Recent Wedding

Recently, I went to a co-workers wedding in Louisanna.  It was outdoors. In June. In the South. It was HOT.

As a party favor/useful tool, the bride had paper fans available as you came into the ceremony.
(The reception was inside, and much cooler!)

 and some pictures of {one of} the cutest flowergirls ever ...

 You can't see them, but Gabby (the flowergirl) has the BEST THIGHS I have ever seen on a baby -- chunky and sweet and oh-so-kissable-and-squeezable!! :)



Unfortunately, we never got a picture with the bride or our other co-worker who was in the wedding party... whooooops!!

Special Gift

My Papa is the greatest. 

So is my Uncle Jack.

They are two peas-in-a-pod.  They spend hours together at the "shop" where they tinker with cars, boats and motorcycles. They cook some great chicken-fried-vinison, steaks, cobbler, green beans, 'nana pudding, buttermilk pies and homemade peach ice cream!! Mmm!! They tile, redesign, and update the "shop." They host lunches -- with a white table cloth! And they have a huge vegetable garden and several fruit trees. 

Anyways, last week Papa sent me these:

Are you Jealous!?

A church friend of Uncle Jack's made them.  And I LOVE them. I've worn them twice in one week. Next week, I might wear them three times! haha!!

The church friend evidently made them by hand. Inside the small box was his return address label, so if you want some, I am sure you could send him a letter. 

I told Papa the only problem is...now I need Carmel-Colored Texas Tech Cowboy Boots to wear with them!! :)



Jenga

We went to the Lake for Memorial Weekend!!! 

The weekend before Memorial day, I was at a bar with some friends and they had a few different "group games" including: corn hole and Giant Jenga!!  I quickly took a picture and sent it to my dad, hoping that he would make a GIANT JENGA game for the lake!! (because we already had a corn hole game at the lake)

Sure enough, Dad planned and sketched and measured and calculated with their across-the-street neighbor Mike (who might be the best neighbor ever).  By Friday, we had our very own GIANT JENGA game!!

It's a great game because everyone can play-- all ages!

It could be a one person game -- or a group game... I think the most we had play at once was 6.

And you don't have to pay 100% attention when it's not your turn

-- just be careful when it falls!!

My brother and I might be slightly competetive, and we basically beat the game... we got to the point where there were no more blocks to pull!! 

VERY FUN!!

Thank you Dad and Mike!!

Third Place Softball 2011

Last weekend we played 3 teams, and lost in double overtime by one point to Pilgrim.

Went into the loser bracket of the double elimination tournament...

Today, we played 3 more teams, and lost by few points to Pilgrim (again.)

BUT... that left us in THIRD PLACE!!! YEAH!!

The PLAYERS:

The Stunt Man

The Kid

OUR Short Stop

Samson

Coach John

Freight Train

Pitcher Dave

Oh Paul!

She-who-did-the-splits-to-catch-the-ball

2B-D

AK

Nora gives you a run for your money

Carrie, The Trooper

Wes, Clayton , Joe, Hienrich and Tricia couldn't join us today, but definitely helped lead us to the championship tournament!!

I (usually) play catcher -- the caviat is -- in our league, there is no stealing bases.  So, basically the catcher's job is return the ball to the pitcher.  Luckily, we have some girls and guys who played college ball to cover the more "intense" positions... :)  We are all pretty good batters and runners too!!

We're called "One Bad Inning" b/c it seems like every game, there is always ONE really BAD INNING!  :) but our team usually pulls in out in the end!! We are lucky to have alot of good, positive, encouraging players.

This was our CHAMPIONSHIP picture last year:

CAN'T WAIT TILL NEXT SPRING YALL!!

Kids say the darndest things...

6 year old, adorable boy -- We already had "ch" ...so we tried for "J" (/dz/).

"J" in the beginning has some easy target words... Jeff, Jeep, Jet, Jam, Jiggle, Jump...
"J" in the end of a word has harder target words... average, wage, etc.

So I went through all the easy "J" at the end words (huge, age, etc)... then I came upon the word "Cottage"

ME: Hey Buddy, do you know what a "cottage" is??
HIM: Yeah, like College Cheese?

Yeah, something like that Buddy... HAHA!!! Cute kid!

PSA: The Dentist

This is a Public Service Announcement for THE DENTIST!!

I had been going to a great dentist in Dallas, but was planning on switching dentists when it was time for BIG photo shoot!  And I hadn't made it to her in over a year plus it was time for the BIG x-rays.

One of my favorite friends, Tricia, is a Dentist.  So naturally I went to her office -- (email me if you need her name and number! She's great!)

The hygenist finished and called her over... she was like "OH my gosh Amy! I didn't want to see ... ugh... this is not good....  what do you do drink Coke all day?!"

"Nope!" I said proudly, "I drink Dr. Pepper!"

She was not smiling.  Evidently... soda (dark and light) coats your teeth with acid that lasts about thrity minutes.  Well, I have been rewarding my self with a DP every work day, IF I made it through lunch without killing a kid, which was most days. :)  And (proudly) I made that DP last all afternoon by taking sips between each 30 minute appointment.

(You do the math -- but basically I was coating my teeth with acid for HOURS every weekday plus whenever I treated myself to a DP on the weekends).

I had 2 big cavities that needed to be drilled. And about a million on "watch."

ugh.

I went back a few weeks ago and did several hundred dollars of "repair" -- and the whole time Tricia was drilling, she was also chanting "doctor. pepper. doctor. pepper. doctor. pepper...." because (A) she is a turd and (B) she was drilling into my thick head that my addiction to Dr. Pepper has caused all of this (pun intended).

You will be proud to know I gave up DP for one month. And now drink them VERY sparingly and NEVER let it LINGER on my desk as a temptation to drink it all afternoon!

Thank you Tricia. 

My teeth are better because of you.

And that is my PSA:

Drink your soda. 

Don't "make it last."

Just drink it up...

or Don't drink it at all.

April 29th 2011

It's kinda late, but do you remember what happened on APRIL 29th?!

Well....

PRINCE WILLIAM got MARRIED! and IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY!!!

For every birthday at work, we have cake on the day (or as close to the day as possible).  I wasn't going to work on my actual birthday.  But I was bummed when I grabbed a book off of a co-workers shelf and saw a note that said "Amy's cake = Wednesday." 

Little did I know there was so much more...

...on Wendesday...

I was checking my schedule with an undergrad observation student and saw everyone gathering by the conference room door... 

When I was done, I came around the corner and said "Whats going on?" and then my boss said:

HERE YE! HERE YE!!  

and made a grand announcement of a

SURPRISE

ROYAL

BIRTHDAY

TEA PARTY

in honor of the happenings on April 29th!

aahhh!!

I was in heaven!!!

It was so fun and I was SO surprised!!!

And here are the pictures:

A Kate Middleton (look-alike) ring!

It was VERY FUN!!

 And elizaBeth brought me Cake balls -- I was mesmerized!

THANKS Y'ALL!!!