Seasons Reunion!

It is 5 AM and I am wide awake!  Guess the excitement of our girls getaway got to me. Just can't sleep.  Can't wait to spend a fun, relaxing weekend catching up with my bestest girls in the whole world!!!!  Here are a few "blast from the past" pictures to make you smile.  Man I am getting old...

The Beginning of the Four Seasons-Halloween 1998 (omg that is almost  15 years ago)

Balcony at Parker Dorm Fall 1997

Graduation Day May 2000

Cyn's 21st Birthday  February 1999 (this is one of my all time favorite pics b/c of Cyn's belly showing and  Susan dancing beside us. It always makes me smile!)

Cyn's Wedding Rehearsal March  2001

Pre Halloween Party at Highland Hills-October 1998 (gosh look how baby-faced Zach was!)

Balcony at Parker Dorm (think this is spring 1998)  boy if that balcony could talk!!!  And look at my legs-man I wish they looked like that now!

Warehouse at Myrtle Beach where our friend Kim got a piercing Spring Break 2000-I promise no piercings this weekend!

On the bus in Cancun-Spring Break 1999

At the ABC Convention with Dad at Myrtle Beach Summer 2000-boy what a good time we had on this one-remember us singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall" to try and stay awake to get breakfast from room service?????  It didn't work :)  We passed out and went to breakfast with dad in the morning SOOO hungover!

Smushed in the hallway at Parker Dorm, Winter 1998

At my wedding reception Feb 11, 2006

Halloween 1997

Pre Going out- Fall/Winter 1997

My batchelorette trip to Myrtle Beach Winter 2011-too bad Studebakers is not open anymore but I bet we can find somewhere else to have some fun and make some more memories!  It is going to be so much fun to be together again. Reunited and it feels so good!!!!!!!!

5 Years of Fun!

There hasn't been a dull moment since this cutie made his debut 5 years ago at 4:21 a.m.  He came into the world with a bang and has not slowed down a bit!

Happy Birthday to our Sweet, Wild, Energetic, Smart and Imaginative Baby Boy.  You will always be my baby, no matter how big you grow!

I love you!

20 Questions with Gabriel Ryan Moore!

Each year I plan on asking these questions on my kiddos birthday.  I started this year with Gabriel and plan to start with Elizabeth next year when she turns 3.

1.  Favorite Color= Red
2.  Favorite Toy or thing to play with=  Costumes (esp Spiderman)
3.  Favorite Fruit= grapes (green and purple)
4.  Favorite TV Show= Backyardigans
5.  Favorite thing to eat for lunch= Apple
6.  Favorite Outfit= Tarzan! (which means wearing underwear or a speedo)
7.  Favorite Game= Toy Story Yatchtee
8.  Favorite Snack= Mini Pop Tarts
9.  Favorite Animal=  Dinosaur (says he knows they aren't here anymore but still his favorite)
10.  Favorite Song= Spiderman
11. Favorite Book= Sam I Am (aka Green Eggs and Ham)
12. Best Friend= Jackson and Elliott
13.  Favorite Cereal= Marshmalllows (aka Lucky Charms)
14.  Favorite Thing to do Outside= ride bike
15.  Favorite Drink= Sierra Mist
16.  Favorite Holiday= Christmas
17.  Favorite Thing to Sleep With at Night= Sparky
18.  Favorite Thing to Eat for Breakfast= Poptart (brown sugar cinnamon), vitamins, and goldfish
19.  Favorite Dinner= spaghetti with chicken parmesan
20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  a nurse

New Bike!

Gabriel is a maniac on wheels on his bike!  New Spiderman bike and monster helmet were his early birthday presents from us.  He loves to ride down Grammy and Papaw's driveway and make black marks on their concrete!

My Baby Boy

IS TURNING 5 ON THURSDAY!!!!  And I am not doing well with it at all.  I cannot believe that my sweet baby boy is turning 5.  5 means that he will be going to school in the fall.  5 means he may start to figure out that I am not as cool as he thinks I am.  5 means he may say that someone else is his girlfriend, not me anymore :(  5 means having to go to school EVERYDAY, not just 3 days a week and it means getting up earlier and going to bed earlier and he is NOT a morning person.  5 means other people will begin to have much more of an influence on him. 

Oh how is he already turning 5????  I have already cried several times about this and really I am getting teary-eyed writing this.  I know it sounds cliche' but it really does seem like just yesterday that we were bringing him home, staying up LATE with him while he cried with colic/reflux/etc.  Please time, slow down a little bit.  I am just not ready for this yet. WTH moms out there, is this normal to feel this way???  I really do not know how I am going to stand taking him to school on that first day, but you know that I would not miss it for the world.  I need help and advice please!!!  OK done with my sob story for today at least...

You all know how I love to string out/maximize a birthday celebration so we went ahead and started on Saturday with a trip to good ole CHUCKIE CHEEZE.  He wanted to have a party there but we did a compromise and went on our own and let him have Jackson come as a guest.  They had a great time but man that place was NUTS on a Saturday afternoon, what in the world were we thinking.  On Sunday, we went and got him a new bike/helmet. His other bike is just too small and that head just keeps a growin!    I cannot believe the things this boy can do.  Yes, I am a proud mama! 

We will bring cupcakes to PK on Thursday to celebrate there and then have a small celebration on Thursday night with mom and dad (Ceddy has to work).  Then Saturday will be the big celebration, a Power Rangers themed party at our house.  This will be his last BIG party where we invite all the family.  After 5, we will do a small family birthday dinner and then a friend party I guess.  Is this how others handle this? We have HUGE families on both sides and it is just to much to keep inviting the whole family year after year...    See what I mean about maximizing a birthday?  This boy will have been celebrating for a week once it is all said and done.  And that is the way it should be, he is worth every bit of it.