Feb 2010

David and I started looking at houses…what a long painful process this was!!!! WE FOUND ONE! We loved it! We moved in March 9th.


David had his birthday on the 27th. I was sneaky and contacted Lori (the lady who made our FABULOUS wedding cakes) and asked her to make David a cake for his birthday. David had no idea I was doing this. I had to spill the beans though b/c we had to drive about 45 mins to dripping springs to pick up the cake.


David enjoyed his birthday. We spend the day together just he and I. Sat he went and played golf with Paul . Mom and I had a girls day and went and got our nails done. J

Jan 2010

This year did not start our good for us. My mother’s best friend and Momma #2 to me was diagnosed with stage 4 inoperable brain cancer. It was a shock to everyone. She was just at our wedding and was FINE. We all took a trip to see her in mid January. We made a scrapbook for her. She was so scared of losing her memory and not knowing who anyone was. I made her a pillow with her name on it. It meant the WORLD to her. See Feb post for details on that.


Some brighter things in January…


The Longhorns made it to the National Championship game. A dear friend of ours came over and watched the game with us. STUNK our horns lost but it was a well played game. We are very proud of our horns.


I officially changed my name from Stewart to Reed J and it only took 90 mins of waiting at the social security office.


I discovered Jet Puff again! Eating a peanut butter and JetPuff Marshmellow sandwhich brought me back to my child hood! SO YUMMY!


David finished up his flag football season 8-0.

We had an unexpected visit from the kids. Cyndi (their mom) her dad passed away of cancer in early Dec. He lived in Hillsboro which is about 80 miles north of us. She came in and picked up Bryan. The weekend before they left to go back to NM we got to keep the kids. It was nice having them…just wished it was under different circumstances.

It was our year to have the kids for Christmas. There 2 week stay was jam packed with things to do. The day we picked them up from the airport we went to Waco to have Christmas with my Aunt and Uncle. They took us to a glass blowing shop where we blew Christmas ornaments. It was sooo neat and then ornaments turned out BEAUTIFUL. I think we started a new family tradition. Mom and Paul brought the kids back to Round Rock and David and I stayed in Waco to watch the Cowboys at my Aunt and Uncles. We really enjoy spending time with me. When we got back to Round Rock to pick up the kids from Mom’s Bryan was complaining his tummy was hurting. Poor thing had the SAME stomach bug I had in Nov. Luckily it wasn’t as bad for him as it was for me. 2 nights later Kaitlyn had it followed by another 36 hours Kyle had it. I stayed FAR away and made David deal with all of it. Luckily for him he never caught it.

We took the kids to see Avatar in 3D at the Alamo Draft house. A first for everyone in the family but me. The kids and David thought it was so cool you could order “real” food and they brought it to you in your seat. I defintley recommend going to a draft house to see a movie. Yes it can be extremely pricey…especially with a family of 5 but EVERYONE enjoys it.

We spent Christmas eve with my Mom and Paul. We did the traditional Christmas eve service at their church followed by opening all sorts of crazy presents at Mom’s. We ALL (yes David and I too) got spoiled this year. Kyle’s big gift was a flip cam. Bryan’s didn’t really have a BIG gift that I can remember but he had lots more gifts then Kyle and Kaitlyn. (parents spend the same amount on each kid) Kaitlyn’s big gift was a keyboard. David and I received a couple of big gifts. We got a camcorder and a wolf gang puck griddle/grill that we just LOVE. Christmas morning Aunt Lisa and my Dad came over and watched everyone open presents. The kids surely get spoiled now having a “step” family.

Nov 09

Continued tailgating for our longhorns.

Got a HORRIBLE stomach bug that landed me in the hospital for 5 days. Was 12 hours away from having exploratory surgery before everything straightened out.

We spent Thanksgiving with my Dad’s family in San Antonio. It was great seeing all of them.

Me James Bevo and Camille (James is the one who throws the tailgates every year)

Me and Camille

Marcie Me and Camille

Bryan and Carolyn

Camille and I

Oct 09

OK so I’m going to play catch up on the blogs…I promise I will get better at updating this thing.

Well first off the saga with my arm continued through Oct. One of the ligaments healed one did not. I was able to get out of the 1950’s cast and moved into a new modern cast. Pic below…yup it’s a spider man cast. Not my choice…that is all they had besides plain ol black.
We spent almost every weekend in Oct tailgating and/or at Bryan’s football games. His team did not do so well they only one 2 games during the season. Bry got to play a little but looked like he had a marsh mellow for an arm.

Work had a great haloween pot luck and little trick or treaters.

We carved a pumpkin

My zombie Dr

Bryan's School Carnival

Time flies once you're married!!!!

Wow where to begin....

Well I guess the best place would be to let everyone know that I am now a full-time Mom!!! Bryan decided he wanted to stay and live with us at the very last minute. We quickly got him enrolled in school and flag football (it was too late to get him in tackle football). Well on day 3 of school I get a call from the school nurse. Bryan had fallen and cut open his arm and needed stitches. So e go pick him up and take him to the ER to get stitches. The dr took a set of x-rays just to be sure he didn't have a fracture....ell that came back positive and the dr thought it was an open fracture so she sent us to the childrens hospital in Austin.

After waiting forever they finally tell us that it was not an open fracture and he would need to be in a cast for 6 weeks and as long as he didn't get an infection he would not have to have surgery.

Well 4 days before Bryan broke his arm, David was at Flag football practice fell and ripped open his hand and had to get 4 stitches.

While all this was going on I as having an extremely severe case of vertigo...after much testing and falling they finally figured out I have positional vertigo. On one of the falls I thought I hyper extended my thumb...after 2 weeks ith no progress in the pain in my thumb/wrist I went to the dr. After an MRI they found no broken bones but I did tear 2 ligaments in my wrist. One 3/4 of the way and the other 1/2. So i am now in a clam shell cast for 6 weeks and man is it ugly!!!!

So needless to say the Reed household has been extremely exciting this past month.

Professional Wedding Pics

Well I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to get these up here. Here are the AMAZING professional wedding pictures. Our photographer was Holly Pryor from Pryor Designs she is WONDERFUL to work with and takes beautiful pictures.

The Girls Getting Ready

The Ceremony

The Reception I

The Reception II