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Jody and I at the Fossil Rim benefit. I've never been a VIP before. Thanks Mike for the tickets and the fun.

If I come to any of you again and think it's a good idea to cut 7 inches off my hair....be sweet and tell me to "put down the scissors and walk away". I had no idea my self esteem was tied into long hair....oh well, it's just hair...it will grow back!

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Children's Museum in Austin

Walking in Daddy's shoes...man that starts early!

Random Fun Pictures

My two favorite people.

Reed and Em's swim day.

Making cookies with Mom.

Em loves to wear her rain boots everywhere.....even to Church.

Birthday shopping for flowers for the party...

I had the wonderful opportunity to help out my friend Natalie and love on my "niece" Maddox for a couple of days. I left Emory in good hands and headed down to Austin to love on this new family for a few days. Isn't she gorgeous?

Trip for 2

The private beach at the State Park.

The beach at our Resort.

A night out.....Cantina Laredo

State Park hiking.

My sweet parents gave us their timeshare week this past April so we sprinted off before anyone could notice to West Palm Beach, Florida....by ourselves!!!! We had a wonderful time relaxing and enjoying each other. I am a big believer in vacations alone....they are an investment in our marriage. We stayed at a lovely resort and really spent most of the time on the beach.

When we were in the airport eating lunch, our waitress came up and said "awwww, you must be neweleyweds" (we were holding each others hands across the table). Nope, but we were celebrating 9 years of marriage. I love that we can still get the newleywed label after all that time.

Jody surprised me with something super romantic one day. We were sitting at our lunch table (for a super long time after lunch) listening to a guitarist/soloist who was really great. Jody got up to give him a request and came back to the table. A few minutes later the song "Can't help Falling in Love" by Elvis began to play. Jody and I used to dance to the song all the time while dating...so of course, he asked me to dance. Now, we were poolside with people swimming, etc....so no, noone else was dancing...but did that matter? Nope, we danced the way we used too all the time and enjoyed every minute of it.

We did leave the resort one day to go to the National Park that was 3 miles down the road. It had a long pier we walked across and then hiked around several trails. About the time we got to the private beach, a storm rolled in....

Other than beach going, movie watching and sleeping, we didn't do much. Just how I like it!

Emory is 3

Tristin and the bowling for weeds station!

Most of these are cousins......one or two are friends!

The planting station....it was a big hit!

Emory and I went shopping at the market so she could pick out the flowers she wanted to plant with her friends. Her little shirt says"birthday princess"

May was such a fun month filled with birthday parties and many other great things. We celebrated Em's 3rd birthday at her Granma and Peepaw's house with family and a few close friends. Emory had a garden theme party this year complete with a butterfly cake, planting station, bowling for weeds station, and mud dirt dessert for the kiddos. We had such a great time! I can hardly believe she is 3...it's going fast.