Are we old enough to have kids this old??

My oldest dearest friend ( http://babs-ittakesavillage.blogspot.com/2010/01/true-friend-reaches-for-your-hand-and.html ) and her family came to visit on their way home from Florida.  I had the opportunity to spend time with her family earlier in the year but this was really the first time both families were together.  I LOVE these kids...and how lucky for us we love each others spouses. I still get emotional when I get to see her, maybe because I am old?  I like to think it is because I cherish our friendship so very much.

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I love shoes...I love the smell of shoes, the feel of shoes, the way shoes make my soul feel. I love shoes that I will NEVER wear again...this was one of those pairs...they were worn once...but oh how they made my heart sing.

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Green and White

Ben's birthday present...tickets to the Celtics game...think it was a present for everyone.

Have I told you that I love my boys????

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Ben's 16th Birthday - November 2010

It is so hard for me to get pictures of Ben...every time I whip out the camera he tells me he doesn't take pictures.  I can always count on a birthday photo opportunity. I love this group of friends that my kids have and I love that they can all hang out together...that means there is someone always there to tell when they are doing something they are not supposed to do ... gotta love that!!!

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Just call me Michael Phelps!

Nothing surprises me anymore, let me try this again...not much surprises me anymore. 

You can imagine my shock when Noah announced he was trying out for the swim team. Not that I don't think he is a great swimmer...it is just that he has never participated in anything swim related....and we are not a swimming/water family. 

I mean we can all swim...but none of us were picked first to play marco polo.

Color me shocked that he did so well. For the record not a fan of sitting in a hot steamy aquatic center...it does nothing for my hair.

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Trip of my dreams!

My husband and I have had a dream. A dream to see America's Team play in the most amazing stadium ever built.

October 2010 we had the opportunity to do just that....and in style.

We had the privilege of watching the Cowboys play Halloween weekend, in a suite, stocked with a cabana boy on the 50 yard line.  A limousine took us to the game and brought us home. Cheerleaders came into the suite and took pictures with the guys...flames shot out of the ground (not exaggerating) and I cried, yes I cried as the men ran onto the field.

There was even a Patron Bar right out side the suite.  Everything is always always better in Dallas.

My hubby kept looking at me with the most amazed look on his face...he was Willie and this was The Great Chocolate Factory.

The weekend was made that much sweeter because we got to spend it with our travel buddies and their spouses.

How did I get so lucky to marry a Dallas fan? Oh that's right...he picked me!

It may never be easy (but it is so much easier with a cabana boy) but it will always be worth it.

Babs

This was the look on his face from kick-off until he went to bed that night.

Yes, they are as pretty in person.

The crew.

Allie's 15th October 2010

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

 

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Noah's 17th Birthday 2010 - That 40 candle is still burning bright!!

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso

 

 

Nick has always been an old soul...October 2010 - 22nd Birthday

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Chili Cookoff 2010 October

I really suck at getting great pictures at the rib cook off and chili cook off.  I always depend on my Mom to have the camera.  This was the extent of my picture taking this year...but if I only get one picture my Niece Baby Nora is the perfect subject.

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it. 

Babs

I love being the Mom of little girls!

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

Alexander Homecoming 2010

80's day - Noel

 

 

 

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.
Babs

“Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.”

 

 

 

Noels 16th...where has the time gone?

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

"I don't know nothing bout birthing no babies Ms. Scarlett"

I love the teacher...love love love the teacher...however this might be the only time in my kids school career that I have just wanted to go and punch someone in the face. That someone being the teacher of "THE BABY CLASS".

I hate baby class. I really really hate baby class.

In theory this class sounds great, in reality it sucks. Babies that are programmed to cry, need feedings, diapers changes and burpings. At the end of the scheduled time they are hooked back up to the computer to see how well "Mommy" did with them.

Over the course of a weekend I saw a baby placed in a car trunk, a closet and on the floor of Publix.. I ate dinner at the Mexican restaurant with them, I got lectured for allowing myself to have teenage mothers and I realized that Cassie will be the only girl I will not worry about when she has a baby.

And did I mention that this was also the weekend I had agreed for a few girls to spend the night?? Yes, girls who also had babies.

Let me repeat myself...I hate baby class!!!

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs

 

 

 

September 2010 Rib Cook off

It must have been some finger licking ribs this year...this is the only picture that I took ...just makes me giggle :)

 

It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

 

Babs

This one time at band camp...

And the band tradition continues...Allie...Color Guard Alexander High School 2010



It may never be easy but it will always be worth it.

Babs