The Big 3-5

So today’s my birthday! Look at what my darling husband and daughter bought me:

A pink cruiser!!! It’s a really pretty pink, too. And you know that thing people say about “it’s just like riding a bicycle.” Yeah, that’s BS. I have forgotten how to ride a bike. I made Chris run along side me as I took it for a spin around the block. I’m sure there were little kids looking out their windows and laughing at me. That’s ok. Tonight it’s all about cookie cake and margaritas, but not at the same time.

Costume

I found Daphne’s Halloween costume. Now I just have to find it in stock somewhere (it ships in 2-6 weeks at Target.com).

And since the average high in October is 82 degrees, I don’t have to worry about it not being warm enough. While I’m on the subject of Target and Halloween, they have some adorable Circo Halloween t-shirts and leggings for little girls. I’ll try and take a picture of Daphne’s set tomorrow.

Yankee Doodle Daphne

Daphne attended her first 4th of July picnic and discovered watermelon. It might be her new favorite food.

Here’s Daphne with her Poppa. He was not shoveling it in fast enough for Daphne.

Father’s Day

To celebrate Chris’ first Father’s Day Daphne and I gave him a terrific gift- we let him sleep in til almost 10:30. I slept on the couch and listened for Daphne during the night, giving him a break since he’s normally the one shuttling her back and forth for early morning feedings. We got him actual gifts too, like a new Wacom tablet (actually their lower priced Bamboo line) since we lost the irreplaceable pen to our Genius tablet. Later we went to Firebirds for lunch, where Daphne had a complete and total meltdown. She was not happy. We quickly boxed up our lunches and stopped at Aldridge Gardens to snap a couple of quick pictures before going home. Here are a few more:

Happy Father’s Day, Chris!! We love you!

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!!!  I wanted to upload a picture of us together when I was little, but you must still have most of those.  This was the best I could come up with:

Easter, 1976.  I have no idea why I look so odd in this picture.  You, however, look great!  And since I know this is one of your favorite pics of me I thought I’d add this one too:

Me at 18 months.  Little ragamuffin girl.  Man, I had bad hair.

I love you, and wish we could be with you to celebrate.  Hope you have a great day!!

Jenny

What’s Up Doc?

Since we were busy last Sunday picking up Chris from the airport and running errands, we recreated Easter for Daphne today for photo purposes. As usual we got lots of weird faces, and no smiles. But she’s still pretty cute! At least we think so.

And the grumpy bunny:

That’s ok, Daphne.  I give your father the same look when he tries to take a picture of me.

Previous Post

For some reason when I add any text to my last post it throws the formatting of the entire site off and I’m tired of messing with it. Anyway, those are actually 2 different videos, not the same one. The first is the news story from Mobile, the second a rap version. I know I post these every St. Patrick’s day but they still crack me up. Especially the amateur sketch. Bwahaa!!!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!

Leprechaun in Mobile, AL

Valentine’s Day

Daphne & I ran around today picking up the last of our Valentine’s Day dinner ingredients and visiting some old friends. As usual I was completely unable to keep a secret from Chris and spilled tomorrow’s menu and plans. I suck at keeping secrets.

We are having a quiet dinner at home, as usual. I am a pretty low maintenance girl when it comes to Valentine’s. I always tell Chris not to buy me flowers because of the insane mark-up. I hate battling crowds at restaurants. This year we decided to not exchange gifts, mainly because we bought each other big gifts at Christmas and I don’t really want anything. So it will be a pretty low key day.

Speaking of low key, one of the worst Valentine’s we’ve spent together was last year. The morning sickness was really hitting me hard and the only thing I wanted to eat was bland, starchy foods. So I made Chris take me to KFC so I could have mashed potatoes. For some reason the bland, instant potatoes from KFC sounded perfect. I have to admit it felt a little sad to be sitting in a KFC, but my stomach wouldn’t have tolerated anything else. But Chris did put forth great effort and actually made me a Valentine’s card. I was impressed. Oh, and there’s the Love Lobster. That’s a whole other post for tomorrow.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Fat Tuesday

Chris surprised me with some orange peel chicken takeout and a king cake tonight (complete with freaky plastic baby).  Yum!  Laissez les bon temps rouler!