Bye Bye Brunette

I have an appointment tomorrow to start the process of becoming a blonde...back to my roots! HA...okay, I know- bad joke. Some things that I will miss about being a brunette:

• how much darker I can make my eyebrows


• the way my green eyes stand out more


• the feeling that strangers regard me with a higher IQ (I know I make this one up, but I feel smarter as a brunette)


• I have noticed that I am not carded when I purchase Powerball tickets. YES! It is from the brown hair and not from any signs of wrinkling skin.

Anyway, I want to be a blonde bride and may need to grow up and not change my hair color every other month. We shall see....

(Side note- you can notice Calen's artwork in the back of my photo that I have hung up a work. It would be nice if I had some more to hang up...hint! hint!)

Cousins...

Hopefully their will be a Balart cousin in this Martinez/Woodward mix soon...

Confessions

One blog that I frequent recently posted a post on Confessions. (http://kellypurkey.typepad.com/)

Here are (some) of mine! ;)

1. Last Friday I noticed that one of the dogs vomited in the living room as I was leaving for work. I pretended that I didn't see it and Pablo had to clean it up.
2. I am worried that I am going to become a Bridezilla.
3. Sometimes I get really jealous and competitive with people. I have no idea why...and it makes me hate myself sometimes.
4. My first CD that I ever bought was Vanilla Ice.
5. I tell people that I am 5'1 but I am really 5 feet tall.
6. Sometimes at work I turn my interoffice IM to "in a meeting" and I complete a Sudoku puzzle.
7. My dream job is to be a stay at home mom. If I won the lottery I would retire and make Pablo continue to work because I have seen too many "How the Lottery Changed My Life"'s where they go bankrupt. I don't think Pablo knows this...
8. Sometimes I take change from our "vacation fund" jar and stop at Starbucks before work.
9. I secretly favor Moose more than Max and Pecas (wow....that one is mean)


I thought this would be somewhat fun, but really now just feel bad. Have anything that you would like to confess???

Wedding Visit

My mom and sister Beth came to visit this past weekend to do all things wedding. We went shopping for and purchased my wedding dress. (Sorry, promised Beth that I would not post any photos of the dress although I REALLY want to!) We also looked at 2 different wedding sites. I had such a fun time with them and was so sad to see them go!

Things I am in Love with...

Some things that I am in love with right now...

"That Gal" by Benefit. I put it on before I use my Bare Minerals...love it!

I am in love with perfume...I seriously have like 10 bottles going at one time. A scent for every mood. A new one that I LOVE is SJC NYC. So yummy!

Walden Farms...zero calories, zero carbs, zero sugar...zero guilt. I love the thousand island dressing. It is a great way to add some flavor without cutting into my calorie count.

My new lamps that I bought for our bedroom from J&K Furniture. Got them both for 60 bucks.

And this guy...he my favorite by far.

Happy (Furry) Mothers Day!

Friday I came home to these beautiful flowers that my sister Amy and my nieces sent to me for Mother's Day. I am a mom to 3 furry, crazy babies that have a mind of their own and never seem to listen to a word that I say....but I love them just the same.

Chocolate Crinckes

I love to bake so even though I cannot eat anything yummy (baked goods-wise) on my diet, I made cookies for Pablo's store and my work. I took a recipe from one of my favorite blogs and made them last night. Chocolate Crincke Cookies; I added white chocolate chips to some of mine. I hear they are tasty.

If you would like the recipe, go to: http://cuisinenie.blogspot.com/

Portraits

I am having a hard time dealing with the loss of my Grammy. (If you haven't been able to tell with my lack of posting.) I want to share some of the photos we took while she was in the hospital.

This shot is a self-portrait she took when trying to look at a photo that I took of her...

And this one is after we brushed her hair (which was one of her biggest concerns when I first saw her) and I added one of my little clips to the front of her hair.

Both of these photos make me smile! :)

Wynn and Encore

While I was in Vegas about a month ago, my aunt and I ventured over to the Wynn and Encore hotels during one of our hospital breaks. I fell in love with both hotels. They are how I would design a Vegas hotel if I were ever to open one. The colors are awesome and they are very Parisian. One of my favorite things were these inside garden walkways with giant flower balls hanging from twinkly trees. I want to get married under these trees, but can't find this as an option on their websites.

Oh, well...dreams can't always come true.

Babies...

A few weeks ago I noticed that a bird was building a nest under our patio roof in the backyard. Then one morning I noticed that a bird was sitting on the nest for a long period of time. I think we may have baby birds soon. Hopefully Moose does not get to them.