Update!

OK here is an update since I haven't in FOREVER!
School is halfway over for the summer! I am LOVING my classes even though they are exhausting me. Justin is doing awesome in his as usual!
Justin has been at MidFirst for a month now and really enjoys it. He has had to go to OKC for training multiple times. One of the times it was a week long training and I was able to take off most of the week and go stay with him. We had a fun week spending lots of time together!
We have started a new workout deal. We are doing P90X. If you don't know what that is - google it or go to youtube and type it in to see transformations. It is VERY hard and super intense - but we are loving it! In 90 days we will post our before and after results if they are as amazing as they should be! The best part is that we work out now for an hour at the minimum a day. So we get to spend that time together, yes working our butts off, but it is fun time together!
In 3 weeks we will both be done with summer school and have a few weeks break. I only have 1 semester left until all you folks have to refer to me as Master! HA JK!
He only has 2 semesters left and he is finished!
Also in the past month we bought a Jetski. I grew up with them so I am a fan but he has been dying for one. So we went for and we are very happy we did! We are planning on going this weekend so I will have to get pictures up soon if we do!
I will ask that you keep us in your prayers. We have been going through some dissappointments and we know that all we have to do is have faith that God knows better than we do and His plans are always better than ours! Patience is a virtue!
My big 25th birthday is coming up in about a month. I can't believe I am almost halfway to 50!!!

Vacation!

Well we are back from Vacation. We went to Dallas and went to Six Flags and a Rangers game. We did lots of shopping too which I think is our favorite thing! We decided that we love to take pictures on trips but it was more fun to do little videos. So we took the flip and did a couple video diary sessions.
So here we go!
This is on our way to Dallas!

We went to the Rainforest Cafe in the Grapevine mall. We at at Rainforest in Vegas after our wedding and loved it.


Next is on our way to Six Flags. The story here is I booked our hotel on Priceline. If you have ever used priceline you know that you type in an area and price and it chooses a hotel that will accept it. We got the Hyatt Regency which was very nice, but it was smack dab in the middle of the DFW airport. When we arrived we drove all around that big airport trying to find out which terminal the hotel was on!!!


Next are videos from the arcade. We hit a few different arcades down there because lets face it, we are kids at heart! I will take this moment to mention that at the basketball game in the arcade not only did I kick Justin Ray's butt - but I also rocked the HIGH SCORE or the whole machine!





The next video is on our way to the Ranger's Game. As we were driving we were just following traffic to the parking lot. Our light had been red a full 30 seconds probably and we just kept going with the flow and turning and we had SO many people honking at us. In his defense - we thought we were suppose to go cause we were thinking we were following the traffic cop and not the lights! Also I had typed in the wrong address to the field in our GPS and we were passing the park and he said - shouldn't we just turn and go there instead of driving 30 more minutes - HAHA oops!



This is a recap of our trip. Since he was driving i was videoing - so it is his opinion! But I agree - it was fun!



And last - yes I had to include this - is me driving. He drove the ENTIRE trip. But his shoulder got hurt and it was killing him. So we pulled over - 30 minutes away from home - and I drove! It reminds me of that Jeff Foxworthy show where he makes fun of his wife for asking on mile 4999 of a 5000 mile trip if he wants her to drive. He says ' sure let me pull over and you can kick us on into the driveway!'


It was so nice to get away but to be honest it was nice coming home. We are home bodies! It is hard going back to work though! He started his new job June 1st and We went to Summer hours (10 hour days with Fridays off) and school has started back. It will be a LONG summer, but we can do it!
Hope you have enjoyed this post. It is a new thing for me to add videos. They may be stupid when watching them - but when we watch them back we just can't help but laugh! We have so much fun together!

J & M

Catch Up

Well today I am home sick. I HATE being home sick. I feel so unproductive, I know the next day at work will be busy with catch up, and I just hate feeling sick. But since I have some time to kill, I thought I would update this.
Since the last time I posted things have changed.
First off - Justin got a new job. He will now be working at Midfirst Bank. We have been waiting to see about this for a while. The interview process was a month long it seems. He will start his new job June 1st.
Since we have been waiting to see about this job, we couldn't book a trip. We didn't know how the vacation leave would fall and all until we knew if he got the job or not. Good thing we didn't!
So no big trip for a while. Which is sad but we are so excited about the opportunity he has that it makes it ok!
His last day at his current job is May 27th. That is on a Wedesday. He starts his new job the following Monday. So we have decided to just do an extended weekend trip! We are going to leave for Dallas Thursday the 28th and go on a mini vacation! We are going to go to six flags, and a ranger's game. We just found out that Casting Crowns (one of our all time favorite chrsitian groups) are the pregame concert and the baseball game! We have been wanting to go to one of their concerts so we are SO excited that it happens to all work out like this! Se we ar ejust going to go and stay in Dallas for 3-4 nights and just have fun there!
Hopefully once he gets in this job and gets going for 6 months or so, we can take a week and go somewhere bigger for vacation. But to be honest, we will have just as much fun in Dallas as anywhere else. We just have fun together.
This weekend we decided to be spontaneous. We left Friday night and headed to the city. We have had some crazy weeks at work so we just wanted to get away. We went and stayed the night in the Marriot and just had fun. We shopped and went to the movies and ate at our favorite resturants. It was so refreshing and fun! We got back late Saturday night. Sunday we mowed and worked in the yard. I am loving the weather!
It was one of the best weekend I can remember in a long while! That is why me being sick is crazy. I have had a great weekend and felt fine. Woke up in the middle of the night last night so sick! Oh well - I just hope I am better by tomorrow!

