I am sitting here at work enjoying my job. Yup it's pretty much awesome.
So there are some things that I am really thankful for tonight and I just want to share about that.
1. I am thankful for my sweet Bryan who brings me happiness and smiles every day.
2. I am thankful for my family who would do anything for me. And that they get so excited to see me all the time.
     a.My papa for taking care of me and my family, for telling ridiculous jokes.
     b.My mama for loving me so much and having lunch with me twice in one day.
     c.My big brother Jon for being there every time I need him, when my car is breaking down, when kids were being mean to me, when I need a few extra bucks, when I just need to talk.
     d.My sweet sister Hannah for all the fun sister talks, for always being honest with me, for laughing at the dumbest things with me, for being such an awesome friend, for getting excited about all the same things as I do.
     e.My little brother Joe for having curly hair that I love to mess up, for telling ridiculous jokes, for being honest with me about everything.
     f. My little brother Isaiah for having the cutest smile, for drawing the coolest pictures for me, for being super chill about everything.
     g. My sweet baby sister Jessica for her sweetness, for letting me win when we play games(even though I should be letting her win), for caring so much about everyone, for getting excited about the same things as me.
3. I am thankful for my boyfriend's family who has shown so much love and acceptance to me, and has helped me out so much since I have been with their Bryan.
     a. Mr Davis for talking to me, and giving Bryan and I advice, for giving us hugs goodbye, and helping us with our cars, and cooking amazing hamburgers for us.
     b. Cindy for being such a great friend, for giving advice, for cooking amazing dinners, for giving rides home, for helping with all the things we know nothing about.
     c. Ginger and her family for delicious dinners, for giving advice, for hugs from McKenna and Jayma.
     d. Brady for smiles and jokes, for hugs and tickles, for silliness and conversations.
     e. Grandmommy for her sweetness, for her hugs and stories, for her genuinely sweet smiles.
4. I am thankful for my brand new car!!!! Well not exactly brand new, but brand new to me. 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit...it's so cute, and fits me perfectly. I am thakful for Tom the sweet old man who sold it to me, for Retha and Rick who helped me figure out if it would be a good deal or not.
5. Once again I must mention my sweet sweet Bryan who has been there helping me along for the past year and five months. I love him so very much, more than words can describe....He is my best friend.
For taking care of me, holding me when I cry, listening to me, talking to me, learning how to have a great relationship along with me. I have told him the way I feel about our love, and I am going to try to describe it right here. I feel like from the moment he and I were together, little strands of love escaped from our hearts and began to intertwine with each other. As we got closer those strands of love tied themselves into knots, and just kept wrapping together and pulling us closer together. The times that we have had problems or arguments some of those strands try to break off and pull back. When that happens we have to put them back together, and sometimes it takes a while. Once it is back together there are scars there, but the ties are stronger this time, and we work harder at not letting them break off because it hurt so much the last time. Over this past year and a half we now have a really big knot of love strands all mixed together, and when we are apart those strands are stretched all the way across town, and that's why we want to be with each other so much, and once we are both home and together our love strands tighten up and hold on for dear life. So I am thakful for our love that we share.
6. Last but not least I am thakful for exccedrin which I am going to take as soon as I get home so this migraine I am begining to get will go away! :)

family

These are pics from Hannah's eighteenth birthday. Jon came to visit from Liberty,Tx where he has moved so far away for his job. :( But we were all together for my gorgeous sister's b'day. The pic above is Hannah and Mama looking beautiful as always :)

 Next is Mama and me

 From the top poking his little head in there, Isaiah, me and Jessica, to the right mama and Jon.

Josiah just loves that he is so much taller than his big sister :) he's such a cutie!

 Jon was getting ready to leave us to go on a date with his sweet girlfriend Krysta

 Me and my lil sis jess, I love her so much!

And my sweet baby brother with a super cheesy smile

and this video above is my goofy family and myself singing along to jonnyboy's guitar playing


and so is the next video...

i dont know why this one doesn't have a pic on the cover lol...but anyway its whatever.

