Morning Hair!

This is what our little princess looks like first thing in the morning! I crack up everyday! She reminds me so much of my sister in these shots! Good thing her tia is so pretty!

Our Pretty girl!

I know, I shouldn't toot my own horn, but I just think she is the prettiest ever! She is getting so big, and I am wanting another little baby so badly, but I think I will have to wait until next summer! I just hope the second one looks just like the first!

Happy times: Milkshakes

Olivia is a sucker for a good milkshake. Her daddy made himself a vanilla one the other night, but he ended up having to share quite a bit of it, with you know who! She loved it.

IKE

So, this big bad nasty hurricane "Ike" blew through Houston and all its surrounding areas, after destroying parts of Galveston, this past Saturday, September 13. Olivia and I, believe it or not, slept right through the entire thing! Jesse was up and pacing most of the evening. We lost power around 1:00am Saturday and we were some of the lucky few whose power came back the same afternoon. Unfortunately, there are many poeple all around us who are still with out power, 5 DAYS LATER! I can not even imagine. My grandparents and my sister's in-laws are still without power, thank goodness we are all close by to help. We feel very fortunate to have everyone safe, but this was quite a humbling experience. Here are a few pictures of some before and after shots of our neighborhood and some surrounding places. Have you ever seen Wal-Mart shelves like this?

A worthy cause!

This past weekend I participated in an event that is absoultely wonderful. "Reach out to Drop-outs" was an amazingly rewarding experience. For those of you who may have never heard of it, it is an event in which volunteers sign up to participate in teams of 6-8 people and go knock on the doors of the last known addresses of students who at some point quit school. I realize that many of you reading this are not school district employees, and kids dropping out of school every year is by no means a staggering number, but that unfortunatley is not the case. We lost over 650 students last year in Alief alone. I don't know about you, but that is way too many people in neighborhoods next door to us struggling and reliving a sad cycle of life! It makes me want to ask every kid I see out on the street if they are in school or graduated. We had over 260 volunteers this year in Alief and I am pretty sure each and everyone of them plus more will be back next year. We brought back over thirty kids that same day, ready and wanting to come back to school to better their lives and futures! We made contact with hundreds and hope they will come see us soon! I would like to thank my wonderful husband, who ironically enough was the only man on his team, which I am sure made the ladies feel a bit more secure:), my dad, my sister, and our family friend Victor for waking up early on Saturday morning, and giving of themselves to better serve out community! WAY TO REACH OUT!!!!!