Weekend Wrap Up

Well this weekend was a blast! I apologize ahead of time for no pictures, I left my camera at the house and will have to get the few we took from Whitney. Although, I would be a little scared to post them if we would have taken them. It was a pretty crazy weekend!

We went out to Archer City, TX for some dove hunting, muddin, and frog giggin (although the frog giggin was not at all expected, that was a first even for Dave). We took a little rode trip with Cody and Whitney to his Uncle's land and left Friday night. When we got there it was already a full house! We took the chuck wagon and Cody took their four wheeler out to ride the trails with the rest of the bunch. Cody's Uncle has lots of land so there is a TON of places to go riding.

Days consisted of lots of eating, napping and some skeet shooting. It has been quite awhile since we have had a weekend without tv or internet. It was Dave's birthday yesterday (Sept. 6th) and what a birthday it was. The last night we were there was the most fun. There were about 20 people who all took out four wheelers and mules out to go muddin. There were some really funny moments and everyone had a great time! They got a few frogs, one so big I wish we had a camera! They shot a few snakes and in the mist of all that a few people got stuck in the mud. It was so funny to watch the boys try to get a jeep out of the mud with Cody's four wheeler, but they did it! Hercules, Hercules!

Happy 30th Birthday Babe!!! I know it was great! Thank you Cody and Whitney for letting us come out for the weekend, we had a great time!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

People for which I am thankful............

My husband. I couldn't imagine my life without him. He has taught me so much in the past almost four years! WOW, I can't believe that. We will celebrate our one year anniversary as a married couple November 1st and I can't wait! Dave thank you for always being forgiving, for always loving me, and for always making me laugh.

Kristen, my sister in law. She is much stronger than she thinks. She has the kindest heart, is a great mother to two wonderful children, and makes me laugh all the time. I truly enjoy being around you Kristen. I cherish all the wonderful memories I have with you and know there will be many more. I thank God for blessing me with you.

My mom, older sister, and twin. The Pecor women. I tell you one thing, the four of us are some of the strongest women I know. If we don't like something, you will know it. My mother was blessed with a serving heart. She does so many great things through her stewardship. She has taught me about perseverance, faithfulness, and unconditional love. Jenna is one of the most beautiful women I know. She is incredibly talented, funny, and outgoing. She loves to have a good time and is a great listener. Leslie, you are my very best friend. I could not ever imagine my life without you in it. No one but a twin can understand why. I love you with all my heart, one day you will realize what a special person you are. You have so many gifts and talents and will do great things in the years to come.

The Pecor Family, while my last name changed. I will forever be a Pecor, just a little modified :)

The Petty Family. Sherry and Gordon welcomed me into the family with open arms and have always been very loving. I'm grateful for all the children in the family, every niece and nephew have their own little personality and bring something special to everyone. Big Chris, Jenn, CJ, and Corey are all unique in their own way and make the family fun and I'm grateful to have such wonderful people to call family.

What are you grateful for? In the mist of everything that happens in our lives I think we forget how special it is to have family. To have people to cry with, vent to, share special memories with, and to fellowship with. Family is the one blessing I think we take for granted, I know I overlook this important blessing at times. And even though we fight, argue, dislike each other at times they are the ones that build us up when we are down, that love us when it feels like no one else does, and forgive us time and time again when we don't deserve it.

Today, I am grateful for every single family member in my life. I encourage you to tell someone in your family how grateful you are to have them in your life!

Weekend Wrap Up

Another weekend come and gone! This weekend started early as we got out of work early on Friday. YAY!!! Friday night we headed out to the lake with Cody and Whitney to do some night fishing. We went out to Joe Pool Lake and it was a BEAUTIFUL night! We ended up getting on the lake about 730, perfect fishing time.

Dave and I on Cody's boat. Dave was super jealous because he has the exact same boat Dave has been wanting since like day one of us dating. We are still waiting on the perfect boat to find us (wink, wink) That wish item will not be had for quite a while I'm afraid.

Cody and Whitney. They are so fun, we very much enjoy hanging out with them. They are both graduates of Texas Tech, Whitney is a nurse and Cody is a Mechanical Engineer. We are very lucky to have a great group of people that live around us. Matt and Heather live next door and all three couples are just about the same age.

What a BEAUTIFUL night it was!!! There weren't that many people on the lake either, hmmm

Cody's fish he caught, you can't really see Cody but you can see the size of his fish. He is a pro!

My incredibly good looking husband. I love that hat, it's a good thing to because it's Dave favorite and he wears it all the time :)
Cody's fish, Fred (we had many different names for him, this was the only one that came to mind right now). Our plan was to catch alot so we could have a fish fry BUT that didn't happen. So luckily, Fred was set free before we left. Maybe next time!

My mom and I before we headed out to Golightly's. She loved it! I knew she would. There were some GREAT finds this week, to bad my bank account didn't agree. I got to just look this time but Mom got some great decorative napkins and we found some other super cute things too!

