Round 2 and NYC Here We Come

Round 2 status:

Contract pending on house number two.

Its precious (minus one bathroom that needs to be updated).

I love it more than the last.

Im keeping my fingers crossed.

Inspection on monday.

Home owners.......status: pending!

NYC:

Count down: 4 days!

We are so excited!

We cant wait to eat great food and experience the city together.

I have so much on the list of things we want to do.

Cant wait!

The next week holds (hopeful) good news about a house and a fun trip. I can handle this surprising 38 degree weather if it means a trip to NYC and a cute house in the next week.

Happy Soon to be 28th Hub!

3.9.10

Happy 28th

Birthday!

I love YOU!!

Andrew's sweet mom always made a carrot cake for him on his bday.

I thought I would try to carry the tradition on.

So today was my first attempt.

We cut into it 5 hours early.

YUM!

Besides a very fun birthday week: great dinners with family and friends;

We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary last weekend with a great sushi dinner.

It was fun to reflect on the past year-wow! Big year!

I cant wait to celebrate so more years to come with my hub.

A fun celebration comes in about 2 weeks:

NYC!

Cant wait to celebrate and have a great vacation.

Yes, the house fell through so its to the Big Apple we go!

{We terminated our contract and feel very at peace with it.

We continue to hunt for our sweet, perfect first house}

Trip Home!

Our trip to Nashville was so great. I loved seeing everyone, especially the kids. Funny how they are growing up so much. Ellie's personality is shining through (much of the sassiness from her mom, of course) and Tyler is such a big boy--saying things like "Ellie we need to have a talk." Haha, i loved seeing them. Ellie didnt have much to do with me during our trip to WaterColor for thanksgiving but this trip home, she loved us! It was great. Made me so happy.

Friday night we had a little double bday party for both of them, 2 and 4 years old. They loved their cute little cake. It was great to just hang out with them, see the whole family-g'parents, uncle, dad/libby, mary parr, and my sister. I loved it. Andrew and the girls went out for a drink after dinner which was fun. Fun to have us all together in the same place--rarely happens, I feel like.

Andrew kinda looks like he is doing a Step Sing pose...

Ellie and Tyler with their yummy cake!

My two favorites!

They loved it.

(And so did I, of course)

Saturday we did girl stuff--my sister went shopping around green hills, which can always be a disaster but for some reason I still love doing it. We had lunch with my mom and stayed out in the sun the rest of the day, minus rest time--definitely not ready to be a mom! I was exhausted. That night for dinner we thought it would be fun to take them to a japanese hibatchi grill, which they have been to but I had never been with them and wanted to see them entertained. They loved it. Ellie hated the fire--just covered her eyes and said BAD FIRE! But surprisingly, they loved all their food. We had a blast with them!

Sunday we got a little "nature-esk." We put on our rain boots and hit the pond (well, deedee, ellie, and tyler got in the creek and pond, i opted out--no rain boots with me this go around). Tyler saw his first real live snake and loved it. We just skipped rocks, had a little splash contest to see how wet tyler could get missy, and then just played by the little lake. It was great.

Mommie and tyler by the creek.

Deedee with her two favorite muchkins

Such a great weekend to be home!

Two Birthdays and Two Nuggets

Next weekend I get to celebrate birthday 2 and birthday 4 with these 2 nuggets:

Oh I cant wait to squeeze the heck out of them!

Andrew and I are headed home next Friday.

Im so thrilled to go home and see the family.

Believe it or not, this was the last weekend I was home:

Crazy that it's been almost a year since Ive been home.

Coming up on a fabulous one year!

2.28.10

It either holds a fun trip to NYC or the cutest little house that's now status: contract pending.

Im happy with either..just ready to have a yes or no on the house.

We shall see what the next few weeks hold.

Until then...

Happy Valentine's Day

First Kill!

I loved receiving this picture yesterday!

Andrew is in Arkansas duck hunting with my dad.

1) first time to hunt

2) first time to use his new shotgun on a real living animal (no clay disks this go around)

3) first trip with my dad (including like 5 of his friends)--hoping he still has all 4 appendages when he comes back today

=)

He has had a lot of fun and cant wait to go back!

I got this one today...guess he is learning quickly!

quality is not so great (blackberry pics) but you get the point. he loves it!

Engagement!!!

So my sister-in-law Katie got engaged! We are all so exited and so happy for her!

It was her birthday wednesday and the day she got engaged (well was suppose to be the day but it actually ended up happening tuesday!), could you ask for a better bday present?

Well for a little fun birthday cake I started off my Tuesday night like this...

(pictures tell the story)

1) purchase ingredients and wedding magazines for the soon-to-be-bride!

2) bake red velvet (band part of ring made of Sprinkles Cupcake Mix-YUM) and yellow cakes (yellow cake mix is diamond park of ring)

3) Get red velvet cake out of mold without a disaster and let cakes cool

4) Cut cake in diamond shape and transfer to cookie sheet

5) Re-energize!

6) ice cakes!!! i used a little sugar shimmer for the diamond! turned out pretty good, i was happy with it!

7) eat. enjoy.

Andrew and I are so happy for Katie and Drew. We cant wait for all the festivities to start taking place!!

Most Girly Weekend

Dinner at a fun Mexican restaurant with great margaritas and the best guac in town (Mi Cocina and mambo taxis)

Muffins at my favorite muffin place (JDs Chippery)

Shopping at my favorite shops

Lunch at one of my new favorite spot (original Neiman Marcus downtown, highly recommended)

More shopping at my favorite places

Harry Winston diamond fun (just looking, no worries Andrew!!)

Sushi for dinner

Yummy yogurt eatery

Fun touristy museum things

Another lunch at my one of my fav lunch spots (Celebrity Bakery)

Weekend with my 2 favorite highschool people (Carla and Angie)

All these combined makes for the best GIRLY weekend ever!!

So much fun with Carla and Angie this weekend. Thanks so much for making me happy and for the visit!