 These are some pics of our new apartment...This is the entryway!

 And this is my adorable boyfriend being oh so cute playing his video game.

 This is the closet in the entryway... i absolutely love having this to keep our shoes hidden from the entryway.

 This is the counter top and my cute spice rack :)

 See my little froggy canisters? Granny gave those to me a few years ago and they look super cute in our kitchen.
We are very much loving this new place, its super roomy and has lots of light. Also the apartment people(I don't know what they are called lol) have been super cool, and even given us a few discounts.

My sweet Bryan looks so adorable in these pics(so does Cole) but he doesn't like them so I can't put them on facebook...but I can put them on here for his mother, sister, grandmother, cousin, and aunt and uncle to see lol!

yay to the end of a superexhausting day!!!

Wow! This past week and a half has been  soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We spent Mon-Thurs boxing everything from our old apartment, trying to squeeze everything in those boxes. Friday we spent the ENTIRE day moving(thanks to Cindy and Mr. Davis it was just Friday, and not like three days) :) They are awesome! We were all so sore and exhausted...who knew we had that much stuff?! I was thankfully able to be off work on Friday, but had to work Saturday and Sunday, which were my last two days in the Medical Records department at the hospital I work at. So I was already exhausted from working my whole work week, but I didn't get my regular Monday and Tuesday off, because I was starting my new job in the MRI department, and I will be off on weekends now. So on Monday I got to actually be in the MRI department and watch the other lady, as she showed me what I will be doing after my three weeks of training. I was pretty happy to learn that I will be using two of the programs that I am already familiar with, Passport and Sequoia, but the main program for checking in patients is called Signature Gold, and I've never even heard of it before. So Monday my brain was tired from trying to comprehend all of the newness on top of my exhaustedness. Tuesday was my first day of the three week patient service specialist class. I will be learning everything there is to know about all of these programs. The class is 8-5, and I am not used to mornings! I have been working 4pm-12:30pm for almost a year now and my mind and body are not enjoying waking up so early, and trying to stuff loads of information in there. In my interview they asked if I could multi-task...I said yes, and I am already multi-tasking in training, listening  to the instructor, while doing my work, and trying not to fall asleep. Once I get home and I am relaxed, I am okay with being awake, because this is the time that my body is used to being awake. I can not wait for Saturday, I believe that I will sleep for about twelve hours at least.

I was kind of sad at first that I was going to be working mornings and not being off on the same day as Bryan anymore, and it still does make me sad that I dont get to see him, but it will all work out and eventually we will be on the same schedule again. He has been the sweetest EVER!!!! When I came home from work on Monday, he had cleaned the entire house. Mopping, laundry, dishes....EVERYTHING!!!!! :))))) and on top of that he bought me gorgeous flowers because he loves me so much...my heart just flutters when I see him, love my sweet Bryan more than anything!!!!

these are the flowers he got me...so pretty!!! :)

whew, i'm about ready to run evening errands, returning videos to take-one, and doing some shopping! Cant wait for my darling man to be home!

colossus-cole our baby :)

This is my sweet baby  Cole :) I love when he sleeps on my lap like this.

 sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute when he is sleeping...when he is awake he pees...not so cute, but he is slowwwwwwlyyyyy learning.

such a pretty puppy :)
He went to visit both of his grandmas in the past two days. Last night he had fun playing with his uncle Brady, and Mimi, he loves them both. And today he played with his my brothers and sisters, his other aunts and uncles lol. training him to potty on the pads and outside is definitely a chore, but he is making progress...only one accident inside today. yay! the rest was outside and or on his puppy pad. I love this little guy, and I have my sweet Bryan to thank for getting him for me :)

