Moonlight Gala

Paul and I returned early this evening after spending last night in Houston. We had gone to Houston to attend an awards banquet for one of my co-workers. Keysla (my partner in crime at work) was nominated for a Nurse Excellence Award. We went to support and cheer for her.

The reception was held at the JW Marriott (fancy, smancy) and the theme was Moolight Gala.

Here are a couple of pictures from the evening:

Keysla getting ready for the big event:

She had her cousin do her make-up and a friend do her hair.

Abundant Pride:

Keysla and her parents on their way to the coctail hour.

Keysla and I are the two night shift assistant nurse managers for our unit at the hospital. Several of our bosses attended the gala:

Keysla and myself with Jaimie(our boss) and Janet (Jaimie's boss). Needless to say with all these bosses there I had to be on my best behavior!!

Keysla was the winner in her category!!!!

YOU GO GIRL!!!!

After our fancy dinner, the celebration continued in the hotel bar. I think Paul and I finally got to bed around 12:30 and just as I was going to sleep the hotel fire alarm sounded. We had to evacuate!!! How funny is life that one moment we can be all dressed up, eating fancy food, livin' the high life and the next we are outside the hotel in our pj's trying to avoid all the firemen running inside!! It wound up being a false alarm (the hot water heater overheated) but is does make for a funny story.

We got back in town today just in time to attend Kolin's football game, then it was home to unpack and hopefully rest up for the upcoming week.

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend. Thanks for checking in!!

Weekend in Review.....

I know I am a few days late with this post, after all this week is half over, but you know from reading this blog that Thurs-Sun are the hoppin' days in our house. Let me take you back:

Friday - A Balloon Festival with no balloons

The city in which I work holds a huge hot air balloon festival every September. My hospital sponsors a baby business tent and I was somehow roped in to volunteering this year. The purpose of our tent is to provide mom's a place to feed and change their babies. The volunteers job was to welcome the moms and keep everything stocked. So Friday afternoon I headed off to the festival for my 3 hour shift. I thought that I had planned it just right so that my shift would be over when the balloons were launched. Well, lo and behold, we were experiencing 30mph winds that day. Evidently, hot air balloons cannot launch in winds over 6mph so there we were at the balloon festival with no balloons. It was a fun time anyway. There were craft booths set up and lots of good (but bad for you) fried food. So the afternoon was not wasted.

Saturday - The football game that wasn't, that was, that wasn't, that....was

We actually had two places to be Saturday morning. We were invited to celebrate Parker's 3rd Birthday (his mom is Jamie from MWL) and Kolin had a football game at the exact same time. Because I missed last weeks football game for Mommies, Movies, and Munchies I felt that my status as favorite aunt may be jeopardized if I missed two games in a row. That morning when Paul got home from work my alarm was going off, he immediately told me "It's raining so the game will probably be cancelled". I thought okay we can make the party. I called my sister-in-law to confirm the cancellation and she told that it was not raining at the game location so it was still on. Okay we will go to the game. I got up, got dressed and then the phone rang. My sister-in-law told me the rain had just hit and they were waiting to see if the game was cancelled. By now we were in holding pattern, game or party, game or party. Then came the next phone call, the game was going to be cancelled. By now we were too late to make the party so instead we just went out for breakfast. I later found out that they did go ahead and play the game a couple of hours late after the rain passed but it was so last minute that there was not enough time to call everyone to drive 30 minutes to the game location. So the moral of the story: we missed the party, we missed the game, but we did have a nice relaxing breakfast. I spent the rest of the day on household chores and scrapbooking.

Sunday - Six Flags

We went to Six Flags with my cousin and her family. The weather was perfect, it only reached 80 and there was a cool breeze blowing throughout the day. The crowds were minimal and we practically walked on every ride (some even twice). Paul and I are both roller-coaster fanatics. We love them. There was a time when we would ride over and over and never want to stop. Well, we rode the tallest ride in the park and immediately went back for a second ride. We must be getting old because after ride #2 we both looked at each other and said, "Okay that was fun but that was enough". We rode everything else in the park and had a great day. Man, we were pooped when we got home.

So there you have it, our weekend in review. Monday it was back to work...

Hope everyone is having a great week.

CONGRATS!!!

I wanted to give a shout of congratulations to Matt, Jamie, and Parker. They received their I171-H today. Now you are well on your way to having that dossier to China!!! Let the shopping begin!

Confessions of a TV addict........

You knew the day would come.....that day when two of your favorite TV shows would be put up against each other. Well, that day was today.

CSI and Grey's Anatomy Season Premieres on at the exact same time. WHY????

I was out running errands this evening and suddenly looked at my watch, I had to get home for the Thursday night line up. Now, normally Kelby has football games on Thursday night but this week they had a bi. Thank goodness. I needed to find a plan. We have a DVR in the living room but you cannot record one show and watch another. So I set the DVR for Survivor and CSI. Then while Paul was sleeping, I crept into the bedroom to see if I could remember how the VCR works. Let me tell you, it has been a long time since I have hunted for a tape, set the timer, made sure the sattelite was on and all that jazz. There I am trying to set the VCR by flashlight so I don't wake Paul when all the sudden I here "What the heck are you doing?" Obviously I failed at my mission to do all this without waking him. Oh well, priorities. :)

So tonight the plan worked......I watched my CSI then went into the bedroom to watch Grey's, now next week when there is a football game it might be a different story.

Now I am off to check on ordering one of those DVR's that can record 2 shows at once....oh the drama of my life.

9 months down!!

No labor pains, no leaking boobs, no having to go to the bathroom every hour when the baby is sitting on your bladder. Today marks 9 months since we have been logged in at the CCAA. If this was a "normal" pregnancy we would be on the tail end of things right now. Leave it to us to never do things the normal way.....

So here's to 9 months of paper pregnancy and may we be on the downhill slide!!