we leave for houston in less than 48 hours and i have ALL THE THINGS to do... but instead, here i am. sitting in bed blogging (while randy irons his work clothes), and watching impractical jokers.

impractical jokers is randy's newest favorite show... and i'll admit, it is pretty funny. but it makes me SO UNCOMFORTABLE to watch. i get anxious during every episode, and basically i'm just a weirdo. bless my little introverted soul.

anyway. so yes. lots to do, lots to do. but i want to share our fun weekend before i probably (very highly likely) abandon this little blog for two weeks.

saturday night we went to bakersfield christmastown with our favorite neighbors!
it was so much fun, and the kids LOVED it. they had so much to do and see, and i have a feeling we will come back and visit every christmas as long as we are living here!

they had "ice" skating (it was some sort of plastic tiles, but you wore ice skates? idk, i let randy take presley, and by LET, i mean designated. not my kinda fun.), hay rides (eli's favorite!), snow tubing down a giant slide (presley and i went, so fun!), face painting, characters (elsa apparently got braces 😂), tons of bounce houses, and of course, christmas lights.

sunday at church was the kids christmas program that presley was SUPPOSED to sing in. but nope. she told me she "got shy". that girl!
sunday afternoon we had our neighborhood christmas party at the clubhouse. before we left randy said, "i wish we didn't have the party tonight. i just want to stay home and not go anywhere." that is literally something that comes out of my mouth at least once a week. we are so boring, and i'm not even mad about it.💁

the party was so cute! we took a horse drawn carriage ride around the neighborhood, and had some fun in the photobooth. they had an ornament decorating station for the kids and mr. and mrs. claus came for pictures (even though we chose not to participate for eli's sake!).

today presley had TWO christmas performances, which made for a super long day, but seeing her up on stage makes it all worth it.
this morning she had a little christmas show at dance class! they performed a couple little dances and she was just precious, duh. 💗💗💗

tonight she had her christmas program at school (at 6:30pm...why?). she did so great up there singing her songs. i took videos, but no pictures... ugh. of course. there were LITERALLY 99+ three to five year olds on stage and all of their parents and relatives in a smallish place and it was a tad overwhelming, so forgive me.

i can't believe my birthday is in a couple days. i told presley that, and she got really upset and just really wanted it to be HER birthday in a couple days. she started crying about it. i told her like 324 times that you CAN'T CHANGE YOUR BIRTHDAY. and she insisted that you can, and that she wants hers to be in two days. i told her NO, that it was MY birthday in two days, and so she said, "ok, then i want my birthday to be in three days." 🙄 

she is surely a mess, but so is her brother. he copies every.single.thing she does and says.

lately she has really been into sounding out words and figuring out which letter they start with... lots of "puh puh puh presley starts with P" and "sa sa sa sword starts with S". 

she was doing it in the car the other day on the way home and pretty soon eli started too. his weren't quite as acurate.... "sh sh sh MOMMY" "duh duh duh PRESLEY!" "ca ca ca DADDY!"

he had me laughing so hard. 😂😂😂

he NEVER wants me to take his picture, like ever, unless i am making presley pose for a picture... then it's all "eli's turn! my turn! eli's turn! cheeeese!"😍

alright, i've got to stop. it's 9:13 and that means it's way past my bedtime. byeeeee.👋

i've been putting it off for awhile, but today i finally just went for it... i took the kids to see santa.

if you've been around awhile, or you got our christmas card last year, you know that eli hasn't been santa's biggest fan...or the easter bunny, or any disney character (even the princesses.) for that matter. brother just doesn't do characters.
presley, on the other hand, total pro. she smiles on cue. gives hugs, high fives, talks. today santa asked what her favorite cookies were and she squealed, "rainbow ones!". he asked her to leave some for him on christmas eve and she promised him she would. and she has reminded me 82+ times today that we have to make rainbow cookies for santa. thanks old man. he also asked her what she wanted for christmas... "a baby! a baby alive! that pees." of course.

what did eli ask for?
well. i'll let you decipher that.

pretty sure all eli wants for christmas is to NEVER SEE SANTA AGAIN.

poor guy. but don't feel sorry for him. he was on santas lap for approx 40 seconds, "smile!" click. done. one take. then he got down and acted like nothing ever happened.

