Family Fun Night

What do you do when your kitchen table looks like this?

Why, you have a PJ Pizza Picnic in the living room, of course!

All you need to do is have your family change into their PJs, grab a tablecloth for the coffee table or floor, and set up your food and drinks.

Here's a pic of my two favorite people in the entire world!

And a family shot to top off another Family Fun Night!

If time would have allowed we would have played a few games after eating, but it was already after 9 and time for our little princess to head to bed. This was a very low key Family Fun Night, but so worth it!

On another note: I'm sure some of you think I am joking when I say I am raising a little princess, but I am not. How many 5 year olds do you know that sleep with an orange fluffy boa... just in case their neck gets cold!?! I don't make this stuff up people...really. :)

The Bellagio- Vacation 2010

Following Jenna’s lead, I have decided to break our vacation posts and pics into a multi-day process. Each day I will focus on a different aspect of our vacation. Mickey and his family have been going to beach together since he was just a baby. It is a yearly tradition that I have been fortunate to be apart of for 8 years now. Each year I think it can't get any better, but it always does. Not only did we have very luxurious accomodations this year, but we also had the pleasure of meeting the newest member of our family- Landry Elaine, our 4 week old cousin. Needless to say, we had a wonderful time and didn’t want to leave and return to “the real world.” You will see why when you check out the pics of The Bellagio- our 2010 beach house:

To be continued.......

Really?!

You might be a member of the "mamarazzi" if......
You take your camera to the dentist!!

I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist!

Need a good read?

For the past few days I have been completely absorbed in the book Simple Secrets by Nancy Mehl. It was a perfect blend of suspense and romance to keep me hooked until the end. I love reading books for pleasure that also inspire and encourage my walk with Christ.

Simple Secrets is set in a fictional, Mennonite town of Harmony, Kansas. The main character, Gracie, a city girl, arrives in the town after she unexpectedly inherited her uncle Benjamin's house. Gracie plans to stay in the town for 2 weeks, which would allow her just enough time to gather some of her family's belongings and sell the house. What she didn't expect was to be faced with secrets, decisions, romance, and friendships that would make her question everyting about her life thus far.

Nancy Mehl has a wonderful way with words. Here are a few quotable quotes that were tucked away within the pages of the book that really made me stop and think:

"You might find it a little uncomfortable.. but sometimes you just gotta stand up straight and do watcha gotta do. Backin' down froma a fight ain't never the right way to go. You gotta face your adversaries with your head held high." - Sweetie

"My parents had drilled several strong beliefs into me down through the years. One of them had to do with only playing to an audience of One- and that His opinion was the only one that mattered." - Gracie

"...God disciplines his children through His Word. When a sermon reaches into your heart and shines a light on your wrong attitudes, it is the Holy Spirit bringing His loving conviction." - Gracie

"You be careful stirring that pot, Gracie. If it boils over, people get burned." - Ruth

"God has a whole different sense of time than we do. What looks late for us is sometimes right on time for God." - Ida

"Too many people are looking for a place where they feel comfortable. But life is not just about comfort. It is about being a place where you are needed. Comfortable or not, we all have a special place where God wants to use us.....It is His plan, not mine that counts." - Ida

Cabbage Patch Kid Hospital

Before you are allowed to enter, you have to stop by and register your visit. The nurses were really sweet and played their part well.

They had lots of dolls on display in little cabbage plants. You could pull one out, hold it, and then put it back if it was not the one you wanted. Precious! I think I had just as much fun as Mackaylan. If Mickey would have asked, I would have picked one out myself to take home! haha

Some of the ladies were giving Mickey a hard time because he was holding the doll like it was an actual baby. What can I say, he is a natural at fatherhood!

Of course, our visit wouldn't have been complete without watching a live birth.

Yes, this is the doctor conducting a sonogram. Blue = Boy
I loved the way the IV was shaped like a bottle. Too cute!

After the baby was born, the audience was able to assist with the naming. I think this doll was given the name Caleb Patrick, but I could be way off!

Here is Mackaylan with her new baby. She picked out a little girl and named her Maggie. Mickey and I joked that we never imagined we would be grandparents at the age of 31! :)