28 days left....

NBA, here I come...

Mama's boys...

Easter morning...

Hunting eggs...

Those are diapers on their heads; they make me laugh...

It's so hard to believe that I'm down to a few weeks. As I mentioned in the last post, I still have SO much to do. Hopefully the nursery will be completed by the end of this week and that will take care of a lot of my list. That just reminded me that I'v got to get our tax stuff together so that we can do that next week too. It's funny because we always used to file by the end of February, but that's because we would get a nice return. When you know you're going to pay, I guess you wait until the last minute.
Anyway, we had a great Easter. My parents and Colt's parents came to our house to watch the kids hunt eggs and celebrate Larissa's b-day. Ryder did really good collecting eggs until he realized they were full of candy. He refused to put them in the basket and left a trail of hershey kisses all over the yard because he opened every egg he could find. I didn't get any wonderful pictures because he was in "one of those" moods.
Not much to talk about other than leg cramps and swollen ankles and that's not very exciting...all in good time; I know!!!! Have a good week.

My Prince....

September 30, 2000...

Engagement Pics, June 2000...

Honeymoon in Puerto Vallarte...

Our first born son; Maverick...

Our family today; March 08...

I know, it's been awhile. This past month has really flown by, and I've come to the realization that we're having another child 6 weeks from today. It freaked me out because I realized all the things that I haven't done yet. I've been scrambling around trying to do things that should have been done 2 months ago. Colt and I are going to work in her room this weekend; there's a lot of sanding and painting to be done, but we're down to the wire. Anyway, other than being fat, I feel really good, but am SO ready for this to happen.
On another note, I was supposed to write this blog last month, but just got the pictures scanned in. A lot of people don't know much about Colt or how we met...so here goes!



I graduated Dec of 98 and moved to Dallas to teach in Garland. About that same time, Colt moved to Lubbock and was living with his sister, right across the street from Jason Copeland, Josh Bailey and Justin Brown. For the next few months, Jason was always telling me about "his buddy Colt", I said NO WAY, he's too young and I'm not hooking up with anybody that you would recommend. When school got out in June, I came home to visit and was on my way to see Jason and Josh who were across the street at Colt's house. I walked in (meeting him for the first time) to find him in his dirty work clothes, backwards baseball hat, eating supper on a TV tray. I immediately thought he's really cute, but he was rather preoccupied with his food. That night, several of us went to midnight rodeo, and he technically was there with someone else, but that's a long story :) I don't know what it was, but I decided that there was just something about him and I GENUINELY tried to stay away from him, but we ended up innocently dancing. This was a Thursday night in June of 99, he kissed me on Saturday, we decided to start dating the next week, he moved to Dallas in August, he proposed the next May of 2000 and we were married Sept of 2000. Talk about a whirlwind romance; it's hard to believe that we've been together 9 years this June. I can't think of anyone who thought it was a good idea that we got married. In fact, a few of my guy friends pulled him aside and gave him "a talk!" Everyone loved him, just not with me. I guess I should have been given a little more credit because here we are, 9 years, 2 dogs, 2 kids and several pounds later...happier than I would have EVER imagined. He truly is my best friend and we really do love each other more every day. All I need it a white picket fence and the fairytale would be complete.
So, there you have it; our story! These pictures are between 8 and 9 years old (except for the last one) and I never realized how skinny we both were. I love them dearly and wouldn't trade them for the world, but these damn babies have really screwed up my girlish figure!!!! Have a good week.

She has a name....

Am I cute, or what???

Tough man....

The prince sleeps...

Okay, Lisa, after many attempts, you are officially being congratulated on naming our child!!! We've gone round and round on trying to pick a name, but Colt finally agreed on Valentines Day that we can name her Sydney Ann Scott. Her initials will be SAS, instead of ASS (sorry to disappoint you Cherise!) That's one more thing that I can check off my list of things to do...give my kid a name :) I can't believe that it's already so close to time; 9 weeks will be here before I can turn around.
It's been another eventful week. The day after he had x-rays to locate "the dime", he slit his eye open. Fortunately it wasn't close to his eyeball, but close enough to the lid that we had a hard time keeping the wound shut. It happened late in the evening, so we decided against an ER visit. I figure that girls usually think scars are sexy and boys think of them as trophies, so it shouldn't be a big deal. If we could just keep him from picking the scab off, it might actually get well.
Not much to tell, but here are a few pictures to look at. Have a good week.
FYI...We found the dime and it's now in his baby book (scrubbed clean, of course!)

