GO GRIZZLIES!

Caden made the Copper Hills Baseball Team!  For only being a Freshman, that is awesome! We are so excited!  Caden and nine other of his Freshman friends made the team too.  They will probably mostly play on the sophmore team and we are looking forward to this whole new experience of high school baseball!
Who would have thought my cute little boy who started playing T-ball, at age five, would grow up to be such a great ball player (and handsome too)  :)

14 days of Valentines

I KNOW!   I have not been keeping up with my blog!  But this is too cute of an idea not to share and I need to get caught up.

I was reading my very wonderful friend and neighbor's blog and ran across her cute SIL's blog.  For quite a few years she has been doing "the 14 days of Valentines" for her husband.  You start on the Feb. 1st and it runs until Valentines Day.  You think of cute little things to do for your husband to let him know how special he is to you and how much you love him.  You do this for HIM and not to receive something in return.  It is all about creativity and not how much money you spend. 

I decided that I would do this for Dustin this year and I had a lot of fun looking through ideas she has done in the past and other ideas she received from friends.  I didn't have much time to put my ideas together and it is definately something you have to kind of think out.

He was really surprised and felt a little bit weird about it at first.  Dustin said it put too much pressure on him to "out do" me and that he had to think of something really great to give me for Valentines Day.  After much re-assurance, I told him that whatever he planned I would love and to just go with it!!  The kids helped me with a little bit of it and I think they thought mom was just plain weird!  But, eventually they too came around and I think it is good to show your kids that Mom and Dad are real people with real feelings.

I think I will have to start earlier next year but I really want to keep doing it and mix up the ideas year to year.  Here are just a few of the ideas that I did.  Also, you can do anything you want on each day it doesn't have to match the number of the day.

Day 1 -  Little saying with a cute heart Chinese take out box full of bulk Valentine candy.

Day 2 -  Invite for me to cook him a Valentine's day dinner.  Now this should normally be on Valentines Day BUT since he had to work, I had to figure something else out.  He had to work the whole weekend before Valentines Day - it was pretty funny having a candle-lit dinner about 4:30 in the afternoon before he left for work - LOL!

Day 4 - "Four" Necessities for our next date night complete with his favorite candy.

Day 5 -  The top "Five" reasons our dad is the best.  I had the kids help me with this one.  I love their reasons! 

Day 9 -  This was my favorite one!!  Dustin loves music - all kinds!  So I made a 2011 Valentine playlist on his Ipod and load Nine love songs in the playlist that I thought reminded me of our relationship.  So now he can listen to the songs and think of us. :)

So, there are just some of examples I used!  Can't wait for next year!!  

Undefeated!

Woo Hoo!  Carlin played 8 games with her Lady Wildcats team and they went undefeated!!  She has played wonderful and she has a great group of girls on her team.  Now on to tournament games!

Lordy, Lordy Look Who's 40!

Yes - Dustin and I have hit the BIG 40!  I can't believe it!  Don't you remember when you were young and you think 40 is soooo old!

Our first celebration was before our birthdays and to celebrate with our cute nephew Hunter who turned 5!

Dustin is 10 days older than me so for his actual birthday I had invited some family and close friends to a "Mini" Surprise party.  I told him the morning of his birthday about the party!  And - he was very surprised but he was fine about it.  The kids and I took him to dinner and then came back to the house for the party.  It was on a Tuesday night but we had a pretty good turnout.  I really appreciate everyone who was able to be there.  I could tell he had a great time!



"40 sucks" suckers :)





On my birthday, I went to lunch with one of my BFF's Jen - she is wonderful!  We went to Archibald's in Gardner Village and then walked around the shops.  Later on when the kids came home from school, everyone gave me presents!  I received a cute new purse and Dustin SPOILED me with a 3 hour pamper package at The Cottage Retreat Spa in Gardner Village.  I get a pedicure, facial and a massage!  I can't wait to get this booked!  Then we went to dinner at Lonestar.  We also had family over for my favorite Brownies and Ice Cream!!