Time To Get A Gun

January 19th was William's birthday. He turned the big 27. That is three years from 30. Wow old man. Because it was his birthday and the numbers are getting rather large we celebrated. And in full tradition it truly was his "birthday week." I wish I had a "birthday week."1st, as we always do, we celebrated with Winterfest and the teens. It actually was not half bad this year. Then on Tuesday his dad came in and we went to Reata (only the best restaurant known to man) and to the Fort Worth Stockshow. We saw an excellent rodeo and because I was with Will, saw a few people he knew... and one I knew. Glad I put makeup on for that one. On Wednesday we had to go to church, cause that's Will's job and all. But he got a great surprise. A CAKE!

Sweet Jaley had a birthday on that Friday so she got to help Will blow out his 27 candles.

On Thursday we went on Will's birthday date to Blue Mesa. Excellent. And on Friday we had a day off. We were very tired from all of our celebrations.  

Saturday... let me just start at the beginning to get the full effect of Saturday's events. Because if you know us, nothing can go on without a hitch. A few weeks ago I began being very sneaky sneaky and planning a surprise party for the hubs. As long as we have been together he has never really had a "party" so I figure now would be as good of time as any to spend the day with his buddies he has made in the DFW metroplex. So I awkwardly asked multiple people to be my facebook friend and sent out this long facebook message about BBQ and Whirlyball.  Everyone got super excited....ok Carson and I got excited. No one else replied. I was a big girl and called Whirlyball to make a reservation for our group. Whirlyball is a very popular thing to do on a Saturday. So plan B. I google, I research, I call and nothing is happening. We resort to plan B. Just BBQ and fellowship. The Sunday before our good friend Jace spoiled the secret by catching Will in the hall and taunting, "I know something you don't know." The next day the bestie Christin texts me and says, "How are the birthday plans going?" Guess who was holding my phone at the exact moment the text came through...yes William Morris. So he now knew something was up. But I played it off real good..... I think. Saturday morning he gets up and exclaims..."Let's go skeet shooting!"  Uh what? The next thing I knew I had eaten a MacDonald's breakfast and was dressed in a bass pro shops hat and a frumpy jacket....just like a hunter. Julia Roberts has turned into Miranda Lambert. We got in the truck...cause you can't take a normal car to the gun range and drove to the hometown of "My Big Fat Redneck Wedding", Kennedale, Tx. Which is unfortunately not that far from where we currently live. We get to our stand or whatever you call the shooter thing on the table and start "pulling" these clay skeet things. I completely embarrass myself on my first round. Imagine me...in jeans, ugg boots, a scarf and a jacket...with an oversized gun trying to point it at a three inch disc flying a million miles per hour across a field. Think elephant trying to do ballet. After a quick tutorial I shot three clays in the air and broke one in my hand for a total of 4! My dad was proud. 

This is the gun I learned to load. And the bullet....excuse me... "shell."

Look at that birthday boy

Will wants me to buy me a gun...cause I'm a midget and can't properly hold his. I'm thinking something like this... 

When we left Redneckville we came home and I did a little errand. Then we went to work out. Yeah....work out. While I'm passing the time on one of the awkward running machines that reminds me to the 1990's gazelle I was sweating beads because I needed to find a way to get Will all the way to Pappa Brothers BBQ in Dallas. Let's not kid people, like I was sweating beads from my work out. I tossed ideas such as a movie at the grand (its closed if anyone was going to go see a movie there) or mom and dad wanted to make up for the fact they forgot his birthday and take him out for bbq to I'd just put him in the car and drive him there. I settled on a movie and dinner. It worked. With yet another snag. Christin got sick and she was supposed to bring the cake. But have no fear, Karen and Grady were at the rescue and dropped of the cake. Just in time for us to get there and see Grady pull around the parking lot. The conversation went like this....

"What is Grady doing at Pappa Brothers?"

"Oh I don't know maybe he just likes BBQ."

"Why are the Mittigs here...and the Hockadays?"

"I don't know Will, maybe they just like BBQ"

And the surprise was pulled off! We had a great time. Thanks to all the friends and family that came out to celebrate. And sorry for the stomach virus that hit 50% of you afterwards. 

But his birthday is not over yet! Christin dropped this by yesterday for him. I think it deserves a place on the mantel.

Our Family Forever and Always. 

Blue Moon

Once upon a Thursday evening before Christmas Will and I attended the Fort Worth Christian High School Faculty Christmas party. This being my first official "staff" party of any kind I was pretty excited! The protocol for the evening...casual and white elephant. Now, FWC staff and faculty are known for having a pretty good time and having a pretty excellent sense of humor. During the white elephant game lots of good items. Items such as a dancing hat, two painted cows posed in a questionable nature, a stuffed pig piggy bank that oinked...and this.

Thank you whoever brought this creep of a toy. I hope you get it next year. This is a HUGE green frog that sings and dances to Blue Moon. Would not be so weird you say? Except if you look on his left hand he has a sock puppet...with a hat...and it sings too. As Will was opening this gold mine of a white elephant I squirmed in my seat. Then he pressed the button. Once...twice....three times and it kept singing....and dancing and moving that creepy little sock hand along with the words. To make things more awkward he would sit the frog between the two of us on the bench we were sitting on. Like a child....A green singing child. I still have nightmares.

four weddings and a funeral

Do you remember that movie? I've never seen it but I think it would have gone a little something like this Christmas Holiday for the Morris family.

We began Christmas with two weddings. Dustin and Justin. Dustin's was in Houston on a Saturday and Justin's a Sunday in Oklahoma City. Great weddings. Wonderful lifelong friends. Will endured a full weekend of Christin and I...together...in a car. Thank you Will.

