recapture your youth

i wouldn't say that recaptured mine; although, i WILL say i enjoyed a weekend full of LOTS of kids....And come Monday i will sweep them out the door and kick back for some good girl time.... 

OR 

i will agree to help out at the boys school and get all of us out the door and ready by 8:30 and help for 4 hours with 2 year olds.... And call it a day!  Its very safe to bet on me raising a white flag in the yard today and even safer bet to say i can't WAIT to get them off to school tomorrow and to the gym..... even if i feel sssssooooo guilty typing it!

 my big city girls came to town looking most fabulous!

 we could hardly leave baby molly's side

 who can resist a puddle after the rain?  

 we had a spend the night party with my eldest niece and had too much fun

 And after a birthday party we skipped off to Atlanta for a baby's special day....

 we claim them as "family" aunt, cousins, etc.  I claimed their mama as my cousin growing up and now my boys call her girls cousins.... see the pattern here... we are close like that!  SO..... My middle baby felt the comfort and shed his shoes and shirt ASAP.

 shorts can really be a pain, so there they went.....

 what do you mean they played hard?  

wise ole' words

at ease gentlemen

SO... since daddyc departs us this weekend for a boys rodeo AT the beach, ON the golf course, watching SUNSEtS, EnjoYing a few cocktails, MISSING ME LIKE CRAZY, wishing he was HOME changing diapers and reading books to boys,   he planned a most fabulous date night for TWO.....

OR....
we have t'ball until dinner time and will come home and bath our boys and read books and call it a night. phew! that sounds more like it.
 A girl can dream!!!
No really, Daddyc and some boys are taking to the seaside to celebrate his birthday with endless rounds of golf.  I am so excited for him and hope they ring in his next year of life with great fun and lots of laughter!!!!  happy Early birthday charles!!
stay tuned-  One child picked out a golf cake to order (done and done) and the other insist we have 31 candles, so we will!!!
so while the boys are away, the girls will play and RELAX,NAP,REST, GAB for endless hours.....

whatever!  We all have small children, MORE than one, most of them getting teeth or molars and NOT sleeping....ALL requiring 100% of moms time and energy.... who is excited now?
i really kinda am.
My girls are in town from atlanta and we had a wonderfully sweet visit yesterday...i am NOT posting pictures today, maybe tomorrow? One of them is being Christened on Sunday (i love a baby's special day!) and tomorrow we get my eldest niece to have a spend the night party, woo hooo!!!  And attend an adorable 2 year old birthday!



And some make you smile Random Thoughts of the Day

•   I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. 

•   Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft. 

•   There is a great need for sarcasm font 

• Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

•   I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

•   Was learning cursive really necessary?

• Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say". 

•  I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

•  Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

• How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

•  I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent an aggressive driver from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

• I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

•   I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

•  Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

•   Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

•  Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem....

• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

• Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

•  There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

•  I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

•  When I meet a new person, I'm terrified of mentioning something they haven’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

•  I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

• Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

•  It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

•  I wonder if cops ever get annoyed at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

•   Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

I don't know where these came from but they sure do make me smile and i can SO very much relate.  happy Thursday, the weekend begins today if you ask me.  

all that, plus some

do you have to do this to get anything done?....

i do.   if i dare sit down or slow down, i have three precious angels that swarm me, i would get more emails answered and blog post posted if i did this above.... But usually  i always have atleast 2 wild indians in my lap- there can be a darn circus outside but if i sit down, they will STAY in my lap..... 

Cute, i know... 

So sweet... 

And how I am so going to miss that in a couple years. .... 

but goodness gracious, fresh air is good for the lungs!!!!!  

just kidding boys, you know mama LOVES your sweet souls more than life itself.

Anyway, our happy home has been celebrating at many a birthday party since last friday...... 

 I wasn't up for carting the camera around... so i didn't.  

I had to snap a couple of a dear friend's child but other than that, i just called it a birthday party and left it at that.

Happy Birthday sweet angels!!!

 is there ANYTHING better than a princess cake... i mean, really?

 depends on who you ask... if you ask my sole child i had that day.... Her mama is the BEST COOK EVER and her cheese dip is top notch.   I didn't have any, as i was busy slamming the chef's margaritas....  

The other two stinky boys, well; their big daddy took them to the lake.  Heaven!  They were so very excited like they did NOT just go last week with big daddy, i love how excited they get each time... 

It was actually my middle baby's first lake trip ALONE with big daddy, my monkey was a little stressed (he enjoys being spoiled by his grandfather but.... the time has come at the ripe age of 5 to share big daddy with the others.....so sad but true!) but he warmed up to the idea and the middle one was OVER THE MOON to get big daddy time.... They fished, did the farm, hiked, and all types of boy things... My monkey caught a big bass and was all too excited to share his news!!!!  

 And it was safe to say my little lamb was almost LOST without his brothers, he has NEVER been with his mama and daddy without a brother.... He took "f", his lovey and was a little clingy at first but warmed up.... FYI:  I have NO clingy children and NO shy children so it was a little stressful (cue the margaritas) and i found it hard to catch up on my social level..... Looking back, i am feeling the motherly GUILT because all my lamb was saying was "play with ME" "play with MMMMEEEE"  

 these are some of mine and daddyc's bestest friends babies.... Are they not totally edible?  I claim BOTH!

And just for fun, i agreed to host these 7 rascals below.... They may be some of my favorite children on God's Green Earth, not maybe, THEY ARE!!!!!  They are all their own little being, all different, and all the best of friends.... They have shared their upbringings UNTIL this coming fall....when they must part and go their own ways to BIG school..... sniff sniff.  i can't imagine not laying eyes on these angels ATLEAST 2 or 3 times a week.....

daddyc graced us VERY briefly.... Its safe to say he is COMFORTABLE with his 3 boys and doesn't feel the need for ANY more babies.... Me?  I'd take a million and two!!!!! 

(but i may add, he loves all these little monkeys with ALL his heart and knows them inside and out) 

 these angels are brother & sister.... could they be ANY cuter?  i wanna know!

 ready.set. run wild.  See, total control!  if i had to guess my little sweet baby is yelling at me for stopping to shoot the pic. and not pushing him.... Not to confuse him with the sweetest of all my boys....

 accept help when offered.

 Expect to have to use straight jackets to keep these boys OUT of the woods.  

I am so scared of snakes and i have seen TWO this year and can NOT seem to scare these indians enough to keep them away.  

Sure, i played and lived in the woods as a child but now i am big and scared of snakes and do my best to keep mine OUT of the woods.... Seems wrong, doesn't it?? i can't help it, i've tried

My wish for you is that you have little ones surrounding you as dear as these.   My wish for me is that these angels grow up into people as dear as their mamas and daddies and i get to enjoy watching them... I know they will!  

stay tuned one of my bestest is in town with her brood.  I can not possibly wait to get my hands on those sassy little girls and spoil them rotten.....