Hello!!! We are so glad you stopped by!
Our family adventures began nearly 16 years ago, on July 16, 2003, when Andy and I met in Boston! I went to visit a friend for just 3 days. While I was there my friend wanted to meet up with her friend who brought Andy along. He was just working in Boston for the summer and would be heading back to Houston to begin his school year teaching. We ate dinner and went dancing, then spent the entire night talking until the sunrise! I knew I needed to get to know him better, but I was leaving for home the next day! For the next 3 weeks, we spent endless hours and way too many late nights talking on our cell phones racking up ridiculous phone charges since we weren’t in the same network. That’s when I planned a trip to visit him for 2 weeks! It was during that 2 week visit that I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. As we hugged one last time before I made the flight home, he so very quietly whispered in my ear, “I’m going to marry you one day…” The rest is history! We were engaged just 5 months later, we got married on home plate at Minute Maid Park by winning a radio contest 2 months after that, and a year to the date we met we officially got married in front of our friends and family in California at sunset!
How our lives have changed since we first were married! We have added 4 absolutely adorable boys to our family (I am completely unbiased on this opinion 🙂 ). We currently have 2 dogs and a hedgehog. Our life is very busy between work, school, sports, cub scouts, and adventuring! Our favorite thing to do as a family is explore somewhere new! All of us enjoy being outdoors wandering around nature, throwing rocks into water, and just admiring the beauty.
Get to know…Jenna
Growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher or to work with large animals at a zoo if I absolutely had to work. What I really wanted to do was just to simply raise a family and be home with my children. I am getting to live my dream right now, all thanks to my sweet hubs! My days are filled with the usual hum drum of cleaning, picking up, cooking, errands, breaking up disagreements, listening to their stories from the school day, and so on. But amidst all that, my very favorite thing to observe in my home is when the bigger boys read to or play with the littler boys. It truly makes all the extra work many kid have totally worth it!
In my free time (haha), I love to be outdoors exploring and hiking, running, and crafting! Our entire family truly enjoys camping and being outside, especially when we are able to get away to beautiful far away places like the Pacific Northwest or even as close as Austin. I hope you enjoy seeing our adventures that we write about on here!
Get to know….Andy
Andy has the biggest heart out of everyone I know for helping others. He grew up not truly knowing what he had a passion for as far as a career. It was during his college years that he found he truly enjoyed teaching. The summer that I met him, he was an amazing high school history teacher. When we decided to start our family, he selflessly left his teaching career to find a higher paying job so I could stay home and raise our family. Luckily his job has changed paths over the last 11 years and he has more of a teaching role in his current position, but he would still love to go back to teaching someday!
He loves everything sports, technology, and to travel and explore new places with our family. He is great at finding fun, hole in the wall type places to check out. We plan on showing you all those places we find! He is the technical specialist in our family!
Get to know….Aiden
Aiden is our first born, the boy who helped us learn how to be parents. We’ve learned a lot along the way since he was born in 2009. Aiden is a lot like his Momma, he is fairly good at everything he tries. But doesn’t excel at any one thing. He enjoys being outdoors and exploring the nature around him. He could spend all day throwing rocks into a river! He loves playing basketball and soccer. He is our video game lover in the family! Roblox and Minecraft are his favorites! Aiden also likes to roughhouse with brothers, but what boy doesn’t like to do that?
Get to know…Anson
Anson is probably our happiest boy out of all of them. He smiles easily and quickly at anything. Playing any sport is his favorite thing to do, but especially soccer, baseball, and basketball! He is very energetic and can go go go, but he needs to be the first one in bed at night! Anson is also the first to notice when someone is sad. He very much likes to please the people around him. Anson is always the one who remembers to say thank you and will randomly thank you for things that you have bought or done for him on other occasions! He has a big heart and is a bit sensitive, just like his Daddy!
Get to know…Aaron
Aaron was born in 2014, just 3 days after Andy’s Dad passed away in the Phillippines. Andy barely made it home in time for his birth. Because of this, Aaron holds a special place in Andy’s heart! Aaron was quite the challenge his first 2 years of life. But he has grown into the most helpful, caring boy we have. His heart is huge and he cares about everyone around him! One of his favorite things is to take care of Adler. Aaron is playing his first season of soccer and he is in love! He wants to practice every single day!
 Get to know…Adler
Adler, our last boy, is absolutely adored by his older brothers. He can get away with nearly anything with his older brothers! Adler has a sweet personality and is an incredibly happy boy. He was by far the easiest baby we had, even with his surprise incomplete unilateral cleft lip! He has had one surgery to repair his lip and we think it is looking quite amazing! Whenever he hears music, he starts to dance or sing to it! Climbing anything, trees included, is one if his favorite activities. Adler is a joy to be around.
Get to know….furry family members
Jada is our old, blue weimeraner. She is very laid back and quiet.
Diego is a tan chihuahua. He loves to be near his people, so he follows us everywhere!
Amy Pricklepants is our most interesting family member. She is an Algerian black hedgehog! Each of our boys will be researching and choosing a pet (if they want to) for their 9th birthdays. It will be completely their responsibility to keep that pet alive! Aiden chose a hedgehog as his pet, which was perfect since I have always wanted one as well!
Bo Jackson is our newest addition! He joined our family just before Christmas in 2018. He is the sweetest, most loving puppy ever, but he is awful! He destroys everything in site!