aren't those jammies presh? randy told me that one day eli is going to be really upset with me for making him wear those. really RANDY? i could have put him in so much worse. like the elf costume the kid in front of us had on. 

presley is such a sweet big sister, though. before we left she told eli there was nothing to worry about and that she would hold his hand the whole time. she told eli, "if you're scared, just talk to jesus. he will make you not scared anymore." MELT MY HEART. seriously i almost cried. sometimes when presley is fighting me to go to sleep at night, she'll tell me she's scared of the dark. and every single time i tell her, "if you're ever scared, just talk to jesus... he will make you feel safe." i mean, she never heeds my advice, but at least i know she's listening!

hello again!

so wild that we are already a week into december. why this month always seems to fly by at hyper speed, i will just never quite understand. give me a year of decembers, PLEASE!

anyway. let's talk about christmas traditions. i really need some for my little family. particularly some with ZERO ELF INVOLVEMENT. i'm not knocking you elf-on-the-shelfers, but i.just.can't.do it.
two years ago while perusing pinterest i found a pin for salt dough and made some homemade christmas ornaments. i cut out different shapes with cookie cutters and let presley paint them. i also got one with her handprint, and since he was just a tiny little thing, eli got a footprint.*

*side note--why do baby books have a place for hand prints?
foot prints? totally understandable. ink foot, stamp paper, done, cute. easy.
hand prints? have you ever even pictured this situation? try it. try just imagining what might happen. first of all, good luck unfisting that NEWBORN hand. second of all, maybe you're thinking, oh, well newborns sleep a lot, i could just do it when they are asleep. ok, well i'm not trying to wake up a sleeping newborn, so if you want to take those odds, then i guess you probably have handprints in your child's baby book.

idk where that came from, but you're welcome.

anyway, last year, since we were selling the house and showing the house and all that really UNFUN  stuff, we didn't decorate for christmas or do any fun things in our house. but this year i brought back the salt dough and presley declared it "the best day ever!". she was so excited to put on her "print", or what you and i call an apron, and paint. i got handprints for both kids and call me crazy, but i'm just really excited to overload my christmas tree with these special ornaments as the years go by.

so, in summary, salt dough is my only tradition. HELP.

not much else going on, the weather has been AMAZIIIIING. in my opinion, anyway. overcast, drizzly rain, you know, the good stuff. the best part of the rain is that it clears all the nasty stuff out of the air and you can actually see the mountains!

and you're not gonna believe this, but there's a mountain so close to us, i can just reach out and touch it. i believe we are going to call it mount laundry, and i have several news outlets reaching wanting to interview me about this "miracle". apparently it's the fastest forming range in california growing at record speeds and currently overtaking the entire second floor of my house. so, sorry, i must run. going to scale that beast!

just wanted to check in and say hello to everyone who's visiting from our christmas cards!
i started this little blog last year at this time as a way of documenting a huge transition that was taking place in our lives, and to give my family a place(since i gave up social media!) to see how fast the kids are growing! (even though we facetime a bajillion times a week)

it's been quite a year, and our time here has only just begun!

anyway, we made it back from texas in a much less dramatic way than we got there.
more people ended up sick, including my sister (who i only got to see for a whole 4 hours the whole time i was in texas😭). it wasn't the week of perfection i had expected to have, but we got to spend lots of time with family, and that made it all worth it. and i kinda loved that i got to take care of my parents for a change... they took care of me, and my kids, while we were disposed, and i got to return the favor. serving them was a blessing.

and let's also address the elephant in the room.... IT'S DECEMBER! birthday month! christmas! back to texas! i can't believe it's already my favorite month of the year. i'm hoping the days flow by like molasses so that i can savor them completely. i read somewhere that as parents we only get approx 18 christmases with our babies living in our homes... and that hit me like a gut punch. as if i needed another reason to be the crazy christmas lady, my status just upgraded to the maximum level of crazy possible. 🎄

if you're new here, (basically anyone besides my parents and sister.... also, HI AUNT JOAN!), thanks for taking a minute to read my run on sentences and overly-punctuated and always lowercase ramblings. if you like to hear silly stories about the things that come out of the mouth of sassy 4 year olds, or see pictures of the cutest kids that ever lived, or you're curious about what life is like in the metropolis (ha.) that is bakersfield, california, you found the right spot!

the good news...!
WE MADE IT TO TEXAS!

