Yesterday, on the way to church Cam said from the backseat, "am I going to Sunday school?" We told her yes and she sweetly replied, "but I'm going to miss you." I am so thankful for her
I decorated for Christmas last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and am thankful for the birth of our Jesus Christ Lord and Savior so we have a reason to decorate and celebrate.
I am thankful for my sister and her beautiful family.
Ian teaching himself how to play piano. This kid is brilliant! Melissa said she would put him in lessons and his response was "why? Save your money, I've got some post-it notes and a couple YouTube videos. That's all I need!" Bless him.
I'm thankful for this handsome man and a healed head! :)
I'm thankful for so many things, not just the above. I adore this time of year and am so glad the holidays are among us!!
I took last Thursday & Friday off and started decorating for Christmas a little. Friday night, Brian was putting Cam to bed (I was at my sisters, mom was in town) and their bedtime conversation in exact words was... "Daddy I need to talk to you". Ok Cameron what do you want to talk about? "Daddy, I really, really want to touch the decorations."
I can't make this stuff up. She's such a trip. She talked about the decorations for 20 minutes before she went to bed. She made him hold her hand so she could show them all to him around the house.
We put our tree up yesterday and she had a ball decorating!!! She woke up yesterday asking to 'touch the decorations.' :). Notice the outfits. We put seven different ones on yesterday.
This little angel is so happy. All.The.Time. I'm happiest when my kids are happy
On another note: it's 7:03 and Cam is still asleep!! Don't wanna jinx it but this has been happening ore often than not. And her clock is set for 6:48 AM. Praise Jesus!
Tech's final home game was last Saturday and Kayla and Craig and some friends of Deb's were all in town so we had a super fun day! I had to take a picture of the Blazer 'all packed up'. How comical is this???
It's quite an ordeal getting all the food, drinks, canopy, chairs, generator, TV, satellite, .... GEAR all loaded up in ONE car. You name it, we've got it! And we don't even have the grill on in this picture. Normally he attaches this big metal storage bin-like thing on the back of his trailer hitch and loads it up with all sorts of stuff but we just did chili this last time so a crock pot was all we needed. But normally he grills out some remarkable goodness and is everyone's best friend by the end of the night. Brian works like a crazy person, 6 Saturday's a season, to make tailgating an awesome experience for all involved and I love him for that. It's such a blast! My parents and sis don't have season tickets but just come to tailgate each home game, it's that fun!
Dork! ;)
It snowed Sunday and Cam was in heaven!!!!
While unloading the Blazer Sunday afternoon Brian cut his head pretty good on the spare tire rack and instead of risking anything we decided he needed a stitch or two so we called Dr Phillips to see if he was busy at 6:30 PM on a Sunday night and he wasn't thankfully. He met us up at the office and stitched him right up! Lindsay and Joey were with us as we were heading to the Alabama concert. Lindsay snapped this photo and as you can see, I'm squinting to see. Wear your glasses Lin!!!
Thanks Ronnie, you're such a kind man who would do anything for us. We love you dearly!
So, we get B all fixed up and head to Jazz to eat before the concert but as we were walking into the concert we see a family leaving. They ask us if we are just getting there and we tell them yes. It's 830. The tickets say doors open at 630 and that Jamie Lynn Spears would be opening for them so we thought we would be fine at 830. Well, apparently not bc the concert was over at 9!!! Oh well... We heard four songs, which I guess, is better than none! And I heard my two favorites: "I'm in a hurry (And don't know why" and "Mountain Music!!"
They sounded really good!!!
But.... The BIGGEST drama of last weekend was our sweet Nix went missing!!! Cam and I were playing out in the snow around 530 and nixie was with us. We came in at 6 but as I was feeding Tess I see she was back out front playing in it so I'm sure nix went too as the front door was wide open but I never thought about it. Well Debra and the Coopers show up around this as Deb is keeping the girls while we go to the concert and as we are heading into the concert Debra calls saying she can't find nixie. She thought she was in her kennel bc I always put her up when we have a lot of people coming over but she wasn't in there. I told Debra to just open the garage door bc she ALWAYS comes home! Well, she never did. And I was a total wreck. Sunday night was the longest, worst sleep-less night of my life! Well someone found her around 730ish and didn't call my vet until this morning. That was the number on her tags. This sweet lady took such good care of her & fed her and everything. I couldn't believe it!!! I was so worried she was out in the cold all night long. When I went to pick her up she and I both just balled like babies while nixie squealed and whimpered and licked me from head to toe. It was like something you see in the movies! I'm so thankful for kind, honest, and caring West TX people. I bet you $1000 this would not have happened on Dallas!!! So glad to have my first, and only, fur-baby home!!!
