The Past Couple Weeks...

Wow! This summer feels like it is flying by! I can say we have had tons of fun this summer and looking forward to some more!

Here are some pictures and mini recaps of whats been going on!!

One of the biggest changes is....drumroll please....MY NEW JOB!! I'll have more on that later once I actually get to look at my room.

Sunday was David's Dad's birthday and we took over a Batman ice-cream cake. Dj loves playing "BALL" with Poppy!

Wednesday Dj and I went to the Camp Bowie Aquatic Center in Brownwood with Norma and the kids! It was so much fun and Dj loved it after he got used to constant water. Here he is walking around during our lunch break. If you haven't heard of this park you should go...it only cost Dj and I $5 to get in and we got to take in a cooler!

 The weekend of Father's Day we went to Dj's 1st Ranger's game! They won and we got to see a Fireworks show!! Dj loved the game and watching the fireworks. It was fun to spend some relaxing time with friends. Shaft, Sharon, Rachel and William and of course Dj's new friend Indica joined us!

While spending time in the Ft. Worth area we made a stop at Toys R Us to check out some ideas for Dj's 2nd birthday present!! Needless to say my boys know how to have fun "Noodle" style!

Road trip & Back from Korea

Yesterday me and the KIDS went to C City to see my sister! We got there around 12 and got home around 6! Yes a six hour trip that was followed by Play Faire Park--putt putt golf and Sonic with our friend from high school who has been working internationally teaching English in Korea!
I have a fun surprise to share just not yet! We are planning a Fathers Day trip to the Rangers game and finally got our tickets :) we are also anxiously awaiting a phone call for an impromptu trip to Ft. Worth!!

Days of Memorial...

Well to start off David finished the "American Dream" however when I was getting ready to get a picture of it...it started raining I'll have to get him to share his pictures of it with me. We had friends come over Monday for Game Day! Talk about some friendly competition. While we played Dj and Indica had another play date. Here they are watching everyone outside...questioning why do they get to be outside when its raining and not me!

Today I had Day 1 of training downtown. Man its rough to sit all day long when all you can think of is "Am I not on summer break".

After I picked Dj up from grandmas we went shopping and came home with this fun PUZZLE!! He has some puzzles but this is his first age approriate puzzle. I'll leave you with these pics of him working it out. I am up way too late for Day 2 of training tomorrow!!

Living the American Dream

Friday marked the beginning of summer vacation for me....it was a super calm day at work all I had to do was check in, pick up my laptop and say bye to my co-workers and the secretary. Since it was such a short day I took Dj with me to work and we got to see Braxton my co-workers son as well. The boys are 5 months apart and man there is a huge difference height wise. Dj is a whole head taller than him. After that I came home made breakfast for us, put Dj down for a nap and waited for David to get off work!! We had an Avenger's Date!! After the date Dj had a date to get his hair cut! He loved the little car that he could drive but HATED the clippers they used to clean up the cut!

We had dinner with our friend Phillip and came home to RELAX!

Saturday we had some friends over for a BBQ! It was an adult time BBQ and play date for Dj and his new friend Indica. Shaft made it in to Abilene alittle after Rachel, William and Indica got here. There are always stories from our BBQ's but I'll let you ask David or myself about those.

Sunday David started work on the "American Dream" as he calls it after some recovery time! He and Shaft have been hard at work on the new picket fence that will block Zoe from getting up on the porch and jumping on the door. They are currently getting and working on the finishing touches to the gate so that the project will be COMPLETE!!

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Well I just got Dj down for a nap time to finish up some laundry and get ready for our GAME DAY/PLAY DATE in a couple hours.

I'll have more to post about our "American Dream" and YAY!! Only a month and some change and Dj turns 2!!

Pony Rides

We spent some time with some new friends...and Dj got to ride a MINI PONY!! Both plastic and real :) Could he make that look any more fun!

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!

Toasts, Tostadas & Turkey

Feliz año nuevo! Happy 2012! We had our usual Family New Years at my parents. Our lil man hung in there like a trooper and stayed up till 2:15 am...Yes in the morning! We came home went to bed and had a nice calm day at home on New Years Day. Shaft and Phillip came over for the Cowboys game so I left them with a tostada bar while I went to my moms with Dj to have turkey! We are so blessed to have had a wonderful year with Dj and can't wait to see what the new year brings us!

Vacaciones!

What more can I say other than I <3 the vacation aspect of my job! My Christmas vacation officially started yesterday at 11 am. After work I went to have appetizers with my girls from work at Chili's. It's nice to talk normal talk with adults especially since we really only talk with 4 yr olds all day! After that I picked up munchkin man and we had lunch with dad! The best part of yesterday was being home by 12:30 and taking a nap in the middle of the day! This year I got some awesome gifts from my kids! I LLoOVEe hot cocoa mugs! Dj's godparents came over for a visit so that was nice to watch Dj play well actually bother the boys while they played video games with David! Today Dj and I slept in yes we didn't wake up till 8:30 this morning!! Sadly David has to work the rest of the week but at least we get to hang out with him during the day. Tonight we went out with a friend and played shhh my Christmas present!! More on that later!! I'm really looking forward to relaxing and getting some organization and re-arranging done!

Fall is in the Air!

