Amalfi Coast

We are finally home! Here are some pics of scenery from the 1st half of our trip on the Amalfi Coast. We stayed in Ravello at Hotel Caruso and visited Amalfi, Sorento, Positano, Island of Capri, and Pompei. Italy is a photographer's dream...unfortunatley I'm not a "photographer". So these pics are from the pro photographer that went with us to all these places. I let him do most of the work! He was awesome.
I can't tell which town this was, they all looked like this. Perched on moutains!! No parking lots or 2 lanes roads anywhere!! Their driving even made Matt a nervous wreck so you know it must have been pretty crazy.
One of the many pottery shops, I think this was in Positano.

Matt's and I's favorite part of a long day. This was the infiniti pool at our hotel. I wish the angle was a little more to the right so you could see all the moutains. About 75 deg. there but the pool was heated to about 85.

Ciao friends!

i had to test the post first because i have posted twice and it didnàt show up. iàm in the bussines center now and it works!!!
Excuse the typing errors. The keyboard is italian and i doàt want to hunt and peck for the right buttons.We are having the experience of a lifetime to say the least. iàve never been treated like royalty before. We are in lake como now, for the last 2 days, where George Clooney lives. He lives about 5 min from Villa DEste where we are. 5min by boat. We went by there on our way to dinner two nights ago and he was home. Met some people from Naples, FL last night who got a pic with him at Georgeàs favortie restaurant. im still on the prowl....Matt is still golfing and iàm finished with cooking class early. Although i would "settle" for the head chef, luciano. He might be 60 but he is still hot. italian men like tall women so i have that going for me. heheWe leave tomorrow am early but it will take a full 24 hours to get home, although it will only be 800 tomorrow night when we get home. i hope i can go to bed. we canàt wait to see little man. we have talked to him everyday. he says we went up up up up in an airplane and we ARE coming back. he sounds like heàs having a lot of fun with nina, papa, gigi, poppy, and aunt t. i want to grab him and hug him sooooo bad, i could cry thinking about it....i also want taco bueno almost as bad. donàt get me wrong, the food is spectacular, but iàm craving fat, salt, and processed foods. i now realize why the italians are so thin and beautiful. We have 2 professional photographers with us so they are capturing most of the good pics. i will get a cd of them all when we leave.Canàt wait to see you and tell great stories.Ciao! this is goodbye and hello, so easy! i canàt spell the other things ive learned.

Ciao

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Sew Sassy Chic

Ok, the button on the UR corner of my blog NOW WORKS!! My mom has been working super hard on this and I'm so excited for her. My sisters and I are going to be keeping her busy for a while with these fun things! They make GREAT gifts for grandmas/moms for xmas and great hostess gifts for wedding/baby showers. Check it out!!

On the other hand, I've been super lazy about blogging lately. I have no excuse. I look at everyone else's everyday. Here in about 2 weeks I know I'll be a blogging maniac. I hope to bring back some great pics from Italy (maybe even one of Geroge Clooney, we'll be in lake como for part of the trip--that's where he lives!!)
Little Man is great, as always. Keeping us laughing. We were at target today (shocker) and he kept saying "Ohh mama, lookie here!" He pushed a toy pink shopping cart around that he found in the toys. We gave a lot of people a laugh.
Little Gym and Stella's bday party is tomorrow so I promise to take some pics and post!

Playing Outside & Reid is Here!!

Wow! I love this weather....although I also start to remember what comes after these nice cool evenings/mornings-----COLD! Took some pics of T last night playing outside, which is pretty much what we do every night after dinner. He could keep himself busy for hours with bats, balls of every kind, and a Daddy willing to play his head off. Matt can't get enough of little man...I love seeing him IN LOVE with his boy.

This picture cracks me up. I see this look A LOT but love that you all get to see it too. Trenton hears the music Daddy turned on inside and I caught this photo right as Trenton heard it. "Mama! What's THAT!!??"

Mr. Serious

When you can't hit the baseball....throw it on the ground and play golf!

Also....as many of you already know....Matt and Sara had baby #2!! Reid Hudson. I got to do the honors of taking "Lilly Pie" while mom and dad were at the hospital that day. I got a small taste of what 2 children is like. I wish someone were secretly taping me at some moments...pretty funny. I got Lilly to sleep 3 different times with in about 30 min. Trenton came in and saw me rocking her (she WAS asleep) and was devastated. " NO MAMA....MY ROCK.....MY BED!! crying,crying,crying... Ughhhhh! I can't tell you the self achievment of having them both sleeping for about 1 1/2 hrs..Lilly had enough of that. I finally had to put Lilly in T's bed to wake him up. It was too cute, he acted like a teenage boy with a little sis who was trying to wake him up early! We got Lilly in her cute tutu and tee from Amber (Tutus and Tees) and headed to the hospital to meet her new lil bro!

