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I'll be honest-this was a hard post to start. How do you put into words the feelings of seeing my baby sister graduate from the United States Military Academy and get promoted to a Lieutenant in the Army? Or seeing the formality of all of the events that we went to and only seeing a glimpse of what these kids have gone through the past 4 years at the Academy? It's pretty surreal to see my sister come full circle, from tearing her ACL in high school, which delayed her starting a year at USMA and gaining a year of experience at the USMA prep school, to finally graduating on a glorious, sunshine filled day, with our closest family right there with her!! All of the driving back and forth, the chilly mornings we had waiting, the walking from the parking lots and sore butts we all had from sitting so long were so worth it!   We spent Friday morning at her Graduation Parade, where the entire corps marches out and then the "Firsties" (aka Seniors) separat

What a whirlwind of events these past few days! Robert and I traveled back to New York to spend a day in the city and then to head north to Westpoint for my sister's graduation from the United States Military Academy.  Wellllll, our trip didn't quite start off as planned. As in our flight was cancelled Wednesday night. Right when we were at the gate to board. Not to mention we didn't have a ride back from the airport because we had taken an Uber. Fortunately the airline had rolled us automatically to the next flight for us. Unfortunately it was the next morning, with a layover in Atlanta, which was the worst possible outcome, as we had a hotel already booked Wednesday night and were planning on spending the entire day in the city. After a few hours of negotiating and phone calls and decisions, we found a flight that would take us straight there non-stop. Sold! Bring it on. Not even the thunderstorm at 5 am could stop us.  --well, we thought we were starting

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away (okkk so just up the road in good ol Denton, TX), a 22 year old boy asked/told a 20 year old girl to be his girlfriend late one night after a graduation party. This was about 5 months into their friendship. The young girl didn't know what she was getting herself into, and luckily she took took a leap of faith and looky: after a summer of pool parties and summer jobs, they became a 28 year old husband and a 26 year old wifey this year, and they lived happily ever after! 6 short (or long) years later (I can't decide if it's gone fast or gone slow), and here we are! Over half a decade of love. moving closer to double digit years every single day. How is this my life? I love that this is my life! I also love... 1...the way that the husband kisses/hugs me goodbye every morning while I'm snoozing until my actual alarm goes off. we also play this game of him trying to grab my feet through the covers, and it makes me remem

And in this case, it's LAKE rat, and then a random BASEBALL rat. Which we both hit this weekend. Rat on the rat pertains also to this hilarious Peter Gabriel song that we heard on our way back from the lake this weekend...the lyrics were too funny! It was pretty low key at both spots, but I hadn't been out to our lake spot since last year, so it was quite a surprise to see real life WATER in the lake (who wouldn't thought, eh?)! With the drought, the past few summers have kept us on land, since no one could put their boat in since everything was so dry. Hopefully this summer it's back to normal because I love being out on the water with our friends and having a good time! One of my favorite spots to be. Highlights of the weekend: playing golf cart NASCAR on a very short track, shady trees and a nice breeze, NOT having spiders drop on my head at night, and a pretty yum grill cooked pizza, just the way I like it (minus the burn bottom of the crust...still learning). The v