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May
10

9

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Categories: James and Julie

Today is our nine year wedding anniversary!  It is really true how you fall more in love with your partner every year!  The card I bought for James today has a picture of a TV remote control on the front with a wife’s hand and a husband’s hand on it pulling the remote in opposite directions.  Inside it reads:  Another year of having and holding.  I thought the card was perfect!  😉 
Here is the cake smashing at our reception. I knew I was going to smash the bite in his face, but I was surprised to see that James did it back to me-the bride!

I tried to get him really good!
This is me saying, “Why did you get me?!?” (as he is wiping frosting out of his eye!)
Got him so good, his glasses had to come off to be cleaned!
Had to sing the Aggie war hymn at the reception with a WHOOP!!!! at the end!
11
May
10

so I’m 31 now

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Julie

Don’t birthdays feel like that when you’re older?  Just another day.  I know for sure Asher doesn’t care it’s my birthday and he wouldn’t dare let me sleep in!  🙂  You smile and say “Yay!  It’s my birthday!”  (as you put another load in the washing machine, change a poopy diaper, and wipe up yogurt all over the table).  Birthdays as an adult make me realize how blessed I was in my family to have been celebrated each year as a child!  And don’t get me wrong, I don’t want a party for my birthday now!  I am just as happy with a few thoughtful presents from family and something chocolate!  But my mom made sure we felt VERY special every year on our big day.  She went all out with decorations, party games, friends, cake, and presents.  Those who know me, know that I have loved to carry on that tradition and treasure getting to celebrate each of my children with a special party in honor of them!  What a joy to celebrate life! 

So, I’m 31 now.  Yay!  🙂

I can’t post without a picture so I thought it would be fun, since Rilyn is about to turn 6, to post my 6th birthday party picture.  Obviously, I loved Cabbage Patch Kids!

May 1985
09
May
10

happy mother’s day!

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My Mother’s Day started yesterday and James let me have the whole day off!  It was wonderful and reenergizing!  This morning started with breakfast in bed, church, and then a picnic on our front porch of Freebirds!  Yum!

This was Rilyn’s Mother’s Day letter to me that she wrote in school.  I love the picture!  It is supposed to be me lying in my bed (ceiling fan above me) while her and Ella are bringing me breakfast in bed!  It says, “I love my mom because she takes care of me and sister.  This is the day to thank my mom for everything she does.”  So sweet.

 
The girls planted flowers next to their stepping stones

for me! 
James tried to get shots with me and the kids sitting

 together but Asher wouldn’t cooperate, so this will do!
So blessed!!!
07
May
10

flashback friday-mother edition

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: James, Julie and Rilyn

Happy Mother’s Day weekend!

My mom pregnant with my brother!  I was 2 1/2  yrs.old
James with his mom!  He was pretty amazed at her!
The first moment I became a mom!  June 3, 2004  Rilyn showing off her pipes!
04
May
10

guess who’s coming to dinner?

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Julie and Rilyn

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all my teacher friends out there!  I’m not just saying this because I used to be a teacher (well maybe I am!), I believe being a teacher is the second hardest job in the world-second only to being a mother!  🙂  Imagine having a hard day as a mom with your kids.  Tough right?   But maybe you can just pop in a movie and close the play room door and tell them “mommy needs a break.”  Well teachers sometimes have a tough day times 10 (2 kids x 10), plus all the kids are the same age BUT with very different abilites on the way they learn and behave.  Then throw in paperwork such as turning in lesson plans, progress reports, report cards, individualized education plans for children with special needs, behavior plans, testing reports…   Don’t forget the pressure from parents, the principal, and the state to be at your best every day!

So to show our appreciation for Rilyn’s teacher, Ms. Kerley, we are inviting her over for dinner tonight!  Rilyn is over-the-moon excited!    We bought her favorite dessert, drink, and favorite flowers (thanks to the PTO who handed out papers with each teachers favorite things on them).  We love Ms. Kerley and I just really appreciate her organization, routine, gentle spirit, and love for her class.

