All I can say is . . .

...if Friday had a face I would kiss it.

This has been a super crazy week at work and I can't wait to get out of the office.  We had a client event Wednesday night and I'm still recuperating.  I don't drink at client events so it wasn't that I was hung over or anything, it was just a lot of work.  I mean a lot.  I got home late and that threw my whole sleep cycle (which is "delicate" to begin with!) off and I didn't fall asleep until 4 AM.  And the alarm clock went off at 6.  So Thursday I was working off 2 hours of sleep and it wasn't pretty.  My eyes were so red and I had the worst bags.  I was a complete Zombie that day.  Fortunately I was cozy in bed by 9:30 PM Thursday and slept great.  I feel good today and definitely have more energy than yesterday!

KJ had a fabulous time @ Prom last weekend despite the crazy wind and extremely cold, unseasonable temps!  Her hair and make-up looked gorgeous, her dress was perfect on her (a couple of gay guys told her "your boobs look FANTASTIC!"), they had a wonderful dinner at 3 Forks, on to Prom @ the Hyatt Regency and then went to a post-prom party.  Next weekend we'll be at our Girl's weekend and the following weekend is FloMo's prom. 

KJ arrived in NYC safe and sound and is (obvi) having the time of her life.  Last night they saw Sponge Bob on Broadway and walked around Times Square.  Today they had real New York pizza, black & white cookies and rented bikes in Central Park.  Say what you want but Cos girls know how to have fun! 

In other news, my roses (well, technically they are Cosmo's roses because he's really the one that takes care of them) look fabulous this spring!  Cosmo did some maintenance and they came back with a vengeance!  Very lush, very full, very beautiful deep rich color.  One rose bush is a vibrant pink, the other two are a deeper pink. I'm so ready to get my patio décor out but the weather has been less than stellar the last couple of weekends.  And apparently this weekend is supposed to be ugly, too. 

Spring into Summer Already???

Busy as a bee the next couple of weeks.  I think we're are booked until July and then August will be taken over with moving KJ to Ole Miss and all the good stuff that comes with that . . . shopping, packing, unpacking, etc. 

Tomorrow is Marcus' prom and I love KJ's dress.  It's very casual, very flowy and has a pretty print.  She is also going to Flo Mo's prom May 5 and I love that dress, too!  It's a V-neck, more streamlined silhouette, with tiers.  She's getting her hair and make-up professionally done again this year for her  prom, not sure what she's doing for Flo Mo's. 

Although she had senior photos done last year a couple of times last year (at the studio the yearbook uses for those dorky cap and gown pics) and with a local studio, we wanted some fun things for her graduation announcements.  Her friend Averie is really into hair and make-up and her sister Madison took the pics earlier this week at TWU and they came out awesome!  I kinda like them more than the expensive fancy professional portraits I paid an arm and a leg for! 

Next Friday she leaves for NYC for a few days and the week after that we're having our girls weekend in Ox with friends.  Coach has some traveling to do this month and next and we also have Freshman Orientation @ Ole Miss in May.  Graduation is mid-June so I've taken some vacation days to be with my family and then the girls leave for Iceland for 10 days.  KJ will be spending some time in B'ham with T again this summer.  Coach has already bought their Slossfest tixs.  She luvs, luvs, luvs having an older sister with her own apartment. 

T has been keeping busy this spring, too.  They've gone camping a few times, she had a bachlerette party in Nashville, she's getting ready to move into a house, etc. 

And Another Surprise!

So over Easter I was the one surprised but the following weekend it was my parent's turn!  They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and my brother and I threw them a fantastic party (actually, not so much me.  and not so much my brother.  More like, "my wonderful sister-in-law threw them a fantastic party!").  I couldn't do much being so far away so she organized everything and I wrote a couple of checks.  My parents were positively floored and we had a wonderful time! 

The month of May was pretty busy with typical end of year stuff -- end of year lax games, end of year lax tournament, KJ played in the Junior vs. Senior powder puff football game, she was inducted into the Spanish National Honor Society, our beautiful niece extended her business trip and stayed with us a couple of days, KJ had a blast at prom and my hotel was the host property for the Texas Elvis Festival over Memorial Day weekend! 

June is just as busy -- Coach starts men's league this week, he flew to Denver last week to visit w/ his college buds and they went to a Rockies game and the Metallica concert.  This weekend we're going to the Texas Rangers game.  I'm not sure who they're playing.  While KJ's been in Costa Rica, Coach and I have been tooling around town in her cute little convertible and spent Sunday at the local lake.  Of course, now Coach wants a boat.  I'm not opposed to a boat, I just don't know much about them. 

KJ left for Costa Rica on Thursday and is having the time of her life!  They've been white water rafting, zip lining, they hiked to a waterfall and swam, kayaked, went to a pineapple farm, visited a coffee plantation and also went to a chocolate farm.  One night they did a late night rain forest tour and she said it was wild!  She has seen SO much wildlife -- she said howler monkeys were on their bungalow roof one day, lizards and iguanas are everywhere, frogs (poisonous ones!), a bunch of different birds, etc. 

