5QF!!

Boy! I am so glad I am home to hop on the 5QF train with the wonderful Mama M! I have missed all of you 5QF'ers for the past two weeks!

So with out further ado... lets get down to some questions.

1. What were your school colors?
Black and Silver.

2. What's the best compliment you ever received?
Hmmm... well one time I was at a bar.. and this guy said "Has anyone ever told you that you have  bedroom eyes?" Took it as a compliment about my eyes but quickly scurried off to find my girlfriends... Hubster and I still joke about that to this day. (and no D wasnt the one using the cheesy bedroom eyes pick up line ;)

3. Do you buy cheap or expensive toilet paper?
I guess expensive.. I am a Charmin girl! Sorry but no matter how broke I may be at some points I am not wiping my hiney with cardboard. Just ain't gonna happen.

4. Have you ever had a surprise party thrown for you? Or have you had one for someone else?
I did... my 16th birthday was a surprise party. I remember being so shocked and excited because I had always wanted a surprise party. It was a blast!!

Now if I was really cool I could pull a pic up from my party.. but I digress..not that cool ;)

5. What is one material possession that you "can't live without"?
This is a tough one.. I am going to go for my camera or my computer? Can I have both.. please? I just went almost two weeks with out my computer and that was terrible! I could not imagine having to give up my bloggy buddies. BUT I also need my camera.. you see.. it kind of completes me ;)
 
 
Sorry this is kind of short and sweet but this girl has some shopping to do today! I have three baby showers and two birthdays all with in the next five weeks! AHHHH!! Going to try and knock it all out at once. My poor wallet will be screaming for mercy by the time this is over. Oh yea.. and one of those B-days happens to be my little E! I can't believe my little coppertone model is almost 2 *sniff sniff*

Last But Not Least....

My final post of vacation pics! Hope I have not bored you all to death with picture over load but some of these were just too cute to pass up ;)

We had wonderful weather the most of the time we were gone. Lots of sunshine and a great breeze. We did however have one stormy day and we took full advantage of a nearby aquarium to occupy our time.

They had alot of neat things and a cool touch tank (that E would have nothing to do with!) I think my fav. was riding through the aquarium. It was like a tunnel with the aquarium all around you and you just rode through it.. so cool!

Here are a few shots from our little day trip!

Yes Derek had the aquarium and cut off the side over there.. but ya know.. we all can't be photographers ;)

Loved this little stingray.. he was soo cool (aquarium is not a great pic place.. just saying ;)

Jellly Fish

part of the ride through area

Well that concludes the family part of our trip... I did have a girls weekend part at the end. But I might spare myself the embarassment of those photos!

Tomorrow we will get back to normal with some regular bloggy stuff.. like 5QF Mama M style, and Macro Friday! See ya then :)

Like A Sister

When we decided to take a family vacation I immediatly thought of how fun it would be to take my little sister with us. We are 11 years apart and I just feel like she is one of my own (except I get to send her back home ;) Her and Emma have a very special relationship. They love like sisters, play like sisters, cuddle like sisters and of course sometimes fight like sisters.

While we were on vacation I took advantage of the time to try and capture some of their time together so they will both have these memories to look back on.

Love this one!

My two favorite girls!! Such sweet sweet girlies (well most of the time anyways ;)

We had a blast and we are so glad she got to be a part of our "little" family for a week!

Love you Aunt Lerner (her name is Lauren but for some reason E has been calling her learner!?)

Sand and Sunshine...

The past week and half has been full of nothing but sunshine, cool ocean waves, and lots of sand. So much sand that I mean I will be ok if I never see a grain of sand again (ok well not never.. but ya know at least until next year ;)

This was the shell"iest" beach ever... I was cringing like an old lady and she would just run across like it was nothing!

Yes Derek had the camera.. and cut my head off ;) No my baby girls arms are not ripped out of socket from "jumping" the waves!

This is her baywatch shot.. LOL the wind blowing in her peach fuzz and posing in her bikini

My little seagull chasing kiddo. She would throw a goldfish for them to eat and then chase them off... animal cruelty? Possibly.. but at least she was feeding them ;)

Water baby!

Each day when we would go back towards the condo after a full day of sun we would rinse off up at the condo. Well since wild thing liked to lay in the sand/water and get gobs and gobs of sand in her suit we would wash her off before we went in (yes there is privacy down there!) I decided I could not resist from taking this shot...to cute I thought....

Future Coppertone model ;)

If you missed my post earlier today on the "view" from the deck you can check it out here. I have a few more post on vaca pics then I will get back to regular blogging! Promise :)

Vacation Rocks!

As most of you know we headed out a little over a week ago for an awesome family vacation. The vacation itself was a surprise! Since I have recently started staying at home with E and quite a bit has changed around our house financially we had no idea we would even sneak away for a weekend get away much less a week at the beach. My cuz has a house down at Ocean Isle Beach and she was so sweet and offered for us to go down there and hang out for a week while it was empty!!! Sooo.. we packed up and headed out. Left all the bills and worries behind!

It was soooo amazing. Just sittin  on the back porch overlooking the water way was enough to make you just sink into this peaceful little heaven.

loved these little birds (not sure what kind they were...) but everytime the tide would go out and the water way would dry up.. these birds would come walking through looking for food. They were soo neat. If I had a zoom lense this should would have even been better.. hint hint Derek!

The sunsets were just amazing there... it literally set like right over our deck..Awesome!

Even little E enjoyed watching

We sat out there every morning and had breakfast, then in the evening and watched the sunset after dinner. Wonderful!

Hope you enjoyed some of our views.. now the views are a mountain of laundry, and a dirty house.. but somehow that view is just as amazing ;)

Off to get to work on my house and spend time with my little family.. more vaca trips tonight!! (some sunshine and bikini time.. dont worry.. not me in a bikini LOL )

HOME!

Hey Everyone!!

Oh My Goodness... I have missed you all sooo much! Going 11 days with out internet is never...never ever.. going to happen again. I mean I feel like I left a bunch of girl friends back home when I left :)

All of that said we had an absolute blast! I will be working hard tonight and tomorrow to try and get all my pics done and show ya what we were up too. (may be like a 3 part post or something.. just sayin' )

So no gooey fun details tonight.. lots of blog reading to catch up on.. but hopefully will get some pics up tomorow!

Hope everyone is doing great! Talk to yall soon :)

Pardon the Interuption

Hey Everyone!!!

I just wanted to let you all know that we are beach bound.. for 12 days! (well only 7 for Derek and E.. the last few days are a girl trip!)  I was all excited packing and doing my thing and then it hit me. Surely this place has wifi right!?!? WRONG!

I will have no wifi access in the condo... I will be missing you all very much! However I will be looking for wifi hotspots and try to quickly check in every few days or so!!

So please pardon the interuption while we go soak up some of this....

pics from our vaca last year this time.. same place as this year!

view from the balcony..looks over the inlet

See you soon!!!!