More Random Pictures from Today!

Cruisin' Baby!

Laci's favorite place to play is in christopher's room on his train table! She crawls across the floor, pulls up, and plays forever with all the fun pieces and parts!

Christmas Parade Tomorrow!!

We are so excited!! Tomorrow we are taking the kids to Atlanta for the big Children's Healthcare Christmas Parade!! There will be floats and vendors and lots of great things and the Big Guy in Red himself!!!! We will be sure to post pictures when we get home. Looks like we will go to the parade tomorrow and maybe go ahead and get our christmas tree on Sunday! woohoo!! I will post a picture of it too, but I don't think we are going to go with the traditional 9+ footer because I have a feeling it is going to be VERY difficult with Laci, Topher, 2 cats and 2 puppies to even keep it STANDING for 23 days let alone looking nice! HA!

well enjoy your weekend everyone!
:)

Happy Birthday!!

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER DAVID!!

Holy crap, 22!!!! Man it seems like just yesterday *I* was 22....now I am an old fart! LOL.

A Very Special Anniversary!!

A very special congratulations to my grandmother and grandfather for just celebrating their **twenty-fifth** wedding anniversary!! The silver year couldnt have come for a better couple! Through trials and tribulations, and living up to their vows, "for better or worse, sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer", they have!! My grandparents have been through thick and thin and still have come out on top as a loving couple to strive to compare to. I would like to say "Happy Anniversary" to one heck of a couple and say thank you for showing me that love has no stipulations, and that with enough love and compassion, a long marriage is attainable. Thank you and here's to another year of love and devotion!!

We love you so much!

My Black Friday!!

Black Friday was GREAT! Even though my mom and I didnt shop together this year, I took david with me and he was so fun! We cracked up from 30 seconds in the car til I dropped him off! We were outside of Toys R Us at 3:05am....everyone wanted the Ipod thing, I think I was the only one in line at that time that was there for actual toys!!! The local news station was there and I "thought" I made the news but I guess I wasnt purty enough and I was edited out. :( It was a mess though! I didnt get either item I went for, but I made up for it!!! LOL, I think we spent close to 550.00 today! (Thanks to brians Grandpa!!!) Laci and Topher got so much great stuff! I am so excited for christmas morning! :)
We met with Santa for lunch with all the mommys and daddys to go over christmas lists and I think we have it all squared away now!! Looks like both the kids are on the "Nice" list!! Woohoo!! :)
I am too tired to really go over the play by play, but I wanted to share some of the fun of the day!!

A sad situation...

Well, last night Brian went to go get formula for Laci at publix, and on his way out of the parking lot seen a box with a puppy crawling out of it in the field next to Zaxby's. He pulled over and went to see what was going on, (mind you it was about 40* by this time and the wind was whipping around), so he goes up to the box and there is one puppy crawling out of it and one more asleep inside!! Poor little things were a vomitty mess. :( So we are going to keep them for a while and see if we can find good homes for them! :)

My countdown to Black Friday 2007!!!

This is my Decade Anniversary of Black Friday shopping!!! This year will be a little different because 1. Laci is breastfeeding stillso i am needed home to feed her in the wee hours of the morning and 2. Brian has the day off to shop with me!! I figured i would keep you all in suspence as the last 16 days pass til that all glorious holiday arrives!! (i swear i like shopping on that day better than Christmas morning!!!)HAHA!

Wednesday, November 7th
i have been watching the ads on blackfriday.gottadeal.com, and i am particularly excited with the looks of office max...but then again, i was excited with walgreens too...hell, i'm excited with them all!!! Me and brian have decided that it will be a showdown between walmart and toys r us to see who goes out at 3am and who stays home (laci can get a bottle of formula if i simply cant contain myself and run out of the house in sweat pants like a mad man at 2:30am). basically brian is the muscle and he isnt afraid to lift the veil on special displays in wal-mart before the buzzer rings, so if the deals are better there, it will be him standing outside at 3am waiting for something. BUT, if toys r us is great then i will be shivering at 3am there instead! (i've got experience under my belt in wrestling other sleep deprived mothers...and fathers...for the years hottest toys!) so we will see. I know that i was watching Black Friday videos on Youtube and i am not kidding, on one i *actually* teared up and got all emotional and pumped up ready to run folks over in the doorway of target...i'm not above throwing hot chocolate in some old lady's face to get that tickle me elmo!!!
so until the next time...

thursday, nov. 8th
Up at 3am thinking of all the wonderful ads i will be drooling over soon! got on blackfriday.gottadeal.com this morning to the surprise that linens'n'things, target and kmarts thanksgiving day sale ads have been posted!! soooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!! :) 15 days!!!

