First Kill!

I loved receiving this picture yesterday!

Andrew is in Arkansas duck hunting with my dad.

1) first time to hunt

2) first time to use his new shotgun on a real living animal (no clay disks this go around)

3) first trip with my dad (including like 5 of his friends)--hoping he still has all 4 appendages when he comes back today

=)

He has had a lot of fun and cant wait to go back!

I got this one today...guess he is learning quickly!

quality is not so great (blackberry pics) but you get the point. he loves it!

Engagement!!!

So my sister-in-law Katie got engaged! We are all so exited and so happy for her!

It was her birthday wednesday and the day she got engaged (well was suppose to be the day but it actually ended up happening tuesday!), could you ask for a better bday present?

Well for a little fun birthday cake I started off my Tuesday night like this...

(pictures tell the story)

1) purchase ingredients and wedding magazines for the soon-to-be-bride!

2) bake red velvet (band part of ring made of Sprinkles Cupcake Mix-YUM) and yellow cakes (yellow cake mix is diamond park of ring)

3) Get red velvet cake out of mold without a disaster and let cakes cool

4) Cut cake in diamond shape and transfer to cookie sheet

5) Re-energize!

6) ice cakes!!! i used a little sugar shimmer for the diamond! turned out pretty good, i was happy with it!

7) eat. enjoy.

Andrew and I are so happy for Katie and Drew. We cant wait for all the festivities to start taking place!!

Most Girly Weekend

Dinner at a fun Mexican restaurant with great margaritas and the best guac in town (Mi Cocina and mambo taxis)

Muffins at my favorite muffin place (JDs Chippery)

Shopping at my favorite shops

Lunch at one of my new favorite spot (original Neiman Marcus downtown, highly recommended)

More shopping at my favorite places

Harry Winston diamond fun (just looking, no worries Andrew!!)

Sushi for dinner

Yummy yogurt eatery

Fun touristy museum things

Another lunch at my one of my fav lunch spots (Celebrity Bakery)

Weekend with my 2 favorite highschool people (Carla and Angie)

All these combined makes for the best GIRLY weekend ever!!

So much fun with Carla and Angie this weekend. Thanks so much for making me happy and for the visit!

Marry Christmas!!

Hope everyone has a

Merry Marry Merry Christmas!!!

We love you all!

Oh Christmas Tree...Oh Christmas Tree...

So this is not our Christmas Tree but thought I would add it in for the Christmas spirit.

This was us in front of the WaterColor tree in Florida.

It was absolutely beautiful!

Andrew was determined not to limit our tree size by living in an apt. His mission was accomplished when we bought our 7-8ft tree. Our first real tree! It was so much fun going to look for a tree and decorate it. I have my old childhood ornaments but it still remains a little bare. It was lots of fun going back down memory lane as we hung my ornaments that I had picked out over the years. We are going to get some of Andrew's childhood ornaments later this week but for now we are happy with our lit tree and Christmas filled home!

Before we took the tree into its new home.

We promise till love you and keep you alive.

(unlike all our other plants)

=)

Our finished tree with ornaments and lights.

More ornaments to come soon.....

Merry Christmas!!!

"Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth.....

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create."

Isaiah 65:17-18

Thanksgiving and Thankful

I was so thankful to have spent Thanksgiving with my mom, lee, michele/tyler, the kids, and andrew. We had so much fun for the week in Watercolor/Seaside. Andrew and I flew in the Birmingham and rented a car to drive down to Florida. We loved our car, the great "love bug." During the week we played on the beach, swam in the pool with the kids, made a little Christmas art, ate GREAT food (thats a given), and soaked up all the time I could with my favorite two little ones.

It was nice to get away for awhile. I have not seen Tyler or Ellie in 10 months (way to long to keep me happy) so it did the heart good when I walked in and tyler just blushed till he was red in the face and hugged me so tight. I was happy for the rest of the week after that sweet hug and after getting Ellie up from her nap. They are growing up so fast. Ellie is a sweet little sass. Its so fun and precious.

Michele and Tyler making a Christmas pottery plate.

Obviously we were a little more excited than he was but the plate turned out to be precious!

Thanksgiving afternoon outside the house.

Tyler helped Aunt Missy cook some on Thanksgiving Day

Yes, in his spiderman pj's--all he wears these days!

The men carving the turkey and putting the finishing touches on Thanksgiving Dinner!

Sweet Ellie loving the beach!

The kids got some fun lollipops.

They of course enjoyed every single bit!

We sat by the pool, ate lunch, ate too much, enjoyed ice cream, and bloody marys

(well us adults enjoyed some bloody marys)

what a relaxing time!

Enjoying the pool

One of my Favorite Weekends

This weekend definitely ranked right there at the top! Maybe because we went to the top of Reunion Tower, shopped our hearts out, ate really good food, roll tide...I mean what else could a girl ask for!

Natalie came to town and we had a blast. Great to see such a dear friend.

We ate sushi friday night when she came in. Saturday ate lunch at Celebrity Bakery which is always a favorite. We made it to the top of Reunion Tower on Saturday night after Alabama beat LSU. I love it. I love SEC football. I become like a little girl in a candy shop when I see the lights of Dallas atop of Reunion Tower. The majority of the food we ate was asian so how could that not make me happy. The sun was shining all day everyday! I got some cute new clothes. It was fabulous! Thanks for coming to see me.

Next on the list: Dad and libby come in Dec.

Next in the new year: Carla and Angie in Jan.

We love to have visitors so come see us!!

Here is a little sneak peak of the previous weekend (halloween)

Andrew decided to recycle his banana outfit and I made a peanut butter label. I was kinda a dud on halloween bc I had to work the next day but a homemade Jif Label worked for me! We love peanut butter and banana. I mean we even have a theme song: Peanut Butter and Jelly Time!!

A sneak peak at who I get to see so so soon (After not seeing them for 9 months):

I cant wait to see these little nuggets! It can not come fast enough!! Looking foward to Nov 24th when I get to soak in niece/nephew time (well probably more Ellie time since she will talk to me and Tyler only likes boys right now--Andrew will have his hands full)!! Ellie loves to kiss and hug the phone when Im on it and I cant wait to get it in person.