Welcome to the Marine Corps!!!

Most of you know that Bryan has been thinking about joining the Marine Corps ever since he was layed off in May... Well he recently got layed off again and he has pursued his interest in joining the Military! On Friday December 19th Bryan took his inital oath of the Military.


Raising his right hand and preparing to say the oath...

Saying his name which he mispronounced... ooops!

The Army Captain that administered the oath.

Well that's that!!! It is official..... Bryan leaves on Monday December 29th for Boot camp and will be gone for 13 weeks!!! I am sure it will be some of the hardest weeks of all of our lives right now but we will get through it and everything will be great when it is over!

More Christmas photo shoot!!!

Ok well this is not too bad!!!

What's going on now!!!

Nope Don't like it!

That's all she wrote sister!!!

Celest's First Christmas Season!!!

For me Christmas time is so much fun! First off my name is Noël if that doesn't give it away nothing will... But anyway I love Christmas... putting up a tree setting the lights up outside. Christmas is such a warm and cozy holiday and time period to me! Well I am so excited to share my love of Christmas with Celest that when Judy got her a Santa hat I wanted to make Christmas Cards... So we had a little photo shoot at my parent's house! And here is how it went....


Unfortunately Celest had a runny nose and runny eyes the day I wanted to take pictures!

The typical... "Get this thing off of my head!!!"

My little mischievous girl!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Celest celebrated her first Thanksgiving at her Grandma's house!


Getting ready to go and eat LOTS of good food!

Bryan and Jacob (his cousin) playing pool at Judy's. I think that
Jacob is wanting to play with a little bit more that just Cues & Sticks!

Malori & Celest having fun watching Bryan and Jacob Goof Off!!!

We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!

Noël's Birthday Flowers!

My birthday was in November and my wonderful husband
brought home a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I was looking at them and I thought
"Wow he put some thought into these flowers... what a great and ingenious husband I have!"
Here is why I thought this...

3 Roses: Red (Bryan's & My Love), White (Celest Lynne's pure heart)
& Yellow (for the Yellow Rose of Texas... which is where I am from)


So I say to Bryan how neat it was for him to have picked such a wonderful
bouquet! And he comes back with... I just went in there and
asked for a bouquet and told them how much I wanted
to spend, then they put it all together!

Well it was the thought that counts!!! And they were beautiful... here is a better
picture of the entire bouquet!




Thank You babe for making my Birthday absolutely the best!!!
I Love You!

I Know What You're Thinking.... FINALLY!!!

Here are a few random pictures of Celest Lynne!!!



"Do I really have to wear this thing....."

Rudolph's Stand in!!!

"I Can't take it anymore!"

"I Crack myself up!!!!"