Ahhh I loved Mexico! I would also love to visit somewhere across the pond soon... Maybe Italy.
xoxo
Rachael
Friday, October 29, 2010
Day 8 - A place you've traveled to
Well, my favorite place that I've traveled was for our honeymoon in the beautiful PUERTO VALLARTA! We spent seven blissful days on the beach, in the 'city', and in our villa... Get ready for picture overload :)
We made it!!!
What we woke up to every morning - bummer, huh??
View from the villa we stayed in down to the non-toursity beach we frequented.
We spent plenty of time in these two chairs. It was HEAVEN.
THE NEW ME! :) I was very excited about this, can you tell?
Dear God this was a bad idea. These drinks were a little too sweet for us, but they sure are cute!
Beautiful beach. So different from Galveston.
On our hiking trip that we took. This will take anyone's breath away. The raw beauty of the nature out there is incredible.
A trip to Mexico would not be complete without GINORMOUS margaritas! Look how much I'm cheesin' over this. I was pretty excited.
4-wheeling up the mountain. Again - the view was indescribable.
The two guys that worked at the villa we stayed at invited us to their championship soccer game (just league soccer, not professional)... They won! It was so exciting and a little scary and a nice little dose of REAL Mexico.
On our snorkeling trip. I was terrified. I have a big fear of open water and the fish kept brushing against my legs. But I survived and I got to hold a starfish!!
Ahhh I loved Mexico! I would also love to visit somewhere across the pond soon... Maybe Italy.
xoxo
Rachael
Ahhh I loved Mexico! I would also love to visit somewhere across the pond soon... Maybe Italy.
xoxo
Rachael
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Day 7 - Favorite movies
I LOVE watching movies!! Here are some of my favorites:
Sean and I love to watch Anchorman. And we laugh like idiots everytime. Something about all of the simple stupidity of the movie brings us to tears laughing. It's the little things in life, right?!
My mom and I have been known to grab some wine, pop in this movie, and sing our hearts out during all the songs. This is such a good, happy movie!
I can't get enough of Elf. My best friend and I used to watch this OBSESSIVELY our freshman year of college. I can watch this Christmas favorite year-round, it just makes me happy!!
Any time I am desperate for a good cry, I watch this movie. Nothing like a glass of wine, some handsome men, and a good love story :) This is a favorite for my mom and I.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie!! And I can't imagine how any one could not love it. It's a movie with everything - action, adventure, love - perfection!
No movie favorite list would be complete without some Disney. And Cinderella was my all time fave growing up. I used to watch it and as soon as it was over I would rewind it (yes, this was during the days of VHS) and watch it all over again.
If you haven't seen this movie, you must. Zach Braff and Natalie Portman are incredible - even skeptical Sean ended up liking it a lot.
I think I'm getting carried away again, so I'll leave it at that, even though I could go on and on - I love movies!
xoxo
Rachael
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Day 6 - A picture of something that makes you happy
Let's be honest, I would never choose just one when there are so many good memories to be shared!
Sean and I at the Texas State v. UH game representin'.
My parents playing washers with Sean & I in Galveston.
Hiking on our honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta.
Some of my BEST friends at my wedding (and bridesmaids of course!)
And I'll leave you with one more because I think I'm getting carried away...
Be still my heart. My husband and I right after we got married.
xoxo
Rachael
And I'll leave you with one more because I think I'm getting carried away...
xoxo
Rachael
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Day 5 - Your Siblings
I have four siblings, all of varying degrees of actual relation to me.
My oldest sister is not REALLY my sister - but she is. My dad was married prior to marrying my mom, and when he married his ex-wife he adopted her little girl as his own. She is AWESOME. When him and his ex-wife divorced, she kept my dad as her dad. And when my dad moved from California to Texas, she came to Texas too.
That being said, she is my sister through and through. I don't care if there's no blood relation, I love her to death. I admire and respect her, and think the world of her. So she IS my sister.
My older brother is my half-brother. He's also my older sister's half-brother. So you see the relation. He has had his struggles throughout life, and continues to struggle. I pray for him and hope that one day he sees how blessed his life is. We aren't close, but I hope one day we are and one day he sees how much everyone cares about him.
My little brother is fully mine! :) We're 6 years apart, but that hasn't stopped us from being extremely close. He is a bright spot in my day and I've been known to call him and cry when I needed a shoulder or a listening ear.
He's always been incredibly protective over me - at one point growing up (he had to have been 9-10) I had just suffered through a very painful breakup with a boy and the boy came over to my house and we were arguing in my driveway and I was bawling my eyes out and my brother came out and told him he had to get out of the driveway RIGHT NOW otherwise he was going to get my dad to throw him out. Haha. That's love.
I'm so glad I had siblings (and still have them!) growing up - they've impacted my life in ways they probably don't even know!
I have to add in my honorary sister too, because my life is nowhere near complete without her. My best friend, who I've known and been best friends with since kindergarten, is considered an honorary member of my whole family. She calls my mom "mom" and dad "dad" and we are closer than most people ever will be. She is AMAZING and I love her so much. We've been close for the last 20+ years, which is a beautiful and rare thing. Other people have been extremely close to her and I both, but no one holds a candle to our bond. It's just one of those things you can't compare.
