Introducing..

Miss Alexis Joy "Lexi" White! The little princess was born December 6th, 2010, at 9:01 a.m. She weighed 9 lbs 4 oz, and was 21 inches long! I am already in love! Mom and baby did great during the c-section and the whole family is doing wonderful!

Without further ado..

The Beginning of a New Chapter...

Tomorrow I will experience something brand new! My best friend is having her first baby and I will officially become an "honorary aunt" to Miss Alexis Joy White! This is so surreal to me...

I can remember 12 years ago in Ms. Kaufman's biology class when I became partners with a girl named Kyrbie Green. We both became partners with each other for our bug project because we didn't want to be partners with this other scary girl! Little did we know, that one project would result in us becoming best friends! We've gone through freshman band, football games, super fans, cheerleading, boys and lack of, slumber parties, sweet 16's, Gracie's birth, road trip to Brownwood, college, our "serious" boyfriends,  Kyrbie's engagement and wedding, college graduations, first jobs, my engagement and wedding, and now Kyrbie's going to become a mama tomorrow!

I am SO excited to start this new chapter of mine and Kyrbie's relationship! The past 12 years have been so wonderful and I know the future years will bring even more amazing memories! I had the pleasure of being with Kyrbie when her baby sister Gracie was born, and now I'll have the pleasure to be there when her child is born! I just think that's amazing and there is no other place I'd rather be!

Kyrbie Alexis Green White,

Your friendship is so precious to me and I can't thank you enough for being such a best friend! I know that you are going to be such an amazing mother to Lexi! I can't wait until I can join you in this journey of motherhood! Love you more than you know!

Chelsey Sue Snodgrass Moss

and in honor of this occasion, here are some blasts from the past! ;)

"Hurt" doesn't even begin to describe it...

This is one of those nights that I'm glad that I have a blog. I'm glad that I have a place to write about my feelings and the freedom to put it all out there. Because tomorrow, I have to put these feelings aside and act a completely different way then I want to, or should even have to.

Tonight I worked until 6:30 up at school catching up on work and putting up Christmas decorations. I brought dinner home for my husband and myself and we watched a little t.v. After I finished eating, I got online to check my normal Facebook, e-mail, and school mail even though my husband believes that we shouldn't check work e-mail from home. I don't agree with him and tonight I'm glad that I don't.

I got online and saw that I had two e-mails from a parent in my classroom. I opened up the first e-mail and it went something like this. This parent wrote in the e-mail that I was so sweet in wanting to talk to them about things and then wrote, "NOT!". The parent continued to write and say that it made them not want to collect money for my class Christmas present, but that they guessed they would still try and be nice.

So, this parent obviously was e-mailing someone else, gossiping and complaining about me behind my back, but then accidently sent ME the nasty e-mail that was meant for someone else.

I then opened the next e-mail from this parent and in this e-mail they confessed that the previous e-mail was not meant for me (no DUH) and that they felt like I didn't like talking to them and some other stuff.

I literally could not believe this! I've NEVER had this happen to me before and I have no idea how to handle it. I'm still in shock. What's even worse is that this parent's child is one that I love so much and the child is absolutely precious! I just don't understand it.

I'm so hurt right now. I want to call this person and give them a piece of my mind..but I can't. I have to be professional. Tomorrow when I go to work, I have to act like this isn't a big deal and I'm not hurt. But it's a very big deal.

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

Thanksgiving Recap!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the Snodgrass side of the family this year!

Bryan and I started our break with Mom and Rachel coming down on Tuesday night and spending the night with us. We got up early on Wednesday and went shopping at Market. Too bad our favorite Christmas guy wasn't opened! Darn it! We still enjoyed ourselves and had a great afternoon!

Bryan and I came home and packed, then got on the road to Lorena. After only 3 hrs :) we made it to Lorena where my Mom greeted us with my favorite dinner, beef stroganoff! Yum! We had dinner, my hubby got a haircut (about time!), and I relaxed at home while Bryan and Chalen went to see Harry Potter.

