A HUGE Pet Peeve!

Ok, I am just cleaning our house this morning and listening to the View. May I pose a question...Why is it that actors/famous people think that they know EVERYTHING about politics? Many of them are not necessarily educated just famous, in contrast many politicians are highly educated. Apparently fame also makes you smart and makes your opinion the correct one. It drives me up a tree to listen to Woopi Goldberg (however you spell her name) talk about politics as if she is an authority on all things political! The only reason she has a forum to speak about it publically is because some people think she is funny. I have heard Julia Stiles share her opinion that she states as if it were fact! There are many others. It is starting to really bug and I thought I'd share and see if anyone else feels the same way.

Texas, Fight!!!

We are so excited for football season!!!!  We have our favorites....the Cowboys, the Longhorns and the Mavs!  But especially today we would like to say Hook Em Horns!!!

Not a creature was stirring...

As I am sitting up in bed tonight, the computer downstairs is off, no music is playing, no popcorn popping in the microwave while girls giggle waiting to watch a movie.  No girls planning a fun day for tomorrow...it's QUIET - almost TOO QUIET!  Just Pookie, Casey and me sitting here.  We have had such a fun summer, it's sad to see it end.  We have made 6 trips to Sea World, (the most fun trip with our cousins from Flower Mound)  We had a fun family reunion, spent many fun hours on Troy and Kristin's boat!!!  Britt and I endured girls camp together even with no shower for  a week.  Britt had a blast at cheer camp!  We've spent lots of hours at the pool at Lifetime talking and Britt daring me to go down the slide!  (which I did last Saturday I'll have you know!)  We had a couple of super fun shopping trips for school stuff.  Today we finished it all off with pedicures!  Now the quiet!  The cute bag we bought weeks ago has been sitting in the shopping bag waiting for tomorrow - lots of firsts...First day of high school, first day of seminary, etc.  I just hope and pray that Britt will be good and have fun high school years with lots of fun memories.  Her first high school game to cheer at is ALREADY this week!!!  I can't believe my baby is going to high school tomorrow!!!!!  Seriously, where has the time gone?  Wish us luck!!!!!

Go Lindi!

I am so excited and proud! My beautiful and talented Niece Lindi auditioned for and made the Dance Fusion Dance Company over the weekend! We share a birthday so I think she's especially NEAT-O! There were lots of girls at the audition and Lindi was one of the few chosen!!! Way to go!!!!!

Yep, we really gave it up!

Our family (Casey is proud to announce) gave up Diet Coke this week (mostly).  Casey got us memberships at Lifetime Fitness under the condition that we give up Diet Coke except for like once a week.  I'm sad to say that we were spending as much on Diet Coke as our membership to Lifetime costs!  Oh my gosh!  So now instead we have a sweet gym to work out in!  We all work out, we have had our hair cut in the salon there, we have had lunch there and LOVE it!  Britt and I are learning to swim laps.  Since it is a mere 105 FREAKING degrees here we spend A LOT of time in the pool!  We are all getting TAN - especially Casey!  This week Britt had a photo shoot with the cheerleaders.  I snapped a few on the side, see below!  Just hours after this picture Britt had SIX inches cut off of her hair!  It's very cute but I could have died watching all of that hair fall to the floor at the salon!  That's it for now!  More to come.....

I need to catch up!!

