On Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 9:50 pm my father passed away. We had known for 2 years that the day was closer than we ever wanted it to be but when it came it was way too quick. His slow deterioration gave us every opportunity to say all the things we wanted to say and I can happily say I took advantage of that. There was nothing I feel like I didn't say and I don't have regrets. However, to say that I won't miss him terribly is impossible. I don't have the memories that my sister and brother have of him while we were little. The thing that rings in my ears from my childhood is... "I'm Very Disappointed In You!" (Not that I didn't give him many reasons or opportunities to use the phrase... ) The memories I have now are as an adult talking about business or football or watching him interact with my kids. To hear the memories they have of him melts my heart.

He was the best dad any girl could ever want and a day will not go by that I don't wish he was still here.

For anyone asking about his services, they are as follows:
VISITATION
Friday 1/1/10 5-8pm
Lucas Funeral Home
305 West 1st Street
Justin, TX 76247-9608

MEMORIAL SERVICE
Sat 1/2/10
Abundant Life Assembly of God
1520 West Wall Street
Grapevine, TX 76051

Look What They DiD!!!

So the other day Brian and I walked into the bathroom to find that the wall of the shower had started to collapse. So in the madness of the Christmas season we started to demo the bathroom. And as most people know, there is a small portion of me that has a little problem with germs, so you can laugh that I made the kids wear masks and gloves to their elbows but I can only imagine what kind of deadly germs live behind 25 year old walls...

They thought it was so fun and even helped me clean out phase one from the tub to begin ripping out the bench. Unfortunately under the tile that he is hitting above is, well, not much. So it appears it may add another step to figure out how to re-create the step or do away with it. They are excited to be destroying something and looking forward to picking out tile and rebuilding. I told them if we complete this successfully we may just start ripping up carpet too... I am sure Brian would be thrilled... And for anyone that knows him... yes, he was a nervous wreck that the kids were in there doing this and that we won't be able to fix it!! He did use this opportunity to pull entire sections of the walls down to show his children that he has some small part of him that is equivalent to, well, SUPERMAN! The look in their eyes as he is pulling off sections that are bigger than they are was priceless. They are convinced, beyond all doubt, that he is part SUPERHERO with super-human strength (and he loves every second of this fantasy for someday they will know the truth!)

My Birthday Month!!

I just wanted to remind everyone that my birthday month started yesterday! It is so much fun to celebrate all month long when it is the last day of the month. I want to wish my sister a Happy Birthday Month too. I guess I have always resorted to a whole month celebration because I have to share the month with her and Christmas and, well, New Years Eve! So begins the celebration.

I am working on getting my NEW tree up but can't seem to get everything else done and get motivated enough to do it. The projects in my mind seem to be outweighing the Christmas tree so today I am trying to FOCUS and get it done. I have a very long list of other things I feel like I need to do first so I am trying to cross those off. And in the midst of checking things off the list I missed the snow!! In between laundry, cleaning and working in the garage apparently it snowed.

I bought the kid's "big gift" the other day (iPod touches, THANK YOU WALMART!) and had them hidden in my shoes. I gave the kids a hint to try and find them... "When you find them you will KICK yourself." Well, they tore this place up looking for them. On Monday night, Brandon found them and I told them that if they would cheer for me to win Fantasy Football against their dad and I did they could have them. Well, I was down by 21 points and we both had QBs playing in the game on Monday night so I thought there was no way I could win... BUT I DID! So, true to my word, the kids are enjoying their Christmas gifts as we speak. Hopefully they won't be too disappointed when Christmas actually gets here and they already got it.