FLOOOOOOD

Yesterday I flew back from Denver to Houston...sorta.  I took off from Denver late and then flew in circles for awhile until we landed... in Austin.  The Houston airport closed due to bad weather, so we sat in a 737 parking lot in Austin for a little over an hour.  Then we took off for the half hour flight into Houston, and that was awful.  Hold the seat in front of you awful.  I was very grateful for Matt picking me up, and the drive home was pretty nasty too.  The nasty weather continued throughout the night (both cats slept smashed up against my side), and I got up multiple times to watch the river flow down our sidewalk.  Thankfully, the drainage works fairly well in my apartment complex.  Outside of it... not so much.

This is Synott Rd (I live on).  This picture is taken through the bars of our gate.

A truck going through.
This is also my road (the other direction).  The black fence is where I live, the shady temp fence is where they are building.

Directly to the left of the above picture is this neighborhood.  Good luck going through there!
You can't tell in the picture, but there is a speed limit sign.  The water is to the bottom of the actual sign.
Here are our two drainage ponds.  This one is to the north of us (where they are building).
This is to the south of us, where while Matt was taking pictures I saw a snake!!!  I watched the news for awhile this morning and they said to not walk in any water because snakes come out.

So Matt is hanging out with me at home today.  The news showed lots of pictures, the I-10/Beltway 8 intersection (about 5 miles from here) has 10 feet of water under it.  The Richmond exit off Beltway 8 is under water (3 miles from here).  The path towards skiing (north of I-10, about 7 miles from here) is completely underwater as well.

I am lucky that I landed and am home safe and that we have power!  I didn't get to watch all the news coverage of Ike, so this kinda made up for it.

PS.  The misquitos are out!

Invites!

The invites are in the mail! Well, they are technically sitting in the Post Office Box, because pickup isn't until 4pm, but still..

More Tanner

These first two pictures are from the adoption website:

This is Tanner sleeping in the car ride home.  He is smiling!  Oh so adorable.

I'm an Aunt!

Meet Tanner!

Jeff adopted Tanner today from a shelter.  He was born 2/28 and is part lab part golden retriever.  And he is adorable.

I am so excited to go to Colorado on Wednesday to meet him!!

Skiing on Tuesday

On Tuesday, Matt and I went skiing at Bob's.  Matt skiied all 3 events, isn't he so talented.  Here is him getting ready to jump.

Here is him jumping.
And here is him sporting his sweet new shorts that Mom got him.  

Easter Weekend

Early on Friday morning, Matt and I went to the airport to fly to Denver.  We landed at the same time as Steven and Mom picked us up.  We then went to the Ski store to get ski passes for next year!  Woo!  Matt also got some sweet shorts (Mom, they fit good), that will increase his cool level.

We stopped by at Matt's potential new office in Denver (14th floor, he says he is going to walk the stairs everyday).  Then we went to lunch at the Church and they made me my order special since they had taken it off the menu.  Guess we can't go there anymore.

Andrea and I teamed up against Matt and Steven to play 9 holes of golf.  We ended up tying.  It was a little windy and the last few holes got cold, but it was still fun.  Jeff and Matt played Steven and Jon for another 18 holes on Saturday.

We made Easter baskets and hid the boys, Steven was the last to find his.  Andrea and Mom made a good dinner on Saturday night and we just hung out.

Sunday morning we went to church breakfast and then church.  After we had a picnic in Jeff's apartment in Denver because it was raining outside.  Dad and I watched the Masters on TV (ended so lame), while everyone else went and played kickball with Jeff's team in the rain.

Then back to the airport where our flight was a little delayed.  We safely made it home right before midnight, and the kitties left no presents for us...yes!

Not much is planned for this week, Matt should get the paperwork for the Denver transfer sometime, but he is also going to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday.  Shell Oil is written up in the McAllen paper, but just residents complaining about the excessive wells.  

Hope you all had a great Easter weekend, and thanks Mom for having us!

PROGRAMS ARE DONE!

WE FINISHED!!!!!

Matt came home bringing a real hole puncher and himself as a helper.  They both made a huge difference in the process.  Here is Matt punching holes in the programs.  (Notice the beer...that made a difference too).

Here am I putting the ribbon through the holes.

We are done!!!!
Here is my dixie cup full of holes.  I just want to throw it up in celebration, but I keep thinking I might regret that.

And my other faithful helpers:

I feel so glad to have them done.  While it would have been fun to have girls and wine helping me, Matt and beer worked out just as well.  Matt says he vested too much interest in the programs that they are not allowed to be mailed, so I guess we will be flying them up with us carry on come Memorial Day.

PS. 100 days til the Wedding!

