Our Houston (Anniversary) Trip

I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since we went to Houston! It was such a great trip. We celebrated our 4th Anniversary on July 29th and had planned this Houston trip for months to go see our good friends Helen & Heber Tuft right in the middle of our Anniversaries. Their anniversary is exactly a week after ours so we had a fun little celebration there with them. On our way to Houston Mrs. Kathi called me to tell me she was still in town and we went by to see her before stopping off at our destination. This was such a welcome surprise since she was visiting from Singapore and I was so happy she was still in Houston (she kept her house there) and we got to see her. She is the bestest person ever. One of my favorite people in my life :)

In front of Mrs. Kathi's house in Houston, TX

Mr. Dixon (don't ask why I call him that, I just always have)
He was very happy to see us as you can tell :)

Helen & Dixon before we went into the Nasa Space Center

Our tour of the space center. This is where the astronauts train

Markus in front of the Rocket at Rocket Park

Me in front of the rocket

This is where all the flames/fire whatever you want to call it comes out of

Side view, these things were huge! Just look at the people in the background

Markus insisted on taking my picture in front of the huge gas tank

This picture doesn't even do justice to how huge this rocket was!

Funny pic of Heber & Dixon. My camera messed up on the night setting but it made for a cool pic!

Helen & baby Cutler. He would close his eyes at the flash everytime! He is so adorable :)

Markus & Jenn by the Astronauts

The Tufts.
Just for the record Dixon loved the Astronauts and said it in the cutest way. I wish I could write how cute he sounded when he said astronaut :)

Outside of the Space Center. They are such a beautiful family

OK Heber & Helen took us on a Sunday stroll into this beautiful neighborhood... I had to make Markus take a pic of these things! This is the neighborhood we saw Joel Olsteen & his wife. Helen freaked out and made Heber turn around so we could say hey (his wife waved to us as we passed) but by the time Heber FINALLY turned around (he really didn't want to, he felt dumb) they had already gotten in their Escalade and drove off. Darn. It made for a cute/funny story though!

Overall we had a blast while we were in Houston. We shopped at Ikea amongst other fun things like going out to eat and taking walks in their AWESOME neighborhood. Heber & Helen yall were great hosts and we miss you so much. You know I didn't want to leave. I really loved where they lived and the whole big city thing. Maybe one day...

I was bored...

So I changed my blog address. Hope you will still want to check it out. I just didn't really like the "jennandmarkuswilson.blogspot" anymore. I wanted something a little more generic. Ha! So I resorted to LSU ;) I must say I do have football on my mind. Anyways... maybe I will change things around to an LSU theme soon and scare everybody off with my LSU playlist. Geaux Tigers!

Is it right? or Selfish?

I've felt great about the whole quitting my full time job. Opportunities have come and gone, but overall we are ok. Markus got a job. He starts on Tuesday. I got a job offer, but not sure if I want to take it. Something is tugging at me. That something is what I'm trying to determine what I want to do with my working career. Gee I wonder what it is?? It's time. Time for me. To produce a baby. Boy these things never come at the perfect time, do they? I've often heard not to wait until you are financially set to have children because you will never be. While I find that true, I don't think it would be fair to me or my child that I have, for mommy not to raise baby. So, I've debated and tossed and turned on this. We don't have insurance. Haven't since January. We've lost a lot of income to our house over the last 7 months without Markus working. So is it right to want a baby right now when clearly we aren't in the right place? Is it selfish to want a child and attempt the whole medicade (can't spell) thing just so I can have what I want? That is not what Markus and I are about, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.... a lot. Geez, I tell you decisions decisions. It won't go away. It hasn't for months. Timing is everything.... Yes and how. But really, how do you just have the faith to go with what is tugging at your heartstrings and know or hope that "everything will work out"? That, That is the question?

I Did it!

I quit my job. Not all 3 just the one that pays the house and car notes. No big deal. I gave them a 2wk notice with no job lined up. Crazy I know, but not as crazy as I have been feeling over the last 6 months. It's a nice relief. Almost like I lost 50lbs. Not sure how else to describe it other than a huge weight has been lifted. I gave it all to the Lord. Now all I have to do is find something else. I pray that this leap of faith will bring great joy and blessings for our future.

I lived to tell about it...

Another *ALMOST* Walmart trip gone bad. We went to Pville Walmart as we usually do on Saturdays. See that is the only time I can really shop there. Yes while I realize we are taking a chance by going there on Saturday, I don't have another option. So we find a register to check out on and it's one of those hidden ones where you go all the way down the aisle and pass others standing in line to get in the short line. Well it was of course slowly progressing (just my luck) and this guy in a motor wheelchair comes in between 2 lines of people side by side to squeeze in front of me to talk to the cashier. He was a worker there. So I moved back a little to give him room to talk to his co-worker. Well after he left we naturally started moving up. Then jumps this girl just right in front of us as we were moving up to start to unload things. I just said Ma'am we have been waiting in line and were moving up to check out. She gave me this look from hell, looked at the cashier then left. Markus said my face turned so red. I was so freakin pissed that she even hesitated when I told her we were basically here long before she was. WTF. Me and ***** girls don't get along at Walmart. I'm just saying. Markus kept saying, man you and Walmart. Ha! Needless to say the ***** cashier didn't say two words to me. You know they all like to stick together. I hope by now you understand the *****s. Anyway I was trying to get across to the cashier that she never even said hello to us. You know how they ask you those questions on the key pad? Well I answered one that said was your store clean today? I told Markus when he asked what I pressed that it usually says did your cashier greet you today. Ha! She still didn't talk to us. Whatever!

A Sweet Surprise

I was giving my MIL our old digital camera that we don't use and realized that I had not cleared the pics off the memory card. So I did this last week so I could give her the bigger memory card to use. Well I was just buzzing in IPhoto to see if there were any pics we had not uploaded to the computer. Surprise surprise there certainly were and ones I haven't seen in almost 2 years. In 2007 we went to the Pennington Balloon light up thingy with some of our dear friends who have since moved and we miss terribly. These are what I found on the memory card. I'm so thrilled.

Helen, Heber & Dixon

The balloon light up. Very cool but hot if you are close up.

We were so hot. It was in August!

Helen & Heber

Hope yall enjoyed these Helen & Heber. I can't believe I found these. So glad I didn't let Markus delete all the pics off the card first off. Miss yall. Luvs! This sure made my day :)

A Quote Worth Sharing

This was mentioned at church and I thought it was worth sharing...

“Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours; it never has short crops nor droughts; it never pays taxes; it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused and without home and so has no repairs, no replacements, no shingling, plumbing, painting, or whitewashing; it has neither wife, children, father, mother, nor kinfolk to watch over and care for; it has no expense of living; it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.” (In Conference Report, April 1938, p. 103.)

*As you can see it was given over 70 years ago as council and still holds true today. Boy they know what they are talking about, huh?