Last weekend

Started like this

Then some of this
And ended with this! (That's my brother in law)

This weekend wont be so crazy. I am actually at Benny's work helping him out this weekend. Hope you all have a great one though!

Dear....

Dear Benny's brother and sister-in-law,

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the early birthday present! Yall are so awesome for getting us tickets to the Hank Jr concert on April 9th. I have never had the chance to see him in concert even though he is my favorite singer (besides Benny of course). I am sure we will all have a blast. Also, thanks for the hotel room because I am sure that we will be in no condition to drive when it's over. I am so excited and can't wait until then. I owe ya bigtime!

Forever grateful,
April

Dear Benny,

I am sorry I felt so bad last night but thank you for taking care of me. Really means a lot. Also, I LOVED the card you got me and yes, it was perfect.

I love you,
April

Dear Toot,

Why in the world are you up so early? Go back to sleep!

Love ya baby girl,
Momma

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Update on the date

We didn't do date night. We all decided to do it this coming weekend when we aren't so broke. Instead we hung out with Benny's brothers house and had a blast watching football all weekend. Really sucks that the Cowboys got their asses handed to them but I was happy about the Jets winning.

No, I am not a Jets fan. That was actually the first game of theirs I actually watched. Benny and I have a bet going. I bet him that the Jets will make it to the superbowl. Not that they will win but that they make it to the game. They are such the under dogs and he was convinced the Chargers would stomp them so he took the bet. Now I just need them to beat the Colts! Wish me luck. If they win, I get a FULL body massage and he has to keep his clothes on so he actually finishes the massage. I'm talking head to toe!!!

Sunday we brought my niece home with us and she spent the night and then she got to ride a horse for the first time. She did really good. I'd show ya a pic except for some reason I can't get them from my phone to computer right now.

Anyway, we are doing date night this coming Friday. Still have no idea what we will do but at least now we have some money to spend.

Beautiful

Talk about one of the longest days in history. I woke up at 3:45am Saturday to get everyone ready and out the door. We got there about noon and the day began. The wedding started at 5:30 and was so beautiful. My niece and her man looked so happy. It was such a beautiful wedding and I hope more than anything that they are always as happy as they were then.

My other niece pulled the brides baby girl down the isle in this cute little wagon filled with flowers. I thought that was such a great idea.

Toot pretty much stayed in the middle of it all. She stayed in the room with all the girls before the wedding started.

She also had a real hard time staying away from the cake. She was totally being encouraged to have a little taste by a few adults.

This is all of Benny's immediate family.

So it all turned out really great and they now have plans to get their life on track. I really think they are determined to make this work and I pray for the best. It's all up to them now.

This sucks

It just keeps getting worse.
My sis in law that is getting a divorce from my brother has been around as long as I can remember. I actually remember her better than my brother growing up. I really looked at her like a sister as she did me and we have been really close for the last 12 years. They were the ones that went to the races with us the other day.
She just deleted me from her friends on Facebook. That is how me and her always talked.
This sucks. I think I just lost my sister of 26 years.

I'm back

So that was a fun week and a half we just had. Lots of laughs. Now, we are all back to real life dealing with real life stuff.

In the last 3 days, I have gotten some pretty bad news. Nothing that really effects me personally, but people I love.

Found out Saturday that my brother and his wife split up for good. They have been together since I was 2 years old. They also have a 13 year old daughter that is being drug through this all and I feel so bad for all of them but especially her. This is going to be one nasty mess before it's all over. I can already tell. I wish parents would just always think about what is best for the children instead of how they can hurt each other the most. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't think like that. Glad I did and do.

Then, this morning, I found out that my dad's best friend's wife has to have surgery on her throat that will cause her to never talk again. Without the surgery, she would die. I can't even imaging what it would be like to know I only had a certain amount of days left to talk for the rest of my life. I just pray the surgery goes good.

So, after a fun filled week and then a very emotional two days, I am freaking exhausted! If ya would, say a little prayer for these people. They need it.

