Two small arms to hold you tight, two small feet to run, two small eyes full of love for you, three small sons.



Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are having a great day here at the Trumbo house. Lots to be thankful for. Our belly's are full and we're about to enter "vege mode". We thought it was going to be just the 3 of us--but right as everything was coming out of the oven, we thought "we need to get some more people over here!" Judy (Grams) and Uncle Jerry joined us and we were so glad!
Last night, we went to the square to see "Lights of the Ozarks" and eat at DamnGoodPies. The lights were awesome as always and the name of the pizza place says it all.






Trying to work up the courage to ride the camel. He told me "mama, YOU ride it and I'll watch!" That didn't happen.


Damngood cheese.




That's enough pictures already!!

Monday, November 23, 2009

I'm BAAAACK!

I am back in the country (again) and finally back blogging! I have been reading everyone else's....just not posting. It's been busy around the Trumbo house lately. I was so excited to come home to my hubby and baby Sun. night after being away 5 days. My lil sis, Rach, got married in Cancun on Fri. It was great getting a tan but whoa I was ready to come home. Trenton was so excited to see me and I was to see him. I'm going to interpret him shooting me all night with a machine gun a term of endearment, he is two you know.
Rachel and Mike's wedding was BEAUTIFUL!!! I don't regret having my traditional wedding but being there for her's got me pretty close. Ok, if I did it all over, I would totally do a beach wedding! I would do everything the same, including having all my bridesmaids dance down the aisle to Fergie, popping champange the second we were down the aisle, and having the violin play "you shook me all night long" while we had the ceremony. Sounds a little crazy, but it really was classy (or as classy as we get).
I am in full Thanksgiving mode now (with Christmas decorations for a nice view). I will try to post pics soon. I still haven't unpacked so don't get your hopes up.
I love America.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Football Weekend

What a beautiful weekend! Michelle, Chris, and the kiddos came and we went to the Razorback game. Kiddos stayed home of course. Reagan and Trenton just go nuts the whole weekend playing. They WEAR each other out. Tyler is starting to try to keep up some. They pretend he is a monster or bear and run away. He doesn't know what's going on yet. Michelle and I shopped our heads off and bought everything to decorate her tree, can't wait to put it all up. It's going to be awesome!!


GO HOGS!!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Trick or Treating

Here are some pics of last night. A little out of order. Trick or Treating was not as big of a hit as I thought it would be. Handing out candy was a whole new story though!! He squealed everytime the door bell rang and he handed out every piece himself. He was giving out handfuls and sometimes chasing them down the sidewalk to give more.


This is Trenton towards the end of the night passing out candy. He's in his jammies.


Waiting eagerly for the next trick or treater.....



Trenton with GG and Aunt Lexi the nerd.


Family pic.....yes I am a dark brunette as of last Thurs. No I did not do it for Halloween. This is a frequently asked question...



Their faces crack me up! Trenton got a billy bob sucker from GG. When he puts the sucker in his mouth, the front of it has big hillbilly teeth on it.












Trenton at the beginning of the night. After the first house, Trenton walked down the driveway and said "I go home now." What a little homebody!! We did not go home.


Daddy and Trenton moving on to more houses.

Taking his sweet time. I thought he would be running from house to house for more candy. He stopped to pick weeds, pick up rocks, you name it, he had TTADD (trick or treat ADD). I didn't realize he brought his handy manny hammer and he sat down in someone's front yard and got out his hammer to "fix his bucket". He started banging away on it right there! Hilarious!


Trenton showing off the pumpkin he made. By the way....the best part of this costume was the fact that the hat was too small and so cheap looking. Aunt Michelle bought him a better one but it just wasn't as funny!!

















Saturday, October 31, 2009

It's Halloween!!......almost

This morning I went to get Trenton out of bed and I told him "Guess what? It's Halloween!!" and he pointed to me and said "Almost!" I've been telling HIM that for a while now so now he's telling me. Trenton has gotten all kinds of treats via mail from his BeBe in Texarkana and Aunt Jo, Aunt Wendy, and Uncle Bill in Destin. I have been brushing his teeth 4 times a day. It's a good thing fillings are free for us! HA


I carved a monster pumpkin for Trenton, he was way pumped...he LOVES monsters. He told his BeBe on the phone that he was going to be a monster for Halloween (which he is not by the way).


Eating some of the goods from the Florida folks. I liked the saftey light the best. Definatley going to use that tonight.


I see you!! The mask is too small he said.

Cleaning out the pumpkin. He wasn't as big of a fan of the pumpkin guts as I thought. He said "EWWWWW, germs!"

Costume, check. Saftey light, check. Awesome candy carrier (thanks to aunt Jo), check check!!


Thursday, October 29, 2009

School Chili Supper

Trenton's school had a chili supper at Gulley Park last Sunday. The boys (I really mean ALL BOYS, must have been a boy boom in 2007) ran around and played football the whole time. They would run by to snatch a quick bite of chili and of course stopped to eat the cute cute cute Halloween desserts.


