Day 1

1. Family story – how did your parents meet, how many brothers/sisters, tell us what you want.

My mother and father meet in Dallas on a blind date.   I find this rather fitting as my sister and I both met our husbands on match.com.  My mom is from Arkansas and my dad is from Louisiana. Both were at Louisiana Tech for a year at the same time. They even knew some of the same people.  However, my mama transferred to good ole Arkansas to be closer to her fiance or boyfriend (not sure if they were engaged yet). After that engagement failed (he was caught out with another girl a few weeks before the wedding, my Mama and a friend decided to move to Dallas.  My dad graduated LA Tech and moved to Dallas.  Enter a blind date and now 41 years later they are still married.

I have a younger sister, Allison.  She has been married for almost 5 years (shy a few weeks) and lives with her husband Mike in Wylie, TX. The have a dog, Ranger, and a cat, Tinkerbell.  She is a graphic designer and loves everything I hate doing...ie decorating, painting, being overall crafty.  She just has the eye for that kind of thing and I am a numbers person.

I live in St. Louis with my husband, J.  We have been married a year and seven months   I have a stepson, Peyton, who is 9 and just finished the 3rd grade.  He is super athletic and plays baseball, basketball, and soccer.  We have an Old English Sheepdog, Charlie, who is like our other child.  Hopefully at some point in the near future we will start prepping for another addition.