Thursday, April 16, 2009

a few of my favorite things...

I just wanted to share a few of my favorite things...I was thinking about what I could publish on my blog and I thought this would be interesting.

RESTRAUNT: The Olive Garden; Applebees; TGIFridays; Cheddars
FAST FOOD: Wendy's or Taco Bell
NONALCOHLIC DRINK: Code Red Mt.Dew or any cherry flavored soda
ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Margarita on the Rocks
CANDY: Gobstoppers; hershey's chocolate; skittles; zots
ITEM OF CLOTHING: jeans; flip flops
COLOR: Purple; pink; brown
ACCESSORY: purses
DESSERT: yellow cake w/ caramel icing or strawberry & strawberry
STORES: Target, Old Navy, JCPenney, The Children's Place, American Eagle, Dollar Tree
FOOD: Chicken Casserole, broccoli, Mel Tillis' chicken recipe
MOVIES: The Princess Bride; Juno; We Are Marshall; Marley & Me; The Lakehouse; I could name so many.
TV SHOWS: ER; The Office; John & Kate Plus 8; 30 Rock; Extreme Makeover Home Edition; The Biggest Loser

Well I guess that's about it....all I can think of. Have a wonderful Friday and a good weekend.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter 2009 continued

JUST PICTURES...........
Mazzy & The Easter Bunny
"CHEESE"
Her favorite thing were the "glass slippers"

From the Easter Bunny

Easter 2009

We had fun coloring eggs. Mazzy liked it for the first 5 minutes. She'd rather play dress up and wear her high heels around the house. Here are a few pictures.
I'm also adding the pic of her and the Easter Bunny @ the Bristol Mall. Also of her Easter Basket filled with stuff from the Easter Bunny.
Notice that she is wearing a see through swim suit cover-up. She loves that thing and she thinks it's a dress. She wears it all the time. You can tell from the pictures, that she was wearing it coloring eggs. Then she had it on Easter morning. That's the first thing she did when she got up, took her PJ's off and put her "dress up clothes" on. Enjoy the pics and I hope you had a wonderful Easter.
Coloring her egg with a crayon.

Eric's Favorite Egg that he colored.
Dunking the eggs.
All our eggs.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Fishin'

Eric and I took Mazzy to the pond at Cherokee Rod & Gun Club on Sunday, March 15. This was her first time fishing. Eric couldn't wait to take her. He took her to Wal-Mart a few days before and bought her a new Barbie fishing pole. She was so excited. They practiced casting in the living room since it was so rainy out.
Finally the weather was good enough for Eric to take her. She was so excited, even though she really wasn't too sure what fishing was. When we first got there, she helped cast and waited. She was getting bored, till finally got a bluegill! She was so excited to finally know what we were doing. I tried to get her to hold up her first fish and take her picture but it started flopping around and she threw it down on the peer and started screaming. It was so funny. She finally got the hang of it and realized what we were doing, we caught about 7 bluegill and one catfish on her Barbie pole. I think Eric caught maybe 3 bluegill with his fishing pole. I thought that was pretty funny. After a couple of hours and about 12 fish later we packed up and went home. Here are a few pictures of the day. It was fun. Her Pappaw Emit can't wait to take her fishing on his boat!!
She didn't like that fish flopping around.
REELING IT IN!
Her CATFISH!
Dad & Mazzy
FIRST FISH!!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Cupcakes

Tonight, Mazzy and I made cupcakes together. She has been asking for purple cupcakes for a few days now. After watching foodnetwork one night, a lady made purple cupcakes. Since then, that's all she's talked about. So I went to food city and bought strawberry cake mix, white frosting, and strawberry frosting. I made the white frosting purple, so she could have her purple cupcakes.
Luckily I did buy the strawberry frosting, cause we ran out of purple. so we had half and half. It was so much fun. Her Mammaw Pam brought her little apron and chef's hat by so she could dress the part. She was so excited.
I had to put a few of them to the side, while I was frosting, she was licking or sticking her finger in the ones already done. She said "Look Mom, I did that with my tongue" crazy kid. You'd think I would have given her a bath after she ate one, but I didn't I gave her one before we even frosted them. I had to though it was getting late. She didn't make too much of a mess. :-)
Well here are a few pictures I took with my phone. It was fun.
Now we're getting excited about Disney on Ice tomorrow!!! YAY!!!



Thursday, February 19, 2009

CMN


I did a good thing today.......
I called and made a one-time $20 donation to the Children's Miracle Network. I was listening to WXBQ and they were having a radiothon. Parents were calling in telling their stories about how the CMN helped their children. Ofcourse I got emotional and felt like I needed to help. So I did!! It feels great too!!
They will be doing this for the next 2 days from I think 10am-7pm. You don't have to use a credit card, they are sending me a form to fill out and I can mail them a check. If you'd like to donate please call 1-800-449-4842 until 7pm. I think the radiothon ends on Saturday. They are also set up at the Bristol Mall outside of Sears.

Monday, February 16, 2009

haircut.....

Well I finally did it....I've been thinking about it for months. I got my hair cut.
It is all gone. Well, I've had shorter, but this is pretty short for me.
I was tired of the long stringy mess that was always in a ponytail. I went for the Meg Ryan look. Back when I used to work at Food Country, when City of Angels came out, I loved her hair and I got it cut like hers. Well that's sort of what I did this time, but with my natural curl I have, it looks a little different than hers. It wasn't that great today, I didn't have enough time to really fix it like I did over the weekend. I'm posting a picture of the side view from when I fixed it on Saturday. It took me forever to get the nerve to do it, but I finally did...and I love it. It may not look great on some days, but that's because I don't have a lot of time to get ready in the mornings. :-)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

missing someone.............

do you miss someone??

