tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54356130979151903062024-02-07T13:41:55.987-06:00the Mathews Family Happeningsmary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-16512926884621574342013-11-13T17:45:00.000-06:002013-11-13T17:45:52.925-06:00Halloween 2013<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">howdy, frands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just popping in today to share a few pics from Halloween, a.k.a. "the night we drive the kids to see their grandparents/great-grandparents dressed in costumes while I take a zillion pics".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>yup. sounds about right.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ANYWHO, this Halloween was a little different because I entered my <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2013/10/pumpkin-carving-2013-edition.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Shrek</span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">pumpkin</span></a></span> in a contest and won free tickets to see <i>Little Shop of Horrors </i>at one of our local theatres. The kids trick-or-treated in the <i>daylight </i>hours, and then the hubs and I, along with our friends <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://dentonsdaily.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Brittany</a></span> and JP, went to see the show. This year's Halloween really was the best of both worlds- fun costume time with the kiddos AND some grown-up time at the theatre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Who am I kidding...the hubs behavior at the show was middle school aged at best. I have the <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://vine.co/" target="_blank">vines</a></span></span> to prove it. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's our night in pictures...</span><br />
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-72040171001339524212013-10-28T22:53:00.000-05:002013-10-28T22:53:00.346-05:00DeSoto Caverns<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First 3rd grade field trip of the school year....HOLLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubs and I BOTH got to go. I called it a 'day date' since Oliver had to ride the bus and we got to be in a car ALONE for a really long time, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adult music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have any idea how long it's been since I've listened to the radio? 'Teen Beach Movie' soundtrack is ALL that's been playing in my swagger wagon for MONTHS now. It was good to have a break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry. I digress. <i>Back to our trip.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We drove to the booming city of Childersburg to visit DeSoto Caverns, and while this wasn't my first visit, I don't really <i>remember </i>my first visit. It was like I was there for the first time again, with my 8 year old. And my hubs. And 165 3rd graders. On a 'day date'. <i>It was awesome.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We explored the cave, watched a video on the history of the cave, sat in total and <i>complete </i>darkness in the cave, and saw a super cool light show set to music and projected onto, <i>that's right, </i>the inside of the cave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Then we came up outta that cave.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids got to 'pan for gold', <i>or pretty rocks that were stuck there just for them, </i>go through a maze, and throw lots of money away in a gift shop that carried everything from giant 3-feet-long tubes of colored sugar to the most realistic looking fake guns I've ever seen. <i>No kidding...really wish I'd snapped a pic of one of those sugar tubes. They were like pixie sticks for giants.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anywho, it was a fun day despite the drizzle and the big hair caused by the drizzle. O had a good time, and it was great that we were there to <i>see </i>him have a good time. And also to prevent the purchase of any giant-sized pixie sticks.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-80787997030275199252013-10-27T18:03:00.000-05:002013-10-27T18:03:50.666-05:00Pumpkin Carving: 2013 edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keeping the tradition alive and well here, folks. The Mathews had our annual pumpkin carving night yesterday, and I have a few beauties to show you. The Denton's joined us this year (on Brittany's birthday!), so we had plenty of pumpkin guts to go around, <i>which is fitting since the Tide had stomped all over Tennessee's arse just minutes earlier. Seems appropriate to stick knives into something orange, yes?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are a few pics from our evening as well as our finished products, AND, I've added our pumpkin hall of fame from years gone by at the end of this post so we can look back and get all nostalgic. Or not. Your call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here are our pumpkins from the last EIGHT years. Enjoy.</span> </div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mona Lisa</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So there ya have it! Our pumpkin carving history in one post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Is this your first time to see the Mona Lisa on the side of a pumpkin?</span></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-594549950409781412013-07-15T17:44:00.000-05:002013-07-15T17:44:29.885-05:00water and sand, part 1<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I lied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New computer most certainly does NOT equal 'back to blogging'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I blame it on the frustration caused by trying to use this uppity machine, the fact that it's a desktop and NOT a mobile laptop, and also...it's summer.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of summer, after SIX years of no beach vacations due to one reason or another, we've been twice in the past 4 weeks. It was gorgeous, hot, relaxing, hot, and good golly did we have fun in the sun. Plus, it was really hot. <i>I have the tan lines to prove it.</i> I thought I'd share a few pics from each trip- <i>and many, many thanks to hubs parents and Laura, and my aunt and uncle who made these trips possible. We love you more than bacon.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 13-16, Orange Beach</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was the girl's first glimpse of the ocean. We brought O when he was 2, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say he probably doesn't remember much of that trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubs makes the best drizzle castles. Period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's our best attempt at a family photo. Three out of 5 smiling and somewhat looking at the camera is a success in my book. <i>And yes, I do have a white stripe running down my arm. So glad that craziness faded QUICKLY.</i></span><br />
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<i>Part 2 of water and sand coming soon.</i><br />
