ICE CREAM ANYONE?

I was going through the coupons in the Sunday paper today and came across this ad for Baskin Robbins. They are having a special promotion this Wednesday. You can get a scoop of ice cream for only 31 cents. Since this is almost as good as the free pancakes at IHOP, I had to share it.

When I went to their website to get the picture, I saw that it is part of a fundraiser to Fallen Firefighters. Sounds even better!

How can you pass up this deal?

SAN FRANCISCO

Here are some of the highlights from my trip with Monica to San Fran. We spent the first two days by ourselves exploring the city and seeing as much as we could. The last three days of the trip, we had our tour guides Shalou and Eric giving us the insiders view of things. We had a blast the whole time!

Day one: Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, and Alcatraz.

We rode the boat to Alcatraz for the tour. The ride was FREEZING! There's no way I'd consider swimming across the bay.

Day 2: Rode a trolley car and then walked all over the place.

Monica found a prince in Chinatown.

We walked from the top of Coit Tower...

to the top of Lumbard Street.

Day 3:
The Painted Ladies

The Atlantic Ocean

This was Good Friday. We ate dinner at the Last Supper Club.

Day 4:
We visited the Farmer's Market for breakfast and then headed to Napa.

On our fourth trip across the Golden Gate Bridge the weather was finally clear enough for us to actually see the bridge! It really did exist!!!

Day 5:
On our last day, we had a late breakfast and then treked to the top of Bernal Hill. This was in the middle of Shalou and Eric's neighborhood and had some excellent views of the city.
And of the three of us!

And last but not least, we went to the Giants game. It was such a beautiful stadium with the views of the bay. It was a great way to cap off our trip with our friends!

If you have time (there are 100+ pictures)and want to see all my pictures, here's the link.

If you have time (there are 100+ pictures)and want to see all my pictures, here's the link.

San Francisco

With Matthew being a police officer, people often ask me if I worry about him when he is working. I respond by say no, because I know God is watching over him and that worrying would only make me crazy. Tonight at Bible study, Beth Moore read a verse that I don't remember reading before. It totally described these feelings.

"He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord." Psalm 112:7

What words could be more comforting than that?

I promise to post more from my trip. Until then, take a look at this video and laugh.

We went to the Giants game on Sunday before catching our flight home. This guy was sitting on the end of our row. He danced like this all by himself when ever they played any music.

This was him after he danced. Yes, he is talking into a recorder. We couldn't hear him, but could only imagine that he was making notes on his dance moves and how they went over with the crowd.
This was after the game. If you look closely, you'll notice about 4 disposable cameras by his feet. In his lap is the cassette tape that he his labeling with the date. I guess he does so much dancing like this that he has to keep his notes separate.

He was probably the strangest character we saw in San Francisco, except for our friends on the 49 bus everyday.

Be Still and Know

Tonight I got to do something I haven't done in several years. I got to stand in a room with a group of ladies and sing "Be Still and Know that I am God". This took me back to my time in Chi-Os at Harding as this was our club song. We sang it at all of our meetings. We also sang it at ring ceremonies as we watched the engagement rings circle around while we waited to see who would blow out the candle that night. Leaving Harding to transfer to Tech was such a hard decision because of the great friends I met there. I never regretted leaving Harding (I did meet Matthew my third day in Lubbock!), but I definitely missed the friends I made there. So tonight I'm thankful for a song that could bring back such sweet memories and for blogger reconnecting me to some fellow chi-os.

Begging on her blog didn't work for Tiffany, but I thought I would try anyways. Can someone convince my husband to take me to the Jimmy Buffett concert next month in Houston?

My slide show wasn't working so here's another try.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

I've been missing from the blogging world for a while. Partly because I've been lazy, but also because of the fun I've been having. Last week Matthew and I took advantage of his 3 day weekend and our entertainment book and went to San Antonio for a couple of days. We didn't do much of anything while we were there, but it was great! We stayed in a nice hotel, walked onthe Riverwalk, did a little shoppng, and did a lot of eating. It was the first time we've fone somewhere since we were married that wasn't to visit friends or faily. We're not sure wy we waited this long.