Aren't these dishes so CUTE! I had to take a picture because I told my mom we would need to remember what they looked like so hopefully when the time comes for a little girl she will have super cute dishes to play with :)

Tonight we went over to Heather and Matt's for dinner. It was fun, we haven't done that in awhile. Their daughter Avery is about three months now and she is just ADORABLE!! I actually held her this time, when she born we went over to visit but I just looked at her. I get nervous when they are that little for some reason. Avery let me love on her tonight though so Heather and Matt anytime you need some babysitters just let us know!!

Onto another week! Dave has some good leads hopefully for a few job positions so we are praying he gets some interviews.

Can you believe it's already going to be September???

Sharing my thoughts

Today I woke up and I spent some time with God. Every morning I promised myself that my time to get ready and eat breakfast before work I would do in silence. I usually like to listen to the radio while I'm getting ready but after the past few weeks I have decided this would be a good time for me to just sit with my thoughts and talk to God.

The past week and half has been filled with many different emotions. I have been angry, scared, bitter, jealous, had moments of "at least we are healthy", and "I'm perfectly fine with working a second job if it means we stay a float". And last night I had a break down.

I cried, I was angry, I told Dave it's not fair. I have many mixed emotions about the whole layoff and how it happened. I worry that it will take a while to find another job, I worry that we will be living not being able to spend time together or with anyone else because we are working all the time, and I fear our marriage will take a toll and suffer.

We had dinner with my parents last night and sometimes I forget that they are right about certain things in life. As a child, I think we forget that our parents have lived through the same things we as adults are now experiencing. They shared about times they dealt with that were tough for them, how they handled it and how they persevered. They reminded me that this is the "worse" in the "for better or worse" part of vows we took. And honestly, it's not that bad. It's just emotionally and will be physically draining. I know this.

I also trust in my husband as the provider and spiritual leader in our family. Dave has an incredible way of always looking at the good in situations and being positive. He has one of the most giving spirits I have ever met, always wanting to do what he can to help others and truly understands that forgiveness is for yourself and not the other person. He has an amazing outlook at life and I trust him when he tells me it's going to be okay.

It's just a little scary at the moment but I know, and I pray to God that he will take the bitterness I have out of my heart and I know he has to deal with situation. But one of the best things I ever read was about talking to God. I have learned to truly talk to him, not pray to him but have conversations. To tell him my hurts and tell him I'm angry. To talk to him about my feelings and fears and that he can take it and that he likes it when we're honest. He knows our true thoughts and feelings anyway.

I'm not really sure why I shared all this as it is very personal but I just felt the need too. I hope I didn't totally bum out anyone reading this today. But it made me feel better, so sometimes thoughts written out do help to focus one's brain.

I appreciate the calls and prayers so many of you have shared with us. We are very blessed to have friends and family that care for us so much. Thank you!

Weekend Wrap Up

Already Sunday, where do the weekends go? This weekend was pretty good, although I started off Thursday not feeling well at all so I took a sick day Friday and literally tried to recover from the nausea and headache I had for the three days before that (no I'm not pregnant). I'm not sure what it was, I think it was probably because we had such an eventful week last week. But I started feeling better and we were off to Lipan, TX for the weekend to celebrate "the crew's" birthdays.

All of Dave's friends have birthdays in the month of August or September (well most of them) so we went out for a weekend of fun, skeet shooting, fishing, and fellowship with friends. I always enjoy going out there, it's so peaceful except for the extraordinary HOT temperatures. UGH!

We found out Jared and Addie (one of Dave's oldest friends) are expecting and that was so great! They have been married almost 4 years so it's about that time. Jodie, Jared's brother had his 4 month out there. Her name is Reese and she is beautiful!!!!

Kristen and Traci shot their first gun, how fun! I competed in the skeet shoot tournament and I must say to have been the only girl who competed I did very well. Held my own, that's for sure! Got to shoot my new gun too and it's AWESOME!!!!

We came back this afternoon and have been taking it easy. The dogs are SO tired, they are always wore out when we get back from Lipan. I counted this time and there were 7 labs out there! Yes 7! It's a freakin lab farm out there!! We truly enjoy it and the funny thing is all seven labs are related somehow. How weird.

I WOULD have pictures except one husband I know took the memory card out of my camera to use for his hunting camera and now one's wife's camera won't work....................hmmmm who could that be???

Thank you all for your wonderful support and prayers during the last week. We very much appreciate all the sweet comments and know that tomorrow is a new day with new possibilities!! I promise to keep you all in loop, good or bad, about his job hunting adventures. We have passed the point of being hurt and angry and are now in the laugh it off phase. What else can you do right?

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK EVERYONE!!!

Emotional Week

This week has been quite an interesting one for us. We found out Tuesday that Dave is being laid off. His last day with the company will be next Friday the 28th. There are still some possibilities but we aren't for sure if he is going to be able to keep some type of position at the company so we are just waiting. It has been a week of lows and highs as everyday it seems like something else happened and we end up talking about it all night long. Just emotionally draining and while we are trying to stay positive it's still a bad situation. But we are trying to keep our faith and pray about it and that's all we can do.

Good news is that we have spent much time with our neighbors this week and we have enjoyed it. Cody started working with Dave about two months ago and his wife is very funny. We are just taking it day by day and hoping for the best! We will keep you posted.