2007 In Review

This past year has been a wild and crazy one, but here are some major things that happened.

• We moved to the Woodlands.
• We sold our house (in an hour and  1/2!) in Graham.
• We said goodbye to some of our best friends.
• Titus seta new record in the amount of naps taken in a year.
• Both started new jobs.  Clint loves his and the verdict is still out on Lauren's.
• We lived in an apartment... again, and vowed to never live in an apartment again after this time.
• Clint bought a motorcycle.
• Clint broke his finger, but no surgery!
• We had twins... not really, just checking to see if you are really reading.
• Moved into a brand new home.

Even though this year has been very eventful, when we sit back and look at how the Lord's hand is working in our lives, we can't help but be thankful and blessed.

We tap out!

I never thought I would be able to apply anything to my life from UFC, ( I only watch it so Clint has to watch TLC with me) until now.  As far as the house is concerned, we are in an arm bar ( I don't know what that really is, I just hear the commentators say it all the time) and have officially tapped out.  Sure, there are other things that need to get done, but not right now.  After painting, hanging all new fixtures and decorating...we are done for a while.  We are taking a break and enjoying the house.  So friends.... You are officially to come over whenever you want to hang out!  Below are some pictures of the inside of the house (minus a bathroom).  Check em out!

House pics

Do what daddy says..

One thing that my dad used to tell his athletes when they would score a touchdown was, "act like you have done this before."  That was the advice that we relied on when we attended all of the swanky Christmas parties that we needed to attend.  I kept saying that to myself as we attended party after party, but I just couldn't when we went to the pastor and pastor's wives party.  When we drove to the gate to enter and the guard said, "The party is at the only house with snow on the front lawn."  Say what?  I knew we were in for an interesting night.  When we where in the house and the owners said to feel free and look around the house, I completely lost my cool factor.  There was no way I could have acted like I had done this before, so I remained shocked with my mouth open as I walked through the entire house saying things like, "no way," "this is unbelievable!" and  "do you think we can get one of these?"  All the amazing things aside, we were truly blessed by their generosity and getting to spend a night with the staff and their wives.  It was a fun evening and a eventful Christmas full of parties that we will remember for a while.

Pictures from Thanksgiving Trip!

Have you met the latest model?

Meet Titus Ivy.  Model extraordinaire...for dogs of course.  He helped Clint show his progress of putting in grass with style.

The backyard with a little bit of grass in.

Titus modeling all of the grass that is ready to be put in.

Here is the backyard before grass.

After 12 hours of hard work, Clint finally finished!  All that work just for grass.  I hope it survives the winter and makes it.  

Takin' it back to Thanksgiving

That's right.  We are going all the way back to Thanksgiving to catch you up with what has been going on in our lives. Well, for Thanksgiving Clint and I decided to take our own vacation.  We needed a breather from crazy life!  The day after we moved to the Woodlands,  we both went to work at our new jobs.  So, it was very nice to be able to get away, turn off our cell phones, and just be us and be together.  So fun!  Our choice of places to go?  We chose Galveston...there is really no reason why we chose the location, but it was awesome.  We love the San Luis Resort! This is definitely a vacation repeater place.  The pics are soon to come!

It has been a while...

I am so sorry that we have not kept anyone updated, we have been extremely busy!  The house is going great, the Christmas parties have been a blast, we finally have internet up and running, and we promise to keep you in the know...soon!  Please be patient just a little bit longer...

House Update

We have our final walk through this Friday! Some of you are thinking to yourselves....WHAT!? So are we! We found out a couple of days ago that we are closing on our house November the 21st. The day before Thanksgiving. We were supposed to close in December sometime and be in by Christmas. If you are not doing your happy dance, you need to get up and do it right now. Go ahead. Get up and happy dance! We are so excited about being closer to being in our home and having all of you guys come and stay. Here are some pics of what has been going on lately at the casa.

Here is a picture of our brick color. The right side of the house hasn't been washed off yet, but basically this is what it looks like.

The counter tops are in! The color is a black with lots of tan in it. It will look great with black/silver appliances.

Here is what our fence looks like. They set the posts one day, and the next day the fence was built COMPLETELY! We have 6 trees in our back yard...the grass is soon to come.

Titus and I are showing off the new carpet color. Doorknobs were installed as well.

Mamma didn't raise no spelling bee champ!

I am a product of the spell check generation. Call me crazy, but there is something inside of me that makes my palms begin to sweat when I think about spelling bees. Then spell check was invented! Whoever invented that definitely needs to have a cookie bouquet sent to them. Lately I have been feeling pretty confident in my spelling, (maybe it is the teacher in me) until my friend Jessica called me the other day. She asked me, "How do you spell the word cabinet?" I immediately reverted back to elementary spelling bee days. Palms sweating I answered, " Cabinet. C-A-B-N-E-T." "She sweetly replied,"I think there is an I in there." Pine trees! My confidence had caught up with me. I hadn't been spell checking all of my posts and I had spelled the word cabinet wrong several times! Check it out. I left it in the posts so you could laugh with me. Thank goodness I teach science and math.