Tabitha's Wedding

Today was my Uncle Tommy's birthday and my friend Dotti's birthday. Happy Birthday to both of you!!

Today, we also went to my cousin Tabitha's wedding. She looked beautiful and it was a very nice wedding. She had a fall theme and her bridesmaids carried pumpkins down the aisle. It was pretty neat.

Doug and Emma before he had to take her out of the church

You may now kiss the bride!

Tabitha and I

My other cousin, Jennifer and I (this is Tabitha's sister)

First Birthday Party

We had Emma's First Birthday party today, Sunday, October 5th. We had almost 40 people there. It was great to see everyone and be able to spend some time together.

This is a frame that I made for Emma. It is for every month of her first year of life. My Dad and Stepmom bought it for us before Emma was born. It turned out to be a really good idea.

Here's the pretty birthday girl in her birthday outfit. Her shirt says Baby's First Birthday.


Here are just some shots of some of the people that were at the party.

My Grandpa's hamburger/hot dog combo???

Natalie and Emma
This is the cake that Emma got to destroy. As you will see below she did a fairly good job of it.

Daddy helped a little!

She rubbed it all in her eye. I had to put her in the bath to clean her off and she had a total fit. She must have enjoyed being covered in sugar.

Emma, Me and Mom

Opening presents...she got a lot of really good stuff today.



Thanks to everyone who came and made this day really special. I know Emma will never remember it, but Doug and I will.

Happy First Birthday Emma!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!!!
I can't believe that Emma is 1 today. It doesn't seem like I was in the hospital a year ago today. It has been the best year ever watching her grow. She is walking now and has eight teeth. We are having her birthday party on Sunday so be on the lookout for more pictures soon.

Life

I read a blog today that brought tears to my eyes. An old roommate of mine from CCC has a blog and it wasn't until today that I found it. I had known for a few months that she was expecting and hadn't seen anything recently regarding it. I went onto her blog and found out why. She gave birth to her baby boy about two months ago (he was due yesterday). He was stillborn and is now with Jesus. I read through her blog about the struggles that she is facing and it broke my heart for her. I am so blessed to have a healthy, happy baby girl that is about to turn 1 year old on Friday. I know God has a plan for everything that happens in our lives...it is just hard to see that plan sometimes. About a month ago Doug accepted a job offer at his current job for our family to move to Dallas. We felt like God was leading us in that direction but we know it is going to be super hard to leave all of my family behind. Well, last week I lost my job and Texas became an even bigger blessing for us. God knew that in the long run we really need this move to TX.
Well, I wrote all this basically just to say how thankful I am for my baby and my husband and my family. God has blessed me with an incredible life and even though I fail to thank Him for it as often as I should He still blesses me everyday.

Our Trip to Texas

We left at 7:30am on Friday morning, September 19th. We started our day with a healthy breakfast from the Burger King in the airport!!

I was rushing Doug in the drive-thru of Taco Bueno. He didn't like that.

This is the sign for Taco Bueno. It was pretty good. They still have Taco Bell's, but I thought this was a little better.

Here is the sign for Butler and Hosch. It is on the 3rd floor of the glass building behind it.

We stayed at the Hyatt Place in Dallas. Not a very good picture of the sign, but oh well.

This is our room.

We started the day out right on Saturday with a healthy breakfast from Chick-fil-A. After this we started looking at apartments.
This is one of the major grocery store chains in Dallas.
Here is the 1st house we are going to buy!!
And this will be our 2nd home!!!

Any of you Dallas fans out there (the TV show that is), here are the two golden buildings that are in the opening credits.

We went and saw Righteous Kill on Saturday night at the North Park Mall.
We drove to Frisco, TX on Sunday before I had to leave and this is the Mexican restaurant we ate at. It was very good

Emma and Cousins

Here are a few pictures of Emma, Julia, Rose, and Lily one day over at my Dad's house.

Emma and Julia hanging out on the floor

Emma being silly!

Emma, Julia and Rose

Emma was talking to Julia and not sharing the toy very good