My brother the drunk.....

I just got an email from Mandie and it made me laugh out loud!
Apparently their church is fasting from alcohol for lent and Sunday's are their day of celebrations where they break the fast.
Basically she said they're all light weights now and so on Sundays they end up drunk on accident!

So there's no babies on board for them ( I guess that's a good thing since they're "accidently" getting drunk on Sundays) and Mandie wasn't sure what my brother was talking about. Perhaps he was wondering if we were making babies yet.

Anyway...that's the story of the day and I can't help but chuckle just thinking about my cute little ol' brother writing me messages while's he's drunk in the middle of the night.

hehe!

WHAT?!?!?

I got the weirdest e-mail from my brother at 2:30 this morning. It reads as follows:

"YOU ALIVE OR WHAT?????

WE HAVE ALOT GOING ON DOWN HERE. Moving houses, jobs, babies, everything!!!! all sales are final!!!!

LOVE YA,

ME and MySELF "


What am I supposed to get out of that? My sister in law told me that they were moving but a BABY?!?!

I'm not sure if he's talking about one of his friends having a baby, THEM having a baby or if he's just plain drunk.

I think he must have been drunk, but I'm not sure. He's not much of a heavy drinker and since he found out he has epilepsy he's on meds and I don't think he's supposed to drink with those. Maybe it was the meds talking. Alli I know is that the suspense about this baby part is killing!

I mostly do all of my blogging on myspace and import it all into here and this blog is pretty much just for my mom and just a handful of other friends that aren't on myspace and they don't really know my brother anyway so i'm not too worried about spilling their little secret if they haven't told anyone yet but this is HUGE deal if they are having a baby and now I can't get my mind of this news.

Andy & Mandie are great. They actually hadn't even decided if they EVER wanted kids so that is why this news comes as a bit of a suprise to me. When I saw them over Christmas they told me that if they were ever gonna have kids it would be quite a few years down the road.

Andy & I are the only children in our family and all around the board our famly has been waiting and waiting for us both to have kids - whether is be my in-laws, his in-laws or our parents they are ready for us to start popping those babies out so this news comes as quite a suprise as both of us kids have been trying to prepare all of our parents and in-laws alike that it's going to be a long wait till they hold those grandkids they want to bad in their arms.

So now I'm stuck waiting and waiting until I hear back from my brother or my sister in-law about this news. Becuase of the time difference I can't call them cause it's still to early in California but I hope I hear something soon. Andy's probably just messing with me, but still I can't help but wonder.......

Andy & Steve

Spring Is Here & I Feel The Cheer!

Spring has finally arrived and I couldn't be happier! I love hearing the birds chirping, I love how my house actually seems like someone really is living there as the sunlight streams in through the windows. I love how my dog is not so stir crazy and is content to soak up the sunlight on our front porch.
Who cares if my allergies make me miserable? The sun is shining and to have that is worth my watery eye (yes you heard me right, I am so weird that only one of my eyes waters from allergies, just like call me a pirate) and runny nose.

In case you hadn't noticed I LOVE spring! My whole disposition changes and with that so does my whole outlook on life and the problems that seems to be facing me.

In honor of the arrival of spring I shaved my legs today and attempted to wear flip flops. I would have been successful on that last part if my husband wouldn't had hid my treasured flip flops from me, but the intention was definitely there to bring in spring with a bang....or I guess more of a flop.

Anyway.....so happy spring to all of you! May you you find as much joy from this lovely weather as I do!

St. Patty in the house!

We had a good weekend. We froze our butts off at the St. Patty's day parade but it was still fun. We met up with a few different friends and their kids. I mostly just like to watch the kids be enthralled by the floats and that's what I think is the best part of parades.
I figured since I rarely remember to take my camera to anything I would post the pictures.

I like it when my worlds meet. I have different friends that I know from different places and a lot of them don't really know each other but I really like it when my worlds can collide and I can spend time with my friends from different places all at one time.
The parade was fun. Cold but fun. We could only handle so much though before we decided to go to a pub and get some lunch. I guess we were naive in thinking that since we left before the parade was half over the pubs wouldn't be that packed. We thought our little strategy was quite smart but apparently half of the other freezing people down on Market Street had the same idea. We waited at the pub for awhile then some really nice people who were sitting at a huge table snuggled up together and gave us not only half of their table but a bucket of beer too! Nice people really do exist!

