Party Invitation

I didn't have the funds to order fabulous invitations for my mom's surprise 50th birthday party, so I decided to make them. I bought stock wedding invitations at Target (the white cardstock with the black flourish) and also bought some metallic fuchsia cardstock at mygatsby.com.

I trimmed the Target invitation 1/2" on each side so the invitation would still fit in the stock envelope and used double sided tape to attach the carstock and stock invite. I printed the invite on my own printer and I think they came out pretty well and it was pretty easy overall.

Baby News!!!

Mr. B's best friend's girlfriend is on her way to the hospital to have their little girl! Lots of prayers and well wishes their way for an easy delivery and a healthy and happy baby girl :)

Thank God for tapas and sangria

Mr. B and I went out to dinner at Bar Ferdinand last night and it was amazing! They put some new items on the menu and we got a pitcher of sangria 1/2 price for happy hour.

One of the new things on the menu that we absolutely loved was Octopus Medallions. They were grilled and they had a spicy BBQ sauce on them. The dish came with a really good spring mix salad with some fried potatoes and crispy chorizo...yum!

Friends

There's really nothing like spending some time with good friends to make you feel good. I'm really lucky to have found a group of friends that can make me laugh so hard I have tears coming out of my eyes (thanks Nat!). They're the type of girls you can talk to about anything --from what happens to your body when you have a baby (WOW. and Oh, God., that's all I have to say)to TV shows that you love.

Being with such a great group of girls reminds me that people really like me for the way I am--negative, sarcastic, sometimes inappropriate and lewd, but I think that's what makes me, me. I spent just about all of high school trying to blend in and not attract attention, and while I don't really like to be the center of attention all the time, every once in awhile I think it's good to be. I've realized in the past year or so that I have a great witty, dry humor and that I'm a very creative, compassionate person. People want to spend time with me, just because I'm me :D

Mr. B has been in San Antonio all week and I missed him like crazy, but last night, after being with those girls for a few hours, I wasn't so lonely. I'm really thankful to have found such great friends later on in life, which gets harder as you get older. Love you girls!

My instant sex-change courtesty of Shoshanna

So I wrote before about being disappointed by how my Shoshanna dress from Rue La La looked. Here is evidence that it definitely did not flatter me. Cute pattern and a good fit everywhere but the crotch region...

(Double click to see up close)

So that is why I had to send back the dress. I think just about anyone would agree that a dress making you look like a tranny is not a good thing...unless you're going for that, and in this case I wasn't.

Look how amazing the cookies turned out!

My mom's surprise 50th party is coming up and we wanted to do a cute little favor for the guests. After seeing how cute Brown Eyed Baker's sugar cookies turned out, I thought I'd give them a try. Friday I made the dough and she wasn't kidding when she said that it was a sticky dough. I had to put the dough and the trays in the freezer every 5 minutes to keep it from sticking to the wax paper permanently.

I made a double batch and split it into 4 balls of dough and it only made 37 cookies...WTF? I had to make a third batch and that gave me another 17 cookies. All day Saturday, sis and I outlined and then flooded the cookies. We literally worked from 9am to 5pm. I was going stir crazy!! Thank God Mr. B helped out too or we would have never finished...

I think they turned out amazing though, and I don't think I'd ever do it again unless I was getting paid for it. LOL

Here are some pictures of us slaving over the cookies and some of the results...please ignore my bedhead.

Just call me Smokey The Bear

So Saturday, we're walking home from the beach and we all smelled something burning. I look across the street and there are flames, FLAMES, shooting out from a pile of mulch. Being the diligent Girl Scout I was trained to be, I ran over and tried to kick some dirt/mulch on the smoldering/burning pile. It went out for about a second and then re-lit because the mulch was so dry. Now a crowd has gathered and people from the hotel pool across the street are all standing there staring. A nice bystander with sneakers, I had on flipflops, stomped out the flames, but the mulch continued to smolder. My mom, also a Girl Scout, got an empty thermos bottle from our beach stuff and had the pool people fill it up. We doused the flames and were assisted by some retired firemen.

I felt like my good deed for the day had been done :) I was pissed though because it was started by a cigarette butt. WTF is wrong with people? Hmmm...flame, hot, dry day and some wood...lets mix it all together and see what happens, shall we??

Today, Mr. B and I are leaving the gym. I get in the car and smell something burning--again. I look over and don't you know that there are flames, FLAMES!, and smoke coming from a pile of mulch. I found the culprit, one of those stupid skinny-mini cigars, still smoking next to the pile. Thank God I had some water left over from my work out. After I poured on the water, I stomped out the smoke to make sure it didn't start up again. Now I have mud and mulch stuck in the bottom of my shoe, but at least the parking lot didn't catch on fire.

Ok, so that's 2 cigarette butt-started fires within 3 days. Kinda scary if you ask me. Really, WTF are people thinking??

I just realized...

that the last couple letters in my last name spell out the acronym (SAHW) if you type them wrong. I think somebody is trying to tell me something ;-)