To see a sneak peak of Justin's wedding video go to capturedcanary.squarespace.com.

We had Christmas with both families. Got a TV and a legit camera.

Attended the funeral for Will's Grandfather. He was in the Navy so that was neat to see a military funeral.

Came back, had a New Year's party, started school and ended the Holiday season with the third wedding, Leah.


In this movie, I'm sure Hugh Grant finds the love of his life. Sorry Christin that we did not find your Hugh Grant. We will keep looking.

"we are the three best friends that anybody could ever have..."

Will didn't know that when he said his vows at our wedding what he meant to say was "I take you along with Christin..."

I leave you with this video of the dog.....

That Doggie in the Window.

My brother's dog. Just watch. Enjoy.

Updates on Christmas coming. Preview: I have decided to sew Christmas gifts this year...HA. Joke. Lets just say I would have been naked in the pioneer days if it was left to me to make my own clothes.

Do you remember that kind of ...

November.
November means two things...Hunting and Thanksgiving. I have made a flow chart for the visual learners.

It is Monday of my week off of school. No play rehearsal, no tests to grade, no set building, just me, a credit card and my glue gun! I went to the black hole of craft stores, Hobby Lobby. I browsed the aisles, knocked down a few or five dancing Santa hats and set them all off, placed a few things I didn't need in my basket and contemplated my next craft. I came up with these...

Modge Podge Christmas trees for my fireplace. They look a lot cooler in person. 

A wreath for my door!

And all while Will was bringing home the trophy. Look at that stud and his deer! This is what I have now given up my cute grey and yellow office for. This and its predecessor from south Texas. 

Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Boy

Lenoxx Salsman is here! He is my precious new baby cousin #2 for the year 2010. I guess he would be my second cousin. He's my cousin's kid. How hick did that geneology sound with all them cuzins?  Another boy is added to the family and thus prompting me more and more to start praying now for me to have at least one girl. Mom, Tanner and I went up to Lewisville to greet the new man into our family. I'm gonna get sentimental for a sec....I'm not sure how this is gonna go....don't judge..... I have held babies before. Lots of babies, but I've never held one that is 4 hours old. 4 hours! Like 4 hours ago he was in a body. While I was holding I kept thinking  "4 hours ago he was not here and no one would know what he looked like or what he would be like but now he is here in my arms." Weird. Is this what it is like being 24 and married with no kids? Am I going to do that every time I see someone under the age of three, cause its getting real old real fast. Not ok to be googley eyed over pregnancy and the miracles of babies. Not At All. Will, back me up brother! If Will wont I know I can count on the bestie Christin to slap that fever right out. Its not even baby fever its more of like an incredible awe for the first time of being in the presence of such a fragile and peaceful being. I almost envied it. Not a care in the world and all the love someone will ever need in their life to come. No anxieties, no assignments due, no discipline problems to figure out, nothing. Just a sleeping baby enjoying their first hours of life.

And thats what I think about that. 

ok enough of the sap. Gosh what was that Kelsie. You are the funny blogger about weird things that happen to you, not this sap. On to the next thing.

We left the hospital and mom and I decided we would make Eden (the mom) a mum thing for her door. 1. Cause she didn't have anything and
2. The girl one down the hall was U G L Y.

So we trekked to Michael's and Joann's and bought the cutest stuff ever! But how were we going to put this thing together, Where were we going to put this thing together? So what better place that has open plugs for a glue gun than Starbucks. Some people to homework over coffee, we do crafts.

Mission accomplished. Thanks experienced mum making mom!
The years of making ridiculously sized mums and
garters have paid off!



                

Catch a peek of this video! This is Kale. My sweet      almost 3 year old cousin. He told me he did not learn his letters in school but in fact learned his continents! This may be Youtube viral worthy. I'm not partial or anything.

Keep Holding On

This weekend was the family retreat for Turnpike/Crosspoint whatever you want to call it. Great fun! All weekend Will said that he had a surprise for me. What could it be? New shoes?! A necklace? A new stuffed animal to replace Sandy? A salary raise? Hmmm. We went to dinner at an amazing restaurant in Granbury. Yes I said amazing. Hard to believe, I know! It was called the Loft. Apparently it was a reservation place but when you eat at the Senior special time like we do, reservations were no problem so we walked right in and sat at a table and devoured a delicious meal. We went back to our cozy bunkbed at Riverbend Retreat Center and snoozed until morning. Still no surprise. Now some would say that the lack of any hot, warm, luke warm or room temperature water in our room would have been a surprise and it was! An inconvenience to have on hair washing day. But apparently not the surprise my hubs was talking about. The weekend came and went I left with nothing new.

But these fun things happened!

Jaley Bug

What we got a picture together at a retreat/church function? Yes my friends. Believe it. 

Will's new girl friend, Emily. Beautiful.

Precious Maggie and Baby Sparkles 

Sweet Maddie Parish fishing with her princess pole.

MeLeah, Audrey and Hailey waiting their paddle boat turn.

Snipe Hunting with Jace

 

 He parted his way to Sanderson and I parted my way back home. I spent three days at my parents house and still nothing new. After a very productive Wednesday afternoon in walks a very scruffy this

with this

Surprise! 

One day while we were driving down 20 I looked over and saw the edible arrangement store. Tastyyy I thought. I turned to Will and said, "I love flowers as much as (maybe more than) the next girl. But an edible arrangement sounds scrumptious!" And he bought me one! WOW! 

It was delicious...and still is!