Granny turns 75!

The other night we all got together and had cake and ice cream from my granny - she turned 75! Garrett saw a picture of the Queen of England and started point to her thinking it was Granny. She got a kick out of this! So I got her a princess crown to wear to celebrate this event! She actually wore it!
This toy that Rece has was what my brother and I use to play with when we were kids. It has been broken for a while. Rece sat there and figured out how to fix it. This kid amazes me!

If you remember from my earlier post about Garrett's 2nd birthday, he loves to blow out candles. Look how excited he gets when my brother goes to lite granny's candles.

. The kid loves cake and of course granny (or GIGI as he calls her) isn't going to make him keep his hands out of it.

Just a little taste test(that eventually turned into him grabbing handfuls of icing and eating it!)

Blowing out candles with Granny. (We were still singing at this point, he had to beat her to it!)

Granny actually helped this time!

Look how big he looks. He isn't a baby anymore!!! And he is turning into quite the photogenic child!

Garrett gets so frustrated because I take pictures constantly. If I am annoying him and I don't see him all the time, just think how annoyed our kids will be with me one day! :)

Update

Not only do I see the light at the end of the tunnel - It is about time to put on sunglasses! 2 more weeks of class for me and then another semester is finished! I will have a much needed 3 week break in between this semester and my summer semester. I am going all out this summer - 2 classes, with 1 being the one that requires traveling to Weatherford every week. We go to 10 hour days at work in the summer (with Friday off) so it is going to be a HARD summer! But it is only 8 weeks - I can do ANYTHING for 8 weeks right???
Justin is doing well and is 2 weeks away from his semester ending as well. He will get a 3 week break before he starts back up too. I think we are both burned out, so after a little break and our vacation (Last week of May), we should be revived and ready to go again!
Crazy enough, even though I hate putting in the time that my classes require and I hate having something to do at night after long work days, I have really enjoyed my classes. Counseling intrigues me so it has been so cool to get some book knowledge about topics that I have dealt with or seen. After my classes this summer I will have 1 class and my internship in the Fall and then I AM DONE! WOO HOO - bring on that Master's degree!
Justin will have classes this summer, classes in the fall and then his final semester in the spring! He is getting it done fast and so far has gotten straight A's from OU! He is so smart!
Since the weather is warming up, we are about to start working on our yard and flower beds. When we moved in last May we were more concerned with remodeling our bathroom and putting up our privacy fence. This year we are going to try to remodel the flower bed! I do NOT have a green thumb, so this may be interesting. What I keep telling myself is, it can't look worse! With the wind we have had lately, our flower beds now look like a trash dump!
Well that is a little update on what has been going on with us! Nothing too exciting, but somehow, life still feels so fun!

you jump i jump

I am going to assume most people have seen Titanic. It was a sweet and intense movie. I was probably 14 or younger when it came out so it was HUGE for kids my age. Everyone thinks of the love story when they think of the movie. They think of how Rose gave up her life of luxury and money to be with the man she loves basically, right? There is another part of that love story that I think about. What about the part at the beginning – when they first met. You remember she wanted to commit suicide. He called her out on it and said she didn’t want to jump or she already would have. Part of love is confronting. The next part is him starting to take off his shoes. He doesn’t tell his plans; he takes action on her behalf. The reason for taking of the shoes? He is going to jump after her if she jumps. He isn’t going to sit there and give her a million reasons it is a bad idea, he isn’t going to get mad that she is giving up, he is just planning on going with her to try to save her. Yes he probably would die if he jumped, and he is hoping she gets her head on and stops doing this. BUT if she doesn’t, he is willing to go too. Fast-forward a few hours into the film. Rose is going down on the safety boat to the water. She has her ride to safety. She has the hope of living. But Jack is on the boat. He doesn’t have that chance or hope of living. She knows this. So what does she do? Yes, she jumps off the safety boat back onto the sinking ship. Why? ‘You jump I jump.’ They would rather die together than live apart.

Ok so why this ramble and blast from the past with Titanic info? I woke up this morning next to the most amazing person in the world. Not just the most amazing husband, the most amazing friend as well! And I thought to myself….he is my ‘you jump I jump’ person. If I am having a hard time he has a hard time. If I am encouraged or excited, he is. If he is stressed, I am stressed. If he is successful, I am successful. If he wants to move to Australia, I would move to Australia. All of this isn’t just because we are married either, it is because we have that kind of love that we are so connected that everything is tied together. Emotions, thoughts, motives. ..

As I was thinking about this in the morning (something which is strange for me since I usually can’t think before 10AM!) I got to thinking about how lucky some of us are. We found our ‘you jump I jump person.’ Talking to a friend yesterday, they described their husband as their Solid rock and strength. What an amazing way to describe someone. God has blessed us more than we know. What would life be without our ‘you jump I jump’ person?

This is the first picture we ever took together. We used my cell phone - we had only known each other probably 2 weeks! Friendship is instant when you connect!

Baby Fever

This is Mason Dean. He is the wonderful little blessing that Mary and Jimmy brought into this world March 27th. Cute huh?

We can't wait until we get to have one of these!