Tasty Little Treat

For those of you who know me, you might know that my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the “oh so amazing”, Tagalong. Well, the geniuses over at Dairy Queen have come up with the most brilliant idea since the DVR, the Tagalong Blizzard. The TV has been taunting with these commercials advertising this tasty treat. Yesterday, my will to resist crumbled and I found myself in the Dairy Queen drive thru…and it was totally worth it.

Neoma

This weekend I got to meet more of Casey’s extended family. Casey’s grandmother fell and broke her hip so we went to visit her in the hospital (please pray for a good recovery). When we went to visit her, I got to meet her sister, Neoma, who is a complete character. She is 89 and hilarious! She was talking about her garden and about how her neighbors had bird houses and she said “I put out a birdhouse, but they just didn’t want to rent from me. So…I just took it down!” Then my next favorite Neoma story was about how she was driving to Dallas and looked down and saw she was going 90mph and wanted to see if she could hit 100mph but decided on to stay on the safer side. That was followed by, “I like to go fast, but I try not to go that fast when I have people in the car with me. I try to stay at least go the speed limit.” How great is that?!

Weekend with Mom

I had a WONDERFUL last few days! Why you ask? Because my mom was in town! We had some great girl time and had the perfect combination of activities and relaxing. We had dinner with Bob, Ellen, and Clay, lunch with Nana, happy hour with The Hailey girls, and then a big lunch with the whole Hailey family (minus Caleb). We had a girl’s night on the town when we went to dinner at Rise no. 1 in Dallas for some fancy soufflés and then off to the theater to see Legally Blonde the Musical and it was GREAT! I also got to have my sushi fix and have a nice dinner on the patio of Brio which I think ranks as my mom and my favorite restaurant here. We also had a couple game nights with Casey. Casey taught us Pounce and Shang Hi and we played well past midnight one night. The competition was thick as we are all three very competitive people. We each won a game so it was all tied up so of course we had to have a tie-breaker and guess who won? Me! Of course I would have left the story off at we all won a game had I not won, haha! Overall, we had a great time!

A Weekend of Deals

Casey and I were on a dearch for deals this weekend. Here is what we did...

Friday: Casey and I were invited to go to Lone Star Park with our friends Alyssa and Ryan. Ryan had received some free tickets so we all got free admission, free programs, and a free beverage. Both Casey and I limited ourselves to only $10 each. My luck started out strong. I placed a two $2 bets and got my total up to $7.50. I played on that for the rest of the night. After the races were over, The Eli Young Band got ready to perform. We had planned on staying to watch but we all quickly realized that we are old. Alyssa and I couldn’t stop commenting on how “kids these days dress!” So many crazy short shorts and short dresses on girls who looked about 16 trying to look 21. It was SO crowded in the concert area we had no place to sit and I think I stepped in a puddle of beer. We decided give in to our elderly state and call it a night.

Saturday: Casey and I were looking for deals this weekend and boy did we find one at Market Street. Thanks to an add in the paper we saw that for a $1 donation, we got a hotdog/hamburger, drink, chips, and a Blue Bell banana split. Well just the mention of Blue Bell got Casey out the door. The store also had a big fajita deal. When you bought the fajita meat, we got refried beans, tortillas, salsa, chips, and guacamole free! How could we pass this up? Plus, there is enough meat to probably eat for the next 2 days.

Sunday: We met up with Casey’s friends Justin, Kyle, Bradley, and Philpot (real name is Johnny) for a fun day at Hurricane Harbor. Casey and I were smart and packed a lunch so once again, we ate for free! It was an interesting experience going to a water park and being the only girl in the group. The boys made me go down the biggest, steepest slides of course which I was quite nervous about. Then they were all trying to get closest to the edge or tip the tube over, unlike my goal of just trying to make it to the bottom in once piece. It was a lot of fun though. I think we rode every ride in the park!

Life Update

Well life has been pretty busy lately. Wednesday, Casey and I went over to Nana’s house for dinner. It was kind of like a double date since Ralph was there as well. Nana made a delicious pot roast, veggies, and the best part of all was the blueberry pie! We had a really nice time. Last night was another one of our shows so Casey and I went to see A Chorus Line. I was surprised at how simple the set and the play was (although the dancing was definitely NOT simple). The cast was great! They were very talented and so professional. One of the girls in the cast had been on Gossip Girl so naturally I was impressed. This weekend will continue to be a busy one. Tonight, Kate and Skip have invited us to go to the Rangers game with them. Tomorrow is Cassie’s big wedding out at Possum Kingdom followed by going to see the latest, greatest Harry Potter film on Sunday. Hopefully I will have some fun pictures to add from the events of this weekend!

Really Texas?

Really Texas? Is it really necessary to be 100 degrees after the sun goes down? Maybe it’s the California in me but I just do not understand Texas weather right now. It just baffles me. I completely understand why it would be 100+ degrees during the day when the sun is bright and blazing. However, why on earth is it impossible to cool down after that lovely heat source has disappeared over the horizon?! I mean come on! Even the desert cools down after dark and has pleasant weather at night. Last night I went to bed and I checked my thermostat and was shocked it see that in order for my little apartment to be 78 degrees, the AC still was running. I knew I would miss the San Diego weather but I NEVER dreamed I would miss Arizona summer weather.

Happy 4th of July!

This year I had a lot of fun celebrating the 4th of July. I went with some of the girls from my home group (Amy, Jennifer, and Jennifer’s sister Julie) to a house on Eagle Mountain Lake. It was Jennifer’s dad’s house and it was great! We laid out on the sun deck, floated in the water, sat in the shade, and had a great lunch. Jennifer’s dad also took us out on his boat so we could go tubing. I hadn’t gone tubing since middle school and man did it beat me up. Today, my neck, shoulder, back, arms, and legs are killing me. I feel like I just did a 3 hour work out, although tubing around the lake was a whole lot more fun than working out! When we got back from the lake, there was a group of party crashers that just kept trying to come hang out (see picture to the side). After a nice day at the lake, I came home, showered and headed out to Jennifer’s again. This time Casey got to come with me because he had been working all day. We set up camp to watch the fireworks and it was a nice show. Although, I think they must have bought some fireworks on sale because I swear the end was just the same type and color of firework shot off a bunch of times. The only thing that would have make the night complete was hearing Ray Charles’ version of America the Beautiful. See some pictures below of the fun we had…
(From Left to Right: Jennifer, Me, Julie, Amy)