BRRR!

Sitting here in my robe this morning (but still wearing shorts so its not winter yet, LOL) and the temps are at 48* this morning! LOVE IT!!!

It has been a beautiful week so far and the skies are blue, air is crisp and I am in the mood for some smores!!! We have a slight chance of rain on friday but that isnt going to stop me from decorating this weekend! I cannot believe its the last day of September! Wowza! We are done with the a/c finally for the year. (unless we get a freak heat wave now). I have spent the last 3 days outside all day and into the evening and I plan on continuing that trend today. :)

The week has been fairly slow event wise with everyone getting back to normal but this weekend is going to be anything but the norm for me and brian! My mom and Steve are keeping BOTH kids OVERNIGHT!!! Me and Brian had to cancel our date night yesterday when we found out that Joey has his home coming this weekend and then my mom called last night and said that she felt bad we had to cancel and that they wanted to keep them instead, and since we are going to be coming in so late that we should just let the kids spend the night! We have to get them by about 9 Sunday morning so they can go to church but I am freaking out!! A whole night with no kids!!! OMG! That hasnt happened since Christopher was 6 months old!!!!! (no I am lying, now that I think about it, he did spend the night once with Brian's grandparents a few years ago but that is it). So as nervous as I am for Laci keeping them up all night, I am positively STOKED about Saturday now!!! :) EEEEK!!!

So anyhow that is my news in a nutshell! Hope everyone is having a beautiful day!
Much love!!
♥
Robin

Helloooooooo FALL!!!

Its funny, with all the flooding and hecticness of last week I missed celebrating two big things!

1. Laci is now 2 1/2!!!! WOW!!! How did that happen so fast? Its is wierd she is now older than Christopher was when me and Brian got married!!! She is so big now too and starting to really come around as her own person and have her own quirks and personality. And boy is she FULL of personality!!! LOL!!!

2. ITS FALL!!!!! The world celebrated that fact this morning with a 58 degree temp!!!! Its feels SOOOOOO good!!!!! We had a beautiful dry cool day yesterday and ate dinner last night on the back patio as a family. We had spaghetti. Yum!

Brian is back to work after a 4 day break this morning and Christopher is back at school (in pants and a jacket!) after a 9 day break! Life will be kind of odd getting back to normal today. But the temps are going to be crazy and with a high of only 69* tomorrow I am more than happy to spend the day outside! I am thinking of walking Laci to the park in a few minutes.

If the rain holds out then we are going to decorate the yard this Friday! I can't believe I am *finally* back to the part of the year where its time to decorate every month!! This weekend me and Brian are finally going on a date! We are going to dinner at Crabby Joes and then to watch Zombieland and then to Netherworld haunted house (www.netherworldhauntedhouse.com) !! It will be a huge night that will no doubt have me on the verge of a heart attack, but I am very VERY excited!!! :)

Well I hope everyone is off to a beautiful start, I know my grandma is happy with her Yankees making the playoffs! :)

Happy Monday everyone!

Flooding...

These are pictures and video from my house to about an hour drive....this shows truly how bad we had/have it here in GA. :(

http://picasaweb.google.com/georgiapeach717/Flooding#

THE RAIN!

Is wrecking havoc in georgia!!!

Schools closed. roads closed, roads washed away, children swept from their mother's arms, cars completely underwater on 75 south....thousands of homes underwater...whole schools underwater....

its raining again today....and tomorrow....and thursday, and friday.....

Local news station....
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/index.html

Good Friday Morning!

Its going to be a long day for me today. Brian has a huge workload and wont be home before dinnertime I am sure. Its raining again, but I am not complaining. This usually happens as fall weather sinks down to the southeast. So rain rain, its okay, raing yet another day. ;)
My mom came over yesterday afternoon and we got the first half of my kitchen's new backsplash up, and this afternoon she is coming to finish. I am really excited because it looks so good! Now I want to paint the kitchen! Ha!! But I still have to decide on a good color. Myabe next week.
Today is Friday....finally! But it is the last day before Christopher's fall break starts so I have the next 9 days with 2 kids home all day. Thats always an adjustment now. I am going to try and plan a few things to do. Brian is off thursday through sunday so it will be nice to have a good 4 day weekend as a family. I am looking foward to it.
Well, I guess I need to get my sleepy butt in gear and get some stuff done around here. Hope you all enjoy your weekend!
Much love!

HAPPY HAPPY!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY BROTHER JOEY!!!

17 YEARS OLD TODAY! WOW!!! WHEN DID *THAT* HAPPEN?!?

I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!

