Well, our little girl got part of her Birthday prezzie yesterday from her MAMA and DADDY. SHE GOT HER EARS PIERCED ! I met Kadie and Lily (and her friend Alexandria) over at Libby Lu's @ the Galleria where Lily got her ears pierced! She was SOOOO excited ! Kadie and I almost flipped, tho, when the girl said she'd have to do them one at a time b/c the other girl wasn't qualified to pierce ears and so they couldn't do them at the same time. I almost said, "NO, we'll wait" but Lily wanted to do it!! So, she popped up in the chair and was SOOO brave! They did the first one, and it reminds me of when Daisy gets a shot, she sat there for a second and then "OUCH!!! THAT HURTS!" Kadie had already decided if she cried too much or didn't want to do the other one, she would just let that one grow back. Well, our brave little girl did it again! She cried , for just a minute or two, and then, once she saw those adorable little earrings in her ears, she was grinning and soooooo excited!!!! I bought her a little stuffed animal for being so brave!!!!! Here's an adorable clip of the agony and then, the ecstasy! LILY BELLE, WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU FOR BEING SO BRAVE!
P.S. we are leaving in a little while to go to the Warrior River with Dianne and Bobby Clelland for the rest of the week-end! We LOVE to go there and just chill out!!! I've made a pound cake (Bobby's fav) and some slaw and eggs and Terry made some JERK CHICKEN---he also has a big ole pitcher full of Margarita Mix from La Cocina! HAHA
Here are the 2 best Hostesses in the whole world! Konie and Beth!!!(check out their little aprons Katie gave them with "Chef Konie and Chef Beth" on them , made by Kadie,, in the picture above!). These 2 pretty ladies gave Katie her MOST BEAUTIFUL Bridal Tea!!!! It was absolutely a beautiful Tea!!!!EVERYTHING was just perfect: the TONS of food/the MILLIONS of gifts/the house/the petit fours/the gifts/the ambiance! It was unreal!!!! Everything went perfectly and we had THE most wonderful time. Beth sent me an e-mail and said after countless teas she's given and been to, this one was the MOST FUN and best! I agree 1000 %!!!! It was just unreal!!!! ...>the weather was so worrisome the day before and SOOO rainy on Saturday and Sunday was SUPPOSED to be the same way! In fact, the weather reports were for torado watches and flooding! I prayed Sunday morning that God would just give us about 2 hours of NO RAIN! WELL, our God is an awesome God, even with all the BIG problems He deals with, He gave me my request! Not only did it not rain, the SUN actually came out yesterday! And guess what? We are under flood and tornado watches TODAY! So, God definitely gave us a miracle. I truly believe God gives us "small" miralces as well as big ones. This is one of them!!! Another thing? Almost every person we invited came! The ones who didn't were sick or out of town. who can say they almost had 100% attendance?!!!! It was wonderful. ALl I know how to describe it.PLEASE look at the pictures of all the smiling faces and all the FOOD and gifts, too! And Konie's beautiful home! It was a day Katie will never forget. For that matter, neither will anyone who was there!......
Here's 3 of the 5 and ME! (PatPat, of course, IN THE NAVY, and C/R/Powell in DESTIN).. We celebrated eating out at MACARONI GRILL for dinner last night and we ordered pizza for lunch !(the girl loves Italian food!) Her favorite dessert? Tiramisu! She had a big piece with a candle in it and the Italian waiter sang "Happy Birthday" to her in Italian! It was SUCH a fun day/night!....Her celebrations continue! Tonight is her GIRL'S NIGHT OUT! Natalie (and Mary and Meghan) are having her a LINGERIE SHOWER at Nat's house. Natalie already has the house perfect-O and decorated so adorably (she needs to go into the PARTY BUSINESS!). Pix of that to come! Sunday is her big Bridal Tea (given by Beth and Konie) and Tuesday a family luncheon at Judy's. So, the next few days are going to be very busy and FUN!
See, Big T had fun too! He even enjoyed wearing Daisy's hair bow! HAHAHAHA (I think Kemp is embarrassed! )......The wedding was also beautiful, OF COURSE! What a beautiful bride and groom and both are in the ministry! A special blessing!!! The only thing bad about last week-end? Having to say good-bye to Patrick!
We are here! We are in 
Perdido Beach and Terry and Kemp and Natalie are down at the beach and I just rocked MISS PRISS to sleep. She has been SUCH an angel! Of course, they both have!!!! Daisy was so cute on the beach earlier and everyone who saw her leopard print bathing suit Aunt Cutie gave her had a fit over her! Kemp loves having his Big T to play with in the water and after a romp on the beach , we went to the beautiful pool for a swim which also has a hot tub. SO nice! OH, I failed to mention this place we're in! OMG! It's on the PENTHOUSE floor---incredible is the only word I know to describe it! It is HUGE and beautiful and the VIEW??? Oh goodness! Unreal!....Patrick will be here this afternoon. I cannot WAIT!!! HURRAH!......I have tried to load pix and it takes about 30 minutes to load ONE pix b/c we're on DIAL UP service here so I will only be putting on a couple! I spent over an hour loading 2 pix and I didn't hit "save" and BOOM! They were gone! I hope this time it works!!!! I'll load them all when I get home as well as some adorable short video clips!!! ....Some people from church are arriving today (remember, we're going to Jack's wedding tomorrow) and one of Terry's best friends is actually staying here! On the 7th floor ! (we're on the 14th). So, we might just have a party tonight! HAHA....Having a ball and am on pins and needles to see my SAILOR BOY! I can't wait much longer!!!!!!!!!
