Five on Friday

Happy Friday, y'all!!!  It's Five on Friday time and it's as RANDOM as ever!!! 

- ONE -

Happy Mail!!!

There's very few things that make me happier than the mail.  The anticipation.  The opening.  I love it all.  So I was ABSOLUTELY tickled when I received this in the mail on Tuesday. Sweet, sweet Rachel has been a long time blog reader and getting this package from her made my day.  I mean... how cute?!?!?!

EEEEEK!!!

Look at all that sunshine!!! :) LOVE IT!!!

- TWO -

The Original Mrs. McAnally Retires

Dave's mom has been an early elementary teacher in McKinney (pretty much always Kinder... but occasionally first) for THIRTY NINE YEARS!!!  THIRTY NINE, people!!!

The school she teaches at hosted a reception for her on Tuesday evening and so we picked up some roses and headed over there.

Mason was WIPED and so he caught a cat nap on the way.  Please note that he has no shoes on as this will be important later :)

#ladykiller

Griffin was NOT interested in being held, but instead wanted to drag my purse around :)

How cute are these centerpieces?!?!  They were class photos from over the years.

And the table runners were collages of pictures as well.

They presented Pam with a quilt made from t-shirts from Webb during the years she was there...

.. and lots of her students came to talk about their time in Mrs. McAnally's class.

Griffin ran around like a crazy person...

... and charmed the attendees with her smile (and her giant bow. hahaha)

My boys hanging out listening to the speakers.  Oh.... and that would be shoeless Mason.  He carried his shoes to the van and carried a pair that was about 3 sizes too small.  So he was shoeless.  #classy

Peek-A-Boo!!!

G clapped for everyone who spoke :)

And read cards with her gram :)

Even Dave said a few words about his mom.  (HUGE deal if you know how much Dave hates speaking in front of crowds.)

The cake and cheese was flowing :)

Pam's parting words.... with past kindergarteners on "their spots" on her carpet :) hahaha

The girl on the right was in Dave's mom class when we were in high school.  Dave and I used to get NHS hours for reading to Pam's students.  She's graduating this year. #imcrazyold

Mason was ENAMORED with these girls and asked me to take his picture with them. hahaha

 In the picture below is my little family on the left and then I'm standing next to Dave's dad and the next to Dave's dad is Minnie Fae Griffin (Dave's mom's mom... she was a teacher as well. She'll be 94 this year and is an amazing lady.  She has her Master's in Education from the University of North Texas (she refused to get married until she had a Master's degree... how crazy is that for someone born in 1920) and she was the first woman to fly an airplane out of the McKinney airport.  Next to Dave's mom is Myrtle McAnally (Dave's dad's mom)... and she's 92!  She drove until this year (watch out!) and she and her husband started the Senior Center here in McKinney.  On the far right is Dave's youngest brother, Stephen. 

Stephen sent this to me afterward.... he and Luke went "exploring" during the event and apparently they took a bunch of selfies :)

- THREE -

Play Date by Essie

I picked up Playdate by Essie at Wal-Mart this week and I am looooving it!!!  It's so so so pretty!

- FOUR -

Random Mama Tip

This is super random, but the most hectic part of my day is usually lunch time.  Griffin naps in the morning and so my window of opportunity to run errands and stuff is small.  We're usually rolling back into the driveway after 12:00 and getting lunch ready when everyone is starving stresses me out.  I've started packing lunches almost every morning.... especially if I know that we'll be out and about before lunch.  It's super helpful to walk in the door and be able to pull their lunchboxes out of the refrigerator, hand them to the boys and be done with it :)  Y'all all probably already do this.... but just in case I thought I'd share.

- FIVE -

Grace. Not Perfection.

On Monday I posted this pic of my planner on Instagram...

... a couple hours later I posted this picture...

I've talked about it before, but social media is very "pretty".  It's small snippets of our life and we tend to share the best parts.  My planner usually has it all together - but even with the best laid plans I often don't :) hahaha

For example.  This was my kitchen this afternoon...

And my bedroom...

And here I am... hot mess!

Wait! There's MORE!  

Don't worry.... it was all cleaned up before nap time.  Promise.  No, really.