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<i>I hope you all are enjoying your summer! </i>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-42167957120080747442013-06-11T17:55:00.000-05:002013-06-11T17:55:51.085-05:00Blog Garage Sale<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what am I choosing to blog about after a forced hiatus, during which our PC laptop was dying and I was shoving every extra penny into an envelope so that we could <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/home/" target="_blank">Dave Ramsey</a> our way to a NEW computer?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That's right. It's garage sale time. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And also, <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/home/" target="_blank">his name</a> is a verb- yes? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And also, while I'd love to say that we're the proud new owners of our first Mac, I can't. We're just the owners. Not proud yet b/c there are just TOO MANY THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM A PC AND I SOMETIMES CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO WHAT I WANT AND THIS CAUSES MUCH FRUSTRATION. So yeah, not proud yet.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I have much to catch up on, blog-wise, but for today- closet clean-out is what's a-happenin.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And if you live in a kindgom far, far away and are interested in an item, I'll ship to you at cost. Just shoot me an e-mail at Funnygirl33180(at)aol(dot)com)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polos- top row L to R- yellow size 5, red size 5, red size 6- $8 each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bottom row- red sweater vest size 5- $10, blue Vinyard Vines, size 5- $4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">striped Polo tee, size 6- $5, and red Polo tee, size 6- $5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">top row, L to R- 2 Browning shirts, long sleeve, size S (5/6)- $8 each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">J. Khaki long sleeve shirt, size 6- $6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Green plaid & red plaid Polos, size 6- $10 a piece</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pink long sleeve Polo has a spot on the front that I'm currently treating with Shout. It's incredibly exciting. I'll let you know the outcome... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CollectibiliTEES from Old Navy- top row are all XS- $4 each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bottom row- red tee says "Choose Wisely" and has a pic of a rock, scissors, & paper (from snorgtees.com) It's size 6- $5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Superman & Spiderman are both size S (5/6)- $4 each</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">top row- Batman tee, size S- $4, Star Wars tee (Gap kids) size 4/5, but runs big IMO- $5, rainbow Chewie tee, size 5T- $4, Batman tee on bottom row (Old Navy) size S- $4, and Columbia button-up, size 5- $8</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black velvet dress from Old Navy that I hate isn't showing up better in this pic- size 18-24 month- $8, Missoni for Target dress, size 18-24 month- $8, boojue boutique brand 2-piece chicken outfit, size 18 months (and beyond)- $10 for the set, Calypso for Target 2-piece set w/elephants, size 24 months- $6, Genuine Kids 2-piece set, size 12 month (but runs big) This is in play condition- $4, Vinyard Vines pink dress, size 2T- $10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Claire and Charlie smocked Mary Poppins dress, size 18 month- I think we wore this ONCE, maybe twice... $25, alphabet dress (made by me) and triple ruffle pants that have a spot on the knee- who knows what this is, perhaps it could also be Shouted out? I'd say this set is 18-24 month and I'll sell both pieces for $15. Hula girl dress & bloomers from Gymboree, size 12-18 month but runs big- $5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cherokee ruffle top, 2T- $2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Genuine Kids dot top w/ flower & floral skirt- 24 month- $6 for both</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brown quilted vest by Crazy 8, size 24 month?- $4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Genuine Kids top w/ pink flowers- 12 month but runs big- $3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Circus tee (loved this one) size 2T- $3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mudpie anchor outfit (worn once) size 2T-3T- $20</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2T khakis by Circo- $2, gray 'skinny' pants, 18 month but run huge- $3, Old Navy khaki capris, 2T- $3, Old Navy overalls, 2T (worn twice)- $5, two pair of jeggings, size 18 and 24 month- $3 each, Missoni for Target sweater- 18-24 month- $8, and black lace ruffle skirt- 2T- $5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">navy knit Polo shorts- size 4, $3, blue & red shorts are size 4 (adjustable waist) $4 for blue, $3 for red (the red have a hole near the bottom) khaki Polo shorts, size 4- $8, Buzz Lightyear bathing suit, size 5 (this was worn a LOT) $1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olympus E-450 DSLR- two lenses, battery, battery charger, external flash purchased 2 months ago, manual, cleaning cloth. I treated this thing like a baby for the past couple of years, but I'm ready to upgrade. This is what I've used to take the majority of the pics that end up on the blog. Everything is here to get you started EXCEPT for an xd card (which can be purchased on ebay) I'll sell the whole shebang for $350 OBO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leftover Batman party supplies- 9 masks (there is one pack still unopened), 2 color/activity books, 4 mini notebooks, an unopened pack of napkins (found after the pic was taken), and tons of printables I used for the food and to attach to pennant banners. $10 for all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New, never worn shoes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's right. <i>I'm a shoe hoarder.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Far left are Leifsdottir and retail for $$$ They're size 39, which is equivalent to a 8.5 (which is why I can't wear them) Purchased on Zulily- $40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The middle pair were purchased at Anthropologie. Wooden wedge heel, size 9, $30. The far right are black sequin TOMS, size 9. I have never once pulled these out of the closet to wear, even though I SWORE they'd be an important addition to my wardrobe. $40</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> </i> Leftover Angry Birds party supplies- 1 table cover (never used), 3 sheets of tattoos (one sheet has one bird cut off), 9 printables on skewers that I used as decoration, tons of napkins, and 8 more larger printables that I taped to a pennant banner- as in the photo. **pennant banner is NFS, just showing how I used them** I also have several large green lanterns w/ pig faces.... Hoping to get a post together of O's party from Feb since it was during the hiatus. Angry Birds party loot (including lanterns not pictured) $18</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have tons more to clear out, but it'll have to wait. In the meantime, <i>I hope you've been well....I've missed this whole blogging thing. Not having a computer for a while was really quite the pits. Here's hoping I can get the hang of how to use this one, cause I'm not gonna lie....it took me eleventy-billion hours to get this posted.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>More soon... </i> </span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-11480649547472557242013-05-09T21:13:00.000-05:002013-05-09T21:13:03.498-05:00Matilda Jane's LAST Spring release and a FREE gift<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hellooooooooo friends!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm blogging, so that means the computer's a-workin'.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Glory be.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next Wednesday (May 15), I'll be hosting a virtual show for the last release of <a href="http://www.matildajaneclothing.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Matilda Jane Clothing's</span></strong></a> Spring line, <a href="http://www.matildajaneclothing.com/shop.php?CategoryID=38" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">Good Hart</span></strong></a>. I will also be celebrating the fact that I gave birth on that date 4 years ago to a little gal by the name of Eliza. <em>In fact, 4 years ago on that date, we barely had time to make it to the hospital before that little gal was poppin' outta me, but that's neither here nor there.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'll be offering free hair accessories again with each purchase made from my virtual show, <em>and if you're unsure of what a virtual show is, it's just like an in-home show except that you're strictly looking at the items online. Shopping 'virtually', if you will. My trunk keeper will be showing the pieces at her home that morning, and I'll be glad to give you more deets on that if you're local.