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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Goofy Face
I had to share Mackenzie's new funny face. We taught her to stick out her bottom lip and we think it's hilarious - probably way more than any of you guys will! :)
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Friday Flashback - Week 5
Time to go to A&M - 1998-2002!
I was a freshman - barely 19 years old in this picture. My family and I went to the Cayman Islands during spring break. We had a blast. What you can't tell from this picture is the sun burns we all got on half of our bodies! It was cloudy/rainy the morning of the fishing trip and we actually thought it might be cancled so we didn't put on any sunscreen. stupid - i know. By the time it we realized the sun had come out, the damage was already done, or we just didn't care because we were having too much fun fishing. Either way, we all got burned on our front halves of our bodies. And you see those little holes in my shoes? Yep, I had little red squares on my feet. And the tan I had worked on all week was ruined by my shorts and sleeveless shirt! That night we all took 2 alieve and slept just fine! :)
This is in the summer of 2000. My family plus Brandon went to Ocean City, New Jersey for a week. We took a sailboat ride and apparently didn't realize how chilly it would get on the water. I remember walking on the boardwalk during the afternoon in the middle of July and the high was 80 degrees. When we landed in Houston at 9 pm the temperature was 80 also! so much nicer on the shore - in the summer.
Graduation Day - Yay for Brandon! This is about 4 weeks before the wedding - look how skinny I was! Oh to be that size again! :)
Wedding Photos! For those who don't know, Brandon and I were married between my junior and senior years at A&M. The bottom one is one of my favorites! I don't exactly what Brandon said, but I thought it was hilarious at the time. It was probably along the lines of not really enjoying everyone watching while he feels under my dress to find the garder!
Graduation Day - Yay for Charlton. My good friend Mandy graduated on the same day as I did, so we had a combined family party at the church building. If we hadn't done a lunch at the church, we probably would have had to wait a couple of hours to eat at the 6 restaurants in College Station at the time.
We surprised our families with portraits the first Christmas we were married.
I really enjoyed my 4 years at A&M. I lived on campus my very first year and then shared an apartment with 3 other girls my sophomore year. By junior year, I decided an apartment with ONE other person would be just fine! :) Brandon and I met our first years at A&M in architectural history class. He actually recognized me from church, but we didn't meet until class. That was the fall of 1998. By January 2000 we were engaged and then married in June 2001. I know some people talk about loving high school, but I have to say college was soooooo much better. How could I have not loved it - I met my husband, I made life long friends, and of course we've established the only school that Mackenzie is allowed to go to! :)
Hope you are enjoying the flashbacks. Next week we move to grad school. I was thinking that it wasn't that long ago, but then I remembered I graduated from UH in 2005, so it's already been 5 years! Time flies!
I was a freshman - barely 19 years old in this picture. My family and I went to the Cayman Islands during spring break. We had a blast. What you can't tell from this picture is the sun burns we all got on half of our bodies! It was cloudy/rainy the morning of the fishing trip and we actually thought it might be cancled so we didn't put on any sunscreen. stupid - i know. By the time it we realized the sun had come out, the damage was already done, or we just didn't care because we were having too much fun fishing. Either way, we all got burned on our front halves of our bodies. And you see those little holes in my shoes? Yep, I had little red squares on my feet. And the tan I had worked on all week was ruined by my shorts and sleeveless shirt! That night we all took 2 alieve and slept just fine! :)
This is in the summer of 2000. My family plus Brandon went to Ocean City, New Jersey for a week. We took a sailboat ride and apparently didn't realize how chilly it would get on the water. I remember walking on the boardwalk during the afternoon in the middle of July and the high was 80 degrees. When we landed in Houston at 9 pm the temperature was 80 also! so much nicer on the shore - in the summer.
Graduation Day - Yay for Brandon! This is about 4 weeks before the wedding - look how skinny I was! Oh to be that size again! :)
Wedding Photos! For those who don't know, Brandon and I were married between my junior and senior years at A&M. The bottom one is one of my favorites! I don't exactly what Brandon said, but I thought it was hilarious at the time. It was probably along the lines of not really enjoying everyone watching while he feels under my dress to find the garder!
