Tag... You're it!!

OK.... I have been tagged y my friend (and could be sister some day) Stacy...I have to share 7 random facts about myself ....hmmmm...let me see...
1.) I am terribly hard on myself!! I nit pick everything I do and most of the time think it could have been done better. I know.. I am working on it. :)
2.) I smell my food before I eat it. Hey... I never said I wasn't weird!! lol
3.) I will not sit on toilets of people I am not close with. So if I come to your house and use your potty and it is taking me a while... it is because I am placing toilet paper around the lid to form my own little seat cover. ;)
4.) I'm a chips/dip fanatic!! I love finger foods and anything I can eat while talking, running around, on the go!
5.) I repeat movie lines to relate to incidences. If you hear me say... "Say it... Say it out loud"..... ... now you know
6.) I will not keep things past their due date!! That is just disgusting!!!
7.) I can be a bit bossy..... I don't see this but it is something Neil said. I am going to have to tell him that he needs to.... Well.. maybe I am a bit bossy. :)
Okay so there is some insight into my quirky side...
Thanks Stacy that was fun.
So...if you read this... YOU ARE TAGGED!!!
YOUR IT! .......lol....... XOXOXOXO

Twilight Movie!!!!

Yeah...... so 9 of my gilries and me went to see the Twilight movie last night!! We had a blast. Yes I loved the movie, but only because I am a true Twilighter. Was it cheesy... in parts, yes. Was it low scale production.... yes. Will I buy it when it comes out on DVD... OF COURSE I WILL!!!!! Part of the problem is that we were in a theater FULL of teeny boppers who laughed at parts that weren't meant to be laughed at. Us mature Twilighters will have to see it during the day when there are less teenage hormones in full rage. :) Check out our shirts!!

TWILIGHT!!!! 9 days to go!!

OMG!!! Ok.. so Twilight is in 9 days. Holy cow... 9 more days!! Can I even wait that long???? You know... is it wrong that I am in love with a friggin fictional character that is a vampire?!?!?! So in honor of my undying love to my fictional boy toy... here are some sayings just for you Twilight freaks. :) You know you love Twilight.. you just keep it a secret where as I confess my love openly. LOL

My birthday dinner with my girls!!

For my 34th birthday I invited some of my girls to dinner. We had a blast!!! There were 7 of us (including Kaysee's mom from Utah... HHHMMM... I wonder if we scared her away from Texas??? LOL) Our original plan was to visit Uncle Julio's. HOWEVER... since I wasn't told they had call ahead seating, and we were not about to wait 2 and a half hours for a table, we headed to PF Chang's. It really didn't matter where we ate as long as we had a mom's dinner, with drinks, chatting, and no kiddies. :) As you can tell from the scrapblog, Veronica had the camera on the opposite side of Kim, Jenny, and me. Sorry... Kaysee, Carrie , and V. :( There is a group shot that Kaysee's mom took of all of us. Thank you to my girls who make my day brighter and my life fuller. You are a blessing to me and I adore all of you!!!!

PS... Jenny is getting Kim's purse from under the table... and NO none of us were drunk!

Pumpkin Patch 2008

Ok... so Kim, Veronica, and I had this grandiose idea to take our children to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. Let's just say the kiddos had a blast!! The moms...not so much. :) Our boys are a triple threat when they are together. They have so much fun together... they scream, play sword fight, laugh, and a re just a group of little goobers. It is hard to stay mad at their antics when they are just having fun.. and for God's sake... they are boys!! Poor Rylee was stuck with 3 boys (which together are like 10 boys), and 2 two year olds. You can't even be annoyed with Lana for having melt downs when she looked soooo stinkin cute in her tutu!! After all was said. it was a good time. We got to feed animals, go on a hayride (with a very interesting storyteller I must add... lol), take as many pictures as our kids would allow, and chit chat. All in all it will definitely be a memory. :)

My Brother... I am so proud!!!!

Hey guys. Below is my brother's band's Myspace page. They are doing a show on 10/17 in Deep Ellum if you need a date night or a night out. On their Myspace page is 3 of their songs. They are uncut/raw versions, so they are not great quality recordings. Enough for you to tell if you like their music or not. :) They are a Christian band, but their music is very secular. :) Check it out. The top picture is the real him, and the bottom picture is his self portrait. Now you see where Cole gets it from huh????? :)

http://profile. myspace. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=user. viewprofile&friendid=398750504&MyToken=4659ce25-da7d-49d2-abb0-6ae4452f970a

The Love of my Life....