We ate lunch at an old deli on Monday. This moose had his eye on us the whole time.







Here's a shot of our hotel room. The entertainment guide definitely paid off with this discount.






This was the view outside our window. Looks like we just missed Taylor Hicks and the Soul patrol.







A few days after we got back, it was time for some more fun. My sister and her kids came to visit us for the long weekend. We had lots of fun with each other. On Thursday & Friday we did our usual shopping at Target and Old Navy. They came to visit me at work and play on the playground then we we to lunch at Chick-fil-A of coures. On Saturday we took Nathan and Abby to the Livestock show to see the animals. The rest of the time we hung out here at home. Nathan and Abby played. Even though Abby had a fever the whole time it was great!

I put comments on these pictures, but they're missing now. Anyways...here are a bunch of pictures from our trip to the stock show. Just imagine your own comments.

HARD AT WORK

You can probably see that I've been hard at work today. I saw Ashley's new blog layout and was inspired to make mine a little more cute. Wow! I had no idea how hard this would be. The instructions made it sound so easy. Well, about 3 hours later...its done. Now if only I could figure out how to change all the blue font to a different color. I soooo do not like blue!

One of my most exciting additions to my blog is my count down. I've seen these on myspace for ever, but I never had something big to count down to. Well, now I do. In just under a month I get to go to San Francisco with my best and second oldest frien Monica! We spent yesterday afternoon looking at books and making our list of places that we have to go. Any one have any tips on places that should be on our list?

We also saw Music and Lyrics yesterday. We both loved it. We laughed a lot. We left the movie singing "Way Back into Love" and doing the signature POP dance moves. If you can, grab a girl friend and so see it for some fun.

I GUESS I'M NOT CRAZY

I think my least favorite part of my job is every Friday when I have to fold the pewsheets. We have this dinosaur of a folding machine. Its big. Its heavy. Its brown. Its loud. And its very particular. I dread this part of my job because I'm stuck there for 10-15 minutes feeding 750 church bulletins in to this loud machine. I can't talk to anyone and I can't go anywhere.

To make things worse it has a label on it warning not get any hair, jewelry, loose clothing, or body parts in the machine while its running. When I'm stuck there watching it fold my mind starts to wander. I read and reread the warning. Every week my mind starts to image my hair getting caught in it. I have vivid images of my hair being ripped off. Its not pretty!

Well, I just read an article online from yahoo about a boy 5 mi from here getting his hair caught up in a machine at his work place. The article said he was life flighted to the hospital. Neat! I guess my imagination wasn't that far off in what would happen if my hair got caught.

Does anyone have a rubber band for my hair, its time to go fold!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kprc/20070302/lo_kprc/11153191

THIS COULD BE A REALLY FUNNY POST

Yesterday we were driving down the freeway on our way to hear Beth Moore. We are just casually talking when Cheryl matter of factly says, "There's Uncle Sam and The Statue of Liberty." Not sure what she's talking about, Erin and I look out the window and sure enough, Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty are walking across the Academy parking lot. Maybe the two of them had been on a date? I think they were probably just finishing up their day's work of standing on the corner in costume holding a sign advertising a furniture store. If I had a picture of it, this would be a really funny post.

Fast forward to 11:30 ish last night. Matthew and I had been sitting on the couch watching TV. He fell asleep (shocking, I know). I never watch Jimmy Kimmel, but for some reason I was last night. During his monologue he was showing a British news clip talking about a 200lb boy and his mother. In the clip they were flipping between the boy jumping on a trampoline and interviewing his mother. The boy is doing the thing on the trampoling where you flop down on your front and then bounce back to your feet. When they cut back to him, he flops down on his belly but crashes straight through the trampoline instead. At this point I scream. When I scream, Matthew wakes up and is going into cop mode, ready to grab his gun and get the person that he thinks is breaking in to get me. Fortunately, my scream was a false alarm as it had quickly turned into laughter. Matthew wasn't very amused. If I could post the video on here, this would be a really funny post.

ps I found the video on line. Watching it online it is obvious that they edited the video. The boy didn't really fall through the trampoline. I think this link might work. Its video #3. ://abc.go.com/latenight/jimmykimmel/index?pn=video

TODAY TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT DAY!