Graduation Day - Yay for Charlton. My good friend Mandy graduated on the same day as I did, so we had a combined family party at the church building. If we hadn't done a lunch at the church, we probably would have had to wait a couple of hours to eat at the 6 restaurants in College Station at the time.
We surprised our families with portraits the first Christmas we were married.I really enjoyed my 4 years at A&M. I lived on campus my very first year and then shared an apartment with 3 other girls my sophomore year. By junior year, I decided an apartment with ONE other person would be just fine! :) Brandon and I met our first years at A&M in architectural history class. He actually recognized me from church, but we didn't meet until class. That was the fall of 1998. By January 2000 we were engaged and then married in June 2001. I know some people talk about loving high school, but I have to say college was soooooo much better. How could I have not loved it - I met my husband, I made life long friends, and of course we've established the only school that Mackenzie is allowed to go to! :)
Hope you are enjoying the flashbacks. Next week we move to grad school. I was thinking that it wasn't that long ago, but then I remembered I graduated from UH in 2005, so it's already been 5 years! Time flies!
Early Dismissal, New shoes, Locked out
A week ago Monday, Mackenzie's School called at 2:30 to say taht there was a power outage in the area and that they wer closing. 25 minutes into my 30 minute drive to the school, they called to say the power was back on. Too late...I'm already almost there.
At about 3:30, I decided we had time to go to the store and buy new shoes for Mackenzie. We went to the outlet mall and Mackenzie enjoyed walking around outside in her new shoes. When we got home around 5:15, Mackenzie wanted to play outside. Instead of playing in the front yard like we normally do, we went straight to the backyard. After about 10 minutes, I decided we needed to go inside to get dinner ready.
Change of plans - I had locked us out of the house! Luckily I had my phone in my pocket, so I called Brandon. Per Brandon (who was in Huntsville), these were my options:
1. wait 1 1/2 hours for him (outside or at neighbors)
2. call a locksmith
3. Call a friend to pick us up.
Number 1 wasn't really an option since we don't know our neighbors and it was getting dark and cold outside. Number 2 was a possibility , but only if number 3 didn't work out. The issue with number 3 of course, is calling a friend who owned a carseat and could leave their child with their husband to pick us up. We called Erin, and despite having a 15 month old AND a 2 month old, she graciously came and pickd us up! She even bought (I had only my phone) dinner for Mackenzie since she hadn't eaten since before we left for the store. Since Mackenzie and Liz are about the same age, we even used one of their diapers and had Brandon not shown up shortly after we arrived, then we might ahve used her pajamas too! Thank you Erin, Gregg, Liz and Bladen for being so nice and generous!
We finally got home around 7:45 - gave Mackenzie a batha nd put her to bed. Brandon and I ate dinner after that and then I went to bed since I still had to fly to Dallas the next day! What a long firs day of the work week!
Lesson learned: We need to give one of our friends a key to our house so that if we get locked out again, ti's not as big of a hassle for everyone. Oh, and always, ALWAYS take your keys when going outside!
At about 3:30, I decided we had time to go to the store and buy new shoes for Mackenzie. We went to the outlet mall and Mackenzie enjoyed walking around outside in her new shoes. When we got home around 5:15, Mackenzie wanted to play outside. Instead of playing in the front yard like we normally do, we went straight to the backyard. After about 10 minutes, I decided we needed to go inside to get dinner ready.
Change of plans - I had locked us out of the house! Luckily I had my phone in my pocket, so I called Brandon. Per Brandon (who was in Huntsville), these were my options:
1. wait 1 1/2 hours for him (outside or at neighbors)
2. call a locksmith
3. Call a friend to pick us up.
Number 1 wasn't really an option since we don't know our neighbors and it was getting dark and cold outside. Number 2 was a possibility , but only if number 3 didn't work out. The issue with number 3 of course, is calling a friend who owned a carseat and could leave their child with their husband to pick us up. We called Erin, and despite having a 15 month old AND a 2 month old, she graciously came and pickd us up! She even bought (I had only my phone) dinner for Mackenzie since she hadn't eaten since before we left for the store. Since Mackenzie and Liz are about the same age, we even used one of their diapers and had Brandon not shown up shortly after we arrived, then we might ahve used her pajamas too! Thank you Erin, Gregg, Liz and Bladen for being so nice and generous!
