What's been going on????

Wow, I have got to get better at this blogging thing!  I read blogs all the time (loving my friend Beth's blog right now, she has inspired me to be a better blogger) and then I think about how sad mine is.  I mean come on, we are always on the go and my kids say and do the funniest things so why don't I post move about what going on with us!  So let's play a little catch up!

For starters have you seen my kids lately, wow they are growing up and I must say very cute!  Madi is 8 and Garrett is 10.  Madi is dancing, dancing dancing these days and Garrett is playing his guitar, his banjo, the harmonica & the washboard tie Madi got him, if its an instrument he wants to be playing it!

When I say Madi has been dancing I mean it.  This is her first year to do dance competition and it has been our life for the past couple of month.  A couple of weeks we have practiced 4 nights during the week and competed on the weekend.  Everyone that said it would only take one competition to make her love it was right, oh and it only took one to get me roped in too!  

We love it and we love Encore Performance Company!

I am not sure where I left off on our travels with my last post but lets see we have been to Disney World in November, Nashville in December, Memphis in January, had an Anniversary trip to Gatlinburg in February, back to Gatlinburg for a girls trip in March and to Calloway Gardens in Georgia in March too!  I love love love to travel and I think its staring to rub off on the rest of my Lawson Loves!  YAY!

Right now all my spare time has been reading these amazing books!  And luckily my sweet momma is reading them too so went to see the movie on Friday.  Amazing, can't wait to finish the other 2 books and wait for them to come out in theaters!

And as for my wonderful, amazing, loving husband......  As I am sure you can guess he has been fishing!  Loving the warm weather and all of the new toys he got on his boat.

Blogging, Blogging, Blogging....

Thats what I need get back to doing! It just seems like life has been so busy. We are on the go all the time but thats how it was when I was growing up so I am used to it. School, dance, softball & now cheerleading. But Madi loves it so its worth it all. Garrett just started back to guitar lessons & of course he is enjoying it.
We had a fun summer and are ready for fall! We have been to our first Bama game of the season, it was a W so RTR! We have been spending Saturdays cheering on the little Blue Devils. There is just something about park football that I love! Everytime I hear that Kenny Chesney song Boys of Fall it takes me back, ahh the memories!
School is in full force for the kids, 3rd grade for Madi & 4th for Garrett, wow my babies are growing up. Oh & of course room mom for me, you would think I would learn to stop signing up, yeah right, I love it!
The most exciting thing right now is I am counting down the days to DISNEY! I say I because the kids don't know and well I don't think Greg is counting down to the trip. Only 50 more days until we head to Orlando. I am soooo excited!

Fun Filled Weekend

I have to say this was a great weekend! Friday night we took the kids to the drive in to watch Marmaduke. It was a really cute movie and it was so nice being outside. We love going to the drive in, the price is great and it is so nice to be sitting under the stars. Saturday we spent the day swimming at Nita & Lamar's, the weather was great, the kids loved being in the pool. Then we came home and grilled and had of course smores (I think the kids ask for them every weekend). Sunday we went to church and had lunch at Stix (another thing the kids ask for every weekend) and then spent the afternoon at the lake. We had so much fun this weekend. I love my family and the time we spend together!

My little ballerina takes the stage tonight!

Tonight is Madi's big night on stage. She will be performing at the Alabama Theater. This is her 5th time to take the stage in a recital, we are only considering it her 4th year of dance since her first year was Mommy & Me and yes I was on stage dancing with her that year. I try not to think about that day! My friend Susan says that there is no way that she can count this as Sydney's 5th year of dance if I didn't count it as Madi's because she went on vacation the week of Mommy & Me recital and did not perform! I love Madi taking dance and it is really special to me and my mom because she takes from my dance teacher Miss Kim, who we love dearly. I can't wait to see my little ballerina take the stage again tonight....

Growing Kids

Garrett finished up school last week, so next year he will be a big 3rd grader, where has the time gone, I can remember him being so little when Greg and I started dating. He was in the nursery at church and now he is 8! This was Madi's last week of 1st grade, my little girl is growing up so fast. Tuesday was her awards program in her class, each of the students got to read a page from their journal that they write in daily. She look like such a big girl standing up there reading to her classmates and parents. She received several awards and ribbons. She finished up 1st grade making A-B honor roll all year! She won the talent show in her class a few weeks ago and today was the school talent show. She looked so nervous waiting on her turn to come. I kept looking over at her hoping that her nerves would not get the best of her. When it came to her turn, she got up, took the microphone and did so good. It was just precious! I was so proud of her and so was the rest of her cheering section (Poppie, Big Mama, Nana & Ashley). I just want to keep the kids little forever, I feel like they will be grown before I know it. I just love being a mommy to those little devils... I mean angels!

Mother's Day

I had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day weekend! I got to spending Friday night & Saturday morning catching up with Holly, who is a new mommy, it was GREAT to chat with her & to hold her little princess Bella. I have to get my baby fix every once in a while! Saturday I spent the day with my 2 favorite girls, my mom & Madi, we spent the day doing what we do best, Shopping! We have trained Madi well, she is now loving to shop, of course only for herself. We had lunch at a YUMMY new place a friend told me about and of course we had to get another YUMMY snack at the mall. Greg took me out to Firebirds Saturday night for dinner, we had to go childless, of course it was Madi's weekend to stay at mom's and she knew it, so even Mother's Day wasn't stopping her! Sunday I got to spend some time with my "mother-in-love" Barbara, we got to spend some time with her for Mother's Day & her birthday. I love going over there & watching movies with them, however at one time yesterday I think I was the only one awake watching the movie. Sunday night I spent great time with Madi laying her bed and snuggling before she went to sleep. I love my life, it is the best, I am so blessed & have so much to be thankful for.......

Talent Show

Madi got a sign up sheet for a 1st grade talent show. She has informed me that she is going to play her guitar and sing. She said Brooke, who is a 5th grader that rides her daycare van said that she could sing really good, so that's what she wants to do. I told her the one problem with that is that she does not know how to play her guitar! I am really pushing her toward doing a dance routine that she knows, she is really pushing for singing and playing her guitar. This should be interesting! If all else fails I guess she could play the guitar and sing Smelly Cat, thanks Holly!