Friday, August 29, 2014

Rolling over!!!!!

So, I lay Tess on her back on her mat, go get Cam dressed, and when I come back into the living room, tess is on her tummy!!!!! Oh my dear heavens, how is this possible??? I, obviously, didn't catch it on video but will try to soon. I just wanted to get this documented before I forgot. My baby is growing way too fast!!!

Cheers,
Lindley


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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How is my baby big enough for the exersaucer?!?!?!

She's getting so big!!!! And, I love Brian's commentary on here.

Speaking of Brian: I forgot to give a shout out to this amazing husband and daddy on my last post but he was a rockstar and watched both girls while I had a little girl time in Vegas. I'm beyond blessed and lucky. Thanks babe, I appreciate you more than you know!

YouTube Video

Cheers,
Lindley

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Viva Las Vegas Baby!!!

7 of us girls spent a little over 48 hours in Sin City and had an absolute blast!!!!!!!!!! We sight saw, gambled, play beer pong, pool-sided it, ate fabulous food, saw the Cirque show Absinthe, and shopped for our babies. All in 2 days. Impressive if I do say so myself! :o)

Gotta have a famous grilled cheese sandwich from one of those nasty old casinos downtown!!!! Delicious!!!!!








Our precious newly renovated GO room at The Flamingo. And we didn't pack 4 of us to a room like the good ole days. Only two girls per room and it was blissful.








Patent leather headboard? Yes please.















FABULOUS view of the pool









I mean.... How cute are these rooms??








Jenn, our Tiny Dancer









The Group!!!!








Tiny dancer again. Dancing.














Eating at Guy Fieri's restaurant in The Quad and I order a Miller Light. This is how they bring it out to me. Shawn loved it so much she needed a photo with it. Keeping it classy








Here is a pic of Jenn trying to climb on the X after we did it in 2010 and... Well... As you can see.. It didn't go so well. Hahaha!!!!







Here we are back in 2010 on the X inside Flamingo.








We got one of these big bed things for the day on Saturday and it was awesome! There wasn't a lounge chair to be had out there so we were glad to know we had it reserved all day. It had a safe built into it and everything. Jade waited on us all day, with two free buckets of beer might I add, and it was perfect. The Flamingo pool is fantastic!!!!!! One of the better ones I've been to and I've been to a lot!!
















What an amazing trip. Love you girls!!!! Until next time......

Cheers,
Lindley



Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Night and Day

I sure hope you can view the below video of Cam eating rice cereal for the first time. I couldn't figure out how to get it uploaded on here again from you tube. Just copy and paste the link into your browser and it should come up. She and Tess are the same age in these videos and my, my could they be any more different!?!?!? I Iove it!!!! :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnD99F4EW0




YouTube Video


Cheers,
Lindley

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Kimbell Ranch

Well we had another fabulous time out at Kimbell Ranch with The Pitts' this summer. They invited us out last June and it was sure good to see them again. We stayed at their house in Wichita Falls Friday night then headed out to the ranch Saturday morning. Friday night we had the pleasure of visiting P2 and Bar L. Best BBQ ever, OMG!!!! And my first ever Red Draw, 'The Falls'' Claim to Fame. These things are delicious! It's very similar to a Bloody Mary sans the vodka as you make them with cold beer instead.










Playing dress up










The Pitts' beautiful pool and backyard















































This was Cam every time we got in the car. She was a trooper all weekend but is TIRED!!!!








Olivia, Cam, and Madison at the ranch








All the kids going on the wind farm tour in Darrin's big truck








Cam played with big kids all weekend and was in Heaven. It was the first time she met Lizzy Pitts and let's just say it was love at first sight. ;) Then, the Browns' joined us out at the ranch and brought their two girls and a friend. Then Jamie, a friend of Matt and Sarah's, came and brought her two boys (her husband was on call) and another friend. Kayla and Craig were there too. I counted it up: There were 9 kids, 9 adults, and 2 babysitters who are college roommates at MSU. Such Precious, sweet girls who were awesome with the kids. They took them all back to the ranch house (us adults stayed at the spring house which is smaller than the ranch house) at 6 PM for pizza and kept them until 8:30 the next morning. It was a good break for the parents but I have to say I felt a little nervous sending my first born away on her first sleepover with other other MUCH OLDER kids but she did awesome!!!!!! :). She was the youngest then the ages ranged from 6-12. The older girls loved taking care of her. So sweet......
We had steak, potatoes, corn, salad, and rolls. We had a blast and are already wishing we were going back next month. Thanks Matt and Sarah, you guys always know how to entertain and show others a good time. Until next time.......

And a HUGE thanks to Grammy for keeping Tess. Tess would not have liked the ranch like we did. :)

Cheers,
Lindley


Friday, August 15, 2014

The Big 3-5

Good Lawd, how in the h*ll can I be 35????? There are days I feel it then there are days I feel 22. Guess kids may have something to do with that. :o). I had a great birthday and owe it all to my friends and family. Wednesday the 13th a few of us girls went out for a few hours and laughed so hard we cried. Nights like these are priceless and extremely necessary.
We went to one of my favorite old college hangouts and it hasn't changed a bit! The Lone Star Oyster Bar baby!





My Lou



Deb and Ralna. Katy was there to but left before we started taking pictures.



The darling scarf Ralna gave me!




Such a fun night girls. I'm beyond thankful for our friendship.

My 'brownie-point-making' husband got me my first pair of Kendra Scott earrings and I'm in love!!!




My sweet Cam colored this for me.





I woke up to the greatest thing ever! My friend Katie Marshall so came and did this at some point in the night thursday and it made me feel so special!!!!




Last night my folks came to town and took us to dinner. We tried Longhorn Steakhouse for the first time and it was delicious!



What an amazing day. I'm blessed beyond measure. Let's do this 35!!!!

Cheers,
Lindley

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

More Ruidoso pics

For some reason I couldn't upload some photos to my last post ??





The cook at Log Cabin made Cam a heart pancake




Some random lady teeing off of number 9, which was just out our back door. Cameron really liked her for some reason ;)





Instead of crayons, Cornerstone Bakery provides dough to make cookies :)




Golf with daddy.





Mom getting attacked by the big white duck!



YouTube Video


Fishing with Slick





Cams first fish!!!





Cam's first deer sighting!





Mamy babysat while Slick, B, and I played golf and I even hit par on one hole!!!









Our big purchase from the trip!






We had the best time and want to make this a new family tradition. Until next time....


Cheers,
Lindley



Ruidoso

I won't lie... I had pretty low expectations for this 'vacation' seeing how it was our first 'family of four' overnight outing other than to the grandparents' house, but it by far exceeded them and then some!!!!! We had an absolute blast!!! We did have one minor hiccup though. Cam decided to get car sick on the way up the mountain about 40 minutes outside of Ruidoso so that was fun. And disgusting. And horrifying. I despise throw up as does my daughter so we could have lived without that but we survived. One wipey, or a thousand, at a time.

We loaded up our entire house and headed to Innsbrook Village CC and resort. Wow, that place may be old but it's so peaceful and beautiful. We had the perfect little 3/2 condo.

















In the most perfect location right on the 9th tee box









Golfers right off our back porch all day long. It was so fun to watch them



With perfect company








And Slumber Parties with Mamy




And a very hungry baby





if you don't give it to her fast enough she gets that thumb to tide her over.






Cam met a friend from Lubbock. Alli. She's six. They had a big time.





Such a fun weekend with Mamy and Slick

Cheers,
Lindley