Brooke & Emery Kate

Please pray for my friend Brooke and her unborn baby, Emery Kate. Brooke's in the hospital with complications and Emery Kate isn't getting everything she needs to grow. She's a tiny one (1 lb 14 oz) and is due in December. Doctors are working to keep Emery in the oven, but they need prayers for Brooke's complications to subside and for Emery to get everything she needs to grow. I'll keep you posted as I hear from Brooke.

Dancing DAD THE BIRD

Here's Dad dancing like a bird at Buca de Beppo...he'll do just about anything for a free piece of cake!

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Andrea & Scott's Wedding

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. SHEPHERD! The wedding was absolutely gorgeous. It was at a vineyard near Sacramento, CA and the weather and decorations were exceptionally beautiful! I'm so happy that Andrea has found her Mr. Right - they are great together! There will be more pics from the "real" photographer in about 30 days, so I'll post more then. I was so excited to get to see my friend Lisa and her hubby Jeb and new baby Mary Kate! They are an adorable family!

In other news, Matt and Dean made their first trip down to Austin for UT/Ohio State game. They had a blast even though they didn't win. Apparently there is a new jumbo -tron at the stadium that is so big that Matt thought it was a new hotel under construction when he saw it from the back! Dude, guess you have to spend your national championship money somewhere (of course, scholarships or academic things are out and jumbo-trons are in! haha)! They had great success selling their extra tickets to the game on ebay and the proceeds just about paid for their whole season!!! Gotta LUV EBAY!

Labor Day Weekend!

Kristi and Lexipoo came to visit for labor day weekend and we had a lot of fun! They hosted a BBQ party so we got to see a lot of people all at once! I only took a handfull of pics, so when I get copies from KP and Mom I will post more. Get ready too-- Kristi took some great ones of Dad dancing at Buca de Beppo at his bday dinner!! He had to dance like a bird!

Andrea's Bachelorette

Congratulations, Matt!

Congratulations to my hubby on his graduation!! Today is his last official day of classes at Asbury!!!!! whoooooooohoooooooooooo!

1st day of Fall Semester!

Today's my first official day for the Fall semester! I'm headed into it with a 4.0 --- after only 2 summer classes -- haha. We'll see how long it lasts :) I just realized, I don't even know the mascot for my new school. It might be a prairie dog...

Santa Fe

This weekend we went to Santa Fe to hear Matt's favorite piano player of all time - Doug Montgomery at Vanessie's. He was AWESOME. He takes requests and can play anything. We heard Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Les Mis, Sound of Music, Flight of the Bumblebee, etc. He's really talented (as he should be since he graduated from Julliard)! This pic is of us at Vanessie's. I always seem to forget how pale I am until I see pictures of me next to Matt! ha!

We had a great time, ate some great food and happened to visit right during the annual Indian Art Festival. I thought this would be a great opportunity to pick up a cool turquoise bracelet or necklace. Every single woman I saw in Sante Fe was wearing about 20 pounds of turquoise - drapped from everywhere imaginable. So the plan was to swing by the art show this morning and join the turquoise trend. That plan died when I saw the first pricetag! Unbelieveable - plain simple pieces were going for $300. So we ate breakfast burritos and walked around for a bit and that was that. We also happened to run across a TRADER JOE's! Yipppee! The only place that sells Two Buck Chuck. Gotta love that! We left Molly home completely alone for the first time (no one came to check up on her) and she did perfect!

Our UN-invited front porch guest!

Season Tix

Matt and Dean got season tix to the UT games this season! Only 4% of the people who applied for the tickets got them, so the odds were outrageous! They are SO excited!! Here's a pic of the 2 biggest Longhorn fans I've ever met...This might be the only picture of them in existence where at least one of them isn't wearing burnt orange!

Cast Your Votes Now!

Ok, time to register your opinions, folks! I've painted the forrest green shutters (see below) white. Now, should I also paint the columns? What about the maroon door? White too? Vote now!

The "Before" shot of our house

Happy Birthday, MOM & JONATHAN!

Hope it's a good one. I'm going to eat some cake today on y'all's behalf. It's really no trouble...no trouble at all.

My beautiful nieces!

Yay Brooke, Michael, and Baby Stone! So excited about your news :)

Curtis & Kristin's Wedding -- The Venetian, Las Vegas

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Gustin

Big D

We went to the Big D this weekend for a quick visit. Here's a pic from Mom's blog of (clockwise from top: Mom, Matt, me, Me-Maw, Dad). We also got to see Granny, but didn't get a picture.

FIRE IN THE FIELD!

Lightning struck Matt's tank yesterday and it BLEW THE TOP OFF OF THE TANK! It also sent his transmitter flying and then caught on fire. WILD.