C'mon Trenton, we gotta go see my new little brother!! Get UP!!

My Little Cutie

Here are some cute recent pics of Trenton. He is so much fun. We love striking up conversations just to see what he'll say next. He told me he couldn't eat McDonalds in the car the other day because he will choke. I have never said that. We are also putting our foot down (a little) with the tv obsession. We now have boundaries. In this first pic, T pulled his chair in from outside while we were out there eating. We just thought he was playing around. When he didn't come back for a while, this is where we found him. In our bedroom, in front of the tv.!

When you don't have your paci, just suck on the end of a nuby sippie cup....just the same!

Trenton's new mohawk....courtesy of Cody at our hair salon. Thanks to Daddy for this brave hairdo while mommy was taking a nap!

How hilarious is this picture? Cheerleader pose! I can't wait to look back at these pics and realize how small this tree is now. I hope to be here when it's big and Trenton can climb it! Matt and I planted (well, Westwood really planted it) this about 4 years ago.

This is pretty much how Matt mow's the lawn. Shirt off and practically running. HA!

My shopping buddy...again!

I'm so glad to have my shopping buddy again. Trenton went through a phase for a couple of months where he DID NOT want anything to do with a shopping cart. I avoided my favorite hangouts (TJ Maxx, Target) after the major meltdown in Target (about a month ago). I finally have my TJ Maxx buddy back. All of a sudden, he WANTs to ride in the front part of the cart again. We went to TJ about 4 x last week. Now, when we get in the car he says "Where we goin Mama...TJ Maxx?" I love it! The answer is usually yes by the way. Isn't it so annoying when you see all those kids playing with those toys and making a mess in the aisles?! Well, that's me now. I've been knockin those moms for years and I've finally joined in their madness. Trenton gets about 5-10 of pure toy destruction, then its back in the cart to look for crap we don't need.
By the way...I jinksed myself by saying T was doing good with potty training. He said he likes pooping in the car and enjoyed peeing on his hands in the bath tonight. Fabulous.

Silver Dollar City

Michelle and I met in Branson on Fri. to bring Trenton and Reagan to Silver Dollar City. Fun was had by all, and sleep was much needed by 2:30ish. We got there early so the weather was ok for a couple of hours, then it got HOT. We put the kid's suits on and went to Geyser Gulch, a water play park. Trenton peed on the splash fountains that you run around on.

Side note: T is doing pretty good with the potty now. I'm leaving it up to him and he is peeing and pooping on the potty everyday. He still wets a diaper almost everyday too though. His favorite is peeing outside! I went to change his pullup at SDC and he said "no, I go potty!" Alrighty then.
Pretty Rea Rea

Silly faces

Cheese!

Waiting for strawberries and icecream.

Trenton's big BOOBOO

Yesterday, I got a call from daycare saying Trenton tripped and busted his head on the door frame. They said he cried for a few minutes then held an ice pack on it in the office until I we could get there. I about fell over when I saw it but he said "it's all better" and never said a word about it again. I've asked him today if his head hurts and he says "nope!" The pictures don't do it justice.. I know, Sara, I said I wasn't going to post this but daycare has record of it happening there!

Over his right eye..

whoa, check out those eyelashes

I've also told some of you that Trenton has become addicted to tv/movies. Here is where he is right now watching Kung Fu Panda.

What mom? Isn't this what you've always dreamed of? Ok, I feel guilty, we're going to play playdough or do puzzles.

Aerosmith concert

Matt and I headed to Tulsa last weekend for a little mini vacation. Tammy watched Trenton for us. We stayed at the Hard Rock Casino and went to the ZZTop/Aerosmith concert. They can still rock it out for a bunch of old guys! ZZ just kinda shook their beards around a little but Steven Tyler was a maniac. No wonder he is so skinny, he burns like 3000 calories in an hour and 1/2. (or maybe its drugs?) hmmmm.....

Tammy gave me many options for an Aerosmith appropriate tshirt and I went with rhinestones and roses. Maybe the bleeding hearts/skull and crossbones next time.

And since my husband is the luckiest man in the world, we got to ride there and back in a limo and sit in a suite with all the food and drinks you wanted. That was the best part to me. We were with "high rollers" if you know what I mean.

Matt and I getting ready to leave for the concert.

After the concert, waiting for our ride.

Tammy's Wedding and more....

Ok, so here are the pics I have on my camera from Tam's wedding. Not very many sorry, got kinda busy and relied on others for the other pics. Also, are some pics for the NWA Naturals game last week. It was our first time and I'm sure we'll be back, lots of fun. And the last pic is all of us dressed up for the Invitational Golf Tourn. dinner/dance. Whoa did we dance to some Molton Lava baby! I love 80's music.

