Half way through 2013 already???

Man this year has just flown by!

Its hard to believe that we were still waiting on the movers to bring our stuff this time last year...sitting on the floor watching movies on our laptops and sleeping on an air mattress!

Texas has been good to us so far, we just signed another year lease and it has me thinking..man where has 2013 gone??

James birthday was a blast...sad that Adam had to miss it. He was in California for NTC (40 military school) It was an Angry Birds themed party..of course!

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For Valentines day I got Adam tickets to see the Dropkick Murphys in Austin...yea I know, best wife ever!! He was so exctied! It was in March for their St Pattys tour so it made it all the more awesome!! We headed up with some friends and ate dinner at Stubbs, the venue they were to play at that eveing. We were seated at a very obscure table at the top of a staircase, I remember all of us talking about how cool it would be if we got to meet them and we'd even put some CDs in my purse ..you know just in case!!

Well as we are enjoying our meals, up from the lower level walks the Lead singer of  the DKM Ken Casey!! Adam went into shock I believe...he stuck his hand out and Ken shook his hand!! I knew that Adam wouldnt ask Ken to take a picture with him so I said "Ken, I know Adam isnt gonna ask...but I know he would love a picture with you" He said sure and the got a great shot together! We have agreed that may have been the best day of Adams life! 

We were able to move to the front area near the stage. Towards the end of the show they called all the ladies on stage who wanted to go up...I had a moment of hesitation, but then I realized it was a once and a lifetime opportunity and so I went for it!!

Security helped me on stage where and sang and danced for about 5 more songs!! During one of the songs Ken was shuffling through all of us and he looked at me and said "hey , I know you!" It was awesome!

After the concert was over I walked up to Ken and asked him to sign the Cds I had in my purse...he did and then he told me "Tell your husband he is a very lucky guy!"

That was literally one of the best nights of our lives!

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We are from Arizona...where there is a casino ever 20 miles! We love to play poker, but Texas only has one casino and its about 6hrs from our house! Living in Ga for the past 4 and a half year was rough too...they only had one casino and it was on the river and you had to sail out to the ocean before you could play anything, that wasnt much fun either.
Last time we lived in Texas we discovered a Casino on the border of Texas and Oklahoma called WinStar. 

The Win Star Casino is the 2nd largest casino in the world! Its amazing and we new we should make a trip up there for a family vacation...and by family vacation I mean James and I go site seeing and hang in the hot tub at the Hotel while Adam goes to the Casino! 

The architecture alone makes this Casino amazing. The outside is composed of different places in the world. From Paris to Rome and many more!!

 

We also visited a local park that was awesome!! This park was made of the most amazingly crafted wood. It was so cute..I felt like we were is a gingerbread village! We also went to Frank Buck Zoo and James enjoyed feeding the giraffe!

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Another place we really enjoy is Dana Peak. Its a park located off of Still Hose Hollow Lake in Harker Heights Texas.
We have tried to take up fishing (haven't caught one yet!) and we have gone on a camping trip out there. Its a great get away!

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Our most recent adventure was to go to the Inner Space Cavern in Austin Texas!

This place was amazing and had a great story! 

They were building the highway about and drilled down only to find the drill hitting an air pocket. They drilled in 5 other places before finally drilling a hole large enough to send a man down to investigate. I imagine his amazement went he turned shown his light in the amazing place!!

Really makes you wonder what else is under us we dont know about!!

 

 

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4th of July was so great! We had a BBQ with great friends before heading home to watch fireworks at our house. This year we promised James that we would watch them on our roof!! He was so EXCITED!! Many of our neighbors set off HUGE fireworks...so we were literally surrounded by them! I felt like we were in the Marry Poppins scene when they were on the roof "Step-in time"

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We always knew we would get a second dog once Murphy was older. He is such a people dog but we arent home enough to give him attention all the time. He really needed a buddy and so we thought it was time. I wanted to wait till December because we would have had Murphy for 2yrs at that point, but some friends our had a dog who was having puppies and thought the breed was so awesome (half pit bull half cocker spaniel) I just couldnt pass it up!
So welcome Froning
 (named after Rich Froning, 2 time Crossfit games champ)

He is awesome and we could be happier