Today's Groupon Deal

So has anyone checked out today's Groupon Deal?

Brush Buddies – is selling:

$14 for Two Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrushes ($29.90 Value)

I kind of want to buy these for my girls. Just hearing my Little Lilly try and sing, " Baby Baby Baby, Oh" makes my heart melt. My sister has them hooked on JB. They practically scream his name every time they see his picture.

I think I can part with $14.00 plus it reiterates good dental hygiene.

Anyone else need a JB toothbrush? Anyone???

Florida

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year's Day. Right after Christmas Danny and I packed the girls up and headed South. Way south, 18 hours south!!! We left our house at 330am the 26th and arrived 9:45pm in Florida. The last 5 hours were what Hell must be like. The girls honestly did a great job. We had tons of activities, dvd's and such for them to enjoy.

We needed a mini vacation and decided to visit my dad's Florida house in Port Charlotte. He and my brother Charlie were there while on their Christmas break. We all had a great time together.....

Port Charlotte Beach, Florida

My dad

Lilly bug enjoying the sand

We only got to play in the pool one day b/c the temp has to be above 65 degrees in the morning for the club to open the pool. My little girls take after me and love the water.

Danny fishing in the backyard. He found it very relaxing and not can't wait for the 4 of us to fish in the spring/summer.

It was cold and rainy one day so we took the girls to the mall. They had a cute raceway track. The girls were excellent drivers.

Lilly loved throwing the sand, I however however was not to fond.

By the end of our vacation it was really warming up, high 70's. At first the water was cold but we got used to it.


This is Gracie with her friend Maximilian. He spoke English but has his second language. They were so cute together.

I asked Gracie if she introduced herself to him. She said, "Yes, I also told him this was Lilly, and she doesn't really talk to people she doesn't know but that's ok!"
And she really didn't talk to him, she just followed Gracie and him around, always a few steps behind.

Once we were back home as I was tucking the girls into bed I asked each of them what their favorite part of the vacation was. Lilly said the Beach, even though she got dirty. Gracie said the hotel ( on the way home we broke the drive up and stayed in a hotel.)

We had a wonderful trip. We enjoyed spending time with my dad and brother Charlie. We enjoyed all the activities and now feel refreshed for the new year.

Thank you Florida for you sunshine and beaches, but I have to say you have nothing on the Hampton INN in TN.

As you can tell Gracie got a nice glow, Lilly and I of course left as white as we came.

Happy New Year everyone.

Funny things said

The other day after church I took the girls to Once Upon A Child. We arrived a little early so I decided to go and get the girls a quick snack to hold them over till lunch. There was a White Castles very close, I thought that would be fine since they have little hamburgers. I pulled up to the window and ordered 3 single sliders 2 with no onion or pickles. When pulling around to the window Gracie asked me why I hadn't ordered anything. I told her I did. She said. "Well did you order in Spanish?" ☺

October wrap up

Not sure if I am been busy or just not motivated. I have been neglecting my blog because I just haven't had the extra energy. But I missed you all and thought I would catch you up.

My Birthday(s) were all great. My husbands side of the family through me a great birthday. It was called "An evening in the field" You all know by now that my husband grew up on a farm, well this also comes with eating a lot of family meals in the field out of the back of a pick up. My SIL thought it would be nice to recreate this for me. It was so much fun and kind of hope we do it every year. My BIL, her husband Brian, did a nice post that I will add here. You should check it out. Thanks Butlers for all you did, I had a wonderful time.

The only other big event was Halloween. We took the girls to our Church on Saturday. I don't have a lot to say because it was kind of a dud. I don't say this to be mean but since my girls are 4 and 3 they honestly could only do 4 games and 2 of the games I had to "help" Lilly. Good news I did, I mean Lilly, won a fish! His name is Hal short for Halloween. The girls love it. I think Danny is hoping we keep the fish and get rid of the cat. Or hoping the dog eats the cat. ( j/k)

Maybe next year I could volunteer to help think of games for the younger children. But in all actuallality we thank them for their efforts.

Halloween night was awesome. We took the girls to my dad's neigboor hood to go TOT. All of my immediate family met at my dads, we had Awesome Chicken chilli, cornbread, and my mom's famous pumpkin bars and a pumpkin roll.

My Dad and Lilly





After dinner we went TOT. Gracie of course loved it. She took charge and wanted to ring every door bell. Poor Lilly, after the second house she asked for her stroller. She is tiny and always feels she needs to remind us she has tiny legs. She got carried a lot.

Gracie was Sleeping Beauty and Lilly was Tinkerbelle

Aunt Marica helped a lot! She is an awesome Aunt

Gracie asked if the skeleton was real, still not sure she checked it out with her wand.

After we went TOT we sat outside and passed out candy to the rest of the neighboor hood.






October was great. Now I am excited for November and Thanksgiving! Yummy.

The New Mom Jeans

Today we were allowed to wear jeans to work if we paid $5. All the money was going to the Breast Cancer walk some of our employees are participating in tomorrow. We all love jean day so of course I participated. Well I also had to be at work early today to open the front desk which means I work up at 5:15am. I only got 6 hours of sleep.

At 12noon I took my lunch break and went to use the little girl's room. And in there I noticed that my jeans were just horrible, I hated the way the looked on me and the way it made my figure look. They weren't flattering at all, they were actually quite boxy. I remember them being a boot cut, I didn't realize though that was term for boyish. As I am stretching, which by the way is completely normal thing for me to do in the bathroom, squats, leg lifts, a little Tae boe, Anyway that is when I realized...................I had on freaking MAN jeans. Are you serious, I have on Danny's Jeans? Which actually is quite awesome because if anyone has ever met Danny he is a little on the skinny side.

I was so embarrassed that I immediately told at least 5 of my friends, who were also amazed. One of them said, Hey at least he wasn't wearing yours. Now that I would like to see! Nevermind, I wouldn't

So about a month ago, my mom made a silly fashion error and wore her shrug upside down, to a very nice restaurant. We all made fun of her and I said to her quote " How could you do that and not notice" Touche Breanne Touche.

Note to self, no matter what time you get up in the morning, please make sure you grab your own jeans!