YOU HAVE MADE ME SMILE A MILLION TIMES IN THE

FIRST 17 YEARS, I AM SURE TO SMILE TWICE AS MUCH

IN THE NEXT!

HAVE AN AMAZING DAY!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

XOXOX

YOUR BIG SISTER

ROBIN

Whoa! I am getting behind on here again badly!

Let's recap. Ok last Thursday I went to the PTA meeting, but Friday I had a horrific migraine and ended up not going to the second PTA meeting. Friday was rainy and crappy and my head still hurt. I went to target, and michaels, and the school box, and toys r us looking for a good gift for Christopher's friend Ansley. Then I went to look for any open garage sales in the bridgemill sale, but the rain had them mostly all closed up. Then I went and helped set up at Christopher's school for his "tasting party" and then grabbed a little ceasars pizza and headed home. I spent the rest of the day chilling out, til about 3 then we headed out to go to Ansley's party at Build a bear at the mall. It was sweet because she wasonly allowed to invite one person from class and she chose Christopher. He was thrilled to say the least :) We spent a few hours there and then headed home and I was ready to crash!. Saturday was my "day off" although thanks to my headache I still had, I called it a day by 11:30. I went to the bridgemill sale and it was a beautful day, but I didnt have much luck out there as it was very disappointing. I went home and got brian and the kids and we went to one neighborhood sale in woodstock only to be even more disappointed, and then we decided to go look for a dvd player but didnt get one, and then went home. We spent the rest of the day working on awesome spooky picket fences for the yard for halloween. We all turned in by about 8:30.
Sunday was another day of fun halloween decor making. We finished the 7 fence pieces, and then made 32 styrofoam headstones (12"x12") for the yard, and I finally know how I am going to decorate the whole yard itself this year!!! I am so excited for Halloween this year! I had to update my decorations but we also have a tight budget...the bulk of my extra money will go into lights for the yard..they are expensive! I also need to get more spraypaint! I went to the grocery store in the afternoon on sunday and then called it a day, came in, got the kids cleaned and ready for Monday.
Yesterday I didnt do a whole lot. I went to Michael's and a new halloween store in the morning with Laci, and then we chilled out at home for the rest of the day til we got Christopher and Brian came home. Then we went back to the new halloween store because christopher was very upset he missed it, and Brian wanted to see it too. After that, I went to Christopher's school to volunteer my time at the blood drive, and then I donated blood. I was pretty nervous since I havent donated in so long, but I did fine and was fast asleep by 9:30. :)
Today I am pretty tired and I am taking it easy and I am going to just chill out all day. I am about to finish my coffee and then I am going to go sit outside with Laci for a few.

Have a great Tuesday!
♥ Robin

Oh yes, I am a busy busy girl!

Yesterday, Volunteer meeting at the school, Tonight, PTA meeting at the school, Tomorrow, get christopher's homework packet turned in, make sure he wears white, send in popcorn for a senses party, and come in to help during the party, come home, get showered, meet Christopher's friend Ansley and her mom at the Build a Bear at the mall for his friends Birthday, Saturday...Bridgemill Garage Sale/Mommy's day off!!! WOOT!!!

I feel like I have a million things going on all the time anymore! Add that to some tolerable weather and Brian finally on the road alone and you have yourself ....well....my life! Ha!

My house is in bad need again and I am going to try and work on that this morning, and tomorrow I am birthday gift shopping...which I always enjoy. :) I went to Target yesterday looking for Christmas gift ideas already for the kids and came up with a few for Laci. I am ready for the end of this month already! I am so ready for Halloween and cool weather and corn maizes and pumpkin farms and all the yummy goodness that is Fall here in N. Ga! I love living in GA during the fall....it truly is our star season!

We also decided we are not going to Gatlinburg this month, we are going to go for a 3 day weekend in January and try to see some real snow with the kids and let them try sledding and fill up on chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate! ;)

Hope you all have a great day!

Grandpa, I hope your feeling a little better today. I am sorry that you have to keep having crap done and you cant just relax now. I will see you soon! I love you both very very much! XOXO!!

Wait....I had a 3 day weekend???