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Below are some sneak peeks of a few items that will be added to the collection on the 15th, as well as some pics of a few of the accessories I made to coordinate with this line. And can I just take a moment to say how fun it is for me to make custom pieces? I mean, if there ever comes a day when I can't teach music, can I just have a little corner with some fabric and a needle & thread? Because #Ilovestosew</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">happy Friday to ya!</span></em>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-31087966309584451112013-04-27T15:45:00.000-05:002013-04-27T15:45:05.357-05:00Two years<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our computer decided to turn on today, so I'm taking the opportunity to write a quick post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Today's an anniversary here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's absolutely gorgeous outside. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The 5 of us took a walk this morning and watched the boat races on the river. We had a lovely lunch outside at Midtown. And now the girls are (finally) asleep for some much needed rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">One year ago, yesterday, I stayed up all night typing the events of our day on 4.27.11. I hadn't been able to write it out before then, and knew I'd want to remember. Knew I'd want to be able to look back at some point. <em>So glad I typed it all out.</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here's my account of that day:</span></em><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God be with them.</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The words came out of my mouth as I stood there, eyes glued to the tv screen. It couldn't be real, and yet,<em> there it was. </em>All of our news stations were broadcasting live coverage of what was turning out to be the worst outbreak of storms in years, possibly even decades, in our state. While I was no stranger to storms, this was like nothing I had ever seen before, and the tone and urgency in the weatherman's voice told me that perhaps I shouldn't have been so thrilled when I'd learned that school had been cancelled for the day due to the "threat of bad weather". Hubs happened to be off too, so I thought we'd get to spend a fun day at home with the kids- maybe play outside and have a picnic. But this? Surely what I was seeing wasn't real, because on the screen was the biggest tornado I'd ever seen in my life. It rivaled the CGI twisters created for the movies, only this <em>wasn't </em>a movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was real, and it was in Cullman, AL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And it was on the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I said another prayer for the people in Cullman and I clutched the baby girl on my hip a little tighter. <em>Maybe there wouldn't be a picnic today. Maybe we should just stay inside in case it started to rain. Maybe the whole thing would blow over soon and I could run to Target for some groceries. We were always running low on milk and juice and an entire day off from work should give me ample time to run out and grab a few things.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Those were my thoughts exactly one year ago, on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. I have never been one to worry over the weather. Would my kid choke on a grape that was too big, or would one of them be running through the house with a pencil and fall on it, subsequently sending it through their eyeball and into their brain? Yes. <em>These </em>were the things I worried about constantly, <em>not the weather. </em>I love<em> </em>thunderstorms and even have fond memories of watching them from plastic chairs on the porch of my apartment building in college. I love the rain. I love the pure awesomeness of seeing lightning and hearing thunder, but what I'd just seen on the tv screen had nothing to do with a measly thunderstorm. My stomach actually went a little queasy, sending me to the bathroom several times, and in an attempt to think about something <em>other </em>than tornadoes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2011/04/hello-my-name-is-mary-kathryn-and-i.html"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>I blogged</strong></span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wrote about fabric- something I deemed as completely harmless and therefore completely <em>opposite </em>of a tornado. I must've really been shaken though, because my usual double and triple spell-check tendencies were off and I misspelled <em>tornadoes. </em>Twice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We spent the entire day watching James Spann as he tracked the storm. Towercams would show us a visual until it moved out of range, only to be picked up by another towercam. <em><strong>Massive</strong> </em>and <em><strong>on the ground</strong>. </em>It stayed its course. Looking back, I think of us as sitting ducks, but we didn't <em>know. </em>How could any of us have <em>known? </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We stayed home. The kids played games, read books, watched movies, and the hubs and I tried to busy ourselves with things around the house. I sorted laundry and filled the dishwasher, picked up toys and emptied the trash. I don't recall us ever making any plans to go somewhere safer- somewhere with a basement perhaps. We just stayed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">At a little after 5 pm, the massive tornado was in Tuscaloosa county. Though I'd never seen any signs of it from hubs before, I could see it now- <em>fear. </em>He lost a little of the color in his face, and I knew. I knew it was bad and I also knew that it was too late for us to try and load the kids in the car and drive somewhere. <em>Where could we go? His parents' house had a basement, but it was on the other side of town. Could we make it? </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We told the kids to gather some toys and books and I spread out blankets in our center hallway. I sat with them and read and sang songs, all the while praying that God would pull it up into the sky. <em>Please, God- just make it disappear. I know you can. Please just take it away and calm my fears. </em>I also prayed that my children wouldn't be able to sense my fear. My heart was beating so fast that it was causing actual <em>pain </em>in my chest. It felt like every muscle in my body was tensed. After sitting at home all day trying to busy myself with menial tasks, I now realized that what I had been trying desperately to dismiss as a figment of my imagination was actually real and moving towards us<em>, on the ground</em>. And it was a mile wide. Hubs watched the tv in our bedroom from the hallway, and around 5:10 pm, we heard James Spann <em>say, 15th Street</em>. We pulled the full mattress off of the bed in the nursery and the twin mattress off of Oliver's bed and leaned them against the walls of our hallway creating a tent over us. I pulled Mary Martin into my lap, held Eliza on my right and Oliver on my left, and I wouldn't let them move. I didn't want a single inch of their bodies to leave the protective covering of those mattresses<em>, as if they were some sort of metal shield that would protect us no matter what. God, if this storm hits us, please let us be okay underneath. Please let these mattresses be a shield of protection around us should the house be blown away.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> We'd turned the volume down on the tv so the kids couldn't hear it<em>, </em>and while hubs continued to watch from the hallway, I held tight to our children and watched his face for any signs that we were in the clear. <em>I didn't see any. </em>What I did see was an incredibly pale face turn towards me and a mouth that uttered the words, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>"It's at Midtown, crossing McFarland". </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Headed straight for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As soon as he spoke those words, we lost power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">He came and joined us underneath the mattresses, and we sat. We held our babies and prayed, and as I sat there completely hunched over as far as I could with both mattresses leaning over me, I actually thought of heaven. I really did. I thought, <em>you know what, God? If this is our day- if you choose to take us now, it's okay. You've blessed me with far more than I deserve, and if we all leave this world today, at least we know where we're going.