the stache

he loves the thing. i think he likes that chair too.

:) Whitney

Happy First Day of Spring!

The first day of spring and it is snowing in OKC! We have been cleaning all day getting ready for a few friends to come over for dinner. The house smells like candles and black beans. Yum!

one of those days

two days in a row that i am angry at everything and i don't like anyone. ah, yes, hormones. lucky you, i'm pretty good about keeping my shit together, not so good for me. so i took a trip to the grocery store in hopes that my heart would stop beating so fast and the tears would stay put, and the urge to trip someone would vanish. now i'm sitting here, calmly at my desk eating my freshly made guacamole.

on my way back to the office i was thinking of the things i'm grateful for today....

*i'm grateful to even have a job when so many don't.

*common sense

*avocados

*uplifting text messages, especially from john ;)

*sunday dinners and soul mate friends


just 6 more hours to go.

~Whitney

This week....

for the most part, was fairly normal. Since it is tax season I'm working until 6 every night and Saturdays 9-noon, for now I am enjoying this schedule but it can be draining. I took a 4 hour nap today! I'm not sure yet if that was a good idea or a bad idea. John worked four nights this week at Rocktown, while doing work for the lab and finishing up his homework. I like my alone time but I missed him this week. Dang, that was romantis.

Wednesday we went with Team Bounds to see The Avett Brothers. Holy crap! Wow! I haven't been to a concert that awesome in ages. John doesn't know this yet but I think our future children will be taking banjo lessons, along with their cello lessons of course :)

Here is a video of the the brothers singing "Murder in the City", my dad and nieces love watching video clips.



Friday I got a present in the mail! Sunday I finally finished up our Team Junger yearly photo books from Shutterfly. They turned out better than I could have imagined. I got them in the 12x12 size, they are huge and the photo quality is outstanding. I'm so happy with them. It's already March and I have no photos from January or February to start our 2010 book. I best get with it.



The books are sitting on my new tablecloth from Target that I just got for our first dinner party in almost a year. I'm so excited! The house isn't perfect but I'm getting over that, at least I'm trying.

~Whitney

a letter

To Our Tiny Wonder Baby,

Today, it has been a month since we lost you. I'm so sorry I couldn't do anything to stop it, I would give anything to have protected you. We miss you so so much. You meant the world to us. We will never ever forget about you. We are grateful to have experienced your short life and the joy that you brought to us. You brought us closer together and for that we will forever be thankful. We loves you.

Love,
Mama & Dad

Simplify

This is my new blog, our new blog, I'm hoping John will write on it too. I want to be able to tell more about our personal life and I didn't feel comfortable doing so on my other blog. We may post an occasional poor me moment and have a few rants, but for the most part we just want to keep all our family and friends updated on our lives.

Another reason for the new blog is that after long consideration, I deleted my Facebook. I do miss the daily interaction with everyone but I can't say I miss reading everyone's status, there is a lot of complaining on Facebook. I do miss the routine of checking my page however. My routine was Gmail, Blogger, Facebook, I still type it in occasionally. I may return to Facebook when tax season is over and done but with some stricter guidelines on who I'm "friends" with. If I don't see, talk, text, or email someone at least once a year, or I'm not related to that person, they will not be my Facebook buddy. If I haven't had contact with someone from high school since 1997 then that's the way I want to keep it.

When it comes to friends it's all quality not quantity, so if you are reading this you are quality.

~Whitney