Weekending...

My brother and his family came up for the weekend.  We enjoyed the carnival, grilling out, and the girls had a little eyebrow party.

Let me fill you in a bit about the eyebrows ;-)  In highschool I used to pluck my eyebrows - that was the thing to do...NOW - looking back - why in the hell did I do that?!?  I NEVER pluck my eyebrows....My favorite hair dresser and good friend - Abbie - 'shapes' them for me from time to time but that's about it....Anyway, I'm always up to try new things in the make-up department....and my sister-in-law was telling us about this stuff she uses from sephora.  By the way, I LOVE sephora!  It's called Anastasia.  It's just like eyeshadow but it's filler for your brows and you also need the brush.  I also use 'gimme brow' from sephora which works really good too!  All of us girls sat around my mom's kitchen table and Georgia went around and did all of our eyebrows -ha!  It was fun!  I wish I had pics of it but I don't...

Ok, back to this post....here are some pics from our weekend at the 'carnie'...

a little face painting for Jayne girl...

It's hilarious how much Giuliana loves roller coasters...She has NO FEAR!!!

Grammy Ann was a trooper....she didn't feel very good after this.... ;-)

 

Papa Mike won the kids a few stuffed animals...l

And of course, ya can't go to a carnival without eating a funnel cake!  YUM!

The summer fun continues!

Grey is doing a fun and fitness camp this week with his friends.  Sailor was already crying this morning when he left because she misses him.  It might be a long week for sister ;-)

Happy Monday...

Finished stamping on patio...

This is the finished look of the patio.  I'm so excited about it!  It looks beautiful.  I love the way it turned out...can you tell I like it?!

 Now I need to find patio furniture...I've been looking but I'm gonna wait for some clearanced deals I think...

(view from our kitchen)

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And in other news...this is what our days have looked like...

Enjoying...

Night time walks...(the moon the other night was calling for a picture)

Splash pad fun - the water was a little cold

Enjoying time with our cousins...

and always room for some baby love....LOVE this little sweet pea...

Happy Wednesday...I'm meeting up with some girlfriends later and a margarita will be calling my name:)

Celebrate!

Memorial Day weekend was spent close to home and with all our loved ones near!  There were so many reasons to celebrate.

We had a surprise party for my parents who celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary and my brother Alex got engaged.  To say my heart was happy would be an understatement.  We were all OVERjoyed with everything that went down over the weekend.  There were toasts, tears, hugs, and lots of kisses to go around.  I'm so proud of my parents.  They have showed us what true love is and what it means to be married.  They have showed us that it's not easy and that marriage takes work/effort and a WHOLE lot of talking and understanding.

I hope to pass the same onto my own children...

So many special moments were shared and so much to be thankful for...

And not to mention there was a WHOLE lot of yellow going on...You see we all decided to wear yellow because that was the color of my parents wedding...And let's face it - Yellow makes you happy:)

Sailor wanted her mama...

He's turned out to be a pretty GREAT son-in-law...

We had family and good friends at the party to make our night complete...it was just such a happy night!

And it wouldn't be a party without a cake...

the only thing missing were balloons because those make me happy too;)

our sun kissed babies had a fun night too...

So my parents cut into the cake and then...

this is what happened next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brother gave a little speech to my parents and then he turned to Gina and got down on one knee...yeah, we all went a little nuts - ha!  It.was.Perfect!

Oh, and she said YES;)

And then I went CRAZY with my camera - ...

 all the phone calls afterward

 Can you tell yet that it was a happy night for our family?!!!!

 the bling...Brother you did GOOD!

 (one of my favorites of them from the night - just caught this)

We did eventually go back to eating the cake - I promise and it was pretty good...

(Alex and Gina engaged on my parents 35th anniversary)

and oh did these kids PLAY...we are still catching up on sleep from last weekend...
I'm just loving all this yellow...

And special thanks to Aunt Kathy for hosting the party...

Strike a pose please...

haha - look at the kids...

We are so blessed...

had to sneak one in with my baby girl...

My parents were overwhelmed with the whole celebration and it was definitely a night to remember.

It was so wonderful to have everyone with us.  (we did miss my hubby though - he was on a fishing trip that was planned well before we knew about this so he's off the hook;))


Life is short and when we share moments like this, we are reminded of all the 'little' things that truly matter.

I think it's safe to say that we all went to bed happy this night:)

Happy Anniversary to my parents and Congratulations to Alex and Gina!

What a night!