Like father or mother?

I love these pictures.

We're all pondering the mysteries of life.

Busy Busy

Soooo... did I mention we bought a house? Yes I think I did. Did I mention we move in a week? Ha! Let's just say things have been moving fast.

Since Thanksgiving it's been crazy busy around here. We travelled a lot to Kerrville and looked at a lot of houses and we actually bought one!

Thought I would share a few pictures that have been taken over the last couple of months since I haven't been posting many.

Adom and PawPaw during Christmas

Greg and Ben playing sticky hand wars...boys!

Adom and his best friend Brookie.

Christmas at Nana's house.

Showing off his cowboy boots that Nana got him.

Greg and I got him a guitar for Christmas... the boy hasn't gotten a hair cut yet. haha

Playing with baby Emmie

She is so cute!

There are a lot more photos that I could share but I'm a little frustrated with the loading application for my pictures. Overall we had a great Christmas and we got to see lots of family and friends!

Not sure how much I'm going to be able to blog in the next few weeks so if you don't hear from me in a while you might find me under packing peanuts tangled in a web of duck tape.

Cedar Choppin' to Window Shoppin'

Most of you that read this blog know that I was raised in the country. Middle of nowhere blessed Texas Hill Country ranches to be exact. In the past few months though I've realized that people that stop by my blog don't know anything about me.... they just see cute pics of my family (which is great)!



I'm starting a new thang... I mean thing. Just hang in there (here) with me.




This is the Nueces River. This is where I grew up.



The mountain (ahem...hill) is where we would turn off the highway to go to the ranch that my Daddy ran. It was a beautiful ranch. 4 guest houses, 1 dance pavillion w/commercial kitchen, 3 man made fishing ponds, stables w/ numerous horses, gravel runway for private planes, helicopter pad.... This was not your typical 100 acre ranch. More like thousands of acres.


There were many other ranches that we lived on...more about those some other time.





This is where I live now. Fort Worth. Theres a difference. A big dad-blasted (my favorite new word) city. It's growing on me though. Especially now that we're going to own a home in this whoppin' metroplex.

It helps that Fort Worth is known as "Cowtown". I'm not quite out of the country yet. Perhaps it's the countriest (real word?) city in Texas. I like to think so anyways.

Don't burst my bubble.

I'm going to attempt to share with you exerts from my "cedar choppin'" childhood. As well as my ventures in big city "window shoppin'".

Get it?

Cedar Choppin' to Window Shoppin'... clever right?

Don't answer that.

Stay tuned... if you dare! Muahahaha!

Love,

The raving lunatic (ME)

Seriously?

Alright people... it just hit me. Just now. It's 2009!


2009... as in flying cars, people living on the moon, drinking Tang!


At least that's what I thought of when I was a kid and someone mentioned the year 2009.

Okay, so a new year. Hmmm...


Perhaps I should share what I remember about 2008.

• Greg got a job in Fort Worth


• We moved to Fort Worth (actually Arlington but who cares right?)


• We found an awesome home church


• I lost weight (but who cares)


• Adom turned 2!


• Our good friends Ryan and Marissa had their precious baby Emery


• A lot of homesickness (is that a word?) on my part.


• A Growing relationship with the Lord


• Started looking into buying a home
• I remembered why I hate living in apartments
• I accepted a transcription job that I can do from home

Okay so I remember a lot more but those are the things that come to mind right away. It was a very busy year. As all years have been since Greg and I were married.

So in 2009 I'm thinking that we will buy that house I mentioned in my previous post. I'm totally psyched by the way. It's a whole house bigger than our house that we owned in kerrville!

I think I'm destined to wander the rooms of my future home haunted by color choices and fabric swatches... muahahaha!

*That was a good evil laugh, in case you were wondering*

Rambling...Rambling... ahem so anyways.

Back to 2009, I don't know what's gonna happen this year but I'm looking forward to it. As my wonderful Aunt Peggy says quite frequently, "Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!" Sorry menfolk.

I shall leave you with a few pictures of our soon to be family abode.

Are they laughing at me?!

So for Christmas my Dad gave me money to get a manicure and pedicure.

Thanks Daddy!

I used to love getting to do this kind of stuff... I still do don't get me wrong. But sometimes I wonder, are these ladies laughing at ME?

This lady that gave me my mani and pedi was VERY nice. I asked her where she was from and she said South Korea. So I'm minding my own business reading a magazine, watching the Martha Stewart show on the flat screen when she suddenly starts laughing! They all spoke Korean of course so I couldn't understand anything of what she was saying to her friends. And then it occured to me...

Are they laughing at me?!

I mean gosh, are my feet weird, do they stink, is there something hilariously wrong with me that they would roll in laughter at the thought of me?!

Probably not... but I do wonder.

Then of course when it's time to pay I'm thinking to myself, "man I should've taken all this money and gone Goodwill Hunting,".

I can guarantee you that that thought would have never ever occured to me before I was married and had a child. Good thing is though, I still had $20 left over.

Guess what I did...

I got a "new" pair of pants and shirt AND paid my library fines.

What a day... phew.

What can I say I've turned into quite the frugal gal. And.... I like it :)