Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down 2012 #25

Up:

• I hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day weekend! We certainly did! We went to Columbus, Mississippi to visit friends. Mike went to high school there and has maintained a great relationship with a family that used to live down the street from them, The Sykes. They are such great people and it was a joy to get to see them again. Hard to believe that their oldest son will graduate from high school next year! We also were able to see our good friends that were in training with Mike at Pensacola, Jenn & Adam Mattheis at their daughter Ella's 2nd bday party. It was our first time meeting Ella and she is such a cutie. Hope to see them again soon. Unfortunately there was no time to snap many photos and this is all I have.

Jackson and Pam were playing with water balloons outside while Kat was dressing Kenndy up inside!

Check out my new accessory!

• I have become addicted to the app 'Words with Friends' on my iphone! I've always had a love for Scrabble, so my Mom convinced me to download the app. I think she just wanted to enjoy beating me because she rarely did at Scrabble. Even though she pretty much beats me every game, the good news is the score is getting closer. That must mean my mind is getting sharper - right?! Anyway, it's a lot of fun to play, so feel free to hit me up for a game if you play too! Oh, I also got Mike to join too which is pretty big because he's not really into apps, technology, etc.!

Down:

• I am SOOO sleep deprived. I think I've mentioned it before, but Jackson has started waking up around 5:30ish now. Kennedy has always gotten up early for a morning bottle, but then goes back to sleep until like 8-8:30. JP used to sleep 'til like 7:30, but those days are long gone. I've always been a morning person, but to me morning is like 7, not 5:30. I guess I need to go to bed even earlier now because I'm just dragging all the time from being so tired. I also feel the need to eat lunch at 9:30 in the morning because I'm up so early so it's done something weird to my internal eating alarm clock!
• On our way to Columbus, MS (it's like a 3.5 hour drive) Jackson decided to stick his hand in his mouth. His fingers apparently went too far in and he vomited all over himself. It was the most disgusting curdled milk smell ever. Luckily we were less than a mile away from a gas station. We changed his clothes and managed to get it all cleaned off, but Mike and I couldn't get the smell off our hands. We stopped at two different gas stations to wash our hands before we ever arrived. It was so gross - sorry I had to share because it was a definite down in my week! Thankfully Pam let us use her washer and everything is back to smelling fresh as a daisy. I also think Jackson scared himself enough that he won't be doing that anymore!

Favorite Thing:

For the past few months I have been ordering greeting cards from  cardstore.com. It is a fabulous website with a large variety of cards that you can personalize and even add pictures. The best part is the price. The cards generally run around $2.99 (which is equal to or cheaper than the cards in the store) and they are mailed direct to you free of charge or to the recipient if you want to pay for the stamp. They can address the envelope too. Once you join they start sending you special offers too for free or discounted cards. I can't take full credit for this one; we started receiving cards from my sister-in-law, Laura, from this site, so I had to check it out! I don't have any pics of the cards I've made, but wanted to share with you the pics I used in my father-in-law's Father's Day card...

Here is Mike with his Dad when he was little. Look at his cute curls!

Jackson with Mike now. Wish JP would have cooperated to get a closer picture.

Ok, so I didn't use this one, but had to throw it up there too. This is a pic of me mowing with my Dad when I was little!