Off to TMEA & Happy Valentine's Day!

Eric, Cara and I are off to TMEA this week. Eric's really excited. I'm glad to get out of Houston for awhile, I just hope Cara sleeps well in the hotel. Cara and I are off to our playgroup's valentines exchange at 10, which should be cute! Then we're leaving for San Antonio around noon today. We look forward to seeing all our old BU friends. Cara and I have some plans to go see the Alamo and Children's Museum during the day while Eric is in conference. I'm going to try to hook up with my cousin Ben who's attending UTSA to take him for a good meal, I just need to get his phone #! :)

Be sure to check flickr often, I've uploaded a couple new and a couple old pictures.

Super Baby Food!

Lots have happened since my last update. Cara busted through with her first tooth on her 7 month 'birthday.' Then the second tooth broke through within 3 days. So, she now has 2 pearly (stubby, still not all the way out of the gum) whites. I have yet to get a good picture, will post one soon. Here is one of her in the tubs as we were packing up our Christmas decorations (yes, not until like January 13th!!). Also, I have found she has two favorite things to do now. One is play in the jumper that our friend from Michigan got her (Denise--THANKS!). It hangs from the doorjam, and she just JUMP, JUMP, JUMPS! Her 2nd favorite thing to do is sit in front of the window with the 2 puppies and look out the front porch. This is great because it give me a quick minute to email (or update my blog). Plus, she just looks so cute doing it!

We've got a pretty good schedule down. She's sleeping from about 7 pm till 7:30 am, with 2 naps during the day. We usually grocery shop on Mondays. Go to our playgroup with all of our friends from church Wednesdays at 10, and to library time on Thursdays. She is such a good baby, we have been so blessed! I have started making all of her own baby food, to save some money, and because it's so easy and I know exactly what she's eating. It's been great being able to nurse her for so long and now make all her other foods. Wish us safe travel as Cara and I are off to visit Mawmaw and Pawpaw tomorrow in Georgetown. Love to all!

Happy Birthday Ella!

One of Cara's first friends is having her 1st birthday today. Happy Birthday Ella!

Happy New Year!!

Can you believe it is 2007? It still feels like 2005 to me, 2006 went by WAY to fast! We hope everyone had a great Christmas season, we sure did. We got to visit with our families, and see some of our friends that came into town. Eric's two best friends from high school, Ronnie and Benny, were both in town for almost a week so we got to spend some fun time with them. I've been scrapbooking like crazy trying to get Cara's album up to date (I'm only like 4 months behind ;) !). Eric has really enjoyed his 2 weeks off, but the end tomorrow :(. I think maybe the whole 'no job' thing will kick in once he's back at work. I feel like I quit, but I've been doing CPE and lots of bookkeeping trying to get year end caught up, that I feel like I only had a one week break with Eric. I still have to go in this week as well, but then it should die down. I'm not complaining, God has granted me such a great balance that I wouldn't trade it for the world!

So, for our 'new year's resolutions' which we don't usually do, we've decided we have 2 main goals: 1) to grow spiritually as a couple, as parents, and as individuals, and 2) to make another baby towards the 2nd half of the year ;) We'd like our next child (God willing of course!) to be born in May or June of 2008! So we'll see how that goes. Also, we both want to lose weight, so we'll see if we can make that happen. Anyways, hope that catches you up on our life. Gotta Run!

Stay at Home Mommy and other things!

Well, it's official. I finally quit my job. My last day was last Thursday, however, since I have my CPA and want to keep it, I spent Monday and Tuesday at a boring CPE. Of course this happens when Cara is extremely sick. My mom was able to take off and watch her, we ended up taking her to the doctor yesterday because she has had a runny nose since last Thursday, coughing since Saturday and slept HORRIBLY with all her congestion. At first glance they thought it was RSV. But I took her back today for her 6 month well baby check and other things and it had started clearing up tremendously just since yesterday, so they think it's just a big cold, with some teething (no teeth yet!). She was 18 pounds 5 ounces (90%), 26.75 inches long (86%) and 16 inch head (small). She's growing big. She had been on cereal for a few weeks, but yesterday we started her on apple sauce (her throat was really sore, you should hear her cry, she sounds so pitiful because nothing really comes out, she's hoarse!) which is much more soothing for her throat. Then Friday we're going to start her on some of the Yo! Baby yogurt, which should also help. She's getting to be so big so fast, I can't believe almost 6 months have FLOWN by already.

