Weekend-Recap....

Yes I realize it is only Saturday.....but tonight is the end of my weekend because tomorrow begins my "holiday"!! Yep Yep we leave tomorrow and head to England! I am so super excited! I did really well with the whole packing thing (which I get really OCD about) and I only repacked once! Thats probably a record for me since I usually pack and repack 1,000 times!!! I think the hubby was quite impressed!

So onto the recap. We will start this weekend where the last blog left off...Thursday night. Chris and I met up with some friends and friends of friends to watch the MSU v Memphis game. Oh and Opus came too! So we watch our bulldogs stomp all over the University of Memphis and it was fantastic! We had our cowbell and I got the table to sing in one round of "Hail State" which was much harder than I thought it would be....but anyway..

The boys ready for the game!

Met up with Ms. Esther @ the Brickhouse

I promised a new "family" pic in the last post so here it is! (cowbell included)

So that was super fantastic and we loved every minute of it! I didn't take any pictures once the game started so I didn't get any pictures with our friend Brian, but he was there.

So a fantastic Thursday lead to an AMAZING Friday. My friend Katie came and got me and we went shopping. I haven't been shopping (for me to actually buy anything) in FOREVER. It was great to get out and go running around with Katie. Love that girl! We even got to get lunch and go to the grocery store. We went to Kroger and if you know anything about me and "my" Kroger you know I love it. I think I could go there every day (okay maybe not, but I do love going to my Kroger). Chris also got home early which was super great. I love when my hubby comes home early. I had also got the bags just about packed....a few things here and there were missing but they were pretty good. Friday night we met up with Katie to watch Hazel Green High School play their football game. They were playing at Bob Jones High School. Katie's hubby coaches Hazel Green and we love football so we went! Ummm....I have been to several (numerous) high school football games at many different high schools and I have never seen anything like this. We arrived about 15 minutes to kick off. While walking from the parking lot to the ticket booth I notice this human falling from the sky....It took me a minute but I realized there were parachutters (I dont know what else to call them) landing on the middle of the football field. I mean seriously who has people jumping from planes before their football games? Then as the game gets going it gets crazier. Every time BJHS scored fireworks would go off. BJHS half-time show ended with a quite large firework show. It was UNREAL! They also had a rock climbing wall out (with Marine recruiters of course-it was the military appreciation game). But none the less I have never been to a high school football game like. Unfortunately for the team we were cheering on..they lost, but we still had a great time (minus the concrete seats..OUCH!) 

Me with the lovely Katie!

There's Jerrett.

The fireworks ended and he was sad.....

So that was Friday....now onto today (Saturday). Well Chris stayed up all night and watched the replay of the MSU v Memphis game.....I was tired and slept thru most of it. We got up this morning and hit up bootcamp which I was NOT feeling. I just wanted to go back to bed :( But after bootcamp we headed to Katie and Jerrett's house to watch some more football and eat some food. But let's be honest I couldn't wait to get to their house to meet their newest addition to the family....Lily! (pictures of Lily below)...I want a Lily and I working on Chris to let me get a Lily! 

LILY!

Eating some Cheerios!

I mean come on! Who doesn't want a pet pig! She is so adorable!! And Katie says she is so smart and completely house trained! Yes Please!

So anyway we watch a LOT of football today....I mean we are still watching football. Rooting on the SEC. So far today it has been a good day for the SEC...except for TSUN....but I mean did we expect anything else? Sorry rebels...maybe one year.....

But seriously the only two teams that didn't win their games this weekend in the SEC were Ole Miss and Georgia. Mississippi State (Go Bulldogs), LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky all won there games. I would include Texas A&M just for future practice but they don't play until tomorrow. 

Well thats all for tonight! I will try to blog (maybe) when I am over in the UK! I can't believe I am going! It is so crazy!!!

The 11 Day visit of Daniel.....Beware LOTS of pictures!

So before we went on our 2nd family trip this summer, my parents asked if I would be interested in keeping Daniel for a week. My sisters were doing a camp and so Daniel wouldn't really have anyone to hang out with so they were just wondering if Christopher and I would interested in taking him in. So we did....and the following is how the 11 days that we had went down. 

We met my mom, Anna, and Daniel at Dairy Queen in Corinth, MS. They brought along the newest addition of the Lyons family....puppy dog Dudley. 

Playing with Dudley while drinking his coffee...thats my husband!

Cute puppy dog face!

I love this photo! Look at those ears!

So we picked Daniel up...said goodbye to Mom and Anna and hit the road for Huntsville! That night we had made plans to meet up with our friends Stephen and Kristen for the Rocket City United soccer game. So we got back to Huntsville and headed to the soccer game! Daniel was a great trooper seeing that I doubt he had ever sat through a 90 minute soccer game. At the half he went out on the field and did the dance thing that they were doing for kids at the game. He also got one of these. 

He was a quick learner!

So after the game we went home and showered and went to bed so we could go to church in the morning. We got up fairly early and made breakfast.... 

Eggs, Bacon, and Biscuits...and a happy camper? 

On Saturday at Dairy Queen Daniel made a comment about wanting his hair cut like Chris'. So we asked my mom and she said sure.  Daniel was really excited about this haircut. So after breakfast we headed to the guest bathroom with Chris' clippers and got to cutting. 

Before Front.

Before Back.

Here we go.

First swipe...no turning back!

Tackling the top.

