It's been a while!

OK I've majorly slacked!

Cassidy is growing like a weed! It's insane! She's so fun to have conversations with, and some of the things she comes up with kill me!

Here are a few pictures of Cass on a trip to Grandmother's in College Station.

Cass & Pop playing basket ball

Dang truck parked right in my picture!

Our yearly river trip was lots of fun. Cass had a blast 'tubing' the little area by the swimming hole. My mom and brother Jared went with us again this year, and we had a good time. We even went down to the dance by the swimming hole friday night.

My Smart Mom moment - bring the laptop and her Little Einstein DVDs!

Pop's Favorite Picture

Jared (aka Uncle Bub) managed to find himself a bunch of little cheerleaders to dance with!

She got to go to her first ever circus last week! Nana & Pop treated Cass (and Jeremy and I) to the Ringling Bros Circus in Corpus Christi! IT WAS SO FUN! Cassidy was a little scared at first, but once she realized that there were lots of horses and elephants and tigers she was hooked. She was clapping and dancing and saying "Daddy, look! Daddy you see that?! Daddy you see the horsies? Daddy look at the elephants!" She had to make sure Daddy didn't miss a thing! LOL

Please excuse the poor quality of the cell phone pictures, low light + cell phone camera = pathetic pictures!

Jeremy is now working part time at EMS and for my Aunt Sharron at her propane shop. He's still full time at the Fire Dept too.

I left the Sheriff's Office and am now dispatching at Port Lavaca Police Department. I am loving it. The officers are so nice and welcoming (so are the dispatchers). I'm not doing 1 month of days/1 month of nights anymore, straight nights. Aww, that sucks you say? Not really, I prefer nights! I see Cassidy more when I work nights, and I'm excited to FINALLY be able to get into somewhat of a routine. There's really no chance for a routine when you are flip flopping every month from a day schedule to a night one.

What's this?! A picture of Me?!

My sister had her sweet baby girl Maryah in April. She looked A LOT like Cassidy when she was born!

Here's Jaylen, Alyssa's son, he's 3 1/2.

In April my cousin Patrick and his two kiddos came in from El Paso (the circumstances royally sucked though) I can't believe how much Tyler and Bella have grown! Can't wait to see them again in a few weeks when they come back down!

Tyler - he's gotten WAY too tall!

Beautiful Bella - geeze I remember when we had her first birthday party!

We got a new puppy! Her name is Trixie (anyone have any cute ideas for her registered name?) She is a full blooded (CKC) Austrailian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler) We all love her to pieces, even Hooch plays with her! Kenzie gets a little annoyed with her constantly trying to get her belly, can't blame her there!

(cell phone pics again)

My best friend Amanda loaned me her husband Robert (aka Robbit or Roberto) one evening so we could go play nature photographers! (Thanks Manda!) We went out to Magnolia Beach and I got some awesome shots. I still haven't seen his *eyeroll*

I'm really starting to get into nature photography!

I *promise* I'll be back soon. I think I'm going to steal some fun blog ideas from some online friends!

ps- familia, feel free to email the link to out of town family members! I don't have any email addys!

Pics from today

Just because... :) Enjoy

The first one, she said "take picture my foot!" So I did :)

Update On Us!

Wow! It has been a WHILE since I last posted something. Sorry! My powercord for my Mac broke...thank you Deputy Perez for dropping it! A new one is $80, and well I'd rather buy crap for Cass that she doesn't need than save $20 on each of those toys I have bought and get a cord LOL.

We took a Marek Family Picture in December..


I want to re-take it because I have since learned a few more things about my camera and think I can do better =)

Well, Cassidy turned 2 in January..can you believe it?!
She went from this

to this
(pictured with Mawmaw)
IN TWO YEARS?!

*sniff*

She got to see her older, but not bigger cousin Jaylen (My sister Alyssa's son) on her birthday


and she had a "swumber pawty" with her best bud Taryn


Amber (my bestest bud) even got a few pictures of me, that NEVER happens..Thanks Amber again for taking pics for me!

I look goofy, but see the horsie pinata?


Amber's birthday is the day after Cassidy's so we threw a suprise party afterwards for Amber...I'm NOT going to be posting those pics, but here is Amber..lovingly called Amboo by all of us


Oh and I must share the story of the cake..oooh the cake!

Tiger, my dear, sweet, Tiger Kitty....


ATE HALF THE CAKE as it was cooling on top of the stove! So good ol' Mawmaw made an emergency trip to Walmart to get more cake mix.
Here is the ghetto cake =)



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Sun dresses in January..yeah, pathetic huh? The joys of living in South Texas


Cassidy LOVES to jump...and the girl can get some air!


I just like this pic


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Feb:

We took Cass to the Aquarium, she LOVES it. We got a 1 year membership! Her favorites were the dolphins, she even got a stuffed dolphin from the gift shop.







I love my husband, he puts up with me taking random pics of him when I'm bored in the car =)


And to end this post of...just cuz my kid is cute

HipViolet!

One of my friends, Jesi, has started a new Etsy store. She makes the CUTEST bibs. I just ordered one for Cassidy, here is a pic...


And some hair clips too!

Check her out HipViolet

Cassidy's Birthday Ticker

Austin...a post from Cass

We went to Austin with Nana, Pop, and Daddy this weekend. We went to Auntie Em's dorm (and bad momma forgot to take pictures) Then Daddy and everyone except me and momma went to the UT game. I'm glad momma didn't let me go, because I got to go have lots of fun playing with my friend Kairi and her momma Jamie! We went shopping for fabric at Joann's, because our crazy mom's are in love with fabric. Kairi and I played with this really cool singing pumkin. We liked him so much we almost ran the batteries out. Miss Jamie was getting her fabric cut and Kairi got in the basket with me and we just couldn't stop pressing the button and watching that pumpkin! Kairi made momma laugh because she kept saying "Oh no, we ran the batteries out, we need batteries"Momma didn't have any batteries with her, that poor pumpkin was starting to have slurred speech! After we went shopping we went to eat at this yummy place called Willy O's. I ate half of momma's burger, it was really good! And she let me have PINK LEMONADE! I LOVED IT! Then we went with Miss Jamie to her friend's house to pick up some things and on the way Kairi shared her left over french fries with me. When we got to Miss Jamie's new apartment me and Kairi got to play! We had so much fun, we ran all over the place and squealed and giggled and gossiped and the momma's couldn't understand most of what we said. Then when it started to get late we went inside and got to JUMP ON THE BED! Miss Jamie's bed wasn't set up yet, since they were just moving in that day. We had so much fun! I can't wait to go back to play with Kairi!
Here are two pictures from the trip, me riding in Kairi's extra car seat, and me and Kairi running away from momma.

And this is just a picture of my new bows. I love my bows from Brandie!