See the smiles :) thats how happy we are about this little goober

Happy Birthday to my bestest friend Stephanie

Today is my best friend's 20th birthday. We have been friends since we met at age five. She will never know how much she means to me. Stephanie you are the best friend a girl could have!!! I remember when we would go to each others houses and play our imaginary games about princesses, and star wars. The time when we had a sleepover with me you and Hannah at your house, and we thought we saw batman outside the window and we were so scared. Makes me laugh to think about it, me pinching y'all with my toes and us giggling and laughing. I miss our little birthday parties from when we were kids. I remember us getting in trouble at the nursing home with your parents, because we were giggling and reading books during the preaching service, and afterwards while at the grocery store we tasted the coffee beans cause they smell soooooooooooo good!!! Haha we spit those out immediately :) Our little clubs we started, where we would both be the leader so neither of us would be mad. Our rules about being kind, and always being obedient to our parents...our innocent little minds, so precious. You taught me how to crochet, and use your little weaving loom, you taught me how to be kind, and polite(my mama always commented on how well behaved you were and it made me jealous of the attention, so I would try to be better heehee, it worked!) you have always treated me with respect, and have been so honest with me, and i love you for it. You are one person who I can trust with anything. And when my family moved here to Texas, I missed you dearly, but our friendship was more than just childish playing, because it lasted even through all the miles we were apart. I keep the letters from you in my keepsake box(i'm working on a scrapbook for them now I have some from when we were like six). And when your family finally came to see us, and we had not seen each other in years, we said we wont let it be weird! We will be just as good of friends as when we were  little, and we were! Staying up til way too late talking about everything under the sun, from boys to food, to talking about our futures and what would happen in our lives, what we hoped for, and what we planned. The next time we saw each other was after a few more years, and that's just how it has been, every couple of years we see each other, older, wiser, but still the best of friends. Last time I saw you was at your wedding as I stood by you as your maid of honor(makes me want to cry when I think of what an honor that really was) you being so grown up, with the love of your life, ready to begin your lives together. I remember thinking, If he hurts her, I am going to punch him right in the face lol. But lucky for him he has treated you good, and has taken care of you and little Amelia. I so cant wait to meet her, if she is anything like you I know she is a wonderful child. The next time I see you we will once again be a little older, a little wiser, and have more life experience, but we will still be the best of friends, always and forever, and when we get to Heaven we can live right next door to each other, I'm sure if we ask Him God will let us, lol. So I have said all this to say, Happy Birthday Stephanie Marie, you are the greatest friend.

the confusion of my mind

so last night, as bryan and i were lying in bed watching tv, we were being silly and trying to lick each other's noses(our favorite game lol) and he says, this is the lizzy i like best :) so i was like, what do you mean? i'm the same lizzy all the time. he said, noooooo sometimes you are happy lizzy, and thats the lizzy i like best, but sometimes you are silly lizzy, and grumpy lizzy, and scary lizzy and when you are like that its like you aren't yourself (i dont get the scary  one...but he says when i'm upset i have a scary mean face lol i think its his imaginiation)also he said i am the bomb lizzy, and amazing lizzy, and lovey lizzy, and sweet lizzy and kind lizzy, and super awesome lizzy...lol i just made up the last ones if you couldn't tell(i'm in a silly mood right now, and for some reason i am LOVING parentheses. i even like the way its spelled lol) ..but the first ones are the ones he said. and i was like no, i dont act that different when i'm in different moods...but then when i think about it...maybe ya i guess sometimes i'm different. in fact i know for  a fact i'm different when i'm in weird moods, i just dont like to admit it. its like weakness or something...a weakness i dont want. i want to be completely composed all the time, but i just keep failing at that. am i the only one??? when i think about me being grumpy, wow ya i'm kind of unpleasant to be around, and my brothers and sisters used to laugh at me when i would get mad and tell me i looked funny, so that must be the scary face.(some say my nostrills flare...and that is pretty creepy i saw it in the mirror once.) i dont understand why sometimes i can stay calm and act like a grown up, but then the next thing i know....here i am going off in some weird mood...having a bad attitude...being grumpy.. and really that isnt me!!!! i feel like i'm happy most all the time. bryan and i were talking to brady the other night about how to controll the way we act when things upset us.
most of the time i can just tell myself it doesnt matter and i stay happy, and in a good mood. but here is what i dont understand, i told brady just the other day, if you are having a bad day, vent to someone who will listen, take care of it at that time and you will feel better, and when you are having a bad day just tell yourself to be happy...thats what i usually do. but what do you know the day right after that i had trouble at work....and sure i controlled myself while at work, but on lunch break i just broke down and cried, and was so upset, and grumpy too. so bryan being so sweet tries to remind me of what i just told brady the day before, and i decided i'm a hypocrite cause i just couldnt do it. i just needed to be upset for a while. now how can i say one thing, and then go off and do the complete opposite???? i absoultely hate that :( so ya....this was kind of just mumblejumble thoughts of mine poorly put together, dont judge me lol :)

