2015 Review

I honestly can't believe 2015 is coming to an end. I am excited to see what 2016 has in store but first I want to take a look at my favorite things that happened in 2015.

I am linking up with Andrea, Erika, and Narci for a special Friday Favorites. 

I will apologize now for all the pictures. (: 

January 

I wrote my first blog post here. 

I did not realize when I started my blog how many great people I would meet through this blog world. 

We spent almost every night at basketball games.

We even made it to some of Adrian's sister's games. 

February

More basketball 

Ad's Jr. High Boys went 10-0 

Perfect! 

I shared how Adrian and I met and got engaged here.

We headed out to San Antonio for the weekend to watch Ad's sister, show her pigs. 

March 

I shared about our annual spring break trip to Vegas here

Ty had her senior pictures taken out on this beautiful bridge. 

We had fun celebrating some birthdays! 

April 

I talked about my favorite vacation ever here. 

It would be London.  #takemeback

 I blogged about my love of sports here

We headed out to Prom and had a blast. 

And lots of track meets..... 

May 

Adrian's family and I headed to Oklahoma to see Adrian's brother graduate from basic training. 

We spent lots of time at open gym. 

We watched the kids run at the regional track meet. 

Watched my brother get tons of awards! 

I have the most amazing friends and talked about one of my besties, Kasey and her new baby girl here.

June 

I headed out to the Rangers game with Adrian's sister to celebrate her birthday! 

It was graduation time for this sweet girl! 

We went right down the road to Magnolia Market. 

Adrian's sister stayed here a lot and they went out to the lake while I stayed home and worked. #howrude 

We headed out to Arkansas for vacation

I shared my thoughts on being a coaches wife and learning how to make new places home here

July

Beach time! 

Vegas time! 

I just love this guy! 

I ended July at Sea World with lots of adopted families talking about attachment. 

#ilovemyjob

August 

I shared my goals for my 23rd year of life here.

Football started! 

We spent a lot of Saturday's scouting other teams. 

September 

Some of Adrian's family came to watch him coach. 

Every Thursday & Friday 

We celebrated one year of marriage! 

My thoughts here

More football... 

We also celebrated this guy's 25th birthday! 

October 

More football... 

I shared my heart here

We went to Corpus Christi for Regional Cross Country 

We watched my brother and the band get a 1 at contest! 

November 

We finished off football season

The jr. high boys won district for the second year in a row. 

#Iknowthecoach 

We had some pictures taken at Thanksgiving 

Basketball season started

December

We took an amazing trip. 

Charleston 

This guy. 

This house. 

Atlantic Ocean 

Christmas Eve 

Christmas with my gran 

If you are still with me... THANK YOU! 

What a year. How is it already over? This blog is such a great way to keep up with everyday life. Let's hope I do a better job of documenting life in 2016. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

XOXO ~ JulieAnn

Christmas Wrap - Up

How is it already December 29th?!

This year has flown by! I have not been the best a blogging here lately and I really want to do better. So let's see how 2016 shapes out.

First I can't wait to share about our trip to Charleston! We had the best time and I think I will be posting about that soon. Needless to say, I fell in LOVE!

Now I want to share about our Christmas. We had a great one and I am beyond blessed to have the most amazing family.

On Christmas Eve Adrian and I went to Mass with his family and then to Red Lobster for dinner. It is his family's tradition that after Mass they eat at Red Lobster.

Adrian and I then went with his cousin and sister to look at the lights in Ft. Worth. 

We parked and sat on the tailgate. 

We then went to Starbucks and had hot chocolate. It was the best Christmas Eve. 

Yay for Christmas morning. 

Ad and his sister were being crazy before we opened gifts on Christmas morning. Even the dog had to get involved! 

Adrian's cousin got me the best gift ever! 

I don't think I will ever use this cutting board it is too pretty. 

After opening gifts, we then went over to Adrian's paternal grandparents house for lunch and gifts. 

After we left there we headed back to Rising Star to have Christmas with my family. 

My two cousins and my brother. 

I am the oldest and the only girl. #iamnotspoiled 

Me and my gran. She is the most amazing person I know! 

Me and my brother. He is 8 years younger than me and now taller than me. 

I can't handle it. 

It was really late on Christmas night and I realized that Adrian and I didn't have a picture together all day. It is not a great picture but it works. 

I spent all of the 26th at my grandparents house. 

The first thing my gran taught me to make was my nanny's sugar cookies from scratch. 

We made them and talked all day. It was wonderful. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! 

I can't wait to see what 2016 holds.

XOXO ~ JulieAnn 

Reality Check

Reality Check....... those come at just the right times for me.

Tonight was stressful at the basketball game as we pulled it out by one point at the end. However, that was not where my night ended.

We were eating at Mcdonald's after the game and I noticed a young women in the back sitting down. Then I noticed how upset she then became once all of the loud jr. high kids came in.

The more I observed I noticed that this young woman has an Intellectual Disability and the noise and the amount of people were scaring and upsetting her.

I watched as some of the kids talked about her and heard other people's comments on how she must be on drugs. I do not know what it was that drew me to her but my heart hurt for her in that very moment. I work with children daily who are unable to self-soothe due to a lot of reasons. I watched as this young woman, who was clearly scared, self-soothe and was able to calm down. It was not how each of us probably self-soothe but she did it in a way that works for her. My heart hurt for this young woman. My initial thoughts were to judge her but I should not have.

I got in the car and cried for her. I cried for the fact that I judged her at first. I cried for the fact that their are people in this world that are each different in their own unique way and sometime we don't understand a person's difference.

God Bless that young women who gave me a reality check I needed tonight.

XOXO ~ JulieAnn