Friday Night Sleepover/Camp Out

This weather is soooo wonderful!!!  My youngest wanted to have a sleepover with a couple of boys and I thought it was just perfect timing for a camping out sleepover.  We had so much fun!!(as seen in the pics below)

Spending time in the tent was the first activity of the evening!

Notice how close we have it to the house??  Story to come later in the post!

Then it was time for a pizza party!! 

And you can't have a campout without a fire!!!!

Or without SMORES!!!

Tired mommy with a happy little boy!!

We truly had so much fun!  Now for the story.  The 3 boys couldn't keep their scared little bodies in the tent.  What's a campout without scary stories?!?  The boys were telling stories about scary things and about the time they were talking about a guy in the woods with a gun (we live with 2 acres of woods in our back yard) I had happened to turn a particularly important light (unbeknownst to me) and they "heard" a gun shot....hahaha!!  They filed in quite fast and left everything in the tent.  They wouldn't even go out to the tent to bring their sleeping bags in the house so they could sleep on the floor inside.  I had to walk with them to get them.  NOW, as mentioned before, you did see how close the tent was to the back deck & steps??  Yeah, they were pretty scared!  hahaha

I hope you all out there have had and do have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!!!  Ours has started out with a "bang"!  Couldn't resist!!

Kindle Giveaway at One Savvy Mom Blog

If you've read my blog for any amount of time you are probably aware of my Kindle addiction.  I have recently found a wonderful blog that is giving away one of the new Kindles.  It now has 3G included with it....YAY!!

You can read all about how to enter this FABULOUS giveaway here.  I HOPE I WIN!

Workout Weigh In

I have neglected to post anything on my workout/weight issue I've been working on.  I must admit that nothing DRASTIC has happened.  I am still maintaining the same weight as reported on July 12 blog post BUT, my body fat percentage is still dropping!!!  WOOHOO!!

It's slow going but my trainer assures me that slow is the way to go! 

I've also discovered a show (via my sister-in-law...thanks!!) called Cooking Yourself Thin.  It's on the Lifetime Channel.  How fun it is to watch them manipulate great fattening recipes and make them healthy for you.  You should definitely check it out.  They have a cookbook as well called Cooking Yourself Thin.

Well, that's all for now.  Gearing up for the big 3 day weekend.  Lots of rest and relaxation for us.  First time in several years that we have decided not to plan a get away on this holiday.  Sometimes that is just as well with me!

Enjoy!

It's September -- YAY!!

We have officially made it to September.  That, for us in Oklahoma, means just a few more days of heat and then we can look forward to the cool crisp days of fall!!!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE FALL!  My favorite season by far!!

That also means before long we will be seeing the leaves flying through the air, the beautiful oranges, reds and yellows of the leaves still on the trees, cold mornings waiting for the school bus to come pick us up and that wonderful pumpkin spice coffee that I so love to enjoy in the mornings.

Looks like this weekend I will be busy getting my fall decoration down from the attic and decorating with my beautiful pumpkins....oh how I have missed you!!  I love the looks of my home when it's all decorated with my fall things. 

What's your favorite season??

I also want to mention (TEASER) that I am reading the sweetest books that will be on my blog in another week.  Keep a look out for this!!!  Really good books!!!

Missions Trip to Africa

Friends of bloggy land, I have been blessed with a great opportunity to take a missions trip to Kenya, Africa in November with my church and two other churches from the surrounding area. I am in need of raising $3,000.00 to go and share the Gospel. Please consider praying about this in your daily prayer time and follow the link listed below if you feel led to give to this mission. Mission trip fundraising and social networking MissionMixUp.com If you can not give at this time, thank you for even considering. I can always use prayer warriors behind me to keep the entire group saturated in prayer! Again, thank you so much for taking the time to even look into this. I will be keeping everyone updated on my progress and of course the trip!! God Bless!

New Additions

Towards the end of July my husband and I celebrated a new arrival to the family.  We got the pleasure of welcoming to this world another grandchild. This is #4.

Lucas Duane!!  What a handsome boy!

Can you tell how excited his brother and sister are??

OR do you think Papa Jeff and Memaw Tamara are a little more excited??  What joy!!

New life is such a gift from God!!  Enjoy your blessings!  They grow up sooooo fast!

What A Weekend!!!! - and it's not over yet!

I've said it before in this blog but I will say it again:  "I love living in a small town"!!

Our little community has an annual tri-county fair.  We always love to go into town and participate in the festivities.  We started our morning at the local donut shop before we had to line up for the bike parade.

Next we went down a few blocks and got ready for the bike parade.  My son really wanted to participate in this parade this year. 

After the parade that lasted a total of four minutes, we went back home for a while.  We were waiting for the greatest race of all!!!  The wiener dog races!!  Soooo stinkin' funny!

After the wiener dog races we loaded up to go to the grand opening of our local Cherry Berry.  YA'LL!!!  If you  have never had Cherry Berry, YOU HAVE TO TRY IT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE TULSA AREA!!!  The bomb!

HAPPY!!!!!!

The kids each had a friend join us for frozen yogurt.  What a great weekend we've had a great one so far!!  Now bring on Sunday!

First Day of School 2010-2011

First Day of 5th Grade.

 First day of 8th grade.

 Getting on the bus to go to school!!

I am soooo glad school is back in session!  Now to get on with my running around like crazy!! 

Post-It Note Tuesday

So Many Things To Post

I just realized that I haven't posted ONE thing in this month of August.  What a terrible blogger I am!!  I have sooooo much to post and can't seem to remember to upload photos.  Since the last time I blogged we have attended concerts, made a trip to Las Vegas, started school and had company at the house.  WHEW!!  I told you I have LOTS to blog about!   Now, if I can ever get my mind in gear to organize my thoughts and make myself sit down to write about it!

Be patient with me!  I'll be posting shortly!  ENJOY!!!  Hope you all are having a fabulous summer!