Martin Bryant Benton

My apologies--Martin Bryant Benton will join the family in September. :)

Playing Catch Up?

Okay, so I feel like every time I blog now, I am apologizing for a 6 month absence. But Summer is upon us which means no classes and lots of fun things like the beach and babies.

So, Baby Burks that was announced at Christmas is now Jack Lucas Burks to be called Luke. Another addition will also be made this fall to the Burks family in Bryant Martin Benton--my cousin's son. My good friend in Fort Worth is due in June. They are letting the gender of the baby be a surprise but I had a dream, and its a girl. :) I swear every time I turn around, someone else is pregnant. Hopefully one day it will be me! I am hanging in there--just one more year of school. Then I can have all the babies I want.

Did you catch that--just ONE more year of school! Crazy huh? I'm ridiculously excited. I'm already "house hunting" in Starkville. I'm trying to convince Michael we should build. He's politely tolerating my ridiculousness and just laughing at me. But seriously--we have to have a place to live there. Why not start shopping early!? Hopefully whatever home I choose will last a LONG time--so I wanna draw out the process and enjoy it!

What else is there to tell you? Fun upcoming things? Well...I'm taking a one week class in May--hip hip hooray! No seriously--I am excited about getting a WHOLE class out of the way in one tiny week. Then its off to Cuba for a wedding. Michael's old college roomie is marrying a girl from Cuba. (you have no need to fear, she's not communist--its Cuba, AL). Kevin let me go on believing she was from Cuba the country for quite a while when they first started dating. Anyways, the hubbie gets to get all dressed up in a tux...:). Then the very next weekend the Barlow girls (all SIX of them) are coming to Fort Worth for Memorial Day weekend. I am sure many posts will be devoted to that little adventure. Then we are off to the beach for a week the first of June. I CANNOT wait! I LOVE the beach. I didn't know how much until an ENTIRE year went by without me visiting one. I'm here to say that will NEVER happen again if I have anything to say about it. I will even chaperone a youth trip to go, and I'm not fond of youth--unless you are Caleb or Carrie or Cason when he gets there. Teenagers scare me. Okay that was a rabbit trail. Back to summer plans. Then I'm hoping to come home for Ashley's baby shower and bring two good friend from Texas with me in June. Then hopefully Erica and Alan are coming to visit in July. Finally--the grand finale of the summer--sit and wait for Luke's much anticipated arrival!

Amidst all of that fun I will be working at ACH with my kiddies and counseling at Catholic Charities for my internship.

Here is a pic from Super Bulldog Weekend. I'm posting both of them b/c Dad and Ashley are giving the camera dirty looks in opposite ones. I wanted everyone to have a chance to look nice.