And we're off!!

7 days in paradise... Dominican Republic here we come!

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Hopeless Romantic

Most people know that I am the worlds biggest hopeless romantic. Regardless of the cheesiness I always like it.... My favorite movie since the first time I saw it has been The Notebook. I LOVED this movie...I could watch it at any time, and fall in love with it. 

Today I now have a new favorite... Twilight! It was so good... I loved everything about it. I seriously cannot wait for it to come out on video so I can watch it whenever I want. I think my mom and sister thought I was kidding when I said we should go see it again tonight... I wasn't.

This was my favorite scene.... 

Just perfect! I'm obssessed. So hot. I fell in love with Edward all over again. I'm glad I waited to see it with my best friends so that we could all see it together.

New Moon, come soon!!! :-) 

Happy Thanksgiving

We are heading out to California for Thanksgiving 2008! Our agenda looks something like this...

Thursday morning:

To burn off extra calories before eating lots of yummy food

The afternoon

Eating a YUMMY Thanksgiving feast at this lovely place... (The Bruce's go out to eat on Thanksgiving...it provides a happier mommy=a happy holiday AND no dishes...highly recommend it to all)

The evening

Ashley and I decided to fight the urge to go opening night so that we could see it together and have a Twilight experience....I think the anticipation of everyone's reviews is making me more excited then I was before... I can't wait!!

I love Thanksgiving, and I can't wait to go to California!!

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Who disturbs my Slumber?

Yesterday I had a 12 hour day at work... Suffice to say I was exhausted when I came home. When 8:00 rolled around I got ready for bed and went to sleep. At 2:00 AM their was a HUGE crack and POP went a window somewhere in our house. Naturally, Andy and I wake up and think (worst case scenario) Someone is breaking in! Andy grabs his civil war gun underneath the bed(really, it's from the civil war, aka, really couldn't do much) and tells me to get down while he checks out the house.... we couldn't find the broken window ANYWHERE! After 15 minutes or so we decided to go back to bed. This morning I wake up and find this in our kitchen...

It is a bad picture, but this is a little tiny window that is double-paned and only the inside window is broken. Now first off, no one could fit through that window so we know no one was trying to break in, and second of all, how did the inside window mysteriously crack at 2 AM?

Andy went outside and lying underneath the window was a dead BIRD! What bird flies into MY window at 2AM to disturb MY slumber? (Sidenote, can anyone name that movie?) It was the weirdest turn of events. Everyone should have seen how cute Andy was with his gun, going out to find the culprit. 

Darn birds... its a good thing my Grandma Glenda taught me to hate birds (a very long story, but every grandchild of hers hates birds), I didn't feel bad for the little thing this morning. 

4x4

I am just getting around to this blog tag... Here is the 4th folder and the 4th picture:

This is me and Ava eating at ricardos the day I tried on and bought my wedding dress! Ava really is happy, she just took a big bite of some spicy salsa. This was in the days when Ava LOVED to dip anything... syrup, ranch, salsa, is she got to dip her food in something she would eat it. One day we were at Red Robin and my mom got a salad with her vinaigrette dressing on the side and Ava was screaming because she liked the dipping container that the dressing was in. Sure enough she dipped her french fries in the vinaigrette because she could "dip"!

Look how long my hair was... oh the good ole' days!

The Holidays are here!

I know that technically we aren't supposed to start celebrating or putting up Christmas decorations until the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we are starting things early. From Christmas shopping to Hot cocoa we are ready and excited.

Last night it was cold enough for some of this...Yummo!

(The gingerbread cookies mentioned below are SO good dipped in hot cocoa...also, Andy had some too, he didn't want whip cream)

And today we made this at our Enrichment Holiday craft extravaganza! 

I think it turned out really cute! 

It's that time of year...

and this year they have sprinkles! (For those of you who don't know, I LOVE sprinkles... on any dessert. Most people think they are tasteless and not worth the calories... I tend to disagree!)

Tracy's Surprise Birthday Breakfast!

Yesterday was my mom's birthday. A few weeks ago Ashley and I decided to throw her a surprise birthday breakfast with all her closest friends. She didn't even know I was coming! Although my flight was delayed 3 hours Sunday night, I arrived and everything went perfectly. She didn't even know what hit her. We decided to have it at Strawberry Farms and if you are ever able to go I highly recommend it. The pancakes with fresh strawberries are divine!

The invitation...

The "Surprise!"


All the attendees


The three of us


My new love


Afterwards we went to the Mall and shopped for hours. The three of us had the best time just being together. Unfortunately, I had to leave that night, but not before some yummy dinner at Taleo and a birthday tres leche!



I'm not sure who had more fun, Ashley and I or my mom! All in all it was a great day and we can't wait for the next party! A BIG thank you to everyone who helped make it such a special day for our special mom!