Mega Awesome Super Outstanding Nephew

or as he is also know as....M A S O N (get it?)!  This weekend was Sassy's baby shower.  Little Mason is due in just about 12 weeks.  We can't wait to meet him!  I have a feeling he will become my newest pathological picture taking candidates.

 Yummy eats

 lots of goodies for Mason

 Monkey cupcakes (yes I made them with Christian's help)

 Grammy B and TT

 Mamma Ozzie and Me

 The "Golden Girls".....which one is Rose?

 Great Aunts all around...Aunt Madge, Sassy and Aunt Aggie. 

 Nana, Sassy and Grammy B

 TT and Me

 The Mommy to be

 So us your muscles Christian....he had just helped move all Mason's present into the living room for us. 

 Awwww there is a monkey on the bottom...how cute?!?!?!

 This is Sassy seeing her wedding quilt Gran finally finished. 

 Check out the itty bitty shoes

Showing off the pretty quilt (just a wall hanging according to Gran)

Engaged!!!!!!

I was looking back and I don't think I ever blogged about this. I can't believe it! What was I thinking?!?!
Sassy and Jonathan are ENGAGED!!! Jonathan gets extra points for making it a very memorable proposal.
Here is a little recap. Sassy (Stacy, my niece) worked on Columbus day, but Jonathan had the day off. He took the day to work on his deck, buy flowers, put up the pretty lights and in general get ready for the big event.
Once Sassy got there to have a casual evening doing some laundry, she vaguely noticed he was acting a little different. She didn't think much of it, but BOY would it completely change their lives!
Then Jonathan talks about this new camera he bought. He says he wants to go on the desk and test it out by taking their picture on the timer setting. They take a test shot, then he lines everything up just right and does THIS!!!! (see picture below)

She said right before the camera snapped he said, "This is going to be the best picture ever."
She said "Why?"...then he proposed.
HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!?!

(yes, she is going to have to wear VERY high heels on her wedding day)
Shortly after I got a call, she asked me what I was doing and I launched into some account of the silly thing that one of my children were just doing..
then she says..."Guess what?"...
I say "HE PROPOSED!"
She says "YEEEESSSSS!!!!!!"
at this point we both scream for what seems like 5 mins and she tells me all about the proposal.

Now there is a little back story here. For well over 6 months EVERY time she called me and asked "Guess what?" I guess "He proposed"...and up until now I was wrong!

So now we (well really they) are in wedding planning mode...ah, the memories. I had fun planning my wedding, almost as much fun as I had being pregnant.

They are well on their way to a wonderful wedding day!

Congrats to Sassy and Jonathan.
I wish you nothing but Happiness and Joy in your life together.
I know you will have the most beautiful babies in the world, because well.. you guys are the cutest couple EVER.
Sassy, PROUD doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about you! Proud, Boastful, Amazed, Happy...just a few more words.

Four Star Christmas Present

I enjoyed one of my christmas presents last night. Stacy and Jonathan gave me tickets to the BRAD PAISLEY concert for Christmas and last night was the concert. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! Everything about it was great. Darius Rucker opened and then Dierks Bentley...then on to Brad. He played for about 2 hours and I got home way past my bedtime! Here are my pics



You can probably see the excite in my face in the pics. That was taken just before the concert got going. I was so excited for the concert and it didn't disappoint one little bit. The seating was amazing thanks to Jonathan!!! We were in a suite and it was a great set up...no bathroom lines to stand in, there was one in the suite. Brad played all my favorites and then some extra stuff I hadn't heard. I have been a fan for a long time and have seen him one other time. It was for my birthday at the Travis Co. Livestock show, not the same kind of set up as this BIG concert. Brad had lots of cool stage effects. Ray Benson, local Austinite, even played with him and they sang "Miles and Miles of Texas". It was great and the crowd loved it.

Super Cutest Couple

They are the cutest couple ever and we need to vote and let the rest of Austin know ;)

Ok, Ok, I know I'm biased, but Valentine's Day is coming up and they are pretty darn cute!

So please help them out by voting.

It is Stacy Rudisill (my niece and the boys Aunt Sassy) and Jonathan Rose, her boyfriend of over a year.

From Marble Falls

Here they are with a super cute baby at Christmas!

Go to this link and you will have to click thru the pictures.
http://www.austin360.com/spas/content/spas/interactive/hotnot_couples/index.html

They ask if the couple is cute or SUPER cute. Well Stacy and Jonathan are WAY SUPER CUTE!

They are picture #256 when I voted this morning. You don't have to vote on every picture, I didn't.

A crush

There is a little girl at daycare that has a little crush on Christian. Her Mom says she talks about him all the time. I think the feelings were mutual for a while because he used to mention her all the time too. But alas, she is in the Dove Room and he has moved up to the Fishie room. Well, we still see her and her mom lots.

Yesterday her Mom told me a cute little story. Little girl was going on and on this weekend about loving Christian..."I love Christian". Well little girl's grandma is quite religious and was so excited because she was thinking this meant little girl loved BEING a christian. "Oh, isn't that so sweet. She loves Jesus. She said she loves being a christian"...well momma of little girl had to break it to grandma that she loves little boy names Christian at her school.

My little heartbreaker!!!!

A cute conversation from last night...

Christian: I love Mommy

Me: Oh how sweet, you love Mommy.

Christian: Yeah, Daddy too.

Me: That is so nice. Do you love baby Archer too?

Christian: No. I love my Sassy.

Me: You don't love baby Archer?

Christian: no, I love my Sassy.

So needless to say, Aunt Sassy got a cute voice mail last night saying Christian loves her more than baby Archer.

New Word

Christian has learned a new word. "Stupid" He told me "You're stupid" yesterday. Lucky it didn't appear to be used in the correct context because I really don't think I was doing anything "stupid" at the time. He said it while we were playing in his room. So that means he really isn't sure what the word means. But I had to quickly think about how to deal with this. I got a very serious (but not mad) face and said "That's not a nice word, we don't call people that."

Then later after Chris was home he said it again, so he heard it too. Then we did our best tag team parenting and both got the serious face and again told him we don't say that word and we don't call people that...then we used the big "T" word...We said that word would get him in timeout. That put an end to the word for the night.

Now I know this isn't the worst word he will ever say, but I don't want him getting into the habit of using this word.

After I had time to think about it, this entire situation reminded me of the first bad word Stacy (aka Aunt Sassy) said. I happen to be present when she said hers and I think she was about the same age. Her word was a little worse and I won't type it out here, but it was a similar situation. She was chasing after me and a friend and she called this friend of mine a bad word. My friend and I both stopped in out tracks and thought...OOOOOO she is in trouble, because that is a BAD word, because we were about 11 years old and we knew we would get in trouble if we said it.

Then we heard Sheri say from the living room say "Stacy Renee, what did you just say?!?!?" Then she knew she was in trouble.

There is nothing like having a child in your life to make you pay more attention to your words and how you use them. So watch out...little eyes watch and little ears hear...and repeat.

Telephone

Christian is learning what the telephone is all about. He has started to pick up play phones and use them just like Mommy and Daddy does. He talks to Aunt Sassy quite a lot about her big truck. Today Christian's Daddy called him from the couch. Here is what followed.