Happy Birthday Mama...

My birthday was on September 21st and it was a great one!!! Ash and I enjoyed sushi take-out from one of my favorite places, SPR, and they bought me an iPhone ...YAY! It was probably good that we opted for the night in with take-out ...because I was playing with my new phone all night! :) Nothing like a new toy!

Lincoln was a huge fan of the cupcakes with icing! I think he ate the icing off all four of them! :) He kept wanting us to re-light the candle and sang Happy Birthday, over and over and over...

And did I mention he wore his Halloween costume for my birthday, also! :)


On Wednesday, Jen Kennedy took us to lunch at Happy Mexican to celebrate!! Great friend, great food and great times! We had a blast! Thanks, Jen Ken!

Afterwards we took a little trip to Target to look around! While we were there Jen found a great pair of shoes ...but unfortunately Lincoln took a liking into them also and I thought I was going to have to buy them just to get him to leave the store! It was hilarious watching him walk the shoe aisles with his new "boots" as he kept calling them!


But let me just tell you it was NO FUN when I took them off of him, he lost it in the store and there wasn't one person in the store that DIDN'T here him freaking out!!

He may kill me one day for posting these, but I just had to!

Eid...

Sedo came over to celebrate the Eid with us tonight! For those who are not familiar, the Eid, is the celebration at the end of Ramadan, kind of like Christmas to us. Ash made a great dinner for us and Lincoln got gifts! :) Ha! Sedo really enjoyed getting to spend it with us!

Whitterbug came to visit...

Our family friend, Whitney, came to visit us back in August for a weekend! We love it when she comes to visit! We took her and Lincoln to Incredible Pizza for lunch and to play games! Lincoln had a blast in the 1950's (I think thats the right time frame) Chevy...

He had a BLAST!

While Whitney was here we also broke out the Guitar Hero ...Fun STUFF!!! It was a competition between us girls ...and Ash who thought he was Pat Benetar & C.C. Deville! ha! It was really alot of fun! I can see how people get addicted to it! :)

And then it was Whitney's turn!

Ready for her to come back for another visit!!!!!

Love you Whitterbug!

We took Ethan & Evan back home...

Here are some pictures from our trip to Grapevine!

Ganny, Ethan & Evan in town for a visit...

I'm playing catch-up because I'm so VERY far behind on blogging!

The kids and Ganny came into town in Mid August! Gosh, I'm so behind on blogging! We had a great time! The kids kept me busy for sure! On Sunday after they got into town on Saturday, we had their pictures taken by Jessica at 503 Photography! She was awesome and she took some amazing pictures of the kids and then some of us as a family! :) Here are some of the pictures from our photo session with Jessica Cudzilo...












I love having them here! Wish they were here all the time! Here is the fun that goes on at Aunt Shanna & Uncle Ash's...

Riding bikes, water fights, painting, boxing in the den ...fun times!!!

While they were here we made a day trip to the Botanic Gardens & to the spray park in Collierville! They had a blast at both!!! The weather was great!

Botanical Gardens...

"Be careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it all..."

Tonight was the Daughtry concert!  Yay!  We had an awesome time!  It was a great night for Ash and I and a group of friends!  AND OF COURSE ...didn't get even one picture of us together! :(  I know Jen took one of Ben and I & I took one of her and Ben ...but not Ash and me!  We had so much fun though, pictures or no pictures!  And Jen & I even said we were going to get a picture of all 4 of us! :(  Didn't happen!  Next time for sure though!

We had a fantastic time!  It was my first time to see a concert at Minglewood!  If you haven' t been yet, you must go!  We had a VIP suite, so we really had it made, but it's a great show no matter where you are standing in there!

It was my first night out with Ben & Jen in a LONG, LONG while and we were so overdue, but now I'm ready for a night in with them ....where I can here them when we talk!  haha!!

We also went to our coffee shoe for some coffee & hookahs afterwards!!! Fun times!!!  I guess since I plugged Minglewood for them, I should plug Oasis for us!  haha!  It was Ben & Jen's first time!  I know the grape leaves appetizer was a sure hit!  haha, right Jen! 

Well, its super late and I have no idea why or how I'm still awake, so I best turn in!  Goodnight...

Nashville mini-vacation...

Ash had to go to Nashville this past weekend for a conference, so Lincoln and I tagged along!  Lincoln LOVES hotel rooms!  He gets so excited every time we check into one!  Is that bad? :)

Nashville was alot of fun!  We stayed at The Opryland Hotel and loved every minute of it!  Three atriums full of flowers, waterfalls, boat rides, restaurants and shopping, what's not to love!  I of course ...took lots of pictures!! :)

We got there really late Friday night and Lincoln didn't make it long in the car before falling asleep and sleeping almost all the way to Nashville!  

The view from our room balcony at night!

Breakfast in bed...

Hotel pictures...

On Saturday, we took Lincoln to Opry Mills mall.  We were there with the other 10,000 people doing their back to school shopping ...oh my, it was packed!

We went to Build-A-Bear for the first time!  We've walked through one before, but Lincoln didn't seem interested in it at the time.  This visit he enjoyed!  Lincoln made Mr. Panda!

On our last day there before heading home, we took a ride on the boat tour through the Delta Atrium at the hotel!  We really enjoyed ourselves!  It was a great ending to our weekend in Nashville!

More pictures from the hotel...

Looking through a waterfall