My oldest sister is not REALLY my sister - but she is. My dad was married prior to marrying my mom, and when he married his ex-wife he adopted her little girl as his own. She is AWESOME. When him and his ex-wife divorced, she kept my dad as her dad. And when my dad moved from California to Texas, she came to Texas too.
That being said, she is my sister through and through. I don't care if there's no blood relation, I love her to death. I admire and respect her, and think the world of her. So she IS my sister.
My older brother is my half-brother. He's also my older sister's half-brother. So you see the relation. He has had his struggles throughout life, and continues to struggle. I pray for him and hope that one day he sees how blessed his life is. We aren't close, but I hope one day we are and one day he sees how much everyone cares about him.
My little brother is fully mine! :) We're 6 years apart, but that hasn't stopped us from being extremely close. He is a bright spot in my day and I've been known to call him and cry when I needed a shoulder or a listening ear.
He's always been incredibly protective over me - at one point growing up (he had to have been 9-10) I had just suffered through a very painful breakup with a boy and the boy came over to my house and we were arguing in my driveway and I was bawling my eyes out and my brother came out and told him he had to get out of the driveway RIGHT NOW otherwise he was going to get my dad to throw him out. Haha. That's love.
I'm so glad I had siblings (and still have them!) growing up - they've impacted my life in ways they probably don't even know!
I have to add in my honorary sister too, because my life is nowhere near complete without her. My best friend, who I've known and been best friends with since kindergarten, is considered an honorary member of my whole family. She calls my mom "mom" and dad "dad" and we are closer than most people ever will be. She is AMAZING and I love her so much. We've been close for the last 20+ years, which is a beautiful and rare thing. Other people have been extremely close to her and I both, but no one holds a candle to our bond. It's just one of those things you can't compare.
And here is a picture of my whole family minus my older brother (Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother-in-law, Brother, Honorary Sister and Husband):
xoxo
Rachael
Monday, October 25, 2010
Day 4 - Your parents
WOOHOO! What an AWESOME thing to post about!
My parents are phenomenal. There's really not enough words to express how highly I think of them.
I've said it before, but I am so blessed to have the parents I have and to have grown up the way I grew up. I think I'm in the vast minority of people that never really 'falling outs' with my parents growing up. We had our disagreements here and there (usually having to do with boys) but for the most part, I can't ever remember 'hating' my parents or anything of the sort. On the contrary, I've always really looked up to both of them.
I can honestly say that maybe I was a little spoiled growing up, but all of my being spoiled was balanced out. I got the car that I wanted when I turned 16, but I had stipulations on it - i.e. I had a $10,000 limit, they wanted me to get a Saturn, and I had to have a job because I had to pay my own gas and insurance. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I started working immediately after turning 16 and I have been a working machine ever since.
My mom is my best friend. She is just amazing. I was telling my dear friend Tosha this weekend how I don't know what it was she did while I was growing up for me to be so in awe of her all the time, but I hope that I am able to have the same relationship with my daughter (God willing that I have a daughter!). She really is my idol though. My mom didn't work the whole time my little brother and I were growing up and I think that plays a big part in why we all our so close. My dad owns his own business and we never had a lot of money growing up, but we had enough. My mom clipped coupons, shopped clearance, and made it possible for us to never want anything.
Today, I spend my Sunday's clipping coupons, I always shop clearance (if it's not 50% off I just don't feel right buying it most of the time) and I hope and pray that I set a shining example for my kids like she did/has.
My dad is one of a kind. He's talkative, he's opinionated, and he's AMAZING. My dad and I could talk for hours about anything and everything. I've never really hid much from him or my mom. He has the ability to break me down to tears, but only when he's passionate about what he's talking about. I hate him during the conversations and at the end of it when I'm reflecting back on things I realize that once again he's right and I'm just being stubborn (like him) and not wanting to admit it.
When I would get in trouble for doing what ever rebellious thing I was doing (like getting my belly button pierced when I was 16 at some shoddy place in Conroe after they specifically told me not to) he would lecture me about it, I'd cry my eyes out, he'd lecture me about crying and then he would tell me that because we were done talking and he'd made his point that we were over it and we'd move on. And he would never bring it up again. To me, that's amazing. And amazingly effective.
Now I completely understand why they say that when girls are searching for their soul mates they look for their dad's qualities in that person. If you ever have my dad and Sean in the same room, you'll be amazed at how alike they are. They spend hours talking politics and they both are stubborn as can be. And I'm crazy about them both.
My parents definitely employed the 'never go to bed mad' theory. I can only remember one time, one time, growing up that I knew that they were in a fight. They have always showed each other unconditional love. My dad tells my mom he loves her all the time. They still hold hands. THAT is what I want in my own marriage.
So now that I've written a novel on my parents I'm sure you can see that I am blessed. I have incredible parents.
xoxo
Rachael
My parents are phenomenal. There's really not enough words to express how highly I think of them.
