Lovin' Life...

Kind of. Well, I am loving life, I'm just overwhelmed with Old Market Day, which is a HUGE arts & music festival that will go down this Saturday. It's my job. Well, one aspect of my job. I've been working with a committee since January planning Old Market Day and Saturday is dooms day! I don't anticipate anything to go wrong, well, I do, but it won't be anything that an outsider will notice. For example, I made posters for all the downtown merchants to display and after having the committee review them, one of the stores called to let me know that I put the wrong date on the flyer! Way to go Sherlock! If I get one more phone call from a craft vendor wondering if they can attend the completely filled to capasity festival, I might scream! Only if you are a non-profit looking to hand out information may you attend...I have two of those spots left. If one more vendor calls to complain about their vendor location I don't know what I will do. It clearly states on the contract that YOU ARE NOT GUARANTEED THE SAME VENDOR LOCATION EACH YEAR. I don't care if your mother's husband's best friend's uncle is my sister's nephew's brother, that doesn't mean you get the pick of the litter. Someone called me today to discuss her friend's vendor location. She was concerned and all kinds of weird twisted comments were made. When I made it completely clear that we could not change her vendor location and that yes, she was in a good vendor spot she complimented me on my new hair color! I really do like this lady...a LOT! But come on! She called her friend back and explained her location in crystal clear terms and her friend called me to apologize saying infact, "She was delighted with her spot, there must have been some mis-understanding when she spoke to that young girl (aka: ME!)." I told her (for the 3rd time) that that young girl was me, and that she has only spoken to me the whole time she's called about the event!

Enough about that though, because in just a few short days, and on WAY EARLY MORNING, my first SUCCESSFUL Old Market Day will be over and I can put my energy into planning AppleFest (which is the same as Old Market Day, but not near as selective and it revolves around apples), the Christmas Parade and other holiday events (holy smokes...Christmas already!).

On to the cuties...

This past Sunday we drove up to visit with my grandparents. We don't get to see them very often, which is a shame since they live about 2 hours away, but it's hard to go anywhere with two small kids and everyone's conflicting schedules. We are going to try much harder to get to see them atleast every other month if that's possible.

We swam, ate, screamed at dogs (Big wee one did...she freaked any time a dog was in sight! ANNOYING!), swam some more, posed with flowers and then checked out the horses on our way out. Here are some pictures:

The Hydgranea bushes were BEAUTIFUL! I couldn't get enough of them :-)

Here are the girls overlooking my grandparent's land and the view from their house...isn't it pretty...so peaceful!

Little wee one was playing peek-a-boo and being so silly!

Here is some funny stuff...Little wee one was walking around the edge of Nonny's flowers, doing a little dance and then...

Here's the little dance...

And then... No worries...no little toddlers were harmed!

On to the pool...N & G have an indoor pool and the water was sooooo warm! Can't beat that kind of swimming! Look at Little wee one swimming all by herself, she's taking after her Munchkin cousin (who hasn't updated her blog in awhile!)

Flowers...they were so pretty. The bees were flying all over the purple flowers, and they looked so cool. I think I'm going to have a large print made of some of them and put them in my bathroom.

I would have a picture of Big wee one with the flowers but she informed me that she was too grouchy for pictures at that time. It was only when we saw the horses that she perked up some.

I definitely need to do some photoshoping to this picture...it has potential to be cool, just needs a little "uumph"

Do you see this??? My daughter will SCA-REAM so loud when a tea-cup little dog is even in the same room as her, but will pet a massive horse! I wonder if this goes along with the whole princess and unicorn thing that a lot of girls are into. She loves princesses and princesses have princes that ride horses...interesting...I blame the dog stuff on being nipped at by an ankle dog one time.

My next post will recap Old Market Day. Have a great one!

Long weekend

What a completely relaxing long weekend we had! We hung out with a lot of friends in a couple of different garages (it's a man thang), and the kids stayed up late (a lot)...but we also just totally vegged in our pj's and hung with family.
Thursday, we hung with some friends that evening. Woke up Friday to get ready to enjoy a beautiful day at a friend's pool...and it RAINED! To top it off, the girl's slept for soooo long! We ended up not making it to the swimming party, but Big wee one woke up around 4:45 so we were able to get ready and head to another BBQ/garage party...hehe! We had a blast there, Paul has finally made some friends that he has really connected with and they like a lot of things that he does. It also helps that the wives are pretty cool :-)

My Uncle J and I played golf on Saturday afternoon...and now I have the bug! I played last night with a couple of friends and it was awesome! I haven't played with just women in a LONG time, basically since high school when I played for my school team. We had a blast, got some excercise walking the course, and finished off with a beverage. I can't wait to play again and I really can't wait until Paul's hand is completely healed so he can play too!