Rachel used to work for a florist/giftshop in college so she can do some amazing flowers! She did all the flowers for the wedding. Nice to have someone like that in the fam!! See the rhinestones?

We made these cups of flowers to throw at them when they left.

We all went to get mani/pedi's that morning. So fun being a girl!

Even Reagan got hers done. Her daddy is not too happy with that "can of worms" being opened.

At the Naturals game. Number 1 !!

Yummy hotdog.

Trenton went down to see the mascot because he thought it was a monkey. It was in fact NOT a monkey. He's looking at me like "mom, why didn't you tell me it was a hairy monster thingie?"

Check out "the do" He goes to my bathroom and says "I want spikey"

Matt, we found your long lost brother.

The night was young..

Catching up!

So I said I was going to post pics of Tammy's big event but as you have noticed, I have not. I promise to soon. I jumped on the computer with no intention of blogging but checking up on Stellan-mycharmingkids blog. Decided to let ya'll know what we've been doing.
Suprised my friend for her 30th birthday in Conway on Sat. night. It was soooooo fun! First, T and I hit up a bday party here in Fay. at 10:00-lil Mac..Happy Birthday! Jumped in the car at noon, zipped to Conway, shopped with Aunt Jenny, helped Uncle Jon (handy manny) in the garage. Went to my party--thanks to Jen and Jon for watching the lil man. Got everyone to bed at Sara's mom's...finally. Oh! Did I mention Michelle's whole family came to town, she had a party too, guess who watched her kids? You guessed it...Jen and Jon. Sun we hopped in the car for a quick trip to the zoo. Oh, did I say quick trip? I meant to say long, muggy, hot trip, but nonetheless fun. When T couldn't stand the excitement any longer (the silver back gorilla kinda freaks me out...don't look him in the eye), we jumped back into car, soaking wet with sweat, and went back home. Trenton sleeping once again in the car (I love that he sleeps so good in the car). Get home, throw on our suits and head to the country club to watch daddy finish his tournament and get in some swimming. I'm tired all over again. Set the alarm for work the next day and hope that the laundry will do itself sometime this week!

Avery's 1st Birthday Party

Avery had her 1st birthday 2 weekends ago and it's taken me this long to post about it! We had such a great time. It was at her neighborhood pool which was perfect. Trenton had fun with his buddy Jackson (Avery's big bro) swimming. Thanks for having us !!

My little fishie!

Jackson buddy was blowing bubbles for me!

Avery looks like she is asking big bro jack how to dig into the cake. The cake was sooo cute. Her smash cake was the top layer of the whole 3 tiered cake. The other two layers were zebra and giraffe. She went to town on that thing, don't have any "messy" pics.

OOOOO...that's good!

The birthday group, Trenton wouldn't take his hands out of his mouth ???

Couldn't leave the post without one of these, yep...still doing it. So cute.

I'll post more soon of this past weekend. Tammy and Seth are married!! yeah! Big weekend here in Fay. with lots of family in town. Congratulations guys!! I'll put the pics up soon!

Bathroom shopping on the web

So, I've been thinking lately (well, more like 5 years)..I really wish we'd redo our bathroom. We have adequate space but definatley not cool. Bad tile, bad walls, soso fixtures, bad mirrors, bad lights....ok so maybe it's worse than I thought now that I write it all out. So decided to dream and look at bathrooms on the internet tonight. Check these out..

Ok, this is the layout of my tub. I'm totally getting curtains like this and a candle chandelier.

I found this picture in Country Living. Just because you live in the country doesn't mean you can't change your toothbrush every 6 months....gross.

Can I please have this bathroom!? How refreshing!

Ok, changed my mind, so much for shabby chic, bring on the glam baby! I could sleep in there!

Visit to Library

Trenton and I ventured out this morning and hit the farmer's market on the square. It was packed as usual and full of yummy and pretty things. We picked up some big blackberries and a little wooden catipillar toy ( I wouldn't have spent the money at a toystore for this little thing but I thought I would support my fellow Fayetteviller's). Trenton enjoyed the scenery from his comfy stroller and with a bag of fruity cheerios, of course.

Next, we walked down to the library for Bob Button (I think??) He played the guitar and gets the kids up and dancing and singing. Pretty entertaining really, but Trenton didn't think so....he wanted to sit on my lap and watch with a scowl. After about 15 min. he said "I'm all done" and jumped off my lap towards the door. So much for corny kid entertainment. We did puzzles and got on the computer instead.

Trenton wouldn't let me adjust these headphones to his ears, he wanted them on his cheeks!