Mr. Whitaker Celebrates a Birthday

My main squeeze celebrates his birthday today. As much as I want to throw him a HUGE bash, he’s all, “Let’s just do dinner as a family.” One of these years I’m going to surprise him. When we first met 24 years ago, he was this hunk of cute. Of course, I did meet him…

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Our Love Story: Part Three

This is part three of a three-part series on how we met. You can catch up by reading parts one and two. —- When we last left off, I was about to make “the call” for one last effort at a date with Mr. Whitaker. Thankfully, when I made the call and nervously asked Scott to our…

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Our Love Story: Part Two

This is part two of a three part series on how we met. Catch up by reading part one and three. —- Last time, I left you standing at the doorway to Duncan Dining Hall on Texas A&M University’s campus wondering why I hadn’t asked out that handsome fella. Welllll, after consulting with my roommates, we…

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Our Love Story: Part One

Back when I did the vlog, several of you said “share the deets!” on how Mr. Whitaker and I met. You asked, I dish. Honestly, I’ve been wanting to write this down for a long while. I really, really hope this doesn’t embarrass the kids someday. But, I hope they know just how much I love…

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It Was Holly and it Was Jolly: Christmas 2014

In total, I think we hosted 16 people, other than our family, for the Christmas holidays. That’s a whole lotta crazy fun right there. Let’s start with the Nutcracker. For the fourth year, my mom took the girls and I to Ballet Austin’s Nutcracker. As usual, it was fabulous. We’ve managed to time it so…

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