not techy enough to figure out the solution!

We've come a long way baby

Looking back it has been a full couple of weeks. Tonight as I went to get Joy during her crying fit, (teething, why do you hate me?) I had the thought, "We've come a long way, baby." She's learning so much and wanting to be big like her brother and sister and is nothing like the little baby that I used to worry so much about. She's a go-getter and, at least for now, a momma's girl. I thought I'd take our picture to show you what we really look like.

We are really really dark in real life. And one of us wears glasses since one of us has contacts that give her headaches now. You've heard how pregnancy can change your vision? Apparently a few back-to-back ones can really confuse your eyes. I've gotten a new prescription but even those give me headaches by the end of the day so my glasses have gotten some good wear lately. Joy is great- back asleep now thanks to Motrin and Orajel. I, on the other hand, seriously could do without the teething process.
Oh how he loves water and anything shooting water at him. Today was his end of the year party at school and he was given the "Most likely to become a rock star" award. Loved it.
The iPad is really neat. I mentioned (tweeted) about it a few days ago but never mentioned to y'all that I saved a lot of money and bought one for Sean for Father's Day. I didn't save enough to cover the whole cost of it but it was fun to give it to Sean and tell him that I'd secretly been stashing away money to get him his ultimate gift. He's not the only man in the house who LOVED it. The little pudgy hand you see is Ty's. He can totally work the thing and as long as he sits on the couch and promises to scream with all his might if Joy comes near him we let him play a few games on it. Since he screams anytime Joy comes within a ten foot radius of him I felt pretty good about that.
It is a really cool gadget and I think Sean has never loved me more.
Last weekend, (really, do I even blog anymore? I feel like I'm way behind,) my boys went to Home Depot for the workshop and made a soccer game. SO cute and Ty can play it by himself. Charlie would love to play it with him but Ty has other plans: not doing that with her.
Charlie and I went to a celebratory dinner with my family on Friday night because, well, even though I don't have the official picture to show you, Emmy and Ethan got married on Friday. I know, I know, I've been a bad sister not mentioning it until now but in a way it feels like they've been married forever since they're such a good fit and also Sean forgot to edit the pictures that he took of the two of them before he went to work. What is he thinking????? iPad that's what he's thinking. It took over his brain. He will edit them soon and you'll get to see how cute they are. Pretty cute. Since the celebratory dinner was in Arlington on the tail end of rush hour, I only took Charlie with me and left Master Ty, Joy and Sean at home. Those two (Ty and Joy,)are no good with late night events. Lots of sadness follows them wherever they go. Charlie loves people and attention, (it's a mystery, really, where she came from,) so I can bring her almost anywhere and she can last. She did. Until approximately 7:21 p.m. when she told me she wanted to go home and go night night and laid her head in my lap. Ahem. Apple fell right under the tree on that girl.

Awww love her. Love her cute headband. Wish she would wear it for longer than 4 minutes.
Here's the only married pic I have of Aunt Emmy. I promise I'll post more soon that actually include the groom.

Don't forget to enter the giveaway on the last post...no need to go to the separate giveaways page because this isn't a sponsored one. Just wanted to share the earring love!

Fashion can be free

You're probably aware of the way that Forever 21 draws even thirty-somethings in with their sassy jewelry. I may or may not have fallen into the trap a few (or more) times...Since I found so many great things on my last trip I decided to share the love. Since I'm packing/mentally preparing for my trip at the end of the week--to Florida as far as I know but there's a chance they will decide to go somewhere else--(I'm not in charge,) I thought I'd make this week a little fun for you...so meet your new summer go-to earrings

They're big but not too big...and silver instead of white but who is keeping track, right? Well, maybe you are. In the store they sold white, silver, and black but online there is only white and black. Trust me, the silver ones are fabulous. I have already worn my pair about 11 times and I got them four days ago. I have no idea how I've fit it all in I tell you.

Since Summer is totally and completely against-my-will-hot-here, these are perfect. Want to win a pair? Leave me a comment. Mention it on your blog and leave a second comment. Tweet about it and leave a third. Three's my limit. It gets too complicated after that. In all areas of my life.

I'll keep the giveaway open until Friday morning at 9 central time. Open to anybody...Mama Em, I expect a comment since you're a big earring girl.

Oh and I'm giving away two pairs. Giddy up.

My daughter, Miss Hannigan

I realize I'm partial

But I think these bathing beauties are pretty cute.

It's true that we have hit the pool and multiple places like this one. We have also gone back and forth to school as usual as well as meeting with Ty's speech therapist for the summer. He will go to a place close to our home a few days a week to try to improve in the areas he still needs help in. You teachers out there: he has the hardest time with abstract thoughts becoming words he can recall...like when he sees a picture of a girl crying holding her knee beside a bicycle and he is asked, "What do you think happened?" He will say, "I don't know. I see the bike it's a red one and I like bikes..." or maybe say, "She fall down...she fell off red bike," but he needs to be able to say, "She fell off the bike and hurt herself..." or something like it. Make sense? Suggestions for me? I certainly want to help him at home as much as we can. The therapy won't start for a few more weeks but we are ready. He loved it when we went for his evaluation. I was so glad, so relieved. He asked to go back already so that's a good sign. The therapist said she saw only language delays and didn't see a need for further testing for autism so that was another encouraging thing. His progress in school has led everyone to believe that his issue is only speech related but it is reassuring to hear the same thing from a totally different source.

We have also been swirling with excitement for Emmy. She's getting married and they're not drawing it out for months and months like I did, (or did I? I forget! That was a long time and many lost brain cells ago,) so trying to hear every last detail about their plans has become a full-time job for me. One I'm very happy to have :)

Ok I'm turning into a pumpkin soon...way past bedtime. Hope you've had a good week! Goodnight y'all.