That's My Sister

Look who showed up on the front page of the sports section in our local newspaper....

I really can put together any other words that can express how I feel except this...

I'm super proud of you sister.  This is so well deserved.  Congratulations!!

El Maton National Hall

I realized I failed to share some pictures from our adventures last weekend.  Last month when we were at my cousin's for their annual crawfish boil, all of us cousins decided we needed to get together and go dancing in El Maton again.  We did this two years ago and had so much fun.  So we threw out a bunch of dates, gave them to the cousin in charge of making the call and waited for the set date. It turned out to be last Friday.  All week long I was actually thinking about not going.  Problem was that I was not sleeping at all last week. I could not shut my head down when I laid down at night so I was dragging ass every day, and it only got worse as the week progressed.  Thursday night I finally slept!! I fell asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow, and you know what, I've been sleeping good since then.  I was still thinking about not going but once I talked to my brother Tony and he offered to drive, I was good to go.

Oh gosh, the memories we have going dancing at this hall as kids.  Summers spent with my cousins tearing up this dance floor are ones I'll cherish forever.  Still have the wooden floors...

My cousin Diane and I...

Can you see that family resemblance?

What was really cool about this night is there was no band.  You read that right.  No band.  We played music from the jukebox which was full of the old classics as well as the new stuff.  The Vyvial cousins had the place to ourselves for the evening.  Where else can you reserve a dance hall (at no cost), bring snacks, play the music you want to hear and have an entire dance floor to yourself?  Oh my gosh, we had so much fun.  The bar was open and set-ups were available.  We all brought plenty of quarters for the jukebox and pool tables and bills for our beer.  We arrived around 8:30 and closed that place down at 2:00 am!!  Nobody left early.  Everyone stayed until they told us we had to go home.   About halfway through the night, Tony started declaring that we need to do this every month. We all agreed and then laughed because we knew it wouldn't happen.  We agreed July was too busy with vacations so we thought about getting together in August before school starts back up, but then we realized that's harvest time so may not be good.  See, already issues.  Ha!  

Here's our crew for the night....

  

Our hope is to get more family and friends join us each time.  Never a dull moment with this crew, and always a fun time.

Hope y'all have a great weekend!  

Vacation Time is Coming

You gotta love FB.  I totally agree with this one though! I need a vacation!!

That vacation will begin in 30 days! Its less now because I started this dadgum post last week.  I think it was last week?? See...vacation much needed!

The kids and I will be going to the river prior to heading to the beach house this year. In fact, we will miss the first 3-4 days of beach house because we'll be on another trip. We've known for almost a year that we would be gone this particular weekend but when it came time to book the beach house, this was the best week for everyone else in the family. It's all good. The kids are excited about our trip. Case in point tonight. We ventured to Academy to check out floats for the river. I was afraid we had already waited too long but we totally lucked out. Christopher was so pumped about his pick, he went to blowing it up when we finally made it home. 

And here he is trying it out...on the floor in my room...fully clothed. Weirdo.  

He also picked up a Texas flag beach towel and has swimming trunks on order.  Can you tell he's a proud Texan?  I loved the tube he chose but ended up going with the same one as Bella.  It has connectors attached to the ropes on the tubes so I can hook her to me and not lose her.  This will be her first time floating the river so I'm a tad bit nervous.  Excited.  But nervous.  Anyway, we have our list for the river started and will soon begin the list for the beach house.  I personally can not wait until my vacation begins.  It takes everything I have these days to get out of bed while my kids are out for the summer.  I hope y'all are lucky enough to have some time off.  

Cheers to summer break!!     

Happy Daddy's Day

To the best Daddy a girl could have, and the best Pop to my children. We are pretty lucky to have him on our side. I love Daddy...