a quick message from rowdy, a breakfast and then a festival, the lake & race bibs

first, a message from rowdy...

he pretty much jabbers all day long

it cracks me up because he growls a lot as well (and does at the end of this clip). lottie sue growled A LOT and people would look at me weird at stores and i am pretty sure it disturbed the nursery teachers at church. ha!

lottie sue's classroom held a mother's day breakfast for all the mommies last week - it was lovely! check out the door, i thought it was sooooooo cute.

lottie holds the letter "a"

this is lottie before school, she was very excited that i was eating breakfast with her.

our fashionista

here were are eating the food, there was chocolate chip bread and then blueberry muffins. i prepared a plate and we decided to share everything. once lottie took a bite of the chocolate chip bread she told me that it was hers and that i should eat the muffin. nice.

greedy much?

a shot of the table, that is irie on the left in the green jacket - he's her BF.


yeah, this is what rowdy did the whole time. he had a lot of entertainment with a room of 2 year-olds running around.

yes. i am cute.

THEN later in the week school had a festival to end the year right, we had a great time. this is lottie sue's class, the "gentle goldfish."

little fishies

lottie loved loved loved the carousel

rowdy looked super cool in matt's new sunglasses. side note about the sunglasses: matt saw these when he had his exam months ago and has been talking about them ever since. he finally bought them two weeks ago and he treats them like they are made of sand. do not touch them! or look at them the wrong way for that matter! they are perfect and can do no wrong! so to see that matt put them on rowdy was quite surprising...

matt's right, the sunglasses are cool

lottie in the jumpy bouncy thing

they had cotton candy for sale (50 cents, what a deal!) and we splurged for lottie sue.

true love, she was so happy

i could not believe she shared
(since i was denied the chocolate chip bread, hmph)

rowdy had lots to look at

here's lottie sue at her name

lottie sue trying to get the ball in the hole

matt trying to get another ball in another hole

this is lottie sue running away from me with a sucker in tow
(she won it at a game but we told her
it was for later. we are SO mean.)

drumming away

bb and rowdy make sweet music together

PHEW! the cotton candy was enough to put her on a sugar high. we came home and she literally ran circles around the den talking super fast and laughing at herself. we just watched her go...

we also took a trip out to visit granbunny one day this week, johnny and judy came over to plant flowers (granbunny's mother's day gift) and lottie sue helped.

judy and her assistant

lots of frogs live in the pond and we always
try to find them, but they hide from us :(

the weekend took us up to the lake for some r&r. it was awesome and we are looking forward to lake fun up at norris, yo! lucky for us rowdy loves the water as much as lottie sue. here are a few photos...

rowdy is clapping here

a mid-air shot

lottie with her protective eyewear

after pooltime we settled down for dinner and hanging out. glenda from next door came over with her pup. when glenda left lottie told me, "i sure wish i could have a doggie like that."

nice doggy

that's matt in the distance, he was on burger (and wine patrol)

rowdy had to pet the doggy as well

after dinner we settled outside, lottie sue grabbed her "knockers" to get a better view.

she will only look through them at the wrong end

we found a slug crawling about and lottie sue had to investigate.

then takes a closer look with the knockers of course.

on saturday lottie sue went to selene's birthday party. it was at one of those inflatable places and was awesome - but lottie sue would not go in the bouncy things. she only wanted to play air hockey.

a group shot of the kiddos

at cake time, i looked over and she had the piece of cake in both
hands cramming it in her mouth. real attractive - but cute.

and the next section is going to be my new thing - i'm going to keep all of my race bibs and write down my time, date, interesting things about the race, place and etc.

my first 5K, yuck - it was so hard

second race at the zoo, megan saw a zebra's butt - i was jipped!

you will notice i am getting faster

came in last in this one, but the bagels we ate
afterward were yummy yummy in my tummy

here's a random photo of lottie sue on the couch with one of her babies and her dora watch.

i am pretty sure we are watching reba

a few interesting reads for you...

• i am SOOOOO making a super cool duvet cover for lottie sue's bed - and you can, too!
• here's how the pentagon makes brownies, the recipe is 26 pages - nothankyou!
• i just finished asterios polyp and loved it! here's a review from the times: read it here.
• i (and amy) have found a few really good running blogs, so i thought i would share with you. one is endurance isn't only physical and racing with babes. these ladies are pretty much obsessed with running and living a healthy lifestyle, it's something good to read to keep you motivated if you are a runner.
• and here's something to crack you up: a website named stuff my kids ruined - you will see i changed the first word to be less crude but the site is worth it.

okee dokee everyone, i hope you have a super duper day - blog to ya later!