Anyways, I have quit my job. I'm doing one client's bookkeeping still, and will continue to do some taxes in the spring (if I already do yours, get ready to start collecting all the info you need!), but besides that, I'm all Cara and Eric's. It was great today. I was able to run her to the doctor and run errands without having to worry about going to work tomorrow. This is all thanks to Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover book, and us buckling down. We sold both of our cars and are driving used cars, PAID FOR used cars. We paid off all our debt except our mortgage. Our house is on the market right now and we're looking to move into Katy ISD and 'downsize'. We want a 1 story 4 bedroom, so we keep looking. Anyways, that's all the news in our home right now. Eric has 2 days left before his 2 week vacation, he's very much looking forward to that! Well, I guess that's all the updates for now, hope everyone is enjoying this Christmas season!
Love, Misty

Happy Thanksgiving week

We had a great time traveling to our "Gamble Family Christmas at Thanksgiving" in Georgetown at Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house. We missed Ashley and Eddie this year! Cara's first Thanksgiving was a fun one, although traveling got her good sleeping thrown off. Now that we're home, she's doing well. Enjoy the new pictures and videos I uploaded. Hope everyone is doing well!

More Videos

I posted some short (and one long) videos last night of Cara being cute and smiley. On the side of my blog there is a link to the dropshots.com page where you can see the most recently posted videos. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

5 months old!!

Can you believe it? It has gone by so fast!!!! If I hadn't found my wonderful part time job, and I was going to go back to ConocoPhillips full time, today would be my first day! I can't imagine going back all day every day. Really, I seriously can't imagine it. She's getting big, I think she's about 18 pounds now. She's very talkative, and loves watching the puppies run around and play, they make her laugh. I have taken a lot of short little videos of her lately, I'll get around to posting those on dropshots.com soon. For the meantime, enjoy the new pictures and I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been awhile!

Well, I just realized there's lots going on and I haven't posted in awhile. First of all, Eric's football team made the playoffs :( so one more week of marching band. Pray that they lose (for his sanity's sake) this Friday. Also, his jazz band is gearing up and has their big Senior Prom (at one of the senior citizen's homes near his school) this Thursday night, so they've been rehearsing a lot. Also pray for Eric, he's taking a half day today, he's feeling horrible, his throat is very sore and swollen.

Cara is getting so big, she'll be 5 months old on Monday. I've taken lots of new pictures, I will upload those tonight when I get home from work. Work, that's a whole other issue. I feel really led that I need to be at home with her (and our future babies) full time. We are doing everything we can to get to that point. We have also discovered Dave Ramsey and are working our Total Money Makeover. We have started selling things, when you start going through your house, you'd be surprised at home much 'stuff' you have that you don't even use, or LIKE! We sold my car and I downgraded to an older used car. We are hoping to sell Eric's truck as well. We may try to go to a different house, possibly in Katy, possibly not, this summer. We want a 4 bedroom, one story, but it doesn't have to be as big as our house. Just pray for God's direction. It's really been a burden on my heart lately. That, and I definitely want to stay home by the time we have our next baby, which we hope to be May or June 2008.

Anyways, that's the update. Matt and Bailey are back from Paris; they had a great time. Next week is Thanksgiving and we can't wait to see all the family again! Keep in touch!

PS, Congrats to our Baylor friends Kevin and Crissy Dazey on the birth of their son Sunday, Drew Christopher Dazey! He's a cutie.

Happy 75th Birthday Pawpaw!!

We just got back from Georgetown celebrating Pawpaw's 75th birthday! We had a great time visiting with Mawmaw, Pawpaw, Aunt Gail, Uncle Rob, Uncle Gerry, Aunt Patti, and Yaya. Pawpaw, you've made it a great 75 years, we look forward to many more!!
Love, Eric, Misty & Cara