Birthday season has begun!

Yay!  It's officially birthday season for our family :).  Every single person in my family has a birthday between August 1 (one grandpa) and April 8 (another grandpa).  And we celebrate everyones birthday.  Everyones.  We have several birthdays that are 3 or 4 days a part and we still have two separate parties for each person (twice the cake!).  We love celebrating birthdays!  On Friday night, we kicked off birthday...

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Happy Birthday Kara!

On Thursday, we met the Smiths to celebrate Kara's 31st birthday!!  We ate at one of our favorite restaurants, Hard 8 in Coppell.  We love, love, love their BBQ!Mr. Smith celebrating with the SmithsThe restaurant was soooooo crowded, so we ate at the bar.  Kensington and Landry :)Kara and I have been besties since junior high (I'd show you a picture of us back then but I've burned all evidence that I was in junior high...not the best...

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Ballpark

The Red Sox came to Texas for a 3 game series beginning Monday and guess who had tickets to all three nights????We don't care that it's 99 degrees, we're so happy to see our Red Sox!Our tickets are really good.  Like, probably the best in the ball park (thanks for my dad's friends who have these amazing season tickets and give us all of the Red Sox games).  We decided to be nice and give our game 3 tickets to Sean and Brandon (even though...

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Finale

Last night, we all wore our pjs and watched the 3 hour finale of the Bachelorette.  I felt like it was a looooooong 3 hours.  We've come a long way since May 14th.  I thought it was going to be fun having my brother on this show but I didn't know it was going to be this fun.  I really wanted my brother to make it to the top 8 (I knew at 8 he would have been able to travel a little bit and most likely have a one on one date)...but...

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Missouri Summer

On Thursday morning, we loaded up and drove to Missouri to visit the other Shulls.  We drove 6 hours north and ended up in a place 10 degrees warmer...that's bad luck for me!The kids were really difficult on the car trip up......they are such problems......all 3 of them ;).Everyone was so happy to see Nanny and PawPaw!  I took 3 pictures here...I decided to post the one that was most flattering of my MIL and not necessarily my kids. ...

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I heart Kidd Kraddick

Ok...please excuse me as I have a total nerd moment...this morning, Andrew, Sean and I went to visit the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning radio show live from their studio.  It was unbelievably cool.  I've been listening to Kidd Kraddick for 18 years.  Yes, 18 years!  So, to personally meet him (and his crew) and see where they work was a very cool moment for me.  And to top it off...I got to be on the air with Sean and the gang...

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Loves

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Besties

My kids looooooove the Slaughter ki...

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Sean,

I have been thinking about what I was going to write the morning after you didn't receive a rose from Emily for some time now.  I've thought about writing my opinion on why she didn't pick you, I thought about writing a letter to Emily about how she was wrong ;), I've thought about a lot of things.  But last night, after the show was over and my Facebook and Twitter blew up with people (most of whom I don't even know) telling me how awesome you are, and how proud they are of you, I thought I'd just keep this little post simple...Sean...

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Kensington Cottage

Over the last week, I've been flooded with questions about Kensington Cottage.  I blogged about it here last year, but since it made its national television debut, so many of you want to know how to get one for yourself.The cottage was custom built by Bob Sossaman, an actual craftsman and builder.  To contact him about a dream house of your own, email him at bobcarolsossamon@gmail.com.Happy Mond...

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The Nap Mat

Smith is sooooooo excited about starting preschool in the fall.  He asks me almost daily if it's "fall-time" yet?  Yesterday, we went and picked up his very own nap mat.  This kid was so excited!!  I told him we were running a few errands and that the nap mat was last on our list.  He must have asked me a dozen times if it was time to go get it.  Sweet boy wanted his nap mat!We barely got in the door yesterday before...

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Fun on the Fourth!

You know my super fun family...we love any reason to celebrate (and eat!)!  Yesterday, we headed over to Lovie and Papa Jay's for our annual Fourth of July party with the fam.Lovie bought Smith a water gun...this is his "I'm going to get you" face.My little swimmer!  She swims like a fish!  I'm so proud of my sweet girl!Me and Brooke relaxin'The guys lounging about in the pool (after this we had our annual water volleyball tournament...I...

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10 years ago today...

...I met the love of my life.Sean brought a college friend home for the July 4th weekend.  I walked through the back door of my parents' house as he was coming out of one of the bedrooms inside.  We introduced ourselves, proceeded into the kitchen to talk and eighteen months later, we were married.I love you Andrew Shull.And I love you Sean Lowe...for bringing that boy home 10 years ago. ...

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Home Town Visit

I have been wanting to talk about this for months...and today is the day.On March 10, we celebrated my dad's birthday and said goodbye to Sean.  After submitting his name for the Bachelorette, it was time for him to actually take off on his adventure.  The afternoon of March 11, he flew to North Carolina and the journey began. We didn't see Sean again until he walked out into the backyard at my parents' house for the home town date on Thursday, April 26.So...how do these dates work?  Do we just show up and go...no.  Sean...

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Every day is special...

...but some days are extra special.  Today is one of those days.  Sean has done an incredible job representing our family on national television...let's just hope we make him proud and do the same.  Full re-cap of what you missed, what you saw, what it was like and about the people who made our home town visit extra special tomorrow.  See you tonight on A...

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