Christmas Parade

This past Saturday was the San Benito Christmas parade. Things sure don't change in a small town!!! The parade was just as I remembered it!! It was so much fun to share this little tradition with Kaylee!

SNOW!!!!

Well just shortly after the last post it began to snow! It has been going on all day! Makes me get a little taste of what it would feel like to live up North. Kaylee had a blast playing outside. She was very upset when it was time to come in!!! Mommy was cold!

Christmas Tree Lighting and Fun with Grandparents

We had a great time last night! Sad Dan missed it because he was working. It was super cold, but it actually felt like Winter! Today it is suppose to snow, and we are very excited about that! Hope you have a fantastic Friday!!!!

Nicholas Michael Counts

We are happy to announce that are nephew Nicholas is here!!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

The new look...

This and That

Hello family and friends! Just checking in! We have been pretty busy. I had my last bible study on Wednesday. To celebrate the end we had a wonderful luncheon. I had a blast with all of the ladies! It was an amazing semester! Can't wait for the next one! Kaylee and I are really enjoying our MOMS group. Kaylee has a blast playing with all of her friends! We have one more meeting before the Christmas holiday. Then we will pick up again in January. Dan is having a wonderful hunting season. He is really looking forward to his hunting trip to Arkansas with his buddies. He will be doing that in the middle of December. Kaylee and I will head to the valley for some quality time with Nana and Papa!

I am super excited for the holiday season! So many things to do!!! I am really looking forward to our church services in December!!!! We have LOTS of birthdays to celebrate, and we are awaiting the birth of our FOURTH nephew! Come on Nicholas!!!! Hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We will be spending it with Dan's family. We are all very excited to see Grandpa Bos. He is going to be amazed on how much Kaylee has grown! Be safe! Till next time.....

Where did October go??!!??!!

I can't believe it is already November! Time sure does fly when your having fun! We celebrated Nana's 60th birthday in the valley at the beginning of the month. Had tons of fun while there. We visited the zoo for boo zoo! Kaylee had good practice in how to receive candy! This would later help her for Halloween night! She had fun picking her pumpkin out and dancing to the Halloween music.




This weekend Nana came into town. We had my sister and the kids over on Friday and had a super fun sleepover with no husbands! Saturday we got ready and headed out to Webster to see my Great Aunt Lela Mae (Aunt Lemonade...what we called her when were little!)and my mom's cousin Margaret. They were so happy to see all of us and meet all of the kiddos!







Halloween was a blast and boy did Kaylee have a blast! She was so cute in her leopard costume! She walk up to the houses hold her hand out, put the candy in her bucket, and hold out her hand again. I was not allowed to hold her hand while walking! She was perfectly fin holding onto her bucket and proceed to the next house. Pretty hard to explain to a 16 month old that when the light is not on at a house the means no candy. It was exhausting but so worth it! Can't wait for next year!

Hello Fall!

Fall is here! We are keeping very busy! Kaylee is really enjoying toddler time at the library. She has always loved books and each week she listens to three different stories dealing with a certain topic. Her favorite part is the singing. She stands up and does her little dance! So cute! We also go to MOMS group every other Friday. Kaylee has a blast with her friends, and I have a wonderful time with other Mommies. I have also joined a bible study group. I am having an amazing time learning more about Gods word. We are studying Ephesians. It's AWESOME! Home teams has also started up again! We have such an amazing home team! We really missed everyone during our summer break!
Since Fall is here that also means hunting season is in full force! To welcome the season we had a kick off to hunting season dinner! We had a great night with friends! Dan and Matt S introduced Matt P to hunting for the first time. He is hooked! I am thinking the wives need to have a get away for a weekend, but of course we can't have it during a hunting weekend! The husbands won't have that! I will leave you with some pictures after the first hunt.....

Toddler Time!