I have been SO bad about keeping up with my blog!~  Tara and Beth have told me off about it!  It's not that we haven't done anything fun - it's that we HAVE so I don't have time to write about it!!!  For now no fun pictures, just words to catch me up -pics later!  In June we went to our family reunion at Lake Ray Hubbard in Dallas.  We had an AWESOME time together!  It was fun to camp, especially with a mostly non-camping family!  It was so fun to ride to be out on Troy and Kristin's boat - even if we got a WILD ride from Aunt Kristin!   Next Britt and I went to girls camp!  It was fun as usual.  I had a stinking migraine that lasted for 3 days with no relief (including with the Vicodin Casey smuggled in to me).  We also had a ban on showers since the well was broken at the camp.  They had water they just had to conserve it!  I have NEVER gone 4 days without a shower!  It was quite an experience!  Needless to say I was happy to be home!  Following that we had another trip to Dallas and another fun boat ride and shopping with Grandma!  Next we had a super fun vacation with Katie, Alex, Lindi and Anna!  We went to the Hyatt Hill Country Resort for a couple of days!  We had a day at Sea World together and rode every ride there!  Anna rode the ferris wheel with me, we LOVED being at the very top!  We all had a HUGE laugh when Katie (who didn't want to ride the rapids) got SOAKED.  The next morning Katie treated me to my very first massage (as my early birthday present) it was HEAVENLY and it was so fun to sit out in our robes at the spa only pool and visit.  We had lots of fun together!  On to the next thing...I dropped Brittnie-Anne off at her high school on Wed, the cheerleaders went to NCA cheerleading camp at Incarnate Word in San Antonio.  They got to take a charter bus and headed down I35.  I got a text message from Brittnie-Anne today saying that she was nominated for All American Cheerleader!  Aunt Katie who is the cheerleader in our family knows more about it than me and said that it's a big deal!  Apparently the NCA staff walk around and choose girls who they think are outstanding and they are given the opportunity to audition for All American Cheerleader.  Three of the girls chosen are from Britt's school, 2 from the freshman squad and 1 from JV.  I'm heading down to San Antonio tomorrow to stay at my cousin Alicia's so I can attend the tryout and support BA on Friday night and then Alicia and I are going to the "show off day" on Saturday!  Thanks Alicia!!!!  So that should just about catch me up!  Hopefully there will be pics to follow!!!  Whew!!!  In between all of that I've been doing YW stuff and working.  I think I need a vacation FAR away with no phone and no patients to take care of!  Maybe some day!!!!  That's it for now! 

WOW! So I guess I've been tagged, so here ya go...
1. Who is your man? Casey (pictured below lol!)
2. How long have you been together? About 3 1/2 years (married for nearly 3!)
3. How long dated? We dated for 6 months, then engaged for 3 months
4. How old is your man? 38
5. Who eats more? Casey
6. Who said "I love you" first? It was ME
7. Who is taller? This is an EASY one since Casey is more than a foot taller than me!
8. Who sings better? We both do but I sing louder! (and I agree with Kristen that Troy does a mean rendition of Amazing Grace!
9. Who is smarter? Well, if you have a medical question I am, if you have a computer question Casey is!
10. Whose temper is worse? Depends on the situation, if it involoves teenage daughter choosing not to do chores, homework probably me.
11. Who does the laundry? I am happy to say it is actually mostly Casey!
12. Who does the dishes? Britt and I usually share that one
13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Casey
14. Who pays the bills? We both do, I pay some and Casey pays some
15. Who has bigger feet? Casey
16. Who has longer hair? Me.
17. Who is better with the computer? Definately Casey! I get frustrated with it a lot!
18. Who mows the lawn? I know how to and I used to do it a lot but now it's Casey and he has quite the green thumb these days!
19. Who cooks dinner? Various restraunts around town! If anyone cooks it's usually me
20. Who drives when you are together? Casey, I LOVE to take a break from driving and fall asleep in the passenger seat!
21. Who pays when you go out? Usually Casey
22. Who is most stubborn? We are both stubborn!
23. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I am NEVER wrong! Just kidding! I don't know on that one!
24. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine, Casey's live farther away.
25. Who kissed who first? Casey Lowe
26. Who asked who out? Casey
27. Who proposed? Casey. He was very creative and even though we had talked about it he TOTALLY caught me off guard and surprised the heck out of me!
28. Who is more sensitive? We share that one, actually probably Casey
29. Who has more friends? We have about the same, I just spend more time talking to mine and going to lunch, etc.
30. Who has more siblings? Casey by FAR!
31. Who wears the pants in the family? We actually both do but I LET him more! lol!
Am I supposed to tag someone now? How does it work? If so I tag Beth Delis and Alison Lowe!