Winter Wonderland

Our Beautiful Magnolia Trees!!

Skyler suprised me and planted Magnolia trees in the backyard! We have mentioned that we would like some shade trees and both happen to love Magnolia trees. He got one in the left backyard during the day then when I got home after my VB tournament I "helped" him by holding the flashlight while he worked on the other one in the dark. Even though he wanted to finish his project, we retired for the night and will need to buy a pick ax for the huge rocks.

Skyler is going to be super sore in the morning!

We already have a flower on one of the trees
Mr. Mops joined in on the fun but he doesn't like being outside very much
Skyler's "wheelbarrow"

The Beagle Boys sure had a lot of fun running around and playing in their huge yard!

The rocks were super hard!!

Big Brothers Big Sisters

"Party Under the Stars" hosted by Cool River

Skyler's event has this party each year at the flight museum at Love Field before his Celebrity Golf Tournament. It was a blast!! He was bouncing all over the place but I did manage to get a few pictures! My friends Wendy, Casey & her boyfriend JR all went too and we had a wonderful time!

Engagement

We are engaged!! Skyler asked me to marry him on 8/7/09 after my volleyball scrimmage. I got home around 6 and he had a wonderful shrimp stirfry dinner ready and had rented a few movies. We ate our dinner while watching "Gran Torino" and afterwards Skyler asked me to get him some Banana Cream Pie pudding from the fridge. So I went to the fridge, got out our pudding from the boxes because we had recently bought them and brought it to him on the couch. He then asked me if I was blind. I said "No...." and he told me to go look back at the pudding. We both went to the fridge and I picked up the pudding box and stuffed inside was the ring! When I had originally got the pudding out I picked up the box, turned it around and got the pudding cup out of the back... completely missing the ring! He then proposed I said of course and got all chocked up! =) We both are very excited and are planning the wedding for next spring! Below are a few pictures of the ring. We will take the "couple" pictures later this fall.

Moving Day

Moving day was very tough! My wonderful parents came to Dallas to help us in the middle of a summer day. After loading up the truck with all the "clutter" as my dad calls it, we packed in the rest of the clutter from the storage building. We then caravaned over to the house in Fort Worth. One of the toughest jobs was getting the refridgerator inside that my parents brought for us. They had to take off the doors, unhook the water, ect. ect. and make 2 trips to Home Depot just to get it in the kitchen! It was well worth it though 'cause it's the best fridge I've ever had! After getting all of the boxes off the truck and into the garage we all headed to El Sombrero's for some good Mexican food and margaritas! We definitely are very grateful to my parents for helping us move into our new home. Below are pictures from the adventure.

Why Skyler had a Nascar tire in the outside storage room I may never know.... it sure did stink horribly! So did Skyler... he worked very hard and got sweaty

The fridge was a monster to take apart and reassemble but it was WELL worth the trouble!

Mom was a trooper!

Winston was such a good boy! The Bolo's stayed in the backyard.

Time to put away all our kitchen!

Closing Day

We had such a wonderful closing day on July 23!! After meeting with the History Maker Homes rep and the builder we zipped over to the title company to close. Right before we began, I got a phone call from the principal at Northside High School and was offered the head softball/geometry job! I accepted and am now waiting on a call to go sign my paperwork and start JV volleyball on Aug. 3. The closing process took only about 45 minutes then we had to wait a couple of hours for the funding the be approved. Below are some pictures while we drove around exploring the area around our new house.

We went to Sam Moon and goofed around

We had to wait about 45 minutes for the real estate agent to get back in order to pick-up our house keys..... Skyler had to GO! I love this picture because it looks like he's river dancing!

Opening the door for the first time to our new house!

I went through the back!

Spraying for bugs. There were lots of Black Widow spiders!

Couple random things

We decided to play my super nintendo one night and have some wine (SO romantic I know!). =) Skyler always seems to spill his wine! This time it was right on the floor but he immediately put cleaner on it and scrubbed and it came out great!

Mops has a new favorite place to sleep.... he's such a sweet kitty!