I love this update-Luke is just the cutest little kid!!!
And this totally cracked me up - you got some really fun pictures of your DH!
he's such a dork. a cute dork, but a dork!
I thought it was neat meeting you and Ray. We Cherie had a great time with our little mini visit.
In the picture, you can see Cherie, Bailie, Evan, Ethan, and Myself. Hunter's head looks like a bush in the background. if you look carefully, he is looking down at the table. I had to look very hard to find him.
I think if I had a lollipop that size, I would pull off the same face that Ray did. I might have even snuck a lick or two.
it was so nice meeting you guys too! you have such a fun family. yeah, i see hunter but just the top of his head! you know, ray may have snuck in a couple of licks when i wasn't looking......he did seem rather chipper that night. sugar buzz maybe?
Hey....being an only child is NOT bad. I speak from experience. And I think I turned out ok
i agree! i was sort of an only child. i was my mom and dad's only child together. and brooke didn't come along until i was 7, plus i only saw brooke and brett on the weekends. i think it made me MORE eager to share and be nice to other kids because i was wanting the companionship!
I thought we had already had our 1-2-3 kiddo discussion
we probably did.....but we discuss so many things, i forget! my memory is horrible.....i'm getting old!
it's my FAVORITE!!!!!
As far as the twins go I've always said if I were going to have more than one it better be multiples
. As with any pregnancy if it happened I would just hope I could be as blessed as the 2 couples I'm closest to that have twins. They both had healthy full term pregnancy's and that just doesn't always happen with more than one. And they got a boy and a girl out of it....what more could you ask for
if ray and i were to have twins i'd be fine with it. but it's not something i want to happen. i'd be happy with just one and so would he. we babysat yesterday for a friend of mine - her 5yo DD and 2yo DS.......that confirmed that we just want one!
I'm glad you got to see Winkers
And that she got to meet me
me too! you and flat jordan wouldn't stop talking.....we practically had to pull you apart to get you to leave!
I love this pic and the video is hilarious! I wish the tiki's hadn't stopped. I would have liked to see more of that dancing!!
don't worry.....there's more dancing later in the day!
All your P&P pics are great I'm sure I've already told you my faves
thank you!!!!!! 17 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great update. I'm looking forward to hearing more about the P&P Party.
Is anyone else nervous that Michael Phelps' 8th gold medal relies on a relay??? I hope no one is having an off night!!!!
thanks! i was nervous about that too, but they pulled it off!
Luke's so adorable as a pirate and as Elvis. I am looking forward to the rest of the pictures, and report on P&PP night.
he's just a funny kid. thanks....stay tuned for more!
Great update! Great movie quote! That's one of my favorites!
Luke is one cool kid!!!
thanks! oh, i love steel magnolias. there's no telling how many times i've seen it. ray loves it too. he doesn't admit it but he does. he loves the scene where drum answers the door and it's ouiser with her dog and he goes, "ouiser, you look like hammered sh*t." and she goes, "drum eatenton, don't you speak to me that way" (or something like that) and he goes, "okay, you look like regular sh*t."
i gotta get me one of those MASIVE lollypops when i get there
be sure to have a ziploc bag to keep it in because it will take you several days to finish it!
Hi Dawn!
I've been MIA for two weeks because I had to go back to work.
But I guess I shouldn't complain b/c my students seem really great this year. I teach first grade, BTW. Anyway, I have been working 12 hour days - it is always like this in the beginning of the year - and have not been on the Dis in two weeks. The housework is piling up and the magazines are piling up, and the shows on the TIVO are piling up, but I had to check back into the Dis and catch up. Great updates!
welcome back! hope your school year is a great one!
Glad to hear Sherman is okay. One of my parents' dogs, Samson, just recently went on thyroid meds. My parents have the dogs shaved in May due to the GA heat and some of his hair didn't grow back. The vet said it might be his thyroid and so now that he is on the meds, the hair is growing back. Weird huh? He is almost 5 and he is a real big doggie at 105 lbs. It is pretty much all muscle the vet said but I think he is not as toned as he used to be.
i think i need to get eli's thyroid checked. he's so fat! we thought about shaving the dogs during the summer but then decided against it because they mostly stay inside, plus eli would look like a hippo if we shaved him!
Did you hear the PotC music used for one of the floor exercises during the women's all around? I totally teared up when Nastia and Shawn did at the end and during the medal ceremony. Also, I totally screamed last night when watching Phelps race. I was screaming, "GO, GO, GO!!!!" I thought he had come in second also.
yes, i heard the music!
oh, i lost it during the medal ceremony. it was so GOOD! that phelps race was amazing. they showed a straight-up underwater shot of it yesterday and it was sooooooooooo close!
I noticed in the photos of your figurines there were some 3D glasses! Did someone forget to turn those in? LOL
yeah, ray "borrowed" them. i didn't know until we got to the room that night because he didn't tell me.....just slipped them into the bookbag. i asked him what the heck he was gonna do with 3D glasses anyway???
I love Jon and Kate Plus 8 also. I get an email every week letting me know what Disney related shows are on each week and that is where I found out about Jon and Kate Plus 8...b/c of when they went to Disney. I got hooked after watching and now watch every week.
i don't even know what time it comes on but they play it so often that i always seem to catch it at some point during the week!
When I went to
MNSSHP a few years ago, there was a Villians show in front of the castle and then the Villians had a meet and greet afterwards. Yes, Malificent was there!!!!!! Not sure if they still do that now though??? This was two years ago.
as far as i know, they still do it! but we will be attending the first MNSSHP of the year so we will have to wait and see if there is anything new or different.
When I have kids, I want two...so I'd prefer twins. I know it would be tough, but I'd just rather have them all at once.
not me! i just want one. but if i do have twins of course i'd be okay with it.
You get passholder mail??????? I have an AP and I don't get anything. They must not have my updated address or something. I tried to figure out who to call to change it and when I called Disney, they said they didn't know either!!!
go to
www.disneyworld.com and click on "passholder". i think there's somewhere on there you can register and then you'll start getting the quarterly updates in the mail.
As for the 96 Olympics, I went down a few times and one of those days was the day of the bombing. My then current bf and I were right around where it occurred about half an hour to an hour before it happened. Very scary!
that happened a few hours after i flew in. we were planning on getting up very early the next day to go find tickets to an event, but that didn't happen because everything was shut down for a couple of days.
And lastly, I went to a family reunion today and I think I was near you. The reunion was in Hoschton and we got off 85 in Braselton. I saw a sign that said Jefferson and pointed down a road to the left. Was I close??
you probably got off at exit 126 or 129 and i'm exit 137, so you were literally within 10 miles of me!
So you don't like the hot dog, but DO like the bun? My kids each like a piece of the hotdog... TINK the DOG, lil'l diz the BUN! 
you have a beautiful family!
my hot dog had meat in it but you just couldn't see it! last night anna had a bonfire and we were roasting hot dogs and luke informed her he just wanted a bun and ketchup! ewwwww! 
She is my favorite.
i can honestly say i'm not THAT bad. if a bird lands on a fence or on a house nearby, it doesn't bother me. but if it's on the ground nearby i will do exactly what he did and freak out, then make my way indoors. i've only met one other person that was afraid of birds......now i can say i've seen two!
after i yelled at him for awhile we reinacted the scene for anna.....
