An official parent....

I went to Walmart specifically to buy diapers and coffee!

My weekend with Reba, Kelly, and Bond, James Bond

Okay, can you believe that I went to the Reba McIntyre/Kelly Clarkson concert last night??!! My friend, Guyla, asked me if I wanted to go. It was a lot of fun - as you can imagine - there was a big mix of people there. It's always fun just to people watch, too. I seriously forgot to bring my ear plugs, though. I was planning on bringing them and just plain forgot. I think I would have felt like a big nerd sticking them in my ears - boy, I'm getting too old for those loud concerts ;o)

Today, we went with our friends, Steven and Summer, to see the new James Bond movie. We enjoyed it. Reviews have been mixed - apart from the action scenes - which are a little too close and disorienting - it was good.

Easter egg hunts in our house

For the past several months, Matthew has been carrying around his toys and putting them in usual places - and leaving them there. Thankfully, Mark watched him put his little golf ball in the hollow leg of his exersaucer or I don't think I would have ever found it.

I found some toys in one of our kitchen cabinets today. The dryer ball was on a shelf in his bedroom. I don't have pictures of when he would bring his toys over to the pop can containers next to the dryer(which is off the kitchen).

We sure are thankful for our busy little guy!!

s'mores

I'm trynig out homemade s'mores. Homemade marshmallows and homemade graham crackers and some yummy chocolate bars - dark chocolate for me and milk chocolate for Mark - not homemade ;o) We'll see.

I call her Big Bertha

I think that's the name of a golf club - but to see this elliptical in comaprison to our previous one..........she IS Big Bertha!!! She didn't even fit in the back of my RAV. We(okay, the three men who helped me) had to break the box down and put the parts in. Thankfully, the nice strong men loaded it all up - it was very heavy! I love it already!

And, a bonus for me ('cause Mark experienced all of the headache on this) - they're sending us over $150 worth of iFit programs because the part they sold us to repair our old elliptcal was actually not even possible to fix. They didn't tell Mark that til - hmmmm - how many phone calls and e-mails later?

The devolution of a teething biscuit

Gone are the days of relatively "clean" meals. Yes, he got a bath right after this :o)

Battle of the Ravine

Every year we go to the big tailgate party before the football game between the two universities(which are, interestingly enough, right across the street from each other). Matthew wasn't too sure what to think of the band. By the end, he was kind of beebopping along to the music, though.

We didn't go to the game - too late for Matthew. We watched some of it on tv - we won!

**you can't tell it by the pictures - but there really were a lot of people there. As true Edwards's - we go early and beat the crowds ;o)