Quite the compliment

This morning while I was fixing Savannah's hair, she began practicing her new talent.....whistling. Her Papadoc (my dad) has been trying to teach her to whistle for several months now. She has tried and tried and finally gets a little noise out. She is SO proud! Here is our conversation while fixing hair:

Sav: Mom..Poc sure taught alot of people how to whistle...you, me, Mere Mere, CiCi, Uncle Luke.

Me: Yes he did!

Sav: He knows how to do alot of things...he sure is smart.

Me: You are right.

Sav: I think Poc knows as much a Jesus!

What a compliment! :) We sure love our Papadoc (aka Poc)! Savannah took this picture herself...another hobby of hers.

Happy 9 Years!

Nine years ago today I married my sweet husband. With every year that passes, I love him even more. We met on our first day at Texas A&M University. I remember we were talking and after hearing his last name (which I had no idea what he had just said) and that his birthday was the day before mine, he had to get out his drivers license for me to see his last name written and to see his birthday really was the day before mine. Little did I know that one day I would be taking this very confusing last name for myself AND sharing my birthday! Our lives have changed drastically from those college days! We started out both working full time, traveling the world on my AA flight benefits, Brandon cooking all of our meals, and sleeping in on Saturdays. Today we are a family of four loving life as it exists now...as crazy as it is! We are so blessed! We will be celebrating tomorrow with a nice quiet dinner ALONE at a little french restaurant and with a day of movies, shopping and whatever we want on Friday! I am looking forward to some quality time just the two of us!

The only picture I had that was not in our massive wedding album (which are too large to scan) was the above proof taken from the back of the church. Here is our engagement picture from the summer before our wedding.

Special Birthdays

From mid December through the first week of January we celebrate all three of my sibling's birthdays as well as my sweet mom's birthday. My family means so much to me and I love celebrating all of them. The December birthdays were my sisters. Celeste is my oldest sister by 14 months and is one of my best friends. She is wise beyond her years and is such a wonderful mom. Meredith is three years younger than me and is also one of my best friends. She has a heart of gold and is the most giving person. My brother and my mom's birthday were yesterday and today. Luke is my baby brother and is still as spoiled rotten as the day he entered this world! :) He can make me laugh harder than anyone and has such a kind heart. I will say being the only boy AND the baby, he has been tormented over the years. His wedding last November was no exception. We all walked down the aisle with our blacked out raisen tooth and gave him a big grin as we passed by.

One of my funniest memories about Luke and I was watching the Disney movie Watchers in the Woods one Friday night. (which is one of the scariest movies of all time!) If you have not seen it, there is a blindfolded girl named Karen that appears in mirrors and things saying "help me" in several scenes. Well, I thought it would be funny to tie a tube sock around my eyes and walk into his dark room one night saying "help me". As my punishment, I had to sleep in my brother's room in the top bunk with him until he could a) sleep with his lights off and b) sleep alone in his room. This was a LONG process...apparently I really scared him! :) My mom's birthday is today. She is the best mom in the whole world! We have so much fun eating at tearooms and shopping together. This is now something even my girls love to do with us.

I love and cherish all of my family and loved celebrating the lives of most of them over the last few weeks. Happy Birthday!!