Thursday, June 2, 2011

Peanut Gallery

Here's the original...























So what about this one?...

























Oversized peanuts? Or a mini bucket? :)


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Here they are together. The original on the right.



















Logan's Roadhouse mini desserts come in mini peanut buckets - that you can keep! Darrin's is proudly on display in our living room now. :)

(The little tiny silver thing in the center - just under the clock.)

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

May in a nutshell. A medium-to-large sized nutshell.

I know I know, I just never post anymore. And then when I do it's forever and a day long because I have so much "important" (???) information to share because who knows when I'll post again!? Our life is really not all that exciting. Here's what has happened lately:

I survived my first ever "Conference" at work without any [major] hiccups. (This is really the reason I haven't posted, I was working lots of overtime which just makes me completely exhausted.) And we got -yet another- new girl at work who I absolutely LOVE!! I'm already done training her too, yay!

It rained. Once.


Darrin and I went to a Josh Groban concert in SA. OH! MY! GOODNESS! Talk about amazing!!! Also checkout Elew sometime - he opened for JG. Way cool!



My little prom princess "baby" sisters looked stinkin' amazing at BHS prom. (Yes, this was Kaitlyn's second prom this year)

Seriously...they're knock-outs!!! :)

Chrissy came to visit - right after she made a 4.0 for the semester. Go girl!!! :) We had lots of fun girl time while Darrin was away for the weekend on a work fishing trip. So much fun I didn't even get a single picture - ugh!!!!

Photo courtesy of a different weekend. :)

Kaitlyn graduated from Rudder High School, THIRD IN HER CLASS! :) And gave a fabulous speech with her buddy Andrew. And Darrin & I even worked Project Graduation with Mom, Dad, Chrissy, & Justin. I'm pretty sure we still haven't recovered! *Just a little shout out to my awesome Mom here because she worked her BUTT off to prepare for the weekend and all the company. And she made a super sweet graduation slideshow of really precious pictures for Kaitlyn along with a delicious dinner for about 20 people on Saturday.*

Our favorite Honor graduate!

Mom & Dad were too busy actually working to get in the picture with us. ;)

Darrin went on ANOTHER fishing trip for work. He caught 15 of the 35 fish they got...that's my man!!! :)



And this all happened since my last post approx. 4 weeks ago. Do you see how I manage to never find the time to post? I don't even want to think about what our life will be like once we actually find a church to get involved in and then bring kids into the mix. (No, we're not growing up THAT fast!) I can't wait for the post titled "We [FINALLY] joined a church!" One day....

Sunday, May 8, 2011

April Travels (Part Two)

...continued.

April 29-May 1 weekend: was quite possibly the busiest of them all! Our first reason for going to town was to celebrate Darrin's Mimi's 90th birthday! We had a wonderful party Saturday afternoon and almost all of Martha's side of the family came to town. It was so great to see everyone and hang out with the Little Princess (Avaree) too! We also went to dinner to celebrate Chrissy's birthday and got to see Kaitlyn get ready for Rudder's Prom. She was voted Miss RHS by her classmates, which is basically the equivalent to Prom Queen. Yup, the same year she also won Homecoming Queen. :) I even got to see my BFF Abby and her sweet little Emma! We topped it off with senior recognition at church on Sunday. It was a wonderful weekend and a wonderful end to our many consecutive trips home. 





LOVE this one!!


Our favorite niece!!









Mommy & Daddy listening to the "pretty music" Avaree was playing

Gigi teaching Ave piano :)



Birthday Girl!

When you're 90, you get one candle per decade!



When you're 1, pants are *OPTIONAL*!

Emma & "Aunt" Jamie


Sleeping with her arms behind her head...is this hilarious or what!?
Abby + Jamie = BFFL! :)
Birthday girl!!!



Mom & Dad with MISS RHS!!
Senior Sunday...tear!
Our Sweet Kaity and Brent
We hated to miss being home today for Mother's day, but after 4 weekends on the road and with my big Conference for work coming up this week, we knew we had to stay in town for once. Happy Mother's day to our fantastic mothers!! We love you and appreciate all the diaper changings, mess picking up, clean laundry, home-cooked meals, good advice (solicited or not), and most of all LOVE you have provided us over the years! You are the BEST!!! :)