Spreading the Love

There is too much hurt in this world. Therefore, maybe we should create more joy, more happiness, more laughter and more love to balance it out...right?

But who do we create it for?

Because to bring about this positive energy for myself...well, isn't that just selfish? I've got enough. Far more than I deserve. Enough to give me a guilty concious every now and then. To offer it to my friends and family...not that they wouldn't benefit from it, but again, I am gratefully surrounded by people that, like me, are beyond blessed with wonderful people in their lives and wonderful things going for them. So, to feel like I am truly making a difference by being a good friend, daughter, wife, sister, etc....it's not neccesarily life changing for those that need it the most.



Anyways, just had an emotional day. Saw too many stray dogs on my way to work and dealt with too many kids with gut wrenching, heart breaking, keep-me-awake-at-night-thinking-about-them stories. While this is a daily for me (seriously, stray dogs nearly every day), some days it just weighs heavier on my heart.

Some things just feel better when you get them down on paper, err, computer screen.

Smile at someone today.

He must have 3 eyes....

Ok, Please tell me that I am not the only one that thinks that this is the STRANGEST celebrity 'First Official Picture of My Child' picture? Because apparently, no one in the media thinks so. This is Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr's first photo of their newborn child. You can't even see the kids face!!!! And don't get me wrong, I'm all about a woman's right's to breast feed when and where she pleases...but why would I WANT to see a picture of her child latched onto her boob? That's typically a situation where I avoid looking if possible in order to give them privacy, because as natural and beautiful as it is, it is still a private, intimate moment. (But what do I know...I've never breast fed)!

Let's not get too deep though. I get it Miranda, you're a Victoria's Secret model and have great boobs. But, if you really knew that I am only interested in finding out whether or not the gene pool of two ridiculously gorgeous people pulled a 180 on their offspring and gave him three eyes or something weird like that, you would realize how irrelevant this picture is to me.

Facebook Friday

~It's always a little nerve racking stopping to get gas for the first time in a new car. I never think before hand to check and see which side my gas tank is on. And my last car, it threw me for one. Why wouldn't they just put them all on the driver's side?

~You know when you are lying in bed and you're not necessarily uncomfortable, but you decide to make a move and roll over and/or re-adjust your body somehow? And once you do.....it's like you've just hit the jackpot of comfort. I mean, it's literally like you have just melted into a cloud and you're body feel's as if it has reached the ultimate state of euphoria. I'm pretty sure if someone could find a way to bottle up that feeling, they could make millions. (Maybe they already did and it's called heroin? But I wouldn't know...)

~How is it that I have just discovered the greatness of Nutella! Oh. My. Gosh. SoGood. And they market it as healthy...I'm not sure I fully believe this but I'm definitely arguing that point to my husband as I finish off the jar in less than one week.

~I'm so excited to head out to Dallas tomorrow for my childhood friends wedding! He and I were inseperable along with our third wheel B. Wils, so her and I are getting some girl time as we see him get hitched and the huz get's a guys night playing xbox and burping with the fellas.

Facebook status' I never posted on Facebook for fear that people might think I don't have a life outside of Facebook

So, like said in title...these are a few Facebook status post's that I would have made this week, only I hate to be one of those people that update's their Facebook status mulitple times a day. Sometime's I wonder if their facebook talk's back to them...?

~Oklahoma Sky-where do you get your colors from? They can't be real. Far too beautiful to be real.

~Really? If you're going to give me an up-down, could you at least not be so obvious about it? Or I don't know, maybe acknowledge me at some point with a "hello" or even just a smile so that I can tell myself that you were admiring my new boots instead of noticing the extra lb's from the holidays. I mean, we do work together so to not say hi in passing is awkward enough. To feel judged when in passing is even worse. Thanks.

~I love GABABOUT Post!! You must download the app if you send mass text's for say, Happy Hour. It's basically a really pretty, fun, and/or themed invitation but through text. They even have cute little notepad's so you can send a 'note' to someone. Here is one I sent the huz while playing with it.

He replied with, "Busy day at work?"

~I wonder if my husband and I will ever feel like our home is completely finished? Is that a real expectation? Does everyone else live like this?

The End.

2010

Ahhhh, another year gone by. I've had some pretty good one's in my time, but this might have been the best! Let's recap, shall we?!



