Celebrations.

Living in Austin is down right fun, but it can be down right tiring too. We have two huge, music\film festivals every year. ACL and SouthXSouthWest. Well, SXSW was the past two weeks and to say there were hundreds of thousands of people invading our city would be an understatement. There were sooo many people, sooo much booze, sooo much music and sooo much fun!

Friday started with burgers, beer and basketball at a local pub! 

Then we went to listen to live music

I look like I am about to spew everywhere. :)

Saturday- We decided we were going to celebrate St Paddy's day with a BANG! We got dressed in green and headed to the bus stop that takes us right downtown and is within walking distance from our house. 

And- it all began. Everyone in green, everyone drinking drinks, fun all the way around. Doesn't get much better...I must say.

His wifey is preggers and is one of my BFFs so we sent her this picture to let her know We love her!

I look so sober.

Um ladies, he is single. Is a pilot. Is one of my hubby's best friends. Any takers?

Love this girl. Missing our partner in crime.

I think this was the $100 dollar we spent. ha.

Everyone takes elevator pictures.

Ladies man. 

My husband has the nicest legs. Hands down.

Jared wants YOU as president.

Marley was depressed he didn't get to dye his hair green and come celebrate the Lucky Irish with all of us.

I need water.

Obsessed.

Of course there is a trend with most women and that is we all love a bit of jewelry! I am fortunate to have an array of jewelry that has been given to me by my love, my parents or dear friends. I love all things jewelry which would include watches too! BUT, my latest obsession is none other than Kendra Scott. Obvs, her jewelry has been around for a bit, but I am loving all the pretty colors for Spring. My girls and I really need to go to her SoCo store and try the color bar. There are three pieces of jewelry that I have received the most compliments- the diamond in my engagement ring, my diamond cross necklace and lastly my turquoise KS earrings. I am thinkin' I will be buying a piece of green to sport on St Patty's Day and since it's 15% off it's even a better idea! 

Enter code FEELINGLUCKY15 Sale ends at Midnight on St Patty's Day

 

Sunday Funday.

Saturday was the baby shower and it was a huge success although it was a tad bit pricey, but definitely worth it. The Texas Tea Embassy is so precious with a vintage feel and great tasting teas. I drank each kind, but my favorite definitely was "Wedding Cake." I am bummed because all the pictures I took were extremely blurry. Fail. 

I made the cupcakes and they were heaven-ish! Next time, I will cook them for about five minutes less to ensure the tops aren't dry. I really am thinking about selling cupcakes! It's something I really enjoy and really am good at...probably because I love food.

So presh.

Moving right along. Sunday our friends agreed to cook 700 pounds of crawfish at a local bar, The Blind Pig. There were so many crawdiddys it really isn't funny. The owner picked them up at the airport yesterday morning. G and J did an awesome job and they tasted amazing. I have to say that Sunday Funday is really fun until the alarm clock goes off on Monday morning. Le Sigh...

We drank way too much tequila and beer. Ate way too much. E and my tummies weren't feeling so hot last night, so we both slept like shizz. I cannot wait to go home...eat soup, take a hot bath and lay on our couch. 

Picture overload:

My motto:

Work hard. Play harder. 

Thoughts on Thursday.

It's Thursday and I cannot wait until Friday especially because I get to bake special cupcakes tomorrow for a baby shower we are hosting for one of my BFFs. Some randoms for this dreary Thursday:

- Do you watch The Voice? I received a text stating...you need to cut your hair like Monique. So guess what I am doing...cutting my hair like Monique. I am easy peasy like that- I do what my friends tell me to do. 

It's similar to what I have now, but much shorter layers on top. Presh, right?

- I had mentioned to a co-worker that I was on a mission to find the Birthday Cake Oreos and felt defeated when I found none at Randall's or HEB. Lo and behold she found them and bought me some. Let me say- they are AMAZINGLY DELISH! I have only eaten one today, tough.

- I now have two huge monitors in front me of me all day. It's a good thing, but an annoyance at the same time. 

