My brother’s son, Caden, is too cute for words! We love him so much!
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| Ella and Caden |
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Archive for the 'Julie' Category
21
Aug
09
cousin lovin’
18
Aug
09
the weekend
Our family had a busy weekend! On Friday, the kids and I headed to the neighborhood pool for 3 hours (mom record for me!) At the splash pad, Rilyn shot Ella in the head. Nice aim.
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Where was James this weekend? Oh he was golfing, playing paintball, and going to the movies with the guys for our friend, Carson’s, wedding! Tough life always going to bachelor parties! The kids and I headed to Temple to stay with my parents and we went to a local musical, Beauty and the Beast, which was excellent. Rilyn must of picked up Ella’s bad habits of posing and so poor Belle got a little more than a picture.
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The next day, Sunday, Asher, (in my care), took a tumble (rather a twirl) into my parents banister spindles that have corner edges around the bottom. You can guess where he landed.
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Fifteen minutes later, I was off to the wedding! (My dad is a doctor so I knew he was in good hands in case the goose egg became more…)
Carson’s wedding brought many dear Aggie friends together again. Fun times had by all!
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| me, Casey, Jen, and Kim |
05
Aug
09
I’m an aunt!
Officially, I am an aunt today! James is an uncle, and the kids are cousins! My brother, Jeff and his wife, Becca, had their first child, Caden Jeffrey, today!
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| Jeff, Becca, and Caden! 8 lbs. 6 oz. |
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| aunt Julie!! |
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| new cousin! |
12
Jul
09
diaper cake divas
Yesterday was my sister-in-law’s (my brother’s wife) baby shower for my nephew, Caden, who will be born next month! I can’t wait to be an aunt! My sister and I wanted to help with the shower and so we made a diaper cake. (I jump at any chance to use my scrapbooking skills!) I think it turned out really cute!
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| From July 2009 |
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| me, my sister-in-law, my mom, and my sister |
(I know, I’m jealous too of how good 36 weeks pregnant could look!)
We’ve been blessed over the last 11 years to be a part of our dearest friend’s weddings! Yesterday, James was in our college friend,(and now we go to church with him), Ryan King’s, wedding and it got me thinking of all the wedding parties we’ve been in. We did have a 7 year streak going…but our streak ended in 2008. 2009 wants to make up for that ‘lost year’ so James is in another wedding next month and there is always potential for another one later this year!
My first wedding to be in was 1998 and James was in 2001. Let the streak begin there…
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| Tommy Jones wedding-January 2001-James is a groomsmen
From L to R: Carson, James, Noel, Tommy, Kevin, Jeff, Casey, Julia, Courteney, Matthew, and Halim |
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| Matthew Rice’s wedding-June 2001-James is a groomsman
Tommy, Matthew, James, and Halim (notice Noel and Carson in the background famously jumping in other people’s pictures) |
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| Kim Hill’s wedding-June 2001-I was a bridesmaid
Yep, that is Jen standing next to me |
That takes us to 2002!
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| Halim Suh’s wedding-Dec. 2002-James is a groomsman |
2003…
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| Jeff and Jen’s wedding-August 2003-I was a bridesmaid |
2004 (sorry for the bad pic)
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| Becca Gray’s wedding-July 2004-James is a groomsman |
2005
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| Casey Pettett’s wedding-January 2005-I am a bridesmaid |
2006
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| my brother’s wedding!-May 2006-James and I are both in the wedding party |
2007
James is in a wedding but it is out of state and I couldn’t come, so obviously no pictures were taken!
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| Kristy Hilton’s wedding-Dec. 2007-I am a bridesmaid(I’ve known Kristy since I was 3!) |
2009
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| Ryan King’s wedding last night |
07
Jul
09
bff’s
One of the sweetest things to watch is your child find a best friend.
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| Ella and Anna Richardson From August 2006 |
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| From October 2007 |
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| From September 2008 |
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| Dance Life, Jen’s new dance studio in her garage!!! From July 2009 |
What is even sweeter is that Anna’s parents are our best friends as well. Jen, Anna’s mother, was my college roommate at Texas A&M. And Jeff, Anna’s dad, was James’ good friend at A&M. What a blessing to have friends that we consider like family and they only live 2 minutes away from us (walking distance!) We are so excited to watch our kids grow up together and form lasting bonds! (By the way, 8 of these people in the picture below all live in the same neighborhood now! And together, we have 10.5(one in the womb) kids!)
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| December 2001-James, Carson, Halim, Zach, Jeff, Ryan, Noel, Kevin, Leslie, Kari, Jen, Casey, Christy, Becca, Yuna, and Julie |
27
Jun
09
the plasma pokey
Sing with me!
You put your right arm in (jacked from Monday)
You put your left arm in (jacked from Thursday)
You wonder why you keep donating
but you do the plasma pokey and you keep getting paid
That’s what it’s all about!
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| From June 2009 |
To make a long story short:
Couldn’t donate in right arm because of bruise from Monday
Had to donate in left arm which has tiny veins
My vein started puffing up like a bubble while donating
Lost some blood (not supposed to happen),
Nearly fainted TWO times (one in the chair, one in the waiting room)
Had to lie flat on my back in the front waiting room with 20 other people staring at me while I get ice packs all over my body and have to eat crackers
The end.
Will I donate again? You betcha…just gotta have both arm bruises go away and I’m clear!
So, I do the plasma pokey and I keep getting paid, that’s what it’s all about!
(oh yah, and I’m saving lives!)
a Tuesday looks like this next week:
9:30-10 -Awards celebration for Ella at preK
10-11 -Splash day and then p.j. day at Ella’s preK (must go to take pictures)
12:30-2:30 -Rilyn’s field trip to Crowe’s Nest Farm (I’m a parent volunteer)
7-9 -community group
8:00 -moms for moms (church group) celebration night at La Madeleine’s
And, oh yah, it will be our 8th wedding anniversary that day too!
Can I be at all these things? Probably not, (and seriously not when Asher goes to school!) Some days, I wish I could just duplicate myself.
11
May
09
you’ve come a long way baby
To make myself feel better about turning 30 today, I looked back at some old photos of myself. Wow! It was pretty brutal. I feel like I look younger today than some of my photos back then! Take for instance this one when I was about 12.
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| From May 2009 |
Look at me! I have shoulder pads, an old lady dress on, pearls and a straw hat with some shrub growing on it! And this was Easter day, so I probably really took the time to make myself look good! (Don’t ya just wish someone told you to pluck your eyebrows when you were that young?) Ha!
My dear daughter knew how to make me feel good today. Rilyn told me, “Thirty isn’t old mom because it has a zero in it!”
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| My mom thought it would be so cute to make me wear this crown, wand, and necklaceshe bought me! |
the paquettes 