Sunday - July 28th There's No Place Like Home

Today was wonderful, Alex and I woke up and got all three of us ready to head to church. We visited St. Paul today to listen to the new pastor, Pastor Shaw. He preached beautifully on prayer and how intimate it is.
After, we took Susan, Steve, and Nana Betty over to China Palace in Cape. They had never been before and they enjoyed themselves. Of course Everett enjoyed eating the broccoli. :) Heading home, I laid out on the back porch for a bit to get some sun. I was out there for about an hour and it was so relaxing. I am trying to get as much FREE sun as I can before Maggie's wedding. I have a tan line from the beginning of the summer on my back. Her bridesmaid dresses are strapless.

This afternoon, I have one more question to finish up on my final and then I will be tidying up around the house. Everett and I may take a walk this evening. We've been enjoying the gorgeous weather we've been having. It's been perfect to be outside during July in Missouri.

Saturday- July 27th Errands

Running errands seem to be the way to spend the end of my summer. I'm also finishing my final for my supervision class. Alex and I spent most of the morning working on Genesis Pure appointments. Other than that, we tried to relax before he went to work.

In the afternoon, Everett and I set off to a wedding shower for Amanda Dewrock whom I grew up with and have known since I was very young. It was great to see her and a few others that I don't normally get to catch up with.

After, Everett and I stopped by Target and then we met Gran and Pop (Susan and Steve) at Beef O Brady's to visit with Alex and to have supper. E was getting so tired and grouchy. He actually slept in this morning until 8:30! It was fantastic!

I just finished the Downton Abbey Season 3 last night and am so looking forward to Season 4 next month!

July 26th - Procrastination at its Best

Today was my goal to work on my final for my supervision class that I was enrolled in this summer. Still hasn't happened. Hah! Instead I've been working around the house as well as helping Alex make appointments for Genesis Pure. I was even planning on running errands until it began to show nasty weather outside. I will just go in the morning while Alex is home. I need to start going to bed earlier anyways with school being just around the corner.

This morning I walked into Everett's room and it was so adorable. I'll let the pictures tell all.

July 25th - Homecomers

Everett and I hung around the house in the morning yesterday and in the afternoon we made a trip over to our neighbor's pool for a swim with Karen Lee and Gran-mama. Miss Emma and Miss Christine was there as well! We had a good time and the shallow end of the pool is a short ledge. Everett was able to touch and walk around in his floaty. It was perfect.

When we got home, we got ready to head out to the Skelton farm. Everett stayed at Grand-mama Susan's house while I ran a few errands and went up to Homecomers to eat a corndog! Yummy!
Before I headed up to Homecomers, I stopped by Maggie's house and checked out her jewelry party. After all of the fun, we went up to Homecomers for some fair food. Needless to say, I didn't have the best experience, BUT! I got a FREE corn dog out of it! Haha.

After Homecomers, we stopped by Walmart and then checked out Maggie and Geoff's new place off Hwy 61. What a perfect place to start a marriage!

July 24th - College and Apple Care

Today was a day....
To start off, I went to my last class of this summer semester. Starting my grad courses was not as hard as I expected. It flew by! After class, a few of us decided to celebrate with lunch today. After, we went to have a detox done of our feet. Uhhhhhh........yea.
That went well. My phone fell into the water. It was sick/nasty/disgusting/revolting/etc. I was mortified!!!
I immediately called Apple Care and thank goodness I signed up for Apply Care Plus when I bought my phone. I only have to spend $49 to have my phone replaced. Whoohoo!
It's coming within the next couple of days so I will be without a phone BUT! I'm going to enjoy the quiet moments. I may actually get something done around the house that I've been waiting to do!

Tonight my mom came over for dinner. I tried a new recipe. Baked Spaghetti. It's not a brand new recipe but I mixed things up a bit. I added cream cheese and green peppers as well as red onions. It was delicious! Everett even ate the green peppers in it. He's been spitting them out when prepared fresh. These were baked.

As I'm sitting here in a quiet house tonight, Alex will be home soon from his experience at the Beirgarten. Our friend just opened up a new bar downtown Cape and he's going to check it out.

June 23 - Stuck in a Monsoon With the Mister

A friend of mine asked me to walk with her in the Homecomers 5K this evening about a week ago. Not until this afternoon did I realize that weather may interfere. Everett and I showed up at the park around 6:00 and we registered for the race and were ready to go! The kid's one mile race began at 6:30 and our race was to begin around 7:00. We started to walk and then about 10 minutes into it, we had completed one mile and the skies opened up and the rain was pouring down on us. Everett was such a trooper! So many people were impressed with the way he was acting. He didn't cry or whine at all! He just kept looking around and what was happening.
The moment that I saw the lightning getting bad, I decided to pull aside under a few ladies with large umbrellas. The moment I did, the MONSOON came!!!! It was raining so hard!





 Here we are under an umbrella. You can see just how hard it was raining by the raindrops in the background! Crazy monsoon!







 Everett was much more fascinated with the lady holding the umbrella.

 

 Here we are SOAKING WET!!!!!!! Everett is the best kid to be with in a rainstorm. He's so brave and strong! I told him how proud I was of him. We didn't get to eat dinner until 8:00 (usually his bedtime). He was so tired and ready for bed after we ate supper at home and he laid down smiling.
:) Love him so much. He's growing so fast and I'm taking in every moment.

