My favorite Evansville Otter

My younger cousin, Travis, and I grew up together. My mom babysat him several summers when we were younger. When I was a senior in high school, he was a freshman, and I picked him up every morning for school. I have been watching him play baseball for YEARS! (along with football and basketball). When he went to college, I didn't get to see him play nearly as much, esp. since he is a relief pitcher and doesn't play every game.

Now, he is an Evansville Otter. I am very proud of him and love to go watch him play in the evenings at Bosse Field!
Here are some pics of him pitching last night and me with my favorite Otter.

New look in our bedroom

We recently got new bedroom furniture from IKEA. We had an older duvet set (which I was sick of), so we decided to get new bedding and finally put curtains up in our room and make it start to look decorated.

After looking EVERYwhere for a duvet in town, I went online and found one at Target.com:)

Here is the finished bed (I'm not sure why, but the shams on the back grey aren't quite right...

Crazy Busy!

Andrew and I have been so stinkin' busy this summer. It has been so fun and exciting for us. Last summer, I sat at home bored after like 1 week of summer. BUT this summer, I have yet to be bored. The pics below are just some of the things we have been up to lately!

-met this sweet baby and her parents, along with my parents and bro for a nice lunch



-went to Gatlinburg with 29 family members and stayed in a 10 bedroom/bathroom cabin. Hiked 2.5 miles to a waterfall and 2.5 miles back.

-Ripley's Aquarium



-Ripley's Believe it or Not museum



-played with face game with Uncle Chris and Aunt Barbie on the way to Dixie Stampede.




-I LOVE having house guests, esp. these two ladies:)




-had some family and friends over for some smoked pork butt. Andrew sat in the garage for 8 hours watching movies and checking on the meat. Emily, well, she played with her food, even though we told her not to.




-Went swimming at Tim and Carolyns



-went to Aunt Janet's 4th of July party and played corn hole all day!

-Hung out with the most adorable baby girl ever!!



-Made burpies with Valerie and embroidered with Aunt Janet.



-Hung out with Andrew's relatives visiting from Philly. Aunt Carla, Uncle Dan, Melanie, Dom, and Rachel. Since we were visiting in Bowling Green, Andrew got out his gun to shot. Here are Mel and Rachel getting their instructions.



-Celebrated with Andrew's cousin, Mandy and her new husband, Jeff

A week with 2 Children

I am still learning the art of uploading pictures on my blog. Below are pictures of Andrew and I's week with 2 children. We went swimming twice, fishing, splash park, Gattitown, McDonalds, Ice skating, gymnastics, "camp", played pinball, Wii, hung out with the neighbors. We stayed VERY busy!!

Emily in the pool




We went swimming a couple times, but I only got pictures from last night. Tim and Carolyn were very welcoming to us. And boy o boy did we have fun!




Bryce and his fish




Fishing fun!!! Andrew and his friend Chris took Bryce fishing. Emily and I didn't stay, but were there long enough to snap a picture.




Emily didn't LOVE the water, but she still had a great time.




Bryce LOVING the water!!




We went to the Splash Park in Henderson and had a picnic. I lathered the kids with sunscreen and forgot myself. So, I got toasty red...OOPS

Fab 5 Friday

I am a little slow these days not being in school and all...but I finally figured out how to get my pictures quickly to my blog. Last week, I had some issues with trying to download/upload them quickly. This week, I also cheated and used some of the same ones that jochimsjoys.blogspot.com used last week:)

1. HGTV...it is usually always on in the background, even though most of the time I am not really watching it. However, Andrew does like to watch it as well, so it is a channel we actually agree on AND Design Star starts Sunday night and it's one of my favorite shows.


2. My handy little SUV. She tried to die on me on the way to small group the other night, but Andrew and a dear friend Chris, fixed her up and she drove me to Bowling Green yesterday. This year at work, my car was also known as my office. It had plenty of room and served it's purpose well. We'll see how she does this week with 2 car seats.


3. READ, READ, READ!!! I have been reading Karen Kingsbury books like they are going out of print. I hardly ever watch TV, or play on facebook...I have always got my nose in a book. I am even going to a Baxter Family Renunion (based on her books) at the end of June with my friend Valerie.


4. PF Changs!! For being a picky eater, I LOVE this place, lettuce wraps, lo mein, honey crusted chicken, sweet and sour chicken...YUMMO!!


5. IKEA...we went last weekend with Adam and Emily. Spent more money than we expected, but also came home with a new bed, bedside tables, bookshelf, drawer organizers, couch side table, kitchen gadgets, etc. SO FUN!


What are your FAB 5?

Fab 5 Friday...help!

I decided I was going to try FAB 5 Friday this week...only to get a little aggravated at trying to get the pictures on here.

1. My rice cooker/steamer. We use this handy $15 Target steal at least 2 times a week. Mostly broccoli or cauliflower on top and sometimes rice on bottom. I thought that it was so fabulous that I bought one for my mother in law and sister in law for Christmas:)



NOW is where I NEED your help. When I am trying to get pictures for my Fab 5, what is the best way to do it. I would really like to just copy and paste them in, but that wouldn't work. I had to save the above picture to my desktop and upload it...is that the only way to do it?

Company

In preparation for our week long babysitting excursion in June. We had Emily and Bryce over for one night to see how things would go. They did great, minus the 4am wake up call because Emily was gone. She decided to go upstairs to the bed and Bryce couldn't find her. So, we slept on the couch together from 4-7.

We had all kinds of fun! Went to the park, played Chutes and Ladders, played Hyper Dash, drew with chalk, went for a walk, rescued a snapping turtle (andrew did, we watched), caught a toad, read books, watched movies...we did a lot in 1 night:)

I'm excited to keep them this summer. We are going to have one full and fun week!