With the rain, the local fireworks were cancelled Friday evening, so we watched them Saturday. I took the girls to my parent's to veg for a bit, then I played golf with Uncle J (as previously stated) and then Paul came over and we had J's famous hamburgers for dinner. Little wee one fell alseep on the way home, so I took Big wee one out back to watch the fireworks from our backyard. Of course her bestie (and her parents) joined us :-) After every explosion Big wee one said, "That's big...WOW, that's really big". She's been sooooo funny lately with her attitude. Not bad attitude, just her girly attitude. Yesterday, I asked her to tell Little wee one to put a toy back outside. Apparently, Little wee one didn't listen, because I heard crying. I came over to evalutate the situation and Big wee one (with hands on her hips) said very matter of factly (makes me laugh just thinking about it), "I spanked her hiney, because she wasn't listening." I tried, tried...TRIED to tell her that she's not allowed to spank her hiney, but I couldn't stop laughing at how cute she looked with her hands on her hips and her attitude, like she was doing ME a favor. Awwwe man, she's gonna be a trip!

Back to the weekend...
Sunday, well...to be honest, I don't remember what we did on Sunday. HA!! But, I know it wasn't much, because I don't think I really got dressed...probably just played outside. Oh...wait! hahaha...I remember. With the long weekend I was getting my days mixed up. We did just lounge all day and play. It was awesome. Big wee one is seriously into riding her bike All. The. Time. So she rode all day, I digi scrapped (FINALLYYYYYY!), Little wee one played and Paul tinkered on his jeep with his non-gimp hand. We hope he's completely healed soon. Or atleast get the thumbs up form the doc soon :-)

I feel like there is so much more to talk about, but I can't remember what. Humph...I'm losing my mind! I have my first HUGE, GIGANTIC event at work not this Saturday, but the next so I'm slightly stressed. The kind of stressed that makes you feel like you might vomit. I know everything will go fine, the committee that works with this event guarantees it. I mean some of these women have been on this committee for 20 years! They tell me that a lot of these people that help out "just know what to do", but when I've never done it before NEED to know what all these other people "just know". Confusing, I know, I just want to make sure that all of my I's are dotted and my T's are crossed. I'll keep everyone up to date, and hopefully I'll get my brain back in working order next week. To top it off, my sitter (have a BLAST K) will be gone all next week at the beach, so I'm figuring out who will be watching my kids. Oh goodness, let's not even go there, I'll get that feeling in my gut again...settle stallion! Tomorrow is another day :-)

Enjoy the pics!

K took this pic of Little wee one, she's been digging these ears, and it's so cute when she rocks them for hours on end :-)

This is a cool flower that is growing at my parent's house...isn't it pretty?

Just Beachy

We had a wonderful time at the beach, but were sad that Grandad couldn't join in on the fun :-( We thought he had a stomach bug, but it turns out his appendix was being a turd bomber (yes, I did just say turd bomber) and he had it removed yesterday! We hope you feel better soon Grandad!
The weather driving down to the beach was awful! My husband, Mr. Drive in the City his whole life was freaking out, I was freaking out and of course Big wee one and Little wee one were just chillin' in the back. At one point a serious bolt of lightening and instant thunder rang over our heads and all big wee one can say (while we are trying to hide the fact that we just pooed ourselves) was, "Wow, did you hear that?" Noooo.
Of course we did! Everyone did!
We picked up Cousin A and she spent the weekend relaxing in the sand with us. Paul even took her out driving (in Grandma's car). Here are some pics and descriptions from our BEEE-U-Tiful afternoon at the beach.
Seriously, could that little hiney get any cuter?? I love the little ruffle! Heck, if I could get away with a little ruffle on my hiney, I would rock it, but mine would be more like, well...it would just be plain WRONG!
Isn't that sweet...going to fill the water bucket. Little wee one wasn't crazy about the big blue ocean, or the sand for that matter, but she looked cute trying to figure it all out. These are my toes, enjoying the moment.This was right about the time Big wee one scared me! She said, "Mom, I feel a big soft shell in my butt. Can you get it out?" I instantly thought she pooped herself. Oh, Great! But no...she just had sand EVERYWHERE!The only picture of me aloud. Can't see anything frightening :-)Cousin A was slightly skittish with the water. K and Big wee one doing some serious sand castle building. Little wee one, with her signature pucker of the lips decides she will just play in the sand from her lounge chair. Some guy in the back is staring...rude!This could be one reason why Big wee one felt like she had a soft mushy shell in her britches. She is a beach bum for sure!


Look at Little wee one invading her Daddy's space. She tried to avoid the sand at all costs! Stinker ;-)
After the beach we enjoyed some silly play time at Grandma's house. Look at that precious little smile. She's catching on the whole camera thing...it's just taking her about two years!

We'll finish the post with a pretty flower picture. The end :-)