Trip to Keller

About a week and a half ago I decided to go visit grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins up the the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I showed up at my mom's parents (aka Mawmaw & Pawpaw) unexpected so I could surprise them! They were very surprised! I stayed with Mawmaw & Pawpaw, and got to see most of my cousins, and their children (the 2nd cousins). I had a great time!

Here is a shot of me and Pawpaw...



And of course, here is one of me and Mawmaw...



One day during my trip we went to my Aunt Linda's house for lunch. Much to my surprise they have a pet from the wild who comes to their back sliding glass door wanting food. I look over and there is a squirrel that has her little paws on the glass looking in as if she was saying, "Hey, I'm here, can you give me some food now?" It was hilarious! I had never seen anything like that in my life! They opened the sliding glass door and she came INTO the house to take the piece of bread out of their hands. She stepped back outside and nibbled on the bread right there at the back door. It was kind of sad though because she had some deformed bottom tooth. It was hook-like and as she would bite, the tooth would hit her in the nose. Needless to say, because of the tooth deformity, her nose was also mishaped. I also took some video footage of her eating. If you'd like to see it, let me know and I'll email it your way! Here is a picture of her right before her meal time!



On my last day I got to go out to lunch at Olive Garden with a bunch of my family! Here is a picture of me and my cousin, Amy.



And from left to right is my cousin Shelby, Tiffany (my cousin Jason's wife), and me!



Man! I think Shelby must go to the tanning bed, and well, Tiffany has been living in Florida where she gets a lot of sun, and poor ole Staci...she's just looking kinda pasty! (At least compared to the other two in that photo!) I didn't realize how non-tan I'd gotten! Ha! I guess I'll see what I can do to get a little brown! :)

Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Tomorrow is Monday, and I'm excited! I get to go to my internship site and work with "chillens" all day long! Can't wait! I love it!!! :)

For Cryin' Out Loud!

Geez man! What is with this? You may be thinking....huh?!?! Yeah, figures. I'm just feeling BLAH and I don't like it. And today makes it twice this week that I've felt like this. But no worries! I'm fine!

On the bright side I did start my intership this semester at Lumberton ISD. I really like it so far! The days go by really fast and it's so rewarding to see all the different children and know that you're doing what you can to improve their life.

Anyway, check out comment #3 on the post below this...now I'm getting SPAM on my blog...what the crud? I wish I knew how to delete it...oh well. So anyway, I turned on word verification when someone makes a comment so that the stupid spam software won't be able to post comments any longer.

Another Quitman Trip

So my sister, Laura and I took a trip to Quitman this past Wednesday and Thursday. My brother's band, The Red Airplanes had a gig at our old church there in Quitman. I didn't take any pictures of Nathan's band playing, but I took some of him and some old friends from High School. Here is one of Bryce, David, Nathan & Lauren.



Some of my favorite pictures I took where taken on Highway 69 South headed back to Lumberton. There is some pretty scenery, and some old towns you drive through.





There is a man traveling by foot on this road. I didn't notice him until after I took the picture...kinda weird.



One of the small neat towns along this drive is Wells, Texas. Here are a couple of photos I took out of the passenger window while my sister drove...



This is an old brick building with the doors boarded up, but there is no roof, and well, you just have to look at the picture. I've always thought it was a cool old building. It's the Chevy building...as I've always called it.



Hope everyone has a great day! :)

Kenan's Birthday Party!

So last weekend we had a party for Kenan's 27th Birthday! We cooked out hamburgers & hotdogs! We had a big cookie cake to devour! And we even had homemade vanilla ice cream with Reese's peanut butter cups blended in! YUM!!! We also had a good time sharing stories and playing Catch Phrase!

Here's Kenan with the tasty cookie cake!



How about a round of Catch Phrase? Anyone? Looks like Kenny (Kenan's dad) is enjoying it!!!



And well, you have to have picture taken with the birthday boy himself!!!



Hope you had a grand birthday Kenan! :)

"Chuck E. Cheese's...Where a Kid Can be a Kid!"

Who doesn't love this place? I mean, you show up with a couple of kids, blow your money in about an hour, and walk away with a candy bracelet, a temporary tattoo and a plastic frog as your prizes. All that for 20 bucks! What's not to love?

No really, it is a great and fun place to take kids. In fact, I got to take Katie & Staci the other day. These two girls are fraternal twins, and I've babysat them since they were born. I love them as if they were my own little sisters! They are some of the best girls you'll ever meet!

Now introducing Miss Katie! :)



And here is the lovely, Miss Staci (No not me...her name is Staci too. I'm known to them as "Big Staci"...obviously because I'm the bigger one of the two of us.)



Awww...aren't they so cute! I just love them! :)

Wow, I Need to Make a New Post Already!

I apologize to those who are addicts of my blog. I haven't posted in a couple of weeks or so. You see, I have wireless internet issues in my house. I've got the antenna and the router, but for some reason, it doesn't reach into my room, so I have to bring my computer into the dining room to get reception. So my computer goes back and forth from my room to the dining room (or breakfast room...whichever).

So a couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine got married....now she is Mrs. Lauren Sachitano. Here is a picture I took at the dress rehearsal. It's a really good picture of her and Brian, but the quality of the picture isn't great...so for that, I apologize.



Here is a picture of the now Mrs. Sachitano and myself also taken at the dress rehearsal.



For some reason, I didn't get a lot of pictures of the occasion...anyhow, I hope you all enjoyed the ones I did get.

Welp! That's all I got for now! Until I post again...

Nate's 23rd Birthday!

Last weekend we celebrated my brother, Nathan's 23rd birthday! Instead of cake, we had apple pie, one of Nathan's favorites.



Of course we had to take a family photo...it's tradition after all! I think our goofy side came out in this picture. What do you think?



Kenan was gone on his Emmaus Walk, so he didn't get to attend, but his gift was present! To prep his gift, here's a quick story...

Nathan used Laura's CHI iron, and it turned into this family feud because Laura didn't want Nathan's nasty hair products all over her brand new CHI...which is understandable. So, Kenan thought it would be funny to get Nathan a CHI...it was a good one!



All in all, Nate seemed to have a good birthday! He got some pretty sweet gifts, and it was really great spending time with my family.