She is back....then gone again :(

My best friend came home from California a couple of weeks ago. Les and I had the privilege of going to the airport to pick her up. I was so excited.

Her husband is in the Navy and is away on ship for a few weeks. So she decided to come home for a week and a half. Her plane was delayed about 30 minutes, and I decided to get a little reading done. I opened my Kindle and found this.....

No battery. Dead. Would not do a thing. So Les and I sat and watch people reunite with loved ones and load their cars with luggage. Wondering where each of them had been. What they had done.

Finally it was time for Kristi's plane to land. We went to the escalator and waited, and waited, and waited. Then finally......Here she came.

Cute purse by the way.

So happy to see her. I haven't seen her in person since she left in March. Her and James came to the house early one morning to tell us by. Time does fly. It seems like last week when they left. 

On a side note I normally only wear my glasses at night while watching TV, but I had a nasty case of pink eye. So I was sporting the spectacles on this day. 

On the way home we got to catch up. We filled each other in on the happenings in our lives. The good, the bad, and the drama. 

 We drove to Kristi's parents house and I think this picture tells it all.

I know Ms. Anita was ready to see her baby girl. I know she cried a little (she always does). Love her for this.

Camille was so ready for Aunt Kristi to be home. She sent her several text wanting the know were we where at in our travels. She is such a sweet girl and really does love her Aunt.

Needless to say she is gone again. We had a great time. She got to eat at all of her favorite places in town. Spend time with her family. Lunch with friends. The day with Carter Joe. Went to the county fair with a group of us. Best of all we got Pedicures together. One of our favorite things to do. It is so nice to spend time with my dear friend.

Love you Kristi. Can't wait for James to retire so you both can come home for good.

Come home safe James.

Speed Racer

Meet my speed racer!!

He got this gator from his T and Nana for his birthday last year. Carter calls it his gator-aider. We had it on a low setting when we first got it. Last week we turned it up to a higher speed!!!

Wow does it go, and he loves it.  Even with Les and I walking fast we had a hard time keeping up with him. We could do a quick sprint and still not keep up. By the way there is not medium speed. Just high and low. 

Needless to say we will be getting our exercise while he is riding his Gator-aider.

God help us.

We've got spirt how about you!!

The county we live in has several schools that are celebrating Homecoming festivities tonight. The school that Les and I went to is one of them. We hope that one day Carter Joe will attend it as well. We don't live in district so we will have to apply as a transfer student. We have a couple of years before we have to worry about that.

Some of these pictures are from a football game we went to a couple of years ago. I just wanted to show you how much my little man has changed. My how two years have flown.

Our new shirt for the 2009 season.

We still wear it. Just a little smaller now, and just around the house.

Oh my goodness! Look at all the curls. It took him forever to get hair. Then people had started saying, "what a cute little girl." So off with the curls. You know that this momma kept those sweet curls.

Picture time with daddy!!!

He did so well at the game. The football players, band, and spectators kept his attention pretty much the whole game.

UNTIL....

We got sleepy!! We had to lay down and rest until the game was over.

Now let us fast forward two years. My how we have changed. Our new 2011 shirt for the year. Thanks Paris Baby you did a great job as always on this years shirt. We wear it every Friday morning to school. Ready for the football game that night.

Look no curls! Just a big boy haircut. How sad mommies little boy is grow up so fast.

The football game still keeps our attention.

Maybe one day when he is older another little boy will be watching Carter Joe play football.  Hopefully it will keep his attention as well.

Shh It's A Secret!!

We have secret pals at work. Every January we draw new secret pals for the year. The lady at work that is over it gets all of our information and gets everything ready to draw the names. She comes around to each area and has us draw the new names for the year. FYI, I am bad! I will draw a name until I get someone I think I can surprise. If there are rules I do not obey them. Like I said I am bad.

Lets just say I have the best secret pal that has my name this year. She not only thinks about me, but my family too. She gave me a great gift card for the July 4th holiday to a local meat market. Can you say yummy.

Now rolls around the Labor Day holiday. I get a sweet little green package at our time clock.

Here is the note that was with it.

Did I mention that I love crosses. Guess what she got me one! I have already hung it in the house.

This cute little number has been hung in the kitchen. Funny thing I hung it by where I normally plug up my blender. You know where I occasionally make my frozen beverages. I did not realize I did this until we had guest over for the weekend. Needless to say frozen beverages where blended.

Next in my green bag of goodies are these handsome little balding Italian men. They are actually salt and pepper shakers.

Funny thing about these little balding Italian men is that they where made in China. Little Italian men made in China. Hahaha! Isn't everything made in China these days.

To finalize this post I just wanted to say thanks to my secret pal for the Labor Day goodies. I have really enjoyed them and can't wait to find out who you are in December. Hope everyone has a fantastic holiday weekend.