An expensive dime...

Eating at the big boy table...

Riding with Daddy, Nana and Papa...

Love McD's...

ERN!!!

Good to see old friends...

There's so much to write about this time. First off I want to say how good it was to see so many of you last weekend. I don't think I'd seen Cherise and Darla since school and that was a long time ago. Thanks to the Kappa girls for letting a CD come party with you. I kind of considered myself "transclub" (get it??? instead of transgender), therefore it was never a big deal. As for my old CD's, we need to get together next year. I will volunteer my house. Let's try and make that a priority; who knows we might could even go to the breakfast but that's probably pushing it for me :)
Anyway, Saturday afternoon Ryder decided to have a dime for lunch. I saw him pick it up and run to his bedroom, but by the time I got there it was too late. He started choking but managed to get it down. His pediatrician said as long as it's not blocking his airway that it would pass through in about 12 or so hours, 3 days at the most. In the mean time, he developed a deep cough and heavy wheeze. Since today is the 4th day and we still have no dime, she said he needed an immediate X-ray. She even mentioned a surgical procedure because she thought it might be trapped in his right lunch. Long story short, we found a dime in the X-ray but its deep in his gut instead of his lung. There's really nothing that can be done, but she said it can take up to 6 weeks for him to pass it through. That means I could be digging through his diapers for another month and a half....that's disgusting. While were waiting on the dime to show up, he's having to take breathing treatments every four hours for a severe upper respiratory infection! All in all, we're pretty lucky because he hasn't been really sick in over a year. As for the dime incident, I have a feeling we'll have plenty doctors/ER visits in the future because he's ALL boy!
That's all for now. Have a great week!

All about me...

Did I do that???? (he's been dressing himself lately)

He loves to ride with daddy...

snuck out the doggy door with a phone and bag of chips...

holding baby Zane....

Playing with Cash...

I've been tagged! I'm sure that yall are so excited to find out wierd little things about me. I could probably come up with pages full, however this only asks for 5-7 and this is what I have off the top of my head. My next blog will include some fun pictures I found from college; it has to do with Amy Lee's last entry. As soon as I get my pictures together, it's on!!! Some of you should be scared, very scared!

(1) Share 5-7 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. (2) Tag random people at the end of your post. (3) Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their page.

1. I have several strange OCD habits, but this one is the easiest to explain. When I'm driving in a vehicle and think that my car is centered between two landmarks, (usually highway telephone poles) I click my teeth together. I will count how many seconds it takes to get from one pole to the next and if it's 6 seconds then I will know that I can click between the next set of poles at 3 seconds and that should be close to the middle. I know, they prescribe meds for this kind of stuff.

2. I love the smell of a cow lot. It's not like I would buy "cow lot" scented potpourri for my house, but when I smell it outside, it reminds me of West Texas/Eastern NM. I guess it just reminds me of my childhood.

3. It is virtually impossible for me to turn down a bet. Regardless of how ridiculous the dare or bet may be, I would probably take it. In high school, a guy bet me that I couldn't eat 50 bags of chips in less than a week. I of course said that I could, not realizing that it's almost 8 bags per day. Needless to say, I lost and he ended up with a new pair of boots.

4. I love fried spam. It is probably my very favorite kind of sandwich; fried spam, mustard and cheese on toasted bread. I can only make it when Colt is out of town because he says it stinks up the entire house.

5. I would never stick my hand under a bed. Childish, I know but something about that clown on poltergeist has stuck with me all these years. I'll look under a bed, but only if I'm a good distance a way, however, I would never stick my hand under without looking first.

6. My highschool letterman jacket has the wrong graduating year on the patch. When I was filling out the paperwork to order it, the question said "year?" I thought that meant what year is it right now. Apparently it means what year will you be graduating. That was a touch one to live down.

