Panama City Beach

It's ok to be jealous, I would be.

Landed in Nashville yesterday and spent the ENTIRE night up with my bestest catching up on every little detail of our lives, even repeating a couple stories a few times....sorry christa! haaha. But we are now headed down to Panama City Beach to spend the rest of the week catchin up some more, laying in the sun, read some good books and enjoy the company of each other and her family. I am so glad that I have been able to come run away for a bit!! Thanks mom and dad! This trip is just the refresher I needed! I will post pics later of course, possibly on my new blog??!!! Have a fun, safe labor day weekend!

Going through the Big D and don't mean dallas

Well folks the Walsh family is coming to an end, Ryan and I are getting a divorce. Not that this is really the way to tell everyone but those closest to ryan and I have been made aware of the situation already. It is tough news to handle, therefore I would rather hide behind the text and not have to hear everyone's opinions and thoughts on our relationship. I won't be going into detail about the whole situation for the sake of our sanity and privacy but I thought this would be the fastest, easiest way to let everyone know what is going on with us without having to continually explain ourselves to everyone as we see/talk to you all. Trust me, I know this stinks and it is sad that we hardly even made it to our 2 year mark but it is by far the best thing that we could do for ourselves. We need to take care of what each of us needs and that is going to be best handled seperately. I don't have much else to document other than there will no longer be any more posts on the rdwalsh blog. Eventually I may start a new one but that is still just a thought. Hope this finds everyone esle doing well and having a happy tuesday!

George Strait

We were blessed to be able to see George Strait in concert Saturday night as an anniversary gift from Shirley. We had AMAZING seats which wouldn't have been possible without the help of Janet and Ray.....we were on the floor about 20 rows back. Julian Hough, Blake Shelton AND Sugarland all played before the KING of country made his debut. Sugarland was absolutely AWESOME!! Sometimes on the radio her voice gets a little too twainy but I must say they are WAY better live! I was jumping around and singing my head off and Ryan and I also danced quite a bit. It was an absolute blast and I also snuck up about 5 rows away from George to snap some photos. Of course I brought the nice camera, DUH!

ENJOY!!

walking down the tunnel to the floor seats!! so excited!

at our seatsthe whole crew...

Julian Hough..not such a good photo. Blake Shelton

He was funny, he actually played the "free credit report.com" song. haha. good stuff.

SUGARLAND!!!

SOOOO GOOOD!

and GEROGE!!!

He is just the cutest!

dancin' the night away

It was just the most fun evening we have had and we completely enjoyed ourselves! Thanks for the tickets and wonderful evening!!

tonight

Tonight I will be enjoying to tunes of Julian Hough, Blake Shelton, Sugarland and the KING of country music......

GEORGE STRAIT!!!!!

I am pumped and cannot wait!

Of course, I will post more later.

Happy Saturday!

Bill and Helen

Last night we celebrated bill and helen's 49th wedding anniversary.

Ryan and I planned a little surprise party for the two of them complete with their daughter and her family, some neighbors, friendsn and lots of food. We decorated the house with streamers and tissue puff balls (thanks taryn!) and flowers, of course.

we started with a couple appetizers: I made my aunt Becky's salsa......sooooo good!

Kelley made these little weiners wrapped in bacon with brown sugar on top.....a heart attack but so delish!

matt, our next door neighbor taking care of the chickens and sausage.

the chicken was VERY yummy!

we also had potato salad, jalepeno bread and my mom's 5 cup fruit salad (I'm turning into a real betty crocker folks!) The fruit salad was quite the hit as well!

Most of the gang sharing stories and enjoying our dinner.

kell and truman.
bill and helen. Love this picture. They are so cute!

We made them blow out candles while we sang the happy birthday song but we slipped in Happy Anniversary. Haha, they were good sports though.

We asked helen her secret to a lifelong marriage (she was 16 he was 18 when they got married!!) And she said, "Just make sure you can look at that same face for forever, cause 49 years is one long time!" Haha, we all got a good chuckle outta that one. Seriously, she said, "you just gotta keep at it. It's gonna take some work."

I think they had a good time, we all enjoyed ourselves and getting to know their family a little better. They were quite surprised.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BILL AND HELEN!! Here's to another 49 years!

Discovery Green

Friday evening Ryan and I had a little date night. We went to a new park in downtown Houston called Discovery Green. (It is similar to the American Airlines center in Dallas, where they show movies and such for free.) They were showing a movie about the first landing on the moon....celebrating the anniversary of America's part in the space race. The park is really neat, nice and clean, probably because it is so new but we still enjoyed ourselves.....even in the 100 degree weather. There are fountains all over the place, bacchi ball (sp?) courts, benches, a little grill/cafe, you can rent sailboats and float them in the pond, live music (unfortunately when we were there it was worse than bad karaoke...entertaining nonetheless.), and some fun art around the park. It was a lovely evening and we will definitly be visiting the park some more!

I love this man but why can't I get a normal smile?

lub ya!

most of the park. ::band to the left::grill/cafe to right::sailboat pond in front::

kiddies.

these things are cool.

they're about 100ft. apart but you can hear each other talking when you sit in them just right. good engineering.

my love

"honey, will you take my picture?" my most common words.

"make every moment count."

it looked like rain. we were lucky it waited until saturday though. :)


It was a great evening and I can't wait to go back again!

would you be my neighbor??

Since we have been living back in Houston we have gotten to know our neighbors quite well. We have Bill and Helen who live across the street from us, Matt and Alexis who live next door to us and Mrs. Angie who lives caddy corner (sp?) to us. Our nieghbor on the other side of our house owns the house but rents it out and it is currently vacant.

As time has passed by our friendships with our neighbors has grown. I think it is really neat that in today's society, where most people couldn't even tell you who lives next door to them, that we are so blessed to have such a nice, warm and welcoming neighborhood.

We have had the low down on past and current relationships, old neighbors, crime that has happened in the past....which is still quite minimal, children, health scares and successes, best nail/massage/and other beauty salons near by, best eats close to our house and of course the happenings of today.

Ryan and I have spent many afternoons either in the front lawn with Matt and Alexis just chatting it up or on the porch with Bill and Helen shooting the breeze (Bill is retired, Helen is semi-retired). Mrs. Angie usually ends up making an appearance and joins the conversation. She is a sweet, sweet lady! She is in her 80's and still mows her own lawn, which she is quite particular about as well. So cute.

Anyway, one day as we were talking about food and Mrs. Helen said that she makes this mud pie cake that is just to die for. We then told her that next time she makes it to let us know because we would certainly like to try it. This week, she made it, took a few pieces for her and bill and then brought the rest to us.

It's the best MUD PIE I have ever had!!

(which is a lot for me to say since I am not a "sweets" person!)

So good in fact that I took a few pics for you all to enjoy.

Looks good huh?!?

Ryan and I feel so truly blessed to have these people as our neighbors not only cause they are nice and bring us sweet treats but because they are what good neighbors are supposed to be. So many times we are taught to treat our neighbors kindly and many times we think we are too busy to stop by and say hello or just wave good morning to them. I think that we all need to take a little extra time to enjoy the lives that surround us....you never know how they may help you in the future.

So, be nice to your neighbors and get to know them. Trust me, it's fun.