Hummm My Blog is getting boring

I should post some picture of my house as we are slowly unpacking boxes...but...I haven't found the box yet that has the disk for my digital camera in it! Oh a happier note I've been sent a sign as to how to decorate this new house. It's going to be expensive but when your given a "sign" you must obey, right? This past week I got the "late summer 2006" Pottery Barn catalogue...besides being the most beautiful catalogue ever did anyone else see my "sign" on page78? The Hanna Quilt is personalized with "Lara"...I take this to mean that I need to do my patio like the patio's in Pottery Barn, and my bathrooms like theirs and heck I just need to start over from scratch! Just to show you I'm going to include some pictures that I took to Lowes to get color swatches to match so I can paint my new house these colors... The light blue will go in my bedroom, the dark blue on the wall/walls in my living room, the coral in the 2nd bath and green somewhere I don't know yet...the dark blue may eventually go in my kitchen too who knows....look and dream

I'm exhausted!

I go to bed and wake up tired. Yesterday was my final board meeting for the wonderful Fort Worth Metro Chapter of AFP. I was sad but relieved! I would love to have tons of energy to be working on finishing laundry, hanging pictures, organizing 2800 square feet of stuff in to 1700 square feet but I just want to sleep! ...I think I'm going to go take a nap!

If....

If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?

Define spicy?!?

Sometimes its the little things

My books are on their shelves.

I have DSL.

I've had my first and second cup of La Vida Dulce in my new house.

Boxes are piled high and my dryer doesn't work yet so laundry is growing by the minute....


BUT LIFE IS GOOD. :)

Saying a pray for Ray's brother Bernie, who was in this car wreck yesterday in between Grinnell and Des Moines Iowa. He has a broken neck and lots of other injuries. 

More Daddy Daughter Dance Pictures

Getting ready at the salon. Posing for Mommy. Waiting for Daddy

Daddy Daughter Dance Beauty

This is Emma ready to leave for the 2006 Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance.

Hangin out with Mommy's best bud, Miss Kellie

One more of our baby just to make the grandparents happy! :) 

In the spirit of the old what can you find in the this picture game from Highlights Magazine...how many bad habits can you find in this picture that JuJu has picked up from someone that shall remain nameless? 

Just like big sissy! 

My little Hollywood Hippie 

I think Emma grew up while we were gone to Las Vegas...This is her with produce from her garden she planted this year...little Daisy Duke or is it Daisy Cuke?

crop circles out our plane window as we flew back to Texas

Ray playing soccer in his team compition 

The Paris Hotel across the street from where we stayed and where we ate dinner the night we saw "O" 

Some of the 2,000+ handblown glass flowers on the ceiling of the Bellagio lobby 

The entrance to FAO Schwarz Toy Store 

I think I'm going bald 

Trying to take a picture of myself after my Nieman Mark Ups make over 

Our hotel at night...the Bellagio 

Last of the big time gamblers...losing it all at the penny slots 

Viva Las Vegas

Today Ray and I got back from five days in Las Vegas compliments of his company. This was my first trip to Las Vegas and I don't think I want to go back unless his company foots the bill...WOW was that place expensive! There were only two meals that the company didn't cover. One was breakfast this morning and we each had a diet coke from a fountain and a brioche (egg and bacon popover) for a total of $20.50! Of course I think we probably stayed in one of the most expensive hotels on the strip! The first day we arrived and by the time we got our luggage it was time for dinner....cocktails (open bar) and horse do overs (grin) this was on an outside patio followed next to those amazing pools I posted a picture of before. Then we went to bed cause we had to be up early for meetings in the morning. In the morning we had a huge buffet breakfast and then went to meetings until noon. Heard a great speaker named Dr. Mike Mescon, professor somewhere in Atlanta I think, had his Ph.D. by the time he was 24 and teaches Management. He made some VERY interesting comments that I will post later. Then the guests were taken to a cooking show with two of the Bellagio chefs. The chefs made; a two colored cold tomatoe soup with crab and black beans (two beans in mine, I would call them more garnish than an actual part of the recipe), handmade fresh cheese ravioli with garlic butter sauce, french bread and then the dessert was berries and custard. I must say that the wine was flowing and the walk back to my room afterwards was a little difficult. Unbelieveably they filmed the class and gave us the DVD when we left, in addition to a cookbook by the Bellagio chefs. Then that night we had a cocktail reception and awards dinner. The next day I didn't have anything to really do until noon, but Ray and his team had weird team building indoor games. At noon I went to a private fashion show at Nieman Mark Ups and had lunch followed by a make over by Yves Saint Laurent (sp?). Then we went back to the hotel and got ready to go to a fancy dinner and then to a Cirque de Soil show called "O". The next day Ray had to demo some web stuff to some agents and then we had the afternoon off...we shopped the strip, mostly at Ceasars casino where we went into a 3 story FAO Schwarz toy store we had another buffet dinner that night with a comedian/magician. They next day was time to leave and we had to leave the hotel by 7:30am. Viva Las Vegas...Pictures to follow

Living Area of New House (there is only one) 

Kitchen View Two 

Kitchen View 1 

This is the back yard of the new house we just bought in Aledo, Texas! 

This is one of the pools at the Bellagio...not that I'll be caught dead in bathing suit but I could hang out and soak up the atmosphere with a good book...Did I mention while Ray is at his conference I get cooking classes with Bellagio chefs? I think I might have died and gone to heaven...Oh no the fact that I have to go with his bosses to a dinner and wear a cocktail dress will nullify that!...Oh for my highschool body and hair! 

Happy Happy Joy Joy Ray and I get to go to the Bellagio in Las Vegas for 5 days by ourselves, expenses paid by his work! This is the lobby ceiling! 2000+ handblown glass flowers. 

Breath a sigh

Today I gave my two months notice at my work. I've never found it easy to resign (or break up for that matter) and this felt like a bad break up! Its hard enough to tell one boss you need to leave a great job but it is even harder to tell 25 board members when you are the only employee. I know they all felt like I just broke up with them and I'm having flash backs of horrible stomach aches from high school when I'd break up with a boy that liked me...(okay there weren't really that many highschool flameouts, just one that really stands out)! I need to slow the pace down around here and this is my attempt. We'll see how long it lasts, hopefully long enough for me to get back on the treadmill. I've had enough of running around all the time I need to do some running around and going nowhere. Julia, Gabe and Emma need me at home and happy about it, not home and grouchy cause I can't get my work done because they interrupt me....So today I'll a little sad. I really did have the best 25 bosses in existance and a nice job...it just didn't fit with my life at the moment. Blessings on you AFP Fort Worth Metro Chapter...I'll miss you.