Your Pie Pizza

Five out of five

Looking for a kid friendly pizza place that is nice on your wallet? 

Look no further! 

Your Pie, located at 1625 Main Street in Downtown, is awesome! It's in a corner space right by the rail. It has booths, bar stools and benches. The women's bathroom was also clean, which is always a plus!

It's a pizza bar. Here's how it works: choose your dough, next your sauce, and last your toppings. You're not charged for any extra toppings.

They even give the kids the extra dough from their pizza to play with at the table!

Harper was sticking hers on her nose.

They slide it in their fire burning pizza oven. It only takes like five minutes.

I get Harper a cheese pizza with marinara and Beau likes ranch with pepperoni.

If you get the meal, it comes with a side and a drink. I usually go with a salad while the kids get gelato.

Ive saved the best for last... kids eat free on Mondays! That is when we go.

Have you ever been to your pie? If yes, what did you think of it?

2019 New Years Resolutions

Happy New Year!

With every new year comes new goals, new resolutions. Here is mine for the 2019 year:

1. Vlog. I find that I take all of the pictures. Photography is my passion and I am normally behind the camera. I noticed that I am not in a lot of photos and videos that we have. For obvious reasons because I am the one photo'ing or videoing them! So this year I am going to try and get behind the camera and vlog about different things going on in our lives. My goal is to do it at least once a week. Check out our Vlog explaining our resolutions:

2. Read more. I grew up with a mother who read all the time. Like seriously, she would read at least one book per week. Mostly fiction books. I did not inherit that. I always come up with excuses. I don’t have time. I am too tired. Blah! My goal this year is to read one book a month. We went to Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago for the first time in forever (cue Anna from Frozen) and it was so fun! Bryan and I each got a book as well as the kids. I bought John Grisham's 'The Reckoning.' I am half way thru it and plan to finish in the next week or so. 

3. Less anger more hugs. My third goal will focus on my relationship with Bryan (mostly). When I feel the need to gripe at him for his in ability to load the dishwasher, or argue with him  when he asks why he has to put lotion on our kids every night, instead of arguing back with him I am going to give him a hug. More love more hugs!

Happy 2019 Everybody!

Christmas 2018 Highlights

What a blessed Holiday we had this past year. 

Bryan and I both have very strained relationships with our immediate families, so holidays have always been a little depressing. But since having kids we have tried to create new traditions to create our new normal.

Christmas 2018 was the first year where we did what we wanted to do. We spent hours with old friends and new friends, and enjoyed each other on Christmas Day. Here is what we did:

We start off the season right with a Christmas Tree lighting at the Four Seasons.

We visited Moody Gardens Ice exhibit and their Festival of Lights. There we met us with an old friend who lives out in League City. She has four boys so Beau was I’m heaven. 

We went to Zoo Lights on the coldest day of the year! We walked really fast.

We had Breakfast with Santa at the Hilton.

We played charades with Uncle Curtis and Mary. 

We spent a few hours at the zoo with Nathan and his two kids 

We had a Christmas Eve party with our neighbor Jordyn. We played musical chairs, decorated a gingerbread house and even sang carols in the apartment lobby!

We had lunch at the Four Seasons with my aunts and cousins

We spent 8 hours at Moody Gardens with Robbie and Krista and their two sweeties, Emma and Aria. 

Lots of great memories made with lots of great people.

Breakfast with Santa at Hilton Americas

On Saturday December 15th, 2018 we had Breakfast with Santa at the Hilton Americas.

They had a cute little winter wonderland set up.

We went with my neighbor Lorie and her granddaughter Jordyn.

She made us reservations which was a good thing because it was slammed. They gave us one of their rooms.

We did the buffet and it was great!

Santa came to our room and spent around five minutes with the kiddos.

This was a great experience and we will add it to our list of holiday traditions.

Being Diagnosed with Melanoma...

Cancer. That is such a scary word. A word that I never thought I would hear. 

Early November I went to the dermatologist for my six month checkup. I have a lot of freckles and fair skin so I always go every six months for full body checks. At my appointment, my dermatologist noticed a spot on my right arm that looked funny so she had it biopsied. This is normal for me to have this happen at every appointment so I didn’t think too much of it. A few days went by and the dermatologist called me. Melanoma. Yikes! She said it was a very thin layer and that it looked to be in the very early stage but that I would have to go to MD Anderson to their dermatology department and have them check it out. Ok. Don’t freak out until you have to. MD Anderson called a few days later and set me up with the first appointment available, and it happened to be with the head of the dermatology department. That put a little relief to my worries. My appointment  was scheduled two weeks out, so I spent that time worrying and googling and crying. I had no idea the extent of my cancer and it was terrifying. 

Bryan and I went in for my appointment on December 3rd and I got great news. My melanoma was stage T1a, the earliest stage of invasive melanoma. Because it was caught so early, the only treatment I needed was to have the tumor surgically removed. No lymph node mapping, no chemotherapy. Hallelujah! We spent five hours at MD Anderson that day having xrays, blood work, talking with anestiologusts, etc. The surgery was scheduled two days later, on our nine year wedding anniversary. I couldn’t think of a better gift than to be cancer free!

The day of my surgery I was so nervous! I’ve never been in an OR before, so the whole rigamaror of the prepping stage was super stressful! But, in the scheme of things I knew I was one of the lucky ones there so that eased my mind a little. My actual surgery took only about an hour, the prep and recovery time took up most of the four hour block that we were there.

The recovery wasn’t too bad, I just tried to keep my arm elevated and took it easy. Bryan took off the entire week to help me because I couldn’t lift anything, but other than that I felt fine. I go in for my post op appointment at the beginning of January. I’ll have full body checks at MD Anderson and my dermatologist in Kingwood every three months for the next two years.

I can not stress enough how important regular visits to the dermatologist are. Doing so saved my life. I have many freckles so it is hard to keep track of them all and the changes that occur. After this experience, I am going to try to pay more attention to my body and practice the ABCs of skin cancer. I’ve listed them below as well as put a link to MD Anderson to read more about them.

A- Asymmetry. If both sides don’t match, get it checked out.

B- Border. Crooked or jagged borders are cause for concern.

C- Color. If more than one color presents itself in a mole or spot, call your dermatologist.

D- Diameter. 6 mm or less is not a cause for concern. Anything larger needs checked.

E- Evolution. Keep track of the changes your moles make. It could save your life.

Link to MD Anderson. 

Here is to a cancer free me!