BUTLER'S BLABBER

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JODY

I did tell him Happy Birthday on Facebook, but failed to make a blog post in honor of him. Sorry, I really have no excuse other than we don't get to celebrate your birthday because yall live too dang far away!!! Love you!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY RYLIN!!

My best friend Brooke and her 1 year old Rylin at her birthday party on Sat Feb 28th.

opening her presents with mommy and daddy's help

look at those eyes...she's thinking...it's a big one!

Eating something off of Pap's plate.

Pushing her friend Lexie around. This was so cute for the first couple of minutes then we all got nervous. I can't believe how mobile Rylin is now!

Rylin eating bread from her Great Grandmother, Mrs. Jan.

It's cake time...forgive me, these pictures are backwards in order. This is when she was really getting into her cake!

Hey! Why's everyone looking at me...yall are telling me to do this!

This is when it started to get exciting.

Yay! We were clapping so Rylin clapped too. CUTE!

I thought this was a cute pic of her cake and candle with Rylin in the background.

Kristen Alvarez and me. We stood outside the delivery room door together when Rylin came into the world! I had a good time talking with her at the party and I wish she still lived here!

Allison and Brooke

Justin, Libby, and Addie made the trip from Macon in the bad weather for the party. It was great seeing you guys again!

After all the sugar she had from her bday cake, Rylin was raring to go after her bath. She was showing me how well she could walk on her own. I thought this pic was cute because she's holding her shoe in her hand and it looks like she's running.

Aunt Heather and Rylin Kate Strickland! Love this baby! (I was laughing at Brooke trying to get her to smile, hence the double chin!)

TARA & JAKE'S ENGAGEMENT PARTY

Jake and Tara at their engagement party at the Country Club in Adel on Saturday, February 21st. It was a really nice night!

Sam and Rozie being silly!

Jake has always been so incredibly sweet to me and I love him for that!

Jamie and Emily-these girls were 2 years younger than me in school, but I absolutely loved them...they are precious!

Sam and Kristy...my dates for the evening.

Kristy and me...It was a cold night hence why I had a turtleneck on with my dress!

Callie, me, Jeanna, Katherine and Kristy...I love these girls!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

Even if I tried to not make this day hard, I just don't think it would have been possible. I just miss my dad so much and this day is just such a reminder that he's not here. The family helped my mom move into her new house today. That was about as surreal as the day she moved in with me. Her house is beautiful and I know she will enjoy it. I guess it's just gonna take time to adjust. I am posting this today in honor of my dad's birthday. I know I have to move past his death, but I feel it my honor/right/duty to continue celebrating his life. The life he lived well. My friend Christi said that my dad and her Papa were enjoying birthday cake up in Heaven together. I can only imagine what kind of fabulous celebrations are going on up there. I just wish knowing that would take away my pain. Anyways, my dad would have been 59 today. So just incase God is allowing him to look down on us today or any day for that matter, I just wanted to tell him how much I love him and will always cherish him and how incredibly thankful I am that he is my daddy.

ELAINE & TRUDY COME TO VISIT

Trudy and Elaine...I love you both!

Emma and mommy saying cheese

Elaine was playing with Ella Grace and Ella Grace loved it!

Ooohhhh, wonder where the attitude behind this face comes from? Surely, not the Butler's? She actually had a mouth full of sprite so she couldn't smile.

Emma was raring to go today!

My dad had these two friends in law enforcement, Elaine Snow and Trudy McDevitt. If you are a follower of this blog, you know that I have posted about them before. Well, they wanted to get together and spend some time with each other since they don't live in the same town. They just happened to grace us with their presence in Valdosta as their get together place. I met them at their hotel Friday night and the three of us had a great time catching up. I feel even closer to my dad when they are around because they represent part of his other family, the police! They told me that people would call them and dad the three musketeers. Saturday, we met for lunch and introduced them to The Wooden Nickel! The girls loved meeting them. Then we took them to see mom's new house and Chris and Heather's new house and then I showed them my office. We had a great time talking and playing with the girls. Thanks Ladies for coming to see us. It definitely did my heart good!

BEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA 2009

We won!! We won the 2009 Best Massage Therapists! In the newspaper, it was printed Best place to get a massage, but whatever. We are both so thrilled! This is the ad we ran in the newspaper today. Sorry this is how it is showing up on the blog, it's actually very cute...pink background and brown writing with our pictures in color! Thanks to everyone who voted for us. We give God all the glory for allowing us to have our business for the past 3 1/2 years and for all of our wonderful clients!

VALENTINE'S DAY

After working all day on Saturday making other people happy, I was ready for some love from my neices!! Mom bought them the outfits they are wearing. I went shopping with Heather after the girls opened their gifts. Overall, it was a good day!

Ella Grace being a ham!

Ella Grace opening her presents from me. They love boo-boonaids. Pier 1, of all places, had some kisses and hearts bandaids that I couldn't resist buying.