I have a secret....

NO for those that read....I AM NOT PREGNANT!! ha ha! It's really no secret but its nice to think of it that way! But.....

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!!

Well tomorrow is my last day of official work! YAAAAAYYYY! Today we went to celebrate the last school day with children by grabbing some SNO-CONES on our way home from grandma's. It was so nice to get off work early relax, get the car washed and head for sno-cones! Let me just say....I HATE taking the car to get washed. I did not like the experience and David simply laughed at me but whatever.
After work I met David and his mom at Lowe's they were getting some organizational ideas for our summer projects.

Summer Bucket List:

• Organize and Re-arrange our bedroom closet
• Finish organizing and cleaning the laundry room/office (this is sooner than later as Shaft might be here this weekend)
• Plan Dj's birthday party
• Survive Dj's birthday party--July 7th (you better not miss it) I've already told some people and put it on calendars....yes I am that over achieving mother that has had this planned since last year!
• Spend as much time as possible enjoying the summer break
• Make an exercise plan and stick to it :)
• Prepare Dj for Mother's Day Out!! <----I can't believe our big boy will be going to school next year! (Proud Mommy moment)
• Take a family vacation with Norma (We may or may not get to go with them but it would be nice if we could!)

I am sure that I'll have more to add....oh and did I mention somewhere in all of this I will be taking my GRE exam and filing my application with Texas Tech Graduate School for the Fall.

Well tomorrow should be an easy breezy day!! Check in at work make sure nothing is wrong with my paperwork that I turned in earlier today and then DATE DAY with the hubby once he gets off work!!

Drum roll pls....David's 27!!!

Last night we celebrated Davids 27th birthday! Family and friends met us at New York Pizza to enjoy some pizza and cake :)
I love that we were able celebrate all together as much as David protested...I WON! We've had a wonderful weekend of just relaxing and celebrating!! David was able to finish all his homeowner early and just hang out with us minus his usual attachment to the computer on weekends.

Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend...were expecting snow hmmm maybe late start tomorrow!!

Oh and yes I forgot candles so David is using his lighter!

Whew!! School's OUT for Summer!!

Wow its been a crazy time for our little family! David has been busy working and working on all our remodel stuff--kitchen and bathroom! I've been working on finishing up the school year, bible study and FINALLY planning Dj's birthday party! This past week I took Dj to our bible study and I must say he was a distraction but it has been a wonderful experience growing with these ladies! We are reading and following Believing God by Beth Moore. I love my weekly time with these ladies because its a wonderful time to just reflect on life and all the blessings God has given us! What I am thinking about most is that we must believe is "God is who God says He is"!

This is our first weekend that hasn't been crazy busy yet we are still busy...we had Andrew's graduation Friday night in Colorado City! I'll post a picture later...We are very proud of Andrew even though he will be attending Texas A & M!! Today we stayed home and worked on cleaning, organizing and of course David worked on the kitchen! Tomorrow we'll be working on the kitchen some more and then have a birthday party for a family friend!

I am very proud of myself because I placed the first order for Dj's birthday and that will be in around June 10th! I am processing the next order and just waiting on the pinata to come back in stock to place that order! I've decided on centerpieces, balloons, cakes, decorations etc...I am thrilled to be planning this party! The only thing that I'm having a little issue with is what activities to have for the kids that attend the party to participate in....swimming, jump-o-lene....hmmm....maybe a mixture...I am currently leaning towards a swimming pool...

Doesn't this seem like such an awesome swimming pool for little ones!!

Well I think its time for us to head to bed...Davids checking out textures and I think its time to rest my brain from planning! 

Nice Lazy Sunday!!