Well finally there has been a small break in the heat and our mornings are cooler! It definitely feels like FALL! I switched out our table cloth and bought some CUTE new decorations! I love it even more because I bought everything on sale and with a coupon!! Today David and his friend Josh were busy building the base of our new storage building! We finished the night having dinner and catching up with some old friends that are in town for the weekend....now THOR!

It's Been Awhile!

Wow its practically been 1 month since I've updated the blog...in the past month we had a Diaper shower for David, Diaper shower at work, worked on the nursery and David & Trey built a custom cube/bench unit for DJ's room.

We had a Diaper Shower for David here at the house! It was lots of fun...pizza, snacks, diapers, video games and a simple guys night! David's dad, uncle and friends came over...an it was awesome that Finke and Shaft were even able to make it in from Lubbock.

After David's shower work had a diaper shower for me too! It was loads of fun! Here is a video slideshow of my work and family baby shower pics!

We've done lots of work on the nursery...I'll have those pics up later. I haven't gotten them all uploaded to the computer. We have an appointment with Dr. Bass tomorrow and we'll most likely have our true time frame set tomorrow. We're thinking we have about 1 week till the stitches come out an also Dr. Maberry said that Dj is weighing in at 5.5 lbs!! and by birth should be around 7 lbs!!

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!!

Bachelorette Weekend!!

This weekend was both hilarious and FUN!! We loaded up the car and went to Austin...we being me and the girls! We left Friday evening...which was an eventful trip...who knew you could get 4 warnings after being pulled over by a State Trooper. We did make it to Austin in one piece though...Saturday morning. I helped Kannika make breakfast; french toast, bacon, fresh fruit and OJ!! Who could really ask for a better breakfast! Then we layed around the house for a bit and got ready for our Spa Appointments!! We spent about 4 hours in the Spa an it was so much fun!! They told us we could bring whatever we wanted with is and we did....we had snacks, drinks and even went out to get some food too!! They were super nice and let us make ourselves at home!! They even provided some "beverages" for us as well!! After the spa we went and saw the Austin Bats!!

Here is a picture of Sharon & I waiting for it to get dark enough for the bats to come out!!

After the Bats it started getting pretty chilly but we still went for Amy's Ice Cream!! Let me just say AWESOME!! We shared Punkin Pie : Pumpkin Ice Cream, graham crackers, and homemade whipped cream!!! After all that we went home for a lingerie party and then to eat at RUDY's!! I love RUDY's and a must for any Austin trip!! After Rudy's we went out on 6th Street...I took Lauren to get a Henna Tattoo while Lori & Lupe got REAL tattoos!! Here are Sharon & I waiting for my henna.

Don't you just love the outfit I had on....I had a flashing tiara, flashing lips and a blue flashing ROCK ring!! It was sad to leave on Sunday morning after breakfast but we had to get back in time for our marriage classes!! I can't believe it 2 weeks and its here!

My understanding of David's weekend while I was gone was TONS OF RELAXING!! Which I am super glad he did!! He needs to rest!! Well I've got tons to do in the next 2 weeks to get everything ready....a few more invites to mail and then well be set to go!! at least I HOPE SO!!

Running around!

Well we have been off work since Thursday evening. Friday we took thing slow as we were up pretty late at the hospital with David's parents. We are off work until Tuesday and I think thats good. Its given David some time to cope and get back into the swing of things. Saturday we worked on Dusty (AKA his grandparents car) as we need to have it moved by the end of the week. We also had Louie's t-ball game which I have to say are very interesting....you can tell the kids that certainly practice with their parents. We got a tire for the car and it was an interesting adventure for David. Had I thought about it I should of taken pictures but the thought escaped my mind. We also had a car club meeting that evening and hung out with friends. It was nice to have a small escape from the reality we've been facing lately.
Sunday was another busy day with church, lunch and Mikahman's 1st birthday. Which was HOT as it was outside!! After that we decided to just come home and relax. We've had a nice evening with Pizza, True Blood and Movie Night!!! We're watching The Knowing and its pretty good!! I am continuing to finish up ideas on the wedding and we're getting ready to finally start "getting the ball rolling" and actually start buying things!! WOO HOO!! My mom and I are starting to make decisions on the reception menu....YUMMY!!

Ka-Boom!!

We had an awesome 4th of July this year!! As a group the guys all bought the Doom Firework package and had an awesome show!! David was super excited this year because he it was one of his first years shooting fireworks!! I was really excited about my giant sparkler!! They are awesome. Here is a picture of David setting up one of his first mortars...

It was an awesome night with friends just hanging out watching the fireworks show that they put on for us!!

On another note Lillie is gone...and Zoe is sad...here is a picture of how we had to sleep while we were having Girls Sleep Over this weekend....it was certainly interesting having another dog in the house this weekend...and I know that Zoe certainly enjoyed having her "big" sister around.

Wind Blown!!

I thought I would share our crazy adventure!! We just got in for the night and its 2 am!! We went out to dinner with some friends and then hung out in their garage just talking....till David heard a concert going on. It ended up being Negative 263 playing out at Midnight. We know this because we all piled into Billy's truck and drove to the concert. We later just drove around town with the 4 guys in the back of the truck for about 20 mins!! It was certainly an interesting evening....it was a nice switch to just being carefree and a little reckless!!

Saturday David & Tim worked on some more tape and bedding...I am really excited that this room is so close to being done!! YAY!! David has worked hard for the past couple weeks and I know that he's exhausted!!

Well off to bed before more tape & bed then finally...TEXTURE!!