T and Johnny Frat Boy are going out west for a hiking/camping trip the end of June.  On there way back they are stopping in Dallas and taking KJ back with them for a week.  I think they have plans to go to Sloss Fest and then she'll fly home the day after.  And a few days after she gets back home, I am scheduled for a hysterectomy.  I haven't been feeling well at all the last couple of months and had an ultrasound in February.  At the time they found several little fibroids that were about 1 to 1 1/2 cm each.  They have grown rapidly and now are over 3 cm each.  And I have a cyst on my left ovary.  And severe endometreosis.  And scar tissue from my two C-sections.  So.  Go me! 

Couldn't Get Any Crazier

This was quite possibly one of the craziest weeks in Cos Fam history. Holy cow. We are all completely mentally and physically exhausted. I slept for almost 15 hours last night and am still tired.

Cosmo was in Memphis for a couple of days and then had to get ready for DALC weekend (which I like to refer to as: "Damn! Additional Lacrosse Crap!"). It is a grueling weekend for him and he's pulled in a million different directions. On a positive note, however, he found out he has been selected to coach a national team for the 2012 Champion All-American Showcase. It's a US Lacrosse event and includes an all-expenses paid trip to Disney World! Whoop! Whop! So happy for him and incredibly proud! He will be coaching a team made up of players from all over the country. It's a great honor and well deserved. One of the guys from US Lacrosse told him he should have been nominated years ago for the work he's done promoting lacrosse in the South and I think this year he's also eligible for the lacrosse hall of fame.

Friday was prom for T-bone. So bittersweet. I can not believe she's graduating in a few short weeks. We had a really nice lunch before her hair appointment and then Seth picked her up at 5 PM for photos at the Botanical Gardens. Unfortunately, Cosmo wasn't really paying attention when I told him where to meet us and instead of driving to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, he drove to Aldridge Gardens.

It was so awesome to see all the kids dressed up! Luv, luv, luv all the different gowns! Pastels were big this year, a lot of black as always, saw some lace this year, some white and some brights, too. In years past, prints were big but I didn't see many print dresses this year and thankfully, those awful cut-out dresses seem to be going away. T spends so much time in work-out clothes because of dance and lax so she luvs, luvs, luvs the opportunity to go glam!

After photos they went to dinner, after dinner they went to prom and after prom they all went back to a friends house. I didn't sleep well Friday night; just get so nervous when the kids are out on the road all night. T woke up early Saturday AM to help her dad at DALC and they went out with their lax family for dinner after the tournament. T met up with some friends afterward and they both left the house super early this morning for the last day of DALC. She's been on the go all weekend. I don't know how she does it.

Had to be up bright & early Saturday AM for KJ's volleyball tournament. Her team was the ONLY undefeated team the ENTIRE tournament and won the tourney for their age group. It was SO much fun and those girls played their little hearts out! All of the parents rushed onto the court when they won and did a big cheer with the girls. She had a friend sleep over last night and now she's running around at the baseball fields. Meanwhile, I have so much laundry to catch up on it's not even funny.

Easter Sunday

What a nice, wonderful, relaxing Easter Sunday! Just the 4 of us and a yummy spiral ham! It was so nice, we decided to take dinner and ate out on the back deck. We just really needed a good family day. Cosmo had been in Dallas all week (and spent Tuesday afternoon in a stairwell during the tornadoes -- scary stuff!). He got home late Friday night and Saturday evening we helped friends celebrate their son's recent marriage.

We spent most of the day looking at old photo albums and did a lot of reminiscing. T was a very, very serious baby but is now a very silly adult. KJ was a very silly, happy baby but is turning into a serious teenager. She still comes up with some one-line zingers and is a smart ass but she was a much happier baby than T. You could not get T to smile in ANY baby photos! It was so aggravating!

I got a lot of photos off my camera and spent some time organizing my H:drive. I had a bunch of KJ's vball tournaments still on my camera, some lax photos and mine & T's recent trip to Ole Miss. And now we're gearing up for another crazy week . . . a couple of lax games (T & Cosmo), senior prom (wth???), DALC and a vball tournament. Sheesh.

Don't Blink

The next couple of weeks are going to go by so fast! I'm afraid if I blink, I'll miss something!

Still trying to recouperate after Spring Break but we hit the ground running yesterday with lacrosse and volleyball practices. T & I are headed to Oxford later in the week while Coach has lax games scheduled in Memphis. Prom is barely two weeks away, we've got a wedding celebration, a bridal shower and another wedding, lax championships, I think we've got a vball tournament in there somewhere, a couple of end of year parties and then high school graduation! Whoop! Whoop! Truly, where did the time go? Wasn't I just putting this child on the bus to kindergarten???

"Time is free, but it's priceless.

You can't own it, but you can use it.

You can't keep it, but you can spend it.

Once you've lost it, you can never get it back"