The rest of our weekend was pretty blah. We were supposed to meet some friends at another pub for dinner but we were too tired from our hiking excursion the night before (that ones too long of a story to get into) so we decided to just go home for awhile and then go over to Dale & Missy's too hang out. I love that our best friends live so close to us. It's part of the reason that we moved over here to Dupo - that and the fact that you could get a great house for a fraction of the price that you could get it for in St. Louis. Really though, we love living so close to these guys. Our life would be so boring if they weren't in it on a daily basis. These are two friends I could never imagine my life without. I'm glad we all ended up moving our lives from Texas together and I hope that they will always be a part of our lives like they are now. I couldn't imagine not seeing those beautiful girls of theirs grow up, it would simply be heartbreaking to me. I know that life changes and people move but I just pray that somehow it would always work out so that we could live somewhat close to these guys. For now though I'm not taking for granted any of the time that I have with us all living so close.


Speaking of living and location. Steve has had this weird desire to move to Austin, TX. I'm not sure why. He actually has never even been there but every few months he somehow brings up in conversation that he eventually wants to move there some day. I actually really like Austin and think it's a very cool city so I can't say that I'm opposed to moving there. I also have some great friends that live there so that would make it nice as well. Honestly I don't see us moving for quite awhile but I find it funny that Steve keeps bringing it up.
We'll see what happens. Our life is in Gods hands so we're open to whatever he wants. Besides Steve's folks and Dale & Missy we really don't have a whole lot keeping us here in St. Louis anyway. Not that our other friends are chopped liver or anything but they are people that we now survive on a daily basis without seeing. They would be greatly missed but life goes on and there's always visits.
Anyway....that's all on a sidenote. Back to the weekend - it was fun and way too short. I always feel a little depressed on Sunday nights when I realize that Monday morning I have to wake up and that work has to happen again. It's not fun people!
It is however life, and that's how it works.
Is it bad that at the young age of 27 I'm already REALLY looking forward to retirement?

Well Luck of the Irish it's Friday!

Well Friday is here and I couldn't be happier. These days every week seems to drag out longer than the next. I'm excited for the weekend and to celebrate with good ol' St. Patrick. Since my husband is "mexican-irish" and his favorite sport is hurling (it's some irish sport kind of like field hockey) he really gets into St. Patty's Day.


We plan on going to the St. Patricks day parade in downtown St. Louis tomorrow with some friends and then have made plans to go out to a pub tomorrow night with some other friends. I'm now sure how I feel about going to a pub on St. Patricks days as I'm not a huge fan of large crowds of people but oh well. Last year we tried to go to McGurks on St. Patty's day with some friends and it was so packed we that there wasn't even room to stand let alone sit at a table.

Last night we had a good meeting with Chris. We kind of got a few things straight as far as us taking over the worship ministry at the church. He's been asking us to do this for almost 2 years now and we keep telling him that a few things would need to change in order for us to even consider it and it seems like finally he's getting that we're not willing to budge on this. Chris is great. He's been my friend for almost 10 years now, I moved my life here to St. Louis with him and his wife He's also been a good friend of Steve's for about 4 years now so we really respect his friendship. Some things we just don't always see eye to eye on and that's okay. Anyway....back to the meeting - I am finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel and Steve and I are both excited to be learning a lot about being a better leader. I don't really like being in a place of leadership to be quite honest. I'm more of a "behind the scenes" kind of girl. I'd rather help out a leader by being their right hand man than to actually be the one calling the shots but I feel that this is something that God is asking of both Steve & I and because of that we are willing to accept the challenge.
Anyway.....so we'll see what happens. We still haven't committed to taking things over but at least we're making some steps in that direction and in the mean time trying to get all out of this time as possible.

oh blog, please don't feel rejected!

I just haven't been into blogging lately.
Sorry folks.
It's not like my life is really very interesting anyway so you're not missing out on much.

I've been going through one of those self awareness seasons of life. I'm realizing more of how I'm wired and who God made me to be. I've learned that I love people but I can really be quite an introvert sometimes to.
I'm learning that I am not made to be one of those "corportate America" girls. I'm not one to enjoy an ordinary life.

