IM BACK...

So I'm back from my trip "home" i saw alot of this...

as well as the inside of my jeep and I would be fine with not even sitting in a car for at least a week. ha! Unfortunately, i will be right back in it bright and early getting the girl to school and myself to work.

This cross is on top of a big hill somewheres in between Fredericksburg and San Antonio. At night it has a big spot light on it and its quite pretty. It's one of the reasons I go this way on my drive home every time.

People are weird!! I still don't know what the heck it is...kinda looks like a shrek baby to me though. And just in case you're curious it was a cowboy driving that truck!! :)

In case you can't read that it says TWO WORDS...homemade fudge!! Do you even need to ask if i stopped??

Skyline of Houston in my side mirror. Time spent in car at that point approximately 6 hrs.

Still in Houston...isn't it amazing what we can build? This picture doesn't do this justice at all...but this is part of what we call the spaghetti bowl...all these cris crossing bridges and such. Crazy right??

I get excited when i see this sign...it means I'm getting close!!

505.5 TRIP MILES AND I FINALLY MADE IT!!

All a girl needs to accomplish such a feat...sunglasses, an ipod with all your favorite tunes and sunflower seeds of course.

I managed not to take a single picture with my camera once I got there but here are a few I swiped from my my parents camera.

me and the siblings

the rents @ the astros game.

My cute daddy being silly.

Some of the cousins got together and had dinner one night. (missed you Dane, Jake and Anthony)


The girls!!




This picture makes me smile. Dad and his boys!!


The sky's when i was leaving town this morning looked like this...

then the rain started....

It rained pretty much the whole way home. Which fit my mood honestly. It's not easy telling my family goodbye as it is. But to have to hug my brothers neck and know he is leaving to go to Iraq makes it considerably worse. Between that and worrying about Jeff I am emotionally burnt out. But then when i got back into town i saw THIS....

a RAINBOW!! Again, this picture doesn't do it justice it was HUGE!! And as soon as i saw it i immediately felt a little better and couldn't help but smile. Call me silly but it was just what i needed. I'm taking it as a sign from God that i need to just continue to trust in Him and everything will be okay. "In ALL things God works for the good of those that love Him" (Romans 8:28) ...not just the things that I like.