reunion

My Meredith reunion turned out to be really fun. It was great to catch up with some people. It was at the Mosaic Wine Lounge in downtown Raleigh. It was nice. They heavy apps. were not that heavy and I was hungry when I left, haha, but it was great company. I'm glad I went!

strawberries, etc.

Last week we went strawberry picking at Buckwheat Farms, not too far up the road in Apex. They do strawberry and maybe blueberry picking. That's what it said on the sign, but I never saw any of those. Anyway, even though the girls don't really like strawberries they really enjoyed the picking part! And making smoothies, strawberry shortcake and dipping them in chocolate. None of which they still liked, but whatever. I've gained 3 lbs. Oh, and it's only $1.50 a lb. so I thought that was pretty good. I guess we were doing a lot of the work for them though, haha.

Wednesday was Mollie's end of the year MMO party. Her last day is Wed. (way too early if you ask me) I just love her teachers! Ms. Maria and Ms. Caroline are so awesome. She had them last year also and I will miss them as much as Mollie will! They just know her so well!

Side notes:

• The summer movie schedule is out for the Regal Cinema at Beaver Creek if you're close by: click here
• Also, if you've never signed up for the Social Butterflies newsletter, it's full of fun happenings in our area for families/kids. My friend Cary does it and it's gotten really big! She now has a website and through it you can subscribe to the newsletter.
• That friend Cary and another friend Linda who I had not seen in forever know each other from church (small world) and last Tuesday we went out to Tony's Oyster Bar for an impromptu ladies night out. One of Linda's other friends ended up coming late, and it was so much fun! So FYI they have 1/2 price appetizers M-F at the oyster bar until 7pm. And actually on Thursdays it's all night. A great, cheap dinner. I think I mentioned that Phil and I did this for Valentine's Day
• Lastly, tonight is my 10 year Meredith College reunion dinner! I'm excited, a little nervous, but mostly excited. I think it will be fun. And I can't believe it's been 10 years. I think it flew by. But then I think about all that has happened in the last 10 years and well, it's a lot. I have such great, great memories of college. It really was probably the best time of my life:) !!!

found my ring!

This is really odd, but I was just putting my phone back on the desk in the kitchen and there was my ring! Out in plain sight. Now, I KNOW we looked there yesterday. Now we're wondering if maybe Sydney had it and was scared she's get in trouble so she blamed it on Mollie who just went along with it, haha, and then she put it back! We're just going to let it go and be happy we found it, but weird. It was really freaky. I'm so happy I found it!!
Poor Mollie. I took away her Jack in the Box. Her new most prized possession. But she said she was playing with it! I'm just not sure if Mollie would be mature enough to think to put it back when no one was looking. She would have just given it back eventually. Or we're both just blind...Hmm...

pictures

I got the shutterfly site updated with pics. No fancy details, but I'm all caught up. The files from my new camera are about 10x larger than the ones from my old ones so those last ones took a while!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom! And to all my mom friends:) It was nice to spend time this weekend with family and my girlies! They are so silly and precious and I'm so lucky to have them. Even when they're being little stinkers.

Yesterday we celebrated Cameron's graduation at Allen & Son BBQ and it was so good. Probably the best bbq I've found around here. The girls have him his bear and hit was cute. We had fun hanging out with all of their friends and some family. The girls got to play with Chaser and some other little kiddos. We got to take some bbq home with us too and we used it to make bbq salad last night for dinner which was delicious!! We also realized that our neighborhood pool opened yesterday and even though I knew it would be so cold, I wanted to take the girls. They were so excited. I wanted to get them in a pool, well mainly Mollie, with me before the next swimming lesson Tuesday. Mollie was pretty stubborn. I'm really detecting a theme with her attitude lately...stubborness. She thinks she can make everything better with a kiss though so that's sweet at least;)

This morning we went to brunch at Peak City Grill in downtown Apex. YUMMY! It was great. Mom and Dad went to and it was sort of a surprise for Mom. Phil told her yesterday, haha, but she was still surprised. Nancy, Courtney and I chipped in to get her an ipod and we gave that to her yesterday when we were all together.

When we got home from brunch the girls were playing really nicely together and then played a little computer while Phil and I took a little snooze off and on on the couch. It was nice. Then I got my scrapbook stuff all organized and sat down to do that for a while. I'm almost 2 years behind! I'm in August of 2007 now. Now that I have it all out and don't really have any projects going I'm hoping to get to work on it more and catch up. Since we moved all my stuff to the office downstairs that should help also. Proximity:)

We decided to round off our awesome weekend of gluttony with dinner at MacGregor Draft House. I cook sometimes. I had a nice juicy burger. Then I felt so fat that I would need someone to roll me out. But it was worth it.

