Hello all! This is my first post on the family blog and I’m quite excited. I think Ashley did a great job describing everything in her first post – most notably her questionable taste in suit sizes.

A brief history on me – I was born in Little Rock and graduated from Little Rock Central High in 1999. Over the next few years I took an enjoyable tour of some regional universities (LSU, U of A Fayetteville and UALR) until I finally graduated in 2005 with a Finance Degree. I’ve been working at a bank in Risk Management ever since and I’m currently re-enrolled in accounting classes in an effort to become a CPA.

In the future I hope to have different sections in each post. One section that I hope to always include is a notable baby story of the day. Also, since I go to the gym everyday at lunch, you may hear me blab about the day’s CrossFit experience in a workout section. And if you know me very well, you know that I have a chronic problem of tunes being stuck in my head. I use the word “tune” instead of “song” because cell phone ring tones and commercial jingles tend to play on repeat just as frequently as conventional songs. So if I’m singing along to something in my head while I’m writing the post, I’ll share what it is in a song-stuck-in-my-head section.

Baby Story of the Day:

Saturday morning I was awoken by Sebastian poking at me from the floor beside my bed. I got up, fixed him some juice, put on a movie for him and went back to bed hoping that I could snooze for however long Stuart Little runs. But his attention wasn’t held by the movie and, since Meadow had stayed at my mom’s house the night before and wasn’t there to play with him, he kept coming in the room to show us the cool stuff that he had found throughout the house. One cool thing he brought us was a toothbrush that he had LOADED up with toothpaste and, in the hopes of avoiding a toothpaste cleanup, we told him to go put the toothbrush in the bathroom sink. After disappearing into the bathroom for a few quiet minutes we started calling for him and telling him, “You’d better not still be playing with that toothbrush!” To which he would respond, “I not bwushing my teef!” After another minute or two and a few similar exchanges, he finally came back in the room with the smoking gun evidence all over his face. Ashley and I both had a great laugh and Ashley was able to get a picture.







What’s Stuck in my Head at the moment:

FreeCreditReport.com song. I told you it wasn’t always a song. Well, this one is kind of a song, but not the kind of song you hope to get caught singing in front of your coworkers in the break room while I was getting coffee this morning… :)

That's all for now!