St. Patrick's Day Party!

Carrie and Randy threw a St. Patrick's day party.
It was so much fun.
She decorated like crazy and made green punch. Randy grilled up some yummy hot dogs.
We played Pictionary. That was the best part!!!

Robyn and Cori:

Emily:

Julian:

Josh got to pull out his old Army hat:

My Mom:

Randy at the grill:

Carrie was decked out! Awesome!

Time Out for Women!!!

I had such an awesome weekend. My Mom treated everyone to a Time Out!

Pictured above: Conneen, Robyn,Carrie, Mom, me, Keli, and Christy!!!

It was in Houston, TX at the Marriott hotel. My Mom drove all of us there. Road trip!!!

Fun times!

There were awesome speakers and singers...Mary Ellen Edwards was my favorite- she was so funny! I even bought her book, "Peculiar...in a good way" afterwards.

We went out to eat at this place called "Americas"...but it was Italian so I have no idea why they named it that....weird!

I really enjoyed it. The singing was the best- Kenneth Cope and Jenny Jordan Frogley were soooooooo good.

Josh loves golf

Josh loves golfing.
Me?
Not so much.
But I do love nature and walking, so I tagged along with him.
I have to admit that I really like watching him swing that club. H-O-T.

He plays 9 holes almost every day after work. He walks- that's at least 3 miles. It was a good work out.

I can be such a poser! LOL

Cutie pie:

It was such a beautiful day.

Josh is really good, by the way. His score was only 3 over par.

Yeah I learned all the golf terms. I'm cool like that.

my mom is so funny

Carrie, my Mom, and I went to see "Madea Goes to Jail" yesterday.
It was funny. My mom loves Tyler Perry movies, LOL
So I tried to get a picture of us, but Carrie's face was cut off... Then my face was cut off....

Then- PERFECT....but hold on! Look at the face my Mom was making!!! ROFL

Orpheus parade

the cast from Reno 911 was on one of the floats-
Emily was crackin' me up big time-

Joan Rivers was on this float....

Maybe you can see her if you click on the picture:

Julian was just so thrilled to see the celebrities:::

Some of those floats are really awesome....

See the Superdome in this picture?

Emily's baptism

I'm pretty bummed because I didn't get a lot of pictures at Emily's baptism, but it was wonderful.
It was Sunday, right after church.
Emily looked like an angel!
Joshua performed the baptism. It was a very special day!!!

Afterwards, we went to my parents' house. My Mom made Emily's favorite meal- tacos. Then we had cake and ice cream.

Emily got even more gifts!

Her birthday lasted all weekend long!

Emily and me.

My sweet babies!

mardi gras overload

I took sooooo many pictures at the parades. It's crazy. The floats were insane.
Friday night we went to the Hermes/Krewe D' Etat/ Morpheus parades...(all 3 were back to back).

There were some drunks standing next to us (see behind me in the picture below?) This one dude bent over to pick up some beads and he flashed most of his butt crack right at me. Not just the top inch or 2...I am talking almost the whole crack. But it was accidental. No intentional flashing was witnessed. I was so happy about that!

My sweet baby:::

If you click on the picture you can see this better. The floats were really pretty.

These creepy dudes were Emily's favorite:::

Julian spent Friday night at a friend's house because they had a Boyscout project the next morning. (parking cars on the parade route for cash to raise money for camp)

See...that's what we were doing the night before!!!

There's a ward building on the parade route with a nice parking lot. People paid $25/each to park there.

Friday was Emily's 8th birthday! She got to stay home from school. It's our little tradition. We went shopping all over town. She got to pick out her own present. Plus she had some birthday money so she got a bunch of things. Then we met Josh for lunch at Sicily's Pizza (her choice).

We went home, played, organized her room, and then headed off for the parade!!!