Just for you, Dad!

This is not an exciting story or event that we have done lately! This is just to show my dad the contraption that Jeremy built to lift the hard top off of my jeep! He went to Home Depot (his favorite store) and got the steel poles, hooks, nuts, bolts, etc and made the actual lift. Then he put the foam stuff around to prevent scraping the top! We found a hoist and he bolted it from the attic. It works great! We undid the screws, attached the lift, and up went the top!

Hawaiian Falls

Our new way to spend the hot summer days is at Hawaiian Falls, a waterpark in The Colony. We got season passes so that Hayllee and I can go enjoy the cool escape with all of our friends! We have discovered that is a great way to relax during the day. We floated and played marco/polo in the lazy river, went down waterslides, took tubes down waterslides, played in the wave pool, and relaxed in the lawn/pool chairs in the wave pool! We are expecting to spend many hot summer days here over the next couple of months!

Jeep Beep

After 7 years and 114,000 miles I traded in my Jeep Liberty. Since it was such a good little car to me, I stuck with the Jeep brand and now have a 4 Door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited! It's white to match my 4 wheeler! I haven't had the top completely off yet, but I have the option for the hard top that comes off all the way, over the drive/passenger seat, over the back seat, or the soft top! Hayllee loves crusing around with the top off over the driver/passenger seat!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Birthday dinner at Awe Shucks

This year for my birthday, I asked Jeremy to go to Awe Shucks for dinner. It is a cajun seafood diner that serves catfish, crawfish, shrimp, and I have no clue what else! It was so good. Then, the next weekend we went to the Highland Village Red, White, and Blue festival to listen to Kevin Fowler perform. We listened to music, the kids played games and in the jump houses, and then we saw a great firework display. Afterwards, we went to Sneaky Pete's.

Monica, Glennis, and me at Sneaky Petes

Dirt Car Races

Richard won 1st place and Hay got his autograph!


I guess I was born in the wrong state and I am just now figuring out that I am Texas at heart! The mechanic at Jeremy's work races dirt cars every weekend. Jeremy had promised him for 2 years that he would come watch him race and we finally made it! We drove out to Mesquite to the dirt track and I saw my first dirt car races! It was a blast! Apparently I enjoy dirt car racing and 4 wheeling...I am becoming a country girl!! What made the race even more fun was that Richard won for the 3rd week in a row! Go car number 6!!!!

Richard is Car #6 in first place!

Orange Belt!

Hayllee took her test to move up from her gold to her orange belt. She had to do patterns and certain kicks/routines in order to get to the next level! She did a great job and we are very proud of how well she is doing in Karate!

Memorial Day Ride

Over Memorial Day weekend, we took the camper and went to Jacksonville, Texas for a ride at Mud Creek ATV Park. The first day was just not our day! We started off the trip having to go to a funeral for one of Jeremy's uncles. When we finally go back on the road, it was rush hour on a holiday weekend...which meant no movement on the highway! After finally making it through the city and stopping for food and gas, we thought we were home free. Wrong!!! about 45 minutes down the road someone pointed out to us that the back tire of the camper was smoking. We stopped to take a look to find that the previous owners had installed the wrong size tire and it was too big. We thought to stop and put air in the back tire to help even it out, but couldn't find any working air machines! Once we finally did, we realized that not only was the tire the wrong size, but the metal was showing and it was about to blow. We drove slowly to the Walmart in Athens where they were able to put on 2 new tires in about an hour! Once again, we thought we were home free. Wrong again! We got a few miles down the highway and the gas light came on. We were out in the middle of nowhere, and no gas stations to be found. You guessed it. We ran out of gas! Luckily we had gallons in the back of the truck for the 4-wheelers and were able to fill up on the side of the road. Finally, it was on to Mud Creek. We made it, set up camp, and went out for a night ride. Thinking that we were passed all of our bad luck, we were ready to have some fun riding! Not 30 minutes into our first ride, someone got stuck in some thick mud. Jeremy went to help pull them out. He looked back and saw nothing behind him but some think brush, and put is 4 wheeler into reverse. Along with the thick brush was an 8 foot cliff that Jeremy back off of into 4 feet of water! After floating his 4 wheeler a 1/4 mile downstream to tow out, we finally decided to call it a night. Jeremy was safe. The 4 wheeler started (It's a Honda!), and only needed an oil change! The rest of the weekend was much better!