Here I am at my first teaching job out of college!  Teaching 3 year olds at Carver Early Childhood Center in Bryan, Texas.  Can you tell I look exhausted?!?  (And those high waisted pants with short shirt combo wasn’t working for me!)  In this picture it is teacher appreciation week and each child brought me a flower that day!  You can see my beautiful bouquet in the middle!  That was a very hard year for me, but days like that make it all worth it!

May 2002
Rilyn’s kindergarten class picture!
30
Apr
10

flashback friday-date party style

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: James and Julie

There is a reason I chose ‘date parties’ as my theme which I will get to in a second.  Here are a couple date parties from college where James and I had to dress up.  Seriously, I have tons of pictures from formals and date parties in college!  James was in BYX (Brothers Under Christ) and I was in ASC (Aggie Sisters for Christ) at A&M so that generated a lot of silly themed date parties!

ASC Shindig-May 1998
BYX ‘Blue Collar Bash’-  James was wearing hisold Golden Corral uniform! Check out his earring!!  🙂   March 1998

Now this next date party picture is significant. This was the BYX E.R. date party in April of 1999 and it was my ‘brilliant’ idea to dress as a very pregnant wife about to give birth. Cute idea, right? Well, James broke up with me about 2 weeks later for 7 months. Now, this date party costume definitely was not to blame, but I couldn’t help but think how stupid I was after the fact! You can almost see the look of fear in James eyes in this picture! Like, “What the heck? Julie looking pregnant is freaking me out!!!!” 🙂 Anyway, another reason this picture is significant is the guy in the picture with us, Noel Johnson. He is one of our best friends from college. He is going to be on a Travel Channel reality show tomorrow night called America’s Worst Driver. So fun! (9 p.m. central time)  We are very excited to watch him and we hope you will watch too!

BYX E.R. date party-April 1999 My handmade shirt says “Somethings Cookin’ 

In The Oven”James’ shirt that I made says “Proud Papa to Be”
And just for kicks, here is another picture of Noel with Carson and James.  Yes,

James is my HUSBAND in this picture and I let him bleach his hair AGAIN!

He obviously still had another year of college left!!  July 2001
16
Apr
10

flashback friday

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: Asher, Ella, James, Julie and Rilyn

Asher is going to be two next Saturday so in honor of his ‘twodom’, here are some pictures of our family at age two!

pretty sure Asher looks like James!
me at two!
 
 
Asher almost 2…(and freshly bathed!)
14
Apr
10

my $100 laptop

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What a blessed week I’ve had!  😉  First my $500 Visa card comes in the mail on Monday and today I got my brand new, white, (my choice in color to go with my kitchen!), Dell XPS Studio 16 laptop worth $1000!  And yes, this is another online offer!  I spent a little under $100 total for this laptop and started this deal in early February!!  So now, as of August, I have made $3,500 on online offers!!  Woo-hoo!!

From April 2010
From April 2010

If you are interested in how I do these offers, please click here.

12
Apr
10

$2500!

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I got another $500 Visa gift card in the mail today!  I spent only $35 total on this card and I started it in late January!  And that makes my grand total at $2500 since last August when I started online offers.  Woo-hoo!

These offers are getting harder to do mainly because they are getting more popular! But if you are interested, click here or message me! I would be happy to help you!

11
Apr
10

sentimental Sunday

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: James and Julie

On this weekend in 2000, James decided to bleach his hair.  Why?  Not sure.  But we were in college so that’s one excuse.

Here I am at my Aggie ‘ring dunking’.  I didn’t want to dunk it in the traditonal pitcher

of beer at the Dixie Chicken so I opted for 8 scoops of ice cream at Swensons! 
Here we are the next day at the BYX Island Party.  James is rocking his new color!  😉
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