This morning my mama texted me that my seventeen year old little sister Hannah was having her wisdom teeth removed, and did that bring back any memories for me. So like I always do, I started talking to Bryan about my memories, and my childhood, and younger teenage years...I definitely do remember having my wisdom teeth removed. The week before  my mother and I had visited the dentist  to get my x-rays, he told me that I looked like my mom. No one had ever told me that before and it made me sooooo happy!!! My whole life I have been told I look like my dad, people who knew him  that I hadnt even met knew I was his daughter because of how much I look like him. Now as a little girl who wants to be pretty and cute, its not so good for your self esteem when you are continually told that you look like a grown man with a beard. So as you can imagine it made me feel so wonderful to finally be told that I look like my mama :)


I wrote that yesterday. but i didnt post it. :P so think of that as written yesterday and not today.

you make me happy!!!!

Today was an excellent day! We started by waking up late as usual, and watching a little tv, trying to get ourselves out of bed. Eventually we made our way to the living room, and Bryan was getting ready to try to finish his new gamefly game, Alan Wake(its really creepy). And just as I was telling him that we should call his Grandmommy and tell her happy birthday, he told me that his mommy had texted him, and asked if we wanted to meet her, Ginger and her girls, and Grandmommy at Chick-fil-a for Grandmommy's birthday. We said yes! We were super excited to get to see her on her birthday(especially since we had just seen her the night before, two days in a row is awesome!) When we got there Grandmommy was surprised, but happy to see all of us, and we were so happy to get to wish her a happy birthday in person. After feasting on chicken nuggets, fries, and milkshakes we were ready to go home and relax. So once again we tried the video game, and as Bryan defeated the evil darkness monsters, I tried to work on the blanket I'm crocheting, but I just couldn't get into it, so I just relaxed.
      We had made plans to go to my parents house, this evening, so we got ourselves ready to go, and drove on over. We jammed out to Bryan's cool mix CD on the way there, but when we were about two minutes away from their house, our song came on! It's Happy, by Nevershoutnever, and pretty much the sweetest song ever. The first time I heard it, we were still working at Chick-fil-a, and when I got off work, I drove over to my sweet Bryan's house to spend some time with him. When I got there he told me he wanted me to hear a song, so I put in one of his headphones, while he listened in the other. As I listened to the lyrics I fell even deeper in love with him.
 These are the lyrics, Bryan sang to me, while it was playing...

You make me happy, whether you know it or not
We should be happy, that's what I said from the start
I am so happy, knowing you are the one
That I want for the rest of my days
For the rest of my days
You're all of my days.

