Photo Prompt Challenge, #4: An Important Experience

An experience that made you who you are today. 

This was a tough one.  How do you pinpoint just one moment or experience that made the difference?  One that made you who you are?  Pretty impossible, to tell you the truth.  So, I'm going this route:

On March 28th, 2000, this happened...

Tornado hits Downtown Fort Worth

I've posted about it many times, usually around the anniversary (last year was 10 years!).  I was in the Cash America building when this monster hit that very building.  It made for a VERY interesting nite, that's for sure.  But what does it have to do with making me who I am today?  Well, it's more like it has to do with getting me WHERE I am today.  I was working at the call center, making lots of money for a college kid still living at home with mom and dad.  I liked my job and had made my way up through several positions, but I knew it wasn't what I was gonna do for the rest of my life.  I wasn't sure how to go about getting a job in my field.  I hadn't even started my Radio-Television-Film courses at school yet.  So, the tornado hit, and though the company quickly moved into a new building, the business never really fully recovered and we were eventually laid off.  I found myself out of a job after having worked there for four years!  It was at this point I called up the radio station and asked for a job, and to my surprise... got one!  And at that job, I met Michael (and some of my dearest friends!)... and the rest is history!  Michael and I joke about how grateful we are to that tornado for running smack dab into my building!  So, yeah, it definitely helped me get where I am today.  A former radio DJ, and currently a wife and mother!  I wouldn't trade that exciting nite in Downtown Fort Worth for anything!

Photo Prompt Challenge, #3: Favorite TV Show

Your Favorite Show

Currently my two favorite shows are Chuck and Parenthood.

We have loved Chuck since the beginning.  Heck, my husband and I saw the commercial for it before it was even on, and were like "Um, yes please!"  The nerd-isms are right up our alley!  It has yet to disappoint (well, ok, maybe a few story lines were silly/over the top, and maybe there have been a few things I would have changed, but mostly, it's still really, really good!).  And yeah, I've totally developed a celebrity crush on Zachary Levi.  I can't help it, he's adorable!

Parenthood might as well be a reality show in my opinion.  I think they have done such a great job of covering so many different personalities, family situations, attitudes, etc.  It's a quality show.  It's funny, it's true-to-life, it makes me cry nearly every time - but isn't 7th Heaven sappy!  It's a great cast too... I mean, you got Coach, you got Lorelai Gilmore... seriously, they're all great, and you can't help but love 'em!

Those are the only two shows I keep up with.  But of course, it always makes my night when we catch an episode of Wipeout!  Oh man, my gut hurts just from thinking about it.  "Good night, and Big Balls!"

With all that being said, we've had U-Verse for a week now.  I have already discovered a few shows I quite enjoy.  Including:

Man v. Food
Chopped
Cupcake Wars
Cash Cab
Myth Busters
Re-runs of shows like The Wonder Years and Gilmore Girls.

I like having several channels that I can let Preston watch a) without having to worry about what he'll see or hear and b) that has shows he hasn't seen a million times already!

I am also quite enjoying the DVR that records in HD.

I know that to most people having cable is no big deal, have had it forever, already know the wonders of having a DVR.... but hey, it's new to me!  Haha.  And I haven't quite decided if I'll miss it when it's gone or not.  I haven't watched this much TV in a long time, that's for sure!

My Greenies!

All this week we have been doing St. Patrick's Day activities, reading books about the man, creating shamrocks and leprechauns, and of course we are wearing green today!  Here are my two greenies...

Callen always thinks Preston is up to something.

And he's usually right.

Photo Prompt Challenge, #2: My People

The People That Make Your World Go Round

October 2010

Ok, yes, this picture is nearly 5-months old now, but it's still one of my favorites of my boys together.  It was taken at our friend's Ranch, when they invited us to vacation there back in October.  Preston still talks about the ranch from time to time, so it made quite an impression on him.  I love that!  Anyway, these are the people that make my world go 'round... no doubt about it.  But of course an honorable mention goes out to my mom and dad and my mother- and father-in law... I really don't know where we'd be without such amazing parents in our lives!

Posting this today is pretty appropriate since today is the 9th Anniversary of the day Michael and I got married.  Wow.  I cannot believe it's been NINE years since we said "I will" (yeah, during our vows we answered "I will" instead of "I do" which totally threw me off, haha!).   I have to admit that I don't remember a whole lot of our wedding.  Sad, I know.  I was kind of in a daze the entire time.  And these past nine years have been a whirlwind.  All of it has been amazing.  Yes, even the bad times ...because those experiences have led us here... and RIGHT HERE, this is greatness.  I love you, Michael.  And I always will.  See?  I will.