Spring Break Inspiration

T minus 7 days until we leave port on a Carribbean cruise with the whole Chic family!

Here is my inspiration:

Gardener Guy and I have been working since January (Ok, ok I started 2 weeks ago) working out each night and eating much healthier ( = No pop! No snacks! Lean meat!) with the cruise as our motivator. GG has lost 30 pounds and I have lost a quarter of that.

Pictures are sure to be coming!

Cruising love and all of mine!

Foo Foo La La Diddley Dee

Mama and I picked up the printed invitations this morning! Yay! We waited to have them printed in April to hit a "special", and with using our own cardstock paper, the cost came out to be very reasonable. Too bad our stamps were not too reasonable considering that we had to buy regular stamps and post card stamps. We had to go to the Post Office to get the stamps because the UPS store does not carry the "foo foo la la diddley dee" stamps. Auntie J does this surprise you?

I had made tentative plans to have Gardener Guy's Mama and sister over to help cut, sort, stack, stick and bundle the invitation suites. They made it over and helped so much! Thank you to them!
Grandma S, HayBee, Baby Lisa (with an ear infection), Chic Chick and GG's sis JoJo.
GG's Mama came and helped color trees.

Even Gardener Guy eventually made it over to help stick labels and stamps. When we worked outside, he was the boss. Since we were working inside, I was the boss.

Our To-Do list remains:
-assemble approximately 75 more invitations
-run envelopes through the printer for mailing addresses
-stamp envelopes
-send through the mail!


Oh yeah. The map madness. Gardener Guy sketched up a map, but it was far too technical. I decided to try my hand at designing. I'm not crazy about it but I think that it will serve its purpose. After all, Grandma S said that it is hard to find our drive way. Oh boy, I hope someone will drive her here.

PS. Tomorrow is my 22nd birthday, I am an Easter baby this year! GG's family came over tonight to help celebrate with my family. Stratty helped me blow out candles on my red velvet cake!
Don't laugh at HayBee's Sunken Cake. She's says its the best way a cake can bake.

More Easter and Birthday pictures to come tomorrow!

Invitation love and all of mine!

Family: Two Fold

The best part in life is when your family become your friends.

This past year I have realized that my family is that, my family, and my friends.
My best friends.

My parents, siblings, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my grandparents, My Guy, his parents, his siblings, his aunts and uncles, his cousins, his grandparents.

I do not have the eloquence to be as thoughtful and thankful to express their friendship but it means the world to me.

I am thankful for the patience my mom has had as I have grown and matured and am blessed more than I know to have such a strong, Godly woman in my life.
I am beyond words proud of the women my baby sisters, HayBee and Baby Lisa are becoming. They are just lovely.
Z teaches me the finer points in life, like not taking myself too seriously.
And my Daddy is my rock as he and Mama have always been there with armfuls of love and support. And a "Program" if needed.

My Guy? He's my very best Bee Eff (See: BF, Best Friend).
We teach and learn, laugh and cry, joke and nag, sing and listen, & talk and pray.
He's the very best Bee Eff a girl could ask for.

Z, HayBee, Chic Chick, Baby Lisa, Mama, Daddy

B's Family: Mama and Daddy D, E & J and Baby S, K&M, B&L, JoJo

Heavenly Words:

JOSHUA 24:15  But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose
for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your
forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the
LORD."