7 Years With Riley

Today we celebrate Riley's 7th birthday. It's amazing how fast the time goes by. Seven years ago today, at 4:09 P.M., our little Riley Steven came into the world. He was pretty much the most beautiful baby I've ever seen in my life and he has grown into such a cute little boy. He looks just like me, so I guess maybe that has something to do with it. LOL He is a very sensitive kid who gets his feelings hurt easily, but is such a little lover too. I guess he's like me in those emotional ways too. We just love his goofy, quirky little personality and are so blessed to have him in our lives. Thank you, Lord, for sending this little boy into our lives. My biggest prayer is that he will grow to love you more and more everyday and put you at the center of everything in his life.

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, RILEY!

Look What I Won Today!!!

Yay, look at the awesome stuff I won today. I'm feeling mighty crafty lately, so I'll be excited to get all these goodies and play!

May Blog Candy & Giveaway at Ellie's Stamp Garden

Want Some Super Cute Stuff?

I just entered a giveaway for some super cute stuff! For some reason I've been really loving the idea of an apron lately. Not only are they cute, but it seems like everytime I make something like spaghetti, I somehow manage to splatter sauce on my clothes. When I'm making dinner before heading out somewhere and I splatter food on my clothes and have to go change, that just irritates me, but an apron would eliminate that problem. Besides the apron though, there is a cute little necklace and just about the most adorable soap I've ever seen, included in the giveaway. So, go take a peek and enter for yourself. Hurry though, because it ends May 30th!

Cupcake Couture Package Giveaway at A Psych Mommy

Yay For New Hair!

It's truly amazing what a good haircut can do for a person. I went from feeling blah and frumpy to feeling vibrant and cute within an hour's time. It surely helps that I have a friend who is a great hairstylist! Anyway, I'm just feeling rejeuvenated and wanted to share. If you're feeling blah and need a quick pick-me-up, I highly recommend a good new hairstyle and I have just the person you should go to if you live remotely near to me. Let me just say that my mom drives about half an hour to her to get hers done and my grandma traveled an hour to have her hair done by her because she loves what she does to mine and my mom's hair so much!

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A Little Mommy Love

Gavin is going on a field trip today and Riley wanted to have cold lunch just because Gavin was (they have hot lunch everyday), so they both took cold lunch today. I decided to stick a little note in each of their lunches just telling them how much I love them and that I thank God everyday that they are my sons. Hopefully I won't embarrass Gavin. I think Riley will love it though. I am excited to see what they think of me leaving little notes in their lunch to them.

Here's a little view of what the morning went like. I got the boys all ready and made sure they had everything they needed and we loaded into the van. I told Gavin to put his lunch in his backpack, but he said he wanted to carry it because he was afraid it would get crushed by the stuff in his backpack. We prayed together before we headed to the school and the morning was just going wonderfully. I took Gavin and dropped him off on his side of the school and told him I wouldn't embarrass him by kissing him in front of his friends, but I told him I loved him and he said it back and we high fived (hey, I'll take it). Then, I drove around to Riley's side, where he hugged and kissed me and we said I love you before he headed out. Asher and I headed home and I had just unbuckled his carseat and was having him grab some movies that were in the van from church when my cell phone rang. Seeing as Brian is the only one who has my cell phone number and he knows what time I get home from dropping the boys off, I knew it couldn't be fabulous news because he would've just waited and called me on our house phone when he knew I was home. I answered and heard "Gavin left his lunch in the backseat." Aaaaaahhhhh! This wouldn't be too big of a deal if I weren't in pajama pants and had ridiculous looking hair due to the fact that it was pulled all back from when I washed my face last night (did I mention that I am breaking out like a teenager?). I ran in the house and threw on some jeans, but had no time to do anything with my hair because by now it was 7:50 and the bus for the field trip was leaving at 8:00. I ran back up to the school and was hoping that I could just sneak into the office and have Gavin come down and grab his lunch. No such luck. In the office were 2 moms that I somewhat know because they were signing in to go on the field trip. I was so embarrassed. I looked so horrible! Gavin came down and grabbed his lunch and I told him to put it in his backpack next time, like I told him. He had this little grin and said "Ok, thanks Mom."

I hope that kid likes his note from me, in the lunch that I humiliated myself bringing to him after he forgot it in the car.

Just another day in mommy world.

One of the cutest things ever!

So, you may have read that blog I wrote about the pug I found on Friday and how the people were so excited and thankful to get her back. Well, today I'm here at home and the doorbell rings and when I go to the door, there is Maddie's (that's the dog's name) owner with flowers for me. She gave me a big hug and told me how thankful they were that I had found her and took such good care of her and that I had been out trying to find her owner. She had tears in her eyes and told me it just meant so much to her to have her back safe. It was so sweet and then she showed me the card in the flowers and said "These are from Maddie". The card read "Thank you from Maddie (the pug)". I just thought it was one of the cutest things ever. The flowers and her thankfulness just really made my day and I'm so glad I was able to reunite a family with the pet they love so much.


This is Maddie


These are the flowers her owner, Barb, brought me today.

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