Every Tuesday I go with some of my friends to eat dinner after work and then to First Baptist Church to hear Beth Moore speak. It is great. She's speaking on Wising Up...messages from Proverbs. When this study comes out, do it and look for me in the balcony.

Here's what made this an extra special day. Last week on our way home from Beth, we decided that we would eat pancakes for dinner this week. So today, we loaded up after work and headed to the nearest IHOP. When we got there and sat down, we saw the sign on the table. Today was National Pancake Day. Surprise, FREE PANCAKES!!! They just asked you give a donation when you left to the Shriners. So, for $5 I got a delicious short stack of flapjacks, a Dr Pepper, and the Shriners got a little something from me too.

Matthew is off and awake tonight. I felt I was having an above average hair day too! What more could a girl ask for?

I'm playing around with posting a new slide show I just made for myspace in blogger. Here goes!


| View Show | Create Your Own

WAY TO GO MATTHEW!

I'm a little late getting to this blog, but not because I'm not proud of my husband. Here's a picture of Matthew and I last month after he graduated from the Pasadena Policed Academy. Matthew's position with Pasadena was an answer to months of prayers. Thank you to all of our friends for their prayers and support as God led us here.

GREY'S

Grey's was soooo good tonight. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but I'm almost finished with watching it a second time. I would have stayed up anyways wasting time on the internet, so why not.

The two funniest lines in the show: 1. "She's Callie O'Malley", Alex. 2. "That's not good!", Christina. Both made me laugh hard both times through the show.

Here's what I want to know...what is the deal with Callie's scrubs? Her's are really low, and almost off the shoulder. Sometimes she wears a shirt under them, and it isn't noticeable. When she doesn't, she shows a lot of skin. No one else wears them like this.

Meredith's voice over is starting again, so I better get to bed. Does everyone else dread the voice over starting like I do?

Christina's ring she isn't wearing is beautiful. They should really give it away to a fan!

Twins

The bird posting was a little disturbing to me (yes, I may have some issues when it comes to birds), so here's a much more fun posting.

Last week we had life group at our house. When Erin showed up we were wearing the same purple shirt. We both have such good taste!

The really funny thing is that Erin had worn the shirt the last time we had gone out to dinner with our husbands. I bought the shirt the day before we were both twins. Was I trying to copy Erin? I don't think so, but she's a great friend to maybe it was a subconscious thing.

If you know me very well, you know how I feel about birds. They're gross, dirty, do not belong near people and just really really freak me out! I saw this flyer posted on our mailbox last week and was speechless. You can't read the words very well in the picture, so this is what it says...

On January 18th, 2007, my bird named Joe got loose. Please contact me at 281.***.****. If you see him, call to him and he will answer to the name Joe or Pretty Baby.

If you already caught him, I am eternally grateful. Please call me immediately and I will come for him. This is his picture.

Reward offered!

I can't imagine how much money it would take for me to call to someone's lost bird so I could catch him and return him.

I have such serious questions about this person not just because they are looking for their lost bird, but because they actually had to write "This is his picture"! We'll who else's picture would be on the flyer? Big bird?

I've got to wrap this post up, because this dumb bird looking at me is gonna' give me nightmares.

Bored? Try this...

My sister sent me the link to this fun website. You can go to it, enter your name, and then it tells you how many people there are in the US with your name. Who knows how accurate it is, but it says there are only 4 people total in the country with my name.

How special are you?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 4 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

On Sunday I ran the Houston Marathon for the third year in a row. Here are some of my random thoughts and observations from the 4 hours and 44 minutes I was running.