Ok.. so Neil and I have been married 11 years (in August) and together for almost 13!! WOW!!! Where has the time gone??? I still feel like that 20 something who fell head over heels for the cute blonde and had a whirlwind romance planning a wedding. Seriously.. I was thinking about this just the other day. I know numerically I am getting old, but in my heart and head I still feel like that 20 something. I still act the same, a tad more mature. I still like to do the same things (hang out with family and friends, have fun, and live every day to the fullest). So I ask you this.... if every fiber in me is the same ole Kristi... where the heck is the size flippin 5 Kristi?!?!?! Now that my friends, is the part I am STILL waiting on. LOL ;)

Cole's an artist!!

So I had to share. Cole is a very talented and creative little guy We got a letter home today from his art teacher that he has not 1 but 2 pieces of art that will be displayed at the administration building for the month of October!! He is so excited and proud!! He just so happens to take after both of my brothers who are artistic genius!! Hey... how is that fair?!?!?! I couldn't even draw the friggin turtle they use to put in the newspaper for kids to earn scholarships to art school. Oh well.... I have my talents. :) As you can see he has always had the love of art.

Cole got the game ball!!!!!

So, this has been a difficult baseball season for us. Cole had to move up to machine pitch and is on a team with 1st-3rd graders. There are only 2 1st graders on his team (him being 1). He has a hard time paying attention and trying to keep up with these older boys who have longer attention spans. Neil has been working with him along with myself and our awesome coach. Cole has also had a hard time hitting the ball, since it is being shot out of a friggin machine. Well, this past Friday we had a game. The boys were doing awesome!! Cole was paying attention and actually hit his 1st hit. It was a nice solid hit too!!! After the game was over the coach always gives one of the boys the game ball. Well... Cole got it!!! The coach told Cole he was getting the game ball for paying attention and for getting his 1st solid hit. He has hit before, but not a nice SOLID hit. Starting Monday he will be taking batting lessons at Frozen Ropes. Of course, Neil talked to the instructor on the phone and had to give him the low down on what in his opinion the problem is. LOL Boys... ugh!

WHAT!?!?!?!

Ok.. so my Twilight blinkie says the movie is coming in 54 days. So I think, how is that, it was supposed to open in December. So.. I go to my favorite author's website and this is what I found...

Now for the good news! Though we're all sad to have to wait for Harry Potter, this open spot at the theater creates a cool opportunity. The good people at Summit were thrilled to let me know that now Twilight fans are going to get their movie three weeks earlier than scheduled. That's right—Twilight will be released in theaters November 21st! Let the merry-making commence!

WOO HOO!!!!! So my girlies and I will be going to a midnight viewing of this masterpiece!! :) So far we have about 6 of us.

Love at first sight!!

So... as Cole is racing his raingutter boat, Carson is macking on the ladies!!!!! Gotta love my little heartbreaker. :)

Cub Scouts!!!

OK... so Cole has bugged the tar out of me ALL summer to sign him up for Cub Scouts. So we did!! He had his 1st event this Sunday. They built raingutter boats and held a raingutter regetta. He LOVED it!! Several of his friends joined too and they are all in the same den. There are 5 of them that are buddies, so this should be an interesting year for their den leader. LOL!! He is an official Tiger Cub... so watch out... we are selling POPCORN!!!

Waiting on the HUGE storm.....

Ok.. so my hubby has a little bit of Chicken Little in him. He thought, like a lot of people did, that this weekend we were going to have this HUGE storm. So our pantry is full... I mean FULL... of canned veggies, and other hunker down foods. He does this everytime the news says a catastrophe is going to come. You should have seen him at Y2K. Now that my friends was Chicken Little at his best!!! :)

First couple weeks of school

Ok, so Cole has been in 1st grade for 3 weeks now. He has the sweetest teacher ever!! He loves her. He has been on his best behavior to impress her. It doesn't help that she is young and super cute!! LOL It is hard to believe that he is in 1st grade already. it seems like yesterday that he and Neil drove me to school after I had to go back from maternity leave and left me bawling in the parking lot. Where do the years go? Now he is almost 7... yes 7!!!!!!!!!! He is getting "best friends" which totally cracks me up. And is talking about how the girls drive him nuts by chasing him around the playground. Thank God that he is immature and totally oblivious to the fact that what they are really doing is flirting. :) Oh, the good times. Where girls flirt and boys have absolutely no idea that you are flirting. HA HA!!

Cole's "cup" experience!!

Ok... so I have to share a story that made me laugh so hard I cried. Cole is now playing machine pitch baseball. This is a whole new thing to us. Well... apparently in machine pitch they have to wear a cup. Cole calls it his "weiney protector." He LOVES his cup. He puts it on (looking like a Chippendale dancer) and sticks his hips out saying, "Hello ladies!!"Not only does he walk around like he has a sausage in his pants, but he periodically knocks on it. Yes.....he knocks on it. Standing on the practice field he feels the urge to knock on his "weiney protector!!" OMG... what is wrong with this picture?!?!?! Of course, I am trying to explain to him that everyone has to wear one or they can't play machine pitch, but do the other boys knock on their cups?? You bet they do!! They love those suckers!! OOOOHHHH.... the saga of boys. :) I will post a pic as soon as I have one. Not of him modeling the cup, just a pic of him in his new uniform. LOL

Austin July 2008!!!

