Happy Birthday Kevin!

Thirty-nine years ago today my precious husband was born. I'm so thankful for the person he is and the life he lives. I see so much of who I need to be in him. Kevin never talks bad about anyone, He looks at most everything from the other persons prospective and most of the time does what is best for them. Kevin is a hard worker and a great provider for this family. He adores his children, Trenton is the light in his eye, CeAnna is his little baby girl (and always will be - no matter how old she gets) and I think he see so much of his self in Blake. He prays with the kids every night beside their beds and he lives a good life in font of them. I'm blessed to have married someone like him. Happy Birthday Kevin! You are loved!

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Kevin and I worked on our new flower beds all day Saturday. We have lived here for years and have done very little to the landscaping before now. Saturday was one of those days where the sun was out but it was behind clouds and the wind was blowing. You know one of those days where you end up lobster red and the thought of sun block never crosses your mind! It never crosses your mind until your laying in your bed at night and even the sheets touching your skin HURTS! However the landscaping was a success and I'm the proud owner of a house that looks a little less like its a renter house.! :)

Before

After

 

 

Trenton informed me that he didn't like the fact that he matched Blake and Kevin on Easter Sunday. I did kinda ambush the guys with that. I thought Kevin would be more upset about it but nope it was Trent. It's not that I set out to have them all in the exact same shirt in fact I didn't even buy Kevin's at the same time. I just ended up not finding a color close enough in something I liked. Here are some pictures from our Easter! Enjoy!

Something Borrowed and my weekend.

I just fished my book, Something Borrowed, in time for the weekend. Its movie release is in May (and I'm sure on DVD much later) and I wanted to let someone else borrow and read it before it came out but I have already watched the previews and fount many thing that's not in the movie.

That kinda drives me crazy. I think, I spend too much time picking out the differences vs actually enjoying the movie. The book it's self was pretty amazing. I read it in two days. It's one of those that you get nothing accomplished because you cant put it down.

This weekend was kid-appaloosa just like them all with the exception of Friday night. Friday night was special, the fam went to Chuck-E-Cheese and then to CeAnna and my favorite place to eat, Red Lobster.
We used the excuse that it was lobster fest but none of us ended up eating Lobster. We all with  the exception of Kevin ate crab legs. Kevin has a need to always try new things on the menu and it always works out for him. I try new things and its disastrous for me.
We ended up with one extra kid when we got home that night. We have just add Netflix on demand. Dalton and Trenton stayed up to almost 2:00a.m. (at which point I made them go to bed) watching movies and playing Xbox live.

Saturday was church. Sunday was clean house a little, a Glee fest, bought groceries and back to church. Kade and Dalton had spent the night.
My grandmother told me before she died that she had a dream that I had a house with windows all in the backside of it and a big mountain behind it. She said I had a yard full of kids. My sister in-law had almost the same dream and was telling me about it. I thought surly one had told the other causing the other to dream the same dream but nope, two separate dreams. I guess, I kinda always looked for that dream to come true. More like hoped. Cause, I love mountains. Maybe it's Big Cove??? I love the Big Cove area. Anyway, the kid part didn't really make to much sense until now. I do love this age. My kids are independent but yet they still need me. They have their own lives and somehow there lives are still me and Kevin. I find the way preteens think fascinating and I enjoy them. Wouldn't mind having a yard full of kids (as long as they have a home other than mine) with a nice view of the mountains.
I'm rambling.
What I'm trying to say is that I loved it when the kids were little. I had always assumed that that was as good as it gets but this is good too!

Day 30

Earlene Tebo - I just always thought there was something so special about her. Even before I knew her and there was. We just became friends and I think about her and miss her.

This is my crazy Nanny. She was fierce - and she loved her family. Miss her!

This is Bro. David -precious- I'm so glad we got to know him his last few years of life. We loved him so much.

This is my dad Tony Brown - he died when I was 12. I miss him so much.

Day thirty: a picture of someone you miss.
This ends on a pretty sad note. I'm glad I completed the 30 day photo thing :)

Boy, do I have confidence in YOU!

I'm going to tell on myself today. This is one of those embarrassing to death moments for me but I can also find the humor in it after my cheeks return to a normal shade of pink.
When I first started going to church eight years ago, Nickey Gains came up to me and said "We are having an Easter egg hunt at Goddy's Saturday you should bring your kids." I believe I even ask her if it was going to be outside.? She was like "yeah". I thought..... Saturday is one of the busiest shopping days Goddy's has.... That has got to be dangerous.... All those little kids out there hunting eggs in that parking lot....  and then I pictured them hiding eggs behind the wheels of the cars and little kids bending down to get them.... and I thought..... Man, Holiness people really trust their kid to the Lord!!!..... I'm not sure if I have that kind of faith yet.... I looked up at Nickey and said I'll think about it.

