Our Weekend

I'll warn ya...it's a long one!

The weekend started off spending time with friends...which is always great in my book!
I went to a "Girls Night Out" get-together at my friend, Anitra's, house on Friday. It was a special occasion....our dear friend, Lisa, was visiting from Ohio. We all miss her so much! We had a wonderful time talking, doing ALOT of laughing, eating, and catching up. We need to do that more often girls!! Nothing better than fellowship with wonderful friends!!

After that I was off to a sleep-over for one of my favorite girls, Allie. She had a sleep-over for her 9th Birthday Party and asked me to come....and of course I didn't hesitate to say YES. I don't get to do alot of girly stuff in my house of boys so these sleep overs (she had one last year too) are always so much fun for me. We danced, told scary stories and played games until about 1:00 in the morning.
Then Jayme (Allie's Mom and also one of my great friends), and I crashed on the sofa and watched a movie.
Then the next morning.....we woke up around 7:00.
While I was still half asleep and trying to come to my senses, Jayme scared the LIFE out of me...it was way to early in the morning!! When I woke up I looked over at Jayme on the other couch and I thought she was still fast asleep...but, she suddenly opened her eyes.....yelled and jumped at me!! I told her if I was a cat...I would have been stuck to her ceiling!!! Jayme...I bet while you are reading this you are laughing again!! You FREAK!! LOL! I'm sure you owed it to me , actually I know you did!!! I enjoy scaring people....I have scared her quite a few times.
Anyway, then came our giggle fest. We laughed over that scare for probably 20 minutes! Nothing like some good quality horse laughing!!!! I bet YOU are even smiling right now too....over the "horse laughing" comment. If you have ever had a deep, gut wrenching laugh, that takes your breath away....well, you have experienced what I call a "horse laugh"!! You know how people say laughter adds years to your life...well, one of those add 2 or 3!

Anyways....since I was up so early....I decided to go ahead and meet some friends at the park and run.
After that, I came home and fixed my 3 favorite guys some pancakes....while I ate a protein bar. Now that's what you call sacrifice!

Saturday was also my #1 guy's Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!!!
We had plans for him, but we couldn't get started on those until that evening.
We were trying to surprise him.....I love to be sneaky like that. =-)

Blake had his very first T-Ball game at 12:45. It was COLD and the wind was blowing like CRAZY!!! What happened to our Summer weather???!!!!!
Watching Blake play T-Ball was great...it was fun-nay! The cutest thing!!
Blake did really well.....he even hit a HOME RUN on one of the last plays of the game!
Here's just a few pictures.....I narrowed these down from the 127 that I took. {wink}
Although, when I first got to the game....I soon realized that I had forgotten to put my memory card back in my camera...UGH.....so I had to go back home and get it. I did miss Blake's very first time up to bat =-(. Tracie (another great friend of mine and she is also Mason's Mom) took some pictures of that. THANK YOU TRACIE!!! So it all worked out ok.

Just check out that determination on Blake's face!He wasn't fooling around!! He smacked that ball.Off he goes...running for first base!! Woo-Hoo!!Getting the ball and throwing it to first base! Great play Blake!
I'm not sure what's going on here. I tried very hard to get these cute little baseball boys to smile. These are a couple of Blake's friends that are on his team.
Blake was acting VERY SILLY (so out of character for him. {wink} )....and Eli (in the middle) was just tired of getting his picture taken.....and Mason was giving me one of those half smiles. Here's Jarrett with my other favorite girl, Sydnee (Mason's baby sister).
We just love this little girl to pieces!!Coach Fox and Coach Murdock (Eli's Daddy) talking with the team after the game.
Jamey (Mason's Daddy) is in the background getting a couple more pictures.... My boys =-) Blake LOVES his big Bubby!!Mason, Jarrett and Blake.....too stinkin' cute!

After Blake's game....Jarrett had baseball practice for a couple of hours. Michael took them both to that...which gave me some time to get the house picked up and back in order.

After Jarrett's practice, Michael hooked up the boat and went fishing at the lake with our Youth Pastor, Kurt. Which gave me and my boys just enough time to get Michael's surprise ready.
Jarrett and Blake wanted to bake Daddy a birthday cake! So that's just what we did....The finished product. They picked out all the decorations themselves. Didn't they do a good job! Waiting for Michael to walk in the door.....and when he did we yelled...."HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!"
The smile that came over Michael's face was priceless.Giving him his birthday cards and a few birthday hugs too =-)Me and my Birthday Boy!
I had also cooked a nice dinner and had it ready for him when he got home from fishing.
After we ate dinner we dove right into the yummy birthday cake. It was delicious!!!

After that we watched the Nascar race. I slept through most of it....the cars humming around the track puts me right to sleep everytime!

Michael thoroughly enjoyed his birthday.
He got to do all the things that he enjoys.......Coaching his boys, playing ball, fishing, eating, spending time with his family and watching Nascar.
It all worked out great.

Sunday we enjoyed another wonderful church service. Then home for lunch...I had put a roast w/veggies in the crock pot that morning. I love my crock pot! We came home to a meal that was ready and waiting.
We ate and we all took naps....and then back to church for evening service.

We had another great weekend! I hate to see them end!!!
I hope you enjoyed yours too.