Our weekend getaway...Fabulous!

We took the kids to a hotel that had a indoor pool and lots of nice commendations, we had a really nice time and we took them to Alabama Adventure on Saturday it rained alittle when we first got there but it cleared up after about an hour, the kids had a blast and really enjoyed themselves, me and warren had a great time also, after Alabama Adventure we went swimming again and had a blast the whole weekend it was great, from the nice hotel with great breakfast, the indoor pool and of course Alabama Adventure! We had a great time....More pics to come...love you all!

Happy Mother's Day!

So first of all let me say Happy Mother's day to all the mothers, being a mom is one of the most important jobs in the world and it sometimes gets looked over but believe me I know all about what you go through and we definitely deserve a day for us Mom's!
I would also like to take a second and say thank you to my mom for all she has done for me and always supporting me and loving me no matter what, she is a great mother and I love her with all my heart! I am also so thankful to have so many mothers in my life that help support and guide me and inspire me as a mother, you all are such a inspiration and you are all hero's to me! I love you all...


My Mother's Day weekend was great, we didn't do much but that was do to alot of planning lol...me planning to relax! On friday we had art day with the kids and they made mother's day cards and lots of art work, alittle messy but they had a blast, after work the kids and I went over to my Aunt Brenda's house to help my cousin Angie with her Mother's Day gift for her mom, which was a digital photo keychain and she needed me to help load the pics, so she had several memory cards full of pics of our whole family, My grandmother who past away, My uncle who also just passed away and miss them all so dearly but actually seeing all the pictures didn't make me sad it made me realize how blessed I was to have them in my life even if I would have like them to be here longer the time I had with them was so memorable and the photos I now have are priceless! I will post a few at the end of this blog...

While at Aunt Brenda's the kids somehow managed to talk me into letting them swim or maybe it was the idea that Aunt Brenda kinda dunked them in but either way they had a blast, eventhough they had to wear wet clothes all the way home, I promised them a trip back soon and it was really nice to visit with the family, after we finished with the pictures Angie went ahead and gave her mom her gift and she loved it we loaded it with pics of everyone in the family and she was just thrilled to have it to show off to everyone...it was great just seeing her face light up!


Saturday was less exciting, we had planned to take the kids back to swim but the weather was just so iffy, instead we just relaxed watching movies, cleaning house and enjoying the time off with the family.

This morning Mother's Day morning was great! Warren and the kids made me breakfast and gave me their gifts which I loved, Jaxon got me a digital photo keychain also, Tristan got me a new picture to go over my bar, Braydon, Zander and Lucas got me new candles for the living room and they smell so good, I was really impressed by all the great gifts I got, Warren also paid for me and mom to go play bingo on Wednesday night for our Mother's Day gifts since that is her favorite thing to do and it gave us alittle alone time which was nice, Warren also grilled dinner for me he had bbq chicken, hamburgers, hotdogs, baked beans and potato salad, we even made a homemade peanut butter cake, talk about eating alot and doing alot of relaxing, but we had a great fun filled day with family and friends! We are now just laying in bed relaxing he is playing his video game, I am online and the kids are tucked away, time to get ready for a new work week and I know its going to be great! God is so good and I am so blessed and thankful for all I have and the family and friends that are in my life! I hope you all had a great weekend and a wonderful Mother's Day!

I have posted some random pics of my family, hope you enjoy!




My beautiful cousin Melissa and her son Keegan!



Ivalee my nanny's twin sister, she passed away also...



The greatest man ever...



The twins Jontae and Dontae



My Aunt Brenda..



We miss you uncle Smokey!




My beautiful cousin Tara with Dontae



My uncle Smokey, God I miss this man so much, he is irreplaceable!



Christmas at my Nanny's a few years back, she has passed away now and we miss her so much and miss having Christmas at her house every year, she was awesome, I love you Nanny!

Update:

I know I haven't blogged in awhile but I have been really busy and just couldn't find a minute to blog so I have added some new and some old pics that I thought you all would enjoy trying to update you on some of our recent activities, Our life is full of excitement and love but it takes hard work to manage it all, so if sometime I don't blog it means I am truly busy with the family but I will try and update more frequent love you all!



This one is for you Aunt Darlene! I love you!




Aunt Darlene and Dc dancing..





My beautiful Mom on her wedding day!





Big Daddy (Warren's dad) and Braydon at the community yard sale!





Jaxon & Zander at Art Day!





Swimming at Aunt Brenda's house!




Karlee, my cousin Breanna's little girl..





chucky E cheese PLEASE...





They had a blast...





Jaxon & Zander





The kids at the doctor for checkups, Brady 36lbs, Jaxon 40lbs and Zander 44lbs!





Lucas at his 6 months checkup weighing in at 18lbs and 26 inches long!






The kids playing uno...






The boys with their new toothbrushes...

Lazy Weekend....

