It's raining babies..

So its raining babies, people!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!

This pretty much sums up how I feel right now..

On a more serious and happy note:

My:

Sister from another mister Mama Bird is having a boy!!!

and...

my sister from the same mister is having a girl!!!!

annnnndd...

they are due within days of each other!!!!

So needless to say we (Sissy and I) ended up being hostesses for both of our sistas on the same weekend.

For those of you who have ever been a hostess for anything be it baby or wedding shower, know that you should never double them up.. EVVVEERRRR!!  It causes people who always get along to fight and dislike each other and causes stress for EVERYONE.  So to all my friends who are currently pregnant, plan to soon become pregnant, married or anything else that involves a shower please be considerate to your hostesses.. they love you and are trying their best!

In the long run both showers were successful and we all still love each other! Here are some pictures to prove it.....

Who's the bomb??? The Sisters.. that's who! Mom made 132 cupcakes... Gam decorated 132 cupcakes and the Sisters made Cupcake Bouquets!

Gam and MooMoo

Nana and Momma

The Pregnant Beast... Looking very cute I might add

 ..here too..

and the highlight of the afternoon ..well my highlight anyway.. a electronic booger sucker.  As if this poor kid isn't going to be traumatized enough by having her boogers sucked out we are sucking them out with a battery operated booger sucker! I tell you what! Technology.. geeze!

Unfortunately/fortunately I don't have any pictures of the other baby shower, but it was cute too!

Happy Tuesday!!

Pearls of Wisdom

Pearls of Wisdom...

                          ...from none other than...

                                                  ....my muhtha...

Those who know my mom describe her as funny, caring, intelligent, loud and witty (among other things.)

I would describe my mother as:

• beautiful on the inside and outside
• loud AND witty
• hilarious
• dorky
• intelligent
• caring
• kind
• wise
• short (dynamite comes in small packages)
• strong

So you're getting the picture right? 

I mean who else could raise 3 crazy daughters by herself and come out alive?!

Times of high stress for me ALWAYS involve a trip to sonic.  ALWAYS.  These times also simultaneously involve me calling my mom to _____ (insert: cry, vent, ball hysterically, throw ideas around, ask for advice, etc.)  I don't even plan for it to happen, but inevitably I find myself at some sort of beverage serving establishment trying to pull myself together to speak coherently enough for the disembodied voice to understand that I want a "large dr. pepper."

So, this past Friday I found myself on the phone with my mother and this time at a Starbucks ordering a Grande chocolate chip cookie frappe thing, (which was absolutely AMAZING!!)  

My mom laughed as usual, because I was telling her about life as I know it and ordering an extra sugary, un-healthy beverage.  The topic of this conversation was the death of a friend.  I was upset, but holding it together.  I was telling her how I this friend had barely been married for a year and didn't seem to be living his life on the edge like he used to and suddenly he has a heart attack! What the hell!?  My mom's pearl of wisdom which as usual took me by surprise went something like this: (best if read in a German accent) 

"Well Annie, that's just proof that you shouldn't stop drinking, acting crazy and living life on the edge!  Because you know, only the good die young!  Just proof that getting your life together might end in you dying! Might as well be bad and have fun!" 

So there you have it.. straight from the krout...

                      ....be bad because the good die young!

Happy Monday y'all!

Confessional Friday

Linking up with A Blonde Ambition for Confessional Friday.

Here we go!

I confess that...

I LOVE leftover pizza.  In fact I think I like it more than I like it the day you buy it.. weird!

I have a nasty old sweatshirt from high school that is full of holes that I still wear around the house.  I keep trying to throw it away but so far cant let it go.

I am in a love/hate realationship with the length of my hair right now.  I have kept it short for the last 3 years and am attempting to grow it back out.  Right now its at the length that the majority of it stays in a pony tail but I have to pin the heck out of the rest of it to make it not look like an emo-mullet.. erg!

I'm secretly afraid my right leg is going to rot off.   After injuring it last May (i'm going to have to blog about that someday) 

I re-injured it last Wednesday, when I got kickd by a horse, and am going for another ultrasound and xray today. 

On a more positive note.. I'm ok with how my body looks.. all of it :)

I never know when to use a semi-colon.. what is their purpose again???

Well thats all folks!

Have a lovely day and a fab weekend!!

Love

Annie

Confessional Friday

Wanted to link up with A Blonde Ambition for Confessional Friday.

I confess that......

I love listening to classical music.  In fact i'm listening to a little Andrea Bocelli right now. It's just so relaxing! :)

I can't use a bread machine. My first 2 attempts have come out looking like this...

BOTH TIMES!

(Good news is they still taste ok)

 

I haven't been to the gym in weeks.. :( 

I get to hang out with this little toot today AND tomorrow! (She gets her wonderful sense of style from me)

I'm on 'DUTY' this weekend and have the right to allow or veto going out privilages! I'm thinking that the teenager needs to stay in with her auntie and sister and eat pizza and watch Beauty and the Beast... hehe

Well thats all she wrote!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Love

Annie

Letter to...

I have this friend that writes these amazing posts called "Letters to Mr. Right," that I just love reading!(See them here.)  So I decided to start writing my own letters, except I'm going to be writing to different people.  So here's my first one!

Dear God,

Thank you for all the wonderful people you have put in my life.  The people who I work with or see everyday who put a smile on my face no matter what.  Especially on days like today, when I worry too much about things that I cannot control. 

Thank you for beautiful signs.  Like today at lunch when I was praying the whole time I was eating, and everyone thought something was wrong and I just kept asking you for guidance, patience and love and then you sent me this on the way home from work.

This beautiful sunset that reminded me that you are the maker of all things beautiful or not and that everything would be ok. 

and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU  for the rain this morning.  It was a wonderful thing to drive in this morning.

Love,
Annie

Lazy Day

So today was a gloriously beautiful day outside! However, due to a 'minor surgery' on Thursday, I was stuck in the house not lifting, not excercising, NOT riding my horse.

So I finally tackled a project I have been putting off for some 4 years!

I purchased this painting at Hobby Lobby back in college.  It was on sale for something like $5 (one of those damaged 99% off deals.) This painting had a hidious gold frame, scratches and a blob of goo on it.  So of course I saw potential and bought it! I painted the frame black, but for the next 4ish years it has been toted from room to room, stuck in closets, and storage units. 

Well today was this reject paintings lucky day!

I finally had this great idea (thank you pinterest) that I was going to spruce this bad boy up and write song lyrics around the mat.  I spent the last few months listening, deciding and discarding lyrics. 

  But as usual, all my over planning was for nothing because as usual I started painting and one thing led to another.  So with out further ado......this is my Pièce de résistance! :)

Talk the Talk

So, I'm pretty sure that God doesn't care how much you Facebook about how great He is and what He has done in your life as much as he cares about how you treat other people and live your life. 

Just sayin...

After being snubbed for the second time this week (like --If looks could kill -- and I don't know why) I am SICK, SICK, SICK and TIRED of people who talk the talk but don't seem to walk the walk.

So from one sinner to another please think about how you live versus how you talk and let's just try to get along.

Because remember this guy sees it all--- not just your FB posts..

Thanks,
Me