Learning how to let go.....

....for the record.....

I am NOT so good at it!!

But as time does, it marches on, and there comes a day when you MUST let your baby fly....

"Mama, you taught me to do the right thing.....

Now it's time to let your baby fly....."

Yes Carrie (Underwood), I know, but it just doesn't make it any easier =)

My baby will be turning 19 on Saturday (oh.my.stars.) and will be MOVING IN TO HIS DORM

the following Friday. 

So let me get this straight.....

My baby will turn 19 in less than a week,

and will be moving out of my house in less than two weeks!!!

Oh for the love of Nutter Butter Blizzards (his fav right now =)

So in honor of my needing to let go and having a hard time and wanting to eat AN ENTIRE CARTON OF COOKIE OVERLOAD!!!!!

We will blog instead =)

This is my boy and how he rolls.....

Yes that is a real place not to far from here that he likes to frequent with his friends.....

So cool.....

And no it is not green like this.....

thank you Photo Shop and Liza for your expertise (she is 16).....

 I love this picture.....

This is my sweet, beautiful, long-legged boy.....

 To say my heart is tender toward this blonde haired, now brown again (thank you hair dye =) beautiful hazel eyed boy is a HUGE understatement!! .....

 I've decided to embrace the craziness of college and go with the flow.....

Because I have so many other choices right?  =)  heehee

 Just because I can ~~ your welcome =)

 So these are my two lovelies....

Dak and Legs.....

Both leaving for college in less than two weeks....

Our house will be SO quiet.....

These two make it SO loud =) !!!!!

We'd have it NO other way!!!!!

 Straight up LOVE this picture!!!!!



 Bought Dak new shoes for school this weekend, and this morning told him we'd be throwing the old ones away, I thought he was gonna do a dance he was so happy....

Yep, he had run, tennised and worked his way right out of these beauts.....

But he got a lot of miles out of the old boys.....

=)

 I love this boy so!!!!!  I know the next two weeks are just gonna FLY by!!!!!

I've already taken the day off for the 19th of August.....

I have boxes at the ready.....

And a willing heart to see all that God will do in my babies life.....

I love you Dak ~~ you rock my world!!!!!

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On a little different note:

Just wanted to ask you to pray for our sweet Georgia.

She fell here on Friday evening at Sir Cuteness's b-day party and messed her knee up good.

It looks awful!!!

But she had a funeral and a wedding yesterday and attended both and I'm sure was at church this morning, crutching it out, because that is the way she rolls =)

Please pray for her.....this knee thing is NOT good!!!

Thank you SO much!!

Have a Blessed Sunday ~~

Random Friday ~~

Happy Friday and since it's Friday,

You know what that means.....

Yep.....

Randomness!!!

So let's get started.....

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I am in another Scrapbook Class and this time it is 12 Challenges in 4 weeks and so far I've done every one except for the current one, but I have some ideas for it. 

This is the finished page for my second challenge.

You had to take a picture and make it the canvas.

So I took a pic of Dak and Legs from Baccalaurete and added just a few embellies.

I edited it in Picnik (Thank you RJ =) and I LOVE the way it turned out!!

 In our third challenge, we were asked to use the color orange.

Since orange doesn't go with ANY thing I have going right now,

I decided to make a little mini for my baby sis.

She had asked me to write down my free-weight exercise routine,

so I thought "Why not make it cute?" and use orange.

My camera is doing something funky,

but this is how it turned out.....

 Here is the inside.....

All the writing is my routine.

I wrote it in pencil so baby sis can erase my lbs, reps and sets as needed.

She loved it!!!

 Sir Cuteness has been taken pictures again.

Too funny =)

 This picture cracks.me.up. 

Sir Cuteness had on these two different shoes the other night, and not just for a little while, but for practically the whole evening.

So I tried and tried to get a picture and he kept running away, laughing and giggling all the way.

So when I downloaded these pics, it included a lot of pics that Sir Cuteness had taken with my camera, and there was this one.

I tried SO hard to take a pic for y'all and he'd already done it.

Why thank you Sir Cuteness =)     Hahahahahaha ~~

 Yep more Sir Cuteness photo's .....  =)

 My pics are all out of order, but I wanted to show you this one as well.

This was my first Challenge in this new Scrapbook Class.

You had to take a pattern from everyday life and implement it into a scrapbook page.

So I took a basketweave pattern from a basket that sits on my computer desk and adapted that to fit my scrapbook page.

I did a basketweave on my page and then collaged Dak and Legs from a Baccalauraette picture and then collaged a pic of a chair from our college visit day of the college Dak will be attending, and also added a stack of books and our shoes from the same day.

So cute!!!  I was really happy with the result.

We've been SO busy around here.

I have lots of fun stuff to share with you and am hoping to maybe get a video up this weekend.

Have a Super Blessed Day ~~

SOAR 2011 ~~ Freshman Orientation ~~

So Thursday and Friday was Dak's Freshman Orientation at MSU. 

It was so fun and a little scary at first,

but in true Dak fashion,

he SOARED!!!

Here is Dak and I leaving on Thursday. 

See how nervous he looks.....

Yep, Starbucks helped =)

This is what we saw standing in line. 

So pretty and poignant....

Okay, so loosening up =)

Yep, I did the mom thing for two days....

It was magical!....

I know this is blurry, but you know how sometimes your kid just does the look that is completely them?...  

Yep, this is a Dak look. 

I LOVE this look!!!!!

And this one.....

We spent some time in some beautiful arcitecture....

This guy you see here is Dak's mini-me....

too funny!!

After dinner, Dak wanted to stay and bowl with the SOAR leaders.

Yeah, I was down with that. 

I sat and laughed and took pictures and made new friends at my age.....

It was a GOOD day!!!

One of the SOAR leaders ~~ really funny guy!!

Dak, getting his bowl on.....

Then Friday we brought Sir Cuteness and Legs with us.....

Oh my stars....did he ever have fun at college.....

 

So MSU is home of the Bears....

So this giant bear is right in front of the Student Union....

HI!!

Ok so this was suppose to be me saying STOP,

instead it looks like me surfing on the bear =)

hahahahaha

Me and Sir Cuteness.....

He is hugging me SO tight right here .....  I love this boy so!!!!!

One of my FAVORITE pictures!!!!!

He was absolutely taken by the bear's tail.

Cracked.us.up.

For the love people..... 

=)

Oh.my.stars.

LOVE.

Legs is my girl.....

Totally my girl!!!!!

Okay so this is another fav.....

Sir Cuteness was ALL about the fountain.....

And what a BEAUTIFUL fountain it is.....

So are you wondering where all the pics of Dak are for Friday?

Yeah, we didn't get a SINGLE PIC of him on Friday.

He was so busy getting his schedule worked out and then we had to go to the bookstore and reserve his books and then go to financial aide and get that worked out too.

So much to do on one of these visits. 

But we did it and move in day is August 19th.

I am so happy and sad all at the same time.

I am already checking out the parent page and figuring out what I can do to make it really special for Dak.

I got a few tricks up my sleeve =)

If anybody has any fun things I can do for him, please let me know.

Also, Legs and K are moving in the same day, same school, so looking for some fun and thoughtful things to do for them to, and remember I am a mama and grandmama of ALL boys, so except for being a girl myself, I am a little challenged in that area =)

So there you have it, our SOAR day ~~ it was SO fun and SO informative ~~

Dak also got the head of his department for an advisor.  He is so pumped!!

He has art classes downtown, so he is double pumped!!!

Love you so ~~