Jeff and I met 15 years ago today, almost at this very minute. We met through mutual friends (many of you know our story so I won’t bore you with the play by play) and it’s a night we’ll never forget. To sum it up, Jeff’s friend was coming to my apartment to see my friend and couldn’t come unless he brought a friend. I’d only lived in Houston a few months and couldn’t explain to them how to get to my apartment so I decided we’d meet up the street in a parking lot and they could follow us. Looking back, this is so scary…two young girls meeting up with 2 guys in a parking lot and I didn’t know either one of them! Anyway, I was driving my little white sunbird and I whipped into the parking lot and they were already there. Jeff was immediately mad with his friend saying things like “you know I don’t like white girls man”... We chatted for a few minutes in the parking lot and they followed us back to my place. Our friends went out on the balcony which left Jeff and I stuck in the living room to entertain each other. Oh wait, at this time I only knew him as JD. Nothing was on tv on a Wednesday night and I have no idea what to talk to this dude about. After a few shots (yes, I broke out the Jack Daniels) we loosened up and started talking about all the “first date” type of stuff, where we work, where we grew up, our interests…. One conversation led to another and we had a great evening getting to know each other. The following two nights we went out and the rest is history. That is a picture from the night we met.
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Kiarra just finished club volleyball for the season. She played very well this season and we are extremely proud of her. She will attend the National Junior Honor Society ceremony tomorrow evening. She would have been inducted last year had Katy Junior High been a little more organized and not used an address and phone number for us that was 3 years old. It still blows my mind that they could get report cards to us at the right address, and call our cell phones several times a week with messages from the principal that were totally irrelevant but when it came to something this important they somehow didn’t have our current information… Ugh! Anyway, I’m very happy with this school and that she is able to be inducted this year and knowing she was supposed to be last year makes me proud as well…just wish she could of gone through it with all her friends. She also has her 8th grade dance this Friday evening and an audition this weekend. It’s a VERY busy and exciting week for Kiarra.
Jayden should be getting his leg brace off this week. He has a sleeve fracture of the patella and as of last week it was healing nicely so the doctor thought he’d only have to wear the brace another week. He’s been pretty cooped up for the past 3 weeks or so. He’s also been sick several times over the past few weeks. He caught some kind of stomach bug that would come and go. He’d be real sick one day and fine for several days and then sick again. I think he’s on the mend now. Thank God!
We’ve been debating on putting Taryn in gymnastics. I've been told she has perfect form when doing cartwheels and round-offs. I’m so used to her doing these all over the house that I didn’t really notice how awesome they were until someone at a volleyball tournament pointed it out to me. They asked me how many years she’s been in gymnastics and were surprised when I said she’d never had formal lessons. She basically taught herself with only a little coaching from me.
We haven’t seen Tamia since January so we can only hope and pray she is doing ok.
My nephew is graduating high school in just a few weeks. I can NOT believe he is going off to college this fall. It just doesn’t seem right that they are all growing up so fast. We can’t wait to see him walk across the stage to get his diploma! It will also be great to see all of my family again.
