Our Saturday and more...

Wow! Another win! Micah woke up Friday morning so pathetic and sick with some sort of flu-ish, coughing mess, but went to work since he had meetings. He was still sick and crashed on Friday after work. Sick again on Saturday, but of course, he drugged himself on over-the-counter medicine and made it through for another big win! Poor thing, he's now making up for yesterday...back in bed. Here's our Saturday recap:

Delicious Carinos. Good company of Micah's family. Mitch bought a car...don't call it "new," though! :) While Micah's dad was looking at a car, we took our turns looking hot in a little red sportscar that shouldn't be driven...only sat in!


Off to the game...big crowd, night game atmosphere, lots of screaming and cheering equaled big fun!


We are getting excited about the possibilities. We have our bowl tickets reserved, and wouldn't that be so fun as an after Christmas vacation?!? I really would love for it all to work out. I'm hoping it's somewhere warm...I do love wearing my flip-flops!

In other news, on Tuesday, my next door neighbor Evans' teacher friend, Amy, dropped in to see me and my classroom. She brought her love and Evans', too. It made me homesick for my old school. It was so good to see her and hear how everything was going. I feel so spoiled and pretty blessed to have crossed paths with truly caring, wonderful people. Thanks Amy, for making my day, no, week.

I've been thinking back a year ago this time. We were in Austin celebrating Micah's swearing in ceremony (I still am so proud of him) coupled with the UT v Tech game (we lost), driving back, we put in an offer on our house, and really felt like bonafide adults. Now, we are in that house, making some notable changes, and planning to add to our little family. What a difference a year makes! I'm still so excited about the upcoming holidays. I can't remember a year where I've ever felt such anticipation.

Much love,

Rural living

When you enter our neighborhood you see white fluffy cotton for a couple of months out of the year. It's planted in May and all throughout the summer is just looks like a plant, then in September, it begins turning to actually look like cotton. It makes the cool temperatures more bearable for me. I took the cotton pictures at the beginning of the week, and the farmers were stripping the last couple of days. In the evening, they had their lights on still going.

Before

After

Much love to the cash crop of Texas,

I heart personal days!

I love using a personal day for something fun! I have only taken one sick day for my unfortunate illness a couple of weeks ago, and I hadn't taken any personal days and I was really feeling like it was time for a day for myself! Since we had company and the excitement of the game, coupled with a baby shower yesterday and a debuante event, I decided Monday would be a rest day. I should mention, we were having our house painted Tuesday-Friday of last week. My mom called me this morning and told me she wanted to see the paint and get ready for a girls day. So fun! She came to town to check things out and we went to Bonnie Amies to finalize choices for the recovering of a chair/ottoman, a library chair, and we are tufting the top of my coffee table. Then, we went to a couple of antique stores. I have found my new shop--Old World Antiques. I can't believe there is store like this here...I would have never known. They just moved into a new space on 2nd and Baltimore...it's so great!

This color is in the living, breakfast nook, kitchen, and hallway. He also fixed my crown moulding and my door that needed some TLC. I love my painter!

He also painted the entryway.

Then, I got a inspired by Abel, the painter, to paint the bathroom...I stink...Abel is way better. I told him he was way better. I'm debating to paint the cabinets...I know this stained ones are coming back in, but I'm just not terribly fond of them...they remind me of the ones I grew up with from the houses built in the 1970's.

Fabrics I picked out to go with my couch!

Much love and feeling rested,

I love Texas Tech!

I love my school. I love that I feel at home there. Walking around the campus brings wonderful memories to mind. I'm so proud to be a Red Raider despite so many negative stereotypes that plague our reputation. Yesterday, the country got a glimpse of what I've felt for years as we shined hosting College Gameday and beating the number one team in the nation, Texas.

Here's the photo diary of our day!

Wake up time 6AM...not a complaint at Casa Malouf...only nervous energy!







We had to take a stroll around campus to get further fired up!

































As we walked back to our car (so excited to eat Rosa's), we discovered the bird we hit earlier--still in the car! People were literally stopping taking pictures of the bird. Disgusting.











Game time 7 PM. Tired, excited, nervous, crying, shaking, poking, high-fiving, hugging, hugging changed to embracing were all done the next four hours. What a great time to be a Red Raider!

Arrival @ 3 AM after eating dinner at Caboose...we were too excited to go home afterwards!

Much love,