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We got up at 3:30 (for the 2nd morning in a row!) and I had a KILLER headache! I don't even get headache's that much! I sure am glad I brought ADVIL! Whew! By the time we got there my headache had eased up. Guess no sleep finally caught up with me! Anyway, we got to the TODAY SHOW area at 5. Our great PR girls: Rachel, Elly and Shannon, had us a place saved! We were first in line! We made some pix and then were led to an area in front of where they shoot the show. Then we WAITED. and WAITED. And WAITED! All told I think we stood there for 5 hours! Anyway, we found out immediately that Al Roker was in D.C.! What a disappointment! We knew the anchors would probably not interveiw me on the show, then. BUT, Meredith Viera came over and chatted and chatted and spied PATPAT and heard him TALK! She was so cute! She grabbed a pen and signed his shirt. She said her dad was a Navy surgeon so she loved the Navy! Of course, we made a ton of pix! After while, Natalie Morales came over and chatted as well. She saw Patrick's picture and said, "Oh! He is so cute!" I snapped away with her holding Patrick's picture! I was beyond thrilled! Here is our day last July 31, 2008!
On Wednesday afternoon, before the big dinner , we went to one of the Navy mom's rooms and practiced with our sailor's pictures for the TODAY SHOW ! On one side was written "We love our (and a pix of a sailor)" and on the backs, their pictures. A mom from Texas made them, so cute!!! (Pat was the cutest sailor, OF COURSE! HAHA). After we chatted and visited for awhile, then we went and got dressed for the dinner. It was just wonderful. We all talked a bit about ourselves and of course, the reason for being there, our BOYS. Then we discussed what we would do the following day at the Today Show. I was tapped as Spokesperson! (YIKES!). IF Al Roker was there , I would speak as well as Commander Pouncy. After a great dinner and dessert, we made lots of pictures and went to bed early as we had to get up for the TODAY SHOW by 3:30 and start walking to Rockefeller Center by 4:45 A.M. Exciting STUFF!
WELL, this is the big news I was talking about!!!! I have just returned from 5 days to NEW YORK CITY as the SPOKESPERSON for Navy4Moms.Com!!!! Yes, little ole me, from ALL those thousands of ladies was tapped to be the spokesperson of a group of Navy Moms who log on everyday and chat about our SAILOR SONS!!! We are a support website that help moms whose sons have left to join the Navy and protect our wonderful USA!!! Lots of joys as well as tears filter through the thousands of pages of women all over the USA. We are well over 3000 members now. It was the Administrator of NAVY4MOMS.COM that wanted to advertise for even MORE moms to come aboard and join us!!! SO, what better way than to to take 13 women to THE TODAY SHOW with a big banner and PATPAT to direct attention to our website. While standing there waiting for the TODAY SHOW to start we added 2 more moms! UNREAL!!!! We had 13 Navy moms that were chosen to go to New York City (off the website) to go on the TODAY SHOW to plug Navy4Moms.com!!!! Of course, my CLAIM TO FAME is none other than PATPAT THE BEAR! HE is the reason I was chosen! HAHAHA! Yep, that pesty little bear (as Katie calls him) was my TICKET to NYC!!!! Since I am travel retarded, I had to have a traveling companion (of course!) . KATIE got the honor of being my buddy in NYC!!!! We tried and TRIED to figure out how Nat could go but it just didn't work out this time (Besides she's going in November with Brad and David!). My ticket there and back was paid for as well as our hotel. After the Navy Moms stuff was over, Katie and I moved to the MANSFIELD HOTEL down the street for the remainder of the time (we got home Sunday night at midnight). Anyway, I had to keep it TOP SECRET until it was announced (2 days prior) on the website. When it hit the website, all the NAVY MOMS went bonkers! What an exciting time!!!! I'm going to be adding pictures and stories from our adventure to NEW YORK!!!! I will be adding short video clips during the next few days as well!...I am starting off with leaving from Birmingham last Wednesday (July 30) and arriving at the ROOSEVELT HOTEL and meeting our first Navy Mom: Sue, followed by Brenda and Diane . The others kept arriving the rest of the afternoon. 6 were from all over the US and 7 from the New York area . It was an INCREDIBLE time and , yes, we did get on the TODAY SHOW!....Here we are after first meeting, some of us. I'll post pix from the big Navy Moms Dinner tomorrow!