November 9th 2007...friday
Holy crap!!! 2 weeks left! 14 tiny days to eat my wheaties and bench press laci to get my left hook finely tuned and ready to drop folks!! Its been cold here so i am hoping (yes you heard that right) that its gonna be COOOOOOLD friday morning. I love shopping when its cold that day! One of my first years it was 17 degrees outside...a girl can dream but i dont think thats happening this year. But some flurries would make it super special too! ;) Last night me and brian started looking at who we had to buy for and making a list...i think i'll check it twice!! Oh I am so excited! I love love love the Day after Thanksgiving!!!

November 10th, 2007
Saturday
Well the best buy ads have been added...i LOVE best buy the day after thanksgiving, I was excited to look through it but I think target has still got better deals! how odd! I'd love to buy the computer for 199.99 for my mom at Best Buy but sadly i cant afford that. :( Today I am ALL about the cooking for Thanksgiving, even though I dont get to entertain for that holiday I still make food for others. I was looking through China sets last night and decided that I am ready to start collecting a set....but talking my husband into the fact that there is sane reasoning behind spending 125.00 on a serving platter was impossible to do! LOL. I cannot believe how fast the holidays are coming now, its almost scary! I miss everyone down there in Florida so much during the holidays...i wish we could all be closer together. I hope everyone has a good weekend, I am off to start digging through my Christmas decorations...I know the neighbors are going to think I have officially lost my mind when I have lights plugged in tonight! Hahaha!
Happy Saturday! I love you! :)

November 11th, sunday...
Well we did it! we are officially the only wierdos in the neighborhood with Christmas lights on outside!! I can only imagine what our neigbors think!! I am in SUCH good mood though! I am VERY impatiently waiting for the walmart and toys r us ads to be released but we went to Toys R Us today and christopher fell in love with a kitchen...yes a kitchen...but santa aint bringing it to him because the thing is 234.00!!! Holy crap! who is pricing this crap?!?!? So he'll have to settle for some tinker toys! :) Haha! But seriously i fought for a HUGE turkey in kroger today...21.73 pounds of honeysuckle white that will be getting cooked on next sunday. I dont get to do a dinner at my house so I try to get one in of our own before Thanksgiving. I am very very eager to get out there on DAT and now it looks like i might be the one going out at 3am!!!! WOOOOOOHOOO!! Looks like laci is doing great taking a bottle and going back to sleep for brian so technically he wouldnt need me til 9:30am...hell, i'll be almost done by then! (seriously I'm usually having "lunch" at Chick-Fil-A with my mom by then!) So we will see! I hope I get to go out!!!! yayayayayay!! :)

November 12, 2007
I'm Dreaming of a Black Friday...literally! I had terrible dream last night that I had to fight at Publix for the last 2 papers with the ads and mine didnt have the walmart or Toys R Us ads in them!! HAHAHAHA! You cant tell what two ads are running through my mind over and over again can you??? I woke up just chomping at the bit to go out and shop! Its supposed to be "warm" today (73*) so i am sad. :( I want it to get COOOOLD!!! I am happiest when its freezing outside! I know, I'm wierd.
Well, until later...

November 13th, 2007...
10 MORE DAYS!!!! 10 tiny little days til the happiest shopping day of the year!!! and STILL no Toys R Us ads posted...grrrrrr!!! I need to get my game plan on! Looks like i may be standing outside alone this year, my mom doesnt need Toys R Us and I am at the point in my life where thats the most important stop...so on my decade anniversary i feel we may part at the exact place we started this wild ride! I think I am going to pick up one of my brothers though, I may go with David this year since I will be buying for joey while I am in there! That will prove fun I am sure! (as long as he is puffing on those cigarettes, bleh!) I can't hardly contain myself now, I just want the TRU ad posted NOW!!! eeeeeeeeekkkk!!!

November 14th...

SINGLE DIGITS!!! thats it 9 days left! the toys r us ad was posted yesterday and i am so freaking happy i could rip my hair out!!! I watched some youtube again last night to point out to brian the people i HATE worst of all on DAT...those jerks who pull up 15 minutes before the store opens and while YOU have been standing there for 3 flippin hours FREEZING, they get there showered (you stink), with coffee (yours is cold in the car where you forgot it but didnt want to lose your place in line), and a muffin (you are STARVING)...and then wait there in the lane right across from the entrance, just waiting, smelling all clean, full and warm, giggling, waiting for the doors to open...basically giving a big "screw you, i'm obviously better than you" when they bypass people who have been in line since 2:30am!!! i HATE those people...and every year i come close to getting into fist fights with these people, and i plan on doing it again this year...i dont allow that crap in MY line!! i'll slam someone on the ground and step on them AND their muffin on the way into my store!!!
so anyways....9 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

November 15th

Eight more days!!! I am getting so antsy!! :) I keep making lists and redoing it over and over because I can't make up my mind what I want to get the kids!! I know kind of what I want to get for everyone else, one set of gifts I am making....I have been working on them for a LOOOOOONG time and I pray they will be done before Christmas! I am ready to add more decorations to my house too...but I am getting a new dining room table this weekend so I am going to be happy just setting up my table for the holidays! :) No more good ads, I still have like 3 days before the wal-mart one is released....CAN'T WAIT!!!

