Scottsdale Wedding

April 30th is the offical end of busy season (for my audit at least), which was great cause I took May 1st off for a wedding in Scottsdale (Kris's home town). One of the guys that Kris has known since Kindergarden was getting married - it was such a fun weekend!

We got a great last minute deal at the new Intercontinental Montelucia on TravelZoo and it was awesome!

I hung out at the pool on Friday while Kris went off and did groomsmen things.
Saturday was the wedding. Jenn, the bride, lives in this beautiful house that used to be a B&B, so the grounds are gorgius, thus the wedding was in the back yard. This was not you typical backyard wedding! Everyone wore white, including the guests! There were white tents, white sofas, white tulips and white candles, it was beautiful!


The bride and groom, don't they look so happy?

Some of the peeps Kris grew up with since kindergarden!


Sunday morning we got up and had brunch with Kris's long time friends the Gruell's (Kris and Mark were friends since kindergarden as well, he was a groomsmen in our wedding). It's always so much fun to see them! We ate at the Camelback Inn - the food was outstanding!

How do you catch Swine Flu?

Sushi and a Shower

I'm so far behind on blogging it's not even funny (I guess that's what happens when you work 60+ hours a week for all of spring)...and this post I wrote a long time ago but never released it for some reason...

Friday night Kris and I went to dinner with Dan and Renee - it was so fun - as always! They all ate yummy sushi while I enjoyed habachi steak and superb fried rice (it was so good I had to order another bowl)!

Saturday I had a shower at my house for my dear friend Amanda. We've known each other since we were 11, it's so fun to have grown up together and seen what life has brought us so far! Here's a pic of the table, I can't find the other pics I took that day, hopefully I didn't delete them off my camera on accident...

Flip & Tumble

After reading numerous articles about the plastic trash the size of Texas floating in our oceans, I've decided to go green. It really is unbelievable how many plastic bags Kris and I can accumulate in one week!!! After doing some research on the different options for re-usable bags, I've decided to go with Flip & Tumble. Although I will say, Baggu was a very close second (and comes in a multitude of colors)! However, Flip & Tumble comes in scarlet and gray, so that right there was enough to convince me to buy. Plus it is very easy to get it back into a little ball, where Baggu takes a little more time to actually fold. I'm very excited to start saving the environment one plastic bag at a time!

I haven't actually placed my order yet, so let me know if any of you have advice or a different bag I should check out before I purchase my new Flip & Tumble.

Tea Party

April 15th marked the day that taxes were due, it also marked the day that many Americans joined in the "Tea Party" to protest the recent government spending, size of the current government and redistribution of wealth. This was the first time since the election that there seemed to be a nonpartisan agreement that the current government is out of control.

Kris and some of our friends went to the downtown Houston Tea Party. I was busy at work so I couldn't join, but I met them at dinner afterwards.

Here are a few pics from the Tea Party:

One of my personal favorites: