I won a Award

I WON AN AWARD!!!!! I WON AN AWARD!!!!!
My First Award!

Ok you see me doing a happy dance!!!
You can see it.. right... me in my jammies dancing around the computer cause someone thought I deserved the Humane Award



Natalee over at Raising Normal Kids bestowed this fabulous award on me and my blog. So please stop by her blog and show her some love..She is awesome!!!


"The Humane Award honors certain bloggers that I feel are kindhearted individuals. They regularly take part in my blog and always leave the sweetest comments. I love love love them!!!!!!

Their blogs are also amazing and are tastefully done on a daily basis. I thank them and look forward to our growing friendships through the blog world.

Link back to the person who gifted you with the award and share the love with other bloggers.”

Now that I received the award, I am going to pass it along to 4 other bloggers who are deserving of the Humane Award - they stop by my blog often and leave such nice comments - thanks!! Please go check out their blogs as well.
I'm still new to blogging so I have had only a few comments..

So I bestow this award to the few who have made sweet comments and that I truly enjoy their blogs....So check them out.

A Pocket Full of Buttons
Suburban Hooker
Grammy Girlfriend
Not so Perfect

The weekend

So the Weekend went way too fast. But fun was had by all!

My best friend Joyce came in late Friday night from Denver. She had in tow Larae, who is currently living in Nashville. Larae was a new addition to the group. She jumped right in and fit very nicely with everyone. I really do hope she takes us all up on our offers and comes to visit.

So now for the weekend on Sat we all went to the beach. The goal was to see the ocean and play at the beach. With a late start and no clear destination in mind. We were just going with the flow it was Joyce and Larae's vacation. (So to speak... they did do some work...)
We ended up heading to Fort Macon in Atlantic Beach. This was a good place to meet up with everyone.
Well with it being summer, It was very crowded so we ended up all the way down at the Fort and on the sound side. This actually turned out very good for the kids to be able to wade and play in the surf (even though we are not suppose to because of all the boat traffic and currents on that side). So we stayed in shallow water and let the kids splash.
Here are a couple of pics...

Getting ready to hit the water

Here is my own little mermaid Aimee playing in the water

Brendon is not sure of the water

I left soon after this to attend the Toby Keith Concert in Raleigh. So I was covering some territory that day! (this was an awesome concert!!! Trace Adkins was there too..Met up with Lou Ann and some of her freinds at the concert... we had a blast)


On Sunday we had a cook out, played in the water and then went shrimping with Captain Jack. It was a very busy day.

Water play was a big hit for the kids!

Then it was off to conquer the sea with Captain Jack...

Here is a pic of our loot...

We estimated about 25lbs of shrimp.

The proud shrimpers!


Then it was the task to prep them and get them in the freezer....I was so glad to have this crew help with that!

Monday was their last day. So we tried for a game of golf (not me I was just driving a cart..the arm is no where ready for that). We were rained out before we even finished the second hole..so it was off to lunch and then relaxing at my house before we met up with friends for dinner. Joyce and Larae left after dinner for Raleigh to catch their planes the next morning.
This was sad I was so not ready for them to leave!! It just was not long enough.
But now I am looking forward to the next visit and maybe I can get to Denver soon!
I hope you enjoyed the short recant of my weekend!
Huggs,
Robin

Interesting and then suggestions needed.

It was very interesting testing out my new Aloha Friday meme.
THANK YOU!!!! everyone who posted on my blog. That was fun. I will have to try to remember to do that this Friday!
OK so now a question how do you all blog, tweet, post, and other things online quickly efficiently and still get things done around the house?
How do you get that organized to stay ontop of the things you need to get done?
I guess I am needing help.
I do the to do list but get tied up on one thing and then nothing else gets done so how do I get things running smoothly and accomplish more than one thing in a day?
So what are some of your organizing tips?
How do you multi-tasks your days with kids at home?
I am new to this stay at home mommy thing so any short cuts or good advice to help achieve domestic godessness (is that a word) would be appreciated.

Maybe once I get all the suggestions I can post them and see if it helps others.
So offer up organizational tips, suggestions, what you do, web pages, on how to do it all because I know there are some amazing women/men out there juggling it all and making it work...
So they say if you want to do something right you have to learn from the best and surround yourself with those you admire...So let me admire the ideas and tips.
Thank you to everyone who post ideas and tips!
Huggs,
Robin

10 days and Counting

Image by Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan in Iraq via Flickr

We are exactly 10 days away from my Best Friends arrival from Denver. I am so excited it has been over a year since I have seen her and I am so ready for the girl time! We both have had our battles over the last year so it will be good to relax and have a glass of wine together.
We have plans to hit the beach that weekend probably end up at Emerald Isle. I Love going near the Bogue Inlet Pier. Then on Sunday have a cook out with other friends.

So I hope the weekend is nice and not too hot and humid. Even though I doubt it with it being July in NC.

This post was more of a post to try out Zemanta and see how it helps with blogging. So far I am liking it.
So far for these few words and addition of pics it was easy and fun!
I think it makes blogging a bit easier!
Can't wait to play more!
Anyway off to play with the little one!
Huggs,
Robin