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I reached my hand behind me to feel the wall of our house as if somehow I might be able to gauge how close it was by the vibrations. <em>I know- it's crazy, but I did it. I felt the wall. </em>I remember thinking, <em>it should be here by now. </em>I couldn't hear anything hitting the house, and since<a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2011/04/did-i-mention-its-been-long-week.html"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">I'd just been through this</span></strong></a> a week and half earlier, I remembered being scared silly when things started slamming against the windows and doors and roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I heard nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">No limbs hitting the windows, nothing pounding the roof above our heads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Nothing.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just an eerie silence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We sat hunched over in that hallway, not moving, for what seemed like an eternity. <em>Why didn't we hear it? Had it passed? Was it completely gone? </em>And if not, <em>where did it go?</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We had no power or cell service, so hubs did the only thing he knew to do- he ran outside. He could <em>hear </em>it, but he couldn't <em>see </em>it. Our neighborhood sits off of 15th St, so the only thing we could conclude was that it had <em>turned.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And that's exactly what it did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's path was still pretty straight, but it was no longer headed down 15th Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After crossing McFarland Blvd and dancing briefly in the parking lot of University Mall, the tornado turned towards CVS, taking out Full Moon Barbecue, Chuck E. Cheese, Milo's, Big Lots, Tuesday Morning, a gym, and my beloved Hob Lob before heading straight for Alberta City where it<a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2011/05/where-well-be-today.html"> <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">took out our church</span></strong>.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My MIL's office, which sat near the corner of 15th and McFarland, was also completely destroyed. Only a few interior walls remained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shortly after hubs came back inside, we heard a knock at the back door. It was Lanny, a good friend of our parents' who lived in the neighborhood next to ours, and he'd been sent over to check on us. Our phones still had no service, but my parents had gotten a call through to him, and he was able to call them from his house to tell them we were okay. Since it had taken 6 days to get power restored from the storm that had come through just 12 days earlier, we figured we should at least head to my parents house and come up with a plan for where we'd spend the night. We loaded the kids in the car and I remember thinking, <em>maybe we can grab some fast food on the way there. </em>I wasn't at all hungry since the knot in my stomach and the pain in my chest were still going strong, but I knew the kids would need to eat soon. We loaded everyone in the car for what we <em>thought </em>would be an 8-10 minute drive. I'd grabbed my camera on the way out the door, and as soon as we hit 15th St, I started taking pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were <em>immediately </em>sitting<em> </em>in traffic. It was as if everyone in town had either jumped in their cars or were walking on the sidewalks. No one had power, so no one knew <em>exactly </em>what to expect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Police Officers had the intersection blocked off, so we turned into the parking lot of the mall. People were parking here and heading out on foot to look at the damage. There were people <em>everywhere, </em>just like in a disaster movie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since our quickest route was cut off, we continued through the parking lot where we realized that an entire wall of Belk was missing. My SIL had been at work there just a couple of hours earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After trying to reach my parent's house by two other routes, we realized that making it to their house might not be an option. They lived just over the bridge, but every single path to their house was cut off. We'd already been in the car for an hour and hadn't made it 4 miles from our house. We turned around and headed home, where we changed the girls diapers, grabbed a couple of movies for the dvd players, and filled the tank of hubs truck with gas he'd bought for the lawn mower. We tried yet another route to Northport by heading to Five Points in Cottondale and getting on University Blvd. Again, we sat. I have never seen so much traffic in all my life. I was angry, thinking that most of the people on the road were only there to look and gawk at everything, and then we'd pass a car with a tree limb stuck in it. And I was grateful. Grateful that we <em>didn't </em>have a tree limb sticking out of our car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We made it as far as the intersection of Crescent Ridge Road and University Blvd, <em>and I actually wish we hadn't made it there. </em>The kids had already finished <em>Tangled </em>and were now watching <em>The Phantom Menace. </em>I wished they'd been watching anything but Darth Maul on the screen, because at that particular intersection, there were <em>stretchers. </em>By this time, it was getting dark, but I could still see what was happening <em>and I prayed our children in the back seat couldn't. </em>Trees were down everywhere, so were the power lines, and there were still people <em>everywhere. </em>Most of the people we saw now were coming <em>out</em> of Alberta City, which is where our church is. Hubs rolled down the window and asked a man walking by what it looked like in Alberta. His response was, <em>"Man, you don't wanna know." </em>He shook his head and looked down, and repeated, "<em>You just don't wanna know. It's bad. Real bad." </em>And then he continued walking. After sitting in traffic at that intersection for almost 30 minutes, we made it through and hubs actually drove over a few power lines and around a tree. We'd almost made it to the Moon Winx when we couldn't go any further. There were too many poles and trees and debris in the road, and the sun had set. There wasn't any power so it was now completely dark. Our last option was to take the toll bridge, which was the longest way possible to make it to his parents house, but it worked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After being in the car for 3 hours and 45 minutes, we were at my in-laws house which is only about a 20-minute drive from where we live. The kids ate, but I was still too tense to eat anything. The entire time we'd been in the car, my hands had tingled and a few times I'd lost feeling in my fingers. My legs and back also ached, I guess from being hunched over in the hallway with those mattresses propped on my head. The 5 of us all slept in the same room that night in the clothes we'd been wearing all day, and to be honest, I wish we'd all slept in the same <em>bed. </em>I wanted to be able to touch all of my children and my husband, just to make sure they were really there. I don't think I closed my eyes once all night. I just laid there, thanking God over and over for protecting us<em>. Thank you for keeping us safe, God. Thank you, thank you.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On Friday, I went to my friend Jamie's house to sort through some clothes that had been donated for families in our church. <em>Many of our church members lost everything, but miraculously, all of them survived.