That's right folks Kaylee is in full force toddler mode! I am loving it! She is sure keeping us busy. After many years of small children being in my parents house not one has ever been successful in breaking through the gate that is between the kitchen and dining room. Well I am proud to announce that my daughter figured it out! She will lift it up the whole gate and then pushes it open. The funny part is that when she has gets on the other side she closes it back up! I guess she figures that if it looks untouched she is safe! The moment I go in to capture her, she looks at me smiles and darts off! This is something that I would have done at this age! Paying for my raising!
We are still in San Benito and having a great time. Kaylee is waking both Nana and Papa up each morning. I guess she thinks that if she is up everybody else needs to be too! They are loving each and every moment with the Queen of the house! Dan is coming back today! Woohooo! We are going to a good ole San Benito Greyhound football game tonight. Here are a few shots of Kaylee around Nana and Papa's house.....

Goodbye Wallpaper!

After 40+ years we finally said goodbye to the LOVELY wallpaper in my parent's kitchen! Sad day in the Wood house! My handy man of a husband worked three days in a row to finish it. Good job hun! Yesterday my mom and I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and bought some new decor! It's still is a work in progress, but I will leave you with what we have so far.

A piece of advice

To read my post in order you need to scroll down to June 2009! Thanks and enjoy reading!!!!

And summer comes to an end.....

Well everyone is headed back to work/school tomorrow. We are back in the valley helping out my mom after my dad's eye surgery. It went really well! Dan is busy painting my parents kitchen. I have to say it is coming out really nice. Pictures coming soon! We will be getting back into a routine when we return next week. I will be going to a women's bible study group on Wednesday mornings, and every other Friday I will be going to a MOMS group. I am so excited for these two things...one because I will be able to talk to other adults rather then toddler talk...and two because Kaylee will be interacting with other kids!!!! Our home teams is also starting back up!!! Very excited about that as well!!! Kaylee and I will also be visiting the library on Mondays for Toddler time! I am loving this age!!! We are able to do so much more now! Fall looks like it will be a busy one!

July 2009

Sit back and relax! This was a crazy month!

July 1st- Kaylee turns one! I didn't realize how fast the year went by!!! She grew like a weed! We had lunch at McDonald with Nana and the Hawkins' clan. The kids had happy meals. Kaylee loved it! Then Aunt Kimmy bought all the kids ice cream cones. Kaylee REALLY loved this! We then played with them at the play area. Kaylee really didn't know what to think of it. Trevor on the other hand was the happiest kid in the world! Thanks to having Trevor around and being older then Kaylee, she really watches his every move. She soon noticed that he was walking and she was not! Later on that day Dan woke up from sleeping(he was working nights, we were both in the living room Dan stood Kaylee up and she too three steps toward me!!! YEA!!!!! What a big girl and on her first birthday!!!! We then celebrated and got ready for her birthday dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings!

July 4th- Happy 4th!!! I loaded up our little family of three and we went to the neighborhood parade and hot dog party. Watch out Macy's you have something to worry about it! Well not really..hahaha.... This had to be the smallest parade we had ever been to!!! We had a fire truck followed by about 50 kids on their bikes. I know they were totally excited but we sitting in the hot and well we weren't to excited! We then went to the park area and had some lunch, put Kaylee in the Moon Jump, and showed her the fire truck. We then headed home napped and had Aunt Ashley and Uncle Matt over. Uncle Matt made some awesome ribs!!!! We then ended the night with fireworks!!!

July 5th-11th.....Florida here we come!!!! The big trip we had been talking about for months! Dan was excited about the fishing and I was excited about Aunt Ashley and Uncle Matt's wedding!!!! Dan's parents traveled with us to help out with Kaylee. They were sooooo much help! Thanks again!!!
While in Florida we saw dolphins, ate, went swimming, ate, visited the Theater of the Sea, ate, partied in Key West, ate, and we witnessed one of the most beautiful beach weddings ever!!!! I was so honored to stand beside Ashley as her Matron of Honor and have Kaylee as the flower girl. Dan took some amazing pictures (check them out on our family photo link)! Ashley and Matt our truly an amazing couple and I am so glad God placed them in our lives. I look forward to making many memories with them!!!
We hopefully will now be taking a yearly trip with them to Florida. It's a great place and is tons of fun!