the bad news...
we brought everyone the worst thanksgiving gift of all time.
ROTOVIRUS... or NOROVIRUS. (at least i’m pretty sure that’s what it is based on the symptoms i googled.)

i wish this was a joke. i really do.

eli randomly puked on friday afternoon for the first time in his life. at that moment i was hoping it was a fluke and something he ate just didn’t agree with his belly. but alas, more puke came later that night and i prayed with all my heart that he would be ok in time for us to leave for houston the next morning. well, God listened and he was fine by morning and so was everyone else! YES! so we made the 2 hour drive to LAX, got on our plane, and everything was just going eerily perfect.

annnnd then presley told me her belly was hurting. so we went to the potty and she told me that she was fine and her belly didn’t hurt anymore. in the meantime, my stomach started feeling not so great, but i was more focused on the kids. presley ended up falling asleep on me, which made me feel a little better. until it made everything worse.
the pilot came over the speaker to say we were in our descent into houston and to keep those seatbelts fastened. minutes later presley just starts SPEWING. vomit is everywhere. on every inch of her, her i-pad, her headphones, her shoes, her seat... i’m catching it in my hands and it’s just overflowing. i’m yelling at randy “NAPKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!”, “TRASHBAG!!!!!!”, “MORE NAPKINS”, “ANOTHER TRASHBAG!!”. at the same time i’m trying to handle this literal and figurative mess, presley is SCREAMING. eli is standing in his seat trying to crawl over to see what’s going on. i switched on my supermom mode and wipes started flying and clothes were coming off (presley, not me 😂).
of course i brought an extra change of clothes for ELI... he was the one who’d been sick. so of course, you know. so when i told the naked child next to me she was going to have to put on her brother’s 2 sizes too small pants, i’d say she wasn’t very happy judging by the screams and tears.
but we somehow made it off the plane, with absolutely zero help or concern from any flight attendant. (i left them a bag of vomit covered napkins to say thanks 😐).
presley vomited again in my moms car on the way home, and as soon as we got there, it was my turn.

i am gonna spare all the other details because i feel like i’ve been maybe too forthcoming with the nasty parts. BUT as of right now, RANDY is the only one who’s been spared. yep, mom and dad are both currently sick.

ugh. let’s hope the rest of this thanksgiving week starts looking up, because i’m pretty sure that’s the only way we can go from down here. 🤦🏼‍♀️


UPDATE: jayden and bryleigh (my nephew and niece) have officially got it.


2nd UPDATE: now my father in law has it.

3rd UPDATE: now my bonus father in law has it.

stomach bug.... the gift that keeps on giving. literally.

eli is TWO!

how in the world has it been two whole years since my little bald peanut baby was born?
i swear it was the shortest two years in the history of ever.

8lb baby ---> 28lb toddler

eli is so so special. it's hard to put into words just how much he means to us, and how he was the perfect puzzle piece to finish our family. he is just one of a kind, in the best way. 

he is SO much like his daddy.... very serious and pensive. but he is also silly, funny, and has a smile that will melt anyone's heart. (but especially mine!) and, of course, THOSE EYES and THOSE CHEEKS.

he is so smart, speaking in sentences and singing the words to all the songs on the radio... i swear he knows more songs than i do. he loves his sister more than anyone, always wanting to do what she does, say what she says, and play with what she's playing with. his favorite toys are cars/trucks/tractors of any shape or size, and he loves to watch blippi and daniel tiger on his "p-pad."

he loves to zoom around the house on his scooter, and play outside any chance he gets. his favorite foods are peanut butter, crackers, froot loops, macaroni and cheese, and any kind of chocolate candy. literally anything. he has tried it all. even almond joy (GROSS.), and he loved it. and if you try to give him anything to eat besides those previously mentioned foods, you'll just be picking it up off the floor in a minute...not that i have experience or anything. (really, his only fault!)

this morning presley was so excited that it was eli's birthday, it was the first thing she said when she came into my room. "i can't wait to see him all grown!".

so we went into his room and she just gushed about how grown he looked and said, "look how long your legs are, eli!" and she couldn't wait to tell her teachers that it was her brother's birthday!