</em> We watched a special NBC Dateline about the massive tornado that hit Tuscaloosa just two days earlier<em>. It was still surreal</em>. By this time, we were fully aware of the damage done to our city. If we hadn't passed it driving down the road, we'd seen it on the news. They called it the</span> '<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">perfect storm', since conditions that day had been <em>just right </em>to form a tornado of that size and keep it on the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Late that night, I woke up with the worst stomach cramps I'd ever had in my life. Labor pains didn't even come close to being as bad as whatever was going on inside me at the time. We were still staying in the guest room at my in-laws, so I crawled out of the room, woke my MIL, and asked if she'd take me to the hospital. <em>I was that certain that something was really, really wrong.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After ruling out a kidney stone, the Dr. informed me that my appendix was almost 3 times the size that it should be and that it needed to come out immediately. I include this part in the post not to talk about the surgery, but to say this: while in that hospital room, I wept. I didn't weep from the pain or from anything having to do with the reason that I was actually in that hospital, but because I'd suppressed my fear, and shock, and every single feeling I'd had since the storm. I didn't want my kids to see me afraid and I didn't want them to see me sad. So I held it in. I don't even remember what it was that set me off, but I remember hearing someone say <em>tornado</em>, and that's when it happened. <strong>I cried</strong>. With every bit of energy I had left (after puking all night long) I cried. I cried for our church building that was gone, I cried for the families we knew that had lost <em>everything, </em>I cried for being so afraid and for trying so hard not to show it. I cried and I didn't even care who saw or heard me. I just cried. And you know what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Don't get me wrong- that appendix still came out an hour later, but sometimes you just need to have a good, loud, nasty,ugly <strong>cry</strong>.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And I'm still convinced that pure fear mixed with a heap of shock will grow your appendix to 3 times its normal size. I am also convinced that if the fine Dr. that performed my surgery had truly cared about me, he would have given me a tummy tuck while he was down there, like I requested. What difference would a few more stitches have made anyway, hmmm?</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Our children now play 'tornado'. Every child in our town, no matter where they were at the time, was affected by the storm. They saw it on the news, they passed piles of rubble in their car, and perhaps they even spent the day in a bicycle helmet in the bathtub, or under a pile of mattresses in the hallway. Whatever the case may have been, <em>it had an effect on them. </em>While our girls were too young to remember what happened, Oliver was not, and my prayer is that he'll never forget how God protected us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We still have a long way to go, but God is holding our hands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And He is good, <em>all the time.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow.</em></span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-63855110397757740812013-03-31T00:21:00.000-05:002013-03-31T00:21:03.688-05:00He is risen!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Easter, friends! I hope you have a blessed day celebrating this most wonderful event. Christ is risen, folks! He's alive! We serve a RISEN Saviour, and if you don't know Him, I'd love to introduce you. Everything I am, everything I have, everything I will ever be is all due to Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Without Him, I. am. nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Amen?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've always been a fan of this comic strip, so when I saw this on facebook last night, I had to share:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And again, Amen to that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My favorite Nichole Nordeman song is <em>Why, </em>which tells the story of a young girl and her father witnessing the crucifiction. This song gets to me every time I hear it because the words are just so incredibly powerful. <em>And so incredibly true.</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have a listen. The scenes are from Passion of the Christ</span></em><br />
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-26205255469758269882013-03-22T12:27:00.003-05:002013-03-22T12:28:03.860-05:00Spamalot<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it's been a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thank goodness I'd just transferred everything to an external hard drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm popping in today for a quick reminder to you locals that <em><a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2013/01/spamalot.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Spamalot</strong></span></a> </em>opens TONIGHT at the Bama Theatre and you don't. want. to. miss. it. Tickets can be purchased at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime OR by visiting the ACT's website <a href="http://theactonline.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">HERE</span></strong></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We were able to do a scene and a musical number before a film that was playing in the Bama last Tuesday night, so I have a sneak peek photo for ya. (many thanks to Hilary for snapping this)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I'm looking forward to singing for a large audience tonight, and to spending Spring Break with my fam next week.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ahhhhhhh, how I love days with nothing to do...</span></em>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-10318999390348523962013-02-25T10:40:00.001-06:002013-02-25T10:40:27.470-06:00eight years<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You love love <em>love </em>to read. You never go anywhere without a book, and your backpack is weighed down every morning with books to take to school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>I hope you never lose </em>this love of books and reading. It makes my heart happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Legos are still a close second to books. Your happy place is in the floor of your room with a new lego set and instructions spread in front of you. You <em>never </em>have a set for long before ripping it from the box and putting it together, and you love to share with us what you're making.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You are anxious to get home from school everyday so that you can play with your friends who live across the street. We've never had neighbors with kids your age before, so the fact that there are now three living right in front of us is pretty awesome. <em>I love the fact that these new friends have given you a new desire to play and run and explore outside. </em>You always have so much fun together and it's been a blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You are a wonderful big brother, and you help us tremendously with your little sisters. This does not change the fact, however, that they still drive you insane. That's what 2 and 3 year-olds do. <em>And really, who could blame you. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You excel at school and don't mind doing your homework- especially when it means that you get to play outside as soon as you're finished. You currently have spelling and vocabulary tests every Friday, and we study these words each night of the week and I quiz you Friday mornings on the way to school. You get extremely frustrated when you miss one. Extremely. You don't like to fail, in any capacity. <em>You are your momma's child.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Again, you are your momma's child.