First week at 27

Well I've just about lived through the full first week of 27...yep I feel old!  Anyhow I figured I would give a quick recap of the birthday festivities...what can I say Rene and I are pretty boring...no big blow out parties for us...

The birthday weekend started out pretty good though, Thursday I got home and opened the mail and found a card from mom and dad waiting in the mailbox.  Plus a Seen It-Twilight for the Wii...yes Rene is super excited to play that, and a Starbucks gift card -- YUM!  You can bet I stopped for a Venti Latte on my way to work Friday morning!

Friday I also go these beauties delivered to my office!

 

The white arrangement was from my team of recruiters and the roses (though the picture cut them off) were from Rene of course!

Saturday we did a bit of errand running and stopped by Sprinkles to pick up some birthday treats!  I love the cupcakes from Sprinkles and have a new fave for the month of January--S'mores!

We even made some birthday cake cocktails while we watched some of our backlogged DVR TV shows....

You must try these yum!

2 parts whipped cream vodka

1/2 part amaretto

1/2 part cream(or milk)

1 part godiva white chocolate liqueur

While I would like to say the night was nice and quiet one of my recruiters decided that 27 wasn't too old to take shots for your birthday-- so arrived at my apartment with another recruiter from my office with a bottle of Goldschläger in hand and decided shots were needed.  It was all in all a pretty quiet night, though Rene was feeling a little "under the weather" Sunday morning.

But wait the celebration wasn't over just yet....

Monday morning (after having to move my cubical due to us expanding) I arrived to this....

Lots of decorations from my recruiters...they know me so well (notice the Disney theme?).

All in all it was a pretty good birthday this year, lets hope that 27 has some good things to come!

Getting Back on Track

Well after a successful weekend it's back to work on Monday (a very dreary Monday)....

As mentioned on Saturday I completely forgot my camera....but this little pic that Kim took will have to do for the time being, the green dress was a big success!

I promise there are more pictures that her sister in law took with a nice camera vs. phone so I'll be sure to get copies!

Have a great Monday!

Flying High Saturday

I'm currently aboard AirTran flight 105 to Atlanta for Kimberly's Engagement party!! I'll admit that I am a bit tired after having to wake up at 5am this morning to get ready and get to the airport for my 8am flight but flying business class isn't so bad...though I did have a bit of a panic attack on my drive to the airport.

I forgot my camera!! I plugged it into the computer USB last night to make sure it was fully charged and planned on grabbing it when I checked my flight gate this morning, sad to say that I forgot that in my tired haze.

So after a short panic while half way to the airport this morning I figured I had 2 options, #1 I can have Kim stop off at a Target/Walmart and see what kind of deals I can find on a super basic digital camera, or option #2 I can just use Kim's camera and make sure that all the pictures end up on my jump drive or Facebook before I head home. Small drama but I'll make it work!

Oh yea and I decided on the tan and green dress for tonight. It seemed to be the favorite!

I'll be spending this morning's flight working on homework (boooo) so that I can try to enjoy my time in Atlanta without stressing about the million and one other things that I need to get done this weekend. Time to get started on everything!

Have a wonderful Saturday!!

It's Friday!!

It’s Friday Whooo-hoo! Tomorrow I get to take a little overnight trip to Atlanta to celebrate the engagement of my good friend and sorority sister Kimberly!

She’ll be getting married in April and I am honored to be a bridesmaid.

While I wish I could stay longer than 1 night with work and school it’s just not possible however it will be a wonderful time I am sure! And what’s better? I got to upgrade my flight tomorrow morning to business class-gotta love starting the morning off with free drinks and free checked luggage! It's so sad that in November AirTran won't be flying from Dallas-Fort Worth anymore, there goes my cheap first class flights!

Now if I could just figure out what to wear for the engagement party…I’ve narrowed it down to 2 dresses….the gray one doesn’t look great on a hanger but super cute when it’s actually on (I wore it to our Christmas party last year but I don’t have ANY pictures!) and then the green one still has the tags on it, I haven’t had a chance to wear it yet so this would be a

perfect opportunity!!

Time to be a Bridesmaid!

Rene has been in Arizona this weekend (gets home later tonight) so there hasn’t been a whole lot of excitement here in the Blanco home. Lots of homework for me as the fall semester is moving right along! (Can you believe it's September??).

The one plus to September is college football has officially started and UCF won their first game last night! Whoo-hoo!! Though I didn't get to watch I did kept checking ESPN while working on homework (Rene would be so proud). And Final score??

UCF 62 -- Charleston Southern 0

GO KNIGHTS!

Today however I am heading to Garland to the Alfred Angelo store to get fitted for my friend Kimberly’s wedding! She asked me a couple of months ago to be a bridesmaid when this arrived in my mailbox.

Of course I couldn’t say no!

She’s one of the friends from college that I have stayed in touch with the most and I could not be happier that she asked me to be a part of her special day in April in Atlanta, GA!

Surprisingly enough even though I was in a sorority of 180+ girls this will be the first time I will be a bridesmaid! We’re still a rather young group of girls and I was actually only the second person of our close group of friends to be married and it seems like every year since there has been 1 wedding which isn’t a huge number compared to other people I know here in Texas that it seems are going to wedding after wedding each weekend. And while I promised Miss Kimberly I wouldn’t show people the dress I can’t post a picture but it’s defiantly not one of “those” bridesmaids dresses that make you cringe – thank goodness!

NBA Playoffs = catching up with old friends

This week since the Mavs played the Heat here in Dallas one of Rene's fraternity brothers and friends from college (avid Heat fan) was out in Dallas to watch the big game in hopes of the Heat finishing off the playoffs in 5 games....

Needless to say that didn't happen on Thursday with the Mavs come from behind win!! But it did allow us to spend some time catching up with him today around Dallas after we finished running some errands and doing some shopping...purchase updates to follow :)

We hung out on the patio at Mariano's and enjoyed some authentic frozen margaritas before heading to Sprinkles (a must for those that have never had the amazing cupcakes!).

All in all a pretty low key relaxing time, but as always great to catch up with friends we haven't seen in the 4 years since leaving Orlando. Now if only our weekend was longer to enjoy more relaxation, sadly tomorrow Rene will be packing to head out of town for the week and it's back to the grind.

Oh well next Saturday is only 7 days away right?

The New Mr. and Mrs. Waters

After being MIA for a bit I am back! But I was gone for good reason of course!
My congratulations go out to the newest of my married friends Mrs. Waters!

Rene and I had a great time at their wedding July 24th in Boca Raton Florida....after of course a 12+ hour trip from Dallas no thanks to Delta Airlines (which we will never ever fly again....unless there is a huge super deal).

Our warmest wishes to them both!