When I see you smile

I can face the world, oh oh,
you know I can do anything
When I see you smile I see a ray of light, oh oh,
I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me

We are in Longhorn country!

In honor of Colts last home game and Bowen's one month "birthday" we thought we needed a family pic. Bowen bleeds orange already, He already comes (wakes up) early, stays (up) late, he is loud, and wears BURNT ORANGE! Mack Brown would be proud.

Our baby is almost one month!!!

Since Bowen will be a month old in a few days we wanted to share some of our favorite moments of the past month. Enjoy!

First family photo

Coming Home


First Bath



Sweet sleeping baby


Mommy and Bowen

Daddy, Bowen, and football is a winning combo

Most recent fam pic

Knowing us there will be so many more. He was born into a family known for their camera:)! Thank you for sharing this time with us!!!

What's in a Name?

So we have gotten alot of questions and comments about Bowen's name. So we thought we would take a moment to explain. Bowen is a last name that we have seen several places and love it. I had a friend in high school with the last name. Some good friends of our named their little boy Rhyder after one of our favorite Texas music artists, Brandon Rhyder(see previou post). So that made us start thinking about what we wanted to name our son, and it be something that was important in our lives and represented his parents well. So of course Justin wanted to name him Daytona, lol. That got nixed quick! haha. We then started thinking about Texas music artists as well, and all we got was names we couldn't use like Larue and Roger. So we gave up on that idea and had a list going of names that we both liked, including Carson(it had car, hah), Aiden, Jacob, and Blaine. I jokingly said one day the we could name our son Bowen, and then we both laughed. But over the next few days we both grew to like it and our name list got shorter and shorter. We narrowed it down to Aiden, and Bowen. I have always loved Aiden, and I wish it wasn't so darn popular right now! We finally settled on Bowen after I started calling him
"Bowen bear".
As far as his middle name goes, it was always going to be Matthew. For several reasons actually. First of all, after my cousin Matthew (who I felt was like my brother) who is no longer with us. Secondly, I like the idea that all of our initials are JMS, KMS, and BMS. We will definitely try and keep that tradition!

Freeze Frame Time

Hi! Our inspiration for starting this blog was the song "Freeze Frame Time" by Brandon Rhyder. The lyrics really touched us and pretty much describe our life up to now. We hope yall enjoy them as much as we do. We are a very busy family and before we knew it 10 years had FLOWN BY!

It’s a beautiful morning, to see the sun rise
It’s moments like this that make me wish I could freeze frame time
I got a hot cup of coffee, gonna watch the world come alive
Surrounded by nature likens the innocence of a new born child

CHORUS
Sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we cry
Some days it’s hard to figure out our way in this life
But it’s moments like these that make me wish
I could freeze frame time.

VERSE 2
I got a picture in my pocket, of my baby boy
He’s growing up so fast I swear he thinks he can conquer the world
Just yesterday evening, he come running up to me
He said he made his momma mad and that she said he was just like me

CHORUS 2
And I laughed until I cried, all swallowed up with pride
You should have seen the concern in that little boy’s eyes
Yes it’s moments like this that make me wish
I could freeze frame time

VERSE 3
You are and angel, you taught me how to fly
You picked me up when I was down turned me around and you made me fly high
We’re a little bit older now, together we’ve seen some change
But I love you more now than I did on that very first day.