Guilty pleasure

I am going to tattle on myself for a minute.....so, Friday I went to Costco to buy completely unnecessary items. I have been dying to read 50 shades of grey, and I saw that they had them, so I tossed a copy in my cart. After checkout, I was reviewing my receipt on my way out the door and to my horror noticed that the guy didn't charge me for the book?!? Oh crap! Many thoughts went through my head, but the thought of walking up to customer service to inform them that they forgot to charge me for my "mommy porn" made me so embarrassed. So when I got to the guy at the door who counts your items in comparison to your receipt, he said "ma'am, does everything look okay on your ticket?".....I quickly said yes....and RAN!!! See Derek....it pays to buy all of those completely unnecessary items, he didn't even count my items :) hehe!

"Ahhh...Poo-Peed"

This past weekend, Derek, Jocelyn and I flew up to Illinois for the England Family Reunion/Grandpa's Farm Auction.  It is not very often that we get to see all of the England clan, so we seized this opportunity to head up North to see the family...and enjoy some much cooler weather!

We flew up Friday and went straight to Grandma and Grandpa's house.  I forgot my camera this night (oops), but we still had so much fun.  Jocelyn decided to NOT take a nap, and crashed hard that night!

Saturday morning was Derek's Grandpa's farm auction.  This was really cool, and like nothing I have ever been to before.  He actually hired an auction company to come in and auction off all of his farm equipment that he has collected over the years.  I would say that "if we didn't live in Texas, we would have bought more"......but, that wasn't the case.  Derek and his Dad are going to have to return to Illinois soon, rent a Uhaul and drive back.  BECAUSE.....we are the proud new owners of one of Grandpa's tractors.  Yes, I know you are all wondering what in the world these City Slickers will be doing with a tractor?  My answer is, I have no idea??!!  It is kinda cool, and of course it has sentimental value.

We have already decided that Derek will be in charge of hauling all of the kiddos around on the tractor for our neighbor hood 4th of July party.

Jocelyn and Daddy on the big tractor

Jocelyn and Grandpa hanging out talking about the auction.

 I have never been to a farm auction before.  It was really cool.  They had all of Grandpa's stuff lined out into rows, and this pick up truck with the auctioneer would ride around and take bids on everything.  They went all day long auctioning off his things. 

 The England Family

 3 Generations of England Men....talking about tractors.

Jocelyn with her Gramma and Grandaddy

I love this picture!  On Saturday night after the auction, we had fried chicken for dinner.  Jocelyn walked around with this chicken leg all night.  She really didn't eat much of it, but she had so much fun!  It was so nice to see all of the England clan, we need to do it more often!

Now onto the explanation of the title of this blog post "Ahhh....poo-peed".  This was not Jocelyn's first time to fly, but it was our first time since she A: was mobile and B: not on a bottle.  So, I knew when I booked our flight home right in the middle of her nap time, I was asking for it.  She did okay until this happened:

Flight Attendant:  "Ladies and Gentlemen, in preparation for landing please make sure your seat belts are fastened and your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position".

PAUSE, INSERT

Jocelyn: (at the TOP of her lungs) "AHHH....POO-PEED", "AHHH....POO-PEED"

For those of you who don't speak toddler, she is informing us that she has just crapped her pants!  Ahh!  Are you kidding me??  She then started to riffle through her diaper bag and reach for her diapers because she wanted her diaper changed NOW!  Since we weren't able to get out of our seats just yet, she continued to yell the above phrase VERY loudly until we landed.  All of the other passengers around us were not so amused.  We were "those" people. 

I think it is time for potty training, what do you think?!?  ;)

Surprise video find!

I know I have already done the Easter post, but I stumbled across this video tonight and just had to post it.  My favorite part is....well, I have two favorite parts...the first is when she "swats" her Poppy for trying to tell her what to do and my second favorite part is at the very end...Enjoy!

Beach babe!

Our neighborhood pool opened a few weekends ago, and we were very excited to get Jocelyn out in the pool to see how she would do.  She loves it!  She does, however, prefer to sit in a chair on the side of the pool sipping her drink and eating goldfish....just like her momma!

see what I mean :)

Crawfish Boil 2012

We had our 2nd annual crawfish boil, and had so much fun.  The weather was great, kind of hot, but awesome.  Our house is right across the street from the park, so it was perfect for the kiddos to be able to get out and play. 

Derek was super serious about this one... 3 pots going with 70lbs of crawfish!

Endless hours of entertainment with bubbles

I can hardly ever get Jocelyn to smile in a picture...unless she is playing with bubbles, so cute!

We had artichoke, corn, mushrooms and potato.  They were so good, but SO hot and spicy!

Will the builder.  Seriously... this is Will, and he built our home.  He was doing his daily drive around checking on homes and pulled up to ask what we were doing.  He left and came back 15 minutes later with 12 pack of beer and ate some crawfish with us.  This neighborhood is pretty close knit, so he knew pretty much everyone.

My Dad and Derek's Dad chatting

My neighbor, Gamze.  I am sure she will kill me for posting this picture....oh well :)

Brady having fun!

Some of our neighbors....yes she is holding a bud light, but I promise that was staged!

We had so much fun, glad everyone was able to come out.  We will make it even bigger and better next year!

Easter

We are officially back up and running.  Our computer crashed while I was trying to do a blog post about a month ago.  AND....we are just now getting around to purchasing a new computer, whew!  So, needless to say....I am a bit behind in blogging. 

We had a great Easter.  We went to church with my family and had a wonderful brunch and egg hunt.  Jocelyn got 3 swim suits, 3 Easter Baskets and a trampoline....that is totally normal right?!?

 We took a family photo before it started raining.  Miss Thang was not up for posing. 

 Jocelyn sporting her Easter bunny ears.  She is also into babies and blankets.  She will literally carry anywhere from 2-4 blankets and 2 babies at one time. 

 Poppy and Lynna (whose names she has mastered....so cute!)

 Miss J heading out for her 1st Easter Egg hunt.  She absolutely loved it!

 May I please draw your attention to this precious dress I found at a resale shop for literally $6.99.  I fell in love, and she had to have it!

 Every bunny gets sunglasses in their Easter baskets, right?

 In the afternoon, we headed over to Derek's parents for an early dinner and another Easter Egg hunt.

 Jocelyn's baskets theme was duckies.  By this point, she was totally into the egg hunt and found all of them.  So much fun!

 She even got her own Easter Egg mini cake....

 which didn't take her very long at all to devour....

Jocelyn and her Gramma and Grandaddy



Opening Day!

This was my very first opening day, and I was very excited to go!  Derek had to work, so I took my sister, and we had a blast!  Also, on a side note, our home computer crashed, ugh!  So, as soon as we get a new one, I will have a few more things to post....so get excited!  These pictures are from my phone. 

 Our seats were in the shade, whew!  The weather that day was absolutely amazing...seeing as though 3 days prior DFW had tornadoes everywhere!

A picture of the 2011 ALCS ring that Derek got today.  Pretty cool!