Three Amigos!!

Saturday night was dinner and a movie night. Our friends Kelly and Tim came over with dinner -- Thank you AGAIN! After dinner the monkeys were getting restless so it was movie time, what movie you ask -- Transformers, of course. I popped some popcorn, made cups for the kids, with a couple little sweet treats tucked in (starbursts/skittles) and the movie began...

Picture Day!

So, last week McKinlee arrives home from school and in his bookbag is a slip for "Picture Day" I was excited because since he has gotten older I don't take them to have their photos done I wait for the school/daycare to do them. Well I pull out the information packet and OMG the prices were off the wall. I'm sorry but $14.00 for a 3x5 I DON'T THINK SO! So I took some photos myself, you know what they came out really nice too...

Saturday Morning Breakfast at the Moy's

I just thought that this picture was so funny that it totally deserved a post.

Fencing Project Begins

Lee started the fence project about a month ago, and let us just say this truly is a PROJECT. The pictures below are only the beginning. He has been breaking his back trying to dig through this Carolina Clay just to put the posts in, so we broke down and rented a hole digger -- thank you Mr. Neighbor for offering to pay for it and then ignoring us when it showed up. That's another story but any how below are two pics, I will take more as progress continues.

Things that go BUMP in the Night...

Okay so for the past several days I've been up way before normal. Like for instance this morning, human alarm clock 2:34 a.m. The funny thing is yesterday's human alarm clock 2:34 a.m. Maybe I should play the lottery? BTW -- human alarm is me NOT Maddock.

So here I sit at 5:17 a.m. waiting for the time that I actually have to start getting ready for work and my daily ritual. And I ponder and decide let me putter along the blogs and see what I can read. Maybe something interesting might pop out and hit me. And of course I stroll upon some blogs that I find great amusement in, or frustration or maybe just out right anger.

Can I just say this one more time, one should NOT throw stones when living in a glass house. Okay okay... I had this ex co-worker remember my blog "Can you say hypocrite?" well yes this was regarding an ex co-worker and I read her blog this morning and it really irritates me and I don't know why but it does. She continues to blame the world around her for her misfortunes. For instance we both had our children in the same daycare. I love my daycare, never had a problem, and they have always been good to my children. Her on the other hand, bad mouths them every chance she gets and blames some of her children's problems on them. I'm sorry but you are the MOM right? Don't you think they are your problem not theirs? I'm just saying, I thought the person that gave birth is this one responsible, but I could be wrong -- I'm not perfect.

And another thing, remember my blog about one shouldn't talk shit about ones ex-job until they know that they will not return??? AGAIN I REPEAT MYSELF, STOP BLOGGING SHIT, the walls have eyes, and they actually can read too! (this is just HINT)

WOW, its the small things in life that make you feel good sometimes. Okay I will ponder some thoughts again and... until then I have to shower.

Grave Digger

So while in the Outer Banks, Lee worked and the boys and I enjoyed vacation. However, while Lee was at work one day he passed Digger’s Dungeon. YES, that’s right folks, Grave Digger, Monster Truck extraordinaire has a place on the Outer Banks where there is a Digger’s Dungeon store with all his trophies, etc., a Digger’s Diner (we did not partake in the eatery), and an option to take a ride on a monster truck through a monster truck obstacle course. A few years ago we had taken McKinlee to the Monster Truck Jam at the Greensboro Coliseum, so of course I had to take McKinlee Digger’s Dungeon.

We first strolled through the store, took some pictures (see below) and then of course we ended the trip with a little ride…

No need to worry, McKinlee was strapped in and with trained professional... I HOPE!

Outer Banks 2008

We had a GREAT time in the Outer Banks. This was a our first real family vacation and we tried to compact everything we could into 4 days. I believe we did a pretty good job too. Here are some of our pictures...

McKinlee and McDonald’s

I have not met someone yet that doesn’t like McDs, unfortunately for my family, McKinlee loves it and well that is where we decided to spend his friend/family birthday party last night. He had the best time, he had his friends Emma and Beth …

he had his aunt, uncle, and cousins…

but I think having Grandma, Pop Pop and Maddock there iced the cake…

I do believe his most favorite part of the day was cake and gifts, of course...

McKinlee’s Birthday Fun

I decided to start his special day with me leaving work early (yeah for me) and taking him out to lunch and then to Celebration Station. We arrived at Celebration Station at around 1 o’clock and my intentions were to ride the go-karts, play a game of mini golf and then inside for some game playing. However, McKinlee caught eyes on the water bumper boats, so I got us tickets and we entered the boats. Now that McKinlee is exactly 48” tall (holy COW), he was able to drive himself. Little did the ride attendant tell me, there were water guns on these water boats. So needless to say my child decided to attack mom and then had another little boy join him in his efforts. I was soak-n-wet by the time we got off. Thank goodness it was hot out, I dried quickly.

While I dried off, McKinlee caught some action on the go-karts…

Happy 6th Birthday, McKinlee!

It is so hard for me to believe that my baby boy is 6 today. My word, it seems like yesterday that I woke up thinking okay today is the day the doctor is gonna set me up for induction since I was already a week over due. And yes they did set up my induction, but not for another 2 days, but right about 4:30 p.m., my water broke and I went into full blown labor. I thought I was gonna die! We had a 2 hour drive to the hospital, which Lee turned into a 45 minute drive through rush hour traffic in Jersey. Do you know what that is like? How my husband made it there I will never know but we arrived at the hospital at 5:15 and McKinlee was born at 7:56 p.m. Talk about a fast labor and delivery. So there ya have it!

Happy Birthday Baby!

We have a fun day planned I will blog more and post pictures tomorrow!