OK... so I am just getting my dang disc to work. I went to Ausitn with 4 other awesome ladies to "learn" about our PTA positions this summer. It was the absolute best time I have had in a LONG TIME!!! I already knew Veronica pretty well... but I made 3 other friends for life!! I LOVE my girlies. We did learn lots of stuff about the PTA, but we learned even more about each other!! Let's just say my amigas learned that drunk Kristi is no different from sober Kristi. Sad... Scary... BUT TRUE!!! I love you girlies.. you know who you are. Look in my pic if you don't. HA HA HA!!!! It is so much easier to work with each other as close as we have to on the PTA board when you feel comfortable and at ease with everyone. :)

I LOVE Twilight!!!!

OK... so this blinkie is the story of my life. I read all 3 of the 1st books in the Twilight series in one weekend last summer!! Than I anxiously waited for the 4th book to come out. Rushed out to buy it. Read it in 3 days... and now I am dying waiting on the friggin movie to come out in December!! Why do I do this to myself?? Why can't I relaxingly read a book in a week or so and then move on? Why do I get so engrossed with a book that I jeapordize my health just to finish it?!?!? WHY!!!!!!

HA HA!!!!!

OK.. so I am going to do my very 1st blog vent session!! I am soooo irritated and I have no one else to blame but myself. So, most of you know I am on the PTA board at Cole's school. Well... my ONLY job last year was to order the school supplies, and a planner for the upper grade and folders for the younger. So... my most gracious friends go to the school today to help me sort/organize/distribute these dang supplies, planners, and folders. And what happens.... I AM SHORT STINKIN PLANNERS!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now I had to reorder more and the kiddos will have to wait 2 frigging weeks for them to get here. It is sooo much easier when this is someone else's fault. Then I can laugh and say HA HA... not so funny when I am the one that screwed up!! OK... all done. I feel totally better !!!!!

I'm Back....

OK.. so summer has started to settle down and I'm back to my blog!! I have had an amazing summer with my family and friends. I do have to admit though, this is the1st summer where I am like... "How much longer till school starts?????" I know when school starts it will be crazy, but Cole is so bored at home that he is driving me nuts!!!!

Happy 4th of July!!!!

From our family to yours we hope you have a fun and safe 4th of July!!!

Shiloh Grace

My niece. Shiloh Grace, is the cutest little girl EVER!!! She is the 1st girl in our family since me... so you can guess she isn't spoiled!! My brother and sister in law gave the best gift one could give when they had my beautiful princess!!

My Papa

The kindest, most sincere man I ever met in my life was and is my Papa. I LOVE him with all my heart. He went home to Jesus on February 4th and there is not a day that goes by that I don't get lost in the thought of how deeply I miss him. He was more than a grandfather to me, he was my 2nd dad. One thing I am very grateful for is that Cole got a chance to have 6 years with the greatest man ever. He still calls my Granny and Mom's house "Granny and Papa's". He asks and talks about him daily. That tells you how my Papa touched his life in just 6 years. I will never forget or let my boys forget what an awesome man he was and he will still be alive through my family. I LOVE YOU PAPA!!!!!

Our Lil Slugger

Cole played T Ball for 2 seasons now. He'll be moving up to Machine pitch in the Spring. This Fall we will be testing the unknown waters of FOOTBALL!!!!

Our Boys

Our boys are the best thing in the world. Our life would not be complete without them. Before you are a parent your life is centered around you.. but when those babies get here.. my how things change. :)

My little man

Carson is just about the most cuddly kid I know. He is a true gift from God and I thank Him every day that I have been blessed with a husband who works his fanny off so that I can be at home with our boys. Here is a little picture of my loverboy.

Our Baby is Growing UP!!

OK... so Cole graduated from Kindergarten on June 3rd. How can I say.... WHERE DID THE YEARS GO???? without it sounding cliche? Everyone says they grow up so fast. But, when that new mom getting up EVERY 45 minutes to nurse a crying baby... grows up fast doesn't seem very fast. Now, my "baby" is going into the 1st grade and I am a mom of a 6 1/2 year old. Trust me when I say 6 1/2. He lets you know that he is "almost 7" every second he gets. Other than the obvious feeling of I am getting old, I am also very proud. Cole is an awesome kid. He loves to learn, has a great sense of humor, and doesn't have a mean bone in his body... other than for Carson. Here is a picture of him and a buddy posing like little studs.