We finally got home around 7:45 - gave Mackenzie a batha nd put her to bed. Brandon and I ate dinner after that and then I went to bed since I still had to fly to Dallas the next day! What a long firs day of the work week!
Lesson learned: We need to give one of our friends a key to our house so that if we get locked out again, ti's not as big of a hassle for everyone. Oh, and always, ALWAYS take your keys when going outside!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
A little too close
On Christmas day we went to my Granny and Papa's house in Alvin. On my mom's side of the family, the 7 grandchildren range in age from 30 (me and my oldest cousin) to 11 (Chloe - the only other granddaughter). With a wide range of ages, we of course now have great grand children in the mix. Three to be exact - Katelynn (6 this month), Matthew (5) and Mackenzie.
Katelynn is super friendly with everyone even though she sees most of us just once a year. Last year she clung to Chloe's every move. This year was the same, only she also want to cling to Mackenzie. Actually, she may have wanted Mackenzie to cling to her. Either way, it didn't quite work out the way she wanted it to.
For those of you who don't know, Mackenzie is shall we say, particular. She does well with small groups of 4-8 people, but when you have large groups (12-20) which is what we had, she tends to cling to me and Brandon. With that said, Katelynn did not give up trying to be best friends with Mackenzie!
2 Favorite moments with Mackenzie and Katelynn:
1. At lunch, Mackenzie was sitting in my lap. Katelynn had finished eating and came over to ask me if I would let Mackenzie down so that they could play. My response was, "I'd love to let her go, but I don't think she'll let go of me." I love that she thought I was the one holding back Mackenzie from playing with her. Katelynn stayed right there next to us holding Mackenzie's hand, arm, foot...whatever she could touch.
2. At one point, Mackenzie got frustrated with Katelynn being right there in her face talking to her and pushed Katelynn away. Katelynn didn't think anything of it and hugged Mackenze and said, "it's all right." It never once crossed her mind that Mackenzie didn't want to be so close to her. She was determined to play with her, hold her, do anything with her!
For Katelynn's sake, I hope Mackenzie is ready to play with her next year!
Notice Mackenzie pulling away! ;)
Katelynn had to be constantly touching Mackenzie in some way. It was really cute.
Katelynn is super friendly with everyone even though she sees most of us just once a year. Last year she clung to Chloe's every move. This year was the same, only she also want to cling to Mackenzie. Actually, she may have wanted Mackenzie to cling to her. Either way, it didn't quite work out the way she wanted it to.
For those of you who don't know, Mackenzie is shall we say, particular. She does well with small groups of 4-8 people, but when you have large groups (12-20) which is what we had, she tends to cling to me and Brandon. With that said, Katelynn did not give up trying to be best friends with Mackenzie!
1. At lunch, Mackenzie was sitting in my lap. Katelynn had finished eating and came over to ask me if I would let Mackenzie down so that they could play. My response was, "I'd love to let her go, but I don't think she'll let go of me." I love that she thought I was the one holding back Mackenzie from playing with her. Katelynn stayed right there next to us holding Mackenzie's hand, arm, foot...whatever she could touch.
2. At one point, Mackenzie got frustrated with Katelynn being right there in her face talking to her and pushed Katelynn away. Katelynn didn't think anything of it and hugged Mackenze and said, "it's all right." It never once crossed her mind that Mackenzie didn't want to be so close to her. She was determined to play with her, hold her, do anything with her!
For Katelynn's sake, I hope Mackenzie is ready to play with her next year!
Notice Mackenzie pulling away! ;)
Katelynn had to be constantly touching Mackenzie in some way. It was really cute.Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time of Life
On Friday, my sister called to tell me she was pregnant! I have 2 nephews already, so this will be my parents' 4th grandchild. I'm very excited for her.
This got me thinking about all of the women I know who are expecting. I guess it's that time in my life when everyone is having kids, just like 9 years ago all of my friends were getting married. I started going through my list of expectant moms and realized I know someone who is due in every month from here until September except in June and July!
Since I started thinking about his, Pam has had her baby girl, but she was due in February.
