Happy Birthday Sweet Pea!

Today is Ariana's 8th birthday. 8, I just can hardly believe it....still though we often butt heads, I'm in awe of this beautiful creation of God, wow is all I can find myself saying. I could not be more proud to be her mother, such a little lady she is becoming......can't wait to see where this journey of life takes her. What a blessing.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys

Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do, when Safi gets ahold of you?

The high speed chase action that Rick got caught in the middle of on his way to Dallas to play in a golf tournament.....Police dash cam video to come....this should be interesting! Glad the Excursion is such a beast, can take a huge hit and keep on truckin with only a few scratches!!!!

I'm bad...

the word according to Rick....I'm a bad blogger. I keep telling him that it's really easy and he could post a little something, something too! Yeah, I didn't think so Richard. Anyhow, for the whole 2 other people that actually read this thing, April and May have been a blur, filled with a few non-rained out tball games here and there, riding lessons for me and Ariana, gymnastics, volunteer opportunities galore, school, meetings out the wazoo, school projects, Easter, school field trip to Orr Family Farm (Oh Yea!), birthday parties, the park and today Mother's Day. Whoosh, I'm cotton pickin tired just thinkin' about it. For the first time in my motherhood years, I am R-E-A-D-Y for summer, a filled FREE summer at that. Gone are the summers filled with summer mother's day out, zoo camps, art camps, tennis camps, gymnastics camps, running from here to there only to still be worn out at the end of the day, just like during the school year. We are sticking to Swim America and Ariana will be returning to Kankuk K-1 for 13 days. Besides that, we are anxiously awaiting our annual pilgrimage to the beach in Alabama and are enjoying Rick being able to be involved in our summer time activities! I'm trying to become a broader scoped blogger because there are several food blogs that I stalk....just haven't figured out how to shoot food and make the pictures pretty....I do plan on adding some of our favorite recipes here and there soon!