Little playdates

We had an eventful weekend at the Petty house! We got to keep my niece Brenna and it was lots of fun! Maybe minus the 6am wake up call, it was like clock work with that kid. And when she was up, she was ready to play! We had a playdate Saturday afternoon with Amber and Logan and the kids had such a great time!

Thank you Amber and Logan for letting us come play at your house!

We ended the date with dinner at our favorite steakhouse, Texas Roadhouse of course! By then the kids were great friends, boyfriend and girlfriend to be exact! Here is Amber, Brenna, and I (it was girls on one side, and stinky boys on the other!)

Brenna LOVED the recording machine. She sang and sang! This little contraption is super cool, you can sing and play the piano and record yourself. Logan was a pro! He knew all the ins and outs and was very nice to have share it!

After some swimming, Amber brought out the very cool little "cars" for the kids. I tell you what, Logan already knows how to drive, he is SO good at it. Just goes all around! I feel he might be a speeder like his Mommy when he gets old enough to drive!

Logan had this huge water slide, so much F-U-N! Brenna was a little shy when we first got there, Amber ended up going down the slide first so Brenna would and after that it was over, they went down that thing over and over again.

Are they not just super cute or what! And yes Brenna is tan! She gets that skin from her mother, Kristen has flawless skin; serioulsy.

Thank you for letting us come to play Logan! Brenna had a great time!!

It was nice for me too, I haven't seen Amber in forever so it was nice to be able to do something fun with the kids while still hanging out. The kids were pooped after we were done, Brenna fell asleep about 5 minutes into the ride home. We finished off the stay with breakfast this morning before Kristen and CJ came to get her. Later we are off to Dave's parents to celebrate his dad's birthday. I think a nap will be needed before that event!!!

Prayer for this week

This was the devotional for Sunday and I just now read it but I think it's so good. Simple but true. I challenge you to pray the simple prayer towards the bottom everyday this week before you start working............may see a difference for the next couple of days.

From the Purpose Driven Connection Daily Devotional:

The apostle Paul says, "Do all your work in love." He doesn't say some of your work, but all of your work. He also says "no matter . . . what I do, I'm bankrupt without love" (1 Corinthians 13:3 MSG).

The point is, any job can be turned into worship when it is built on the model of Christ's love; that love is expressed to co-workers, clients, and customers. Mother Teresa said, "It's not what you do so much that matters, but how much love you put into it."

Think about it like this. Two-thirds of the word career is "care": C-A-R-E. John Rushcan once said, "When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece."

So, I want you to pray a prayer every day this week. When you get up to go work—whether it's at home or at school, in your backyard or at an office or wherever you work—I want you to pray, "Father, today I want to worship You through my work. I want to express my gifts, I want to do it as if I'm doing it for You, and I want to do it in love.""

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him. This is the true worship that you should offer" (Romans 12:1 TEV).

I've been tagged!

Thanks Libby!! Let's see no children for me so confessions it is! :)

Five Random Facts about me:

1. I eat breakfast every morning because it's the most important meal of the day

2. I check the mail everyday, it drives me crazy not too.

3. I am addicted to being tan, drives me crazy not to have some color

4. One of the things I liked to do when I get bored is take our chuck wagon (like a golf cart on steroids) out for a little drive around the neighborhood

5. I still watch re-runs of 90210 almost daily, I can't help it I love that show

Six Things I wish I could do:

1. Win the lottery

2. Visit Germany

3. Have an endless amount of time to do all the things I want to do

4. Skydive, although this would never happen because I'm too scared to

5. Spend like a day or week in a different period of time, I would prefer like during the 1950's

6. Horseback ride without fear of being thrown off (I was when I was little, can't get over it)

Five Confessions:
1. I would still work as a Service Manager at Texas Roadhouse if the schedule fit my life style better
2. I actually do enjoy sitting in the deer stand with Dave hunting, now shooting isn't something I have grown fond of yet
3. I love my dogs but sometimes I wish they weren't so needing attention wise
4. I sometimes think the end of the world will happen in my life time
5. I don't ever want to visit Japan, China, or pretty much anywhere in Asia
Seven Favorite Movies of all time:
1. The Notebook
2. Walk the Line
3. Footloose
4. Sex and the City
5. P.S. I love you
6. Tommy Boy
7. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (sorry can't help it)
5 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Friends
2. The Office
3. Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood
4. 90210
5. American Idol
Six Bands I want to see in concert:
1. Dave Matthews (I go every year and will continue for as long as he tours)
2. Faith Hill
3. Zack Brown Band
4. George Strait (I'm with you on this one Libby)
5. John Mayer
6. Rascal Flatts

Five Favorite Pics of the Year

Thanks for tagging me Libby!!!! Hope you all enjoyed it! :)

We're back and we survived!!

The past week has been amazing! Mexico was so great, very relaxing! And I must say the flight there and back were quite pleasant surprisingly. The entire week consisted basically of waking up, getting some breakfast and heading down to the pool for the day. I left the resort once, seriously. Dave went deep sea fishing and had fun despite him being sea sick the majority of the time. It's a pretty funny story so I'll leave it him to tell it,

it's always funnier when he does.

Here Dave is with the swordfish Dwayne caught and all the fish they caught:

This picture is for my Dad, he loves the Blues Brothers

Us on the first day in Mexico

In the lobby of our hotel

And the weekend before we left we had a breakfast to celebrate my Mom's retirement! It was yummy! We had a great time and great food!

And now it's back to work tomorrow........but there is good news!!! Before I left I found out I got promoted! I am now officially a Corporate Education Liaison for the University of Phoenix. It's definitely going to be challenging and hard but I'm very excited about it and hopefully I can work hard and do well. I feel very blessed and am looking forward to starting something new!

