Happy Birthday to ME!

Man, I had a great birthday this year!  My family is the best, and they know me so darn well!

My mom bought these pair of shoes for me (I absolutely adore shoes):

They are incredibly comfortable, too.  My mommy knows me so well! : )

My hubby bought me an incredible cake from Coldstone Creamery:

As you can see, it was so good that we had it almost ate before I thought to get a picture!  He also bought me the Georgia Bulldogs tag that I have been wanting for my new car.  I just love that man : )

My sister bought me some costume jewelry...love it!  And Granny bought me a new bathing suit.  It sucks you in at all the right places.  I think it is the first bathing suit that I have ever had that I really like after it has been put on.

Last but not least, my dad bought me this:

Yeah, I know, he is awesome! 

Awesome 27th birthday!  *smile*

Father's Day

Other than that nasty UT snuggie (that Hannah made me buy) and the fact that Dad has literally brain-washed my child into thinking that UT is a team that anyone would actually pull for.....deep breath......The point is that this Father's Day was good.  Very good!

Snails, snails, and more snails...Yuck.

During the summer I try to keep my nephew, Hunter, as much as I possibly can.  He and Hannah play so well together and he keeps Hannah from nagging me all day about something to do.  This week he stayed for 3 days and one afternoon they got really quiet while playing outside.  I went out to check on them and this is what they had to show for all of their "hushed and concentrated" work:

Ew.  I don't particularly love snails, but they were so proud of how many they had found that I just had to take a picture.  Right after the picture they trotted off to find more.

Ok, I just noticed Levi relieving himself in the corner of the picture....please ignore that.  Sheesh. 

At this point, I left the kids outside and went back in.  Some time later Hannah yelled at me to come back outside and look at their snails.  This is what I saw:

Again, I say, "EW!"  There had to be like 50 snails on that frisbee thingy.  Yuck.  I wouldn't let Hannah bring them inside so they spent the night on the front porch.  By morning, every one of those snails had crawled/slithered (whatever they do) off of the frisbee.  Hannah wasn't happy.  I, however, was.

Family

Sunday, for Memorial Day, Dad had a bunch of people over to his house for a cookout.  I was especially excited because I was able to meet some of Dad's (and mine now too!) family. 

Here is Dad with Ray and Tanya, 3 of their kids, and their granddaughter London:

It was so great to meet them!  I can't wait to meet the rest of the family!

We blew up a little pool/slide for the kids to play in while the adults were talking....it turned out to be a little chilly, but the kids didn't care!

Mary (cold, but not wanting to come inside...)

Hannah playing in the water:

On Monday, Ginger had a cookout at her house.  Dad and Christy came over and we were able to play cards for a little while.  Lots of FUN!  Anyway, I consider myself very blessed! : )