Thanksgiving morning, we woke up, watched the Macy's Day Parade for a little while, then got ready and headed down to my grandparent's house in Brady. Thank goodness Chandler drove and Bryan and I napped for most of the 2.5 hrs! Thanks Chan! ;) We made it to the dairy and the Thanksgiving festivities began!

Here are some pictures my mom took during the day!

my cousin Kaylynn and her adorable son Caleb!

me and my stud muffin!

two of my sisters, Chalen and Cherise!

Kaylynn and her mom, my Aunt Christie

cheese!

this is a silly one of him, but I love it! especially his eyes!

Grandma's famous pecan pie!

most of the spread!

most of the girls with Grandma!

my grandparents, Elvis Ireland (E.I.) and Imogene Snodgrass

Daddy with Grandma and Grandpa

                                            the boys with Grandma and Grandpa

the girls with Grandma and Grandpa

After we finished lunch, most of us headed back to Lorena. Chessa (my sister who's a nurse) had to work the night shift, so we had to leave early. Chandler and Daddy stayed to go deer hunting. Chandler got his first buck of the season the next morning!

Thursday night was spend lounging around the house! Mama and I went over to visit Melisa because it was her birthday, and Marsha and the girls were visiting for Thanksgiving so I went to say hello to them. It was fun catching up!

Friday we slept in, then me, Bryan, Mama, and Chalen all went out and had lunch at Rosa's and then did some light shopping. It was busy, but thankfully all the Black Friday crazies were mostly gone! Bryan and I headed back home to Rockwall on Friday night, slept in on Saturday and then went and did our monthly grocery shopping!

Saturday night, we had the pleasure of going back to Edison's (where we had our wedding reception) to celebrate Eddie and Allison's 10th wedding anniversary! It was beautiful, the band was great, food was delicious, and we had a blast! Our favorite thing was probably the photobooth!

Sunday we went to church, my baby took me to lunch at my favorite, Johnny Carino's and then we went to Walmart to get some Christmas lights. Bryan spent the afternoon putting up our lights and I did lots of laundry! We're going to get our tree soon and will have Christmas decoration pictures to post when we're finished!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break spent with your family that was as blessed as ours!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, from our house to yours!

We all have so much to be thankful for this time of year! I am more blessed than I ever have imagined or definitely deserve!

This year, I am especially thankful:

• that I have been saved by the blood of the Lamb
• that I am forgiven
• even though I am a retched sinner, Jesus still loves me anyway
• for my family
• for my grandparents
• for my sweet friends
• for my new friends at church
• for my job
• for my health and my family's health
• for my freedom
• for my home and working car
• that Bryan and I are getting closer to saving more money and eliminating our debt!
• for my blog friends
• most of all for my husband who loves me everyday and treats me like a princess!

Thank you Jesus for all of your blessings!

 I hope you all have a wonderful, relaxing, Thanksgiving spent with friends and family!

This definitely made my morning!

This morning one of my sweet girls brought me this bag and said, "Mrs. Moss, my Mommy made these cinnamon rolls for you! They're hot and fresh!"

Well, after opening them up and seeing them, they were HOMEMADE CINNAMON ROLLS that were definitely hot and fresh! SCORE! I couldn't wait and dove right into them. They were soooooooo yummy! Don't worry, I didn't eat them all by myself! ;) I shared some with my team and am saving some for the hubby! Now, if that doesn't make your morning, I don't know what does! :0)

Prayer Request

Hey guys!

I just wanted to post a prayer request that I would love ya'll to pray about! We found out this morning that Caleb's dad passed away during the night. Caleb is one of Bryan's best friend from college, and was also a groomsman in our wedding. His dad was diagnosed with cancer several months ago and was recently placed into hospice. Bryan received word that he wasn't doing very well last night, and had already planned on going down for the funeral whenever he needed to. Bryan told me all of this this morning. After I got to school, I got a text from him that said that Caleb's dad had passed away at 2:30 this morning.

Bryan will leave early tomorrow morning to go down for the visitation and funeral. Please pray for Bryan as he travels, pray for peace and healing for Caleb and his family, and pray for Bryan as he goes to comfort his best friend during this great loss. Thank you!

