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I've been waiting a long time to do this post. I had to get permission from Matt first and he finally told me last night that I could share this. 12 years ago when I met Matt he had a little secret. We still debate today on whether or not I knew in the beginning or found out after we got married (too late!) As the years went by, I began to wonder how this issue was going to affect our marriage. Not ready to approach him about it, I continued to live life and ignore it. About 3 years ago I got serious about approaching Matt on this. I started by dropping subtle hint (yeah right) and complaining a lot about it. I threatened him, gave him ultimatums and started many arguments about this. He promised to deal with it after Sarabeth was born. 1 year later, nothing. Then I began to pray and God answered. February 7th 2009 at approximately 12:39 a.m., my sweet husband came upstairs and got me out of bed. He took me downstairs and out onto the back patio. He sat me down and sai...

To celebrate the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Sarabeth's MDO has Western Day at school today! They are having a special lunch and tons of fun stuff for the kids. I tried to get a few good pictures of her this morning in her Rodeo Princess shirt and Hot Pink cowgirl boots with flashing lights (compliments of my dad for Christmas)! She is suck a stinker! She kept pulling her hat off. I took her outside and changed her shirt (since she got breakfast all over the other one) and she took off running and I had to chase her down with the camera. Cheese! Howdy Yall! Giving kisses to the camera Laughing and about to run away! Happy Rodeo Day!

Ok this is the 3rd time I have tried to change my blog and forgot to save my widgets! Now I have to add all of my links again! I'm so over this stupid thing...seriously. Tonight I am going to attempt to create my own blogger template. We'll see how it goes.

Matt and I don't usually do a lot for Vday and this year was no different. I did have a chance to make some cookies for Sarabeth's MDO class party and I was so pumped! It was my first time to do something for her class and I felt like a real "class mom" :) She came home with a little bag full of valentines from the kids in her class, so cute! I attempted to let Sarabeth make a craft for daddy for Valentines. I let her loose with the paints and she went crazy! They were non-toxic and washable so although it looks like she bleeding from her eye, it's just a lot of paint! The craft never made it, it met it's demise in the trash can. Crafty chic!

Sarabeth is starting to talk so much more. She is great at communicating with us. Most of the time she just points and mumbles but a lot of things she can say. She knows how to say "nose, eyes, ball, mama and daddy, baby, up, bow (like her hair bows), out (for outside) bye bye, yes, no, and oh snap! She is so hilarious. Her new thing is climbing on the kitchen table. I can turn my head and in a few seconds she is on the table! She loves to get in the fruit bowl and take a bite out of everything in it! Every apple has a bite out of it! Yesterday she bit right through a banana, eww!

I love watching Sarabeth play. She is growing up so fast and doing new things everyday. She will be 16 months on March 1-WOW! She is becoming so much more interactive and starting to actually understand "play". She is so in love with babies, real and dolls. She gathers them up, wraps them in blankets and hugs and kisses them. She tries to feed them whatever she is eating and loves on them just like we love on her. She watches us so closely and mimics a lot of what we do. She is so sweet with her babies! Every day I love her more. I'm enjoying being able to spend most of the days with her. I miss her so much when I have to go into the office :( Little Mama

Today's post comes from an article Katy Lin posted on her blog. I read it and was convicted instantly! These 10 Secrets to a Successful Marriage are so right! I tried to pick just one to talk about, but I could not decide. I want to talk about how a few of them have affected my marriage. 5. Change your mind, Change your marriage How couples think and what they believe about their spouse affects how they perceive the other. What they expect and how they treat their spouse matters greatly. I can't tell you how much I've learned by this. Marriage is definitely a place where you can become selfish and self absorbed. It's easy to think about only what you want and your own feelings. It takes a mature couple to realize they aren't the only one in this. Simply changing your mind about how you feel makes a huge difference. Matt used to always tell me "don't be bothered by that" or "don't let that hurt your feelings". It would always be...

Here are Katy Lin's prompts/themes for MHR Friday this week: I picked #1 and #2. Prompt/Theme for Friday, February 6, 2009 We have a couple of different options for this week: 1. Tell us about some of the things that you and your husband do to just have fun together! 2. Tell the story of a memory about your husband that brings you a smile and a giggle every time you think about it! 3. Give us your best, most creative Valentine's Day gifts (and yes, this one is a shameless way to use your creativity to help me come up with a Valentine's Day gift, lol!) Challenges: ~ Set an appointment with your hubby to have a "goals and dreams" talk as described in the first article . ~ If you already know some of your husbands goals and dreams, be intentional about encouraging him and helping him to reach them. So...this week was a tough week for us (more on that in another post). There was a lot of tension and silent moments. Last night we decided Matt would mak...