after we took presley to school, eli and i went to breakfast...pancakes, another food fave. then we had to head to the dr for his 24 month checkup. he got his vision tested (perfect!), then his physical exam (also perfect!), and then he had to get a finger prick and vaccine. the finger prick came first and his reaction? "ouch." that's it. no tears, not fuss. just "ouch." then the shot. that one garnered a few tears, but he got a "p-pop" (lollipop) out of it, so they didn't last long.

presley really thought it was going to be a party today, bless her heart. she kept asking where the cake was. i told her we were going to wait until sunday (when we have his party in houston!)... and she didn't quite like that answer. my girl loves cake, the apple doesn't fall far, you know?

when we picked her up from school, she was so excited to see eli again and kept saying she couldn't believe how big he was and she asked me to tell her teacher that it was his birthday! it took everything i had not to cry... i'm a crybaby, ok?

tonight presley and randy went to church and eli and i just hung out on the couch together. he was tired after dinner and he was in the mood to sit on my lap, so i soaked it up. i'm typically not the favorite, but when dad's gone, i am the consolation prize. when they got home, randy brought in presley's papers from church and said, "here's presley's papers. she asked her teacher for a blank coloring sheet so she could bring it home to her brother for his birthday." ummm, are you crying? because i wanted to cry. what an angel. she loves her brother, and that makes me the happiest mommy ever.

anyway, i could go on forever and ever about my sweet "goo-goo bear", "googs", "brudder bear", "brother". like how he rests his little hand on me when while he watches his shows. or how he always asks "again!" if you tickle him or make him laugh somehow. or how he likes for me to pop his toes! or how his eyes scrunch up when he smiles. or how he shuffles across the floor when i tell him to skip. or how he says, "i don't like it" all.the.time. and of course, how he says, "i'm coming!" when i ask him to kiss me.

i love you bigger than the sky my sweet Elijah George!

happy sunday!

i don't want to jinx anything, but i'm pretty sure fall has OFFICIALLY arrived in bakersfield!
the mornings have been in the 40's, and even high 30's, and the afternoons are pretty consistently in the mid 70's! there is actually a RAIN CLOUD on my forecast for NEXT monday (when we will be in texas...of course.), so hopefully thats a sign of more to come!

speaking of texas...6 more days! whataburger here i come! and MEXICAN FOOD!
oh, and family! can't wait to see them too, haha!

also happening soon... the thing i keep trying NOT to think about, in exactly 3 days...
my BABY is turning TWO. my goodness, motherhood is the most bittersweet experience, i swear.

presley and i went to disney on ice yesterday at the rabobank arena. it was a special little girls trip, that included a light up snowflake wand and $15 cotton candy. FIFTEEN DOLLARS for COTTON CANDY. and i'm like, these people are nuts asking $15 for cotton candy, but really, i payed it...soooo who is nuts, afterall? yikes. but it made my girl so happy, and that's pretty priceless!

not much new going on over here in our part of california... but i can't say the same for other parts. the thousand oaks shooting is still a very open wound for everyone, along with the devastating fires all around. it's hard to not feel helpless as a mere bystander to terrible things happening around the world... but we are praying continuously for everyone affected by these tragedies.

halloween 2018!

halloween has come and gone, and while it's definitely not my favorite holiday (and it's left me utterly exhausted), i'm kinda sad to see it go.

all the festivities started last saturday at a little halloween harvest festival our neighborhood put on.
they had games, fall snacks, cupcake walk, and picture ops! the kids had fun, but it was HOT.

they both got lots of compliments on their costumes!
gigi gifted presleys costume to her, and it was the most magical costume for her... the wings are HUGE, and the WHOLE costume lights up! the wings, the dress, and the wand! we were both obsessed with it.
my mom made eli's ghostbusters jumpsuit all the way from houston! it couldn't have been more perfect. i ordered the custom patches on etsy and he loved pointing to the ghostbuster patch when people said "hey ghostbuster!". my dad made him a custom proton pack out of odds and ends and it put his whole look over the edge!

monday started "spirit week" at presley's school, and it was crazy day (crazy socks, clothes, hair...)!

tuesday was halloween at dance class! she wanted to be a unicorn, so we made it work with some dress up accessories from gigi!

wednesday they were able to dress up at school, but i didn't trust presley to wear those giant fairy wings (and also i don't want her teachers hating me for it!), so she went through the dress up clothes again and decided on a bumblebee!

