flashback friday

me and my bestie, alyson, back in our sfa days--hangin' out at bullfrogs!

wordless wednesday

10 on tuesday

stealing this from my good pal, Alyson. 10 goals for my summer. :)

1. make some extra dough! i am working a summer camp, heroes, for special needs kids 3 weeks out of the summer. am i crazy to give up those 3 weeks with my girl? i hope not...

2. throw a fabulous birthday party for my baby! i am attempting to make her cake myself--a 3-D cupcake cake. wish me luck!

3. continue my running program. halfway through week 2 right now.

4. read. i am waiting for my new book, eat, pray, love, to come in the mail. looking forward to reading it while miss addy mae plays in her little pool.

5. hang out on our new deck as much as possible!

6. do a better job of keeping my house clean. there just never seems to be enough time in the day. :)

7. cook. again, never enough time in the day.

8. go through our closets.

9. date nites. we don't do it nearly enough. not something we think about all too often. but i know we would both love it.

10. PENSACOLA BEACH!! heading there in july. my goal there is to relax--really relax. i can't wait to watch addy on the beach and in the ocean for the first time. :)

remodeling.

for the past 3-4 weeks, we have been in the midst of a semi-remodel. we re-did the master bath, the entryway, and built a deck. i use the word "we" loosely...dusty did it ALL, while i kept miss addy out from under his feet. just took a shower in my "new" bathroom and it was ah-mazing!

before pictures of our master bath:




after pictures of our master bath:




before pictures of the backyard:



after pictures of the backyard:




NO lie--my ah-mazing husband did this all by himself. (pictures of the entryway will be up soon!)

addy is already diggin' the backyard. :)





i'm a lucky gal! ;)

proud.

i did it, guys. i started exercising again--for real exercising. and not to "get skinny" (although that will be a nice side effect), but to feel better. :) i have had this nagging in the last month or so that i want to get running again. i am someone who used to run like crazy--i played soccer all the way through college running close to 10 miles in one game! man, i miss those soccer legs i used to have. ;)

anyways, i found a program called "From couch potato to 5K in 9 weeks". i just completed week one last nite. it is breaking me in nice and slow...3 nites of running a total of 20 minutes each nite. run for 60 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, and repeat. i could already tell difference in my energy by the end of the week. and i felt SO amazing after each run.

i plan on entering an actual race at the end of my 9 weeks--sometime in the early fall. wish me luck!

flashback friday

my 24th birthday...

wordless wednesday

calvin.

two years ago today, we lost calvin. a son, a brother, an uncle, and an amazing friend. there isn't a day that goes by that i don't think of him wishing my daughter could one day meet him.

i miscarried my first pregnancy very shortly after his passing. as soon as it was "okay" for us to try to get pregnant again, i was. i can't help but think he and our first little baby had something to do with that.

he is so missed. by so many. love you, calvin.

Flashback Friday

my brother and me at his wedding......august of 2002

he and his family (elizabeth, joseph, bridget, katie, and emily) will be here in texas in a couple of weeks--can't wait!

eleven.

sweet addy is eleven months old today. i know i say this every month, but seriously, where did the time go? how is it possible that the baby i just had is already almost a year old? craziness.

she is walking all over the place now. it has become her favorite mode of transportation lately. when we got home this evening, she must have walked back and forth from the kitchen to the living room for 15 minutes...back and forth...back and forth, proudly carrying her book! it was super cute. the best is when she walks to me with that big grin and lands on my shoulder for a big hug. love.

her personality is growing every day with leaps and bounds. she has started to show not only us, but miss rachael and miss anna at daycare, what a little 'tude she has. she is not afraid to let you know she does not like something. no clue where that comes from. (my mom might though ;) )


she babbles ALL the time. some of the babbling is beginning to sound like real words--dada, mama, and bubba are big names around here. she talks from the time we get in the car to leave her daycare to our house--love the little conversations we are having.


she has started playing peek-a-boo with me! for the longest time, it was a pretty one sided game. now she will cover her face with a blanket and wait for me to say "where is addy?" and pull it off her face with the biggest smile! love it!

she LOVES duke, aka "her bubbas". they are a dynamic duo. duke has finally warmed up to her--he actually is okay with her messing with him. for awhile he would just walk away if she would approach him, but now i think he really loves the attention! they are too cute together.


she turns a year old in a month and i can hardly believe it. i am getting her photos taken at the dallas arboretum for the big day. (i happened to win a photo shoot at school during teacher appreciation week!) stay tuned for those precious photos!

this little girl makes our world go around. i don't know what we did before she graced us with her life. love. love. love.