Well maybe lazy for the kids considering we didn't really go anywhere but never a full lazy day for me! I have to cook breakfast for everyone, then clean up, cook lunch, clean up, cook dinner, clean up lol, and this doesn't even include laundry, dusting etc; but the weekend was pretty nice. Friday night mom watched the kids so Warren and I went grocery shopping and then just stayed home and relaxed, I cleaned house and did laundry on commercials and between myspace and facebook lol. Warren just kinda hungout helping occasionally, it was nice though we really enjoyed the quality time and I was able to catch up on some housework. Mom brought the kids home pretty early saturday morning, we had already planned to take the kids to the park in Montevallo to have a picnic, so we packed up our lunchables, snacks and drinks and headed out but our adventure ended quickly when it began to rain, we were all so disappointed but we decided on plan b which would be a picnic on the living room floor, so we laid out the blanket, enjoyed our lunch and watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie and it is so good we really liked, I thought it was going to be really girly but it actually had a good story line. After the movie the little boys had nap and Tristan went outside to play with his friends, Warren and I cleaned up and started dinner prep, since we had a big menu, we made up the meatloaf, started the cabbage, later on that night we cooked mashed potatoes, fried green tomatoes and cornbread. It was so delicious and we were all completely full! After dinner we cleaned up and the kids got baths and watched a movie. Sunday morning(this morning) did not go near our plan, we had planned to go to church but we woke up late and since we have to drive so far to church we knew there was no way we would be able to make it on time considering I forgot to iron church clothes last night. So anyway things just did not go as we had planned it to but we did enjoy just being around the house, I cooked and cleaned all day as usually and even shampooed carpets, Warren watched movies most of the day with a few gentle words of kindness and offered his hands a few times lol, Tristan played outside most of the day and was distraught when he had to come in lol, Braydon pretty much hung on to my leg all day, getting into everything and messing up as I cleaned up, Jaxon and Zander played video games most of the day went they weren't wrestling and telling on each other, Lucas hungout with Warren most of the day, trying to get whatever he can, he is eating alot of baby food now and is really spoiled, he wants someone to hold him most of the time but he is a sweet baby. After dinner we cleaned up again...and the kids got baths and are now relaxing in their beds either alseep or watching tv. Warren and I chillin in the living room. Its been a nice weekend, I wish it would last longer..hope you all had a good weekend!

Dentist visit...

The kids go to the medplex pediatric dentistry in Hoover off of Valley Dale Rd. I love it there and so do all the kids, they are so fast and the kids get prizes, get to play games and get new tooth brushes, so anyway we had a appointment yesterday at 9am, I don't know what made me make such a early morning appointment with 3 kids but we made it finally! The kids had a great visit, it was Warren's first time to go back with the kids and he was so excited, he was like why didn't we have dentist like this when we were kids? I mean they have tv on the ceiling so when the kids are laying down they can watch tv, they have a big xbox so you can play video games, they give the kids coins to buy little toys out of machines and they also have all kinds of toys laid around to play with, they all got to go at the same time since they have 3 little chairs in the room, Jaxon picked the blue chair, Zander the green one and Braydon the red one, they love to play with the water piece and love giving the women hugs and smiles, everyone is always bragging on how handsome they are and Warren even dressed them in the t-shirts the dentist gave them so the staff was real excited about that, we had a great visit and the kids had a really good time. After the dentist we stopped and had breakfast/lunch at sonic and the kids really enjoyed, we then came home and dropped the kids off with mom and we went to work, after work we played with them outside and had a great afternoon. I forgot to take my camera with us to the dentist but I did get a few pics of the kids after bath time with there new toothbrushes, I will post them soon!

Favorite Pics from the weekend...

Here I wanted to share with you some of my favorites pics from this weekend, hope you enjoy!



Daddy and Lucas going to church looking all handsome in blue!



Braydon's little cute self...



I absolutely love this one...Baby Lucas 1st Easter



Our niece Tia, I love this one, it looks kinda vintage!



Zander going to church...



Jaxon going to church...



The kids with their Easter baskets..NOTICE..Braydon is covered with chocolate!



Sentoria and Lucas at Church..



I love how beautiful the fire was in all the pics...Vicki go VHS!



They always go the extra mile to make Warren feel welcome...Brenda & Wayne with Warren



Kim posing on Bonnie's bike...



This is a friend I went to school with Maurice & his son..I love the way the pic came out.



We called her "the caution girl"



This is Warren's cousin Bonnie, I zoomed in & got him riding his bike...



This is the same bike and helmet that Warren has...



I liked this car...



Warren at the race track!

Happy Easter...

We got up this morning and we baked a bunny cake and green bean casserole for church. Warren cooked breakfast, it was really good, bacon, egg and cheese biscuits and hashbrowns. Jaxon and Zander were still at Curtis's house so we decided to let the Easter bunny come after church since the other boys were going to meet us there. We got Lucas and Brady ready for church, and Tristan got ready also, then we loaded up the truck and headed to church. We got to church a little early so we waited outside for Jaxon and Zander , so while we were waiting we snapped a few shots, which I will share with you my favorites, service was really good, we put on a play with the children and I was the MC today, I also sang with the youth choir, Warren and Tristan both lead songs for the youth choir today and we had several visitors, after service we all had lunch in the fellowship hall, Warren's mom made her famous dressing and it was delicious as always, Warren's sister was also down from Georgia with her daughter. We had a great lunch as always. Thanks Big Moma and Big Daddy.


After church Warren had to pick up the bike since he left it at Bonnie's house last night, so the boys and I rode home together and Warren rode his bike, we had a good plan set up and it worked out perfect. Warren would head straight home and set out the Easter buuny stuff since we weren't able to do it this morning because Jaxon and Zander weren't home but the boys and I would take the back roads home which takes a little longer and I drove kinda slow and we just enjoyed the scenery, when we got home the Easter bunny had came yah...the kids were super excited considering they got 3 baskets each by the end of the day...talk about sugar rush! We let them indulge a little candy and then we let them play outside. They really had a great time, we had dinner and now we are just hanging out watching movies, Tristan is out of school tomorrow so he we will be allowed to stay up a little later to play video games with Jaxon, the boys have been really good tonight I guess they were wore out from all the playing and eating, Hope you all had a Happy Easter!