when randy got home from work i had the kids all ready to go celebrate halloween! presley got to wear eyeshadow, blush, lipstick, and even mascara. she LOVED it. she told me, "i look like a lady! like you!" 

eli was OBSESSED with the slimer balloon i made for him. he kept yanking the string and saying, "stop it slimer!" over and over and over. 

after our little front yard photoshoot, we headed up to our church festival with our neighbor friends (from houston!)

the kids had a blast! they had tons of games, bounce houses galore, hay rides, and train rides.

presley especially loved the different bounce houses...the slides and obstacle courses. eli loved the hayride, of course!

after about an hour we decided to come back to the neighborhood to go trick or treating!

these two boys were HILARIOUS. they walked into people's houses when the opened the door to give out candy.

presley got TONS of candy, almost her whole bucket was full. eli was the SLOWEST kid ever. he took the leisurely approach to trick or treating. he dragged his bucket and strolled along. he missed half the houses because he was just taking his sweet time. but he loved it. i tried to pick him up and he told me to put him down! 

we had ONE trick or treater at our house... and i bought FULL SIZE CANDY BARS. what?! i literally bought like 90 candy bars (costco! they were the same price as the big bags of assorted junk that always has something nasty like mounds or almond joy or milky way dark). so now we have all these candy bars...guess what you're all getting for christmas?! 

but really, we didn't get home until almost 8, so we probably missed all the real action. i'll do better next year.

so i'm sad it's all over, but only because my babies are babies and these fun times just go by too fast.

i love love love holidays with kids, it's BY FAR the best part of every holiday...watching them laugh and play and smile.

but, the show must go on, and the christmas tree must go up. and it did. today. and you're welcome, RANDY, for waiting til november. i know it's probably silly, if not flat-out ridiculous to be putting up my tree so early...but it makes me happy. and it makes my kids happy. 

i just really want and hope that when my kids are grown they will remember how fun and special christmases were at our home. i want them to laugh about how enthusiastic i am about christmas (and birthdays!). 

when i die, i want randy to reminisce about my christmas loving heart, and smile. i know he thinks i'm crazy, but he's the one who married me, soooo...? who's crazy now?

but really, jesus is the reason for the season. he's the reason for every season, for every day, and for every single second. and in this month of thanksgiving, HE is everything i'm thankful for, and he is why i have things to be thankful for.... happy november!

hello from (still) sunny and wayyyy too hot for october, california!

seriously, i'm getting heat stroke just thinking about going outside.
we are taking family pictures on sunday...in long sleeves. and it's going to be like 88 degrees. so basically we are going to melt. help me.

so a few weeks ago, when randy was out of town and my mom was in town, i was taking some trash and recycling out into the garage and I SAW A MOUSE. it was alive. and it was running.
WHAT IN THE WHAT.
i don't do bugs, snakes, or rodents. nope nope nope. i was this close to setting the house on fire and starting over.... but instead i bought bait stations. because RANDY told me to buy bait stations.
"but won't they die in our garage?"
"no, the eat the bait and get dehydrated and then go outside to look for water, they won't die in our garage."
but, SPOILER ALERT. i have FOUND TWO DEAD MICE IN MY GARAGE since then. and there are probably more that i haven't seen, you know, dead. behind boxes... like my christmas decorations that will be coming into the house in a few days....RANDY.

speaking of christmas decorations. jk. i don't really have anything to say about christmas decorations. just a gentle reminder that HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIES START THIS WEEKEND.
and if you are on my level of excitement, then you already know the first new movie is called, "christmas at pemberley manor." PEMBERLEY MANOR. what?! do you know that i live on PEMBERLEY passage avenue? so basically, i have renamed my house "pemberley manor" because i can, and shall be calling it that henceforth and forevermore.

i have a really hard time thinking of gifts i might want for christmas... or my birthday that falls 5 days before christmas. usually because i don't want extravagant things, and for the small things i want, i usually just pick up at walmart on one of my multiple trips a week.
BUT, the other day i saw a commercial for a roomba vacuum that not only vacuums your house, but EMPTIES IT'S OWN CANNISTER. so basically when it docks, the dock just sucks up the cannister and you don't have to worry about a full cannister all the time. first of all, i have dreamed of having a robot vacuum for a LONG time. but honestly i really wanted to wait until they were at the top of their game, and wouldn't get stuck in the rug under the kitchen table or lost under the couch. and folks, i think we are THERE. so i got excited, thinking this might be THE birthday/christmas present i could actually ask for this year. and then all my hopes and dreams were murdered... by the $1k price tag. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. for a vacuum. can i just say, that really...sucks. get it? because a vacuum...sucks. ok so thanks, but no thanks roomba. hard pass on the thousand dollar robot vacuum. call me when it'll do my dishes. i'd pay $1k for that.