He didnt want us to touch his sideburns!

And this is where we were when the clippers died. ....uh oh! Luckily my hubby is brilliant!!

Finished Front!

Finished Back. 

So that is how Daniel got his first #2 haircut. He absolutely LOVED it! Chris was concerned at the first swipe of the clippers because of how thin and light colored his hair was. But Daniel did love his new hair cut!

After church and lunch and the grocery store we headed to the pool!

The boys having fun at the pool!

Chris swimming around!

After swimming and getting rained out of the pool we came back in side to play some Wii!

So that was Sunday. Monday Chris went off to work and Daniel and I went to the pool again! And watch some Harry Potter movies. 

 Tuesday we had bootcamp. So we packed up Daniel and headed to the park! We had a lot of extra stale bread so we went early and fed the birds. 

The pigeons LOVED Daniel. 

Along with all the other birds!

Daniel did the warm-up with us but then he played his DSI for the rest of the work out. After the work out we headed back to the apartment and had dinner!

Wednesday was another pool day! We love the pool! Daniel met a new friend too!

Daniel, his new friend, and his new friend's sister playing Wii.

 Thursday we went to the movies with Daniels new friend. We went and saw Rio at the dollar theater! It was really funny and we had a great time. We also had bootcamp again. We went early again and threw the frizbee around and a little football. Then Daniel saw a man in the park feeding the pigeons. So he went over there to see if he could have a pigeon eat out of his hand. He did this while Chris and I did our warm up. 

After our warm up Daniel came over and he did the entire work out with us! I was quite impressed! He was a trooper! After bootcamp they were having an Harry Potter Party at Barnes and Nobles. We were going on Friday to see the final Harry Potter movie in theaters and Daniel and I had been catching up on all the Harry Potter movies during the week....so we decided to go check out the HP Party. 

Daniel and his owl.

At the platform.

With his owl and trunk.

Having his tea leaves read!

Potions class.

With their smoking fruit punch!

It was bedtime when we got home, but Daniel had asked if he could dress up for the movie on Friday. There were a ton of people dressed up at the Harry Potter Party so I guess he wanted to dress up! Well I wasn't going to go out and buy anything, but I wanted him to be able to dress up if he wanted so I started looking for things to make him a homemade costume....I dont think it turned out too bad...

Glasses that Chris made!

Opus even dresses up to be an owl.

At the movie theater!

Supporting my Gryffindors!

Fighting Dementors at the movie theater!

My super cute husband in his glasses!

So we saw the movie and then headed out to eat dinner! We went to Rosies Cantina! Yum Yum YUMMY!! Saturday morning we got up and went to bootcamp again. Daniel was EXHAUSTED! He was not feeling getting up to go ANYWHERE! However he wasn't too sleepy to do a few workouts with us. 

After bootcamp we headed to the Huntsville Depot. They were having something called Lego Palooza so we headed over. 

They had two rooms of Lego worlds set up! One was even a Jr. League of "Lego"ers. After looking at both set-ups Chris and I did a tour of the Depot. Daniel and I went when my mom and the girls were here for Spring Break, but Chris didn't get to do the tour so we took advantage of the opportunity. Daniel sat in the hall reading his new Lego magazine! Daniel also won a door prize! :)

After the tour we walked around the Depot grounds at the trains and cars they had out. Until we were STARVING!

That night we went to another RCU soccer game! Daniel took his DSI this time and he played that for most of the game...except when he was blowing his vuvuzela.
Sunday we got up and went to church and then we headed to the pool. Only to find out the pool was closed. Someone had intentionally broken it and they said it was going to be 1-2 weeks before it could be fixed. Sad day :(
So instead we decided to wash the car! Woo Hoo! 

Daniel's "car washing" face. 

Chris even taught him how to detail the tires! 

After washing the car we went back to the dollar theater to see Rio again. Chris had not seen the movie, but I knew Chris would love it so we went to see it again!!

Monday Daniel and I kinda laid low. It was SUPER hot and since the pool was still closed we just decided to lay low. Plus Daniel had a late night which resulted in him and I running to Walmart for some Tylenol at 4:30am. And when we got back he couldn't back to sleep he got up at 6am to help me with Chris' breakfast and his lunch before he headed to work. Daniel crashed around 8am and slept til 11am. Chris got home around 3 and we decided to go to the Botanical Gardens. They were having something called "Treehouses with a Splash" and from what I read it sounded like tree houses that had water features that kids could run around in and cool off. The Botanical Gardens was very pretty but it was hot too!. I was disappointed in the "water features" that they claimed the tree houses had. Several of them were turned off. The tree houses themselves were very neat though. And since they had sprinklers watering a lot of there flowers, bushes, etc we let Daniel run around in them. 

We had a lot of fun at the Botanical Gardens! I went home and made a meatloaf which Daniel ABSOLUTELY devoured. He told me he liked meatloaf but that was an understatement!
Tuesday I had to finish up laundry and packing, so we invited Daniel's new friend down for a play date with the Wii while I packed and finished laundry. Then one last time at bootcamp before heading to DC with the family. We headed to bed fairly early that night and then on Wednesday  morning the rest of the family came and picked the three of us up and off to DC we went! More from that trip later! :)
We had a great time with Daniel, but my parents experiened "empty nest" the last weekend he was with us. The two girls were off on a trip and Ted was at school and they said it was really weird not having anyone at that the house!