Happy Birthday to the Husband!!!

I would like to wish a very Happy 25th Birthday to the most amazing husband!!! How grateful I am that he was born 25 years ago on January 2 and even more grateful that I met him over 5 years ago!!! God truly had me in mind when He created Him ;) I am so thankful and beyond blessed to be married to such an incredible man!!! 

Husband, I love you more than words can express and I am so thankful that God blessed me with you! I hope you have a wonderful and blessed birthday! I hope to make you feel special not just today but every day of our lives! You are one incredible man and very handsome as well ;) and I look forward to celebrating many more birthdays with you! Have a wonderful and blessed birthday My Love!!!

Your Wife,

Melody 

Happy New Year!

Aw it feels good to be back! The husband and I have been out of town for a whole week visiting family and having a wonderful time! I have plenty to write about in the upcoming weeks of our many adventures. Now we are back in good ol' Texas and how fitting to be back by the New Year. I pray you all had a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year! Even though I had a terrific holiday season, sadly I spent my New Year's sick with food poisoning or some kind of stomach bug. Thankfully I am starting to feel better and ready to get this New Year started :)

If I had to describe 2011 in two words I would definitely say it was a year of growing and stretching. A year that was filled with many lessons learned. Of all the twenty-three years I have lived, this past year was one that I felt I did a lot of "growing up". I have plenty of growing up to do still. There were no huge factors that changed in our lives, just plenty of lessons to grow from. I am thankful to God for blessing us with so much this year and more importantly growing us in Him. I am one that is always hesitant to be excited of the future because I do not know what it holds. Thankfully I know who holds the future and because of that I am truly excited about this year! Above and Beyond in 2012! I know God is going to do some amazing things and I sincerely just want to be a vessel that He works through.
Anyways, I have plenty of goals I would love to accomplish this year but I feel I still have plenty of praying and contemplating on such things before I post them for the whole world to see ;) 


Have a wonderful and blessed year!!! 

Melody 

A Few More Days

I cannot believe it but there are only 4 more days until Christmas! I do not believe how quickly the time has gone by, I am trying to soak up every moment until Christmas. There are still several things I want to accomplish before Christmas but thankfully I only have a few more presents to get. Since I have only been married a year and half we haven't formed many traditions yet but there are few things that we have started and some I want to add.
1. One of my favorites: Watch White Christmas and Holiday Inn, amongst the many other holiday movies we like to watch

2. Buy a new ornament-Check

3. Drive around and look at lights-Still need to do

4. Go to the mall - (I know that sounds silly but even though its a crazy time to go to the mall I really enjoy going and seeing all the holiday decorations and usually the really big tree in the middle of the mall)

5. Of course spend it with family, in which we will be headed to NM once again, can't wait :)

6. Make homemade coco, yum...

Well I guess that is it so far, there are so many more traditions I want to implement but we have plenty of years to add them ;)
For Example: I want to start doing an advent calendar until Christmas
I also want to get better at sending out Christmas cards, I am bad at that.
Every year I also want to make one new Christmas decor for my house.
And the most important I want to give back to the community and help with a charity. We should be doing that all year around but I defiantly want to keep the realization that Christmas is not just about receiving but giving!
Hope you all are enjoying your family traditions as the countdown until Christmas is coming to an end!
 

Melody

BFF

What a middle school expression "BFF" Best Friends Forever- that term is thrown all over the place at that stage of life and the older you get the harder it seems to have a "BFF" Well I was beyond blessed to find just that, a BFF in college. As I mentioned before I had not her seen since my wedding! Living three states apart is no bueno at all!! Well this weekend I was able to go visit her and meet her precious baby boy! I cannot tell you the joy I had in seeing them! We were able to visit and catch up on life! It was incredible to watch her as a mommy and the love she has for her baby boy! The whole trip was amazing and I was sad to leave them. Thankfully I know the 'Forever' part in "BFF" will hold true for us. Even states far apart we will always have such a precious friendship and now we discovered 'Heytell' (awesome app) to help in the communication process :)

                 Our first meeting :)                                               Mommy and Son!

                 Poor little guy was teething                                   Isn't he so cute!!!

 Awe love those pictures, he was so much fun to be around! Miss them already!

Only 12 days left till Christmas!!! I have plenty of shopping to do until then eek! Hope you all are having a wonderful week!

Melody

Cherished Moments

Hello Everyone,

Hope you all are having a terrific Friday! The last few days I have had the privilege of having my grandparents come for a visit! Not many of my family have been able to see our little home since most of them live in New Mexico. My cousin is graduating from college tonight so my uncle, aunt and cousin are also in town. I feel at times that I have two lives, one in New Mexico and one in Texas, so when family comes to visit it is a nice feeling of having both worlds combine for a moment, if that makes sense. I have thoroughly enjoyed spending time with my grandparents this week, it can be tough living so far away from all my family so I cherish these moments when I can spend time with them.

 In New Mexico green and red chili are huge, as I have mentioned before, and I promise to share recipes soon. Anyways, I can make green chili with no problem but red, well not so well, so my nana (my grandmother) showed me once again how to make red chili, which is so easy but I always find a way to mess it up lol. So we made some yummy enchiladas :) Picture below

Isn't she precious!!

Pampo and Nana :)



I am so glad they were able to come visit! Then my weekend gets even better, tomorrow morning I am headed out to go see my best friend in Arizona!!! I have not seen her since my wedding, which has been a year and half ago! And I finally get to meet her precious baby boy!! I am so excited!! There will be plenty of pictures posted when I returned.

Hope you all have a blessed weekend!!

Melody

In the Christmas Spirit!

It is December Folks! And that means its Christmas time! I love this time of year and was making myself wait patiently until after Thanksgiving to get into the Christmas spirit. So now it is full speed into Christmas everything! Christmas music 24/7 :) well maybe not quiet but there will be a lot of Christmas music playing. We decorated our little place this past weekend and already had one of many Christmas parties this week. I am determined to spread out my Christmas gift buying this year instead of forcing it all on one day like I did last year. This is our second Christmas married and it is just so fun experiencing the joy of it all with your spouse. There are so many things I want to do this time of year, I really need to make a list. Well here are some pictures of Christmas stuff J  

 This was a picture from last year but it's so fitting :)

 Our little Christmas tree

 My favorite: Popcorn and Michael Buble

 Love Lights and Snow (I have to get my snow fix in NM)

Hope you all are getting in the Christmas spirit and enjoying all the fun that comes with Christmas! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Melody

It Has Been To Long

I have no excuse for not writing for almost a month besides the usual, life gets busy. I cannot believe there are only a few days left in November! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! The husband and I headed to New Mexico, where we both are from, to go visit family. It was a wonderful time! Being so far from family can be difficult at times but when we have the opportunity to go visit it is always a great time. Another awesome thing that happened this past week is that we got a dog!! I have been begging my husband for about a year now for a dog and through a swirl of God events (as I like to call them) we got a Free, Shih Tzu! He is everything I wanted in a dog (besides pooping in the house) lol. Here are some pictures of our trip and the dog :)

 My Beautiful Family

More Wondeful Family on the Husbands side

  Beautfiul New Mexico

 I thought the husband looked really cute in this picture with his pumpkin pie lol

Now that Thanksgiving is over I am looking forward to all the festivities of Christmas! I already have a couple of Christmas parties this week! :) Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Melody