A Day At The Park

This weekend was so beautiful! So the kids and I went to the park to enjoy the day. They had so much fun playing. We really love the sand volleyball area. The kids just think it is a huge sand box.

How It Came to Be

This post is for all those nosey ladies out there. I had several comments on my last post about how I met Matt. So here it goes, I will tell our love story.

How could this happen? How can you search and search and date a lot of wrong people, to only be surprised to find true love, when you least expect it? That is exactly what happened when I met Matt. It was a very cold and icy night in December. I had just traveled back from Christmas break at my parents. It took me forever to get back because the roads were closing right behind me. I remember seeing several wrecks that day. I finally got to my rent house, that Holly and I shared. We were teaching in the DFW area and were roommates. I remember being so tired and not wanting to do anything. April called me and Mike and her wanted me to do something with them that night. They finally talked me into coming over. We were going to a guy's house that Mike worked with to see his puppies. After that then we were going to listen to a band. Little did I or even April know that Mike had a different idea.

So I met my true love by showing up on his doorstep. This was so God that took me to Matt's house. I remember walking in his and his roommates house and seeing all the dead animals hanging on the walls. Little did I know, that one day I too would have these lovely things hanging in my house. I walked out to their backyard. The backyard was so huge. It was about an acre, so the guys had their trucks out by the fire pit. They were tailgating and listening to music. I met Matt and thought oh, he has a cute baby face. He seem to want to know more about me because I heard him ask Mike a lot of questions. I told April that I was not wanting a relationship and was NOT into him. I did however enjoy his dog Creole, she had just had lab puppies. That at the time was the one thing he did have going for him.

Not sure who or even if we invited Matt along with us but anyway he tagged along. I was not sure about this idea. We went to Cowboys a bar with a live band and huge dance floor. We got there and the band was on a break so a fast song was playing. April and I ran out to dance to my surprise Matt followed us out on the dance floor. Man, I was impressed he could really dance. Then the band came back on and Matt asked me to dance. Well, let's just say that he swept me off my feet. He was a incredible dancer. By the end of the night I was SO INTO him. From that point on we started dating and got married 11 months later in Hawaii with our friends and family. It is funny how we ended up together but it works for us.

Here are some of the reasons I'm still so in love with Matt!


1. He can read me like a book. He is so into me he can read my moods and sometimes my thoughts. He knows when I need my space or just need a hug and told how much I mean to him. He is so sweet and considerate. .

2. He is an Awesome cook! He so loves to cook. This use to upset me because after all I am the wife, so I should be the one in the kitchen right? He would always take over or tell me a better way or easier way to do something. Things have changed now and I so let him have the kitchen. I still like to cook and will do it as long as he is not around to "help". What usually happens is I will start dinner and he will come home and finish it. Or here lately he has just surprised me and had dinner ready when I get home.

3. He loves order and things to be neat. This also use to get on my ever-loving-nerves! When we first got married he would make the bed. Well, that doesn't sound so bad except I was still in it! He also likes to clean out things. So if things are around the house and we have not used them in over 6 months they are gone. I once woke up late one Saturday morning to find he was having a garage sale. I must say I do now love and respect his neatness. He has so lighten up since kids. He still loves a clean house. I guess it just easier to clean it while the kids and I are gone. ( earlier this month's blog)

4. He is my best friend. He is so different from me but I think that is why we work so well together. He loves now after 6 1/2 yrs. to just stay up and talk with about life and our future. He loves being my husband and tries everyday to be a better one. He's such a wonderful, trustworthy friend!

5. He is such a good Daddy. He is so crazy about his kids. He loves spending time with them and creating memories. He loves to do Daddy stuff with Brylie since she is older. They will have projects in the garage all the time. Brylie and him built a bird house last spring. It is hanging on our play set outside. She still talks about her day with her Daddy building the bird house. I love at night he will move the furniture and play basketball with Lawson and usually Brylie joins in. He is a wonderful Daddy.

