Weekly Winners – My Friends Have Cute Kids

Yesterday my wonderful hubby invited a few family and friends over to celebrate my birthday. We had a great time. And there were kids EVERYWHERE! So we I had some great kiddie photo ops. Here are a few of my favorites from the festivities.

Here’s Emily’s little Sammers. He was loving the bubbles!

Sammers!

And Cortney’s little guy Carter was loving the sidewalk chalk (in a slightly unconventional way):

mommy told me to!

My friend Andrea’s little guy Leland was keepin’ it real, ’cause he knows it ain’t a party until someone takes their clothes off!

Leland brings Belmont to the party

My friend Beth’s little boys, Eban and Benji – I had to capture them while they were sitting still!

Eban and Benji

This is Joshua’s kindergarten buddy Ethan making some sweet bubbles!

Ethan and bubbles

And here are my own cuties playing with my father-in-law, their “Pop”:

Playing with Pop

It was lots of fun! For more Weekly Winners, go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom.

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Weekly Winners: Virginia Vacation

I promised more pictures from my Virginia vacation, and here they are! I haven’t done Weekly Winners in a long time and I’ve missed it. Hope you all enjoy, and don’t forget to visit the Weekly Winners headquarters at Sarcastic Mom.

My graceful girl

graceful

Wink, wink!

*wink wink*

We went to a wildflower farm. Even though many of the flowers were past season, it was still gorgeous!

wildflower farm

My dad and my daughter:

Learning from Papaw

Spinster sisters:

spinster sisters

An ant encroaching on a blanket flower:

ant on a blanket flower

Two of my favorite guys in a field of flowers:

Papaw & Joshua & wildflowers

Past it’s prime:

past its prime

We had a great vacation, and I loved taking photos of all the beauty in nature there!

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Weekly Winners: Emily & Jenny at BlissDom ’09 Edition

Welcome to the Weekly Winners BlissDom ’09 edition! We had an amazing time and this week we’ll both be telling you all about it and showing you LOTS of pictures. But to start off we’ll be a tad narcissistic. Before BlissDom, Emily and I realized we really hadn’t had a good picture taken of the two of us since her sister’s wedding…in 2005!!! We decided this terrible oversight MUST be amended at BlissDom, so…I bring you…pictures of Emily and Jenny (and sometimes some other people!) at BlissDom ’09!

Here we are Friday afternoon before the opening session:

Emily & Jenny Fri. at BlissDom

And Friday night at the cocktail party:

Friday nite cocktail par-tay!

I know there were some pictures taken of us during the day Saturday…but they must’ve been by other people, because they are not on my camera! So, other people, please email them to me!

Saturday night with keynote speaker and Emily’s girl crush Jen Lancaster. I seriously have NEVER (not an exaggeration) seen Emily SO EXCITED in my whole life. She was totally googly-eyed over Jen (who is totally awesome and funny – go buy her books!!)

Emily & I with Jen Lancaster!!

Saturday night at the MOST FUN DINNER OUT EVER (story to come!) with AmyInOhio and Shannan from Mommy Bits:

w/ AmyinOhio and MommyBits!

And here with Julia from Hooked on Houses, whom we originally met in an elevator at IKEA 11 months ago:

from Ikea to Blissdom

And with Tricia and Cortney, our Dayton friends from Once A Month Mom (yay for co-bloggers!!!):

w/ Tricia & Cortney from Once A Month Mom.com

That’s a little taste of all the fun we had at BlissDom. Stay tuned for the whole story including the tales of the Best Bus Ride Ever, the Worst Elevator Ride Ever, and much, much, more! Oh and also what we learned about blogging. Yeah, that too!

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