Friday, August 30, 2013
Dad Went Home
I am really too emotional still to write too much about this so I will let the pictures tell the story. The last ones are of the room and bathroom I set up before his return home.
Anniversary
Well, we celebrated with sushi and sno cones!
Here are some of my favorite dating memories with Michael Trent Phillips
My first trip home with him. I remember pulling into his parents drive way the weekend of Halloween and seeing the Christmas tree through the window :)
Fourth of July in his hometown laying down looking at the fireworks directly above us
Dancing to country music
Sushi dates at Ishin in Irving
Worshipping together at Prestoncrest
Riding in his blue chevy z71 pickup around Dallas listening to Dave Matthews and Rusted Root
Dave Concert at Starplex
swing dancing at the red door
Meeting at 5:30 to run in our neighborhood (you know thats love)
Taking him on his first trip to the Ft.Worth Zoo
The star he named after me for our one year dating anniversary
the fact that he brought my mother flowers on my birthday
Finding a brighton watch under my pillow one night after he left my apartment as I was climbing into bed
Being introduced to vanilla cream dr. peppers
His incredible ability to grill an absolutely divine steak. I have never ordered another one out!
How into clothes he is for a man
Golf tournaments and hitting balls with him on the driving range
Friday, August 02, 2013
My husband of 13 years
I started this blog almost 7 years ago one, for therapy, two to relay pics and info to friends far away (before facebook) and three to capture what life was really like. I am now hoping it will be something to leave my children to refer back to. Maybe they will understand more clearly the behind the scenes of their time growing up. Blogging has become a job for many younger moms out there now who are mostly blogging to an audience of other women and I only WISH I could make $$ off this thing.
Well I realized that I may have not included the pre-story for my kids. The one of how and why they exisit! This month on the 12th, likely the day after my dad will be released and I will not be with my husband) is when I married Michael Trent Phllips 13 years ago. So here is my side of our story:
Once upon time in a land far far away.... called Dallas, I was 24 sitting in the singles class on a wednesday night and new friend introduced me to Trent. That next Sunday I brought some friends with me to church and we came in a little late and I ended up sitting on the back row next to that same guy, Trent. My roomate had invited me and the girls to a popular golf tournament, The Byron Nelson. Over conversation in church we found out Trent was too so we ended up going all together, Four girls and Trent in my 98 rust colored Ford Explorer. It was the start of a friendship that would grow more over the next several weeks. One night I ended up riding with Trent to a swing dance(The Red Door) place and my roomate ended up staying behind. Trent drove me home that nigh, first time we had ever been alone, and he shared he would like to date me. He asked me to go to dinner the following day and then mentioned that his entire family would be in town and there as well. :)
Wow. I was honestly shocked. I had no idea that he had the slightest bit interested in me because he would always call and talk to my roomate AND then the fact that I would meet his parents and family on our first date! It went wonderfully. It was his parents and his dad's siblings and their families and then Trent's grandparents. They were all very warm and welcoming. There was a lot of comic relief to say the least.
Dating recap? To be continued...............
Well I realized that I may have not included the pre-story for my kids. The one of how and why they exisit! This month on the 12th, likely the day after my dad will be released and I will not be with my husband) is when I married Michael Trent Phllips 13 years ago. So here is my side of our story:
Once upon time in a land far far away.... called Dallas, I was 24 sitting in the singles class on a wednesday night and new friend introduced me to Trent. That next Sunday I brought some friends with me to church and we came in a little late and I ended up sitting on the back row next to that same guy, Trent. My roomate had invited me and the girls to a popular golf tournament, The Byron Nelson. Over conversation in church we found out Trent was too so we ended up going all together, Four girls and Trent in my 98 rust colored Ford Explorer. It was the start of a friendship that would grow more over the next several weeks. One night I ended up riding with Trent to a swing dance(The Red Door) place and my roomate ended up staying behind. Trent drove me home that nigh, first time we had ever been alone, and he shared he would like to date me. He asked me to go to dinner the following day and then mentioned that his entire family would be in town and there as well. :)
Wow. I was honestly shocked. I had no idea that he had the slightest bit interested in me because he would always call and talk to my roomate AND then the fact that I would meet his parents and family on our first date! It went wonderfully. It was his parents and his dad's siblings and their families and then Trent's grandparents. They were all very warm and welcoming. There was a lot of comic relief to say the least.
Dating recap? To be continued...............