PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE to post SOON!!!

Our life has been like a whirlwind these last couple months! A GREAT whirlwind, but nonetheless, still a whirlwind for sure! :) I promise to update about our life soon!
Love to all!!

We are still breathing!!

So many of you have been asking, "where have you been?", "you haven't blogged in so long". Guilty! Apologies! Since my post about Mayer's birthday, I have been buried in my books studying for the end of the semester. As of last Wednesday, first semester...DOWN!! My first semester was pretty intense. Lots of studying, lots of planning, and wouldn't have made it without proper time management. But, all in all, it was much less stressful than I had previously anticipated. It was fun, but I am glad to be a 1/4 of the way done! Lance in the meantime has been the best encourager I have. I'm lucky to have him! Below are some pics of what we have been up to within the last month or so. No more long breaks from blogging. We love it too much. Oh and did I mention, that I am going to be an AUNT?!?!?!!? My sister just announced last week that she is pregnant and is expecting in August!!!! I am so excited!!!

At the Beginning of November, My dad took Lance on a hunt in South Texas. They had a blast, and they both got the deer they wanted. They want to make this an annual thing. We will see...:)

At the Stars game with the Grimes Family. Cade just celebrated his 1st birthday. We love this little man!

Mel, Cade and I. Cade was so good at the game! All he wanted was a cookie and some ice, and he was a happy camper!

I love this picture! Lance loves Cade.

Jennifer and Her husband Mike are a couple we hang out with regularly here in Tyler. We met them a few months ago. They are in our community group at church. We love these guys. We have a lot of fun together!

The girls in our community group got together one night during the week and had a wreath making party. I had been wanting to make one, and we have a lady named Alissa that is a wreath making queen! I am in love with my wreath. Thanks for your help Alissa! We had a blast!

Here are the girls in wreath making action. It really was a fun night. Now that I've gotten one under my belt, It's time to make a fall wreath too!

Isabelle joined us for our girls Christmas party this past Friday night at Mel's. We love all the little additions that have joined our circle of friends. We love them like they are our own.

We needed a picture of all of us together at the party, so we set the timer on the camera and placed it on top of the tv. That was quite the chore. It felt like we took a hundred pics before we finally got all 8 of us in one pic together. Ha!

So we gave up on the timer and got as close as we could and snapped a photo of ourselves. We did lots of laughing that night. These girls are the absolute best!!

My mom, Sister and I also went to see the Radio City Spectacular featuring the Rockettes this past Sunday in Grand Prairie. I have no pics :(. But, if you love musicals and you love Christmas, this is a MUST see. It really is one of the best I have seen! There is a live nativity production as the last scene of the musical and it is breathtaking, reminding us of the real reason for Christmas. Enjoy your Christmas season! We love you all! More to come soon.

Guess Who Turned 2 Today!?!?!?!?!

Have you tried this?????

Yes...this broom is standing up on its OWN!!!!



Ok...this blows my mind! If you haven't tried this, supposedly, there is only a few more days that this will be able to happen until the next go around in 50 years. Many of you may have already of heard about this, but here is my uneducated, yet really impressed attempt to describe what is going on. I didn't research why this is happening, so this is all hear say, I know it has something to do with the moon or gravity or something??? Ha! I promise I am educated...just not on the moon, earth and gravitational forces. So...whether it makes sense or not, HURRY, put everything down, grab your kitchen broom, stand it up outside and watch it stay! It's amazing! Good Luck!!

Good Times with the Gilmores, and Weekend in the Woodlands!

