Please Pray

I got a call this morning from my step-mom telling me her niece Aimee was diagnosed with Leukemia yesterday. It seems like her little family has been going through a lot the last few years and this news is just heart breaking. Aimee's younger sister Allyson was diagnosed with a severe case of Autism about a years ago so most of the focus has been on her care lately. They have amazing parents (Theo and Sung Chu) but I can't imagine the grief and sadness they are feeling right now. I know none of you know them but I would covet your prayers for them during this time. I will update as I get more info on their situation.


This is a picture of Allyson at our wedding. I couldn't find one of Aimee but they look a lot alike. Thanks in advance for praying!

A bit of silliness

We lost power at the house for an hour or so last night. Lucky for us, it was a gorgeous night to be outside. It was cool and breezy, and our little family had a great time. I practiced some sewing which I haven't done in forever, Callie "talked" to the dog next door, and Mike took pictures…














Such a fun night!

I think I have the itch...

I didn't think it would happen to me...at least not so soon. Tell me if these symptoms seem familiar.

+ Constant cooing over other peoples babies

+ Overwhelming urge to hold any toddler in sight

+ Sudden impulse to shop for baby clothes

+ Spending countless hours on the Internet looking for the perfect nursery

Diagnosis please? I have always told people I want to wait for a long time to have kids. Since I got married I have never felt in any hurry to procreate. We love to travel and go out with friends and I have it in my head that all that will stop when we have kids. My husband has always been very supportive of this, but I know if I told him today that I wanted to have kids he would be so excited. I have kind of felt like the odd ball because so many of my friends this year are pregnant and having babies. I wondered is there something I am just not seeing?

Mother's Day came around this year and I really felt like God was telling me that I really do want a baby, and that I will be forever changed but in a wonderful way, not a stifling way. I have also always been so afraid of the actual birthing process. I like to know exactly what I am getting into before I jump into situations, and no one can prepare you for this. But I am slowly giving up my fears and embracing the possibility that one day I will be a mom and mike will be a dad. It sounds crazy just typing it :).

But I have a few questions for you mama's out there: Does the itch go away or does it just get more and more intense? Should I make a plan, like we are going to start trying next year? How do you not let the itch consume you? These are the thoughts swimming through my head.

Back from the real world...

Ok I am just going to pretend like I have not been gone for a month and pick up like I never left the blogosphere. I will for sure explain in later posts the many reasons why I was gone for so long, but for now can we just forget it ever happened? Thanks!

Ok on to more fun things, like our lovely weekend getaway!


We had a wonderful time at Hotel Zaza. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who just needs to get away for a few days. It's the perfect location for a weekend of good restaurants, good running trails, great art, etc.



Friday night we got a bit of a late start to the hotel so we just grabbed late dinner at Hungry's and head to the hotel!



For breakfast we had the most amazing hot chocolate I have ever had...seriously this stuff was the best and I consider myself a hot chocolate aficionado!



We went on a lovely run around Rice University, Mike did so well even though he doesn't love to run like I do. We did a lot of give and take compromising that weekend so we both got to do some of our most favorite things!



We then headed over to the Museum of Fine Arts to see the much anticipated Pompeii exhibit. They had free audio tours to go along with the exhibit to enrich the experience with some background info. We also saw another awesome exhibit by a Japanese artist. She did an entire collection of photographs based on old fairy tales...very dark but very cool!!



Then in honor passover we headed to Katz deli for a late lunch/early dinner. I was starving so I pretty much inhaled my cabbage salad and lox, and mike enjoyed his enormous Reuben sandwich.

On Sunday we got to enjoy a wonderful worship service at Crossbridge, and see a bunch of old friends! And then headed down to Brenham for our weekly visit to our "extended family" at Christ Church where we met this lovely couple!

All in all this was the best little weekend getaway we have ever had!! More pictures and posts to come, and thanks for stopping by!

Weekend Getaway!

Mike and I are getting away this weekend...all the way to the museum district in Houston! We aren't going far, but I am so excited to be intentionally "on vacation" for the next few days!! We are staying at Hotel ZaZa, it's the old Warwick hotel right in front of the big fountain off of main street. We have big plans to go to the Museum of Fine Arts and see the Pompeii exhibit, perhaps go to Ruggles for dinner and of course our favorite cafe, Salento for coffee!

Tomorrow we want to visit the new Discovery Green park in downtown, lunch at Fogo de Chao for my little brothers birthday...and hopefully over to the Angelika to see Smart People.

Sunday we are so excited because Mike is taking the day off and we get to go to Crossbridge and visit some old friends! I'm sure there will be a trip to Brasils in there somewhere and hopefully a bit of shopping too, lots of picture taking, Bible reading and fun conversations! Can you tell I've been thinking about this a lot lately???

I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will post picks of ours next week!
A Bientot!

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Today is crazy at work so I have no time to post, but I did want to say to my super sweet husband who I love more and more every day Happy Anniversary!! These have been the most wonderful two years, I have loved doing life with you! Here are a few memories from our special day.

On the bridge outside the reception. I remember it was a beautiful Spring day.

Our little party favors of tea and cookies. I remember Christy, Steph, and Bri helping me put these together for hours one night!

I love Tim's face in this picture!

Right after the ceremony. Oh the day was such a blur!

Driving away in the coolest mustang convertible courtesy of Monty and Jessica

Horrible, terrible, no good very bad day...

Sorry for my lack of posting. I haven't been feeling very creative or inspired lately. Hopefully my trips to Round Top this weekend will get my artistic juices flowing!

And I apologize in advance as I use this post to vent just for a moment. Today was one of those days that you feel like nothing is right with the world. It started off with me sleeping in way past my alarm, which I can usually handle but it seemed to throw my whole day off. Then I get to work and am bombarded from the get-go with one issue after the other. Which is somewhat normal given the nature of my job but I stayed up late with Robin last night and was a bit off my game. With my sleep deprivation, came my heightened sensitivity to EVERYTHING so no matter what someone said to me I interpreted as they hated me and I sucked.

So in no particular order here is the horribleness that was my day: a process I have been helping fix at the hospital completely fell apart this morning, my hair looked ridiculous today, I had to calm several angry physicians for various reasons, a co-worker hurt my feeling, the chicken noodle soup in the cafeteria was disgusting, I'm pretty sure another co-worker wants my job, one of the flowers I planted is dying and I can't for the life of me figure out why, I got stuck in traffic on the way home, which never happens, and I felt like a failure on more then one occasion.

Driving home I was feeling so much anxiety and for really no reason at all, and it dawned on me how do people live like this without God. How do people have days where nothing goes right or makes any sense and not have the hope of the heavenly Father to come home to? Don't worry, I am not going to get out my soap box. All that to say once my thoughts were no longer focused on myself and were properly focused on more important things i.e. the Lord, my horrible, terrible no good very bad day didn't seem so awful after all. I will try to remember this next time, hopefully at the beginning of the day instead of the end! Thank you for listening to my silly rant.