Good news week!

So it seems like everyone i talk to this week has good news!
-Cheryl is finally getting to come home to Texas for a visit
-Melanie is getting married!!!!
-C-rod is having a baby
-Aubrey is coming to visit Texas
-Cam's birthday is today (doesn't really classify as "news" seeing as how it happens every year but it is definitely noteworthy!

a ton of other stuff has happened this week but it has flown by so fast that I can't remember all of it. For now these are the things that are making me smile!!!

Good but long weekend!

Lately thing have been great! I don't know if it's because it's summer and things are slow at work or just because but so far this summer has been fabulous. This past weekend was a good chance to recharge and get ready for all of the upcoming events and festivities. Friday nothing happened but i love it, i think we watched a harry potter movie cause I am a nerd and wanted to watch all of the previous movies again before I go to see the new one. Saturday I tried to sleep late but the dogs must have sensed that it was my day to sleep in so they started rustling and pawing me at 7am so i took them out. After that I just stayed up. I pretty much cleaned the house and hung out all day. We were going to go hang out with our friend Jeff and a couple of others on Saturday night but that fell through so we had another movie night! I love movie nights and just sitting on the couch doing nothing. With my schedule at work never being consistent and not much time during the week to relax i relish the chance to do absolutely nothing on the weekends.

Sunday night we went to a going away party for our friend Brett. It was a good time and great food but we stayed out until midnight and I had to be up at 6am this morning so needless to say I am dragging this morning. What I want to know is when did i become such a grandma...seriously i used to work until midnight or 1 every night in college and wake up for 8am classes no problem, but now if i don't get 8 hours I drag butt all day. Oh well, there is not much solid sleep in my immediate future seeing as how Daniel (jake's brother) has a show tonight at 10, but it will be worth it cause his new band is really good and entertaining.


Things i'm looking forward to lately:
-Harry Potter, the new movie and the new book!! I know i'm a nerd
-Las Vegas, all expenses paid 4 days at the Wynn for work (it would be better if jake was there but i'll take what i can get)
-1 full week off from work!!!!!!!!!
-Natalie coming to Austin
-Crawfish Boil

Ok so it's been a while!

Lets see life has been crazy hectic but in a good way i guess. I made it through June and well a few things didn't go as planned but it was a good month none the less.
Well Taylor and Mitch got hitched! Their wedding was so perfect and fun. I loved the place that they had their reception at. The whole weekend was great, a ton of old friends were in town and we ended up going out Friday and Saturday. Other than a few um "hiccups" the weekend was great!

*This picture brings back nightmares of when I was a youth leader for my church in high school. Back in the day when my now boyfriend and all his guy friends would terrorize me. They are all great guys now and I adore them but once upon a time...oh man heathens!

*This picture makes me feel old cause i have known both the bride and groom since they were in the youth group. They are so perfect together and it makes me happy to see that they will be together forever!!

Well we did it! Jake and I made it through birthdays, holidays, and regular days! Our 1 year anniversary was on the 14th of June and it couldn't have been a better time. It started off rough...I had had an amazingly bad day at work which ended with me getting yelled at on the phone for 20 minutes by some rude pompas old man. I headed home to find a beautiful (and comfortable) dress laying out on the bed with a huge bouquet of gerbera daisies and stargazer lilies. Things would have been perfect there but there was more. ***let me preface this by saying we had agreed to not go all out and save our money for things to come later*** Next to the dress and the flowers was a gift certificate to a Restaurant the we had wanted to go to but decided that it was going to be way to expensive to even consider. So i got upset and started crying mainly out of guilt but none the less there were tears. Jake couldn't figure out why i was upset and I couldn't convey that i loved it i just felt like it was too much, didn't see why i deserved it and always have a hard time accepting nice things that I honestly don't think i deserve. I felt like I had made our anniversary out to be something that he had to go all out on and spent money that we didn't have on. Once he calmed me down he explained that his dad bought us our dinner as a present and that he had nothing to do with it. At this point i felt horrible for crying and getting frustrated (i'm a brat i know i know). Long story short i calmed down and had the best dinner ever. we went to Vin Bistro, had a 7 course chef's table dinner (the chef tailors the dinner specifically for you and pairs all of the courses with a wine.) So all in all our anniversary was perfect because it was us; him spoiling me, me not knowing how to accept it, and us ultimately having a great time!
*us with our Chef Chris, best dinner ever

*My beautiful flowers! they looked 10 times better in the arrangement he brought them home in!


One of my free weekends last month i decided to take a trip to Tucson to visit Catherine and it was so much fun! I miss Catherine tons but when I got to hang out with her for a couple of days and then had to leave i realized just how much i miss her and all of my girls. I got to hang out in Tucson for 2 days which was so fun! We went walking in this beautiful (albeit scorching park), drove up to Mt. Lemmon, and just hung out. On the third morning a group of 7 of us packed the cars and headed south to Rocky Point Mexico for a day and night of fun at the beach! It was great!! We played in the ocean and got some sun all day, then we went to this really great cantina that from the front looked shady but once your were inside it was great, cheap food and the best pina coloda i've ever had. The next day we got up, had breakfast and headed back. I had to hop on a flight for austin that night but the short trip was worth it.
*Me and Cat on the beach. Sporting my brand new spurs championship hat...GO SPURS GO!!


*The view from our patio.


*Cat and Brian. This was my first time meeting brian after knowing catherine for 7 years now. He was great and i approve! Plus they are super cute together.

So that is my summer so far.