Monday, July 21, 2008

Girls just wanna have fun...


Or in our case, seven women away from the kids and the husbands for a weekend. This past weekend, six of my dearest friends went away for a girl's only weekend to the Houston Galleria to eat, eat, eat, and shop, shop, shop (what else do you do on a girl's weekend?!) Of course, our fave restaurants had to be involved (at least once every day to be exact)--La Madeleine and The Cheesecake Factory. Can one ever have enough cheesecake?
Here's our smorgasbord of cheesecake we passed around and ate.

Godiva chocolate cheesecake--it doesn't get any better than this!

Before, during and after eating we (what else?!) shopped! No, those aren't celebrities ;)--its just me and my friend, Deanna, trying on some of the latest fashions.


And of course... we had to get pedicures! We found a place that would do several of us at a time, so we sat back in our luxe massage chairs and chatted and visited. Amazingly enough, it was Deanna and I's first time for a pedicure, so we sat back and enjoyed the experience (although, somewhat nervously I might add)! That foot scrub sure tickles!

Despite having to deal with Galleria traffic, and a very confusing mall directory (who knew L2 meant Level 2? hee hee!) we had a blast. There's so much to talk about perhaps in a later post, but right now I just need to catch up on my sleep!

Monday, July 7, 2008

July 4th 2008

This past holiday weekend, Jason and I took our annual 4th of July trip to the beachhouse. Every Independence day weekend, Jason's parents rent a beachhouse on the Bolivar Peninsula right off of Galveston. We spend the whole weekend at the beach sunning, swimming, and shooting fireworks.
Although the beach isn't like (or anywhere near) a beach in Florida, it's only about 40 minutes to drive to the ferry from our house to get there. Even though the beachhouse is just a ferry ride away, the waiting lines were a nightmare. We had to wait two hours to get on the ferry and two hours to come back home. Not much fun when its hot! Here we are sweating it out...

Once we got there, we put the kids in their swimsuits and headed out to the beach. Here's Layton and Ashlyn (water gun-ready) all ready to go. Unfortunately, five minutes into our time at the beach it started to storm (just our luck!), but it quit soon after and we had sunny skies the rest of the weekend.


On the night of the 4th, we went to the beach to watch people shoot fireworks and shoot some of our own. I mainly watched other people shoot them, because I do not like to handle fireworks--just watch them. Boy, was it loud! Here's Ashlyn covering her ears. She didn't seem to like the noise of the fireworks too much.


Layton didn't mind too much--here he is even holding his own sparkler.


After a short time (before we lost all hearing), we went back to the beachhouse porch to watch from a safe distance. All in all, it was a fun, relaxing time had by all.

Hope your 4th of July was great!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008