G Bizzle

Our dog, Bella, if you know her, is a little on the friendly side. I guess she must have run into a tough crowd because she came inside yesterday with a tear drop-looking tattoo under her right eye. I think it was actually just a run in with a stick, but you never know...

Got Milk?

Last night at Community Group we had our second annual cookie and platter exchange. I don't think I've ever seen so many cookies in one place... and they were all super yummy. Thanks so much to all of our loyal group members. We love having y'all at our house every week to grow and learn together. Y'all are the best!

It would be safe to say...

that Christmas thew up in our house.

I love opening my Christmas bins every year because it's always a fun surprise as to what will be inside of them. I buy so much at after Christmas sales that I don't even remember what I have and, most of it, is still in the original packaging. It's like Christmas before Christmas!

My work of art this year is my kitchen window, but it didn't photograph very well....

Merry Christmas!!!!

Shout Out!

I'd like to give a big shout out and a big THANK YOU to my good friend, Jessica Schmale! Jess is an AWESOME photographer, and she came over this week to take our Christmas picture. Normally I don't think this would have been a huge undertaking, but with a lab puppy who we needed to sit still, it turned out to be much more of a challenge. It made me think about (hopefully) the future when we have kids and we're trying to get them to smile and look at the camera by clapping our hands, calling their name and squeaking a stuffed animal....

Jess, thanks, again! You are so talented!

Tag!

My wonderful friend, Kristin "Levrets" Fulghum tagged me in this blog. I feel so honored. Sorry it's taken me a while to get to, but this was a great excuse for me to get blogging again.

type only one word for each answer: (this is so hard! sometimes I couldn't do it!)

1. Where is your cell phone? coffee table

2. Your significant other?out o' town

3. Your hair?pony tail

4. Your mother? busy

5. Your father? chill

6. Your favorite thing? friends & fam

7. Your dream last night? non-existent

8. Your favorite drink? water

9. Your dream/goal? give

10. The room you're in? living room

11. Your fear? loss

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? content

13. Where were you last night? christmas party

14. What you're not? fearless

15. Muffins/donuts? bagels

16. One of your wish list items? scarf

17. Where you grew up? houston

18. The last thing you did? updated-christmas-card-addresses

19. What are you wearing? fleece

20. Your TV? off

21. Your pet? outside

22. Your computer? on

23. Your life?blessed

24. Your mood?productive

25. Missing someone? always

26. Favorite pastime? reading

27. Something you're not wearing? chaps

28. Favorite Store? target/ gap

29. Your summer? can't wait

30. Your favorite color? turqoise

31. When is the last time you laughed? today

32. Last time you cried? this week

33. Who will re-post this? ?

34. Four places I go over and over? school, heb, gym, park

35. Four people who e-mail me? ryan, pi phis, teachers, mom

36. Four of my favorite foods? mexican, seafood, pasta, ice cream

37. Four places I would like to be right now? beach, san fran, spain, nyc

38. Four people I tag? braids, trog, thaloj, bacardi

Bye Bye Beach House

Back in the 60's my grandparents built a family beach house in Galveston- 4th house from the water. We spent lots of really fun weekends around here as a kid and, in the recent past we've celebrated bachelorette weekends for Bradley and Lev. I wish I had some pictures of our childhood to post, but they're at my parents house in Houston, and I'd have to warm up the scanner....you know how that goes.

Bradley's Bachelorette weekend in '06

Lev's bachelorette weekend in '08

All was well at the beach house until Hurricane Ike came through.
Here are some pictures my parents took of the bottom floor when they went to meet with the insurance adjuster last weekend.

This was a room, which you can't even tell because three of the four walls are gone.

Part of the wall

from the other side

That's the toilet... the water heater, washer and dryer are no where to be found.

The shower is basically the only thing left in this room.



We'll be having a Lynch family meeting pretty soon to decide how to rebuild and whether or not we'll keep it or sell it after that. Mother nature is pretty darn powerful!!!

Goodbye to the Dog Days of Summer

Just a few of the things I love about the fall...

Decorating the house

letting Bella play outside for long periods of time now that it has cooled off

Scarves! (thanks, Lev!)

Austin High Football

Aggie Football (usually painful to watch)

blankets

getting to wear my favorite fleece

transitioning from cold to warm drinks at Starbucks

celebrating my wonderful husband's birthday. happy birthday, babe!!!