Old Friends, New Friends

Maison had a playdate this afternoon with James who lives one street over on Seltzer. James is the son of a friend, Laura, who I have known since I was 8 years old. We went to elementary, middle, high school, and UT together. When we were kids, Shari and I would go over to Laura's house on Vicksburg to play tether ball. Her parents moved from Vicksburg to Seltzer years ago and about 3 months ago Laura and her husband bought the house right across the street from her parents. Now they live one street over from us. What are the chances that someone you have been friends with for almost 30 years would move one street away and have a child almost the same age as Maison? Laura is one of my oldest friends and now James is one of Maison's newest...

Ellington Haus ~ Bavarian Birthday

Today is my Dad's 66th birthday and we celebrated last night Bavarian style. What does Bavarian style include other than the obvious German food, beer, and Black Forest Cake?

Authentic Oktoberfest costumed hostess:

Customed made Ellington Haus t-shirts:

Happy birthday, G'Daddy!

Happy 21 months ~ Things you Learn

Things you learn from having a 21 month old:

1. Pigtails are messy within 2 seconds of putting them up

2. "Posing" for a picture entails sticking out your tongue

3. Standing still only happens when eating crackers

4. Smiling for the camera is not going to happen

Happy Birthday, Maison...3 more months until 2 years!

In Honor of...

In honor of Price William's and Princess Kate's recent stateside visit, Maison wore her favorite hat, her box hat.

I really like how the clear color goes with everything and how it works well when marching...

It stays perfectly in place while dancing...

And even works well when trying to hide from the paparazzi!

Welcome to the US, Will and Kate!!!

Do you want a piece of me?

I'm Mrs. 'You want a piece of me?'

Tryin' and pissin' me off

Well get in line with the paparazzi

Who's flippin' me off

Hopin' I'll resort to some havoc

And end up settlin' in court

Now are you sure you want a piece of me? (you want a piece of me)

I'm Mrs. 'Most likely to get on the TV for strippin' on the streets'

When getting the groceries, no, for real..

Are you kidding me?

No wonder there's panic in this industry

I mean please...

Do you want a piece of me?

Last night my besties and I went to the Britney concert. Jan had the brilliant idea for us to dress up as different Britneys.

Apparently, imitating Britney is about as paparazzi inducing as being the real Britney as 83 (yes, EIGHTY THREE we counted) people took our picture at the concert. Even the Dallas Observer got in on the act by including us in their "costumed fans" slide show!

So I guess you DO want a piece of me, and Shari, and Jan, and Kelly, and Adrienne....

Moving on up...we hope!

After 30 years in this house and 2 years of major remodeling, we decided to put 3600 Cross Bend officially on the market. As I left to meet my friends for dinner tonight I saw the For Sale sign in the front yard for the first time. I started crying. I couldn't help it.

I have mixed emotions for sure. Sad to potentially leave a house I spent the majority of my life in, grew up in, had Maison in, a house I LOVE....but I am excited about the opportunity to move off this busy street so we will have a place to play outside.

So here's to Moving on up to the East side to be near Camp Gooey!

Hot Project

This morning I ran the Too Hot to Handle 15k. It was a solo project this year because Kelly was injured and Jan wasn't arriving for the Britney concert until tomorrow. Running 9.3 miles by yourself is very long and boring even with Britney and Justin Timberlake as entertainment. I certainly missed my besties on this one!

My race report is pretty non-eventful...

- Left house at 6:25am.

- Parked and in port-a-potty line by 7:00am

- Out of potty line and at starting line at 7:25am

- Race started promptly at 7:30am

- Ran for 1:36

- Saw Adam and Maison right before finish shortly after 9am

The mid-80 degree forecast was a little too good to be true. 86 degrees was announced as the starting temp and it was 93 per weatherchannel.com when I finished. Even though it was hot it was nothing compared to last year!