anyway. that's about all i've got today.
signing off, from pemberley manor.

not too much new to report here! it's still blazing in bakersfield. ugh. i checked the forecast yesterday morning and saw there was a rain cloud NEXT TUESDAY!! the last time there was a rain cloud on the forecast was when my mom was in town, and it NEVER HAPPENED. so i was trying not to get my hopes up... and then i checked again yesterday afternoon and the rain cloud was already gone. WHAT?! how does that even happen? my little rain cloud turned into a sun, and that is the saddest thing ever. 

sunday after church we went to lunch with our small group to celebrate someone's birthday. we ended up sitting across the table from some friends, and presley started talking about holly. "she's my sister and she's two..." our friend looked at randy really confused, like what am i missing here? is there another child? randy had to let him know that holly wasn't REAL. he kept asking presley questions about holly, and she answered them with zero hesitation. 

does holly like waffles?- "no she likes pancakes. with no syrup."

does holly like strawberries?- "no. she likes apples."

where is holly from?- "like, all the places."

i learn something new about holly everyday, it seems. the other day when we were driving to school, i asked where holly was, and presley let me know she was sitting on my lap while i was driving. uhhh, ok. should i be worried that holly is into breaking laws? 

i've been working on starting to plan eli's birthday party for when we are in houston. it's car/truck/tractor theme, surprise surprise. we cannot even walk into a parking lot without eli pointing out every single car he sees. "car! truck! car! car! car! truck!". he tries to say excavator, but it sounds like rootbeer. idk. we went to the park a couple days ago and they were clearing some land nearby to build more homes, so there was some equipment parked in the lots. he spent half the time we were at the park pointing and shouting "tractor!" over and over and over. safe to say we are going to be visiting pawpaw's office to see all the big toys when we get to houston.

eli is really starting to get chatty. a lady working the nursery at work told me his vocabulary is really good, and that he was talking to her in sentences. i feel like presley was putting words together at like 6 weeks old (ok, maybe not that early, ha!), but i really try not to compare them. he told me a couple days ago while he was eating, "this is good mommy!" he is also picking up songs from the radio, and i'd say he's definitely a toby mac fan (or maybe he doesn't have a choice!).

well it still doesn't feel like fall, but i've decorated outside anyway. i just want to stop seeing 85+ degree days on my forecast. pleeeease.🙏🏼

i don't decorate the inside of my house for fall, because as soon as i put it up, i'd be taking it down. christmas decorations start going up as soon as hallmark christmas movies start which is OCTOBER 26!!! so the outside might be looking like fall, but inside will be christmastown in t-minus 15 days!!!!

i can't believe i haven't posted about presley starting dance! she started at the beginning of september, and she is absolutely the cutest ballerina i have EVER seen. 😍

speaking of presley, i've got a couple presley-isms to brighten your week.

"since i'm four, can i call you BB now? or how about beeb? i call my teachers 'teach'!"
she def doesn't call her teachers "teach", in case you were wondering. 🙄

"in california it's presley's world. everyone is in presley's world, right? say right."
i guess she's heard me mutter "i guess it's presleys world and we all just live in it" under my breath a few times. 😂

eli doesn't really have any "eli-isms" yet, per say. but here's what he's been spouting off lately...
"BOP!" - stop. he tells me this 800 times a day, usually when i'm wiping his face or trying to change his diaper.
"ENOUGH!" - goes hand-in-hand with "bop".
he is very very VERY into cars, trucks, tractors, dump trucks....basically anything with wheels, and is never without a car in one hand. even at the dinner table.

i've got one more "ism" for you... and it's brought to you by my dad.
 "WHY SHOULD CATS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN A TAXPAYER?!" - bryan wise
if you're curious, you can ask him about it... unless you're the harris county commissioner of precinct 1-rodney ellis , then you've already gotten the message(s) and you know why he's so mad.😂😂