Thursday's Customer Appreciation Day...

Today was Christmas in May....May 7, 2009

For Christmas Lisa got us season tickets to the Dallas Summer Musicals...I was going to buy tickets to Rent (esentially the same gift)...so we first went to the King Tut Exhibit at the DMA.

Lisa really enjoyed the soft ($$$) Camel in the Gift Shop

I really enjoyed the exhibit, I was amazed at the wooden sculptures that were thousands of years old and remained completely intact, the intricate details on every item from jewelery to furniture, and the translation of the heiroglyphs. However, my favorite relic in the exhibit was the boy king's golden daggar, it was one of the items burried with him.

We look good as femal Pharohs

King Tut was 9 years old when he took over the crown, can you imagine a 9 year old King? He held the throne 10 years before dieing suddenly of unknown causes, the mystery that keeps people interested year after year. They exumed the body a few years ago and found a Femur fracture, which truly amazes me...Death by femur fracture alone? Today femur fractures suck, but are easily treatable, but you can lose up to 1.5 Liters of blood from a femur fracture. If it was in fact the femur fracture that killed him, how did he get the femur fracture to begin with?

Me and the King's Sarcophagus (in the gift shop)

Then we got Free Beer!!! We stopped at a Deli in Uptown, where it was customer appreciation day, beer was our reward. I felt very appreciated!

Then, the crowning glory of the day, RENT. It was absolutely amazing. The two male leads, Adam Pascal (Roger) and Anthony Rapp (Mark), were the original broadway leads and played the roles in the movie as well. All of the male characters were very strong, but I was a little disappointed with the performance of Mimi. It was by far the best show I have ever seen. Thanks Lisa!!!

Katherine's Wedding

May 1, 2009


I've found a new motivation for blogging...at the end of the year I want to be able to look back over the last year and remember the funny moments and the little details that have been forgotten with time.


A wedding is a wedding, generally the same seqence of events, just different people and different colors. It is the moments that cannot be replicated. Katherine's (a friend from nursing school) wedding was beautiful, she looked amazing, the cakes were delicious, we enjoyed seconds at dinner, it didn't rain, plus there was plenty of wine to keep things interesting. Now to enjoy those special memories of the evening...


Let's start before the wedding, where Melissa, Jess, and I were getting ready together in Jess's sweat box bathroom, enjoying some rose spumante. It was so hot getting ready in this little bathroom, with the humid weather, plus the fact that Matt had just showered in the bathroom, and we had straight irons and curling irons blazing. This lead to me shedding some clothing while getting ready, and almost leading to an accidental incounter with the man of the house sans pants...luckily there was no exposure. But it is always so much more fun getting ready with the girls, than getting ready alone.


Once at the wedding the fun continues. One of my favorite topics of conversation at dinner was that of Melissa's tiny inner black woman. Also, we enjoyed reminiscing about all of our own wedding days. We certainly enjoyed our token wedding swing dance, albeit this time a little embarassing. Not because I was flashing the world, but because we were the only ones on the dance floor and Richard almost dropped me on a dip...then again he actually did drop me in the parking lot on the way out to the car. It was really funny, he picked me up while giggling hysterically all the way to the car, then when he put me down we both took a tumble in the parking lot...Luckily we were both drunk at this point.

We ended the evening with a feircely competitive game of Taboo. In which I got 8 card and Richard only got 7, therefore making me the WINNER! He had a hard time accepting it. We had a great time !

Congrats Greg and Katherine!
(No pictures, my camera is still broken, no new one yet)

Welcome to the World Carly Michelle

Carly Michelle Pace

Born: April 27, 2009 0750am

This is Amanda and Jason's second bundle of joy. They now have the perfect all American family of four with a boy and a girl. Jonah will be 2 next week, WOW! I can hardly believe Jonah's been with us so long, and here they go bringing another beautiful little one into the world.

Amanda had a scheduled C-section on the 27th, a day of rain and swine flu. We got the title of first friends to meet this little girl, monday night after I got off work I went home washed off the work cooties, and we headed to the hospital. She was born at Centennial Medical Center in Frisco, and it was quite possible the eeriest hospital I've ever been in. Working in a hospital and having 2 years of nursing school with clinicals in many different hospitals, have lead me to associate a hospital with hustle and bustle, lots of people, and the smell.... This was the quietest hospital I've ever been in, it was very nice, new and clean too. These are 3 things that are never associated with Parkland, very new to me.