July 22 - Mom & Me Date

 Today Everett and I had a date day/evening. We decided that it was just too hot to be outside without swimming so we filled up the pool and took a dip. Yes, it was coooold! Everett loves playing with the garden hose and he also enjoys splashing in the water.

After that, we got dressed and went out to eat at our favorite place to see Daddy, Beef's! Everett had his first big kid meal there. He loves their cheeseburgers. I always laugh that he loves them because I always craved them when I was pregnant. I'm so very blessed that our big guy eats well. This picture makes me laugh. Here I am with Summer Shandy and a sippy cup.

After eating supper, we decided that it was a perfect night for Andy's custard! We've been wanting to go but just have never had a perfect time other than this. We had a coupon for a FREE TREAT!
Mom decided that a Peach Concrete would make everyone happy. Yummy!!!! It was so delicious and Everett enjoyed it too. That little booger loved the custard sign that kept going around.

YUMMY

 What a perfect evening. We got home and Everett had of course fallen asleep in the car. He was so tired out from all of the fun he was having with his Mama.

June 21st - Wedding Showers

Yesterday I was honored to be able to help put on my best friend's wedding shower. Maggie and I have been friends for 8 years and we always have a blast when we are together. Maggie is getting married in October and she was also in my wedding as well.

Yesterday we had so much fun/stress picking wild flowers for her tables all the way to getting our hair curled in the church basement before the fun began. I was so happy for her that she received gifts of love and gifts of Fiesta Ware!!!!

All in all, I'm so blessed beyond compare to have a friend like Maggie in my life. Thank you so much friend.








From Maggie's brother's wedding last year.



Maggie was a bridesmaid in my wedding in 2010.

College days. New Year's Eve of 2011.



This is just how we hug.

July 20th-Fall ideas

So Saturday I spent the afternoon/evening preparing for my best friend's wedding shower. I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and while I was there, OH MY! Not only were there Fall decorations out but even Christmas. With that being said, I'm starting to get some ideas that I'm going to work on for our home this fall. Last fall, I was pregnant and not in any mood for projects. I was more worried about motivated my husband to put the crib together.
Here is a wreath that would look fantastic on our front door! 

This set up would be adorable on our back porch with the crates.

SO FUNNY! The kids would laugh about this!
 

Last Month of Summer Challenge

Today marks exactly one month until the first day of school. Yes, it's hard to believe that in just one month, I'll be a school mother to twenty-somthing 9 year olds along with grading daily papers, etc. Not only that, I'll have to leave my little mister every morning to go to work. BOOHOO! I don't want to talk about it.

Today I decided that I want to LIVE my last month of summer. For this month (4 weeks), I will post everyday. These posts may be simple, they may be full of fun. Regardless, I will be posting.

Yesterday, I had dinner with my friend, Lauren, who teaches special education at my school. We laughed when afterwards, we came to my house to work on my paper for one of my grad classes this summer. I'm very proud to say that I have As so far in grad school. Whoohoo!
I'm also very excited and looking forward to GRADUATING at the end of next summer! I will be in and out of grad school within one year's time! That to me is incredible!

A few weeks ago, we went up to St. Charles for my friend, Ali's wedding. We loved it! Here below is a picture of some of the teachers that went. We had such a great time together.




Pictured below is a lovely picture of my husband after a few drinks. He was a dancin machine!



We love weddings and look forward to many more with all of our friends getting married! Watch out! October is wedding month!

SFR2013

Oh me oh my! Scentsy will change your life!!!!
As I sit and look at all of the Instagram pictures from the Scentsy Family Reunion in Indianapolis, IN right now I cannot wait until I get the chance to attend next year. The Scentsy products are so amazing and have a big effect on our lives here in SEMO.

Check it out and follow #sfr2013 on Instagram and you'll be impressed with what's to come! August is transition month so I'm motivating my team members to get the word out that Scentsy is a family business!

Perseverance

Since the beginning of summer, things have been a whirlwind. In the past two months, I've taken a journey of faith. This journey began with the decision to begin grad school this summer. I've decided to attain my masters degree in Teacher Leadership. With two 6 week courses on top of teaching summer school, taking care of my lil guy, cleaning house, getting a tan, and oh; don't let me forget that I'm also loving my Scentsy business!

Needless to say, being a mom is hard work. Being a wife is hard work. Being a student is hard work. There are days when I want to cry, laugh, sleep, run, and just be quiet. In my heart, I know that God has a bigger plan for me and my family.

Alex has been at Beef O Brady's for a year now and it's marked the one year anniversary that he was laid off from DeVry University. This was a blessing and also a turn of events. We were blessed with the opportunity for Alex to be able to stay at home with Everett for the first year of life. We have also been blessed with Nana Betty who has been able to help watch Everett in the afternoon when Alex goes to work and I'm finished my day at school.

God is bigger than all of this that we've been through and are still going through. I know in my heart that he is good all of the time. I know in my head that this will not last forever. And I know in my feet, our journey is not at a stand still.

Just recently, we've embarked on a new journey called Genesis Pure. It sounds insane that we've up and started something else new BUT! We want more. We want more time together, more time for our home, and more time for relaxation and mental health. This is not just another direct sales company. This is a company that is growing rapidly and also serves so many health benefits along with getting a paycheck every week. We've only been with Genesis Pure for almost two weeks and we're excited to see the growth of the company as well as our business.