July 17-19 Trip to college station for Dan's cousins wedding. We were able to see lots of family that we hadn't seen since our wedding. Kaylee met GreatGrandma Schwartz for the first time as well as tons of other family members! It was a great time! Meagan made a beautiful bride and I have to say that the food at the reception was the best I have ever had!

July 20- We traveled to San Antonio to meet up with the Schutte clan (Dan's family from up north). I ended up getting sick!!!! Not fun for me! I braved it and we all went to Sea World. WOW...talk about HOT!!!!! Never go to Sea World in the heat of summer!!!! We will be going in the fall from now on! We saw the Shamu show. Very inspirational, but I remember Shamu jumping a lot higher when I was little. Dan agreed! The dolphin show was amazing! Even though it was hot and I was still sick I lasted to 5:30! Go me! We then hopped back in the car and drove to Nana and Papa's house.

July 21-31.... We stayed at my parents house two night then we all headed down the the beach for the weekend. We got settled in the room and then headed to the pool. Kaylee loved the water! WE played there for about an hour then got ready for dinner. We went to our family favorite restaurant Blackbeards. It was so good to finally eat seafood again! The next morning we went to the beach and then played some more at the pool. It was near lunch time so we went back to the room, ate some lunch, and then put Kaylee down for a nap. I didn't realize that she was going to sleep for FOUR HOURS!!! She was well rested and ready for some more beach time! While we were at the beach Dan headed out fishing with his buddy that has the boat. That night we had dinner and then watched the fireworks over the bay. Great fireworks! Thanks Nana and Papa for such a wonderful time at the beach!!!!!

Dan had to head home after the beach because he had to work. Kaylee and I ended staying the rest of the week. I was able to finally meet Diane and Julio's baby boy!!!! I had to wait a whole month!!!!! He is a precious baby! I had so much fun huggin on him! We spent some much needed time with Great Grandma Wood while we were there. She was so happy to see Kaylee!!! We had a great week in the Valley.

July 31-August 2nd.....Dan picked us up from the airport and we headed to Galveston with the Schwartz side for the weekend. We went to dinner at Rain Forest Cafe. It was so great food and the scenery was awesome. Kaylee loved when the animals started making all of their noise. The next day we went to Schlitterbahn. It was so funny to Kaylee wave at everyone on the lazy river. She was a trooper and loved going down the slide. The last day we went down to the beach and then on our way home we stopped for lunch. Thank you again Grana and Pops for a wonderful weekend in Galveston!


That's it for July!

June 2009

I have decided since we have been REALLY busy this summer I am going to do a month to month MEGA post!

Dan and I celebrated our third anniversary on June 10th. We had dinner at Benihanas and then went to the movies and saw The Hangover (funniest movie ever!). We hadn't been to the movies in forever! A thing we used to do ALL the time before Kaylee! Three years has gone by so fast! I can say we truly love each other more then the day we got married!

Next up in June was Dan's ten year high school reunion. It certainly was interesting to see the people that Dan went to high school with. Not at all what I expected! Remember these people are all about twenty eight years old, and in walks a man in a bunny costume. Okay.....Seriously....What have you been doing the last ten years! To make it worse the costume was DIRTY! That was definitely the highlight of the night! We had a great time and I was able to hear some great stories about my stud!

My next event was throwing a Bachelorette party for my best friend Ashley. What a fun evening! We started out at my house, had an amazing dinner at El Patio(you should try this place), went to the best piano bar in town (Howl at the Moon), and ended the night at Mo's Place(a country bar). Fun was had by all! We definitely made some memories!

My party skills were not done just yet! The big event was just around the corner. That's right folks it was time for the ONE YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!! Dan and I both didn't know that planning and throwing a one year old party would be so exhausting! We had everything from a pinata to a keg of beer. I am pretty sure we covered all our bases. I know Kaylee probably won't remember her first party, but she will have TONS of photos. We had party food, burgers, hot dogs, and you can't forget about the cake and ice cream. I was determined that I was going to make Kaylee's first cake! Well I did and the frosting was horrible! Thank goodness for ice cream to cover it up! Kaylee was showered with many gifts and loved them all! If you were there to celebrate with us.....THANK YOU AGAIN! When all of our guest left Dan leaned over to me and said, "Every party is not going to be like this, RIGHT????" Oh hubby....We will see!

