Monday, February 27, 2012

TN Visit Part I

I finally got to go visit my family again!!  It's been since last April/May that I got to see my family.  The boys and I got to go Thurs. Jan 19th - Sun. Feb 12th!  Cameron hasn't been able to go to TN since 2 Christmas's ago, so he got to meet up w/ us 2 weeks later, Thurs., Feb. 2nd.  We got to do a ton, and it was so nice to be home for so long!!

Dallas invited me to go to my first Nashville Preditor's Hockey games w/ his wife, Paige (they're prego!!!!), and in-laws Saturday, Jan 21st.  It was so much fun, and they had great seats!


Across the way up in a box seat, can you guess who it is?  She's the blonde one and she's married to one of the players.  Carrie Underwood!  Yep, that's the best I got to see of her too, but it was pretty cool she was there too.

Half time was a figure skater jugglings fire.  It was really cool.

I also came across this girl during half-time!  My good friend Danielle.  She said she saw me on the big screen...

that's right, this very same big screen (just imagagine me on it).  I made the big screen, which made my night even more!!  Anways, I was so excited to see Danielle, so we made plans to meet up for lunch later on in my visit.


And finally the ticket, to document the experience.  We got a free frosty after the game b/c they scored more than 4 points (I think they scored 5)!

Leah was nice enough to share her room w/ us while we were there.  Actually, we got to be bed buddies until Cameron got there.  Connor slept in the room w/ us and Gammy and Gampa shared their room w/ Cade.  Aren't they wonderful?!  Cade loved every second of it.

Tuesday we got to go to wrestling match for Hunter and LeGrand.  They focused on the seniors and introduced them along w/ their parents.  It was a pretty proud moment, and they also announced that LeGrand had never been pinned in his whole high school wrestling career.  Pretty cool right?  They also gave them a fleece blanket w/ the Blackman logo and their names and school year on it.

Gammy go the boys ring pops, Connor and Hannah were showing off their tongues.



Dallas came by almost everyday, it really meant a lot to me :)

LeGrand won this match, he's the one to the right.  He had surgery on his knee a while back and it's messing up again :(  But fast forward a few weeks, he got to go to State and placed 2nd, even w/ his bad knee!  Great Job LeGrand!!

Hannah left early w/ the boys, I thought they looked so cute walking out together.

My brother, Spencer, and his wife came to visit from Knoxville for most of the time while I was there.  This is their cute little daughter Kayleen, she is the most petete little thing ever!  She's about 14 months old.


Wednesday I refurbished my mom's end table.  (We were supposed to do that coffee table for my sister Seren too, but I never got around to finishing it).

I painted it a very light aqua blue and added stain to dirty it up.


The pictures aren't the greatest, but it looks a ton better.  My mom got this cute lamp to go on top of it.  Love it!


Me, Momma and Hannah relaxing after all the hard work.

Next to come is my visit to Bonny's in Georgia!

Saturday, February 25, 2012

My New Etsy Shop!

I really really want a Bosch mixer! So, I have been trying to come up with a way to make a little extra money to buy one. I finally came up w/ the idea to make and sale items. A few days ago I made this a reality!! I have some more items I plan on selling, so keep an eye out for those. I'm thinking, little boys ties and aprons? We'll see when I actually get those up! So, please check out my Etsy, let me know what you think. :)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Bonny Blue Bows, Special Offer!!!

Hey everyone!! My sister Bonny needs spending money for when she comes to visit me in April!! So please, please check out her bow blog and buy some bows. They're all adorable and really great priced. She gets your order made and sent out in record time. She has a special going on right now, buy 4 bows, get the 5th free..plus free shipping!!!  Check her out here: www.bonnybluebows.blogspot.com

Just a few examples:



Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Happy 29th Birthday Cameron!!

Happy 29th to this man, a New Year's baby!!!  We actually started celebrating Cameron's birthday a day early.  We went to Famous Dave's for his birthday lunch the day before.  If you didn't know, you can sign up for their birthday club or something, and they send you a buy one entree get one free...so we got a great deal!  We also went out shopping after to buy our New Years outfits.

The next morning I let Cameron sleep in and made hime breakfast in bed.  I tried out a new Breakfast Casserole recipe.  It tasted great!

Then that afternoon after church we had Cameron's brother Dave and his family over for dinner and cake.  Cameron never lets me branch out and make something new, so here's his always requested Yellow Cake w/ chocolate frosting.

I forgot I ran out of candles, so I used the balloon candles from the boy's b-day last  year.

Cameron is one good lookin' guy for being 29 huh?! ;)

Mason, Ellie, Cade and Connor enjoying cake and Ice cream.  Thanks Dave, Lisa, Mason, Ellie and Cassidy for joining us for Cameron's big day!  Oh!  They also made Cameron 2 big plates full of Kim Pop, a Korean style Sushi, it was amazing!

So once again, Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband, Cameron!  I'm so happy he's in my life, he never ceases to make like fun and exciting.  He's a great daddy and friend.  I love you Cam!