Today is my Dad's 50th Birthday!!!

Everyone wish him a wonderful Birthday!!

This past weekend we celebrated while he was in town. We had a great day.
This year I decided to go with a meaningful, sentimental gift since this was a big deal birthday.

I finally came up with an idea to make a box and include 50 different items or pictures from his 50 years of life and I came up with this:

I included 49 different pictures of different memories that I had with my Dad. I also included some older pictures from when he was little. For the last item I wrote a letter that included some other memories that I did not have pictures of.


Some of these older pictures he did not even know that I had. Going back looking through all of his old pictures I realized Dylan is a spitting image of my Dad. Like they could pass for twins. 
This picture is poor quality since it's from 1967 and a picture of a picture, but you can still get the idea.

I mean the look on his face is JUST like Dylan. It is just so freaky how identical they look.

Okay, back on track here. (But really, I can not get over how much they look alike.)
One of my all time-hands down favorite pictures is of our father daughter dance at my wedding.


He absolutely loved the box of pictures. I knew he would like it, but I did not expect any kind of reaction that I got. I brought on the waterworks. I do not think I have ever seen my Dad cry. At least I can not remember anyway. We both were crying. It was a great moment. One I will remember forever.


We celebrated later that evening with dinner and cake, of course.


Happy Happy Birthday Dad!

Wish I could be with you on your actual birthday to celebrate!
 Have a wonderful day.
 I love you and here is to 50 more years!!!

Well, we all know that I live in a house full of obsessed basketball fanatics. I think I have talked complained about it enough. ;)

One of our good friends, Kyle, is the new John A Logan College basketball coach. His wife and I have been friends for many many years and they are actually the reason I met Justin. Justin and Kyle were college roommates. Nowadays, as us wifeys are busy being Mommy's, the husbands probably speak more than we do. I am not kidding either. Like once a day at least. It's ridic the amount of basketball these two cats talk.

Anywho, Drew was ball boy for Kyle and his team the other night. He was so so so excited until we walked into the gym.  He changed his mind last second and I just knew he was not going to do it. Ugh. But finally Daddy convinced him with a Gatorade. Ha.

Good thing, because look at the smile on that kids face. He was in heaven. He just loved it.


Look at him just "chillin" there watched the boys warm up. He's such a little P-I-M-P.



He makes his Mama so proud. Like, I just can not get enough of him!

Ya know, what ever Drew does Dylan wants to do also. So at halftime Dylan helped as well.


I was a little nervous about this one. I could just picture Dylan rolling that thing out onto the court and either running it into the players on purpose, dumping all the balls out and letting them roll all over the court, or just getting butt naked (like usual) and streaking across the ball court.

BUT, none of that happened and he did a great job.





I just love my little mini basketball fanatic boys.

Part of me wants to have another boy. I have the boy thing down. There is something super special about a Mommy-Son bond. It is like no other.

I will be that Mom in the crowds with my son's name on my shirt hooping and hollering for my kids. Who would have ever ever thought???

The countdown to Disney has reached 60 days!!   Woot woot!!   We are so excited!! I can not believe it is only 2 months away! We booked all our dining reservations this weekend, so it seems so much more real.   So in celebration of this countdown--here's a recap of our second trip as a family to Disney.   We went for Justin's AAU Basketball. His teams played at the World Wide of Sports complex. Drew was a fresh 3 year old and Dylan not quite one yet.   Looking back at our pictures I did not get very many good ones. Ew.   I did get this quite funny one of Dylan eating a waffle. I remember he held that thing in one hand and went to town. He was a chunker and ate anything and everything.       Once we got to Disney Drew and Dylan's favorite favorite favorite ride was by far the Nemo Ride. We rode that thing over and over and over.     I wanted to eat the Coral Reef Restaurant so bad because I remember the Full House episode where Michelle goes missing. There was a scene at this restaurant. The food was delish!! My husband, not a big fan.   My all time favorite ride, hands down is the Teacups. I do not know why I love them so much, but I do.   Doesn't Dyl look like he is about to barf?!       Drew had a blast spinning!!       This was Dylan's 1st trip to Disney World so we had to take him on the Toy Story Ride. This ride is so neat. And the wait in line is so neat too. The detail they put into this is just remarkable.     We went in July this time around and it was scorching HOT! But, thankfully there is a lot of rides and shows in air conditioning, so it was not too bad.     Justin and I always try to do at least one date night. We usually end up at ESPN Sports Bar. Yay, so fun. (insert sarcasm) I tell ya, I am a really amazing wife.       Drew was a little swimmer. His favorite thing I remember him saying was "the pool." Really? Out of everything at Disney and he loves the pool?!?!       It was a great trip. The kids being so young still get to do everything everyone else can besides the big roller coasters. I had never rode Peter Pan before this trip. This was Drew's face during the whole ride. Priceless. And kinda freaky too...       EEEEEE!!! We canNOT wait to get back!!!       We have one night left for dinner reservations for just our family. Anyone have any suggestions on their favorite places to eat?? We want to do something different and fun!