Things I'm Loving Thursday

1. It's almost Friday!

2. Trop 50 Orange Juice

This stuff taste's so great and I don't miss regular orange juice! Its only 1 points plus point per cup! I used to try and drink the weight watchers endorsed lower calorie orange juice but it was watery and too sweet. I love orange juice since I don't eat any fresh fruits I drink it a lot (I don't what's wrong with me I just can't except for blueberries pretty much). Its just so many more calories. This fits the bill! Its been hard to find but its worth looking for. Plus I love the commercial with Jane Krakowski.

3. It was trash day toady. I love trash day. Maybe it's because we cook so much, or maybe it's because we are just not good at green living, or are wasteful (I hope not), but whatever the case we always have so much trash each week and we only get trash pick up once a week. So I love Thursday mornings when my wonderful husband takes the trash out and our house is just a little bit cleaner.

4. Baylor. Somedays I miss it more than others and have such fond memories. This day/week is one of them. It's SING season, and though I don't think I'll get to go to SING this year, it just brings up some of my most favorite memories of that time in life!

Here's a link to my baby, School Days by Kappa Kappa Gamma 2007...the act that Catherine, Stephanie, Whitney and I were sing chairs for our Junior Year! I can't figure out how to actually put the video on here. Ahhhh memories!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1CqFJAtLs4

Then, here's sister-in-law/sister in Kappa, Carla and me dressed up for that act.

Things I'm Loving Monday

Since I missed last Thursday posting on things I love due to being just plain busy busy, I can't resist doing a things I'm loving today in honor of Valentine's Day.

1. First and foremost, my husband. I just can't get enough of him this week and last week particularly. It seems that when things are most hectic for me he is the most calm and the presence that sets all right with the world as soon as I talk to him/see him you name it.

Don't get me wrong I can never get enough of him, but the past few days have just been even more.

I mean can how can I resist this face?

A pic from our Honeymoon in Maui, which just at the end of last week I got home late from work and he said he wanted to show me something. He proceeded to sit me down on the couch and turn on the tv and started playing all the videos we took on our honeymoon! We had not watched them yet and I'd almost forgotten. How special! We just talked and laughed and watched them for about an hour. Took me right back!

2. H-E-B.

I just love my HEB. I think I first heard about it from my grandma Dixie in San Angelo, TX, and then we got one when I lived in Livingston, but when we moved to DFW we no longer HEB there so I really discovered its greatness in Waco at Baylor. Ahh good ole ghetto HEB!

But more recently, I'm obsessed with HEB at Bunker Hill in Houston. I drive the 15 minutes just because I love this grocery! They almost always have what I need and its just a fun weekly trip to the grocery store. I go just about every weekend. And now that Jonathan is letting me do my lists on his ipad its even more fun!

3. Black Heels to Tractor Wheels

This is Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman's first book besides her cookbook of course which is an absolute must have!

This book is her love story of how she met her husband, Marlboro Man, their dating, engagement, and I think first year of marriage. She was a big city girl who fell in love with a cowboy. I'm about halfway through the book and it is so entertaining, and also reminds me so much of the place in life Jonathan and I are at in our marriage, and reminds me of those earliest memories dating. Such a special time that I treasure looking back on.

Oh and look at this limited edition Kitchen Aid mixer that Pioneer Woman was commissioned to design and gets to give away! She made it to match the cover of her book. As Rachel Zoe would say, "I die!!!". Ugh its so pretty!

Work Break

So I'm on a break at work (yes I'm at the office at nearly 10 pm on a Tuesday night). Ah tax season how I love thee. (sarcasm? I think so)

However, I'm now just waiting on Jonathan to get out of the Rockets game down the street so we can ride home together from the game where he has suite tickets tonight for work. Rough life I know.

So I thought I'd blog.

Let's see here's a catch up of random pictures and things I failed to blog about timely over the last few months.

1. We begin with Jonathan and my 1 year anniversary! November 7, 2010. Wow I can't believe its now getting close to a year and a half!

Our frozen cake was still soooo good!! I think even better than the first time.

We went to Carmelo's in Houston where we had dinner on our first dating anniversary.


2. We had Thanksgiving at the Lakehouse with the Theilig/Pavlic clan.

3. December 2010: We went to a WWE wrestling event called Tables, Ladders, and Chairs as part of Jonathan's anniversary gift from me. I hate to admit, but it really was pretty fun.

They literally have to climb ladders and grab the thing at the top to win the match, or "knock" someone out with a chair or throw them through a table to win. Hillarious! Even more hillarious was the crowd. I was sitting right behind this little girl no older than 8 who was not only wearing a mock championship belt but was yelling like CRAZY for her favorite wrestlers. Too funny, oh and the plethora of 25-45 year old grown men with belts around their growing midsections weren't boring either. Really great people watching.

Here's John Cena "You can't see me!"

4. December 2010: I got rid of the old faithful 4 runner and traded in for this new to me Lexus RX400h.

The new car! Its a hybrid and just happened to work out perfectly! We drove all the way up to Dallas to get it from the used Sewell dealership. What a wonderful experience and I am loving every second in my dream car!
5. February 2011: We had an ice storm and got a day and half off work!

These are the only pictures I snapped really, when we went up to our deck. Its hard to tell but this is what the roads were like all over Houston. Just sheets of ice. We had to walk very carefully up there because it was slick all the way to the door.

Here we had turned on the grill to de-ice it (left the cover off from cooking that week). It made some neat steam.