So, my weekend started off amazingly! We got up Saturday morning and had a nice pancake breakfast, then we took the kids to the big park on the lake and let them play for a few hours, and then we drove to Kennesaw and ate lunch at Stevie B's Pizza, and then went to the Party City to look at Halloween stuff with the kids. We had a whole afternoon planned too, but on the way home I got a call from my friend Buffi. She had gone skating with her kids and her boyfriend and his kids and while she was there she managed to break her ankle in 3 places! So I took Brian and the kids home and drove out to go get her daughters (3 and 6) from her boyfriends sister who had taken them home from the rink. We ended up keeping them saturday, saturday night, sunday, sunday night, and we were going to keep them through wednesday morning, but they ended up going to their dad's house at 6pm last night instead. It was unplanned of course so it kind of changed our labor day plans, but we made the best out of it for them and us and sunday we went to the big park in Woodstock and then played in our yard on the trampoline and played games and played outside and finally got them in bed around 9, and on monday we played outside most of the day. But I was too tired to do much more than manage to get the groceries bought yesterday. Having a 2, 3, 5, and 6 year old in your tiny house for 3 days aint as easy as it sounds! HA!
But we did get some stuff accomplished, Brian got the garage cleaned up, and we went ahead and cut down the mountain hibiscus for the year. It was too crazy this year and I just wasnt feeling it anymore so we chopped it down a good 3 weeks early! But my yard looks cleaner and that makes me happy. My friend Tiffany gave me 23 hostas to plant down the side of my house since she knew I really wanted to do that, but at 5.00 or more a piece it would be a while before I spent that kind of money on them! So now I have them and they look a bit frumpy now, but I know they will look great by next year! :)
Today I may or may not be taking buffi to the doctors, I am not sure yet, and I have to clean my house which is TRASHED! ugh! I went ahead and splurged on my apple cinnamon candle to light b/c fall is coming! This is literally like the last week of heat! And even though it is in the 80s still its a different kind of 80s t00. This morning on the way to Christopher's school it was actually chilly driving with the windows down and the air off! Yay!!!
Well, I better get off here and start getting my crapola done, since I have plenty to do!
Hope you all have a great week!
♥ ♥ ♥

Do you feel that?

Its fall air baby!!! Woot!! The last few days have been incredible weather wise! Ahhhh :) Crisp air, cooler temps, and lots of chalk on my driveway! I am SO happy the weather is changing! Yesterday was so nice that other than Laci's nap, I was outside all day long! This morning I was going to take her to the park, but I didnt sleep well and was up too much so Brian took Christopher to school, and Laci is still asleep upstairs. Of course, now that I have typed that she will undoubtedly wake up in a moment or two!
So did I mention how freaking FABULOUS the weather has been?
Tonight is going to be fun! We are having a neighborhood block BBQ to let the adults hang, and the kids play and we are doing a potluck style bbq. I am in charge of the crock pot mac and cheese. Yummy! Now I just gotta get to the store! ha! I am really excited for it and hope it all goes great!
I also have started planning my first ever Halloween get together, (weather permitting), by co-hosting a culdesac block party with a ton of people! So far I have had 4 maybes and 4 yeses! I am stoked! I have to start planning what all I am going to do for fun for the kids. I am thinking of getting a box of those small baby pumpkins and having a pumpkin painting table, and also having a zombie dance off for a prize. Also you cant go wrong with bobbing for apples (I have to come up with something more creative to bob for), and treats! I cant wait! It will be on the 24th of October! woot!!! :)
Well I am off for a very busy 3 days I am sure! And I will be enjoying as much amazing weather as I can!
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
♥

SEPTEMBER!

Hello beautiful cool evening! Hello leaves changing color! Hello FALL!!!

ITS SEPTEMBER!
I started the month by getting my first Christmas gift bought for Laci. There is a Barbie cash register at Toys R Us that she plays with everytime we go, and finally I decided to scan it and it came up ....prepare yourself for this.... 42.99!!!!! (excuse me while I throw up in my mouth again)Anyhow, so I have been looking on Ebay for a used one since at 2 1/2 she doesnt understand that no package=played with by another kid first. So I foudn some, some in bad shape, some in great shape, but all quickly being bid on. So I found one yesterday that is in perfect shape in Florida and emailed the seller to ask if she would consider a buy it now price, and after consulting her daughter she came back and agreed to 7.50 with 6.75 to ship!!!! Yes, Laci has her cash register coming for christmas this week and it only cost me 14.25!!! I am going to find a nice box for it and get it cleaned up to 100% and I know she is going to be THRILLED when she opens it on christmas morning! I know its sad to give your kids used gifts at christmas, but if it meant used or not at all, well, a mom has to do what a mom has to do. Kids toys are insanely priced now adays and with us still recovering from Brian being laid off this year Christmas is going to take some tweaking. Anyhow its only a few things, I will be buying plenty too I am sure!
So anyhow, Chip is doing well. He is gaining weight, drinking water on his own, and eating well. He is currently purring in one hand while I type 2 fingered. LOL!
Today is another rainy day, but its ok by us. I have yet to make my mind up about Gatlinburg too. *sigh* I need to get that figured out quickly!
Hope you all have a blessed first day of September!
xoxoxo