7. I'm probably the reason that people post "no soliciting" on their doors. When I was little, I would make the DUMBEST things and take them door to door asking neighbors to buy them. I would sell anything and everything, but my favorite were the mini pom-poms. I took a bunch of 4 inch pieces of yarn, tied them all together in the middle and called them pom-poms; they were only 10 cents a piece. I remember that one lady asked me, "what do you do with it?" I said, "I don't really know, but you could still buy it."

Maybe this will clarify why I am the way that I am. No, that will probably never happen. Okay, I tag Jenn, Lisa and Mel. Have fun with this one.

Agnostic??? Please....

Ryder and his BFF...

Ryder and Mim (my mom)


I'll preface this by saying that I've never been known as one who researches and has all the facts straight. I usually speak before I think and don't mind expressing my opinions. If I'm totally off base here, or don't have my definition correct, please let me know. I have no intentions of offending anyone, but this topic happens to be may latest pet peave. Have you noticed how many people claim their religion as agnostic? I was looking on myspace one night and saw so many people with that in their profile. I asked a couple at church about it and they said that it means you neither confirm nor deny that God exists. The more I thought about it, it really irritated me that so many people are so spineless. I guess that I have more respect for an atheist because at least they will take a stand and believe whole heartedly in a position. Sounds like the idea of being agnostic is some mans genius way of saying "I don't want to acknowlege that God exists so that I have no guilt over my lifestyle, however, just in case he does exist I'm not atheist so I won't go to hell." That drives me crazy that people see Gods existance as being so insignificant that they are comfortable with sitting on a fence and not having to make any real decisions. Isn't that society in general these days? No-one wants to offend anyone else or be wrong about anything, so they take the middle ground and continously lean towards the side that makes them most comfortable at the time. Amazing the message that's being sent to the children of the world. As I said earlier, it just seems to be a very cowardly, spineless way to live...grow a set and take a stand. Whether you're right or wrong, at least you stood up for something that you believed in.
Okay, as Forrest Gump would say, "and that's all I have to say about that!" On a lighter note, Ryder had pictures made last week and they turned out really cute. He's really into horses thanks to Colt's side of the family, so we went with the western theme. Have a great weekend.

He loves his tunnel set...

Daddy must be slacking...

I know, it'a hot pink hat but it's still cute!

Playing under the trampoline

As most of you know, I got my real estate license last year and I have enjoyed every minute of it. It allows me to stay home with my children most of the time yet I still have a "career" that I can focus on and I really need that. Ryder goes to Parents day out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, giving me 2 days a week to focus on nothing but real estate. I'm so thankful that Colt's job is very flexible because that allows me to take care of after hours/weekend appointments, showings, open houses or anything else that I need to do. Long story short, I feel that I've gotten my feet wet enough and I really want to focus more on that aspect of my life. One of my new years resolutions was to start putting myself out there and make people aware of what I'm doing. I didn't talk about it a whole lot because I spent the last year learning and preparing myself to take on more responsibility with my business and I feel that I'm ready to take that step. My point in all of this is just to say that if your in the Lubbock area (even if you're not, I can help with that also) and thinking about buying or selling a house, please consider me during that process. I set a goal for myself last year and actually tripled it, so I am confident that I can help with any needs that you (or someone that you know) might have! My broker is Greg Garrett with GMAC Real Estate, only one of the biggest companies in the US. It's a fabulous company and I'm so blessed to be a part of it. I'm still working on my web site, but you can visit www.suzannejscott.com and that gives more info. Okay, now that I've totally bored you, here are cute pictures of Ryder. I just felt it was important to get this information out to as many people as possible, otherwise my business won't grow. FYI...I do plan on going full time someday and I WILL be the #1 agent in Lubbock. Move over veteran agents because here I come. (Anyone who knows me, knows that humility has never been my greatest quality :)
One last thing...my sister, Larissa is a loan officer so she can help you with any financing. Her link is on my page. Okay, now yall can go cook some spaghetti and I'll go sew something! Have a great week.