I am missing my Pappaw Harlow. He died in April 2002, just a month before I got married. I was so sad, I wanted him to be at my wedding so bad. What makes me really sad is that Mazzy doesn't know who he is. I really wish she could have known him. He adored kids, always making us laugh with his silly stories. He used to make all of us grandkids pile into his bedroom and sing Christmas songs while he played the harmonica, while recording us. We hated it so much, we would try to run when we saw him get that harmonica out. But right now, I wish we were there singing with him. People used to say he looked like George Burns. If he had darker rimmed glasses and a cigar in his mouth he would look just like him. We laughed at him all the time.
I can hear his laugh and smell that distinct smell. He was in his 80's when he died, I can't remember his exact age. The only gray hair he had was a little tiny bit on the hair around his ears. His hair was always dark brown. I don't know what he used in his hair, but it kept it from turning gray!! He was such a cute old man. :-)
I need to find pics of him and post them with this post.
I will never forget the day he died....we were all in the hospital room with him when he took his last breath. Mammaw was holding his hand and he was really not with us for a while. He was just slowly going and didn't acknowledge his surroundings.
Once he looked up at the ceiling and reached his hand out, with a surprised/excited look on his face as if he was reaching for someone. The room was silent, when a boy, maybe around 16 or so walked in, shut the door behind him and just stood there with his head down. It was seconds after he left the room that Pappaw took his last breath. Everyone saw him and no one knew who he was. We looked for him down the hall thinking he walked into the wrong room. But he was no where to be found. I am sure it was his Angel coming for him. It was the neatest thing I've ever experienced. I miss him so much, I think about him every day.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

bye-bye binky

UPDATE:
Well, it's been over a week. She's done so good. I can't even believe how good she's done. For someone who had to have 5+ binky's in her bed, one in her hand, one in her mouth. She's done pretty good. She asked for one yesterday, but again, I explained to her that they are all gone and she just said OK. My baby is growing up. I want to see her with a binky in her mouth so bad, that's the only thing that makes her a baby. But she's growing and I have to deal with it. Makes me wanna cry!

Friday morning I got Mazzy up to go to Deanie's. Just a normal day. Just like every morning, I told her to go to her room and get her binky and something to cuddle with at nap time. (Bunny was dirty) She told me she didn't want her binky and refused to take it. SO, I said OK and went on to take her to Deanie's. (I did put one in my pocket) When we got there, I told Deanie that she said she didn't want binky and to put her to bed without it. I gave her the one from my pocket just incase she cried for it.
I went to pick her up that evening and Deanie told me she didn't ask for it at all and slept like normal. Even with Brianna crying for hers, Mazzy still never asked for it. So Friday night I put her to bed, she asked for her binky but I told her that she told me she didn't want it anymore and they were all gone. She just looked at me so sad and said ok. She slept fine that night, she got up a few times, but finally went to sleep. She's gone the whole entire weekend without it and only cried for her binky twice. Both times I explained to her that she said she didn't want her binky anymore and they were gone. She thinks that they are in the trash. Really they are in a zip lock bag on top of the fridge. :-) I'm so proud of her. She did this herself, it was her decision, which makes it much easier. She's not had her binky since Thursday night, so it's totally gone. She's not getting it back! I refuse to give it to her. I know she'll cry a few more times for it but she'll eventually forget she even had one. My baby girl is growing up so fast. Getting rid of the binky really means she's not a baby anymore. Makes me sad, but happy at the same time.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

wellness challenge..

I'm doing pretty good at it, but I still crave little debbie fancy cakes!!! I am addicted to Little Debbie's. :-) I've done pretty good for the first 3 days. I've had no fried foods, no full calorie soft drinks, no sweet tea (which I also crave), no chocolate, etc.... It's very hard. I drink a lot of Coke Zero, I don't like water, but I try. This is the first time I've ever tried to watch what I eat and drink. I've never wanted to lose weight before, I always had a great metabolism. But after I had Mazzy that all changed. I've gained almost 20lbs since I've had her. That's what I want to lose, to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Hopefully after the 6 week challenge I will be in a habit of eating healthier and keep it up. Thanks to Meredith for getting this started.
How about you? Have you made a New Year's Resolution to lose weight?? How are you doing at it?

P.S. a friend of mine is on a diet, she doesn't like water. She said that drinking water from a Pal's tea cup has helped her. I have also heard if you drink through a straw, you drink more. (info from Kristi)

I'll keep things updated on here on how I do.

Monday, January 5, 2009

My Poor Baby......

She fell down our front steps Saturday! They are concrete steps!!
She decided she would try to get outside to the car before us, she always walks with her hands in her pockets, so we won't hold her hand. *She's a big girl now ya know*
I stepped inside to get my cat her catfood and when I came back she was face down on the steps, crying. SCARED ME TO DEATH!! I picked her up and all I saw was blood on her face. Eric grabbed her to make sure she didn't do any major damage to her teeth or eye. She cried for a minute and then said "I OK MOMMA". Ofcourse I cried......if anyone knows me, you know what a rough life she AND I have had! For those of you who don't know, she's had a fractured femur, she's been shocked by a baby monitor charger, and now this! She's fine though, nothing to worry about. She looks bad, but luckily her eye didn't get black, just scratched. It looks like she hit her eye and slid down a step or two and scratched her cheek and nose. I've attached a picture of her. You can't tell too much, it was taken with my phone.
This is just one of many accidents to come!!