Fun In Florida!!!

Havin' a great time with the family! I was greeted with my own welcome sign:

Yes, they call me On-T for some reason instead of Auntie, Monica thinks it's funnier that way. :-)
Today we went to the zoo and tomorrow we're going to the beach! Other than that, just relaxing and enjoying each other's company!

Going to Florida!!!

I'm off to Florida! The first part of my trip is work related, then I'm taking a side trip on the way back to see my sister in Jacksonville and little Alee! I'm very excited, can't wait to go to the beach and the zoo with them, and Monica just announced last week that she's expecting another little one, so it will be a very happy visit!  Right now I'm at the airport in Charlotte- our second flight is supposedly delayed until 902 pm, but I'm hoping that time will change and we'll leave earlier. 

So back to the news..... This past weekend I saw the equivalent of a unicorn.... What do I mean, you ask? Anyone who knows us will never believe this: Robert was actually at HOME on a Saturday, washing cars instead of playing golf....

Here's my proof:

And last night I finished my tablerunner: Robert was like, "It's nice, but it's not really the look I thought we were going for." And he's right, but that is what the class was, so that's what I made. And I know Mama B already said she wants it, so I'll just leave it on the table for awhile and then I'll pass it along. It is in NO way perfect, seriously, some of my stitches were way out of the ditches, but I wasn't going to be picky about it being it was my first project. And just glancing at it you probably wouldn't notice anyway.


I know, it pretty much looks the same as my last tablerunner post, but believe me, it's different! :-)
For our next project, we are moving on to the big stuff: QUILTS! So being the dedicated sewer that I am, I decided that I might as well make two of them during this class at the same time. These are the two sets of fabric that I picked out, and I love both of them. I'll probably keep the dark one for myself and give the other one away. The dark one reminds me of Mardi Gras, plus with Emma's lovely fur everywhere I figured it wouldn't show as much on the dark material....Also, the dark material is hand dyed (they're called Batiks) so it is a little more expensive than regular material, which makes it more special to me. What do you think?



That's it for now, I'll be posting pictures of my visit when I have free time! Have a great week!

Pilot Study of the 4 Day Work Week

My boss asked our CEO if we could do a pilot study of the 4 day work week and he said "sure!", so this was our first week. These are my findings to contribute to the study: (I was off on Tuesday because of my sewing class)

Had a White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks and read a book while waiting for the mall to open...(by the way, the book I'm reading is called "The Shack" and it's very good- I read almost the entire thing on Tuesday)


Enjoying the scenery of the outdoor mall until a bee landed on my leg and freaked me out: :-)


Then I got my hair cut and highlighted, ate lunch, played with Emma, got dinner going, and went to my sewing class to continue the table runner, which now looks like this:


All in all I think this pilot will be a success!

Jenny's visit and my tablerunner

Jenny came up to Northern VA last weekend because her sister just moved up here. They had a birthday party for her nephew so I went up to help out and visit with everyone. Robert had to stay home because I didn't know what the plans were until last minute so we had no one to watch Emma, but I was only gone for about a day and a half, so he didn't mind. Plus I'm sure he wasn't too keen on going to a 4 year old's party who he didn't even know....but anyway....

The next day we all took the Metro and went to the Washington Nationals vs. Houston Astros game..... the Nationals lost and it was scorching hot, but I still had a good time with everyone.






I've also been making a 9 patch tablerunner. It's not finished, but here is the top of it. I still have to sew the inner and outer borders and the batting and backing. To be continued.....

What we've been up to

I went to Busch Gardens with some girlfriends and fed the birds after we got soaked on a water ride (pardon the messy hair!)





Made my first stuffed animal- so ugly it's cute, right?


Had dinner with some friends this weekend and Robert made a new friend, Bella....

We also needed a new rug for the front door, and I came across this one while out with my friend Cindi. I just had to get it. I think it's funny, but I don't think Robert feels the same way!

Busy Week

We have had such a busy week! First, Robert re-did the ceiling on the porch because it was so poorly constructed. It took him awhile, but he did a great job, and now it's all ready to be stained. I love having a built-in handyman as a husband!
This picture is from about half way through the job....


Then, we both had to go out of town for work until Wed. night. One of my flights back home flew into Atlanta, and that's where Robert's meeting was also. Well, my flight into Atlanta was late, subsequently, my flight out left me just as I arrived at the gate completely out of breath. How totally annoying.... I was placed on a standby flight for 1005 pm or I was guaranteed to be on the next morning flight. I tried to get in touch with Robert, hoping maybe I could hitch a ride back with him, but he didn't get my message until late. Lucky for me, I decided that they were going to put me on the 1005 flight because it was their fault in the first place (AKA I yelled at them on Delta's hotline) and low and behold, a seat just so happened to "just open up". Yay! I finally got home at 130 am on Thursday and guess who beat me home? Yeah, crazy huh?

I went to work on Thursday at 11 am because I just couldn't get there any earlier, and left at 430 because my boss is super nice and told me that I had worked enough for the week. Aunt Sandy and Aunt Connie were coming in that evening to spend a couple of days with us, so I took off on Friday.
We didn't do much while they were here, they said they really just wanted to chill since they had been going non-stop for over 2 weeks traveling. We had a great time with them....

I thought I was bad with taking millions of pictures, but Aunt Connie totally has me beat!  I took all of the pictures they had taken thus far and put them on a CD and DVD for them, and there were almost 1000 already!  I have now dubbed Aunt Connie the Official "Chinese Tourist".....

Trip to Baltimore

Yesterday Cindi and I left to go on a girl's trip to Baltimore for the weekend. Cindi has a new GPS that she named Zoie (that's how she spells it) and although Cindi loves Zoie, she doesn't totally trust her judgement, so she also printed out the mapquest directions to get us to the hotel. As we were driving into DC, Zoie decided that we needed to go through the city because it was the better way, instead of going around. So Cindi kept saying, "I think we should be on 495, not 395", but I was on Zoie's side because she can actually talk and that's cool, so I convinced Cindi that Zoie knew what she was talking about and we should listen to her. Of course now Cindi thinks that Zoie just really wanted me to see DC because we were stuck in DC traffic for almost an hour because of her. But hey, I got to see some cool stuff, (at least it was cool to me) like the top of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial.....

And the top of the Capitol Building....


Then we figured Zoie wanted us to eat dinner with the Bush Family because this is what we saw next....


Ha ha- good ole Zoie.... we finally made it to Baltimore! Today we went to Bulle Rock to watch the LPGA Championship, but no cameras were allowed so I don't have any pictures. It was 102 degrees without the humidity, and I brought sunscreen with an SPF of 55+, but obviously missed a few spots because this is basically what I looked like when we got back to the hotel.... (this is the top of my left arm)

Not the greatest picture, but you get the idea. (my other arm and sides of my neck are the same- very attractive!) I had forgotten that after Cindi sprayed me she didn't spray my shoulders, so being the dummy that I am, I rolled up my sleeves because I was hot and wasn't thinking. But anyway, we had a GREAT time- it was really cool to see all the celebrities playing, and we walked 9 holes. After seeing Annika Sorenstam play the ninth hole, we had enough and were so sweaty and tired that we decided to go back to the hotel to relax in the pool. Now we're back in our room and ready to go to bed because we're old. Ha! And tomorrow we'll head home. It has been a great weekend though, I'm not looking forward to going back home to clean house and wash clothes tomorrow!