- I have lost 6 pounds in a week and I haven't done anything. Tape worm, anyone?

- I really love to sweat. Gross. There is just something refreshing about riding the stationary bike and dripping then visiting the sauna. Love. It.

- Myself and a couple of other gals are throwing a dear friend a baby shower this Saturday. I cannot wait! I am making special cupcakes that the baby mama requested and didn't really even know she requested them. I am tricky like that. 

- I was going through my blog roll and noticed a fellow blogger took a picture with a Rita's cup in her hand. Loves it! We own a Rita's and to see someone I don't even know in RL in another state enjoying something that I have put my whole future into is pretty awesome. 

- We are about to win a HUGE contract at work and let me say...it will help my bonus and raise this year. All Smiles.

- I want to visit my parents house, but our schedule is slammed. 

- On a fabulous note, I get to go back to California in the next couple of weeks.

And for good measure:

 Can I please take this kiddo home?

Kite Festival.

I love our city, Austin. It's by far the best city in Texas because there is constantly something going on that will involve fun times, outside and a lot of people. 

This weekend happened to be home to Kite Festival 2012. It was on Sunday and let me say- we had no idea how crowded this event was going to be this year. We woke at 6am, set out of the house at 630 to pick up the trailer and all the ice, to be set up no later than 9am. When we arrived at Zilker, we were able to pick out a killer spot that would enable us to sell the shizz out of our product. We had an ice cream place and a smoothie place on the other side and we killed them until we ran out of product then the ice cream place had a lengthy line. It was a great event and yes- Austin is weird and yes- we have festivals for things like Kites, Reggae music and let's not forget Eyore's birthday. Duh. 

There were probably 30K people there...all flying kites. Incredible. 

 Our employee trying to fly her pirate ship, hysterical.

 The beginning.

Mid afternoon. Tons and Tons of people. Tons and Tons of kites.

AND, look at this bull dog. His name is Murphy and he gets pushed in a stroller because him's gets too tired. Ha. So presh!

 As the sun was setting- a glimpse of kites stuck in the Zilker trees. 

 Oaks of Austin.

I am grateful to call Austin home. I am sun-kissed and wind-kissed, but wouldn't change a thing about my Sunday.

Pinterest- Addicting, no?

Throwing another post because I have to confess. I.am.addicted.to.Pinterest. E asks me, "what are you doing on your phone, you have been on it for hours?" I then proclaim, "I am on Pinterest." I try to make it better by showing him cute dogs, lovely bathrooms or places to vacation, but he still doesn't understand my addiction. I will confess that I think I am more addicted than I was to Facebook. That's a bold statement. 

I think my favorite things to find on the site are food recipes and words of wisdom. Wisdom that either makes me tear up or makes me want to tinkle from laughing so hard. Either way- I love the site. I did hear that there is an up and coming site that is far better than Pinterest. Not sure I believe it...

Oh how Pinteresting:

Find here.

Catch up.

I am back from San Diego and I loved every minute of SD. I didn't like Temecula at all, but I got over it when I visited the Fashion Mall on Friars and pulled up to my hotel off 10th Avenue in San Diego. There was one part that would have made SD visit nicer...to have E with me. He is my partner in crime when traveling and having him in a fun city with me would have made the trip ten times better, but alas I enjoyed the alone time. I am going back in a couple of weeks and am hoping to pull his hair to come with me. 

So- I am loving all things San Diego today!

I stayed at the Hotel Indigo and it was very nice, modern, clean and close to everything. Highly recommend it. I mean- They had wood floors! I was bummed they don't have bath tubs though.

 Who knew San Diego had a Little Italy? Not moi. 

 I pampered myself on Thursday evening then went and had an Italian dinner by myself. I had a salad, some basil pesto and a glass of wine. It was delish! My BFF, Kindle was by my side.

 I took a 6 mile stroll on Friday morning before my departure, so I could see the ocean. There is something about salt water...

 Great public transportation! Trolleys.

 Fishing boats. There were so many boats!

I sent this to E. :)

Happy Leap Day!