5 Things Friday - 5 Best Girlfriends

My 5 Best Girlfriends

I feel very lucky to have these girls in my life!  So in no particular order:

1.  Erin Ree
Erin is my oldest friend.  We have been friends since we were little kids growing up on the same street.  We know absolutely everything there is to know about each other.  I always know that I can depend on her no matter what.

2.  Stef
Stef and I became friends during our senior year of high school.  And we were inseparable for the few years after!  Now we have husbands and kids and jobs and everything else that prevents us from hanging out as much as we want to, but when we do get to hang out it just makes it that much more special!

3.  Ashley
Ashley and I were friends in high school.  A few years out of high school we sort of drifted apart.  Then a few years ago we started talking on Facebook and realized that we were living just a couple of miles apart!  So we met up for dinner one night and we have been as close as we were before ever since!  Lyla is even going to be the flower girl in her wedding!

4.  Karla
Karla is married to one of Gary's best friends from growing up.  Her and I had an immediate connection!  I never would have survived living in Morgantown if she hadn't been there for me to lean on.  We even got to be pregnant together.  She is an amazing person who I feel very honored to know and call a friend!

5.  Emily
Em is my little sister.  Its been said that your sister is your first friend and I believe that.  Its true that we are as different as any two people could be when comes to a lot of things, but I also adore her and love her with all my heart!  Most of the time we have a lot of fun together!

5 Things Monday??

My sister has informed me that she is extremely disappointed that I have not provided her with a "5 Things Friday" post to read for the last two Fridays!  So just for her, I'm doing a 5 Things Monday post!

5 Movies that make me cry

1.  Homeward Bound was on tv last night.  Gary and I sat and watched it and made Lyla watch it with us!  Do you all remember this movie?  With the talking dogs and cat.  Well there is one scene when they find a little girl lost in the woods.  Yeah... made me cry.  Since having Lyla some things just really rip me up that never even bothered me before!

2.  Sex and the City (the first movie).  The scene where Carrie is waiting on the steps for Big to get there for their wedding and she has to borrow somebodies phone to call and see where he is.  From that point until Charlotte is yelling at Big in the middle of the street.  It just rips my heart out!  I could cry just thinking about it!

3.  Country Strong.  That's all I'm going to put.  I don't want to give anything away for anyone who hasn't seen it!

4.  Steel Magnolias.  Julia Roberts is just so good in that movie.  Its one of my favorites from beginning to end.

5.  The Notebook.  I'm not giving any explanation.  If you can get through that entire movie and not cry... well you are pretty tough!

Sometimes

Sometimes these two make me crazy...

Sometimes they warm my heart!  :)

OH What a Sunday!

So, how was your Sunday?  Let me give you a little rundown of how mine went, always interesting with Lyla around!

We started the morning like most weekend mornings, in the kitchen.  She has gotten really good at singing her ABCs, so I figured I need to get it on video, so I got that done:

Then we decided we should go to the park before it got too hot outside.

After we were there a while we decided we should leave and go get ice cream.  So on the way to ice cream, Lyla zonked out in the backseat.   We couldn't go eat ice cream without her, so we figured we will just go home and let her nap and then get ice cream later.

She woke up as soon as I got her out of the car.

So I made a deal with her.  I told her if she ate her lunch and took a nap when she got up we would go get ice cream.  She did not do either of these things.

About 3:30 she convinced Gary and I that she NEEDED to go get ice cream.  We really wanted ice cream too, so we gave in.  We get in the car and start driving..... she passes out again!

When we get to the ice cream place I took her out of the car and she was just totally out.  So I stood holding her while we got ice cream.  Finally I was able to get her to wake up so she could have some.  She would have been so mad if she slept through it. 

After ice cream I decided to stop at Target to get diapers.  Well we all three go in because she is not going to miss out on any chance to go shopping.  While we are in there I was just looking at the toddler beds.  Just looking.....  well they had a princess bed and she got so excited.  We decided if she is this excited about it then it will probably make it easier to transition.

So we got it home and Gary took down her crib and built her new bed while she supervised every second of it!  She could not wait to have her princess bed!

Putting her to bed was no big deal at all.

Then at 11:30 she started crying, I opened our bedroom door to go and check on her and met her running to me in the hallway.  I think she woke up and freaked out because she didn't know where she was or something.  So I picked her up and she climbed in to our bed and fell right to sleep. 

This morning she wakes up in our bed, so mad that she wasn't sleeping in her princess bed!  hahaha  So hopefully tonight goes smooth and she stays there all night!

5 Things Friday - 5 Reasons Why I Like the HEAT

5 Reasons why I like the HEAT

I always say that you will never hear me complain about the heat because I hate it so much when its cold.  I get really annoyed with people who complain when its cold and complain when its hot.  Its like pick one, so I choose to complain about the cold and not the heat!

Well this summer is starting to test my limits.  Its been in the 90s consistently for quite a while now and the projected high for tomorrow is 100....  So for 5 things Friday I am going give myself a little reminder as to why the heat is better than the cold!

1.  I don't have to wear a coat.

2.  Flip Flops are much easier to slip on going out the door than putting on boots.

3.  Less laundry.  A load of t-shirts is a lot easier than two loads of sweats and a load of sweaters.

4.  Vitamin D.  All the sunshine is good for you!

5.  You don't have to scrape the ice off of your windows or clean the snow off of your car.

Happy 4th of July - 2012 Edition

We had a really nice day today, even with it being 90 some degrees outside!

We met our friends Erin and Andy (and their friends Jamie and Andy) downtown at the Regatta.  It wasn't quite as cool as we expected, they have some great people doing their marketing as Erin put it, but we made the best of it and had a really good time!

After we had lunch and walked around for a while, Gary and Lyla got in line to go down this huge inflatable slide!  I really didn't think she would go down it, but she did!

After a few hours in the heat, I had a wicked sunburn and Lyla was pooped.  So we called it a day and headed towards home!  Now we are all just hanging out and enjoying the rest of our evening together before going back to work tomorrow.

Saying Goodbye to another FABULOUS Weekend!

We had a lot of fun this weekend even  though we had to go separate ways to do it.  Gary dropped Lyla and I off at my parents Saturday morning and we got to play at their house and go to a party at a friend's house while Gary was spending time in West Virginia. 

But before we left on Saturday, we had dinner at home Friday night.  Pizza, because we do it up fancy around here!  Anyways, I turn around for one second and this is what I see:  haha

Then on Saturday thanks to Lyla's Great Grandma she got to be a rock star!

She got to go swimming and party hard!

I got to visit with old friends.

And today Pappy taught Lyla what its really like to play in the country!