Sorry no pictures...this will be more an informative post i guess. Let's start with today....it the last day of school!!!! Yipee!!! and that means for Randy, the last day of being a lion. What's that you say??? No more Greenville Lions???

That's right people! Randy has accepted a job in a town 15 minutes away from our house. We are now going to be The Lone Oak Buffaloes. Cool thing is they are red and black so I don't have to buy new clothes for next year. We will still live in our house and Bradley will still go to Lamar and Jake will go the the Christian school next year. Randy really likes the head coach out in Lone oak and has really enjoyed working with him, and it's a smaller school with really awesome kids! In fact people in Greenville pay for their kids to attend the Lone Oak school district. So, Randy is going to coach in Lone Oak next year and we are really excited about it.

Really that's the biggest news we have. Other than that let's see. We will go to Disney World this summer. Originally I thought we were going to California because our friends we're going with kept saying Disney Land and I'm such a literal person that I assumed we were going to California. But after all the planning I realized we were going to Florida HA! I now have everyone corrected and they are all saying Disney World just to appease me! So, I won't tell you when our trip is for security reasons I guess, but it will be HOT when we go.

Actually we have been practicing with the boys a lot lately for our trip. We will be able to go to the parks after hours and some nights the parks are open until 2 am. I don't for see us staying that late, but we will try to play until midnight. So, we have been letting the boys stay up late then practice taking a nap in the late afternoon. We have also been practicing sleeping in in the mornings! We still have a while to get all this down, but we will get it. I've also taken Bradley walking two miles with me at a good pace to be ready for all the walking we will do! Ha! It's so funny to be able to say to your kids... "take a nap so we can practice for Disney....keep walking fast so we can practice for Disney...Sleep till 8:30 so we can practice for Disney..."We'll see how excited the kids are about going after we practice for the next oh some.....wait I can't reveal our trip dates.

The jewelry business has been exciting. One of mom's bracelet is being published in a beading magazine this summer...it has 90,000 in circulation! So, we met with some marketing people and we are changing our name and they with give our website a "facelift" and they designed a logo for us. I don't think we are ready to reveal the new name yet, but soon. Mom and I are going to be sellig kits for people who want to make their own piece of jewelry but don't have easy access to the materials. Mom and I are still having fun with this. So is Bradley's teacher...she has loved all the jewelry she's gotten this year. I made her an s-link dangle bracelet for her end of the year gift. Her daughter serves in Iraq and came home for spring break and came to her classroom dressed up for the kids. So, I dangle some red, white, and blue lampwork beads from it. Mrs. Kelley loves jewelry, and we love Mrs. Kelley! She has been an awesome teacher! I don't know if you can get much better of a teacher than her. And no, she doesn't read my blog, I just have to brag on her that much because she is that great of a teacher.

Well, nothing much else to report. Hope you all have relaxing and fun summer plans!!! Summer is such a big deal to us because Randy is home for the full month of June and half of July. So, we really get some great family time together. So, we are looking forward to the next month and a half!

New York

I don't know what is going on...all the picture's showed up when I was previewing and editing!!! I will keep messing with it and try to get the rest of the pictures to come up like they are supposed too!!!!!UGHHHHHHH
I love this picture...I took it in Times Square. I believe that is Obama and Hillary's faces in the middle screen. And then of course the Bush's on the right and Guiliani (sp?) on the left. I just love it because New York is such an economic and governmental power. It's amazing to see all the ships in the harbor and all the lots of train cars with shipments in them!

For those of you who haven't been to New York....there are way more buildings than you would ever be able to imagine. I love this church that towered with some of the buildings...it was spectacular. Sorry it's not a better picture. We were riding in the car.

The sea of yellow. I felt out of place in DeeAnne and Jamil's car with all the taxis about. I also believe I learned the appropriate (and not so appropriate) times to yell at stupid pedestrians and drivers on our trip to Manhattan.

I'm really happy these cops have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon. No really I am...it means everything is flowing smoothly in the city.

Surprise!!!

These are all coming out in the wrong order...oh well! So, big weekend! I hopped on a plane friday morning all by myself and headed out to New Jersey. Mom was supposed to come, but her broken foot didn't allow her to make the trip :( The reason for our trip was to surprise my sister at her surprise baby shower!!! Her sister-in-law hosted the shower at her house in Short Hills NJ. It was so much fun.

I stayed friday night with DeeAnne's MIL and FIL. They live in Long Beach NJ. All beautiful places, but I was dying to get to New York and see DeeAnne's place. I had a good time friday night and then Saturday morning we drove out to short hills and started getting ready for the guests. Can yall believe I drove to the train station in NJ all by myself to pick up guests??? It was a really easy drive so don't be too impressed :)

Then after all the guest arrived, Jamil drove up with DeeAnne and we surprised her with a fabulous baby shower!!! It was soooo much fun and soooo well put together.
Here is DeeAnne's reaction when she saw her sister (ME) !!!! (she doesn't even look pregnant in the picture!)

The beautifull table where all the food went.

Some of DeeAnne's friends!

 

The proud daddy to be!!!!

 

More pictures...DeeAnne had lots of help opening preasents from her niece. She was sooo cute.

The little girl on the right is DeeAnne's niece. She and her friend are enjoying some yummy cake. I think DeeAnne's niece had quite a bit of cake...she managed to find a few extra pieces lying around at different tables :)

A picture of the cake before everyone ate it.......YUM!

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Silver trees in Central Park

For all you Law and Order fans! The infamous court steps.

DeeAnne and Jamil's cat, Vern, who made the plane ride home with me! He is such a sweet cat. In fact too sweet to keep with a baby on the way. He might try to cuddle with baby M, so he has a new home in Texas with my mom. I visited him today and he was lounging on his back in his comfy bed...Yep, I think he's gonna love Texas.

Me and DeeAnne! And Lola....And Vern....And Ginger's hiney....hee hee!

Now is that one good looking kid or what???

Last week Bradley came home from school and pulled a small wadded up piece of paper out of his pocket and began apologizing to me. He said, "I'm really sorry mom. I tried my hardest and I just couldn't pass the test. She said I failed it. I'm so sorry mom." I looked at the piece of paper and chuckled. It was from the school nurse saying that Bradley failed his eye exam. Bradley was standing there really upset waiting to see what my reaction would be...he never fails anything. I told him it was okay and said all it meant was that he would need to see an eye doctor.

After getting off the phone with the eye doctor, I went in the kitchen to find Bradley crying at the table. He said he didn't want glasses because all the kids would laugh at him and make fun of him. After a good little talk, I had him feeling better and told him he didn't even have to worry about it until next week anyway.

So today he went to the eye doctor and man he is blind!!! I don't know how we didn't have any problems at school or signs elsewhere! So we drove to Mesquite to LensCrafters and he got glasses in 1 hour! Funny thing is that after all the pouting and crying last week, Bradley LOVES his glasses. He couldn't believe how good he could see. And while enjoying a nice ice cream cone and CHICK A FLAY (Jake's pronunciation) he siad, "I don't care anymore if the kids laugh at me. I'll just be like so what. I can see now." He's soooo cute!