January 2010: Somehow managed to get out of bed and function after a successful new years eve celebration and continue the party at the Dallas Cowboys stadium for the OSU bowl game vs. Ole Miss. The evening before, I was checking into our hotel and a random guy said to me "Hottie Tottie?" I couldn't believe the best pick up line he could come up with was to offer me a hot tottie, something my mother offers her friends at happy hour. I gave a confused grimace and walked away. I have never hated the words 'hottie tottie' so much after the bowl game. And I felt especially stupid thinking he was hitting on me. Regardless, I had probably the most fun I have ever had at a football game thanks to friends, family, and some Tattoo. Too bad we lost.

February: I got my wedding dress in....in the right size!! It shipped to me in Oct. 2009 and
was the wrong size. The store tried to convince me that I had just gained weight. I stared at them in disbelief and proposed the idea that my clothes probably wouldn't be fitting very well if I had gained that much weight in 2 months. The zipper of this dress zipped maybe 2 inches, stopped right at my lower back and it wasn't going any higher no matter how much I sucked in. Considering the dress was custom made for me(to the wrong size) and shipped from SPAIN!!, this was a brides worst nightmare. Apparently the designer had changed the sizing charts and the lady that took my measurements measured it with 2008's chart and not 2009's...therefore, sending them the wrong size. Luckily for me, they had one, in Spain, at Pronovias, in the perfect size...just waiting for me!

March: My little brother turned 21! Yikes. Mom and I made a trip to Stillwater to take him out to eat at Kyoto's and show him how it's supposed to be done on the strip!



April: I turned 26! And I played an awesome April fools joke on my husband! Faking a pregnancy with a friends postive pregnancy test will have you rolling on the floor holding your tummy from laughter!

May: The first of several wedding showers started May 1st! It was my boat shower thrown by an amazing family friend. I had such a good time and felt so blessed to have such wonderful women celebrating my marriage. This was also the month of my awesome bachelorette party in Austin. Seriously, it was awesome.








June: The month I got married! It was a busy, busy month full of incredible showers, incredible people, and a lot of highway. The wedding went off without a hitch and was the wedding I've always dreamed of. I look at my wedding pictures at least once a week and still can't believe how amazing it was. Matt and I were so lucky to get to share the best day of our lives with so many people that love us! I was truly honored to be at my own wedding.



July: We spent the first few days of July on our Honeymoon in Kauai, HI! One word-AMAZING. I have been to Hawaii twice, both times to Maui. While it was beautiful, I can't even describe how much I loved Kauai. Matt and I were already on cloud nine from the wedding, and this place was the cherry on top. Okay, maybe like 10 cherry's on top. Amazing. A. MA. ZING.



August: We got to celebrate 2 of our good friends getting married! One of Matt's friends from college and groomsman got married to an awesome girl that I have become good friends with. I love it when that happens! This is also the month that we began our renovations to our house. *Heavy Sigh*

September: Well, my kitchen went missing this month due to my husband taking on the demolition for our re-modeling plans. Football season began and Matt and I took a trip to Vegas for my best friend's couples bachelor/bachelorette party. Good times, that September.

October: My BFF Jessica got married! Her wedding was so beautiful and so Jessica. She and I had so much fun planning our wedding's together. It was nice to be able to call her and vent about the wedding stressors and her know exactly what I was going through. But I promise, I'm not complaining!

November: The house is getting closer to being finished, but still far enough away that we dread coming home everyday because our house is so torn up. It was definitely a tough time period...Matt and I joked that newlyweds should never put themselves through something like this within their first 4 months of marriage. And then we high fived each other because we were strong enough to have made it this far throughout the process without wanting to rip each other's heads off. Don't get me wrong, there was some tension and disagreements every now and then, but we worked as a team to create our dream home without taking our frustration out on the other person. Go Us.



December: Well besides getting to celebrate our first Christmas as married folk, our house remodeling was finished!!! Yay!! I mean, there are still some little things we need to finish up, but our home is clean, livable, cookable, lounge-in-front-of-the-tv-on-the couch-able (that's proper grammer, I checked). It was amazing being able to throw down some bread on the counters and make a sandwhich or walk in the front door and not have to go straight upstairs to the only functional room in the whole house. We have a toilet in our downstairs bathroom again as well as doors! It's the little things right?



I can't believe my life sometimes and am so lucky to be able to look back and reflect on such good memories with such good people. I married someone who can best be summed up with the overused word 'amazing'. But it's true. I had some of the best times and was given so many opportunities to be surrounded by my best friends. I am so lucky to have such great ladies who care so much about being a part of my life. I have been given so much support from my family and could not have pulled off my dream wedding with out my Mom. She made it happen. Now onward to 2011.