An Ah'May'zing month!

Today, I introduce you to Pancho.

Although Shawn came up with his name in the spur of the moment, I have always considered it a perfect Mexican name… Pancho nooooooo!!! (toilet paper cat commercial, anyone? Tina if you’re reading, I know you understand).

Cathy's Cinco de Mayo birthday bar crawl

In other news: We spent Mother’s Day at my sister’s new house.

Isn’t the back yard beautiful??

We had a friendly game of volleyball in her pool…

My Dad and I against Dale and Shawn. The only problem was, we couldn’t find the net. So we played without one. If you know me at all.. or better yet, if you know my Dad at all, you know that a fair game pretty much went out the window at this point. Either one of us alone is prone to a litttttle bit of extending the truth (we would never cheat J), but together, poor Dale and Shawn didn’t stand a chance. If the ball was even remotely arguable, we argued it until we won. In all fairness, it would take some nerve to argue against your father-in-law/girlfriend’s dad. I’d like to think we didn’t take advantage of that… but let’s be honest. Therefore, Gary and I are officially the champions of the first Pumphrey’s pool game of water volleyball. Once they get a new net, our chances will go down considerably.

I know this is incredibly not like me, but I didn’t take a single picture on Mother’s Day… so here is a picture from last year’s mother’s day (or 2 ago?)!

Back row: My mom and Kara, Front row: Marcia, me and Leigh

Last night, in a spur of shameless blog self-promotion, I told these 2 crazies that I would put them in my blog- such an honor, I know:

This is my ‘big brother’ Brian who I haven’t seen in 2 years? 3? It’s been awhile…

and a flashback pic to Big Brother night:

This is my old roommate Allison Leigh Fisseler (You can call her Alf).

and another flashback pic to college:

We had drinks at an *arguably* Aladin-themed bar last night and had an Ah-mazing time! Anyone else think this looks like a genie in a bottle?

I’m 0-2 so far on that poll…. Only ‘yes’ answers need respond :)

Until next time: which is hopefully quicker than my current posting rate.. Have a great day!

Concerts and Pub Crawls

I absolutely love this time of year- the weather is gorgeous... sunny and not 10,000 degrees. With that, comes lots of fun outdoor activities!!!

A few weeks ago, I went to Austin for the LoneStar Jam! I had never been to this event before, but all you have to do is mention Eli Young Band, Roger Creager, Kevin Fowler, Kyle Park and more... and I'm there! The weather was absolutely perfect AND I got my first tan of the year (finally!). It was my friend Tracie's 30th birthday-

although I'm convinced those glasses could double as a creative Harry Potter costume (anyone else see that??)

We were sitting in the middle of a very small hill and this hot mess (I shall call her "pink")

toppled ON TOP of Shawn on her way up the hill. When I say on top, I mean that extremely literally. The poor guy didn't stand a chance. This alone was a good enough laugh to last me quite awhile.... but then, "pink" decided to come back our way (ballsy) and toppled down the hill with 2 drinks in hand, thus face planting it in the dirt. So wherever you are, "pink", thank you for the entertainment! About 5 minutes later... and after many, many fun pokes at Shawn, I got pooped on by a bird.

As my friend Cathy later said "A bird pooping on you is good luck. A fat girl falling on top of you... definitely bad luck" I can't help but think that it was maaaaybe a little bit of karma.

A few pictures from the weekend:

The girls out on Friday night!

Shawn and I at LoneStar Jam

Ashley and me

We stayed with Ashley and I am absolutely in love with where she lives! Her apartment is in the middle of the most beautiful little road full of unique restaurants and bars- all in walking distance. I wish Houston had an area like that. And, of course, it was so fun to get to see Ashley again- just a few short weeks after she came to visit me in Houston. Love you, Ash :)

In the theme of fun outdoor events, yesterday I participated in my first Crawl for Cancer! SUCH a fun day! Our team name was Grenade Free Zone- as an avid Jersey Shore fan (judge away) I was thrilled by this name.

I introduce to you, part of our team:

In the words of Miss Katie Dunn "Alright ladies, 12 hours until bars close"

We went to five different bars around Midtown (Union Bar, Pub Fiction, Little Woodrow's, Maple Leaf Pub and Hefley's). The after party was in the most sketch 18 and up bar in the middle of ghetto-Houston. There were cages on the stage for people to dance in..... needless to say, we didn't last long there. All in all, it was a fun day with friends (old and new), full of flip cup, dancing and lots of drinking games... all in the name of finding a cure for cancer! Definitely an event I plan to participate in many, many more times.

Since I've been gone...

My computer is FINALLY back! Seriously… 2 weeks without it felt like years. We have lots to catch up on.

Since I’ve been gone:

I saw a window washer! It’s the little things in life. I work about 40 floors up in a sky-scraper in downtown Houston- we don’t see these often, well, ever.. This was a very big deal for me.

I don’t think most people take pictures- the guys were hamming it up for us.

I went to the Sam Houston race track… and won! Clarification: I won 2 small bets and Shawn won 1 big one. Since I won first and shared, Shawn got to share with me (and by that I mean, he gave me the ones and he kept the big bills. Meh). There are 50 cent beer nights on Fridays- feel free to thank me later.

My parent’s neighbors got puppies! Yes, plural. Blogworld meet Spot:

adorable.

… and Emily:

I might also add that shortly after this, my sister adopted this little cutie (all siblings):

(although she won’t get her until June)

I discovered the Federal Reserve Bank (of Dallas- Houston branch) during a run along a new track… and it’s only 1 mile from my apartment! I obviously stopped to take a picture. I realize this is exciting to probably nobody else.

That's about it for now.... more to come in a bit!