Merry Merry Everything....Kinda like this post...6 month catch up Beta Style

It seems every season is a blur much as the way I feel like my life is simply flashing before my very eyes. I do have great intentions of posting more occurences and funny what not stories. Really writing the posts is what I much prefer but since this is a journal keepsake of such for my family I must post pics on occasion. Problem is....I don't. I'm not good at it, I don't like it, I don't really make the time to do it bottom line. But again that's no excuse. So today I attempt on this Decemeber day to give a beta style rundown of the past 6 months. I will try to add a few photos at the end to highlight some of the blurbs. We'll see. In the meantime, I hope everyone is busy shopping getting ready for St. Nick, enjoying parties, spending time with family as well as staying warm. It's cold here in Mississippi and I don't like the cold.

May 2011- Anne Craig turns 8 following our New York trip






June 2011- "The month of moving, shaking and campin" Football camping, soccer tournament playing, vacation Bible schooling, supper clubbing, more soccer playing this time State Game playing, Boy Scout camping, Camp Hopewell camping, book clubing, movie watching, Rodan and Fields'n, Washington DC'n





July 2011- "The month of escapin"- Fairhope lovin, family togetherin, beach timin, birthday celebratin, bar conventioning, Strong River Camp and Farm'n, more birthday'n, 15 year anniversary'n, girls trippin in Oxford







August 2011- "reality hittin" - bikes blues bayous bikin, The Help movie premiere'n, back to school'n, lots o Moon Lake'n and that is a good thing





September 2011- more Moon Lake'n, Pee Wee football'n, a lil Ole Miss football'n, 300 Road Racin', Rodan and Fields Conventioning in San Francisco, basic school routine'n














October 2011- Wedding party'n, Delta Rockers Rockin, soccer playin, Scout tripping, Fall Break'n, still Pee Wee'n, family football meetin, Halloween'n, soccer tournament playing







November 2011- weddings here and there, Holiday Open houses beginnin, Christmas decor appearin, election time nearin, more boy scout'n, chorister's singin, 3rd grade play'n "Go Fish", Thanksgiving break'n, road trippin, takin in some beach'n, let the chaos of the holidays begin.





December 2011- MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Time....Time....Time....Where the heck did it go and how do you find it??

I sure can't find it!!! It continues to hide from me I guess. Maybe it's personal and I don't get it. Why is it that about every "quarter" I have a complete meltdown about TIME!! Why isn't there enough time? Time to relax, time to play boardgames with the kids, time to read a book (Yes, I'm still trying to finish the Twilight series and will do so by the time Breaking Dawn hits theaters next month...yikes!), time to learn how to cook or just cook period....the list goes on and on and on. It's exhausting just thinking about TIME. I know, there is a certain amount of procrastination, lack of time management skills, and self indulgence that does contribute to this particular frustration but can I get an AMEN that enough time DOES NOT EXIST? ....(AMEN) I have no clue where the late summer or early fall even went? MY OCD self is about to implode just due to the fact that my blog is months behind and I literally thought I'd lost it into the "blogosphere" when it would not let me sign in. I guess that may have been Bloggers way of saying "GET WITH THE PROGRAM SISTA"! I just can't get it all done in a days time. I'm not sure where the answer lies. I can't blame it on work. You can be self assured that if I were home all day I'd find something else to do somehow-somewhere. I'll try to be better! I think the best plan for me is to just post pictures and be done with it. After all, the whole point of my blog is for it to be some sort of a scrapbook for my children with a few words here and there from me. Problem is....I do like to write even if I'm not that great at it. So it makes me think that maybe that's part of my problem....maybe I'm taking this writing stuff too seriously. That's it!! Thanks for letting me rant. Have a nice weekend. Pictures to follow soon...let's hope...

New York, New York 2011

Let's Take on the Big Apple Shall We!!! WE want to Be a part of IT and we certainly did...NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2011!!
For Anne Craig's birthday, Moms (aka: grandmother- Elizabeth Melton) took me, Anne Craig and Blewett to New York for a little girly getway! We stayed with our cousin, Barbara Butler, who lives in the Hamptons most of the time but also has an apartment in the city. Can you say SWEEEEET! She was such a gracious host who also came into the city to show us the ropes and be our tour guide of sorts. It was wonderful to have her with us to show us how to HAIL down the cabs and zip around on the subways....New York style.
New York City- Here we come!
on the plane ready, set....

and we're off in a NYC cab

In Grand Central Station with Moms, Blewett and Barbara

Times Square

in the biggest Toys R Us store riding the indoor ferris wheel

Lady Liberty at Radio City Music Hall - Fabulousness!!

On top of Rockefellar Center with Empire State Bldg in background

Central Park


at the Stardust Cafe where we met up with our NY/Connecticut cousins, Sarah and Patricia Wilson, who drove in for the day

Sooo much fun!

We HAD to go to The Plaza to soak it all in!!

on the subway ready for Day 2

Museum of Natural History


Love Love Love New York City!!

on the Carousel in Central Park

we became very comfortable riding the subway

It was so great to also be able to catch up for a quick visit with childhood friend, Jay Nix, who at the time was living in NYC for a work project.

dinner and dessert at Serendipity to top off Day 2 in NYC

Natalie, Matt and Anne- the Today Show cast- Day 3 in NCY

John Rich, of Big and Rich, had just won celebrity apprentice the night before we visited the Today Show

on NBC studio tour with our cute tour guides

AHHHHH...American Girl Store at last!!!

gotta get their hair done for sure

hundreds of dollars later....geesh

Could have stayed all day in the coolest Apple Store ever!

New Amsterdam Theater getting ready to see Mary Poppins


It was AMAZING!! and yes...she flew right over us!

on subway home again

on ferry headed out to Ellis Isle

great view of Manhattan and Business District

There she is!!!

on the tour...


Washington Square-where Moms and Grandaddy lived while Grandaddy was at NYU tax school.

What a great trip!