6. He still has it! He can still dance. It so cracks me up when I trying to be serious or I am mad at him he will usually break at in a dance. Sometimes he will want me to dance with him. He knows how to get to me and it makes me laugh. My favorite time is of course when he is dancing with his little princess. She so loves dancing with her princes.


As you can tell I could go on and on about this wonderful man. I still love him as much as I always have and that love grows even more each day. What is our secret for happiness? I'll sum it up - love, respect, and communication but the most important factor is keeping God first in our lives. So I'm tagging all the ladies out in the blog world. I need to hear your love stories and why you are still in love with your man.

Thata Boy!

No, I'm NOT potting training, Brylie is! It happened once a couple of weeks ago. I heard Brylie screaming, not too unsual for her. She was in the bathroom so I thought Lawson was bothering her. He loves to help out by unrolling the toliet paper and flushing the potty. So when I came in ,to my surprise, I found him instead on the potty. Brylie was so proud of herself. She said, she was tried of him making his diapers so smelly. It was so priceless she had got a book and was reading to him. He didn't seem to get the idea of what he was suppose to do. So she turns on the water to help him out. I so died laughing when she did that. Nothing happened but he did love the attention we gave him.

These are pictures I took of him this week on the potty. Brylie is not giving up on him yet. I don't think he is ready by any means. Hey, it can't hurt if he is at least sitting on the thing right? I would love to be diaper free! I know it will be along time before that happens. I have heard boys are harder to potty train than girls? I love that Brylie is so set at least for now to help him use the "Big boy potty". So stay turn for updates.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Making Valentine's for school




Valentine's breakfast





Blowing a Kiss




Yummy! Valentine Candy

Back to my Crazy Life.

Living room with my new blinds


Showing the trim work after the new paint


Our living room with the new paint

I left out last Thursday and was Lubbock bound. Lawson got a viral infection and ran high fever Thursday until Saturday night. As long as we stayed ahead of the game he was great. He is such a little trooper. I had such a fabulous time seeing everyone. I love taking a step back in time and remembering old days. I am so very mad at myself for forgetting my camera. So I don't have any fun pictures to post, to mark this fun time I had.
We got back on Sunday afternoon. The kids and I were so glad to be home again! While we were gone we had the inside of the house painted. So before we left Thursday almost all our stuff was packed in our garage. It was so AWESOME to come home to a house all put back together again. It looked soooo good. I can't express to my in-laws and husband how greatful I am, for the amazing house make over. My closets are so clean and I must say there is nothing under my beds. My house was scrub clean by my mother-in-law. This is the cleanest my house has ever been. I mean they cleaned the grout in my kitchen and took down my lighting fixture and cleaned them. Wow, I love a clean house. I took some pictures of the house but too bad I didn't take pictures before. That would be cool to have before and after pictures but too bad.

Thank you guys for all your hard work. The house looks so great. I love the new blinds it makes everything look so much better. Brylie is loving the change and loves her new room color and furniture arrangement. We were not sure how that would go with her since change is so hard for her. I just must say one more time THANKS SO MUCH!

Back in the Day

My Lil Cupids

Bryliie 17 months





Lawson 20 months

Love is in the air?

It is Febuary, the month of love right? I just love silly little holidays. Especially ones that must have been made up by a women, to get a gift. I have always loved this holiday as a child. I love cards and it was fun to get tons of cards at once from my classmates. I still love this holiday, I always get the kids and Matt something for the special day. I also love to get cute little shirts or outfits for the kids or me to wear for this special day. I know most people don't really think much about this silly holiday. But because it is such a favorite holiday of mine I have my kid's pictures made to celebrate. I have my favorite Valentine's picture of Brylie when she was only 17 months in a little cupid outfit. She looks so adorable and angelical. I wanted to hold on to that tradition. I took Lawson to the same place to do the same picture. Lawson was in such a great mood and so happy and friendly to everyone. I took him back to change him into the cute little cupid outfit and the boy had a huge FIT. As you can tell by the picture he was not liking the idea of being dressed up in the cupid outfit. He would not stand up or stop crying. I still thought that the picture was too cute with him mad and crying in the cupid outfit.