I have to say that we truly enjoyed our lazy Sunday! I had a rough and early start to the day with Dj this morning who was a bit fussy but after eating and continuing to fuss for a bit he finally fell back to sleep around 9 am! I was able to get in a few more Zzz's but then decided to go get breakfast!! So David an I enjoyed a quiet breakfast solos but as soon as we took the last bite someone was AWAKE!! So we made his cereal and fruit...which he enjoys! We've played while watching David play Black Ops....an I even got to try out my new Shark Steam Mop I got for Christmas....I must say its certainly steamy.
Saturday was kinda busy or at least felt like it...cleaning in the AM then 2 birthday parties in the afternoon! We got to celebrate with Lori and tomorrow she an I are going for manicures!! That's my gift to her and myself!
Recently I have been super busy at work as I was placed on the Textbook Curriculum Committee and have had lots of workshops, afterschool meetings and things to read and look over so I am anxiously looking forward to Monday off! David plans on helping Tim out some more in the morning then family time in the afternoon! Im gonna love hanging out with my guys! I'll have to get some of David's pictures of the work he's done up at the body shop! He's doing awesome and learning lots!
On a random note! I finally got all the wedding pictures uploaded...they are in Our Photo Gallery.

Well I think we're about to head to bed...and looking forward to our FAMILY DAY ON MLK!!

Happy 25th!!

Well Thursday was David's 25th Birthday and we welcomed it with SNOW & ICE. I didn't have time to get a picture of the snow so this is a picture that came from bigcountryhomepage.com. Luckily David did not have to go to work...sadly I did. I drove about 20 mph the entire way to work in blinding snow but Im glad I was only 5 minutes late for work. I left work as soon as my kids were gone for the day and spent the rest of the day with David on his birthday!! We had rented movies and had his birthday dinner just the two of us the night before so we were able to just make dinner and relax Thursday night! I made him Green Chile Casserole a family recipe that we will certainly continue as our own family recipe. Here is a picture of our casserole.

Friday however we were lucky because we had a late start to school and the roads had cleared up enough that there weren't many issues driving. So around 8:30 ish we both headed out the door for work. Friday was David's last day working in the office for BCBS and I had my Valentine's Party with my kids. My kids truly enjoyed their party as we had nuggets from Chic Fil A and lots of yummy treats that my kids had brought with them! I must say that David was extremely happy to have his last day and come Monday he'll be working from home! Later that night we had David's actual Birthday Party at Lytle Land & Cattle Co. It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends. We had David's parents, my parents, both my sisters and their families and some of our friends!! Sadly I forgot to take pictures but we had a whole side of the room we were in just for our party. We had a wonderful dinner and a YUMMY cake...it was poker themed!

Today David went shooting with his dad and Dave Lee. Im glad that he finally got to use his gun and go shoot! While he was shooting I did some laundry and went to visit my sister while working on some lesson plans. After he got home we went to get some color samples for Peanut's nursery and will continue thinking of how we want to decorate his nursery. We are currently getting our fill of the Winter Olympics!!

Some Change!!

Well its been almost a month since I've posted a blog. Life has happened and some things have changed hopefully for the better. I made it back to work and have managed to get thru 2 weeks. The first week was intense trying to learn new systems and get back into the groove of things. This past week went OK...and today I worked my first Saturday Overtime. David was lucky and got to work his during the week and didn't have to work this weekend. Today he is at motorcycle school!! He'll be there today and tomorrow learning all the stuff you need to know about the rules and driving. I have a very busy night...today is Oriana's 13th birthday yes my niece is finally a TEENAGER! and we are also celebrating David's & Carrie's Birthday with the car club group!! I am in charge of bringing the ice cream so we'll be going there and then I'll be leaving for a little bit to go to Schezuan to attend Ori's bday dinner!! Well Im gonna get back to cleaning house and doing laundry.

Friday the 13th!!

Wednesday was David's Birthday!! HE'S AN OLD MAN NOW...24!! I love telling him that he's the old man of the relationship because for about 5 months he's older than me. Sadly we had to go to court on his birthday to take care of a traffic violation he had gotten a ticket for. We also went to renew his license. Aside from all that we had lots of sweets for him!! Later that evening David, Shaft and myself went to dinner with Davids parents at Abuelos! I think I can say that Abuelos is probably one of Davids favorites! After that we just came and hung out at home. My sister came over later for some cake with the family. I hope that David enjoyed his own birthday...I love celebrating his birthday and I certainly enjoyed myself!

Thursday was Howl Night for my niece and nephew Lauren & Andrew! My sister really wanted me to come so I went and brought Rhyan my other nephew with me. It is certainly a different event. Its basically a class favorite or school favorite ceremony that us Abilenians usually see just in our yearbooks. It was funny to watch because they had the kids do a Talent show like they'd done when the senior class was in the 3rd or 4th grade. Needless to say they won the categories they were nominated for. Check out the pictures!!