Well, I guess my faith has grown and eight years later I took my kids Easter egg hunting at Goody's Park. It was a great day.

Just so you want think I'm the meanest s-i-l in the world I did tell her I was putting this on here!

 

This weekend was statistic quo a lot of driving and hauling kids and a lot of church going!

Day 29

Day 29....a picture that can make you smile.

 This is equivalent too....

this!

Don't get me wrong my kids love each other. They both have the mentality that- nobody is going to mistreat my sister/brother except for me! and they take their job serious! Someone once ask me if they were acting like they were asleep in this picture. I couldn't pay them to act like this!!! :)

Day 28

Day twenty-eight: a picture of something you're afraid of.

 

 

I'm sure you all know that my hubby got bit by a brown recluse over two years ago. I really never had a fear of spiders before then. Basically my "fear" is limited to this one particular spider. Kevin was hospitalize for seven days. It was horrible they had trouble getting his white blood cells under control for days. As if that and the bite its self wasn't bad enough come to find out Kevin is allergic to brown recluses! He still suffers from hives and a few other things due to the bite but I'm so thankful that he has both his legs and only a little scar.

Day 26 & 27

Day twenty-six: a picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day twenty-seven: a picture of yourself and a family member.

Day 25

Day twenty-five: a picture of your day.

Yeah, this looks pretty accurate!

Day 24

Day twenty-four: a picture of something you wish you could change.
I think I'd give the world tolerance for people with disabilities.  

Day 23

Day twenty-three: a picture of your favorite book.

I've just started reading books and the Twilight series is what got me interested in reading so I have to give credit to Stephenie Meyer.- If your a reader I'd love to hear any recommendations???

Day 22

Day twenty-two: a picture of something you wish you were better at.

Singing... I know anyone who has ever heard me sing is shocked that I think I need to be better at it ;) hehehe 

We are such good church goers.....we even went to Huntsville last night! hehehe

I know I'm going to be old and look back at my life - especially the weekend part and think how fortunate I was - that I had so much to do and it always seems to revolve around the kids. Ether that or I'll think how crazy I was to always to try to pack so much into one weekend!  Regardless, I'm sure I'll be resting well with theses thoughts at the funny farm. 

Kevin was on call this weekend -that within itself makes for a uncertain weekend. As most of my followers by now know my house is always full of kids and normally a few of them aren't mine.  This weekend was no exception. CeAnna had company Friday night. We went to some friends and ate and played games. Kevin made it to their house around 9:30.
We did get to go and see Chad and Emily's new little addition and she was precious.
Saturday morning was the 3k walk for autism with Tyler and his family. Tyler got to spend the night with us Saturday. He did really good in church. Although, we did have to move to the back, I think the noise leaves up front were a little to high for him. Tyler has hardly ever spent the night away from home. He got a little sad Saturday night  before I knew it, we had Trenton, Ceanna, Tyler, Kevin and me- all in our queen size bed sing the wheels on the bus go round and round (Tyler's favorite song) at 11:30 at night. What can I say - We love that kid.
Sunday morning we went to Bonds. Then went and meet Tr and Terri for lunch and went back to their house between services. If my phone hadn't been acting crazy I would have gotten the call that let us know that church had been canceled. We only realized it sitting in the church parking lot at 4:45. Back to Arab... The bright side is that we got the house cleaned and much needed groceries bought.We even got to hang some new wall decor up that I had gotten for the living room. We have lived here for four years and the living room finally has that homely feeling to it. I'm so proud here are some pictures.

 

Okay so I stuck in a kitchen picture... 

 Melissa the bird cage beside the TV is the one I told you about, I had bought it from your dad when me and Marty went Yard Sailing, painted it black and filled it with candles. You can't tell it by the picture but it's really big and one of my favorite projects.

Day 21

Day twenty-one: a picture of something you wish you could forget.

 

I sometimes think it would be nice to have amnesia - but only forget all the bad things people has done to you! 

Day 20

Day twenty: a picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.

 Alaska.... there is just so much I'd love to do  and see in Alaska... I'd love to see a whale in the wild or a moose. Of course the Northern lights. Bears catching trout. This is all Sara Palin's fault! lol

Day 19

Day nineteen: a picture of you when you were little.