Bump It or Lose It

I can no longer keep quite!  I hide a secret shame of really, really wanting to order an item from an infomercial.  It's for my hair and I have no doubt it will make it look totally fabulous.

The only problem is that I laughed so hard the first time I saw it that I almost peed my pants.  Now, after a couple of times of seeing the commercial I decided that, although it's cheesy, I think it would work!

It. Is. Genius.  It is Bumpits!

Now, this one simple device would take part of the agony of hair drying/styling out of my morning routine.  Because, you know, I always wash and style my hair everyday.

Do I not spend hair drying time with my big red can of big sexy hair root boost, then separate drying of the top section with a round brush, then hair spray, then velcro rollers held in place for at least 30 minutes in an attempt to get some semblance of volume out of this hair??

While you may not ever see me wearing one of these, you'll know I was secretly wishing my hair was styled as so:

Y'all, it's just so darn cute and snazzy. Oh, be quiet my southern heart which longs for big ole Texas hair.  The end.  Have happy weekend!

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Happy Happy Birthday!

Happy, Happy Birthday to my best friend, Joan!  Yesterday was her birthday so now she's all old like me!

Joan and I lived down the street from one another growing up and went to school together all throughout elementary, middle, and high school and we even roomed together our freshman year in college.  She got used to my sleep walking ways and I got used to her hibernation-like sleeping habits!

Joan is the mommy to 6 (yes 6!) dogs and lives out in the country now.  It's so quite when you go to their house!  She's always the one person who can make me laugh the most and each of us has to immediately call the other if we find out a really good bit of gossip.  Jordan knows that if we're on the phone he might as well go do something else because it's gonna be a while before I'm off!

Here's Joan and her husband, Clay!  They've known each other as long as Jordan and I have and they also started dating in high school.  Awwww!

Here's Joan and a much more tanned version of myself at Joan's wedding!  We had the best day!

And here's Joan and myself at my wedding, although I've got some sort of "crazy-eyes" thing going on!  That was also a fun day!  Joan took the place of my sister since I don't have one and did all the things your sister would do for you on your wedding day.

Last, but not least, here's Joan meeting John Michael for the first time.  She's never (& probably never will) forgiven me for moving so far away AND having a baby that she can't see all the time!

If I wasn't lazy I could pull out tons of pictures of us through the years, but these are the ones that I have handy on the old laptop!  Happy Birthday, Joan!  We hope you had a fantastic day and a memorable birthday with yummy birthday cake!  We miss you!

Verse O' the Day:

“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.”

Psalm 91:14-15

Easter, Part Two

It still feels weird to us to not be with our families on Easter Sunday.  That's just one weird part about living so far away from family; it just seems odd to not go over to someone's house after church to eat!  Since it was just the three of us we opened JM's presents that the Easter bunny brought, ate breakfast, and then headed to church.  It was a dreary, cold, icky Easter Sunday but we were so glad to go hear a fantastic service. 

John Michael got a few presents and cards from the Easter bunny.

 

He really likes the new drumsticks!

Still playing with the drumsticks.

This squishy animals feels funny!

Luckily we took family pictures before church!  JM fell asleep 2 minutes before we got to church, thus he never napped that morning in nursery.  Fun!  He was a bit unhappy that afternoon because he was so tired!  He finally went down for a long nap later in the afternoon and all was well! 

In preparation of John Michael's first Easter, I made a bunny cake that was ummm...well...you can take a look yourself.  I am no Ace of Cakes.  Oh yeah, and I didn't attach his ears because I was too tired, so he's earless.

Happy Easter!  We hope everyone had a great day of rest and family time!

A Hunting We Will Go

Because we have so many Easter pictures, I thought I would divide up my Easter post into a few different posts! 

I honestly never know how tiresome getting Easter stuff together could be...and I didn't even decorate or anything!  Saturday morning we headed to Fayetteville to get JM's first birthday cake ordered.  It's going to be soo cute!  We're not going overboard for his party, but it's going to be cute and jungely (is that a word?)!

After Fayetteville we headed back home and went to an Easter Egg Hunt!  Stephanie, from Sunday School, had people over for an egg hunt and we had a great time!  Now that JM's a little more mobile he could crawl around and search for the eggs.  Just so darn cute!

Parker enjoying the sunshine!

There's some eggs!

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We had a great Sunday even though it was freezing and pouring rain!  The Easter service was wonderful and the music was fantastic.  Our choir and orchestra really outdo themselves every year.  I have JM's professional pictures back, but my WordPress won't let me upload them.  I was so excited to post them but it won't let me.  Maybe I can find another to get them posted.  JM with the bunny is priceless!  Have a happy Monday!

Verse O' the Day:

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Colossians 3:23

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Before John Michael started crawling around everywhere I could take as many pictures as I wanted.  He would sit in one place and my pictures usually turned out pretty good.

Well, now it's a different story!  The kid does not stay in the picture so well.  Most of our recent pictures end up looking like this:

It's definitely a lot harder to get good pictures since he's become more mobile.

And of course, here's the two best pals!

In addition to being more mobile and crawling, John Michael is starting to really cruise around and stand up on his own.  He loves his music/activity tables and he can pull up on them now!

I'm gonna stand up all by myself!

For some reason he had an Elvis smile going on in all these pictures.  His lip was turned up in all of them!  This is the best I could do!

I did it myself!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend.  We've got some fun family activities planned so it should be a great First Easter for John Michael. We wish we were going to be home with family, but we're not.  

I hope we can all remember that Easter isn't about the Easter Bunny, dying eggs, or Reese's peanut butter eggs (ummm, that one's for me) but it's truly about the death and resurrection of Christ, our Savior.  Let HIM be ever near to our minds and hearts in the coming days as we think about what HE went through and sacrificed for all of us.  It's a sad time if you really think about it, in a way, but it's also a joyous time because........THE TOMB IS EMPTY!  HE'S ALIVE!