I'm also learning that as I get older I've become a lot more snobbier. Yes....this indeed sucks and is not something I'm proud of. I've never thought of myself to be the snobby type but I find myself getting comfortable with the things I like and the people I like to hang out with and then with that I'm happy. I don't really want new friends cause I like the ones I have and I don't like to try new things because I figure that I've been pretty much happy most of my life with the things that I prefer so there's not really a need for change. I'm finding that I hate change but yet still somehow seem to feel like I'm going to shrivel up and die without a little change in life to spice things up a bit.

Basically what I'm saying is that I've always thought I was a simple girl and I guess I'm learning that I'm not.

I was laughing at Steve the other day because one of his pet peeves is if I put a new roll of toilet paper on the toilet paper holder and I accidentally place it so that the paper rolls underneath the roller rather than on top of it but then I realized that I am just that weird too and I really shouldn't make fun of him because I would hate to hear about the ridiculous things I pester him about.

Yes it is true I am a complex being that still somehow manages to not think a lot of smart thoughts......and with that I will leave you to ponder upon your own not smart thoughts.

just an update

It's time for an update on life.

First off I'm living in a pit.
Sunday night we had a birthday party to go to and 25 minutes before we were supposed to be leaving Steve & I got the sudden urge to rip up the carpet in our dining room. It was quite a risky move because we weren't really sure what was underneath the carpet but come to find out there was some okay looking hardwood floors undearneath all that crap.
Now all of our dining room furniture (table included) is in our tiny little living room because now that the carpet is gone we're not sure what to do with our new found wood floors. We're not the craftiest couple so now we need to figure if and how we need to refinish our floors and until then our lives will be lived in confusion.
Sorry folks, but don't come knocking on our door for awhile unless you want to feel like you're sitting in the middle of a junkyard.
I guess we should have thoughts things out a little better BEFORE we decided to rip up our carpet but sometimes it's fun to live by the seat of your pants, right?

On another note I went to a job interview last week. It was an interview for a construction company - it was actually an opportunity I was sought out for not me looking for a job. Anyway....I was kind of excited because it was a pretty well paying job and would solve a lot of our problems.
So I went to the interview - it's about 30 minutes away and the office where i interviewed was really dirty looking. After my interview I was pretty much promised the job but the interviewee (if that is a word) said I would get the final confirmation on Friday.
I came home from the interview and just felt sad. I couldn't really figure it out because I should have felt really excited, but something inside of me was just dreading the thought of this possible new job. I later shared with Steve how I felt. I felt like I didn't really have many options - this job would solve a lot of our financial problems and would also free up money up for us to financially support some of the missionaries we've been wanting to help out - something that has been a desire of my heart for a long time now.
Something inside of me just didn't feel excited though. I just had a hard time figuring out what I would do if this job were to be offered to me. So...Steve and I really prayed about it and just asked God to close the door if this wasn't what He had for me.
Friday came and I got a letter in the mail. Apparently I was overqualified for the job and they'd rather hire someone they could pay less. Most people would be saddedned by this news but words cannot express the joy I felt in my heart after reading this rejection letter. It's strange I know but I now realize that this job would have made me feel like a corpse. In no way would I enjoy even ONE aspect of this job other than the paycheck.

So now I am back to square one. The Real Estate business is okay but I'm just realizing that I just feel dead if I'm not working at a job where I feel I can somehow help people. I want to do something that makes me feel fulfilled and like I'm actually doing something for the good of others.
I just don't know what that is but through my experience last week I've realized that I just can't settle for feeling mediocre and unfulfilled. I really don't know where to go from here but I feel like I've gained some perspective and I just know I have to be true to myself and to who God created me to be and how He created me to feel. I don't know where that will lead me - I wish I did in fact but until I do know I just gotta be patient and somehow learn to take heart with the unfulfillment I feel in my life right now and just trust that something better is just around the corner. Hopefully I'll get to that corner quickly but until I do I just want to be faithful with where God has me now.

Jezebel the Beagle.....

Guinness.

Missy called me to today to let me know that the beagle that stalks our dog when we take him on walks in the park was sitting on her front porch and wouldn't leave. She said the poor little beagle looks pregnant too. This crazy beagle has actually followed us to Dale and Missy's before when we walked over there with Guiness and sat outside for hours waiting for us to leave so she could try get with our innocent little puppy.
Good thing he never got with our baby cause we're way to young to have grand-dogs!

Sorry Jezebel of all Beagles you will not be getting any child support from us!