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You picked the Angry Birds theme for your party this year and <em>loved </em>every second of helping me plan it. I will never forget the look on your face when you saw the pig lanterns, and the clouds, and the TNT boxes, and your own angry birds artwork on display. You love party prep just as much as I do.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And my son, I love you more than words can say. I am blessed beyond measure to be your mom, and my prayer is that you will continue to grow and do mighty things while keeping Christ first in your life.</span></em></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-20195726291697396352013-02-01T07:42:00.004-06:002013-02-01T07:42:56.709-06:00The Paperman, The Face, and Good Hart<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This new Disney short has been making the rounds via twitter and FB lately- have you seen it? It's worth a watch and comes in at only 6 minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hubs and I had a basketball date last night and ran into this guy...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And last, but not least- the first release of the newest Matilda Jane collection (Good Hart) is now online. The clothing will be at my casa on Sunday, but you can check out all of the new loveliness via your computer screen<a href="http://www.matildajaneclothing.com/shop.php?CategoryID=38" target="_blank"> <b>HERE.</b></a></span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-74045075366230010412013-01-30T23:33:00.002-06:002013-01-31T06:18:00.170-06:00Spamalot<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nope. Not the quasi-meat.</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're a fan of the Monty Python films, then you know this is the musical version of <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail.</i></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Monty Python films are comedies full of silly humor, and are at times, <i>a bit crude, </i>but hilarious none the less.<i> </i>Here's one of my favorite scenes from the film...</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So why am I telling you all this? Because <i>Spamalot </i>will be playing in my fair city at the end of March, and I'm crazy excited to tell you that I'll be playing Lady of the Lake. <b>Yup. Crazy excited.</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those of you in lands far far away, I'll post pics and see if I can manage a video or five. This will be my first time on stage since<b> <i><a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2010/09/4-things.html" target="_blank">Hairspray</a> </i></b>in 2010, and goodgollymissmolly I've missed it. While directing is my usual gig now, there's nothing quite like belting your heart out onstage- <i>can I get an Amen?</i></span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-2591229916946198942013-01-30T10:28:00.003-06:002013-01-30T10:28:55.425-06:00Instagrams on the wall<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Howdy friends! I've got a super simple project I completed recently that took minimal effort (awesome), but makes a huge statement (again, awesome).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Plethora.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are clothes for itty-bitty gals as well as their grandmas, <i>and EVERYONE in between. (sizes begin at 6 months for littles and run through 12/14 tween and adult XS-XL) </i></span><br />
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-39459157811711516342013-01-22T07:23:00.000-06:002013-01-22T07:23:20.784-06:00Costume Wardrobe and Nursery updates<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm <i>beyond </i>thrilled to finally show you a project I've been waiting to finish for a while now. I've been to thrift stores, stalked Craigslist and local garage sale sites, and even toyed with <i>making </i>a cabinet to hang the girls costumes in for almost an entire YEAR. Since they share a room and a <i>closet, </i>and since they happen to have a large collection of costumes which probably stems from the fact that their mom has a degree in musical theatre, and since there was barely room for the real clothing, <i>much less the make-believe dress-up clothes, </i>we needed a solution.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enter our local facebook garage sale site.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enter the top half of an entertainment center, listed for $25.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Their neighbors were throwing this out.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here she is, in all her glory.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So glad the kitchen gets to live in this room now and <i>not </i>the living room. I love having kiddos, but if you're not careful, their 'stuff' can start to take over every.corner.of.the.house. This is especially true of a house with no 'playroom', which is what our formal living room has been serving as for a while. There are still toys in it, but for the most part, they are containerized when not in use. <i>Oh how I love containerization. Is that even a word?</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So glad to finally have this project finished and to have a space that's more suited to the needs of a 2 and 3 year old. So glad to have more space in their closet for the clothes that usually end up on their bodies in public. <i>Not always, but usually.</i> Also glad to take a break from constantly stalking the furniture listings on Craigslist. <i>It's more exhausting than it sounds, I promise. </i>It just proves that good things do in fact come to those who wait, and sometimes they have gawgeous carvings and a price tag of 25 buckaroos.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And also, I'm totally going to confess to you what was still on the dresser in this room yesterday when I went in to take pics.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-70307431212586142552013-01-19T17:31:00.000-06:002013-01-21T10:25:47.407-06:00Blog Garage Sale<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been at it again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleaning out closets, organizing, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feels gooooood.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of what I'm listing today is GIRLS 12m-2T with a few hats/clutches thrown in. If any of you local gals would like to come and take a look, you're more than welcome, and if you live in a land far far away and would like something, I'll be glad to ship to you at cost. (If I ship to you, payment must be made through paypal)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children's Place cream top- 24 month (small stain on front but would work as a layering piece) $1</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Gap yellow pear top/pants- 18-24mo- $5 <b>SOLD</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shrimp and Grits Fairy smocked 2-piece outfit- 12mo- $20 <b>SOLD</b></span></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-27974744261488332082013-01-18T10:50:00.000-06:002013-01-18T10:50:12.123-06:00Snow Day 2013<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It snowed here yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It <em>never </em>snows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Most of the children I teach have only seen snow twice in their lifetimes, counting yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Kind of a shame that we spent most of the day in school, because you just <em>really never know. </em>The last time we were out of school for <em>possible </em>snow, it didn't. No snow. Not one bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That wasn't the case yesterday. It came down, and down, and down....all over the place. </span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Twas gawgeous, I tell ya. Gawgeous.</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It began during my 4th class of the day. I was sitting at the piano singing with a class of 2nd graders, and I walked to the windows and pulled up the blinds. And they screamed. <em>This is what happens, folks. We live in the South. The white stuff that falls from the sky excites us.