Weekend Plans

Friday night was Emma's BIG birthday party. I must say that I love my kids parties. I do, I know I should not live thru my children and all that mess, but come party time, I do for them what I would love to have done for me. It never happens that way, but I still have hope that maybe one day it will happen!

So anyway, it was a fabulous evening. Perfect weather, tons of friends, and a lot of fun. I know you want to see pictures, but um, I have none to speak of right now! I know, but my camera was not working and so I borrowed one from my friend Julia. So she has all of the pictures right now, and will be handing them over tomorrow. So I will post all of them when I get them.

We had a butterfly party for Ms. Emma. She wanted it to be a butterfly fairy princess party.....big wishes to fill. I think we did pretty good, except for the fairy princess part. We had the butterfly thing nailed!

A little history for all of you readers new to my life. I do not bake well. I love to cook, but baking is not my thing, so I try to make my kids cakes every year, and FAIL every time. This year I started early. I made 2 nine inch round cakes that were going to be atop 2 ten inch square cakes. I made chocolate candy hearts to go on the cake for decorations, and then Emma and I painted nylon butterflies to have on her cake too. We used pipe cleaners to have them flying over the top of the cake. OK, so now I go to assemble my wonderful cake creation and everything is great. I am icing the mess out of it, and turn to do something else in the kitchen (multitasking at its best) and I turn to admire my cake when I see that the whole thing had slid off and crumbled on the table. I could not blame the girls bc they were outside at the time. This was at 4pm, and the party was at 6:30pm, so I was a little freaked. I usually burn the cake on party day, so I made my usual call to Kroger on Salem for a cake, but they did not have what I needed. In a panic, and tears I called Stephanie and told her about my mishap......By 4:30pm her husband brought me a homemade cake! In the mean time I called Wal-Mart and had them ice a cake for me. We used all of our decorations and made the CAKES our own. Steph's cake had the butterflies flying on it, with 6 sparklers on it. The store bought cake had a Mariposa doll on top and a #6 sparkler on it. It turned out great, but for about 30 minutes I wanted to call the party off.
Emma had a blast, she loved every minute of it. We had some surprises that evening too. Allison Horis drove 2 hours to come to the party(Erin's roommate in college)and then she drove home afterwards. I love the fact that Emma has so many friends that love her, and support her in her many journeys in life. We have been lucky as a family to share so many of our milestones with friends and family.
Kevin and Kimberly were here too, which was a first for Kevin. He has never been to a Tucker birthday party before, and I think he had a good time.

All in all, it was a successful party, with lots of wonderful memories that we will cherish until the next party. HAHA
I promise I will add pictures of the party, when I get them.

Happy Birthday Emma Claire!

6 years ago, I sat in a bed at Baptist hospital in Little Rock Arkansas, patiently waiting for the doctor to come in and say "you are fully dialated, and it is time to start pushing!" Of course my body had other plans and hung on another 2 hours and 52 minutes before my sweet Emma Claire was born. Tonight when she was lying in bed, I told her the story of the day she was born. She loves the story, but has started asking questions about the whole having a baby process. Emma is fascinated by how much we loved her, and could not wait for her to come out and join our family. She asked me tonight if I kissed on her as soon as she was born. I of course said yes, to which she scrunched her nose and said " oh gross momma! I was covered in blood and guts, that is just disgusting! Why would you do that?" I had to tell the truth, I didn't do that!! I told the doctor to clean her up before he handed her to me,because I thought it was gross. I am not a big fan of the just out of the belly unclean baby look. DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!!!


We are having a hard night tonight, because she is not understanding that her party is not on her actual birthday. We go thru this every year, but it does not seem to help. We just cannot compete with Toad Suck Daze. We are gonna do something special tomorrow for my sweets, so in a few minutes, I will head out to Walmart to buy a birthday balloon, some cupcakes, a card, and things like that. Tomorrow night we will go to GlowGolf to play minigolf. She is excited about glowgolf, and will be equally excited about the balloon, which is good. Emma just likes to have FUN!!
Emma Is so much fun, but quite the little handful. She is VERY independent, but so funny. Here is one of her moments that still makes me laugh. Some of the college girls were here for devo about 2 weeks ago, and I was giving the girls a bath, I walked out to talk(shocker) and this is what happened.
Emma: Momma hurry come in here!! Abbi is hurt
Me(from the living room): Abbi, sweety you are okay. Shake it off(this usually works)
Emma: she can't momma, she hurt her BABY HOLE!
Me: (completely embarassed) Emma don't say that!!
The girls in the living room were cracking up, and looking at me like "what did she just say?" So I told them about Emma starting to ask all of those questions. I panicked and just told her the first thing that popped into my head, hence Baby hole.

I just realized that maybe this is not a good story to share on the internet,but it still cracks me up. I would post pictures, but cannot find any on this computer! We will add some tomorrow on the actual birthday!

I have been Tagged!

I was Tagged by Lauryn Rydl(or whatever her maried name is)


What I was doing 10 years ago:
I was about to graduate from Harding University(May '98)
I was working part time for Hibbett Sports in Conway
I was newly married
And was living in Conway until I graduated(I thought)


Five things on my To Do list today:

Help out at the school for enrichment day
Go to lunch with Julia
Go to Toad Suck Daze with Julia
Take stuff back to Target
Get Emma from school



What I would do if I were a billionaire:

Give to the church
GET OUT OF ALL OUR DEBT
support our college ministry at church
Pay off my parents debt
support the kids in the community that go without



Three of my bad habits:

*Texting ( I am addicted)
Eating Cheezit's late at night
Saying what is on my mind as soon as it enters it!! I have NO filter


Five jobs I have had:

Chicken Deboner ( first job ever)
Accounts payable for Enron (yes, I know. But it wasn't me!!)
Accounts payable for the city of Deer Park
Radio Sales for Equity Broadcasting in Little Rock
Ad sales for Publishing Concepts group in Little Rock

Three people I want to know more about:

Jodi Beaver
Samantha Allen
Amanda Sanders