Birds

Today my car was ambushed by the downtown birds! Yes, I park under a tree. But it is a dead tree with no leaves. Apparently the birds preferred that tree in particular rather than the trees that have leaves, because my car was covered in bird crap and the other cars next to me were not!

Flowers

Azaleas

Lenten Roses

Some of our flowers have started to bloom around our house. This afternoon I have been out in the yard taking pictures of these blooms.

Shopping

The warmer weather has caused me to want to go shopping for some new spring and summer clothes. I was really looking for some new outfits for work. I went to the Brookwood Mall, but really just didn't see anything within my price range that just jumped out at me. Later on I headed to the Galleria Mall to check out JC Penney's. I had looked online earlier in the week and had seen some cute dresses that were work appropriate. I didn't see a few of them that were online in the store, so maybe they are coming soon. But, I did find a skirt and jacket set that I ended up purchasing. The skirt is white with large brown polka dots and the jacket is brown with large white buttons. Now, I just need to get a little sun on my legs for right now I am too pale to wear a white skirt!

Volunteering

Saturday afternoon I headed over to Indian Springs School to attend the Special Equestrian volunteer training session. This program provides therapeutic horseback riding and equine assisted activities to persons with disabilities. Next Saturday, I get to start my volunteer work as a side walker assisting a rider. I can't wait!

Twilight DVD

My husband and I were at Walmart in time for the 12:01 am release of the Twilight DVD. Got home and of course had to watch it! I think it was 3:00 am before we were able to go to sleep.

Minus a "Friend"

The other day I realized that a coworker removed me as a friend on myspace and blocked me on facebook. I am quite confused as to what may have caused one's recent actions. In pondering, I know that I have not put anything inappropriate on their pages nor do I have anything on either of my pages that would cause one not to want to be associated with me. This leaves me with the perception that the drastic removal must be work related. So, my conclusion is that I have pissed off a coworker due to business related tasks and as a result I have been removed as a "friend" on these social networking sites. Too funny and quite childish!

Nester Update

Sadly, I noticed this morning that the bird's nest at our front door had fallen and all the eggs broke in the fall.

Lunch

Today Michael and I were out running some errands and when we finished my husband wanted to go eat somewhere different. We ended up at Joe's Crab Shack splitting a bucket of shrimp and crawfish - I ate the shrimp and he ate the crawfish. Afterwards, Michael stated how the crawfish tasted different than what he had last year at the Shaeffer's Crawfish Boil. We thought that it was probably due to the fact that those are still alive and are very fresh. Turns out in speaking with the waitress we found out that their crawfish comes from China. Very interesting.

Cookies

My husband came home with two boxes of girl scout cookies - samoas and thin mints. Not my personal favorites, but I did eat some of the thin mints which happened to disappear pretty quickly. Then, my husband came home with another box of thin mints which landed on the dresser in the bedroom. I just assumed that he purchased more because the other went so fast. I also thought they were in the bedroom because it seems to be where he drops everything here lately. So, on the weekend I was cleaning and I moved this box of cookies to the cabinet in the kitchen. Later on in the day I remembered those cookies and thought I would eat a few. Well, on Sunday I made some comment around eating cookies. My husband then questioned what cookies. Of course, I told him the thin mints. Turns out those cookies were for a coworker at the movie theater!!!!!!

James, Piper and Addie

This weekend our friends James and Piper along with their baby girl, Addie, were in town visiting. Michael spent the mid-afternoon playing golf with the guys. Later on we met up at The Needham's house for dinner. One of these days Michael and I are going to head to Nashville so that we can visit the Fly family.

Salon

Had a trip to the salon today, still in the process of removing the blond highlights for good.

Pine Straw

I was pleasantly surprised to come home after to work to see that pine straw was applied to our yard, which desperately needed it. Turns out that the company that does our yard had excess from a project and thought of us. It looks great and I am very thankful for such a nice gesture!!!!

It's Snowing!!!!!

Snow falling .

Kelly in the snow.

Michael making snow angels.


Yippee, we have snow!!!! And it's falling fairly heavy still. Too bad the ground is so wet and still warm. The dogs are too funny. Auburn wants to eat the snow and Jasmine wants to play in the snow!

Nester

Once again we have a bird who has built a nest on the tiny ledge at our front door. Within the past few months, we have started to take Auburn out the front door so he is not straining his little legs climbing the stairs by the back door. At night when we go outside for his potty breaks the bird is usually on the nest and as we return we seem to startle the bird and its flies out the nest. I have to duck so the bird doesn't hit me! Going to try a continuous talk to Auburn on my way back into the house so maybe we don't startle the bird as much. Haven't tried to look in the nest yet to see if we have any eggs. Maybe I will get to that this week.