Joseph, Rylie and I went out for a Sat. ride around
the neighborhood on the golf cart. As you can see, we had
a fun time playing at the playground! We also stopped by
one of our neighbors houses (Sue Darnell) to say hey and
she picked a flower for Rylie. She was so excited!

WOW! It's been too long!

OK- SO I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't posted since Valentine's Day. Can you believe it. Rylie got RSV twice and then we had ear infections. School was coming to a close and so I decided to catch up this summer, so here it goes. I will be posting a lot so hope you can keep up!

Happy Valentine's Day to Me! WOW

Joseph defintaly gets MAJOR points for this trip. He surprised me with a night and day away for Valentine's weekend. He arranged babysitting-overnight- and we took of to Callaway Gardens. He got us in their new Lodge and Spa. It was sooo relaxing. The room was amazing (picture below). The bathroom was even better. There was a huge tube to soak in and a seperate shower. We got there late Friday night (b/c I had the stomache bug Friday! UGH). We ordered room service and then laid in bed and watched TV till we fell asleep. We actually got to sleep past 8 o'clock. It was SOOO worth it just for that! Ha! Ha! Saturday morning I was informed that I had a massage at the spa at 11:00. Talk about relaxing! That was totally awesome. The wooded pictures show the view from our balcony. After the massage we went on a walk around the gardens and toured the butterfly museum. THAT was GREAT! I will warn you that it is extremely HOT in there! Enjoy the pics! THANKS JOEY!!!!!!

Cousin Layla's B'day Pary!

Cathy's dad and Layla to the left.

The whole family above!

As you can see. Layla LOVED her very own cupcake! She even enjoyed eating all the icing! It was a blast to see her really enjoying herself.

Cathy did all the decorations for the party herself. It was done up so nicely and even had #1 on all of the cupcakes. She is so talented, she even made the adorable table cloth herself! Everything was SO ADORABLE! Aunt Shirley even remembered that Rylie wouldn't understand why Layla got gifts and seh didn't, so she brought Rylie a present too! Way to go Aunt Shirley!!!!!

Walter's Birthday!

The first event I wanted to update everyone on is my next door neighbor's birthday party. Aren't they just SOOO cute! It was histerical. Walter and Mary Corbitt are my next door neighbors and they are wonderful people. Rylie loves both of them so much. They tend to miss their own grandchildren a lot so they love the occasionaly visits from Rylie. We had a birthday party for him about 3 weeks ago at Terry Watkins house. I had to be the "look out" because Walter had no idea we were gathered to celebrate his birthday. He tought they were just stopping in before they went to eat. Anyways, I proceeded to hide in the bushes outside my house (right next door to them) and I was going to call and tell everyone they were headed up the walk so they could quiet down for the surprise. Well, little did I know Walter decided to drive- yes across the street- so that they could just hop in the car and take off to eat after they said hey to Terry. Once I heard them CLOSING their garage door, I had to hightail it out of the bushes and across the street into the "IDEA" house yard and hide in the garage. I almost got caught too.

I've been tagged by Betsy!

Betsy tagged me. The Rules: Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 5 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog. or Share the 5 top places on your “want to see or want to see again” list. or Share 5 things you never pictured being in your future when your were 25 years old. Tag a minimum of 5, maximum of 10 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Top places I want to see or see again
1) Paris- this may never happen, but I'd love to go for a week to just see if it's really as romantic as it seems
2) AWAY for a getaway planned by my wonderful hubby- he gets the sitter and plans the entire vacation- OK, SO I STOLE THE IDEA FROM BETSY- I hear copying is the best form of flattery- GO CHAD!!!!!
3)Beach- I love the carelessness of being at the beach. I am fortunate to have parents who have a condo, so we get to escape quite frequently. I love being able to do what you want all day long- sleep/ lay out/ play in the sand/ swim in the pool or ocean- yes, some of those things are harder now that we have Rylie, but if the in-laws come too, it's even better!!!!
4) Callaway Gardens- props to my wonderful hubby for taken me on that romantic getaway (before Rylie) for a Valentine's weekend filled with fun . We went and stayed in a chalet and ate at great restaurants. We toured the gardens and had a wonderful time at the butterfly exhibit We also went to several nature exhibits and trails. VERY AWESOME!!!! He did plan the whole thing :)
5) Disney World- we went on our honeymoon and we had a BLAST! We spent most of our time EATING everything in sight b/c we bought a package deal so we felt like we needed to get our "meals" worth. I can't wait to take Rylie to see it all. I'm sure things have changed so much in 5
years.

I tag the following people! Emily, Tammy, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Melissa

SNOW IN MONTGOMERY! WOW!

We live on Chapel Hill Street- So here's the Chapel at the end of the street.

I still can't believe it snowed.

Our front yard!

These are some pictures that we took right outside our house. I am way to cold natured to go out and play in it like some of you "BRAVE" souls. Rylie was a little sick when it started snowing and she wasn't half as excited as Joseph and I were! LOL....Enjoy...



ON ANOTHER NOTE~
I also had a great "date" and went to see the chick flick " 27 Dresses" with a girlfriend of mine. IT IS A MUST SEE FOR ALL YOU GIRLS! Joseph wouldn't have been caught dead in that movie, he was hunting with his brother. There was only one guy in the ENTIRE theatre and I'm not really sure he was out of place- if you know what I mean! I loved it! I am all for girls night if anyone's interested. I know it's tough with babies, exercise class (I wish I could be that devoted) and all the other craziness of everyday life, but we need to get together soon!