Vegas Part III--Random shots

At Boa for dinner

Tuesday morning at the awesome Wynn buffet.....lets just say Eric, was done for a minute....

A fabulous trip with my longtime Vegas vacationers......Thanks for a wonderful time ya'll!! And the friend quote from
my friend Britta really applies to this trip.....

Vegas Part II-Monday at the Cabana

Starting our morning at the Mirage swimming pool cabana!

The ladies......Courtney, Jen and I

Champ what is so funny? Matthias at work, Jen and Courtney getting the place set up!

One of the 10 fruit trays we had that day! The cabana is the only way to go in Vegas...super fun day!

Vegas Annual Trip--Sunday eve!

Finally after all these years it clicked, Craps! I won $90, yipeeeee thanks to my coach Jennifer!!

At our usual hot spot, La Salsa! We love this place

Friends...........outside Ceasars

At the Mirage, hugging the O in LOVE!!

Max is 5 months!!!

Max Max Max he's our man! Such a good baby and easy going. Still waking up aroun 4 or 5am, but we'll get there! Enjoy!!

Weight Watchers!

This is my blog right, all about me and my going on's, about my family, my friends, mememe! So, if I were to toot my own horn this would be a great place to do it right?!? RIGHT!!!

I hit my 10% goal at Weight Watchers yesterday!!! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am so very excited and proud of myself for sticking with it. 20.4lbs in 4 months--so lets break it down....that's 5.1lbs a month. Not to bad, huh! I cant say enough about weight watchers,the program works.

Next, is to reach my Goal Weight and maintain it for 6 weeks then I'll become a lifetime member of Weight Watcher--as long as you stay at that weight. Bonus of a lifetimer---meetings are FREE!!!

Setting goals are such a great thing to do and this week two of my biggest we're met!!!
1)Getting our family out of debt, minus our house--two years at it with my friend Dave Ramsey
No More Credit Cards!!!

2)Reaching 10% weight loss-- Weight Watchers

What a great week!!!!

On to the next one!!

Ava and her buddies

I took Ava and two of my babysitters(Seham) kids to Celebration Park this week. Seham just had her 4th baby, a little boy he's soooo cute and tiny. I thought I'd help her out and take 1/2 of her work with us for the day. Plus, Ava loves her kids so much. We played at the spray park, had a picnic and then we went on a nature walk through the park, lots of fun.
Oh and stopped at good ole Sonic for a Creamslush....yummmie!

Max and Ava....waiting on the others to get their swimsuits on....










Joseph, Netta and Ava on our nature walk

























Ava being silly!!!









Joseph is one of Ava's favorite buddies, he starts school this year and is such a great kid!!

Bye Bye Condo!!!

Well I'm no longer a landlord. I sold my 1/1 condo in Austin last week to my current tenant. Here are a few pictures of what it looked like after we(kerry did the wooden floors) finished remodeling it back in 2002. Thanks to a crazy house market in central Austin, we did pretty darn good....lets just say, my student loans are finally paid off!! I'm gonna say it again..."MY STUDENT LOANS ARE FINALLY PAID OFF"........YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

A Day with Uncle Kelly, Adrian and Andrew

Ava, Max and I spent some time in Austin last week while our daddy was out of town. Uncle Kelly and I decided it would be fun to have a all day outing with my two babies, Adrian and Andrew. We we're right, but boy we're we tired at the end of the day.

Here we are on our way to see Ratatouille.
Everyone did really great and we stayed for the entire film. Adrian did the best as far as being into the movie, Andrew and Ava did a lot of walking around and Max just needed a little bounce or bottle to keep him happy. Over all though it was a really fun movie.










I love this picture of Super Uncle Kelly and his nieces and nephews..





































After the movie we headed to our favorite Kid-friendly/dog-friendly restaurant in south Austin...Freddie's. we took over the play scape and had lunch before heading over to the the Austin Children's museum...

Jennifer came to town!

We got to hang out with Jennifer for a day last weekend. Here she is with Ava in the back yard.
























































Then she and I headed down to Primos for an afternoon cocktail....good times!!












We ended the day at Buca De Bepo, here we are showing off how healthy we can be if Vegas is on our minds.........

Dress-up

One day while I was showering and getting ready, Ava took over my closet and hair drawer. This was the outcome, I thought it was pretty cute.....and of course had to take a few pictures , spaghetti face and all!!

We've had a great summer, Ava's been busy learning how to swim. She is by no means swimming but she is not afraid of the water and hangs out in her one piece float suit. She's even jumping of the edge of the pool into the water....not afraid at all.

We've also got a bunch of potty training going on. I like to pretend we're 100%, but the truth is we still have a few accidents here and there. However in the last two days she's had only one and that was my fault for not getting her there in time. She even napped today accident free...yipeeee!

She's looking forward to School starting or maybe that's me.heehee... She going to the same Mother's Day Out program she did last year, for two days a week. We found some old Valentines from last year and she's obbsessed with them, we play and play with them everynight, "Mommy, can you get these ready for my friends?" Don't think she understands Feb. 14th is a few days away.

She's so very independent it's crazy, wanting to do everything herself, sometimes its hard to let her, but for the most part we give in and let her figure it out.

And of course she's our Bestest Big Sister!!

Happy Birthday Jaimie!!

Happy Birthday to you Mrs Pollock! Hope you have a beautiful wonderful day!!!

Happy Birthday Britta!!!

To our girl Britta!! Hope you have a great day, I'm thinking your on vacation so it shouldn't be too hard to enjoy your day! We'll be thinking about you!!