Under the Weather

Not much has been happening around our household except for Brook having the flu. I feel so bad because I can't make her better. She has had a little cold off and on for about two weeks, but over the weekend she got a really bad cough. We could not get her in to our regular pediatrition so Travis took her to an urgent care clinic on Monday. She hasn't had any fever but she has all of the other symptoms that go along with the flu. She has never really ever had a runny nose so this is all new to us. We got some medicine and were hoping we were on the road to recovery but today we had major drama with diarreah. My sis watches Brook while I am at work and she was totally freaking out! We only had about 11 blowouts today! We now have more medicine to stop the diarreah. As of now she is peacefully sleeping so I am about to join her just in case if we have a long night ahead of us! Please say a little prayer for us that we can make a quick recovery!

Fun Filled Weekend

We started our weekend with a wedding last night! Our friends Clint and Shawna tied the knot finally. We were running late and missed the ceremony but we were in time for a fun reception.

Here is Brook and me with the beautiful bride! Brook could not take her eyes off her sparkly dress.

Here we are stopping for a picture while we dance!

Travis worked nights Wed and Thurs night and went fishing Friday morning so he was pretty worn out and Brook partied like a rock star. Here they are sleeping while I made the hour drive home last night at midnight!

This morning we got up at the crack of dawn! I was sure we would sleep late since we were out late but that was not the case. We did actually get to sleep a little later than daddy, he got up at 3 this morning for a fishing tournament, we slept until 7. Brook and I did some shopping for decorations for her room and bathroom while daddy was fishing. We found some really cute stuff!

Here is a sham to Brook's new big girl bedding and we found a really cute flower and dragonfly to hang in her room! My grandpa is painting new letters for her room which will be white with turquoise polka dots!

Here is some wall decor that we are going to hang in her bathroom. I just love chocolate and pink! Brookie really loved the rhinestones on them. My grandpa is also painting a bible verse sign to match. I can't wait to see it all put together and hanging in her new bathroom!

The weigh-in for Travis' fishing tournament was at 3:30 this afternoon so after Brook and I shopped, ate lunch at Chick-Fila and played, we headed over to cheer daddy on!

Here is Brook checking out daddy's fish!

Here they are weighing in! Way to go daddy, Uncle Ronnie and Darrel! They won 4th place out of 50+ teams! They had a hard time since it was so windy today.


Well it is off to bed. We have another fun filled day ahead of us tomorrow. We will be over at the new house spreading more dirt for the front yard and then off to eat with Nana and Pawpaw!

Our House......In the works

We should be closing on our house at the end of this month! WOOHOO!!!!!!!! I wanted to share some pictures from the beginning to now on our project. In September of 2007 we bought 1.1 acres. We decided to put our house up for sale because we were scared it might take a while to sell.........needless to say it took only two weeks to sell and we were totally shocked! We had started to planning what we wanted to build but we were not sure yet.

November 07 we moved out of our house and in with Travis' grandparents. We told them we would be there 4-6 months while our house was being built. Ha! Its January 09 and we are still here!

We(I mean Travis) started clearing the land and meeting with different builders. In February 08 we signed a contract with a builder to begin our house. Processing the loan (we finally closed on that in May) and getting building permits (we got them in August) took forever......We finally broke ground at the end of August. We had the slab poured and house framed when Hurricane Ike hit.........we finally started all over again on November 1st!

As of today all we need is our yard smoothed, carpet in the bedrooms, appliances, touch-ups and clean up and we are done! We are set to close by the end of the month. I am so excited that my sweet angel with soon have her own bedroom again and we will be able to have her 2nd birthday at our own house!!!!!!!

Here are some pics of the property when we bought it and Travis clearing it!

Here is picture of Travis and Brook spreading some dirt and when the slab was done.

Daddy's Girl

Here is the front and back of the house.

This is Travis' favorite part of the whole place. His shop! I am sure there will be many cold beverages drank in here and many fish frys!

This is the view from the front door. The living room, dining and kitchen are all one room. We have an island with the same stone as the front of the house on it!

Please pray for smooth sailing from here! After 14 months without our own home, we are getting very excited as we see the end insight!

The New Year

We have already had a busy start to the new year! With the holidays behind us we are closing in on a move in date! We got back into the swing of things with starting back to school for me and Mother's Day out for Brook. At my school we have had so many first graders enroll that we are over the state max and got a new teacher! It is pretty crazy with 23 six year olds. Brook's class also got some new students and they added a teacher's aide. Here are a few pics from our holidays!

Here is Brook standing by the tree!

Here she is dipping cookies in milk for the first time! She thought it was soooo much fun!

This picture is priceless! She was totally excited about her new bunny pjs that her Nonna and Poppa gave her!

Travis and I had a great New's Year Eve! We had dinner at Pappasitos!

Missing Granny

It has been a rough past couple of weeks in our family. My Granny was put in the hospital and then passed away on Saturday. Brook was her first great-grandchild and they had a special bond. She was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease a few years ago and she hasnt been the same since.

Here is my Granny rocking Brook after she was born!

Here is another picture of Brook and Granny this past year.

This was from Halloween when we went trick-or-treating. Granny's house was the only place we stopped with our little zebra. Granny has had this Halloween shirt since I was a little girl.

Brook has not been much of a talker.......she hasnt switched to English yet, but she was able to start calling Granny...Nanny during the many visits at the hospital. It was so sweet to see her kiss her night night each night when we left and say Nanny to her.

I am so glad that my daughter got to know such an important person in our family!

Christmas Card Carousel

Our photographer did a wonderful job capturing my beautiful family this year! We love to take outdoor country scene pictures so this year we chose a feed store near us! We took our family picture in the hay barn. Brook could hear the goats baaing behind the barn and she was having a fit to go see them. We finally had to tell her they were sleeping so she would sit still.

This is the front of our 5x7 linen card.

Of course all Brook wanted to do was play with the goats! Darla captured some great photos of her with them. She would live in a barn if she could!

And this is the back!

Merry Christmas to all! Thank you Darla for doing an awesome job again this year!

Its Snowing!

It never snows here. I cant believe it snowed tonight! Brook thought it was the greatest thing ever....besides any type of animal! We played outside for just a bit and then watched through the patio door.

I helped her make a little snowball to throw at Daddy!

Brook loved her little mini snowman! She was very proud of it.