(here's a picture of Bryan and Caleb at our wedding in '09)

Happy Birthday Morgan!

This weekend we had the pleasure of driving down to Ft. Worth to celebrate our best friend Morgan's birthday! We had dinner at Joe T. Garcia's and had a great time! We ended up eating outside and at first I was a little hesitant because of the cold front that had come through, but it actually was a lot of fun! It was so pretty outside and they had these amazing heaters, so it was perfect!

Morgan had a ton of friends and family that came out to celebrate and then we went back to her house for game night! We played Catch Phrase and had a blast! We loved seeing Morgan and have missed her so much! We're so blessed to have her in our lives and love her more than we can say! She is an amazing woman of God! We love you Morgan!

Thank you Shutterfly!

I thought it was oddly familiar when I kept reading my friends post all about Shutterfly and their Christmas cards. I thought, "Well, maybe they're just trying to get ahead and get their Christmas cards finished early" or "maybe they just really like Shutterfly!" Haha..then I finally realized that this was why everyone suddenly went post crazy! ;) You've gotta love free Christmas cards!

Go here to check out their amazing cards and here to check out the cool wall calendars you can make! I've always wanted to make a cute calendar and think it would make a really great gift for someone!

This is one of my favorite cards that they have! Now, I just have to find the perfect picture! We're debating on having pictures done, but I'd also like to save money so we might just end up using a picture taken of us this weekend. It was a pretty cute one! I guess you'll just have to wait and see! ;)

Kyrbie's Baby Shower!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of helping to host my best friend's baby shower! I knew that one day this day would come and we've had so much fun getting to plan Kyrbie's shower! I got to host my first "girl" shower, so I went a little crazy over all the pink! ;)

We held Kyrbie's shower in Waco at the best place ever, a store called Spice. It's amazing! You must go if you're in the area! Here are pictures of the decorations. Sorry some of them are turned sideways! I couldn't fix them.

 Awesome banner my friend Crystal did! You can't see it very well b/c of the light, but it says her name, "Alexis Joy".

isn't this diaper cake that Jamie did amazing?! Now someone just needs to show me how to make them! ;)

gift table..don't worry..this picture was taken early..Lexi definitely made out with lots of loot! ;)

We had so much fun and we can't wait to meet you baby Lexi! :) I'm sure you're going to be as beautiful as your Mama!

A blog dream come true!

So this past Friday, Bryan and I headed to Lorena for 2 things: #1 to watch Chandler's last home game, and #2 for me to host my best friend Kyrbie's baby shower on Saturday. It was going to be a fast trip because my husband, FIL, and BIL all had tickets to the World Series game #4 on Sunday and were coming in from Shreveport, so we had to head back Saturday after the shower.

Now back to the point of this post! As we were driving, I of course was on my iPhone checking Facebook and boy am I glad I did! I got a notification that my friend Erin had posted on my wall. So, I looked on my wall and saw this message, "Hey girl! Are you possibly going to the Lorena game tonight? I think we're going and I was going to see if you'd be there to "meet."

What?! How cool was it that we hadn't been to a Lorena game all month and this was the night we were actually going to be there! I of course wrote her back, told her I'd love to, and we exchanged numbers! I was all excited and told my husband that I was FINALLY going to meet one of my blog friends. He didn't really get it, but was still happy for me!

Erin and I met at the football game and spent most of the 2nd half talking and catching up! It was so fun and felt like we'd known each other forever! We have so many crazy connections! We had a blast. I'm so glad that I finally got to meet one of my blog friends! God is so cool when He arranges things like that! Erin, it was so great to "meet" you and I can't wait to hang out again in the future!

That's my boy!

My brother sent me a text tonight to check this out, so I did! It's a video that they did over fathers who coach their sons. They featured my brother Chandler and my dad on this last one! How cool is that! You can check them out here! Oh and Lorena's win last week clenched 1st place in district right now! Whoo hoo! GOOOOOOOOO LEOPARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!