Weekend Getaway!

Mike and I are getting away this weekend...all the way to the museum district in Houston! We aren't going far, but I am so excited to be intentionally "on vacation" for the next few days!! We are staying at Hotel ZaZa, it's the old Warwick hotel right in front of the big fountain off of main street. We have big plans to go to the Museum of Fine Arts and see the Pompeii exhibit, perhaps go to Ruggles for dinner and of course our favorite cafe, Salento for coffee!

Tomorrow we want to visit the new Discovery Green park in downtown, lunch at Fogo de Chao for my little brothers birthday...and hopefully over to the Angelika to see Smart People.

Sunday we are so excited because Mike is taking the day off and we get to go to Crossbridge and visit some old friends! I'm sure there will be a trip to Brasils in there somewhere and hopefully a bit of shopping too, lots of picture taking, Bible reading and fun conversations! Can you tell I've been thinking about this a lot lately???

I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will post picks of ours next week!
A Bientot!

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Today is crazy at work so I have no time to post, but I did want to say to my super sweet husband who I love more and more every day Happy Anniversary!! These have been the most wonderful two years, I have loved doing life with you! Here are a few memories from our special day.

On the bridge outside the reception. I remember it was a beautiful Spring day.

Our little party favors of tea and cookies. I remember Christy, Steph, and Bri helping me put these together for hours one night!

I love Tim's face in this picture!

Right after the ceremony. Oh the day was such a blur!

Driving away in the coolest mustang convertible courtesy of Monty and Jessica

Horrible, terrible, no good very bad day...

Sorry for my lack of posting. I haven't been feeling very creative or inspired lately. Hopefully my trips to Round Top this weekend will get my artistic juices flowing!

And I apologize in advance as I use this post to vent just for a moment. Today was one of those days that you feel like nothing is right with the world. It started off with me sleeping in way past my alarm, which I can usually handle but it seemed to throw my whole day off. Then I get to work and am bombarded from the get-go with one issue after the other. Which is somewhat normal given the nature of my job but I stayed up late with Robin last night and was a bit off my game. With my sleep deprivation, came my heightened sensitivity to EVERYTHING so no matter what someone said to me I interpreted as they hated me and I sucked.

So in no particular order here is the horribleness that was my day: a process I have been helping fix at the hospital completely fell apart this morning, my hair looked ridiculous today, I had to calm several angry physicians for various reasons, a co-worker hurt my feeling, the chicken noodle soup in the cafeteria was disgusting, I'm pretty sure another co-worker wants my job, one of the flowers I planted is dying and I can't for the life of me figure out why, I got stuck in traffic on the way home, which never happens, and I felt like a failure on more then one occasion.

Driving home I was feeling so much anxiety and for really no reason at all, and it dawned on me how do people live like this without God. How do people have days where nothing goes right or makes any sense and not have the hope of the heavenly Father to come home to? Don't worry, I am not going to get out my soap box. All that to say once my thoughts were no longer focused on myself and were properly focused on more important things i.e. the Lord, my horrible, terrible no good very bad day didn't seem so awful after all. I will try to remember this next time, hopefully at the beginning of the day instead of the end! Thank you for listening to my silly rant.

Tennis anyone?

I used to play tennis all the time when I was little, but have not had the opportunity for the last few years. I'm not interested in getting involved in competitive tennis, just something fun and active to do on a Saturday morning. Since I have been out of the tennis loop I have no clue about racquets. I dont want anything fancy or too expensive, just a good basic one that will allow me to play every once in a while. So all you tennis buffs out there please advise! And anyone interested in playing with me let me know!

Embroidery!

We had our monthly sewing circle on Saturday and it was super fun! Even as I wrote that last sentence I could feel myself morphing more and more in to a little 80 year old woman who loves to talk about needle point and her azaleas...back to the post at hand! I came fully prepared to create something with the new fabric I got from Ikea, but once I got there I wasn't really in the sewing mood, I just wanted to talk to everyone. I didn't, however, want to walk away from my dedicated sewing day with nothing to show for it, so I decided to expand my crafting and learn how to embroider. It totally opened my eyes to a whole new side of sewing! Now I can add fun little details to all the things I construct! For my first attempt I did a simple cross stitch of my initial "C" in a pretty blue turquoise color. I was searching online for some more embroidery ideas and came across sublime stitching. This site has everything you need to start embroidering, and the patterns don't look like something my great-grand mother would choose!

I love new experiences

The past few days have been filled with new experiences and I have loved every one of them!

+ New fabric from Ikea...there fabric is amazing!
+ Letter press class with Casey...read her blog for more details and pics!
+ 10K run with Julie and Christy...we beat our pace time from the half marathon we did in Jan!
+ Ft. Bend Cares Gala...I've been to gala's before but never a casual "denim and diamonds" one!
+ Trip to Enchanted Forest...we are updating our garden and I have been researching different nurseries. Enchanted Forest was like stepping into a fairytale!
+ Watching The Three Amigos...I've always heard references to this movie but never seen it for myself and it was hilarious!
+Boiled chicken tacos for dinner...last night we boiled chicken for the first time and it was delicious and so healthy!

Try something new a different this week. It will surely brighten your day!

New arrivals!

I love at the beginning of every month getting a little email from JCrew announcing their new arrivals. This particular batch of new arrivals looks amazing! Here are a few favorites that are getting me excited about Spring!

Pictures taken from JCrew.com