is it wrong...

to laugh at your own blog post?  My wonderful sister-in-law is, right at this very moment, in labor in Atlanta.  Filled with anticipation to hear that my new little nephew Jackson has made his arrival, I started reminiscing on Sully's birth.  So I re-read my own "birth story" that I blogged last year.  I laughed out loud (and maybe cried a little).  A re-post felt completely necessary, so here goes...

http://simplysoulshine.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-sully.html

(cue Steve Carell in a TV ad for The Office)

Mom:  Ew. Ew. (note that it warranted a double "ew")

Me:  Why are you "ew"-ing at him? 

Mom:  I don't like him at all.  I never have.

Me:  What??? I love him.  Why don't you like him?

Mom:  I don't know.  I've never liked him.

Me:  You've GOT to be the only person I know that doesn't like him.  He's so funny.  I don't get it.

Mom:  I just.... don't really like the way he looks.  Okay!


She would kill me if she knew I posted this on my blog but I just couldn't help myself.  Poor Steve Carell never stood a chance, I guess.  Too bad because the day after we had this little convo I heard on the radio that ol' Steve raked in a cool 34 mil in 2009.

pumpkin time

This past weekend Paige, our Mom, and I loaded up the boys and headed out to McLeod's Pumpkin Patch in McBee, SC.  Although the weather was almost unbearably hot, I did manage to snap some great pictures of the boys (and maybe I squeezed in time for some of their famous peach enchiladas w/ a whopping dollop of ice cream)....



Sully



Sully

Brooks, Riley, & Sully

baby Brooks

Riley, Brooks, & Paige

Me and Sully

Riley & Brooks

Riley and Sully

turquoise and orange

Can we just talk for a second about how much I am loving the orange-blue color scheme blazing the trails of the design world.  Not to thwart my handy dandy old faves of blue-brown, black-white-red, red-yellow-blue (wierd, I know) and so on... but these colors are making me want to completely re-think the decor of my house.  Which would probably not fly over well with the hubby considering he detests orange.  It's this whole college football rivalry that can't be truly understood  by anyone who isn't a south carolina native who's been comanded to choose a side - clemson tigers or carolina gamecocks - since they were in diapers.  I'll admit, i'm a guilty party, cheering ferociously for my gamecocks and boo-ing at any sight of anything remotely representing those nasty tigers (purple & orange).  Hence my previous distaste for the color.  But now that I've seen it in the right light (and not pressed up against purple) I'm in love (or a serious like).