Poor Benny

Yesterday morning, I dropped Benny off with his brother and they headed to Kansas City, Missouri to help their sister move to West Texas. From here to her house is about 10 hours (when you are pulling a trailer). They got there and started loading up all her stuff into the trailer and the U-haul.
Today, Benny is driving the U-haul and at 6pm called me and was not a happy camper. They had been on the road for 6 hours and had only driven about 250 miles! They wont be making it to their destination until about 1am.
Then, tomorrow morning, they have to unload all her stuff and make the 8 hour drive home.
I am so glad I did not have to make this trip with them!
Benny loves to drive and doesn't mind making long trips. We backroad so much and make lots of trips to far away places that our kids are the best little travelers. We don't mind the 8 hour trip to his moms house and always have a good time.
This time, he is not enjoying the trip. He said apparently, he only likes long trips with us.
Benny has made this trip before (from KC to west TX) and knows the way. Benny's sis knows the way (she is driving her car). Benny's mom know the way (she is driving Benny's sisters other car). Benny's brother is in front of their little convoy and for some reason, he is trying to follow the GPS's directions (with the volume turned down). He keeps going the wrong way because he is reading the GPS and not looking at the road signs. Plus, the GPS wanted to make them go about 70 miles out of the way. This is making for a very long and frustrating trip for Benny.
I think Benny is ready to get in his brothers truck and smash the GPS!

Randomness

Got a few things to say but nothing really good enough or long enough for a whole post so here is just some randomness for ya.

I was bored yesterday and joined Facebook. If we become friends on there, please don't mention my blog. Only my mom and Benny know about it in my family and one of my best friends and I really like it that way. I kinda like being able to vent or talk about them without pissing them all off. Thanks.

Spent the weekend with my in-laws. Without Benny (still working 7/12's). It went really good. We spent the day at the lake Sunday and had a great time. Toot got to go tubing and had a blast. That girl has no fear I tell ya. She kept telling my brother in law to go faster! Oh, and I got to really work on my tan. Been wearing my jeans so much because of working with the horses that my legs were still pretty white. Starting to match my arms better now!

I finally get Little Man back today. This will be the first time I have seen him since the day we went to court. I wonder what all he will say.

Found out that one of the girls my Mom works with is the sister of Little Man's stepmoms best friend. Did ya get all that? Anyway, could make things interesting. Little Man and his dad and stepmom hung out with them this weekend and she told my mom there was mention of the court thing but that she wasn't in the room for the conversation. Which brings me back to wondering what all they told Little Man and what all he will say to me today.

Well, that's about it. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Lots to see

We had such a great time this past weekend. Friday we went to a gator park and Saturday we went to my brother-in-laws house. I was a little nervous about that one but my niece and her little baby were there so I had to go. It actually turned out really good. Anyway, here is a picture recap.

Feeding time!

She actually held it all by herself later but my camera and phone had gone dead.

He was so excited about this.

Of course I had to join in on the action.

He held it all by himself too later but of course, no camera or phone. :(

So cute

That camel bit him right after I took the picture. I laughed and he got mad at me.

The kangaroos were actually really soft.

The donkeys were Smileys favorite animal to feed.

Now Toot wants a mini horse. Me too!

Baby Blaize. So cute and sweet!

First Easter. She loved eating the plastic eggs.

She really wanted her egg back!

Time to clean up. She LOVED being in the bath.

Later on, Toot decided that when in Louisiana, do as the Cajuns. Bad picture but she is actually sucking the head of a crawfish and she LOVED it.

Lastly, I gotta say this. Carrin, you freakin rock! Thank you so much for my Birthday present. After the 10 minutes it took me to get into the box, I found this and used it right away!

Thanksgiving photo recap

The kids were healthy finally so I did get to do everything we had planned for Thanksgiving. It was a crazy time but we had tons of fun. Here's my picture recap of Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Me doing my thing to help out and talking on the phone. I had the hard job of opening a jar of pickles.

Mom doing her thing. I did make the deviled eggs in the picture.

Dad doing his thing. Trust me, this is the best place for him.

Notice my Moms right arm is fine. But not for long.

Now it's not. She dislocated it trying to get something out of a cabinet when dishes came crashing down on her. Luckily, only one dish broke. It took my Dad, Hubby, and me to get it back in place. She actually has a screw in her shoulder to prevent that from happening. That's her keggerator behind us. She's so cool.