I believe that ended our month of June!!!!

Our Baby is ONE!!!!

It is hard to believe that Kaylee is already one! We have had an amazing year!






Birthday party post to come soon!!!

Trip to the Valley

We all had a blast in the valley! Kaylee and I went shopping with Nana at the outlet mall. Nana was so nice to buy Kaylee her very first pair of Stride Rite tennis shoes. They are so cute! She also got her some cute outfits and much needed pajamas. Thanks Nana! The rest of the week I did last minute things for my friend Diane's baby shower. Dan came in on Friday and went to sleep early so he would be well rested for fishing. Dan had a great time and even met a man that invited him out on his boat later that afternoon. The shower was amazing! Diane and Julio are set for Baby Troy's arrival which we thought was going to be Saturday night! It was a full moon! A bunch of us went out including Diane's husband to a local bar. We were having a great time when Julio got a text from Diane saying that she was in a lot of pain. We all told her to go on to the hospital with her mom and we would be there shortly. Well it turns out that she was starting to go into labor but doctors stopped it. There was a possibility that she was going to have a C-section on Thursday, but she should be released tomorrow and is on complete bed rest. The doctors had given them a lot of options and literally scared the heck out of them. They just gave them to much info and to MANY options!!! Aren't doctors just suppose to tell you this is what were going to do because it is best for you and your child???? She isn't due for another month! Please keep them in your prayers! It was a great week and we are so excited to see Nana and Papa again! They will be here for the big birthday party for our Little Bug!!!





Papa...You are so silly!

I am this big Nana!!!!

I have to find the perfect card!!!

Like my new shoes!!!????

Hello Readers!

Sorry about slacking on my Wednesday writing this week! I was at an all day spa!!!! Dan gave me a gift certificate last year for our anniversary and I just got around to using it. Thank goodness because it was about to expire! The day was amazing! I was totally relaxed walking out of that place!
Dan painted the living room and kitchen this week! He did an awesome job! He is finishing up the baseboards today! The house looks totally new! Next thing is carpet! We will be purchasing that sometime next year. Need to save up for that!
We are having a blast with Matt and Jenn living in the neighborhood!They had us over for dinner last weekend and then they came over and played some Wii. Speaking of playing Wii! While Dan was bowling that night he knocked Molly in the face. I woke up at midnight to her making funny noises in the living room. I woke Dan up because I was a little worried. Well we got up to check on her and her WHOLE face was swollen. Her eyes were nearly shut! Poor thing! Of course I thought she was going to die of internal bleeding! Dan assured me that she would be fine and we went back to sleep. The next morning her face was back to normal! Thank goodness!
Well we have game night tonight with our hometeam group! I've missed all of them and am looking forward to catching up! Auntie Katie will be watching Kaylee while we are out! (Thanks Katie...You rock!)
Kaylee and I will be going to the Valley this week to visit Nana and Papa. Kaylee is super excited to see them and can't wait to show them all her new tricks! Dan will be coming down later in the week with the dogs.
Well I hope all of you are having a great weekend! Thanks for reading! I had lots to say!

Super Cute Cake

Check out this super cute cake that I had made!!!! It was for a beach themed wedding shower for my best friend Ashley.

Wednesday Writing

What kind of trophy would you like to win?


I would totally love to win the Dancing with the Stars trophy!!!! It would be so much fun learning all the different styles of dances. Think about all the weight I would shed too!!! I guess to qualify I would have to become some kind of star. Maybe I should start my own reality show!!!!


Okay I know my writings are short but give me a break I just started this!!!! I promise they will get better!

Best Friends!

If you leave food...She will find!

Mr. Fix It and his little helper

Little did she know she was helping Daddy lock up the cabinets so she couldn't get into them!!!! She figured it out about five minutes later when they were all done and she couldn't open them!!! She was not happy!