a little break...

just taking a little blogging break and wishing i was here again!

Project Life Tuesday-Week 20

it's week 20 for my project life endeavor. if you don't know what project life is, go visit becky's blog or the mom creative.

5.18.10
tuesday
one of my "happy places"--target. love all their seasonal stuff. aren't those colors gorgeous?

5.19.10
wednesday
mckinlee and her friend amber (and mr. brian) at their medal presentation at gymnastics. mck is a natural gymnast--she loves it and is so good at it(if i do say so myself!) they want to move her into an advanced power tumbling class next year, but she doesn't want to leave amber--so we'll see what happens...

5.20.10
thursday
i went to our local nursery to get some flowers today. i'm really loving planting flowers (and keeping them alive!)

5.21.10
friday
self-portrait of me doing the dishes

5.22.10
saturday
we finally were able to go to waco to have our 16th anniversary party. grandaddy is not doing well at all, but it was so nice to have almost our whole family together! that hasn't happened in a long time. we had a wonderful dinner and then came to mama jeanne and grandaddy's for an ice cream sundae party and presents. (more pictures and a post on that to come...)

5.23.10
sunday
before we came home, we had an anniversary lunch with chris' mom and dad. yummy food and presents too! (more on that to come as well!)

5.24.10
monday
cosmo found his way into one of mckinlee's gift bags from this past weekend!

thanks for looking at our week.
i'm really glad i'm keeping up with this--it's so fun to go back and see your everyday life one little picture at a time!

Project Life Tuesday-Week 19

well, it's project life tuesday again over at the mom creative.
here's our past week:

5.11.10
tuesday
today was "eat lunch with mom (or someone special) day" at mckinlee's school. i stopped at chick-fil-a to pick up a special treat and we had a nice lunch. on each table were the cutest centerpieces of vases filled with gumballs and then a quote about moms. as we left, we got to take the cutest decorated sugar cookie all wrapped up so darling!
(on a side note...i am so tired of straightening my hair, so i'm going for that tousled look. not too sure how that's working out for me. ha!)


5.12.10
wednesday
since my friend patricia told me she'd help me make table skirts for my scrapbook room tables, i offered to help her do something. she has decided that she is painting her entire house by herself. i told her the thought would never, ever enter my mind to do that, but she's obviously more courageous than i. anyway, i went over today to help her paint. it doesn't look like a big difference in the picture, but the change is amazing!

5.13.10
thursday
mckinlee came running out of school today begging to go to walgreens. i only thought we were going to escape the zany bandz craze sweeping through the nation. when we got to walgreens, there were huge displays of these overpriced rubber bands and as we were there, probably 10+ kids ran in with their frazzled mother trailing behind them with a look of disbelief on their face. why, you ask? because these little bags of bands which were, no doubt, available a few weeks ago for $1 are now 2 for $10! or $5.99 per package if you so desire. i told mckinlee there was no way i was spending $10 for rubber bands, so if she wanted 2 packs she would have to pay me $5 when we got home. she was all for that. when we got home, we looked all over the internet trying to find more with different shapes and almost ordered some on amazon. we decided to look at different stores the next day and see what we could come up with.
the next day she came home from school and declared that zany bandz have been banned from the 5th grade! go figure.

5.14.10
friday
we've had major storm systems in our area, but completely miss us except for a few drops of rain. if something doesn't happen soon, i think my head is going to explode off my neck :(

5.15.10
saturday
mckinlee made pancakes for us this morning and i covered mine with all this yummy fruit!

5.16.10
sunday
i never knew silly putty could provide hours of entertainment for an almost 11 year old. mck loves this stuff! she spent forever make silly putty fingers and wanted a picture of this one and for it to be put on my blog because "it looks so real!"

5.17.10
monday
today was grocery day. this is one of the cheese displays at whole foods. do you like goat cheese? if so, you have to try capricho de cabra plain--the creamiest goat cheese ever. danielle got me hooked on this when i tried it at her house one day--and we are all addicted to it. i just bought some today and by this evening half of it was gone! it's amazing to me that my picky, picky eater loves this!

thanks for taking a peek at our, oh so interesting, life. ha!
see you next tuesday.

