Sister, Sister, Never Knew How Much I Missed Ya!

There once was a girl named Alison

There were times, she didn't want to be bothered

and times when she wanted to have fun

but most of the time we were side by side.



One day she moved to Texas and she was there for more than 3 years

She would come back to celebrate our birthdays

and I would go to Texas to visit her


Then one day (pretty recently) she decided that she missed me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much that she put her notice in at work and is moving back in 10 DAYS!!!!!

I am sure that I am not the only factor in her decision but that is not my story to tell!
(Mom: get your coffee mugs out I have a feeling there will be a lot of coffee time coming up!)

The After Party (hurst wedding)

Chris and I went to a wedding over the weekend for our friends C.J. and Christina Hurst. It was in Lawerence, KS and I was a bridesmaid so we stayed a few nights at the Holiday Inn, while Nicholas was at home with my sister. It was hard leaving him for the 2 days and nights but I survived and even managed to have a little fun!We met up with some of our old friends. Here are a few pictures of the night. Pictures from the wedding and my dress.... well, that is another story for another time!

Chris and I starting the after party!

me, Nate and  well.....Elmo 

me and Jason

me and Christina

we ordered pizza at Paddy O'Quigley's.
1 hamburger
1 pepperoni
well atleast that's what we thought

as you can see they didn't add too much meat on the pizza not to mention it tasted like spaghetti'o's

and who could forget those shoulder blades! I actually beat this guy at pool without making any of the balls in the hole!

20 Months Old

Nicholas was in bed by 7 tonight. Which is one hour earlier than usual. This kid would not take a nap today. He wasn't paticulary cranky, just on the go go go.

Nicholas LOVES playing with his hot wheels. We have a cool little race track that we bought at a garage sale last month and he puts his cars on it and plays with it numerous times a day. He loves to look at the window and point to every single car that passes by each time saying: car, car, mama do you see car. He loves to get into the snack cabinet and get all the snack bags out one by one. I will give him a snack sometimes and when I do, he loves feeding it to the dogs :-) Tonight I rearranged the snack cabinet and put dog treats in it and put his snacks up in a higher cabinet! He can say a lot of words and and a couple of sentences (that I atleast can understand).

I find Nicholas playing by himself more and more when I am making lunch or dinner. He used to just be right by my side so this is new to me. I look around the corner to check on him and he is just in his room or in the living room playing. It is so cute to watch him do things when he thinks no one is watching!

It's exhausting to be 20 months old!

Date Night

Chris and I went on a date last night! We have been trying to keep up with our date nights but with all the events we are in this year it has been hard to find the money and the time to go. I told him I wanted to do something other than go out to eat and he has been talking about how he wanted to go fishing for weeks now. So we went fishing!

Chris caught this big bad cat fish 

And I caught this ity bity fish! (please excuse the bug on my face)

Miles Ray Frederick

Chris' cousin Diana and her husband Evan had a baby boy! We went to go visit them this evening!

Nick was very excited when we told him we were on our way to meet a new baby: Miles Ray

Miles was born on Thu Jun 7th @ 1:17 am. He was 9 lbs 7 oz and 20 inches

Chris and Miles

Me and Miles

Congrats to Diana and Evan and Kate on the new addition to their family!

Summer Time With Saydee

Aunt Ali came to town to play with Nick and Saydee so we went to Katie's and she played and played

and played

Then Aunt Katie got the pool out and asked Nick and Saydee if they wanted to go swimming. They listened to every word.

And Saydee said "YAAAAA"

Nick thought it was a good idea too, so they played and played

and played. But then Nicholas fell because he wouldn't stop running.

So it was time to get out and cuddle with their mommies.

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Dirt and Worms

We went to Chris' uncles for a bbq yesterday. Chris' cousin has a little boy, Landon who is 3 and he LOVES to play with worms. He introduced these little guys to Nicholas who shares the same fascination. I think I did a pretty good job of not getting freaked out. I can handle worms but frogs...that's another story!

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Sister Time in Texas

Look at this pretty girl. Does she look like she could be my mom?

I went to see my sister over the weekend. The first morning we went to run some errands.
1st stop: Get her oil changed. When we were about ready to leave we overheard two of the employees talking.
One of them finally said: Are you guys sisters?
We said "yeah"
The other said "oh, I didn't know if you you guys were mom and daughter."
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? is what I thought with laughter in my head! Then I paused, "wait, which one of us would be the mom then?"
We determined ourselves, they must have been talking about Alison! LOL!
That night we ate dinner at Meddlesome Moth. We ofcourse were offered free appetizers because we are the BOMB! For dinner we had the Shrimp and Grits, which were AMAZING! Then off to the Old Monk for some drinks and that is where the real fun happens. I notice these guys looking at us from the other side of the bar and I am thinking to myself "oh great"
Then they come over to our table. He says: "I know my shirt is wrinkled but can I please sit down?" Alison says: "don't be so insecure, you can stand right there.
Then his friend comes over and he has a hat on that looks very similar to my husbands Bears hat.
So I look at it and say: "are you a cubs fan?"
He says yes and sits down. UGH! That is why I don't talk!
Alison and I thought he looked like Ed from the Lion King...."and man was he UGLY"

We had so much fun shopping and driving around listening to music too! I love my sister time!