This is Trenton before school on Tues (Hat Day). I missed photos of Mismatch Day and PJ Day, whoops! His teacher said he wore it ALL day. They told him he had to take it off for nap time. He woke up about 5 times and would feel it laying next to him and would go back to sleep.

Trenton wearing Cole's Razorback Helmet. It was a big hit!


Trenton and some buddies stopping for a quick photo. Dessert time!





Angie's sweet little girl, Brooklyn. She sacked out in the Baby Bjorn. Precious!!!


Monday, October 26, 2009

Our Little "Wild Thing"

Matt and I took Trenton to his first movie 2 weekends ago. We read "Where the Wild Things Are" almost every night so we thought he would like to see it on the big screen. I didn't have to worry about the monsters being too scary for him, he is afraid of NOTHING! He got a booster seat so he wouldn't collapse into it. He used the cupholders as "popcorn holders".
Yeah!!!! He kept saying "I see Wild Things!!"

Daddy and Trenton by the movie poster


BEFORE the booster. He is smiling because of the popcorn, obviously....it's as big as him. He sat for about 10 min. prior to the previews, through about 20min. of previews, and 40 min. of the movie. Once the excitement of SEEING the Wild Things was over, he lost interest. I can't blame him. Not really a "kid" movie.



WITH the booster. Suprisingly he didn't get a tummy ache from all the popcorn. He also discovered he liked Sprite. Can't wait to go back this winter for more movies!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Pumpkin Pickin!

Ok, so we didn't acutually "pick" them, but we "picked them out!" St. Joe is about 2 min. from us and this is where we went last year, so it's offically a tradition. HA Trenton picked out one BIG pumpkin (to carve) and 2 "baby punkins" Mommy picked out to green and white ones.....for decoration of course.



Yummy icecream. I told him to come outside to I could take pics and he literally said "cheese" the whole time he ate this popsicle.....but never really smiled or made much contact with camera.




One shoe on and one off, this is how he looks on a typical day.

My pretty mums and MY lil punkin. I am not a big fall person only because I know what comes after it. But.....fall is more bearable with pretty things like mums and colored leaves.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Its A.....

BOY!! Yeah! I just realized I left ya hanging with the gender of Jenny's baby. I am (along with everyone else) super pumped to have another boy joining our family (army more like) of girls. Although there are now going to be 4 boy grandkids and only 1 girl. I feel sorry for Rea Rea, holidays are going to be a beat down fest in a couple of years. I love those ROWDY boys! And have I mentioned that boys are in LOVE with their their mamas. In a couple of years he'll probably want to marry me (I've heard this is coming from my friends with boys). God have mercy on the girl who wants to date/marry my little sugar booger one day. Refer to the movie "Monster In Law" for more details of how this will eventually play out one day. I'm kidding! (ok, 1/2 kidding)

I got to go by my mums today! They are absolutley beautiful! Westwood Gardens is my fav. I got to shop for a couple of hours today by myself (Matt is off today). When T gets up, we're going to go get pumpkins from St. Joe. Then, the front of my house will be complete! I will take pics and post later. We probably won't carve until right before Halloween. Trenton is going to love cleaning out pumpkins this year. I can't wait!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Waiting for Jenny's call!!

My sister, Jenny is about to find out in about 10 min. if she is having a boy or girl. I'm sooooo excited! I predict girl for the record. Since I have all this nervous energy, I decided to blog more Italy pics. Trenton is taking the longest nap ever, Little Gym wore him out!
This was the first night it Italy. Welcome dinner at the hotel. These are our new friends Sonya and Ceasar from Texas. She is a GM of a large Acura store down there.
Dining room before we invaded and messed it up.


This was the ceiling in one of the living rooms. This is where they set up laptop computers for us to use. I wish I had a room like this to go check my email and blog eveyday!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Arriving in Ravello

These pics are from the day we arrived in Italy. Keep in mind, when we left our airport it was early am, when we got to Italy it was the next day. I acutally don't remember a lot from this day. I took this great little pill that "knocked me OUT" ...which was great for the plane ride (besides the fact that they couldn't wake me for 2 meals), but not so great when you land. I look like I was having a great time, so I'm sure I was. HA
Two tired people under the influence.


Look! There we are in the background. What am I drinking? Oh maybe that's why I don't remember. I don't want to look at wine for at least another week. Although yummy at the time.


Our first gift was really cool. We got to pick out which sandal/belt/linen shirt we wanted and they hand made them for us in our sizes right there. I got rhinestone sandals and Matt got an Italian leather belt. I do remember this.

This was the walk way up to the pool.


This was part of the hospitality suite. Acura rented the whole place so it was just us. This room had all the food/drink you want from 7am-7pm. If you ordered a drink and were NOT in this room the price was outrageous! At the pool, Matt ordered a mixed drink and it was 30 euros, that's like $40!! We sure learned our lesson. They told us that the Kennedy's, Clinton's, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, and others I can't remember stayed here. It's tucked away so people couldn't find them there. We had to try our best not to be redneck and be too excited. HA

Friday, October 9, 2009

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.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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

testing blog

Friday, September 25, 2009

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!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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!!