I've said it before, but I am so blessed to have the parents I have and to have grown up the way I grew up. I think I'm in the vast minority of people that never really 'falling outs' with my parents growing up. We had our disagreements here and there (usually having to do with boys) but for the most part, I can't ever remember 'hating' my parents or anything of the sort. On the contrary, I've always really looked up to both of them.
I can honestly say that maybe I was a little spoiled growing up, but all of my being spoiled was balanced out. I got the car that I wanted when I turned 16, but I had stipulations on it - i.e. I had a $10,000 limit, they wanted me to get a Saturn, and I had to have a job because I had to pay my own gas and insurance. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I started working immediately after turning 16 and I have been a working machine ever since.
My mom is my best friend. She is just amazing. I was telling my dear friend Tosha this weekend how I don't know what it was she did while I was growing up for me to be so in awe of her all the time, but I hope that I am able to have the same relationship with my daughter (God willing that I have a daughter!). She really is my idol though. My mom didn't work the whole time my little brother and I were growing up and I think that plays a big part in why we all our so close. My dad owns his own business and we never had a lot of money growing up, but we had enough. My mom clipped coupons, shopped clearance, and made it possible for us to never want anything.
Today, I spend my Sunday's clipping coupons, I always shop clearance (if it's not 50% off I just don't feel right buying it most of the time) and I hope and pray that I set a shining example for my kids like she did/has.
My dad is one of a kind. He's talkative, he's opinionated, and he's AMAZING. My dad and I could talk for hours about anything and everything. I've never really hid much from him or my mom. He has the ability to break me down to tears, but only when he's passionate about what he's talking about. I hate him during the conversations and at the end of it when I'm reflecting back on things I realize that once again he's right and I'm just being stubborn (like him) and not wanting to admit it.
When I would get in trouble for doing what ever rebellious thing I was doing (like getting my belly button pierced when I was 16 at some shoddy place in Conroe after they specifically told me not to) he would lecture me about it, I'd cry my eyes out, he'd lecture me about crying and then he would tell me that because we were done talking and he'd made his point that we were over it and we'd move on. And he would never bring it up again. To me, that's amazing. And amazingly effective.
Now I completely understand why they say that when girls are searching for their soul mates they look for their dad's qualities in that person. If you ever have my dad and Sean in the same room, you'll be amazed at how alike they are. They spend hours talking politics and they both are stubborn as can be. And I'm crazy about them both.
My parents definitely employed the 'never go to bed mad' theory. I can only remember one time, one time, growing up that I knew that they were in a fight. They have always showed each other unconditional love. My dad tells my mom he loves her all the time. They still hold hands. THAT is what I want in my own marriage.
So now that I've written a novel on my parents I'm sure you can see that I am blessed. I have incredible parents.
Rachael
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Day 3 - First Love
My first love...
I don't really know what to write about. Sean says I should write about the NFL changing their rules on hitting, but I don't think that qualifies as my first love.
Recently I read or heard somewhere (but I can't for the life of me remember where) a really different, but accurate (in my opinion) take on being "in love" and finding "the one"... (That sentence looks strange to me, that's a lot of "quotation marks".) (I'm having trouble concentrating today, if you can't tell.) ANYHOW... they were talking about being "in love" and how you go through life falling in and out of love and how that really isn't being "in love" but it's more of sampling different kinds of love before you settle on "the one". Kind of like a taste test until you find the right flavor.
I like that take on things. I think I did a lot of sampling growing up, and then I met Sean.
So with that being said, I think that my first love, my first real true love, is sitting on the couch next to me right now.
xoxo
Rachael
I don't really know what to write about. Sean says I should write about the NFL changing their rules on hitting, but I don't think that qualifies as my first love.
Recently I read or heard somewhere (but I can't for the life of me remember where) a really different, but accurate (in my opinion) take on being "in love" and finding "the one"... (That sentence looks strange to me, that's a lot of "quotation marks".) (I'm having trouble concentrating today, if you can't tell.) ANYHOW... they were talking about being "in love" and how you go through life falling in and out of love and how that really isn't being "in love" but it's more of sampling different kinds of love before you settle on "the one". Kind of like a taste test until you find the right flavor.
I like that take on things. I think I did a lot of sampling growing up, and then I met Sean.
So with that being said, I think that my first love, my first real true love, is sitting on the couch next to me right now.
xoxo
Rachael
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Day 2 - Meaning Behind Your Blog Name
That's easy enough... 'Tales from a Suburban Wife' came to be because being a wife is one of my greatest joys. I live in the suburbs and am not yet a housewife. I work 40+ hours a week and do all my 'housewife' things on the weekends - making my weeks fly by. As for the 'tales' part, well, if you know my husband you know that he can't stay out of trouble to save his life, so we have some pretty interesting tales to tell from time to time :) I love him all the same though.
On 94.5 this morning they were talking about if it's ok to keep things from ex-boyfriends/girlfriends... Which I thought was kind of interesting because I am in the midst of a massive clean-out of all Sean and I's things and it wouldn't really surprise me to find a box of old notes from old boyfriends and such that I have been hanging onto all these years for no real good reason. And I got to thinking, I should probably just throw all that stuff out. What do you think - do you hang onto your ex's notes and such?
I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend - the weather could not be more perfect!
xoxo
Rachael
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