Upadating...

1. On Saturday we hosted a cook out for all the April Birthdays from both sides of our family. My mom's, my grandmothers and my mother in laws birthdays. Jennifer came over and helped me make the most fabulous cupcakes, which were a huge hit!

Jennifer and I spent all Friday night baking and icing these babies and I think they turned out perfect! Thanks Jennifer for all your help!

Darrell and I worked our butts off all day Saturday trying to get the yard and house ready for our guest and it all paid off. its amazing how much a little pine straw can do for some crappy flower beds.

2. Yesterday, I had the day off for Confederate Memorial Day and I went to Madison to have lunch with Reed and sweet baby Pearce. He is the sweetest thing ever. I didn't take my camera and he slept during my entire visit anyway so I stole some pictures from Reed & Ryan's blog for your viewing pleasure.

Daddy Ryan says Pearce makes this face when Mom makes him watch Oprah.

And apparently after diaper changes Pearce does the Solja Boy because he's soooooo happy to be clean!

Anyhow, so after my lunch date with Pearce I went home to vacuum and Darrell and I tried to plan out an anniversary trip. Which brings me to #3.

3. Trying to plan a trip or occasion in our house is pointless. He can't make a decision so it's left up to me and then I don't want to make the decision by myself so we just don't make any decisions at all. After looking at several places to "go" we are now staying in town. Which is fine by me because I feel like we are always on the go anyway. So for Saturday I scheduled us a couples massage at Barnett's. As of right now Darrell is going but I imagine he'll freak out by Friday and I'll be going alone. I need to call back and ask them what would happen if he backed out and I didn't cancel - hopefully that would mean a 2 hour massage for me! I need to look into that! Then he has some surprise planned. I'm sure he'll spill the beans by Friday, because he doesn't do well with secrets. If there's something you don't want me to know, don't tell Darrell or my sister.

4. Last week at the weigh in Darrell gained and I lost 1. We have another weigh in tonight. Darrell has already weighed in so he didn't have to miss (God forbid) the Ole Miss v. Southern Miss baseball game in Pearl. He gained. Great. I don't know what the heck I am going to do. I feel like I've lost and sometimes even look like it but the scales generally have a different story to tell.

5. I know my goal was to be skinner on our anniversary than I was on our wedding and I am ashamed to say that I haven't met the goal exactly but I have lost 20 lbs. since January and kept it off so I figure that's a pretty big accomplishment in its self. I am officially going back to the gym next week, and I'm still determined to break the 130s. And, whenever that happens, I'm treating myself to a full spa day. No questions asked.