Of the 6 babies due (2 are in May), I'm really excited about 4 of them. In April, a good friend from church/life groups is expecting her first child. she is having a girl and this will be our 4th girl in our life group - all under the age of 2! Because all of us in our life group live some distance from our families, I think we all become close to each other and each other's kids. We see each other every week - sharing God's word, pray together, eating together, rejoicing together. I'm really excited to meet Karleigh and to eventually see her and Mackenzie play together.
Two more babies I'm excited about are good friends of Brandon's family. So that I can totally confuse you, they are: Brandon's Mom's Best Friend's daughters. Not real confusing, but it's easier to say good family friend! Since I've known Brandon's family for 10 years, I have known Trisha and Lacie for that long also. Trisha is due in May and Lacie is due in August and I can't wait to see their babies. I'm looking forward to future Christmases when they Meyers and Harville grandchildren play together!
Last, but certainly not least, is my sister's baby! While we don't see each other that often, I will still Aunt Charlton and he/she will still be my nephew/neice. Secretly I think we are all hoping for a girl, but we'll have to wait until May to find out.
I don't want to discount the other 2 babies/moms that are due. I'm very excited to see pictures of those babies as well, but they are going to be my co-workers' children and I don't see myself as being a part of their lives! ;)
All in all, that's a lot of babies over the next 8 months..and a LOT of gifts...oh my...I better start saving! ;)
This got me thinking about all of the women I know who are expecting. I guess it's that time in my life when everyone is having kids, just like 9 years ago all of my friends were getting married. I started going through my list of expectant moms and realized I know someone who is due in every month from here until September except in June and July!
Since I started thinking about his, Pam has had her baby girl, but she was due in February.
Of the 6 babies due (2 are in May), I'm really excited about 4 of them. In April, a good friend from church/life groups is expecting her first child. she is having a girl and this will be our 4th girl in our life group - all under the age of 2! Because all of us in our life group live some distance from our families, I think we all become close to each other and each other's kids. We see each other every week - sharing God's word, pray together, eating together, rejoicing together. I'm really excited to meet Karleigh and to eventually see her and Mackenzie play together.
Two more babies I'm excited about are good friends of Brandon's family. So that I can totally confuse you, they are: Brandon's Mom's Best Friend's daughters. Not real confusing, but it's easier to say good family friend! Since I've known Brandon's family for 10 years, I have known Trisha and Lacie for that long also. Trisha is due in May and Lacie is due in August and I can't wait to see their babies. I'm looking forward to future Christmases when they Meyers and Harville grandchildren play together!
Last, but certainly not least, is my sister's baby! While we don't see each other that often, I will still Aunt Charlton and he/she will still be my nephew/neice. Secretly I think we are all hoping for a girl, but we'll have to wait until May to find out.
I don't want to discount the other 2 babies/moms that are due. I'm very excited to see pictures of those babies as well, but they are going to be my co-workers' children and I don't see myself as being a part of their lives! ;)
All in all, that's a lot of babies over the next 8 months..and a LOT of gifts...oh my...I better start saving! ;)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
what's wrong with this picture?
Can anyone see what's wrong with this picture?
How about now?
Still having a hard time? Let me zoom in!
That's right - one of the legs is about 1 inch shorter than the other. I bought these for Mackenzie months ago and I didn't notice this until after I had washed them. They might have been like this before I washed them - I don't know. It's not too noticeable once she has them on. But since I know they are shorter, I of course can see it instantly. Also, the shorter leg is a little wider than the the longer one. It's like they took a pant leg for a squatty, chubby child and paired it with one for a taller, skinny child! Oh well - now I know to pay a little more attention to pants before I buy them.
How about now?
Still having a hard time? Let me zoom in!
That's right - one of the legs is about 1 inch shorter than the other. I bought these for Mackenzie months ago and I didn't notice this until after I had washed them. They might have been like this before I washed them - I don't know. It's not too noticeable once she has them on. But since I know they are shorter, I of course can see it instantly. Also, the shorter leg is a little wider than the the longer one. It's like they took a pant leg for a squatty, chubby child and paired it with one for a taller, skinny child! Oh well - now I know to pay a little more attention to pants before I buy them.
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