Tuesday, November 21, 2006

9th Birthday Girl fun...



Right: Davis, Kristofer, Haleigh, Caroline, and Tatum. Lauren in front. This is a special group of friends whom Lauren has known all of her life. Haleigh and Kristofer, friends from our Machado St., Caroline lived down the next street. Tatum and Lauren met when they were 3 in preschool and we live in their neighborhood!









Lauren went with 5 friends to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert tonight to celebrate her "9th" birthday . Each child got their own cheesecake, sadly 4 of the 6 all got original cheesecake with strawberries! But we all had a good time! Not sure why the "red eye" will have to look at my camera again...

Santa Saturday Fun!

Our 3 Elf's: Annabelle(L), Lauren(M), and Caroline (R)


Davis by the 37 1/2 St. Tree


Lauren by the 37 1/2 St. Tree!












Davis and Joe McDermott-signing his CD.





We had a blast on Saturday Morning with Joe McDermott, local Austin children's artist. Lauren and her friends were elf's this year. After attending this event since Lauren was 2, it was very surreal to see her as an "elf" and not a little girl dancing around on the floor.

Joe asked for the girls (the 3 elfs on the floor by him) to come up on stage---Annabelle, lauren and Caroline all were delighted! They danced 4 songs with Joe and the band and had a giggling time!

Friday, November 17, 2006

Getting ready for Christmas!


For the past year, I have worked with 75 wonderful women to help raise money for the City of Austin non-profit organizations through the Junior League of Austin's A Christmas Affair shopping extravaganza! This week all our hard work came to fruition and we opened our doors Wed PM with the Austin Entertain's Premier Gala.

Amy, Jenifer and I worked as team members for 4 parties, including Wed PM. We also hosted a Brunch on Thursday AM; a Girls Night Out on Thursday PM, and tomorrow night, we will have host a Dinner /Dance with local Austin Band, Gizzenslaw's. The three of us worked like crazy organizing the food, the drinks, and the entertainment.

I got myself sick on Tuesday with a sore throat and ended up sick in bed all day Friday with a migrane and stomach ache.

I'll be back with pictures Saturday AM of Breakfast with Santa--Lauren will be one of Santa's Elf with her girlfriend, Caroline.

Here is a picture of Jen (L) Me (M) and Amy (R). Jen is my friend in Austin who I have know the longest time! Amy, Jen and I all had our girls together and they will all be elfs tomorrow together!

Sunday, November 12, 2006



Davis joined Karate about 2 months ago and really loves it! Here he is getting his orange strip belt!

Foster Dog #2

Right: This is our 1st Foster, Toby. He spent almost 3 months with us! He was very cute!












Hunter...loving the ball...


We are on our 2nd Foster dog for the Austin Gold Ribbon Rescue for Golden Retrievers. This big guy, all 90.5# is HUNTER. We took 2 days to name him and he seems to respond well to it. He has massive paws, loves to snuggle and has huge cheeks that he loves to have scratched!

We believe that since he is so awesome and healthy, he won't be with us very long!

My Favorite Things

  • Taking pictures of my family and friends
  • Working in the Yard with David
  • Not having to cook dinner!
  • Starbucks N/F Cinnamon Dulce Latte
  • Reading Christian Fiction: Fav. Authors: Dee Henderson and Karen Kingsbury
  • Swimming for distance
  • Bike Riding with my family