• That man has the biggest calves (or is it calfs when you are talking about a person?) I have ever seen. Seriously, above the knees he was normal, but each calf was probably the size of my thigh.
• This was my favorite sign along the way: "Run like you've got a cougar on you!" If this doesn't make you laugh, watch Talledega Nights, the Ballad of Ricky Bobby and then you will. I don't think that anyone I was running with at this point got it.
• There's a guy in a "I heart Hot Moms" t-shirt
  
• Where are all the Elvis runners this year?
• There's my fertility dr's office, followed by prayers for a baby.
• Man, this is tough followed by prayers for Laura and her family's safety in Bolivia. Plus prayers for God to do amazing things through them there. This made my trial seem pretty small.
• Here I go turning on to San Felipe. I guess Matthew and my parents missed me on Post Oak again. Oh well, I guess I'll see them again somewhere.
• There's the guy in the "I heart Hot Moms" t-shirt.
• Matthew, this iPod was the best Christmas gift ever.
• Mile 17: Ok...down to single digits left. I can do this!
• There's the guy in the "I heart Hot Moms" t-shirt.
• This is where I heard the girl singing Here I Am to Worship along with her iPod last year. I could really use that boost right now. I wonder if she is running again this year?
• Mile 20: Wall...what wall?
• Sorry Sean, but there's no way you could run this whole thing without any training!
• Imodium, don't fail me now!
• I have the best friends in the world! They were really amazing to send me all the treats they did this week.
• Mile 21: oh, this wall!
• Its ok to be hurting. Lance Armstrong was hurting at this point too when he ran his marathon.
• There's the guy in the "I heart Hot Moms" t-shirt.
  
• Mile 22: Do I dare look down at my right shoe? My big toe hurts and I'm afraid I might be leaving a train of blood.
• There they are! Hi Matthew! Hi Mom! Hi Dad!
• Mile 26: Where did I park my car again?!?
• There's the guy in the "I heart Hot Moms" t-shirt. AGAIN! Is he trying to spot all the hot moms?
  
• Mile 26.2: I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rocket Encounter

Today was an exciting day for me. As part of the marathon tomorrow, I had to go to the GRB convention center to get my race packet. I knew that Roger Clemens would be making an appearance at the Expo. The expo was officialled called the Roger Clemens Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Expo or something like that. I thought it would be cool to see him, but didn't put much more thought into it than that.

While I was walking through the crowd and exhibits, I saw a big Memorial Hermann area in the middle. As I looked closer I saw a especially large gathering there and then noticed Roger Clemens himself standing in the middle of it all. I thought cool, I can tell my family that I saw Roger and went on to get the rest of my stuff.

Fast forward a few minutes. I'm getting ready to walk out when I see my friend from church, Frank Brown, near the Memorial Hermann area. Frank is a good friend of ours from church, so I headed that way to say hi. As I'm walking closer I see that he is in the midst of a conversation with you guessed it, ROGER CLEMENS. My heart starts racing because I realize I now have a chance to actually meet Roger! I quickly planned my strategy. I walked up close to the rope that was separating Frank and Roger from the regular people. I stood there waiting and sending mental messages to Frank hoping he'll see me. Thankfully, Frank was listening. He looked up, saw me and waved for me to come over. As I walked up, someone actually pulled down the rope keeping the crowd back so that I could walk in where Roger was.

The rest was great. Frank introduced me to Roger Clemens and his agent, Randy Hendricks. I go to shake Roger's hand. He commended me for running the marathon. I wish I could say that I had something great to say to him. That I said something to make him come back to the Astros to pitch this year, but I didn't. I just said how great it was to meet him as my heart beat faster than I ever imagined it would.

Looking back on it, it is a big boost to think that I am competing in an athletic event that an athlete like Roger Clemens is impressed by!

On that, I'm off to bed with a stomach full of carbs to get a few hours of sleep before my big morning.