Arranged

This fall, I signed up for a flower arranging class offered on Sunday nights at our church. It is led by Mrs. Joy Beers who is so talented in this area. She helps with lots of weddings and special events around town and handles all of the flowers for our church. I signed up mainly as a way to get to know some of the ladies in my church. I know all of the ones with children close in age to my girls but some of the older ladies I did not know very well. It has been so much fun meeting new friends and getting to know these ladies better. We have all laughed together, poked fun at one another and have just had plain fun. Here are some pics from our class:

Tea For Two

To celebrate Maggie's 2nd birthday, she and her birthday buddy, Kate, had a tea party. We had it at our house and just invited the little girls their age. We had brunch for the little girls and brunch for the mama's as well. Maggie had such a good time and was really cute about it being her birthday party.

Margaret Meyer

Seems like yesterday I was laboring in the middle of the night on Labor Day 2010. I remember when she was born, the nurse looked at our moms and Lee and said "oh how precious, she has red hair". I thought it must have been the warming light because I never in a million years would have thought that Lee and I could produce a red-head! But the nurse was right and now I have a spunky 2-year old with red, curly hair! Maggie is such a joy! She restored my faith that babies and newborns can be enjoyable. Hehe. Just being honest, Kylie as you remember was not the easiest newborn to say the least. Maggie just went with the flow and was such a happy baby. I relished the time I got to spend rocking, holding and cuddling with her. I was never able to do that with Kylie when she was a itty baby b/c she was so colicky. Still to this day, she is a very happy little girl with a good temperment. She is a good eater, a good sleeper and plays well with others. She is extremely vocal and talks very well for her age. She can say difficult words and makes completely sentences. We have so much fun engaging her in conversations and asking her to say certain things. She is her daddy made over with the exception of her hair. Below are a few things I want to note so I will remember about Maggie at 2: Nicknames: Maggaroni, Mookie, Margaret, Sissy Favorite Words: She says anything and everything and as I mentioned talks very well, but there are a few words and sayings that are truly hers. Juicy for juice, always says Good Morning when she 1st wakes up and walks to our room, always asks for us to hold her and sign Rock-A-Baby. She also sings this to her baby dolls as well as Ole MacDonald Had a Farm. Chomp-chomp means alligator, snakes means worms. School: She is in Miss Mary Christie's 2 year old class at Leika's and goes one day a week to Mother's Day out. She likes school, but has had a little adjustment switching to Leika's from Mothers Day Out...probably b/c she is required to be quiet and still. =) Foods: Candy!! She loves candy and asks for it all the time. Hot dogs, noodles, peas, chocolate milk, grapes, oranges, corn. She eats pretty much anything. Toys: She loves baby dolls!! Kylie never paid much attention to dolls, so this has been funny to watch. She sings to them, feeds them and rocks them. SHe also loves blocks and crayons. She has drawn on the walls a few times :( Weight: 30 lbs - 75th percentile Height: 35 inches - 75th percentile Happy 2nd Birthday Maggie!!

The Big D

Labor Day weekend we headed to see the Tide play at Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. One word sums it up...AWESOME. I am convinced I will never see another ballgame from a better venue. It is pretty incredible. We decided to save some $$$ and make the drive to Dallas versus flying. It really was not a bad drive at all. Our friends, Beau and LauraBeth Boyd, rode with us and it made for a fun road trip. LauraBeth is pregnant and she was most certainly a trooper on this trip!! On the way to Dallas, we stopped in Downtown Shreveport to spend the night and do some gambling. My Aunt and Uncle were there as well so we had dinner with them and hit the blackjack tables. It was a fun start to the weekend! Friday morning,we got up bright and early to get on the road to Dallas. We made it there by about 1pm. We stayed in Downtown Dallas for the weekend, so upon arriving on Friday we decided to go explore.

I think I could get used to the City life =). We visited the Grassy Knoll and the Book Depository Friday afternoon -- the scenes from where the shooting of JFK occured. They still to this day have an "X" marked on the exact spot indicating where he was shot while parading down Elm Street. It gave me chills. After touring, we headed to Market Street for drinks and met up with our friends from Montgomery, Russ and Lynsey Ann. We then met up with some of Lee's fraternity brothers (one of whom lives in Tyler, TX and hooked us all up with tickets, etc) and headed back to the hotel to get cleaned up and gather our group. Hammond, our Texas friend, made reservations for us at a cool Tex-Mex place in Uptown. We had such a good time catching up and meeting new friends. After dinner, we headed to Gilley's, a famous Dallas music hall. Gilley's hosted a private scholarship fundraiser for Carson Tinker's (Alabama's long snapper) girlfriend, Ashley Harrison. Ashley died in the Tuscaloosa tornado. The UA Alumni and her family hosted a fundraiser at Gilley's for s scholarship in her name. It was a pretty cool event, even the UA President attended. After hanging out and meeting up with more friends, we took a cab back to Uptown and went to Katy Trail Ice House for a night cap. I had so much fun exploring Uptown in Dallas. Highly recommend this area if you ever visit. On Saturday...we woke up excited for Game Day! We could not wait to get to Arlington and see the stadium. We had an awesome brunch at Ozona's. So fab! Ozona's is located near the SMU campus. We got to see a bit of SMU while on the way as well as the George Bush, Jr. Presidential Library. My favorite part of Ozona's was the bloody mary bar. They bring you a shot of vodka of your choice and you go to the bar and fix your bloody mary however you like. Here is a pic of mine, loaded with olives, shrimp and pepper! Yummo!

After brunch, we headed to Arlington to begin gameday festivities. Arlington is about 15 minutes from downtown Dallas and is pretty much in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth. When we drove up to the stadium, we were in awe. It looked like a cool, modern, giant UFO! Haha, very neat and unlike any stadium I have ever seen.

Beau saved us by buying a parking pass that allowed us to park right outside of our gate. So nice to be right by where we needed to pick up our tickets and it made leaving the game so easy! We all took our pics outside the stadium before walking to tailgate (you can tell in the pictures that we got there early b/c there are no cars in the lot! ha).

Me and LB

Beau and Lee We then walked to the Gallette's/Innisfree tailgate for yellow hammers. We saw so many people we knew, it was fun. It was also HOT. It is hot here at home, but this was a scorching hot. I had to look down at my feet several times b/c I seriously felt like they were burning off of my body. I also wore skinny jeans which was not a good move. It was so hot that they became even skinnier...I was dying! I felt like I was on the episode of Friends where Ross has on the leather pants and can't get them off. Haha! Pretty funny. At least there were cold drinks!

Selma boys at the Innisfree tailgate Finally, 4 o'clock rolled around and the stadium opened. We headed straight to pick up our tickets and go enjoy our box seats!!!!

Our box right on the 50 and filled with tons of friends!

A pic of one of the many lounges outside of the box area

our view -- the jumbo-tron at Cowboy Stadium is 80 yards long!! HUGE! It is said to have cost $100mm. It is so big, we had to force ourselves to look at the field.

Here's to another fun-filled football season!!!!

Roll Tide!!!