What do you do?

I inadvertently hurt a dear friends feelings last week and I don't know what to do about it. It's eating me up and I hate that I can't just fitz it.

I have this problem where I just like to be friends with everyone or rather have everyone like me which means that I am most likely not a good friend to anyone. I had this problem in my past and lost a dear friend because of it. And this continues to hurt me almost a year later.

So, you would think that I would have learned my lesson. But no.

So, if you are reading this... Kasey... I am very very sorry!

I really got nuffin

To say... but it's been awhile since I have posted anything so I thought I should post something. :)

Life has been (blessedly) boring. Time taken up with Joey mostly (as Jason was hunting and then in Houston til Wednesday)... but the rest of it with work and then Jason. :)

We are staying home this weekend and don't really know what to do with ourselves. I have a friend coming in tomorrow on her way through town to get to Kansas where she is moving... (twit... j/k) What am I saying? She's moving but I already moved.

I don't feel like a DFWian... I still feel like a Houstonian visiting.

"Ice" and fingerpainting... a picture recap. :)

My inlaws came for a visit on Christmas day and we had such a wonderful time. I got to go shopping with my mother in law and then on Saturday, we went to the "Ice" display at the Gaylord Texan up in Grapevine, Tx. All of us, except Joe, who was asleep through most of it and woke up to a sea of blue... had a wonderful time. :)

I think my father in law was cold... you?

This was an actual ice slide. I was so sad... the line was just too long to get to go down it. Next year! Next year... YOU ARE MINE!
The almost before shot of fingerpainting. I decided when I got home yesterday from our playdate that we would do some fingerpainting. I had gotten the idea from my sister in law to use vanilla pudding and food coloring. GREAT idea. Edible. :) I made the pudding per the instructions SO I thought... and when it didn't set up... I re read them.. OH SHIT (sorry) it's supposed to be made with MILK and not WATER. Darn! Into the disposal it goes. Hmmmmm... what ELSE can I use?
What about that red velvet cheesecake batter I have leftover and some blue and pink yogurt? PERFECT! Joe seemed to have a blast and I got some great new thank you notes done! HA!

and then the after's... :)
so much fun, Mommy!
Really? WOW!
I am just so stinkin pleased with myself.
and the real after. :)

Year in Review

Happy New Years 2008!

February: Our first plane ride to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

March: Happy Easter!

March: We learned to crawl AND play in the dog bowl! fun times!


April: I went to Chuck E Cheese's with one of my girlfriends, Anna!

May: Got my hair cut off!


May: Joe's first birthday and my 34th birthday! Where did the time go?
June: Found a house in Fort Worth

July: Wonderful parent/sister trip to Europe. It was spectacular. Would have been better if my husband had been with me though.


July 30: Moving truck came.

August 1: Moved INTO our new house.

August: My friend Julie and her kids came to visit. Shut her arm in the car door and broke it.
Welcome to MY house. :(


September: RIP my beloved Frankie! You are missed EVERY single day!

September: Hurricane Ike brought some wonderful evacuees. What fun we had!

September: Hurricane Ike also brought Jason a totaled truck and a new Yukon.

October: A girls trip to Austin.

October: our 3rd Anniversary and our wonderful in laws watched Joe.

November: Wonderful Girls trip to Galveston. Oh yeah and I dyed my hair brunette. Who says that blondes have more fun?

December: Family pictures. What a wonderful family I have.

HO! HO! HO!


It's been a year full of changes and a year full of growth. I wonder what 2009 will bring. Whatever it is... I hope that we continue to be blessed and to take each hardship and new challenge as the lessons they are intended to be. I pray that my family continues to be healthy and happy. And I hope that all those that we care about have the best year that they can! :)

Happy 2009 all!

Ho! Ho! HO!

So, belated Merry Christmas to everyone! We had a GREAT holiday and I cannot believe it's all over. As I mentioned in my last blog, the weekend before Christmas I went shopping and then did most of my baking then on Sunday. As I was cooking my Red Velvet Cheesecake... Joey helped by eating his oreos. He loves him some oreos! :)


We worked Monday and Tuesday. My parents, sister and Grandfather came in on Tuesday night. We had a nice evening and visited... it was fun. I love having family here.

Wednesday morning, Jason went on in to work and Mom, Kristin, Joey and I ran some errands. We all met back at the house and Jason, Dad and Grandpa all went to work on my new gas logs for the fireplace. Kristin and I went to work on cooking and Mom was watching Joey. He went down for a nap, Kiki and I got to a place where we could play a little with her new Iphone. All was wonderful in the world.

Joe woke up, Mom went to get him... dad, Jay and Grandpa still working on the fireplace... and Kristin and I are back in the office on the computer... when we hear a LOUD crash! Jason yells...everyone OKAY? When we start hearing moaning. Mom has gone down and gone down HARD! She was taking a picture of the three boys when she backed up and Murphey was laying there. She tripped over the dog and caught herself on her left wrist.

Off they go to the emergency room. Luckily it was an outlying ER and there was only one person in front of her. The ER doc took one look at her arm and said... yep broken... and most likely will need surgery! :(

They splint it, give her some pain meds and send her home. :(

She is out of commission completely for the rest of the visit.

Kristin and I finish cooking dinner which, by the way was amazing. :)
We had Jalapeno Cilantro Soup (recipe from Reatta's)
Potatoes Dauphinais (from Shannon)
Individual Beef Wellingtons
Brussel Sprouts with lemon and capers
with Red Velvet Cheesecake for dessert. :)
Mom did make it to the table but couldn't eat much. :(



Christmas morning dawned early! Jason heard Joey stirring and couldn't WAIT to let him see what santa had brought. He brought him out and put him on his new tricycle that honks and makes good car noises. He also got a vacuum which sings and talks to him. He loves anything that makes noise... good boy! :)
We all woke up and unwrapped presents. I am pretty sure we all made out like bandits!


Had to get a good pic of mom in her spot with her splint. She's pretty doped up though... not that you can tell until......
the next pic!

After breakfast and all was said and done, the Meikle's all packed up and headed home. We cleaned up, changed the sheets, vacuumed and got ready for Jason's parents to arrive Christmas evening.
We had a GREAT time with them. Bobbie and I went shopping the day after Christmas and got some great deals and generally just had a GREAT time. We talked to mom several times who was in the ER again in Houston where they confirmed surgery but she had to wait until Monday to see the Orthopoedist. (spelling?)
I have some more pictures of the Davis visit but I will leave you now with a video of Joey last night. He was such a good boy and is just generally in good spirits. We (as you can tell) ask him what Santa says and he is quick to say back... "HO! HO! HO!"
I hope you enjoy a little bit of Joey love!
:)