So as you can imagine, this song is very special to me. And as it began to play in the car, I was thinking about how lucky I am to be with such a loving man. And me being such a girl started to cry...Bryan asked what was wrong with me, and I told him that I just loved him so much! Then he said that he loved me too, but I needed to stop crying, because my parents will think he made me sad. That made me laugh, one of the reasons I love him so much, he makes me laugh all the time. When we got there my tears were dried, and we came inside to my family who were sooooooooooooooooooooo happy to see us!!!! We then ate dinner with them, and played telephone pictionary, and buzz word in the living room. Ever since I moved out, I have realized how loud a house with eight people is....it's pretty loud lol, but we had a great time with them. Then we went grocery shopping, and drove home. Since then we have just been chilling, Bryan is playing some more of his game, and I was reading Cindy's blog...and I decided huh, I guess I wanna write some. A journal type blog is pretty cool. :P so that's it for tonight.

happyii

there are certain times in life where u just feel perfectly happy. this is one of those times. im sitting in bed watching iron chef america waiting for bryan to get out of the shower. im so relaxed knowing that tomorrow is our last day of work and then our weekend begins. i am happy knowing that my bryan loves me and wll forever and that we have happy times together. im happy because i saw my family today after their week at church camp. im happy to have the relationship with my family that i do. i have an individual special relationship with each of my family me mbers...they are amazing. im happy that i got to see cindy today and late last night she is so wonderful and i love her soooooo much. im happy to see my bryan and his brother brady having such a good night together. i love them. i am completely and totally happy....not a first but it feels like a first anytime i am completely happy in every way. i am also so happpy to know that there is a god who loves me. btw the lack of punctuation and capitalization is because i am making this post  from my phone. from my.

steak'n shake

last sunday bryan and i decided to go to round rock to the outlet mall, and ikea. this day started at eight oclock in the morning,i heard my alarm go off and remembered that were going shopping,yayy!!! so i got outof bed and did my little morning ritualin the bathroom and ran back to bed. i jumped on my adorable sleeping bryan and told him to wake up wake up wake up because were going shopping, remember? in his sleepy state he mumbled to me that if i want to go for me to get ready while he sleeps a little longer(usually its the other way around haha) so eventually we were both up amd excited about our adventure,in our excitement we skipped breakfast and began our hour long drive to round rock,super fun. it was rainy and drizzly and the sky was a beautiful gray, i loved the ride but i am sure bryan did not as much a i did because he doent like driving in the rain. finally we arrived at ikea,,but we still had about 20 minutes til it opened, about that time we realized we were starving and began searching for a restraunt to satisfy o ur rumbling tummies. we drove fo only a moment and then we saw it. steak'n shake. with a name like that its got to be great so we parked and made our way to the door. as we walked through the door it was like being transported to the fifties, the black and white tile floor,the red and black booths and stools, it looked just like the movies of old places like that. it was completly enchanting. not only did evrythimg look fabulous, the service was very good, our waitress was sweet and thourough in taking care of us. when our food arrived we enjoyed it immensely, the burgers we made from steak, yummmy and the fries were hot and fresh with cheese sauce. after we finished our steak burgers we had to have some shakes to make our experience at steak'n shake complete, i got chocolae and bryan had strawnanna strawberry and bananna split right down the middle. as we left we high-fived and said that steak' shake is epic and its where we will eat every time we make a trip to round rock. it was our first time to eat there and it certainly will not be our last!!!!!

First blog

A few weeks ago as Bryan and I were driving home from his mother's house he was telling me about her blog, and how she has been posting for years and recently turned her blog into a book for her children and grandchildren. We were talking about the first time experiences that we have had since we have been dating, and we decided that it would be fun to make our own blog about our first times together. :) super fun!! So this is the first post on our first blog inspired by Cindy Davis.
     Here are some of our firsts over the past seven months.
In May we had our first date. In June it was my first birthday with him, and he bought me the most beautiful necklace which i wear every day. In July he asked me to be his girlfriend and of course I said yes (I would be crazy not to, he is the most amazing man I have ever met). In August we went to the coast for the first time. We had such a great day on our first trip together. The ride home wasnt so good, but we just dont remember that part. In September it was Bryan's first birthday with me...he is so old now, 20 years old holy cow. In October we both moved into our new apartment, yay!!!! In November I got my first grown up job at Scott and White. In December we had our first Christmas together. In January Bryan got his first grown up job at Sprint. Now it is February and we got our first blog.
     So that was a summary of the firsts we have had so far, we are looking to the firsts in our future :)