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We were dismissed early from school at 1:00 which was quite possibly the <em>worst </em>time to have put people/buses on the roads, but again- <em>we have so little experience with snow. </em>Here are a few pics from the day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2nd graders <em>mesmerized </em>by the falling white stuff. <em>Mesmerized.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't get to play with the girls in the snow since they were with their grandmother, but she sent me pics. <em>Thanks MawMaw.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what we looked like after walking through the parking lot at school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is what it looked like on the roads. <em>I promise I had come to a complete stop, Mom.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO so so glad there was still snow on the ground at our house when we finally made it home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm contemplating climbing on the roof to use that snow for a massive snow man. Didn't do it, but I thought about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And O did this ALL by himself. I found the sticks and he rolled the snow. He also had some fun with the kids that live across the street from us- throwing snow balls, making more snow angels, and just generally getting soaking wet.</span></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-79660984175755920002013-01-14T01:18:00.000-06:002013-01-14T01:18:57.728-06:00how I documented an entire year in one week with Project Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while since my last <a href="http://beckyhiggins.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Project Life</span></b></a> post. <i>Two years ago, to be exact. </i><a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-life-layouts.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">HERE'S</span></b></a> that post where I gush about my love for Project Life and the simplicity of it and show you several pages from my 2010 book. (And for those of you who've never heard of Project Life, it's the system I use to document and keep up with our family's everyday life. It's simple, doesn't require any special scrapbooking 'tools', and as you'll see in this post, I was able to put an entire year's worth of photos together in about a week. Much thanks is owed to the creator of this system, Becky Higgins. You can check out her site and watch a video all about Project Life <a href="http://beckyhiggins.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">HERE</span></b></a>.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the ideal way to 'keep up' with what's happening in your life would be to write about it/print pics weekly and stick them into your album so you don't forget the details, I find that even THAT is sometimes too much for me to handle. (case in point: my 2011 Project Life album is empty) Taking pictures is the easy part for me, especially since the iphone makes it so darn easy to take not 1, but 428 pics every.single.day. <i>I promise I don't take that many- but I totally could.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I had some time off work during Christmas break, I decided to tackle my 2012 album, <i>and I mean ALL of the album. </i>The computer keeps track of what day I took each photo, and since I download pics from our cameras and phone every few days, I had PLENTY to chose from. Picking which photos I wanted to print was actually the most time-consuming part of putting the book together since I literally had thousands to go through. I pulled out a calendar to record which photo I wanted to print for that day and wrote down which folder and which number each photo was so I could go back later and throw them all onto a flash drive. (I print the bulk of our photos at Sam's where it's quick and super-cheap, and doesn't use up our printer ink.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now you may be wondering, "What about those days where you want to include, say, 165 photos instead of just 1?" Like maybe a birthday party or a wedding or a trip to Disney World?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I printed 87 photos for the girls' Wizard of Oz party alone, and plan to make a separate 'mini' book for occasions such as this. As luck would have it, a new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Project-Life-Mini-Album-Cherry/dp/B00APB5JVY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358139365&sr=8-1&keywords=project+life+mini+album" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Project Life mini album</span></b></a> made it's debut last week on Amazon. <i>In 5 beautiful shades, no less.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of these mini albums has space for 80 4x6 pictures and 80 3x4 journaling cards (or smaller pics/pieces of memorabilia.) Just think of all the possibilities!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mentioned my love for capturing bits and pieces of our everyday life with my phone's camera and to be honest, most of my photos now go straight to instagram. <i>Can I get a quick show of hands from those of you who would like to confess your love for this app as well? I thought so.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course I'd want to include my fave instagram shots in the book, and Sam's is NOT the place to print these for you, my friends. Instagrams are <i>square, </i>and Sam's doesn't do <i>square. </i>I've heard of several great resources for printing insta's, but haven't used any, so I'll just tell you what I did, k? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once the journaling is done, (<i>and just to be honest, I'm still not done with this part, but for the sake of the post I'm skipping ahead) </i>it's time to go through and add any memorabilia that you want to include. This could be wedding/birthday invites, show tickets and programs, special pieces of artwork made by your kiddos, etc. I keep all of this together throughout the year in a file folder in the top drawer of my chalkboard file cabinet. See?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so I go through it once the year is over and decide what goes and what stays. I also put everything in order by date so that it's easier to add it into the book. Some items get inserted into the appropriate week, and some go into a folder in the back of the album.</span></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-43299928641933238462013-01-08T11:04:00.001-06:002013-01-08T11:18:33.695-06:002012 National Champions<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going to work on very little sleep was totally worth it today. Such a great game and a fun night. Here are a few of my favorite images after last nights game, most of which were found on good ole' Facebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, if you just can't get enough Roll Tide-ness, here are the headlines from <a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2013/01/how_they_played_it_front_pages.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>several newspapers across the country</strong></span>.</a></span></div>
mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0Tuscaloosa (null)33.124063 -87.541598tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-29750839974446949972013-01-07T00:27:00.000-06:002013-01-07T00:27:07.519-06:00unplugged<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I unplugged for a while. Completely enjoyed my time off with my family and soaked up every. single. minute. <i>It was glorious. </i>I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year as well!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I stayed away from the blog and posted very little on facebook/twitter during our break, I wanted to share a few of my favorite pictures with you from our Christmas. We kept things super simple this year. I didn't decorate the perfect Christmas tree, and I didn't even post a Christmas home tour. We DID, however, manage to get our rooftop lights from last year <a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-brush-with-fame.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">on the Today Show. <i>Yup. THAT Today Show.</i></span></b></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be back this week with an update on <a href="http://beckyhiggins.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Project Life</span></a> and some goodies I've been working on for the shop, but in the meantime, here's a glimpse at Christmas 2012:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Got to hang out with Dylan Riley Snyder from Disney XD's <i>Kickin' It! </i>Such an awesome guy!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dusted off my Battleship skillz.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watched this amazing lights display that was set to music. If you're in T-town, add this to your list of places to visit next year.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wrapped gifts. The paper is from the dollar spot at Target and the tulle is leftover from mah WEDDIN' Y'ALL.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dressed like a modern-day Dorothy,</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while my bro-in-law dressed like this.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Legos</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Batmansnuggie</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sister was SO excited to open some Barbies. <i>That's mah girl.</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MM was just happy to play with the bags...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that were NOT for him. #120lbweightlimit</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wastes no time. #done</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beautiful service.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A crazy last-minute search for one of these on Dec 22. (Long story short, we found ONE)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This girl loves her some Walter. (and nope- still not living inside. Just came in for a quick visit)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MM was even kind enough to share her little people Cinderella. That's big.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got an awesome shirt. <i>Thanks Mum.</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a massive purge. Turns out I still had every.single. program/playbill to EVERY show I'd ever been to in my life. Every. Single. One.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does anyone really <i>need </i>28 playbills to <i>Urinetown or Millie? </i>Cause that's how many I had, y'all. (no worries. I totally kept the signed ones)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And probably the biggest news of all:<br />THIS ONE GOES IN THE POTTY NOW.<br />Hasn't mastered number two in the loo, but she's mighty close.<br /><br />So that's pretty much all the news that is the news.<br /><br />Feels good to be back.<br /><br />Happy Monday!</span></td></tr>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-12955842772686564392012-12-25T12:30:00.001-06:002012-12-25T12:30:30.815-06:00For unto you is born this day<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the city of David a Saviour, which is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Christ the Lord</span>. Luke 2:11</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love taking a look back over the past year and including some of the major points on our card. Gets me all nostalgic, ya know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We have two more days of school left here and then we'll have a nice long break. Looking forward to seeing <em>all </em>of our family and of course celebrating Christmas with our kiddos.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Happy Thursday, friends.</span></em></div>
mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-60552128334896834472012-12-14T10:34:00.000-06:002012-12-14T10:34:03.503-06:00Flashback Friday<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's Friday. We made it. All of us. That's cause for celebration and a new installment of flashback Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was 1992. My mum, seester, and I went to Disney World for the first time with a group from church. I celebrated my 12th birthday in the most magical place on earth. I also celebrated big hair and glasses, long skinny bird legs, and no boobs. <em>Poor 12 year old MK- already 5'6 in the 6th grade and wearing size 8 shoes. And no boobs.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let's take a look back via poorly scanned photos, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must admit that seester and I are looking pretty good with Mr. Hot Pants/Fanny pack stranger over there on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Or the fact that I waited impatiently for the Sheriff to sign my autograph book while some little 4 year old took her sweet precious time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(Mine, not Mickey's.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's an actor at MGM (now Hollywood Studios) on the bench next to me. This was and still is my fave Disney park because of all the movie memorabilia. I'll never forget walking into a store that sold clothing and props from movies- I looked through piece after piece and found a pair of pants worn by Marlon Brando in <em>Guys and Dolls. </em>I unzipped the hanger bag and <em>touched </em>the pants. I touched a piece of film history that Marlon Brando once wore on. his. body. I'm pretty sure that shop no longer exists because I didn't see it when we were there, but I'll never forget touching those pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there ya have it- more awkward pics of me as a pre-teen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope you all have a lovely weekend! Ours is packed full of Christmasy events that all center around a meal.</span></div>
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mary kathryn @ mathews family happeningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939919106766185415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435613097915190306.post-51551562017081899392012-12-12T09:30:00.000-06:002012-12-12T09:30:07.066-06:00up on the roof<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone else sing the blog title in their heads just now?</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back to the subject at hand which happens to be the roof. If you've been hangin' round these parts for over a year, you know that hubs likes to decorate our roof in an unconventional sort of way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The first year, it was this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which lead our neighbors to wonder if we were in some sort of cult.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">We're not. This is pure shenaniganisms. Yes that's a word.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Last year, the roof attracted so much attention, our house appeared on two popular websites and friends of ours that frequent those websites called and texted to let us know our rooftop had reached celebrity status. Last year's roof looked like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, I assure you there is no hidden meaning behind this. We love Christmas. The halls are decked, the carols are blaring from the stereo, and there's peppermint creamer in the fridge. This is hubs at his finest. <em>Well, he's pretty darn fine in a tux, but you know what I mean.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Then why is it like that?"</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Do you have any idea how many times I've had to say, "Your daddy is just being silly"? If I had a nickel for each time, I could buy like a thousand pumpkin spice lattes, mmkay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, in conclusion, the writing is once again on the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's pure shenanigans. </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">p.s. If you'd like to take a gander at the INSIDE decor from last year, click <a href="http://mathewsfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-christmas-home-tour.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">HERE.</span></strong></a> The decor from this year so far is laughable at best. I'm a bit behind, not to be confused with I HAVE a big behind.</span></em></div>
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