As promised...Kansas, Alabama, and an anniversary!

I think this has the potential to be my longest post ever. This is really like three posts in one. So if you don't have a lot of time right now, just save me for later. This has a ton of pictures in it. I am so excited to finally get to post them though. My laptop is still not all the way back to normal but I am able to do this on our desktop computer so that has been nice. You may ask why it's taken so long...that's a good question. I guess this is the first chance I have had to sit down and do this long of a post.

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Anyways, let's get started with all the details. Russell and I have been so busy these past few weeks. Update on the vandalized car is after three weeks of being in the body shop we finally got it out. It was only supposed to be in the body shop for about a week and a half. That didn't happen, but we are just glad to have it back. The first week the car was in the shop Russell and I took my car across state lines for the first time to see my sister in Kansas. She has two of the cutest kids and that is who is in most of these pictures. We had a great time with them. Here is some pictures of that trip.

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This is Hannah when we were playing outside. There was no water anywhere. I don't know!

Caleb is working on being a great athlete. He can really hit the ball!
Uncle Russell and Caleb doing the typical sports pose! Aren't they super cool.
On our last night there Rebekah, Barry, Russell and I went into downtown KC and had dinner at Houston's and dessert at The Cheesecake Factory! They know how to show us a good time. It is a really neat little area down there. It is called The Plaza and it has all sorts of shops and restaurants, but it is not a mall. I could spend lots of money down there. There was some great shopping to be done. Anyways, this is a picture of me and my sis. I think this might be our best picture to date! Great job sis! Thanks for a great week in Kansas. I love you!
Alright, so that was Kansas. We left Kansas on Friday and Russell drove back to Texas by himself. I rode back with my sister and the kids. They were coming to Texas to spend some time with the grandparents and great-grandparents. They spent Friday night with Russell and I and we met my parents on Saturday and dropped the kids off with them. My sister spent the next week with Russell and I. She got kind of a mini-vacation. She helped me organize my office and scrapbooking stuff! She was awesome! I still love ya sis! Here are a few pictures I captured.
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It took Hannah about a week to warm up to Uncle Russell but as you can see in these next few pictures he was one of her favorites! These are some of the sweetest pictures!

Hannah was fixing uncle Russell's hair.
Here is the finished product. I wish you could see the necklaces around his neck!
Here is the sweetest picture of them all! I think I might have some competition!
On Saturday before we went to go meet my mom and dad we went to the pool. Caleb was showing me some of his tricks. I thought this one turned out great! This is the "running man" as Caleb called it. Look at that form.
This is at my parents house. They where playing in the pool and when they got done they helped Granny water the plants with their pool water. They had just gotten some crocs and where using them as pool toys.

Caleb watering
Granny helping Hannah
Caleb, Granny and Hannah
This is the only picture I had with both the kids and neither of them are looking at the camera. The sun was really bright.

Well, that ends the time with the kids. Here are a few pictures from Russell's trip to Alabama. For the past three summers Russell and his dad along with a few old men go on a golfing trip. Russell waits for this trip all summer. 5 days of 36 holes of golf. They have so much fun.

Take a look at Russell's awesome form.
Russell, Randy (his dad), and Uncle Bruce. This was Uncle Bruce's first time to go. They had a great time though.


Finally, this is my favorite part of the post because I had no idea this was happening. Russell and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary on July 30th. I can't believe it has been two years. They have really flown by. I think I have the best husband in the world and I am about to give you one of the reasons why. I had gone to Tyler the weekend before our anniversary to hang out with some of his family and my family. We left on Sunday in two separate cars because we finally got his out of the shop. We are driving back to Denton and when we get to Mesquite he pulls into Town East Mall. I am very confused. Russell does not like shopping and especially not malls. He gets out of the car gives me money and says go pick out a nice dress and all the accessories you need to go with it. He told me I had 45 minutes. Confused I say "ok". A little worried that I only have 45 minutes. Who shops that fast? Really? Anyways, about 55 minutes later I found everything I needed. We hop back in the cars and off we go. I follow him into Downtown Dallas. He pulls into the Hyatt Regency Hotel. I am very shocked and surprised. He never plans this kind of stuff ever! So he gets out and we go check in. It's about 4:30 in the afternoon I think. We get our cars parked and everything taken up to the room and he tells me have dinner reservations at 8:30. I couldn't believe he had done all of this. I was very impressed. So we watched TV and I read a book and just relaxed. It was so nice. We get ready for dinner and walk down and I am wondering where we are going. Turns out that Reunion Tower is attached the Hyatt and we were having dinner at the top in the revolving restaurant. It was so nice and the view of downtown Dallas was beautiful. The food was so good. Especially the tiramisu I got for dessert. This was the best surprise! I had mentioned years ago that I wanted to go eat at the revolving restaurant one day and he remembered.

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I love you honey and thanks for 2 really great years! I look forward to everything the 3rd year has to offer us! I love you!
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The view from our table. The picture is not very good, I just wanted to give you an idea of how high up we were.

Russell and I at dinner.

They had a waterfall in the lobby of the hotel and one of the nice bell boys took a picture for us.

This is us getting ready to leave the next morning. Again look at how high up we were. It was such a great night.

I think that is it for the longest post ever! I hope it wasn't to boring. If you made it this far thanks for being interested. Keep praying for the job search. I am still looking and hoping to find something real soon. Have a great week!

Just a quick hello...

