Playa del Carmen

RJ surprised me with a trip to Playa to celebrate our belated 5 year anniversary which was back in June. It was wonderful!!! I still can't believe he planned all of this without me knowing!!! He told me we were going on a family vacation to Corpus Christi and Padre. I had packed for us and then the night before we were supposed to leave he woke me up and told me he had a surprise for me! I was dead asleep and thought I was in the middle of a dream. He asked for my passport and I remember telling him and then hearing a "Oh NO!" My passport was expired. We worked in all out (you will hear about in another post) and 2 days later-- it took that long to get my passport and book another flight. We had a great time and can I just say I have such a wonderful husband!!!! We didn't take a lot of pictures-- I wanted an actual vacation of doing nothing!

We bought Cam a mexican dress

She stayed with Grandpa Bobby and Mia

La Cucarcha La Cucarcha

Oh course we needed matching dresses!!

I was pretty proud of my little purchase :)

July 2010

5 Years Later & Still Happily Ever After...

Only one month into our relationship turn marriage :) Look at RJ's hair... ha ha Look how young we look. I was only 19 and RJ had just turned 21!!


RJ's Christmas party--8 months together





June 4th, 2005

Wedding Bliss!

Our sign we made for our TV interview

Five years ago today I married my best friend. I can't believe it's been that long already. It seems like yesterday that I meet RJ for the first time in Refugio at that gas station headed down to South Padre for Spring Break. In reality it was over 9 years ago. So much has changed over the years-- we enjoyed college and date parties together, meet each others families for the 1st time, graduated from A&M together, survived his MBA years, watching our wedding air on national television, moved to Houston, got our 1st jobs, bought our 1st house and puppy, lived through hurricane evacuations, house flooding and month long work trips out of the country, found out we were expecting, met our precious little girl for the first time and now learning how to parent together. What a great ride so far. I can't think of a better person to share it with. I love you RJ-- happy 5 years!

Valentine's in New York

A couple of years ago ('08 I think) RJ surprised me with a trip to New York for Valentine's.  This was very exciting since he's not really that spontanious :)  It was a perfect getaway trip! That was back in the day when RJ was traveling overseas for months at a time so I didn't get to see him much and it was really hard on me.    My sweet Principal let me miss a couple of days of work for it. :)

Happy Valentine's RJ! I love you :)

(I write this and laugh because he doesn't even read my blog! Oh well, it's the thought, right?)

Honeymoon- June 2005

With Valentine's quickly approaching, I thought I would post some pictures from our honeymoon to Maui.  RJ and I will be married 5 years this June.  Hopefully some day we can go back :) We look so young in some of these pictures!

A Bed Divided

This is what our bed used to look like pre-pregnancy....

This is what it looks like now.  RJ says he freezes at night and ends up putting this and usually another blanket on top of him BUT only on his side because I'm burning up... ha ha... I also have to sleep with the fan on at least medium and the AC on really low.  Poor RJ! Can you tell who sleeps on which side? :)

p.s. RJ actually said I should make this a post because it's such a big deal in our house... LOL

County Jail

What a day! No, neither RJ nor myself were arrested today but we did spend the day at the county courthouse. You see, RJ had some business downtown  and I decided to tag along. What an eye opening experience. I saw people of all kinds. For some reason, I kept "beeping" as I went through the security check point. I got patted down twice and still don't know why I kept setting it off. I couldn't take off my rings because my fingers were swollen but the lady didn't think it was that.  

Now on to the interesting part. So I decided to sit for a while and take a load off when all of the studden 3 armed guards and a really mean looking tatooed guy in an orange jump suit (big black letters that read COUNTY JAIL on his back) and handcuffs passed within one foot of me. I about jumped out of my skin!!! I was talking to Ashley Rhodes on the phone at the time. I was scared to death and there was no place for me to hide. When he finally passed, I called RJ to come sit with me and told him about the "colorful" person I had just saw. Just about that time, 5 new Harris County orange jumpsuit prison mates walked in chained together and surrounded by guards started walking towards us. It was straight out of a scene of Shaw Shank Redemption!! I ran! Literally!! I left RJ in the dust.. Lol (sorry RJ- but every woman/man for themself!!) the good news about all of this is none of the inmates were murderers or anything (or so says the security guards). We
were in the family court building and all the inmates were there for not paying child support.