Program Progress

Below is my set up.  Computer for entertainment and music.  To the right is my box of program covers, then in the center is my hole punch and my stacks and the right (in the amazon box) are my completed programs.  On the right chair are my stacks of ribbons.  I made about 30, and then my hand hurt from the hole punch, so I am waiting for Matt to bring me home his work one.

I went to Michaels to buy some more ribbon because the first roll didn't go very far, and now I am sitting on the couch with Peanut cutting it up. 

Wedding Programs

On Sunday, Matt and I put in many hours trying to make the "guts" of the wedding program on Word.  When I made the outside covers I didn't really think ahead to make them a nice convenient printing size, so Matt had his work cut out.  Good thing he is so patient!  (With me and Word...).  

So yesterday we printed the final copy from my printer and headed off to FedEx Office to print them!  We brought our supplies with us there to make sure it would all work before we pushed "copy 200".  

Here is our pile of originals and then (on top of the laminator) is the first stacks of massive copies.
Matt and the copy machine.
Then lucky Matt got to come home and cut!  He borrowed the paper cutter from his office, and since it had to be back today, we had to cut all 450 pages we printed (each cut 3 times).  Yup 1350 times he sliced that chopper.

I was putting the papers into stacks of 5 for him to cut, and then sorting them into their respective page piles after he cut them.  I was also attempting to cut the ribbon, but that didn't go over too well.  As you can see below, we have 9 stacks of 200 pages each.

That meant this morning I got to start sorting the stacks into...more stacks!  This time I am taking one of each page and making into a program stack.  The nine stacks on the bottom of the picture are the pages, the 5 on the top are the start of my "program stacks".  This picture is about half way sorted.

Next comes finishing stacking, hole punching through the pages and the covers, then ribbon-ing it all together.

To be continued...maybe

I REALLY need Laura back.

PS.  I guess since they were in stacks of 5 he didn't slice it 1350 times...Oh well.  It was a lot.

Friday and Saturday

On Friday Matt and I went skiing out in Cypress with Bob.  Matt ran 32 off which is his best, so that was exciting.  It was a very nice day, I felt a little guilty about tanning because thats why Laura came, but oh well.  I don't even remember what else we did Friday and that was only 2 days ago.  I think we watched a Monk where he goes on an airplane, and it was a pretty good episode.

Yesterday we played softball with the church league.  It is all sunday school classes that play against each other, and we won both of our games.  It was a hot and humid day out, we are getting to the point where we need to bring two water jugs for the 2 hours.

We then watched Michigan State win against UConn which was so exciting!!!  I wished the crowd was a little louder, but I was very excited whenever they did get nice and loud.  We have to use that to our advantage!  Matt and I will have to tape 24 and watch that on Tuesday.

It is super windy out right now, but we might go skiing anyway, then church tonight.

Fogo de Chao

On Wednesday night, Matt took Laura and I to Fogo de Chao.  It was so good.

Here is how it looks in the front window of the meats turning around the firepit.  Yum!

Me and Laura.  The rolls were sooooooooooooooooo good oh man.  We would take one out of the basket and then they would replace the basket!

You flipped your coaster to red if you were good or green if you wanted them to give you more meat.  Here is Laura getting some.

Me and Matt.

Laura wanted to get a picture of their boots and pants.

You took the tongs and grabbed the piece of meat that they sliced off for you.

Nancy, we think Bill needs to go here!!

Attempt at a Pool Day

On Wednesday the weather didn't really cooperate either, it was mostly cloudy and only about 70, but we went to the pool anyway.

We brought cards and I beat Laura in Phase 10 twice woo go me.  We also brought a picnic to eat at the pool - including the fun fetti cupcakes we made!

It was a little cold to lay in our swimsuits, but oh well, we dealt.  We also had guac and chicken salad...mmm good.

After staring at our toes for awhile, I decided they were in serious need of not being ugly, so we went to the nail place and got pedicures!  We both got flowers on our big toes, so we match.

And we did get a little red, the sun just came right through the clouds!

Putt Putt

Tuesday night after Matt got home, we went to Katy to go putt-putting.  Laura was ahead, but then choked and Matt ended up winning.

We came home and had a huge dinner of burgers, hushpuppies and guac.

Bike Ride and Turtles

Laura came down to tan and sadly I couldn't provide any sun for her, but on Tuesday for a few hours it wasn't raining and was decent out, so we decided to go on a bike ride.

I showed her my lovely drainage ditch that has a nice path along side of it.

And because she has never seen turtles before... I showed her our local turtle population.  They all came up for us - probably around 20!

We then continued our ride to Sonic because Laura had never been there either.  We got some popcorn chicken and limeades.

And I know how much you all love kitty pictures.

Assembling Invites

Laura was a good little worker and helped me assemble my wedding invitations.

Then we stuffed them all in the envelopes.  Now they are sitting in a box waiting to go out!

Thanks Laura!