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have not forgotten about my blog. I have just had a few technical difficulties and we have been out of town. My computer got a virus and so I have been dealing with that and the internet is not quite running yet. Luckily, I was able to save all of pictures and documents and re-do the system before it got really bad.

I have got so much to post about. We recently spent a week in Kansas with my sister and her family, Russell spent a week golfing in Alabama, and most important we just celebrated our 2 year anniversary! 2 years!!! I can't even believe it, they have flown by. Anyways, I hope to have pictures up by the end of the week. So stay tuned!

Keep praying for the job search.

4th of July at the Ballpark

Russell and I spent a great night at the Ballpark in Arlington watching the Rangers win against the Angels. We had wonderful ballpark food that included garlic fries and hot dogs for Russell and an overcooked hamburger with cheese fries for me. The weather couldn't have been more perfect with the temperature in the low 80's. This was much better than the first game we saw in the 50's. My favorite part of the night was the FIREWORKS! I love fireworks. Here's some pictures of a fun night!

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Pre-game they had all the kids from this area who were going to be in the Air Force come out and take their oath. Check out the tiny planes.

Here is the oath they had to state for all of us. If you click on it you should be able to read the words. I thought it was pretty cool. After the Star Spangled Banner was sung, a big Air Force bomber flew over the stadium. That was neat.

We are going to work on Russell's fake smile, but look at our cute hats.

The stadium

You can't read the score, but it was 4-2. Go Rangers!!

They turned off all the ballpark lights for the fireworks. This is what it looks like.

YAY for FIREWORKS!!!

The End.

P.S. I am trying to put together a photo book. Does anyone have any suggestions of a website to use? I just wanted to know if anyone had used a site and gotten a good quality book that they really liked. Thanks!

Painting, Car, Zoo

Hey there, I am back! Life has been busy lately. I just spent about 8 days in Tyler with my mom and dad. That was a well needed vacation. Thanks mom and dad, I really enjoyed my semi-vacation! Mom and I painted two rooms. I can only show you one of the rooms right now, because my sister has no idea what color we painted the second room. (We aren't telling her!) She will be here at the end of July, so she is having to wait to see it! It looks great though! Mom needed some color in her house. I am trying to talk mom into a reddish color for the kitchen/dinner table area. I think I have been successful, we just have to find some time to do it.
I was in Tyler from Friday-Sunday and had to come back to Denton for a job interview on Monday. Monday after the interview Russell and I headed back to East Texas. The interview went well and I am still waiting to hear something. Just keep praying! We spent a little bit of time with Russell's parents on Monday evening and then headed to my parents house.

Tuesday morning we woke up to a phone call from my mom. She was outside the house looking at Russell's car. Someone had vandalized the car. They had taken a concrete rock and just chunked it at the car a few times. Nothing was stolen which was great because I had accidentally left my purse in there and Russell's IPOD was in there. We decided it was just kids out of school who were bored! I am so glad for insurance. They were so nice and took care of everything. We were able to get the back windshield fixed that same day and the body of the car will be fixed the second week of July. Russell went out to camp that day and mom and I painted. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful.

I was able to take this semi-vacation to beautiful East Texas because Grant got to have his first away from mom and dad camping experience. He got to go to Camp Deer Run after being on the waiting list. We were all so excited. Russell and I went to visit him on Wednesday night and he was having so much fun. We picked him up today and brought him home and he talked all about it. Then he fell asleep until we got to his house. He was so tired, but he had so much fun! I love being able to share a place that I love so much with someone else.

The last group of pictures is when we took the boys to the zoo! We has so much fun! Fort Worth Zoo was great. I love being out and enjoy nature!

As for Russell and I we are still just living life. Russell is counting down the days until he gets to go golfing in Alabama. I am checking my phone all the time making sure it still works and I haven't missed any calls that might lead to a job! I think all of the principals are on vacation until the end of July. So I am going to keep being patient. Thank you for praying and I ask that you continue to pray! Also, in a week we will be going to Kansas to see my sister and her family. I can't even tell you how excited I am about that. I can't wait to see Caleb and Hannah. YAY!

The Green Room!

The Spoiler and Break light are busted!

Notice the shattered glass.

Gaving and Grant

We bought some sticks with Bird seed on them and they go to feed the birds! It was so cool.

This thing was HUGE!!!

After a long day at the zoo we are still smiling!

It's 3am and I just played MASH

It would seem to be that I am having a little problem sleeping. Therefore, I am watching The Cosby show and playing Mash. My friend Susan had it on her blog and it just reminded me of the good old days. I used to play this all the time. We used to come up with all sorts subjects. So here are my results.

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Your husband's name is Matthew McConahay and you have 3 children. You're a Doctor who drives to work every day in a Pink Jaguar.
It's truly a wonderful life when you consider the countless romantic nights you have spent with Matthew McConahay in your shack in London, England.

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If you play MASH go to http://www.dollarshort.org/mash/. I just realized I don't know how to put a website on here without putting the whole url thingy. How do you do that?

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Anyways, that is supposed to be my future life. I think I spelt my husbands name wrong. Oops. I like my new car though. I have always wanted a pink jag.

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I am going to post some pictures of the boys I am keeping soon. I just haven't had time yet. We are going to stay with my wonderful in-laws tomorrow night and then going to camp on Sunday. I am very excited about going to camp. YAY!!! So that's all for now. I am going to continue watching Bill Cosby until my body tells me I can go back to sleep. Goodnight!