Carly's first half time show

A quick picture of us before she takes the field....

Carly marched her first half time show this past Friday night for her high school. She was great. She marched onto, off of and all over the field without falling. That's huge! =)

Some pictures from the night.

Dutchtown Sound enters the stadium....Carly is 2nd clarinet....Carly marching into the stadium...(sorry its blurry)Carly marching in...Carly and her boyfriend, Philip.....

Dinner out...

Mike and I on the roof at Tsunami downtown. What a view....

40th Birthday....

Me and Mike at PF Changs for my birthday dinner. (no, he's not drunk)

Me and CJ outside.....

Carly and Me

I celebrated my 40th birthday yesterday. It's been a crazy weekend and this week has not shown any signs of slowing down. Friday night was Carly's band preseason performance. They were amazing. Carly is the brunette, right in the center of the picture (the prettiest one there!)

This is Carly's friend, Philip - back row, second from the right (sax)Carly and Philip playing volleyball at the after party....Had a wonderful birthday weekend that ran over into Tuesday. My actual 40th birthday! I'm waaayyy too young to be 40!

CJ's new ambition...

....is to be a pumpkin farmer. For ever, he's had a heart for animals. Ever since he could answer the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up" his answer has been, "A veternarian". Until yesterday...As we were driving and talking, CJ blurted out, "Mom, I want to be a pumpkin farmer." You all know how random he can be, so to keep his thoughts clear and the conversation going, I said, "Oh yeah? Why?"....keep up with me while I try to put down his response.....

"You see, vampires are mostly scared of pumpkins. Not just vampires, but all of the creatures of the night are scared of pumpkins. Everyone thinks they are scared of garlic, but that's not true. That's why people put out pumpkins at Halloween and not garlic! Besides, have you ever seen a vampire or even a bat in a pumpkin patch?"

hmmmmm...he's random but so convincing. CJ may very well be a pumpkin farmer.

Trip to Georgia

Me and the kids (including Carly's bff, Lily) made a quick trip back to Georgia last week to see my Mom before school started back. Here are some pictures of our trip...
Carly and Lily Cathy (my sister) and me

CJ's first trip to Dairy Queen....

Mom and me

Michael (my brother) and me

The girls got bored on the drive back to Louisiana, so CJ filmed them killing time and tunes....

Part 1 of song 1

Part 2 of song 1

Take CJ to Work Day

Not all of you know, but I am the new Marketing Director for our local Chick-fil-A. So, now that I've started back to work and Carly started band camp, CJ is displaced. I only work a few hours in the store, so I thought there would be no harm in bringing him in just for a few hours. I was in the office working on some different projects and when I came back through the kitchen, this is what I found. Apparently CJ had been recruited by a couple of the guys for free labor. He had already helped make the famous Chick-fil-A lemonade....I caught him helping Brad with preparing the chicken for the fryer. Hmmm.....maybe tomorrow he can go to work with Mike! =)

Mexico video

As promised, I'm posting pics from our trip to Mexico. Thank you, Cathy and Paula, for such an awesome gift! It was a great early birthday!