March Birthday Fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEFF!

It is my wonderful husband of 10 months 34th birthday!! I wanted to take a moment to tell you how proud I am to be your wife and how much I love and respect you! I look forward to celebrating!

Busy, Busy!

Sorry for the delay in posting. We have been very busy lately. Jeff finished working his 80 hour work weeks for year end at the end of February and we are enjoying seeing each more again. I interviewed for a different position at DePelchin a couple weeks ago (see professional Becca pics). I am hoping to get this position because the focus is more therapeutic than case management. I am burnt out, make that fried on case management right now. I also think getting out of foster care would be a good move for me. This job would also allow me to begin pursuing a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), which takes two years. Please, pray that God would open this door for me and my career.

Last weekend we hosted a couple's shower with two other couples (Wendy and Jonathan and Lee and Ella) for our dear friends, Erik and Amy. We know these couple's from the Singles Ministry at Church and now we are all in the same Newlywed or Close Sunday School Class. Amy and Erik will be married Easter Weekend. The pictures of the shower are on the slide show as well. The "shrine" was pictures of them we gave as party favors, but it kind of does look like a shrine. We also played a game where Erik had to pick Amy's hand out from all the other choices while blind folded. He figured out our trick of trying to fool him with a guy's hand!

The last pictures in the slide show are of our new favorite thing, Super Suppers! We have had two of the meals now and are sold! They are pre-prepared, but not yet cooked entries that take less time to make because the prep. work is done! Not bad for $10.50 for 3-4 servings. YAY for making life easier and reducing marital discord! Check out their website: http://www.supersuppers.com/. Another plug for them...at my location on Woodway the lady was "super" nice and also there was Christian music playing.

We are going to post pictures soon of this weekend. We are on "Sabbatical". So far, I love it. We slept in, grilled out, and are hanging at the house. We are also graduating from our Sunday School Class, the NWC class this Sunday :( We will post all these things soon. Stay tuned!

Love is in the Air!

Solo Dallas Trip

I went to Dallas this weekend, while Jeff stayed home to work and relax a bit. I planned this trip a week before my life long friend, Katie had her first child, Caleb Hinson Herweck. He is a cutie!! I saw pictures of him before my trip, but was so happy to be able to visit him in person on Saturday. Katie, Caleb, our friend Lauren and I spent the day together at Katie's house. We ate some of the wonderful food that church members had brought them, watched Legally Blond, and enjoyed each other's company. Lauren and I got a snapshot into the life of a new mom. It was a lot of fun! Caleb is a wonderful blessing and so sweet!

On Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday I spent time with my sister, Sarah, my nephew, Clayton and brother in law, Wade. I was sad because I got to their house after Clayton had gone to sleep Friday night so I had to wait until Saturday to see him. But, Wade, Sarah, and I had fun playing with Wade's new Weii. We played Tennis, bowling, golf and baseball. I got addicted and actually had to pry myself away to head home on Sunday afternoon. Clayton kept me busy playing with him during all available wakeing hours. That boy has a lot of energy and is so much fun! We flew to the "moon" and "New York." In his rocket ship. He sang me a song about the Little Einsteins riding in a rocket ship, fed me "space corn" (popcorn) and "space juice". It was hard to get in and out of the rocket, especially when Clayton filled it with his "guys" (stuffed animals) and other various items from his room. He couldn't get enough of the rocket ship and I played along. We had a "blast"!

All in all I enjoyed my trip! It was the first time Jeff and I had been apart since we got married, so I was glad to see him Sunday night for our own personal Super Bowl Party. Our friends were having a party, but Jeff decided to stay home and wait for me to come home. He ordered a pizza, got chips and dip, and was camped out on the couch when I got home.

Two Weddings and a Baby!

We had an eventful weekend! Friday night we had our once a month couples Bible Study with our Sunday School class. We have been in our Sunday School class a year and 8 months and we have hardly missed any of these Bible Studies. One of the couples in the class taught on finances. Even though Jeff lives and breathes finances and we have had a lot of conversations on the topic, we got a lot out of the study. We are blessed to have such a wonderful opportunity to grow through this class and we are very grateful for that.

On another note, we had two weddings to attend this weekend. They were both couples from our Sunday School class that we have known for a while, so we were excited to share their special day with them! The first wedding was on Saturday afternoon and I expected to go by myself because Jeff had to work, but Jeff was able to meet me at the church. So, I was happy about that! After the wedding we ate a wonderful dinner at Oceanaire in the Galleria and then went to the Opera. It was nice to spend this time together since Jeff has been working a lot lately. The second wedding was on Sunday afternoon. We really enjoyed the first Sunday Wedding either of us had been to. The couple were Aggies and there was a lot of Whooping going on. I even whooped and I dare any of you true Aggies to fuss at me for it. I am proud of my whooping ability! I fit right in! Anyway, we had a lot of fun and really enjoyed these weddings.

On our way home from the second wedding we received a wonderful text message. My life long friend, Katie had her first child, Caleb and we got the news right away! He is so precious and I can't wait to meet him when I go to visit them this weekend! I will share a picture with you that was sent to me by our other friend, Lauren. I am also excited to get to see her this weekend! YAY!

FUN-due with Friends!

I had Monday off for MLK Day. You have to love working at a non-profit at times like this. Jeff's department had to work even though the company was closed. I have been trying really hard this time around to keep busy while Jeff is working long hours, so I don't get bumbed.

I have several girlfriends from high school that have stayed in touch through the years. We usually get together at Christmas, but this year we all had family commitments so we weren't able to get together in December. We decided to celebrate on MLK Day instead.

We went out to lunch at Pei Wei and then back to Sarah's apartment. Kristen got a chocolate fountain for Christmas, so we HAD to try that out. It was a lot of fun! We laughed, ate, and ate some more. The only problem was our chocolate fountain dried up faster than expected. Oh well, it was a lot of fun anyway!

On another note, Jeff has been working 70 hour work weeks for a couple weeks now. He works 8 hours on Saturdays and at least 13 on weekdays. I keep myself busy with two Bible Studies a week. (I even go to a couples on by myself!) I also have home visits and am spending time with friends and my parents. But, poor Jeff is getting worn out. Please, pray for endurance as he is the sole survivor of the financial reporting group. They brought in a consultant to help him out, but he expects to work long hours until the end of February.