Adventures in Texas

Gig'em!

Side Note: Come on y'all...my head does have a bit of air in it but of course I know...HOOK'EM Horns- I joke.  I joke!

 Bathing Beauties.

 Double trouble!

 I got the "Winer" award this year...it's an honor-unlike how it might sound.

Stars and Stripes

Simple fun for the kids.  They love craft time and I love having their art to decorate with!

A-W-E-S-O-M-E, awesome- toe-totally!

One of my favorite friends- Brooke, gave me a book for graduation... it's called "The Book of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha.  It's short writings about awesome-ness like the flip side of your pillow, or sneaking McDonald's and hiding the evidence, or using Rock- Paper- Scissors to settle everything, or seeing old people holding hands...this is a feel good book that makes you feel AWESOME and helps you to appreciate the small things. 

My AWESOME mother in law- Boo - sent me the sequel yesterday in the mail...she must have heard me laughing out loud about some of the writings in this book...the author really does a good job of putting you in that AWESOME moment- he's funny.  and unexpected mail presents?  AWESOME!

Daddy's 6 Pack

Let me show you this super cute craft we pulled off for Father's day...we drank cream soda, kept the bottles, filled them with peanuts and M&M's, did some stamping and WaLa...I kept the kids busy for a minute and they were proud to present their gift to Daddy...and Poppy and Casey.

Happy Father's Day! 

MERRYland

What a whirlwind of a couple months... graduation, traveling to France, a Fun Bus training in New Jersey and a cross country move.  Shew!  We are now settling into our new life here in Maryland.  We are loving every minute!  Like I mentioned before we live smack in the middle of both my brothers they are 5 minutes each way.  We have had nothing short of a 3 ring circus all the time but let me tell you it's a fun time.  We are back to being those "crazy Coon's"  just now you can call us the "Whoon's" (Wheat + Coon= Whoon).  We got a cute little house that I just love- it's open, with wood floors throughout, a ginormous basement (for all our s***+ a play room and craft space) and then we have a super duper backyard.  We don't have neighbors on either side or behind us so we got a lot of room back there.  We have wildlife (not sure how thrilled I am about this)...Annabelle searches out "EB" (Easter Bunny) each morning and you should see the fire flies at night!  We actually have caught a few thanks to my Sam and KeeKee neither of them being the least bit afraid to catch a bug- totally unlike me!

All and all we are doing good...although I was a little disturbed that the grocery store I was at didn't have corn tortillas?  I am going to get to the bottom of that for sure- no one warned me about that???

Annabelle yelling for "E.B."

 Just chillin'

 My girls...(Annabelle and I are adopting Charlee)

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The adventure in FUN!

We are signed and sealed -we have bought a franchise in the Fun Bus.  Yup...that's right this girl is going to be driving a big ol' green bus around town ...and havin' fun doing it!  Here's the low down...

We target kids ages 2-8 years old.  We bring them on the bus for structured, and age appropriate FUN.  The bus is completely refurbished and padded on the inside with all sorts of great entertainment- slides, swings, bball hoop, zip line, a punching bag, tons of mats, a donut, monkey bars, a tunnel etc.  It's climate controlled..so when it's freezing out or raining there is no reason the kids can not expend that energy.  We go to day cares, we do birthday parties and other events. 

You can check it out here to get a real feel for it. 

Myself along with Corey and my parents are in this adventure together.  We should have bus number one by September and bus #2 shortly after that.  We are very excited-This is right up our alley.  For now though... we sit and wait while they refurbish our bus....

A fun quote I heard that I am going to live by...
"As you climb the ladder of success, don't let the boys look up your dress!" - Unknown    Just love it!!

Platinum and Gold

You know the song- " Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold."  Right now that song has been dear to me...but instead I like to think of my friends as platinum and gold...to me it means that much better of a friend than just silver- ya know? 

I am the type of person that loves strongly and dearly so good byes are VERY hard!  I have a very true family and very true friends that I just absolutelyy hate to say good bye to!  Each of you mean the world to me and with this blog and our other blog and facebook and skyp I promise to keep in touch with each of you!  Please know that anyone and everyone are more than welcome to come visit us and we will be home at the very least once a year and I promise to try to catch up with you all at that time.  I know reality always kicks in and times are busy but I love you all and I will always cherish the relationship we have.  I have the type of friends that whether a day or 2 years goes by when we get back together we are able to just pick up where we left off.  So with that said- I love you all and will miss you all dearly! 

Stay Cool, Sweet Friends!!

My Guilty Pleasure

Partly because we tried to minimize the groceries this week upon our move- this morning we were fresh out of breakfast food...but partly because I LOVE DONUTS!  I couldn't pass up our last morning in Arlington and not stop at our beloved Shipley's one last time.  My mom has been so gracious to lend me her car these past few days- I was out taking her to school.  So there I sat in a LOOOOONG line to get donuts...if you could have heard the thoughts going through my head .. like "hey fat ass- why don't you go in instead of driving thru", or "don't they say it's better to just not eat breakfast than to eat a donut?"...but there I sat because Annabelle was with me and I didn't put shoes on her...oh and I really like donuts!  I am pretty sure all of Arlington was there with me- although I didn't see one of you there?  Anyway I got to the window and I saw that it was National Donut Day!  and then we came home and enjoyed our guilt pleasure.  Oh and we got a free glazed donut to top it all off...fantastic!  and now I sit here typing this with a nice case of heart burn. 

So Happy Day to you!!

And their off!

"there goes my life, there goes my future"..that was the song running through my head this morning as Corey and a brave friend- Shawn drove off in the biggest Uhaul there was and 2 stuffed cars.  My poor Dad and Corey worked their butts off (and even still I think that's and understatement) yesterday.  The two of them moved all 8 million pieces- OH MY GOSH!  Where the hell did all that come from?  Hope we love Maryland because Corey says we are NEVER moving again! 

They drove all day- tonight they are staying in Memphis and tomorrow they will stop where ever they are when the Mavs game begins...Then they should be in Maryland my Friday afternoon.  That's a hell of alot of driving!  Thank you guys!!!