We really enjoyed meeting Carly, and welcoming her into the world. I was particularly excited that she decided to wake up and open her beautiful eyes while I was holding her. She was a very unusually pretty newborn, with a perfectly round head... a benefit of a C-section.

So if you read my blog, you'll notice that this is not our first baby welcome in recent weeks. We just welcomed SamE last week, but Richard was too scared to hold her. I think he feels like he is going to break babies, I'm pretty sure he wasn't comfortable with Leo and Jonah until they were about 9 months old. He rallied his courage tonight though, and held Carly. He did just fine!

Congratulations Jason, Amanda and Jonah!

Delta Theta's 25th Reunion

Agenda April 24 &25

Friday Night

7pm Meet and Greet in the Chapter Room

Saturday Morning

10am Ritual

12pm Lunch at the Green House

6:30pm Rose Ball at Metropolitan Catering

9:30 Out at Tavern (This was not part of the formal itinerary, but was necessary after it)

This was a very nice weekend, a lot of work went into making it perfect. It was a little sad for me though. There is a core group of girls that I think of when I think about my collegiate life in AOII and unfortunately I only got to see three of them. However, it is amazing to have this one common bond with all these women.

The best part of the reunion for me, besides seeing some women I really love, was getting on the elevator in Stark Hall, pressing 6, and being greeted by the familiar unchanged smell of the dorms as the doors opened. It was nice that something had not changed.

The weekend got a lot better after rose ball when we went out to Tavern. Richard's best friend from high school, Brandon, came out and entertained him, while I enjoyed rekindling some old friendships.

Welcome Samantha Elise ...SamE

Samantha Elise Foster

Born: April 19, 1009

April 24, 2009

Today Richard took the day off, and Jason had already started his baby leave, so we all went over to Sarah and Andrew's to meet their new addition. She is an absolutely precious little girl, a little jaundiced today, just looked like she had a baby tan! We really enjoyed meeting her, and getting to be part of Sarah and Andrew's life during this Exciting time.

Thank you guys, and congratulations on your beautiful new family!

Dinner with the Bursons

April 23, 2009...I decided it would be a great idea to have some friends over for dinner after work, and it was. Daniel and Christa came over with their babies Drystan and Calla, and by babies I mean their 4 and 2 year olds. Not quite babies anymore. We had not seen the babies since December, so it was great to see them, but I feel like we got a pretty good glimpse at what being a parent is really like, which was a little scary. These are two of the most precious kids in the world, but I am so glad I don't have any yet... I still need some practice. Thanks guys for the life lesson.

It's a good thing Richard is really great at playing with kids, I don't know where he got the energy after working all day. But he entertained them with laundry basket ball, O ball shenanigans, rolling of my decorative balls, and his world class juggling act. All very entertaining, at the expense of my zebra ball...good thing my husband is an engineer and figured out how to put it back together.

Our Party without an Identity

Saturday, May 2, 2009

If you know me very well at all, you know that I am a person with a lot of big ideas that don't always work out as well as planned. Then at other times it works out better than anyone could've imagined. And that is how it worked out at our party...

At this point in time I am realizing how much I want and need to spend time with the people I love, before we're in DC and get to see people once or twice a year. So I decided having one last blow out in our house would be a fun way to celebrate, but when I was making the evite I couldn't decide on a party theme. So, I tried to give it the longest name in the history of evites, unfortunately there is a character limit.

Initial Name: BBQ, Cinco de Mayo, Last house party, Fish fry, Sangria party, patio party...

Final choice: Our party without an Identity

So as of Friday morning, four people had RSVP'd, plus Me and Richard. By the time the party rolled around there were 17 people and 2 kiddos (Me, Richard, Jason, Amanda, Jonah, Carly, Thane, Stephanie, Oscar, Nancy, Lisa, Steph, Kayla, Daniel, Christa, Mario, Amy, Brent, Matt). It was wonderful to have so many friends and family in one place at one time.

So we were supposed to enjoy our patio and the great spring weather, but instead there were torrents of rain all day saturday. So we moved the party inside, where we enjoyed Sangria and tons of delicious food, but more importantly some interesting conversation. However the highlight of the party came at about 1100...

When our party became the Power Outage Party. Luckily I had plenty of candles on hand, plus a few flashlights, more light than necessary to play Charades!!! The moral of the story: Charades is fabulous, especially when a little alcohol is involved and Nancy and Oscar don't make the rules!!!