Well today is Friday the 13th and we have absolutely nothing planned! I do need to get out of the house for a bit to get some cleaning supplies so that I can clean today...my goal is to just hang out at home today and wait to see if David wants to do anything once he gets off work at 10 pm tonight!! I really need to get on the ball and take care of all my last minute things as this next week is my last week at home so no more maternity leave after this!!

Over the weekend!!

We were suppose to go to Colorado City to visit with my oldest sister but Friday I got a tad sick. I woke up running a fever and stayed home and in bed most of the day so that I could rest and hopefully break the fever. By mid afternoon it had primarily gone away but then around 4ish it spiked up to 101 which is what the nurses had said was when I needed to call the office back. Well I called and they were closed ..Im thinking GREAT so then I paged the on call doctor to describe my symptoms to him. He told me to continue taking my antibotic and to take some tylenol every 4 to 6 hours. By the time David came home that night my fever was under control. I'd ordered us a pizza so we had a little Friday night TV watching with some pizza eating. I hadn't had pizza in over a month so it was nice to have some.

Saturday David had to work 5 hrs of OT at work so he was up at 6 am and gone till 12. He got home and then we went to watch Underworld : The Rise of the Lycans with Oscar. I really really liked it but David of course says he didn't like it..not much of a surprise because he hates love stories. I liked the action in the movie and it fit very well with the story lines of the other movies. After that we really didn't do anything had some lunch with Oscar then came home and just hung out at home. They played Star Wars Lego for Wii all night and I woke up around 2 am and David was asleep on the couch so he eventually came to bed.

Sunday I really meant to wake up in enough time for church but I forgot to take my phone off silent so I never heard the alarm. My sister called and said that Father Terry had spoken about Clara during his sermon that day in church in regards to LIFE week. I am certainly a proud mom that even now she is touching other peoples lives. I finally got out of the house on my own tomorrow yes I said it I went by myself...LOL...I drove to see Clara and let her know that her mommy & daddy were doing good and that I was off to get David's birthday present or at least part of it. I know it seems weird that I would go tell her that but I felt it was appropriate to go see her on my first trip out. I had fun shopping at Target. I bought some stuff for the wedding and some clothes.

I also bought David a small portion of his Birthday present. I got him the Super Mario Galaxy game. He'd played it at our friends house and really liked it so I thought he'd like it. He says it was a bit much but I really love celebrating his birthday. Well in general I love celebrating Birthdays!! His gets kinda hard though since its so close to Valentine's Day. He also ordered another portion of what he needs for his car and thats also part of his birthday present from me. As frustrated as I get from that car,,,,I love that he loves it. Well this is enough for this blog..Im sure I'll add another blog later today.

Our precious little angel!!

I had not seen the photos from our last ultrasound but today I decided that I would take a look at them. Im not the greatest at reading them but she's wonderful. This is a picture of her face. The nurse has everything labeled. Its been kinda a rough day today..we went by to see Clara this morning and the funeral home brought over some stuff and what our options are as far as her head stone. Even though I know that she is in a much better place its hard to not want her here with us.

I know that she is watching over us because I can feel her with me everyday. She won't let me give up I've realized that. I don't think that she'd let either one of us stop moving forward. I got a call yesterday that I missed from my Dean at McMurry and she was so so excited to tell me some good news. I have been chosen as STUDENT OF THE YEAR for the Education Dept and have a brunch being held in my honor where I'll recieve a plaque. I have to accept this honor in Clara's name. I always joked that she is who helped me pass all my certification exams. I was so determined then to provide her with a GREAT life and I hope that I have.

David just has tomorrow and then 5 hrs on Saturday of work to get thru then he's home for the weekend. Today his mustang got picked up so that we can begin some work on it. Lori's fiance Tim will be doing most of the work but hopefully it'll be done soon. We are also going to look at a new house tomorrow...maybe the small amount of change in our lives will make sense soon. We are also planning on watching Underworld: The rise of the lycans sometime this weekend. David's birthday is also coming next month now to think of what in the world to buy him. Last year we had a Lightening McQueen cake but not sure what I'll pick for this year.