Okay so I have drama and a funny story now.

The drama is that we think Mollie has lost/hidden my anniversary band that Phil actually got me for Mother's Day 3 years ago. (Not sure why he got me an anniversary band for M-day, but whatever, it has diamonds in it)

I had only been wearing it for a while b/c my ring finger has this weird break out issue lately and I've been trying to give it as much space as possible with diaper rash cream and Aquaphor on it, haha. I usually take my ring off when I get home and put it on the counter or bar in the kitchen. I know it should go in my jewelry box. Mollie has been hiding things lately. But she usually remembers where she puts them. Uh, not today. I noticed that I couldn't find it this morning. Finally this afternoon I asked the girls if they had seen it. Sydney said she saw Mollie with it. Mollie said she did have it. But then the random stories about where she put it kept on coming with no ring. She at that point was just making crap up so we just looked all around. And never found it. I'm really hoping it turns up in the next few days! We took the couch all apart. It has to be around here somewhere!!

The funny story is: last night the girls were playing waitress. Phil and I were sitting on the couch. Sydney was taking our order with her clipboard/pad/pen. She repeated the order back and she told Mollie she was going to get me a Diet Coke. Mollie said she would help. So they walked to the fridge and we hear Sydney say, "I'm going to get Kelly's Diet Coke out" and then Mollie said, "okay, I'll get Phil's". We were almost rolling off the couch laughing. I had tears streaming down my face. They each got a stool and grabbed a can and brought them to us on the couch. Neither of us needed a Coke right then, but we sure did open them and drink it because it was so cute!

I'm working on updating our Shutterfly site. I haven't done it since January when we went to Disney!

Here is a picture of me and my sweet babies who started as 16.1 collective lbs. and now = 80! I love them so much. I'm having a great time with my new camera! My photographer friend Melissa told me about a site paint.net that is a free editing tool very similar to Adobe Photoshop. I like it.

friends

May excitement

May is always such a busy month. For everyone I think. Everyone I talk to thinks May is overwhelming.
First for the quest of the Jr. olympic swimmers:
Sydney maybe, not Mollie, haha.
Sydney does everything as perfectly as I could have hoped. She is really comfortable letting them help her float on her back now and she's a really good kicker. She keeps her legs straight:)
Mollie did not scream on Thursday, but stayed on the side of the pool. I was happy. She let her teacher take her once to swim around and kick a little. But that was short lived.
This is the thing that ticked me off. Their teacher never showed up. Our lesson was at 4:20. At 4:30 she was still not there. One of the other parents went to tell the staff that she was not there. No one knew where she was. No one could find her. They said she was there earlier that day and tried to call her. I hope she's okay. I do. But for Mollie who was so pumped up at another try at swimming and was really excited...not so good to be hanging around for a long time wondering what was going on. Finally one of the program directors put her suit on and came to teach the class. Mollie really did like her. So who knows what will happen Tuesday--will we have the same old teacher or a new one? Not good for someone with anxiety about it in the first place! I made some tickets out of card stock and told the girls they could earn 3 swimming tickets per lesson if they did a good job. It was mainly to motivate Mollie, but I couldn't just not give Sydney any. I told they they could trade them for a prize at the end of the week (2 lessons). I did end up giving Mollie her tickets when she got in with the teacher and let her hold her. I'm hoping that helped for next time. Who knows.

Tonight is my brother in law Cameron's graduation from pharmacey school at UNC! We're so proud of him. He (and Courtney) have worked so hard! I remember telling him when he started and Sydney was 1.5..."when you graduate Sydney will be about to go to Kindergarten!" That did not make him feel that great, haha. Seemed so far away. And here we are! We are going to a lunch/cookout party at Allen & Son BBQ in Pittsboro today. The girls made him a bear at Build a Bear and we got a lab coat for it embroidered with his name and degree. Pretty exciting.

So glad the Hurricanes won last night! Phil had his company box for the game Wed. night and I didn't go with him (b/c his mom was here, long story). But Courtney had gotten Cameron upper-level tickets for his graduation gift. So Phil had them come in the box and Cam won a shirt from drawing they had! I'm glad they got to have free food and drinks and better seats since it was his present. I just wish I had been there instead of home...with his mom...

I've been wanting to go strawberry picking. There's a farm close by. Maybe we can squeeze that in this weekend!