This is right before we left. They are so cute. She was in so much pain. Poor Mom!

Then we head off to my BIL's house to see them and PARTY. It gets a little more crazy here. My BIL and Hubby built this by themselves. Notice the open sign on my BIL's "shop".

The next few pictures are from Thursday and Friday night.

My BIL is very proud of his "shop". He actually does have all his tools in a back corner.

Hubby was the entertainment for both nights. He really is a great singer and song writer.

They make their mother so proud. I bet they had more fun though!

I'll tell you in another post what happened to the guy in the orange shirt and cowboy hat. That's when it got really crazy. Lets just say he ended up with a black eye, soaking wet, and very muddy. Truthfully, he deserved it all and more.

This is such a sweet girl that I always talk with while we are there. Me and her are always sitting around the wood burning stove which is why she is wearing shorts.

That's me! Having a real good time I might add.

Thank goodness my MIL was there (you wont hear me say that very often) because she was our very sober babysitter! And no, she did not earn her beads.

Then Saturday I got to meet my new niece. She is such a sweet and happy little girl now that she finally found a great home with my brother and SIL. She's already a Daddy's girl.

So that about wraps it up. We saw a lot of our family and had a great time. The kids had a ball and now can't wait until Christmas. I gonna go out on a limb and say I bet it's a lot like this past few days but without a dislocated shoulder and an asshole (guy with orange shirt), hopefully. Also, in all that we did, Hubby did go to Best Buy at 3:15am to fight the crowds and get me a new laptop. He is so good to me! I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.

Random stuff

• OK, I went threw the mountain of toys and got rid of about 90% of them. The kids actually took it really good. I was surprised at that one. But at one point, Little Man asked me "What did we do to make you so mad?" Nothing baby, I just hate cleaning/stepping on/tripping over all these wonderful broken toys. Actually, my response was "Nothing, y'all never play with these and can't find the good toys in all this mess." He accepted that and then actually helped me.

• My mother-in-law pissed me off, again. Big surprise there. I e-mailed her pictures of the kids all dressed up for Halloween. How sweet of me. And the response I got back from her really got under my skin. She said "Little Man and Toot look cute but Smiley doesn't look like he is having any fun. What's wrong? Did he just not get it? Or was he just too tired for all of it?" I chose not to respond for fear that she would think I was just trying to be a bitch. If I had responded, it might have gone a little something like this. "No, he was not tired and he did get it (he got that he gets to go get a lot of candy, who cares why). He is 2 years old and doesn't like posing for 50 pictures cause my phone takes crappy pictures and it took 50 tries to get good ones but I guess I should have taken 51 since that one wasn't apparently good enough. All he wanted to do was go play and go trick-or-treating and I was making him stand still. Sorry, maybe next year he will look happy enough for you." Not really, but that's what I would have wanted to say. I probably would have just said "No, he had fun". So, I chose to say nothing at all. That's actually the first time she had even acknowledged that I sent her pictures and I've done it like 100 times. OK, next.

• I miss my Mom. She lives a whole 20 minutes from me and I can't remember the last time I saw her. This is unusual because we are best friends. I tell her everything. Even stuff I don't tell Hubby. I still talk to her everyday, but haven't actually hung out with her in forever. She has been way to busy lately with her work, another ladies work (literally, she does home health physical therapy and one of the other therapist had to miss 2 weeks so my Mom to the rescue), surgery on her hand, baby sitting 3 hours away, and trying to spend time with my Dad. She actually said at least we will get to hang out on Thanksgiving. What?! That's still 24 days away. Maybe I can go steal her one day while my Dad is hunting. Hint hint, Mamma.

• One of the funniest things I have seen in a long time is Smiley trying to eat an Extreme Sour Warhead. He knows it's candy and really wants to like it but can't get past all that Extreme Sour. The faces he makes are too funny. I would take a picture but I laugh to hard and my phone requires you to not move a muscle. I really need to go buy a new camera. I may just do that Friday.

• And last night as I am finally falling into bed I thought to myself, Did Smiley actually eat any real food today? Yes, it was one of those kinda days. And yes, he did eat real food. I think.