November 16th
ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!! thats it!! one more week and I will be up to my eyebrows in black friday sales!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited I can hardly stand it!! But this begins the quick slope to the finish line! Tonight I am getting my table (Brian decided it would be easier to get it tonight instead of tomorrow morning) Then the weekend always flies by, then monday I will probably spend time with my brother and then tuesday will be slow, wednesday I will be preparing for thanksgiving, thursday is thanksgiving, friday is one of my favorite days of the year...can you tell???..and then its the new countdown...til CHRISTMAS!!!

November 18th, 2007

I missed yesterday, it was a hectic weekend, but it was the LAST weekend before BLAAAAAAAACK FRIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAY!!! Ye-ahhhhh baby!!!! So my mom and I are trying to figure out how and where we all are going to get together on friday morning. Looks like Thanksgiving will be at Brians family's house only this year, my little brother will be in Chicago and I think my mom is gonna come up and we are going to hit the Kmart Thanksgiving day sale too!! woohooooo!! I am getting so excited! I can't believe I am only 5 days away from the big day now! I dont know how ANYONE can NOT want to be out on this day! The pure environment is so crazy and exciting!! Oh well, more sales for meeeeeeeeeee!! :)

November 19th....
4 days and counting!!!!!
Wal-mart ad....SUCKS!! :( all that waiting for a crappy ad, thats redicoulous! now i am not sure where i will be first, looks like Toys R Us but Kohls opens at 4am!!! FOUR! wow!! thats flippin' early!! so my intrest is peaked there for sure! I am so excited now, its after 3pm on monday so 3 1/2 more hours and brian is home and then its over...then Tuesdays...then Wednesday, thanksgiving then....

S*H*O*P*P*I*N*G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooo

so until tomorrow....

November 20, 2007

THREE MORE DAYS!!! tonight we are going to make the offical list that I am sure will be changed ten times on Thursday for what we are going to get for the kids and everyone else! I am so excited! I got the wal-mart ad in the mail yesterday, its my first actual in hand ad too bad it SUCKS! there is only like 3 things I even want from there and none of them are worth fighting for....although we all know the morning of I could find solid reason to fight over a rubicks cube!! hahahahaha!!!
I cannot believe how close it is getting now!!! Tomorrow is Brians last day at work for the week!! YAY!!!

November 21st

Well today is probably my last entry before the big day!! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Friday I will be out in the hustle and Bustle of things. Looks like Toys R Us won my vote for 3am this year! I am very excited as you all know and I will update how it went when i come back on saturday or sunday!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope your day is beautiful and that you all are surrounded by friends, family, and love!

I love you all!
Robin

Random Pictures!!

November 6th, 2007

Random pictures of the kids playing around!

Halloween!

Halloween was great! Christopher REALLY got into it! He was so excited! He was allowed to pick his own costume this year, if it was my choice he'd have been a cute bear or a lion....but he was a ninja. Laci was Tinkerbelle, she lasted about 20 minutes in her costume and was ready for bed!! It was worth it though! The pics were great! Christopher did really good, we did the main circle of the neighborhood and he was done, zombied out and wanting me to hold his bag and tote him on my back! We went to get dinner from Wendy's at 8:00pm and he was asleep 2 minutes after getting in the car....he never ate dinner, he just wanted to sleep. He was even too tired to look at his candy!! We had the yard done up great as usual, and had lots of fun scaring the kids...and some adults too! It was wierd packing it all up thinking that this is probably our last year decorating this yard for Halloween! I know next year no matter where we are, we are going to have a blast too!

Happy November!!!

Well, it's November again...the weather is finally feeling brisk and the air is crisp! I am dying to put up our Christmas decorations, but i think Brian wants to wait a week or three! I am going to be posting some pictures of the month and a few from Halloween for you all. So far the month has been quiet...but it's early still. Me and Brian are going out on the Day after Thanksgiving together for the first time this year!! Laci will be with us, so we have to split up for the first part (i'm still trying to figure out how to get her fed and still be in Wal-mart at 5am!) and I suspect Brian is going to be the braun to get the things I need! hahaha!

Hope everyone has a great November, this is a new site so please check back regularly to see all the updates and pictures!!