Go Cubs Go!

My sweet hubby had this brilliant idea to go to Chicago for a long weekend, he just had to go to a Cubs game. Me being a White Sox fan, you can imagine my excitement...especially when we got to Chicago and Jason was buying me everything under the sun in Cubs gear! It was a fun trip though, quick, but a lot of fun! I think I ate enough Chicago style pizza to last me a lifetime though! We made our rounds as quickly as we could in Chicago, visiting as much as we could.

Started off with some chocolate!!! Can't go wrong there!

Holy Cow! Then we went for dinner at Harry Carey's, after dinner we walked all over Michigan Avenue getting back to our hotel

Stopped by Buckingham Fountain...it's HUGE!

We even made a friend at the Lincoln Park Zoo :)

Parked outside the Navy Pier...guess this is how they roll in Chicago...however, notice the lil' street tires, they can't even get some good tires for these things!

We had a nice evening dinner cruise, really good food and $12 drinks...it was windy though, we tried so hard to get some good photos with the city in the background but everywhere we went it was super windy and my hair was a mess!

Their hockey team is in the playoffs, the Blackhawks...can you spot the Blackhawk in this photo?!?!

Yes, you are seeing right...we are sitting in a plexiglass box about 103 floors up from the streets of Chicago in the Sears Tower! It was AWESOME!!!

Jason and the Chicago Theater...we just had to go to it!

We made it to Wrigley Field! Harry Carey's statue outside the stadium

Jason was so excited...he has been talking about Wrigley field for as long as we've been together!

It wouldn't be a trip, for me at least, without a photo with a cop car! This guy was super nice though, he showed us a good restaurant to eat at around the ballpark!

WRIGLEY FIELD!

Jim Belushi sang in the 7th inning...again, Jason was super stoked!

We had so much fun but were ready to come home! Cubs won, the family sitting next to us laughed at us shivering, it was 72 degrees at the game, I looked up weather back in Texas and it was 96 degrees...they told us that was a nice day in Chicago, I said, "this is a cold front in Texas..." It is definitely the "windy city" though, my hair was a mess the whole time we were there! It was nice to come back to Texas...of course, once back, our first stop back was Wings...needed to get some of that Chicago out of us!

Bachelorette Hilary!

This past weekend we went to Austin for a bachelorette party for my lil' sis, Hilary! We had a blast. We rented a house on Lake Austin, fully furnished and with an amazing view and everything! The owner was on the premises if we needed anything but we just relaxed and laid out by the pool most of the time! The second day/night we had a lingerie shower for her and then went out to dinner then came back to the house and played some good old "high school" drinking games!

View from the side of the pool...it was so nice! We had amazing weather all weekend long!

Our decorations around her cookie cake

Our beautiful bachelorette!

The group before dinner

After dinner at The Hula Hut!

Can't wait for my baby turtle to get married!

The Policeman

At the Law Enforcement Memorial Service this was read by the speaker; brings chills to me when I hear it, and makes me very proud to be married to one of the many who wear the blue.

23rd Annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony

This week our local law enforcement agencies held a memorial ceremony to honor those fallen officers, I am pleased to share with you the coverage from that ceremony. Jason is the one that carries the wreath.

Birthday and such

Well it's official, I am an active member of Jr. League now! Woo-hoo! We had our "graduation ceremony" this past week, just in time for my birthday week.

This was what was left of us (our provisional group) at the end of the ceremony! Group photo!

This was my smaller provisional group with our amazing advisor Tamara!

Birthday was good, I was a little under the weather that day, some of the girls from the office took me to lunch, Jason got me a bouquet of fresh spring flowers and took me to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants and i couldn't even have my favorite dessert! Was feeling much better though by the time crawfish rolled around on Saturday! We made about 100lbs of crawfish and didn't have any left!!! Bubba got me some Truman chocolates...YUM! They were so good; we had so many "cooks" this year helping with the crawfish. I got lots of nice lil' gifts from co-workers and friends, my honey got me a Tony Romo jersey!!! I LOVE IT!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Fun time with the family

So Jason and I have been trying to get Trey to come with us to Bridge City so we can show him around, get some crawfish and go gambling in Louisiana...well it finally happened!

Me and Bubba at the state line...there is a trail all through the swamp behind us but for some reason it was blocked off :(

My two silly boys!

I have no idea what this is...it was really cool looking though

So we went out and ate some good crawfish one night and then went gambling the second. Bubba played on one machine for about 5 or 6 hours on the same $5! Yes, you read right...F-I-V-E dollars! Jason and I managed to just about break even! Oh well, it was fun! Now birthday week for me...woo-hoo! Crawfish boil in less than a week!