Love Notes

Found under my pillow last week:

"L-

I am so amazed at the mother you have become & thank God everyday for having you in our lives. You becoming a mom has made you an even better wife which I did not think was even possible.

Thank you for what you have become and what you have always been.

I am so proud to call you mine.

<3 Rob"

Yes sir, he's a keeper!

The Vegan Experiment- Day 1

The Scene: Valentine's Night, after a delicious dinner of ribeye steak with the Pioneer Woman's blue cheese sauce, Rob's take on the Pioneer Woman's Creamed Spinach (he added Parmesan cheese) and a baked potato, with a chocolate chip cookie covered Oreo (yes, you read that right) for dessert.

[Note: I do have a picture of said meal.  I considered including it, but I decided just the description was embarrassing enough.  It was bad.  But please do know we don't eat like that on a normal day.]

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Rob: Happy Valentine's Day.

Lindsey: Ughhhhh.

Rob: Hard to believe this is our 8th one together.

Lindsey: Gluhhhhhhh

Rob: Lindsey, you are the sunshine in my days and my happiness at night. *

Lindsey: Ohhhhhhhhhggggg.

Rob: You may the birds sing and **.... is everything ok?

Lindsey: Fat.  Dinner- fat.  Baby weight- fat.  Must. Lose. Fat.

(Mindless Chatter)

Rob: Want to do something extreme?  Let's go vegan for two weeks.

Lindsey: (Thinking about a recent Oprah episode on being a Vegan) You're on.

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So that's how we got today, the first day of my vegan-for-three-weeks diet (Rob is joining me for the last two weeks, but some work obligations would make it hard for him to do this week).

Why Vegan versus vegetarian?  Well, for me, it has to do with the three C's- Carbs, Chocolate and Cheese.  All of which are perfectly acceptable on a vegetarian diet.  I could have mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese and a roll for dinner and not have strayed from the "diet" at all.  And, well, that sort of meal would sort of defeat the purpose.

The goal here is to jump start my metabolism, get out of my comfort zone with foods (you should SEE my shopping list this week- totally different) and see what cutting back on all that junk will do for me.  I doubt Rob and I will ever leave our steak-and-cheese-loving ways behind, but I could see us trying to eat vegan a couple of days a week if this goes well.

I will, of course, keep you informed as to how this goes.  If I don't post for awhile, you might look for me at the nearest steakhouse.


* Or something like that.  I was in a food coma-- I can't exactly remember.
** Yeah, actually, I'm pretty sure that isn't right.  Just go with it.

Once Upon A Time (A love story)

Once upon a time, I spotted this man sitting across the room in one of Dr. Jarvis' classes working on an LSAT book.  We had meet before, but it had been some time.  I went over to say hi.

Hey Handsome!

What happened next was a story tale romance of him walking me home after class.  So delighted in this I was that I didn't tell the boy I actually had class in the same building 30 minutes later.  I walked home and then did a U-turn and walked right back to class.

Some days later, that boy and I both graduated.




May 2004


I went to law school in Houston, and this boy started at the bottom, working for a company that has the same name as a certain men's magazine.

A year passed, with hundreds of emails being exchanged, thousands of miles spent traveling back and forth between Houston and Austin, and millions of minutes spent on the phone.  Indeed, this was the one.

So there was a proposal at the Driskill hotel.  Easily one of the best nights of my life.

May 2005

Another year was spent apart.  Still exchanging emails, traveling hundreds of miles, and spending hour upon hour on the phone, but the new project was a wedding set for July 15, 2006.  We celebrated with our friends and family and had the most amazing time.

Then one day, a letter came for me in the mail at my parents house.  It held our fate-- would UT let me complete my third year at their law school, our would we spend our first year as a married couple traveling from Austin to Houston again?  The news was good, and we settled into our tiny apartment thinking we had everything in life.

Master Bedroom?

After law graduation, decisions had to be made.  Would we stay in Austin or Houston.  I looked for jobs everywhere, but finally decided that Austin was our place and we bought a home.  Not long after I got the best job ever.  And life was even better than we imagined.

So the grass really IS greener....

We traveled, we celebrated, we got the best dog in the world.  We enjoyed being a family of two.  We got involved, we spent time with our friends and family.  We loved being together.

Halloween 2008

London- January 2010

Rome- January 2010

Paris- January 2010

Florence- January 2010

Christmas 2009



Chicago 2009



Jamaica- March 2009

Hope Ball 2008

Baby Sophie- February 2008

Thanksgiving 2010

Texas OU Weekend- 2008

After an amazing trip to Europe, we decided it was time to make our family of 2.5 into a family of 3.5.  And not long after we got this.

February 2010

And 37 weeks from that, we got this.

October 18, 2010

And life changed again.  And my fabulous husband took on his third role- husband, salesman, and now father.

And he excelled at that role, too.  He can do anything, hubby can!

While we enjoy this roller coaster of parenthood, hubby makes sure to tell me how much he still values me as Lindsey-- not just as a mom.  He does things like tell me he has a "conference call" early in the morning, only to return 20 minutes later with roses and Starbucks.  He knows my love language.

Rob, dear man, I love you.  I wouldn't re-write a sentence of our partially written story.  I can't wait to see where it goes next.  Happy Valentine's Day.

Lindsey