Names, names, names

(one of my favorite pictures of mckinlee in myrtle beach a few years ago)

last friday on kelly's blog was show me your life friday--baby names. i am just a few days behind--but since i am and always have been obsessed with baby names i had to post!

i have been planning my kid's names since i was probably 7 or 8. i just love to come up with names and hear what other people name their children.
(sadly, if you ask me what almost any celebrity named their child, i can tell you.)

so, when the time came for me to actually name my own child, it was much harder than i thought. it's really not a matter of picking your favorite name. it's more like finding a name between you and your husband that doesn't remind you of the boy you "accidently" hit in the 2nd grade because he was such a bad reader or the girl who threw up all over you in high school. (bad, bad memories...)
when i got pregnant, we had an early ultrasound and just assumed because of some things we saw that we were having a boy. ha! we had thought of a lot of names but ended up with:
dylan cole

so for the next couple months we called the baby dylan and took pictures in the boy's department of dillards.
we also came up with girl's names just in case.
we knew if we had a girl her name would be:
madalyn storm

don't really know how we came up with that but that was our choice.
so on ultrasound day we find out that we are not having a dylan.
on the way home from the dr. i suddenly decided i didn't want madalyn.
so that night we sat down and took out several notecards. (i found them just the other day!)
on three we wrote:
madalyn
miranda
mckinlee
(we obviously had a thing for m names)

on another three we wrote:
jade
storm
skye

we played around with them until we both got what we wanted!

mckinlee skye

i had heard mckinlee and loved it and thought it was really different and unique and chris loved skye. i wanted to just name her skyler, but he just wanted skye for a middle name.
so that's how we came up with her name.
(not long ago, mckinlee was upset because she has such an uncommon name and said, "why couldn't you have just named me something like madalyn?" it didn't help when i finally admitted that was our second choice! ha!)

so since it doesn't look like i'll ever need to use all the names i've gathered, i'll just list some of my favorites!

Girls:

avery
lily
brecken
grace
reese
quincy
capri
emerson (call her emmie)
ellasyn (just saw this the other day and fell in love. call her ella or ellie)
paisley
hadley
kate (i love kate with almost any name. ellie kate, lily kate, etc.)
halle
sutton
annabelle
brynn

Boys:
grayson
hudson
cade
cole
dawson
carr
john (i feel about john as i do about kate. it goes with anything--john thomas, john tyler, etc.)
paxton
maddox

that's not nearly all of them--but a good list anyway.
what are your kid's names?
i would love to know :)

Project Life Tuesday-Week 18 (i think...)

here's this week's pictures. the mom creative has more inspiration here.
i am cheating a little this week since a couple of these pictures are fill-ins (i just haven't been taking that many pictures!)

wednesday
5.5.10
i had ordered a couple of things from lisa leonard for my anniversary and this is how they arrived. is that pretty packaging or what?

thursday
5.6.10
doesn't this look delish? i constantly use danielle's recipe for chicken piccata and we love it!



friday
5.7.10
today was mckinlee's field day. she'd missed the past two days of school and we didn't know how she was going to feel, but she woke up better and got to go. this picture just cracks me up!

saturday
5.8.10
this will be a class picture from yesterday at field day, but i don't know how to blur faces and didn't know if i should post it or not.


sunday
5.9.10
yesterday we bought a bunch of flowers to plant in our front yard and big entry pots. we also got this pot of roses that was just gorgeous!


monday
5.10.10
tonight i tried this new recipe for jambalaya. i made a few additions and made it really spicy--chris loved it and said it tasted really authentic (because he's such a conoisseur of authentic jambalaya, you know? ha!)

that's it~~i'm going to start posting my week from tuesday to monday so i don't feel obligated to put a filler picture in for tuesday just to be able to post it!

have a great week!

sadie belle

i got these great pictures of sadie last weekend when mike and danielle came to visit.

is this not the most beautiful baby ever?

be still my heart...

she has the yummiest, most kissable cheeks i've ever seen!

Project Life Tuesday - Week 18

thanks for stopping by to look at a week in our life!

4.28.10
wednesday
the clouds have been so beautiful lately. (this one's for you mom!)


4.29.10
thursday
cosmo in the window of our room--one of his favorite activities. all the streaks on the window are where he presses his nose to the glass looking at birds or rabbits!

4.30.10
mckinlee and sadie hanging out. danielle and mike came for a quick visit. mck loved spending time with sadie. aren't those fat cheeks yummy?

5.1.10
saturday
we went to lunch and shopped around at this beautiful shopping center. the flowers were gorgeous and we stopped to get a girl's picture.

5.2.10
sunday
this one was from yesterday but i just had to use it for today's picture. mck and sadie look so cute! is that flower to die for or what?
5.3.10
monday
speaking of flowers...my day lily is blooming and it's so pretty!

5.4.10
tuesday
what our dining room table looks like this morning. mck and i are working on staff appreciation gifts and we have a lot to do. i'll show you the finished products next week!

see you next tuesday!