I was cleaning all day and doing laundry and all that and I ended up changing later in the afternoon.  Wait for it.... yes.... those are garden gnomes on my pjs.  #hottt

Anyway, just wanted to keep it real up in here! :) hahaha

Now.... for a couple of public service announcements.

Be sure to check out my What Griffin Wore blog today (after 8:00 AM).... there are lots of new things posted!!!

LAST.... ALL Matilda Jane dresses are 25% off today!!! I'm running a super quick show... if you'd like something PLEASE fill out a wishlist online and then email it to me (dave-and-andrea@hotmail.com) and katkempson@matildajaneclothing.com and put Andrea M. as your "Jane".   I need all lists by Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. CST.

If you have sizing questions or need and help at all just let me know!

Summer Fun

I had something totally different planned for today - but technical difficulties struck and so I'm going to show y'all the past day or so :)  Thrilling - I know. hahaha

Wednesday night I put Griffin to bed and Dave took the boys on a walk on the golf course.  Twenty minutes later Sarah texts me this picture...

The boys took the golf course tunnel and walked to the Smiths house!  They ate popsicles and played in the playhouse... and Mason almost popped the venis in his neck :)

Yesterday morning Griffin and I were playing in her room and the ONLY thing she wanted to play with were her shoes!!!

I would shut the closet door and she would go right back to opening it and pulling out the shoes.

She even sits down on the floor and tries to put them on her feet :)

SHOES!!!

 Back for more...

Look how long her hair is getting!

While G and I were playing inside, the boys were wreaking havoc on the backyard :)  hahaha 

Not really - they were playing in the sandbox and filling up cups with roly polies.

Through my bedroom window...

 They were gross and sandy, so they came inside for baths and then G woke up and needed a bottle.  Luke helped me out while I got things ready to go run a couple of errands.

One of our stops??? Home Depot. And of course... they wanted to ride in the race car cart.  Because doesn't pushing around a cart with EIGHT wheels sound super fun?!?!?!  It was extra fun when I had to push the whole thing into the family restroom while trying not to pee my pants (maybe the at least 6 cups of hot tea I consumed before 11 a.m. was not a great idea).

Luke ate a ring pop.... and climbed up here while I wasn't looking.  #momfail

We came home and had lunch and I threw G in the sink because it seemed like less work than wiping the oreo off of her with a wipe :)

She's been having lots of fun sticking out her tongue the last few days :)

After bathtime I lotioned her up and put her in this sweet (CRAZY SOFT!) little dress and sang her a few songs.... she took no nap on Tuesday afternoon so I was DETERMINED to get her to sleep  :)  I'll have y'all know that she did sleep.... but not until AFTER she pulled down her GORGEOUS Pottery Barn paper butterfly mobile and destroyed it.  #awesome

While G was napping the boys and I worked on a craft (more on this next week!) and then Mason took a nap and Luke had some "quiet time".

Dave got home and we loaded up and headed to Olive Garden because mama didn't want to cook.  #thankyouteachergifts

 The weather has been AMAZING here... not 5000 degrees and I was excited to wear my new Hippie Chick navy maxi dress, Hippie Chick scarf, white denim jacket and my new BFFs :)

This crazy crew was READY to eat!  I'm pretty sure that Griffin ate more than anyone else :)

Yes we did this :)  Because we're horrible people. hahaha

I die.

After dinner, we swung by my parents house and picked up my mom (my dad was playing in a golf tournament) and headed to Adriatica.  It's this cute "Croatian village" in the middle of our development and there's this giant parking garage that we went to the top of to see the view.  #becausewepartyhard

It was perfection outside and so we decided to explore a bit...

This is where the concert we were supposed to go to on Memorial Day was held.  Judging by how much mud was STILL there today we made the right choice :)

We ended our walk at the playground and I think G might be my biggest daredevil out of all three.  Uh Oh.

 

Today was really nothing big.  We didn't go anywhere special or do anything remarkable.  But it was a perfect day.  :)

In case you missed it - don't forget to check out Monday's post to see everyone's favorite things under $10 and yesterday's post to get some AMAZING recipe ideas!