As usual and right on the dot, the baby girl and I got hungry at 11 so RJ and I walked down to this mall downtown (I didn't even know there was an indoor mall downtown called The Park) and ate Chick-Fil-A. So yummy!! On our 10 block hike back to the courthouse we noticed all these police cars SURROUNDING my car!! It was such a crazy day full of 1st!! We still don't know what was going on but there was a guy being arrested and put in the backseat of a police car.

As we speak, I'm sitting here at the courthouse just waiting for the next crazy thing to happen. What a wild day!

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Future Dad-to-be

As you all know, RJ doesn't read my blog (EVER!).  Why? He thinks its dumb and I agree sometimes.  Hopefully someone out there enjoys it :) Anyway, I just wanted to write a short little post about RJ.  A couple of nights ago I asked him to lock up and put Addy in her bed for the night.  He did and for some reason I came back into the kitchen after he had done this.  Addy has been sleeping in the laundry room lately because she was walking the bed at night and keeping us up.  Anyway (he would be embarrassed if he knew I was telling everyone this on my blog but since he doesn't read it I guess I will go ahead)....

Like I was saying, it was so cute I just had to tell everyone.  I went into the kitchen and happened to look over at Addison.  RJ had tucked Addy into her bed.  It was adorable!  He had put her little blanket on her and tucked in all the sides and her head was resting on the pillow.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of it. It just made me realize how wonderful of a father RJ is going to be.  He is so caring and has been so intuitive during our pregnancy.  He has made all but one doctor's appointment and he didn't go to that one so that my mom could go with me.  He also reads our pregnancy book every week to know what's going on.  I've heard this only happens during the 1st pregnancy but I am so proud of him for putting out the effort!  He's really had to put up with a lot from me.  He's so cute, when he comes home at night he loves to look at my belly.  He's fascinated with it and swears that he can tell when I grow a little each day.  I can feel how excited he is about the baby and it makes me so happy and feel so blessed to have such a wonderful and loving husband. Thank you God for RJ:)

I Love Fall!

Drew and Kate's wedding weekend in Indianapolis-- miss you guys!

I can't say it enough! I love love love the Fall! I love the cooler temperatures, I love the excitement from other Houstonian's that the hot and humid Houston summer is coming to an end, I love the changing of the leaves (I wish Houston's leaves would change), I love decorating my house and yard, and I love the smell of pumpkin and spice candles! I hope someday RJ and I can take a roadtrip around October and drive up North and see the beautiful leaves changing. I guess when the baby (still NO NAME!!) gets here we won't have much time for that but hopefully someday. The one and only time we have ever seen firsthand the different colors of Fall is when we went for Drew and Kate's (RJ's cousin) wedding in Indianapolis a couple of years back. It was beautiful and the air was so crisp. We loved it!!

It reminds me of when RJ and I first got married and moved to Houston and it rained almost everyday that June, July and August. I had only been to Houston a couple of times in my life and the rainy days made me feel really homesick from being 6 hours from my family. Not to mention RJ was traveling offshore alot and we lwere crammed into a small little apartment (pre-Addison). I still remember the date for some crazy reason, but one October 6th, we woke up early and it was absolutely beautiful (and cool!) outside. We went for a walk and to a cute little coffee shop on Westheimer and sat outside and talked and just enjoyed the day. I think we even went to the Greek festival that weekend. I do remember that it was one of the first "fall days" in Houston that year. RJ and I both remember it and cherish it. The meterologist is reporting cooler temperatures for this weekend... maybe we will have a repeat??!?! :)