Home Sweet Home, feels good to be back in my own bed! But the best feeling is not having to worry about the water, I was so terrified of accidently drinking the water down there and getting sick, nothing yet but I'll keep you posted :)

7 Little Facts

So as I was catching up on the Home Tours over at Kelly Korner I came across this blog awhile back: http://www.marcusanddina.blogspot.com/ (if I were more clever I would able to do what all the other bloggers do and say "this" and it would take you there, but I'm not so deal :) But anywho, she is doing a "list 7 things other bloggers may not know about you" thing so I decided I should do it too! So, here goes:

#1: I never really knew true love until I met Dave. Sounds so cliche but I was very cut off emotionally in previous relationships so I truly feel God placed Dave in my life to love me, and opening up and being available to love is something I have learned and still learning to do.

#2: One of my most absolute favorite things to do is get my hair colored and cut.

#3: When people tell me I can't do something, it motivates me more just to prove them wrong and show them I can, regardless if it's something I really want to do or not. Just have to make a point!

#4: I very much value and appreciate alone time, gives me time with my thoughts and I don't have to cater to anyone except myself, selfish I know but that's okay right now.

#5: My favorite Christian song is "Revelation Song" by Phillips, Craig, and Dean. Which by the way, I dated Dean's nephew in high school.

#6: I love, love, love Tori Spelling. I could watch Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood over and over again and never get tired of it. Dave of course thinks she is the devil!! Just kidding!!! He thinks I'm the devil for making him watch it before we go to sleep. hahahaha!

#7: I might just be the most routine person I know besides my father. I do the exact same thing every morning, everyday usually after work. I clean the house the same way, get the mail at the same time everyday, put my make up on the same way. This I'm sure is strange to some, I think that's why I get so anxious if things are different or mixed up along the way. I'm not to spontaneous, that's for sure.

There you have it, some random things about myself. I'm counting down the hours before I'm off work too, being off next week is SO needed and I cant' wait till five! Tomorrow morning we are doing a breakfast retirement thing for my mom since she doesn't really want a party. So it'll be just the girls and Dave but it's at my house which I'm excited about because I get to use all my fancy dishes and stuff I got from the wedding! You know your getting old when you get excited about dinner, or should I say breakfast guests, and you get use to good dishes. Dave still doesn't understand why we got so many dishes when we got married, well it's because I'm my mother's daughter that's why!

Which by the way! Once I figure out when she picks a date for her tea this year I will make sure to post it. Lots of dishes and table settings all for a good cause!

Happy Father's Day Daddy!

There are so many things I am grateful for the older I get, one of which is my father. I think as children we really don't know how much our parents did for us and how much they loved us, but the older I get the more and more grateful and thankful I am God blessed me with a father like mine. He has always shown love unconditionally to all three of us girls, he is a great listener, and I can't tell you the amount of great advice he has given me. So Dad for this Father's Day here are a few things of which I am grateful for and will always remember of you:

#1 Dancing on the ceiling!! Isn't that funny! You used to flip us upside down and play that song and let us dance on the ceiling! Of course that was when we were young enough and small enough to do that too! But even now when I hear that song, I think of that memory.

#2 Back Breaker! Oh how you used to love to do that to us!!

#3 This is such a silly memory but I remember it like it was yesterday. In fifth grade at cheerleader try outs as soon as they announced who made it (and my name wasn't called) you were there to pick me and rush me out of there and tell me that everything was going to be okay. I just remember the feeling I had, I was terribly upset because let's face it that is the worst thing a young girl could experience! My dad was there to comfort me and make me feel better.

#4 "It's always better in the morning" This saying sticks with me because you used to always tell us this. And you know what, it's true!! I tell myself that now when I'm having a horrible day or bad night and I know the next morning it won't be as big a deal as I thought it was.

#5 I will forever be grateful to how supportive you are. I know we didn't always do what you wanted us to do but you always gave us good advice and were supportive of the things we choose to do after a little while. Life doesn't always turn out the way we would like it to but it does have a way of working itself out. This to is something else you have taught me, and hopefully even though the path in my life isn't exactly the one you would have chosen, I pray that it's still something you are proud of.

#6 I know one of your favorite memories or times was the carting me from one job to the next. Again, the things parents do for us that we don't even realize. You were there everyday to take me from one job to the next job and were always in a good mood doing it. That is a task in itself. I appreciate you giving up your afternoon five days a week to make sure I was able to get from one place to the next.

I know parenting is one of the toughest jobs in the world but I feel so blessed that God gave me two good ones. Dad, you hold a very special place in my heart. Thank you for always loving us, always forgiving us, and always encouraging us. I couldn't have asked for a better person to call my dad. Happy Father's Day!!!

I have a date with Mexico!

Have you ever felt like you needed a vacation SO bad you could just cry????? Well.........thanks to my hubby's wonderful bosses, this is where we will be in 10 days!!!!! That's right! Cancun, Mexico for an all inclusive five day vacation! I'm totally stoked and ready to pack and leave right now!!!!! It was a total spur of the moment decision so I'm glad it all worked out for his office and the spouses' schedules!

Will be laying on the beach here:

While drinking some: And using LOTS of this:

While hopefully looking some what descent in one of these:

Ah, summer time. Hopefully that whole swine flu stuff is done for. I have had two friends who recently went to Mexico and they turned out okay so all we can do is pray!!!

I have never been to Mexico before so I'm really excited! Of course, getting the passports was an adventure but who can blame the post office for the customer service to people who wait until the very last minute to get the MAIN thing they need to leave the country? Not me, I would be the same way!!!!!!!!

Mexico, here I come! Let's just pray I make it back to the good ole' US of A!

That's my only fear, hahahahaha!