The week before last, the Gilmore's came in town from Pennsylvania and spent a week in Tyler hanging out and catching up on life! We had such a great time with them, and little Logan has grown SO much! She is so precious! She has her own little language right now and if you respond back to her when she is talking she keeps going like you are really having a conversation with each other. Man how great it would be to translate the gibberish! Ha! We had to utilized every opportunity to see these great friends of ours, so Sunday through Thursday it was conversations and hanging every night. Needless to say, I was a bad student that week. Not a lot of studying...oh well, it was worth it for sure! We miss you Jeff, Dana and Logan (and little baby on the way)!! Saturday morning, Lance and I left bright and early at 6am and headed to the Woodlands to spend the weekend with my Aunt Vickie and Uncle James. We had such a wonderful time with them. Lance and James golfed Saturday while Vickie and I hit the town and shopped till we dropped. They are both such great people, and we feel very fortunate to have them in our lives. We love you guys! Thank you for such a great weekend!

Precious Lo Lo!

Lance made me put this pic on here. This was me standing at the gas pump at 6am with my hand on the door. If you look closely, there is a little pink tag hanging from the arm pit area. I am notorious for leaving tags on things and randomly discovering it throughout the day. Lance thought it was pretty funny. :)

Vickie, James, Lance and I at lunch before we headed back home.

Fabulous Friday!!

This is what Lance walked in the door with today after work. Thank you God for such a thoughtful husband!

I am in love with the Pumpkin Spice latte at Starbucks, but was waiting on the perfect cold weather day to have my first of the season. And, my favorite little clothing store in Tyler is Jewels and Jeans. I had my eye on a few things there recently, so Lance stopped by there and Starbucks to pick up some surprises!

We're Back!!!!

So I just realized I haven't made a post since September 12th. So Sorry!!!! Since school has started, my nose has been stuck in at least one book a night. The Dental Hygiene program is so much fun, and I learn so much every day, but requires a TON of studying. Through my bachelors degree, I did well without having to read all the chapters and such, but with this program, if I do that, chances are I will fail. That's not an option!!! So, every night consists of study material of some sort. But, I enjoy it, so it makes it all worth it! Just to give you all a little update on our life since the middle of September, I have had my first hard core wave of tests, and survived, Lance has been so amazing with all the studying and I have told him on several occasions he deserves husband of the year. There are nights I have to study and am so tired or get home and need to do the dishes or something wife like, and he will get me blanket and a pillow and let me sleep for an hour while he does the chores for me so I can wake up energized to study for a couple hours. I am so thankful for him! Lance and I have found an amazing church here in Tyler that we LOVE. We have been going to this church for about 6 months now, and feel so incredibly fortunate to have found it. We just started a community group with the church the week before last, and really can't say enough about it already. We have already made some good friendships! This past weekend, My mom and sister came to Tyler and we had a blast! This was my mom's first outing since her surgery and she felt really well. She had been itching to go to Canton trade days, so we went on Saturday, and the weather was perfect for it. My mom is a HUGE fan of Halloween, so since we are so close the fun holiday, I thought it would be a good idea for us to have a fun craft. I found a recipe for a haunted house made out of pound cake, and it looked really easy. Not to worry, we absolutely, 100%, without a doubt, REALLY messed it up! Ha!! But, there was a ton of laughter and fun. it was worth it! Lance and I also found this really great recipe for spaghetti with a Halloween theme. We made it for dinner Friday night and was quite impressed it turned out so well! It was a hit! They loved it and I was so proud I did it (most of you know I am NOT a good cook)!! Here are some pics from the weekend. Love to all!!


Mom hard at work separating the oreo's for our shingle roof top!


The Masterpiece! This is what the haunted house is supposed to look like. Doesn't look difficult... right?


WRONG!!!! HA!!!! We weren't even done putting the icing on at this point, and it ended up being like a mudslide on one side. This was the pic after we caught it and still tried to salvage it. Ha!


TA-DA!!!! Doesn't this look just like the magazine pic? Ha! This was the best we could do with the side completely falling out. Then, Heather decided to draw a little man on the side that was as tall as the door to the entrance. Ha!! Ace of Cakes HERE WE COME!


Spider Spaghetti!! I was so impressed with how wonderful this turned out. I was doomed from the beginning because I really just am not good at cooking. But maybe since Lance helped it ended up ok. Yes, the head is a homemade meatball!