I wrote her a $200 check and she was so appreciative as she cleans houses for a living and just had foot surgery so she's not able to work right now. That was the least I could do!!!
I didn't realize this but her tags only had my vets number on it so I had this made!!
Side note: as I'm talking to my vets office telling me they found her, my sister in law beeps in to tell me she saw Nixie on FB!!!!! The lady who found her posted to Lost and Fount pets of Lubbock TX and Kelly saw it! Crazy social media world we live in these days, eh?? Thanks for all your help too, KB!!!!
I don't write deep, thought-provoking posts very often, but when I do it's because the amount of passion and love I have for something, or someone(s), is so great that I feel compelled to write about it. So, I never forget. Ever.
I was driving the girls to school this morning, and during this 7.5 minute car ride, I hear Tess playing with her carseat toys and nothing from Cameron because she's deep into the Frozen CD book I've got playing that she requested to hear with a 'please and thanks mom.' The serenity, right then and there. was indescribable. I sat there and thought.....
I'm driving a nice car, that's paid for, with a hot coffee, in a wonderful town, with wonderful schools and teachers who do, and will, love and educate my daughters, I've got an amazing job that allows me to take my girls o school at 8 AM vs 6:45, I have a husband who loves me for me, loves his Girls unlike anything I've ever seen, works extremely hard, every.single.day, to provide for us, and then some, allows me to go out with girlfriends, who I could NOT live without, when I wish, like last night, I have my best friend and sister 10 minutes down the road from me, a perfect niece and nephew, a brother in law my sister could NOT live without, my parents 45 minutes away, my in laws 90 minutes away and Brian's brother and sister in law 15 minutes away .... Everyone is healthy. I mean... God's work is simply remarkable. I'm not sure I can state it any simpler. Remarkable. I am so thankful to wake up each morning, even if it's at 6:27 AM thanks to a sweet angelic 3 year old named Cameron, and live the life I do. Thanks be to God.
Sunday evening I took the girls to this fun place and Cam got to ride her first horse and enjoy a hay ride! Our church was sponsoring an event out there so we loaded up and went. Fun times!!!!! Gotta love Cameron sporting her Elsa dress and jellies in November. :)
Last weekend, Brian and I flew to Dallas to celebrate Doc turning 70! The Baylor College of Dentistry and Mike and Lindsay worked their tails off to surprise him and boy was he ever!!! They had it at the West End Event Center and it was perfect and so so fun!!!
A quick selfie in the cabbie on the way to the party :)
He was SHOCKED!!!!
Team Hale
The boys!
Saturday I got to meet Bridget and Jims baby boy, Palmer, and he's so precious!!! I went and met Chad and Donna's baby boy Bruno as well Saturday afternoon but didn't take a picture. Dangit, what was I thinking?!?
Saturday night, Mike cooked out steaks for us and Mike took his first ... EVER, selfie. Dork. :)
Such a fun weekend!!! Shout out to Mamy and Slick and my mom for keeping our littles so we could have a little weekend getaway. I miss my Dallas peeps already :(
Born and raised in Plainview, TX, I graduated from PHS in 1997 & carried on a family TX Tech University tradition from 97-01. I got a bachelors degree in Marketing & moved to Dallas in June of '01 to work for my very first job with Staff Care, Inc. Who would have thought 2 West Texans, who knew a lot of the same people, would meet on Match.com and actually work out? Not me! Brian & I met on 9/19/08 & married at The Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on 5/15/10 with 94 of our closest family & friends. We recently moved from Dallas to Lubbock be closer to family and allow Brian an opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of practicing dentistry out in W. Texas. He bought Dr. Ronald Phillips practice & we could not be more thankful for this opportunity. Our greatest joys are our babies: Cameron Elizabeth, age 3, Tess Leanne, 9 months, and Nixie, our first baby, a toy Schnauzer, who is 5. Life & God are good and we are blessed beyond measure. I have created this blog to capture moments with family & friends as tomorrow is never promised.
