Home Sweet Home

We are in the middle of moving into our new (to us) house. I say new to us because it was built in 1967, so its definitely not new to the world. Hopefully we only have two more nights to sleep in our apartment!!!

Unfortunately it will be January 14th before we can get our Internet installed. I guess the u-verse techs get a nice long Christmas vacation. Since I wont be having a whole lot of Internet access for the next month, here are some pics of our new house. I'll be able to check my email on Matthew's phone, so you can still email me.

This is one of the super cool lights in the master bedroom. There is one on either side of the bed. They are on the short list of things to be updated.

This is looking into the living room from the entry. Yes, that's a doggy door in the back door. No, we don't plan on getting a dog. Matthew wants to see Mallory try to go through the doggy door.

Another view of the living room. This is from the breakfast room. That door you see goes to the hall and bedrooms.

The dining area. Bonus points to anyone who recognizes the curtain fabric from somewhere else.

I think you can figure out what this is.

Looking from the kitchen to the living room through the dining area.

Again, I think you can figure this one out.

That's it for now, come visit.

Or come help move on Tuesday ;)

Tagged Again

Kellee tagged with this survey. I had done a similar one a few months ago. So I'm recycling some of it and letting you know what progress I'm making on some of it. The survey I did last time had 8 items on each list, so that's why I may have 8 on some of these. Didn't want you to think I'm an overachiever, don't know how to count, or don't follow directions.

7 Things I want to do before I die:

1. See Mallory be a big sister (not any time soon!)
2. Live a local phone call away from my sister
3. See my kids love and live for God
4. Run some of the big marathons: new york, chicago, boston (a girl can dream)
5. Have the same days off from work as Matthew or even better be a stay at home mommy. (I'm getting to experience this one right now and Matthew and I LOVE it. I don't know how long it will last, so I'm just trying to enjoy it while I can.)
6. Wear my "San Fransisco Jeans" again. These were the last jeans I bought before getting pregnant. Someday I WILL get back in them. (They are now my favorite jeans to wear!)
7. Go on vacation again
8. Fix Matthew's back (he's stuck at home today with his back out). (We are in the middle of moving right now, so we'd appreciate prayers that Matthew's back holds up through the move.)
   

7 Things I can do:

1. REMEMBER random information. Sometimes my memory scares me. I seriously don't know how I remember a lot of the things that I do. I sometimes act like I don't remember things because I think it will freak people out. My parents call me the family historian.
2. RUN. I will never win any awards for speed, but running is something I truly love.
3. CURL my lip kind of like Elvis.
4. FEED Mallory a bottle fast. I know this isn't really something that I do, but I think Mallory could win a bottle drinking contest. She can finish an 8 oz bottle in 4 minutes flat.
5. WRAP presents. I actually like to wrap Christmas presents and think they look pretty good too.
6. MAKE my own blog designs. I made this one and my last few myself. I'm ready for a new one, but have to wait until we get moved and I can use the desktop computer again.
7. MOVE. We are in the middle of our second move in 4 months. In college I lived in 4 different dorm rooms and 4 different apartments.
   

7 Things I cannot do:

1. EAT less than a whole bag of popcorn. I try to stop, but it just doesn't work. The snack size bags are a very good thing for me.
2. UNDERSTAND why Mallory wakes up so much at night these days. Matthew says last night was the worst night's sleep in his life. Hopefully tonight will be better, but its not looking good so far.
3. STAY AWAKE during movies these days. Its bad. I've probably fallen asleep during every movie we have watched in the last year. No, this isn't just since having a baby. Its just worse now.
4. WATCH, LOOK AT, or BE anywhere there are birds. I cannot stand them!!!
5. BUY the fun colored running shoes. I wear narrows and the narrows are always a boring blue design. Blue is soooo not my favorite color.
6. DANCE...seriously, its not good.
7. BELIEVE Mallory is about to be 1. She is changing so much right now. I'm constantly asking where did my baby go?
   

7 Things that attracted me to my hubby:

1. You might think this is bad, but I can't list any specifics that attracted me to Matthew. When we met I immediately knew that he was someone special. We spent HOURS at a time talking and getting to know each other. In a very short period of time we felt like we had known each other forever. I could talk to him like no one else. Oh, and I thought he was pretty good looking too. Have you seen his dimples?
   

7 Things I often say:

1. West Houston Church of Christ this is Marcia (not so much anymore)
2. Hey pretty girl
3. Hey watcha doing?
4. Love You
5. Call me later
6. Mallory, Mallory, Mallory Joy
7. ...and a large Dr. Pepper. (lately this has become Diet Dr Pepper - see #6 above)
8. stinkin' astros (obviously a holdover from this summer when I answered these last time)
   

7 celebrity crushes:

1. Chris Daughtry
2. Dean Cain (back in high school)
3. Mark Ruffalo
4. Rob Lowe
5. Patrick Dempsey (i watched Can't Buy Me Love this week, his looks sure have gotten better with age)
6. Mark Wahlberg
7. Jason O'Mara (i was really stretching on these and i like the new show Life on Mars, so why not?)

I tag: anyone who can count to seven.

Who's that girl?

I sent Matthew and Mallory out today so I could get some packing done. While they were out, he sent me this picture from his phone. I'm not sure who this girl is. It can't be my Baby Mallory???

Just Some Pictures From the Last Few Days

Our little karate girl who LOVES her bottle.

I guess she needed a little boost to play with the box on top of the storage tub.


Just monkey in around.

I was too slow with the camera. I had just caught her with my headband around her head.

The Houston Blizzard of '08.
This was the view off of our balcony tonight.

Gobble Gobble

Our Thanksgiving was long and busy, but lots of fun. Mark (Matthew's brother) and I kicked off Thanksgiving Day with the Turkey Trot. I missed it last year so I was glad to run it again, even if it was hot and humid.


We spent Thanksgiving day with Matthew's family. Mallory wasn't too excited about the turkey, but she loved the sweet potatoes. She got to have some fun times with Aunt Laurie too.


On Friday, Mallory and I went to my parents house while Matthew stayed behind to work. Mallory and her cousins had lots of fun playing together. She wowed everyone with her walking skills. She wont walk far, but if I put her down arms length away she will step towards me. When she took some really good steps on Saturday Nathan said, "that's incredible." He said it with such sincerity and amazement at his cousin. It was so sweet. I'll try to get some video posted soon.

We had a little photo shoot Saturday trying to get some Christmas card photos. After that experience I can say that getting three kids to look at the camera at the same time is tricky! These are some of my favorites that wont be in anyone's cards.

I love that I caught Mal just as she was starting to fall in this one.

On Sunday it was just Mallory and I with Mom and Dad, so she got have all the attention!

We stayed an extra day so I could help Mom put up the Christmas tree. We tried to barricade Mallory away from the tree. You can see how well that worked.

I think this was Mom's favorite part of the tree decorating. She always wants to rock her grandkids, but they aren't big rockers. Sunday afternoon, Mallory let Dee rock her to sleep and then took a nice long nap in her lap.

Mallory was VERY interested in the tree when she woke up.


And in other news...WE'RE MOVING! No, I'm not looking forward to moving a second time in 4 months. But, I am looking forward to living in a house again!!! Mallory must be excited too since she's already in a box and ready to go. ;) Our last move was not the smoothest, so we're hoping this one goes better. Just the fact that it will be December not August has to make things a little better.