Bumper Cars

This photo is courtesy of the culprit. The culiprit that played bumper cars with our luxury automobile while innocently parked in the Front Street lot.

She was a very kind culprit though; she left a note and downloaded these pictures for me. Thank you, Ashley Buske.

Blogging, not packing

I am suppose to be packing but I'm tired so I am blogging instead because I need to send some 'shout outs' to some folks!
First, a big shout out all my lovely girls from Grace Group. We had another Rock Band and Ribs get together with the boys and the girls thanks to John and Cherie that was much fun!


The next shout out goes to Team Pinky Swear, our HBG team for Race for the Cure today. We actually all found each other in the sea of 15,000 people! Yup, probably the last year I do that especially with the stroller because there are just too many people. And too many people that can't put one foot in front of the other. I actually saw someone walking it in Crocs! Another reason why Crocs are so annoying! Yes, the race is for a good cause but it is also hard work -- battling the Memphis traffic is reason enough to skip out next year!

Team Pink Swear: Me, Rhonda Bologna, Leslie Vanelli and Ashley Buske



Another HBG shout out! The firm was honored last week by the Memphis Business Journal as a "Best Place to Work" in Memphis. This is a great recruitment tool I will get to use over the next year not to mention a big honor.

The heat is on!

My mother is probably not going to believe this but we actually turned the heat on at our house this weekend! It felt good to be warm! Even though the cold gave Caro an excuse to wear her Long John style P.J.'s. This was the first year that the heat actually came on the first time we tried it but I guess that's what a $5,000 new heating unit does for you!

One Headlight

So if you were driving on Poplar Wednesday night around 7:30 pm and saw blue lights in front of Second Pres you were probably thinking 'Oh busted'! Well that was me! But I wasn't busted for speeding I was pulled over -- and not just pulled over but the cop did a U-turn on Poplar to come get me -- for having one headlight out. He said it was a courtesy and gave me a 'Courtesy Ticket'. Yes, that was nice and courteous.

It was nice he didn't give me a ticket with a dollar amount attached. However, we were pulled over (with bright blue lights flashing and Caroline crying) for a while. People were staring and I am sure were wondering what an innocent looking person like me did. The whole time as I am sitting there (thinking I am going to kill Chris for not fixing it last weekend as promised) I am thinking... ok, this is the crime capital of America not to mention the place where everyone runs red lights because that's just how you drive in Memphis, and this guy is pulling me, in a semi-mom-machine over on my way home from CHURCH, over for one headlight being out! Doesn't he have more important things to be doing! I watch the First 48!

Well I appreciate the Courtesy Ticket (which he said I could throw away or show to other nice policemen who pull me over), and hopefully it will inspire Chris to fix it, but get back to work fighting crime Mr. Police Guy!!!

Once a Badger, Always a Badger...

And so the Class of '98 Badgers gathered this weekend for Homecoming and our class reunion. No real surprises in seeing everyone (maybe this is why Chris skipped his 10-yr) but it was fun hanging with the same old group from back in the good old days.

Here is my little badger getting ready for the Homecoming parade:


Making new friends at the cookout:


Some of the 98ers. I just realized this has both my junior and senior prom dates and my husband. Weird!!!


Guy and Ash were our 'reunion crashers' but they certainly made things much more fun. This, obviously, is Guy and Chris signing "98".



Being in Beebe topped off a great week for us last week... more details to come soon!!!

Welcome Fall

A moment of silence...ah.

The last hour in our house has been dead silent and that's the first time I can remember it being that way in a while -- especially in the last week since we listed the house. Not that we've had a ton of showings, only 2, but everything else has been wild! The Honda's transmission blew up, Chris has been using our house as a physical science lab for his class, Caroline fell off the couch and crashed her head, I had an intense week of interviewing in Knoxville, Ike's been attacked by some unknown allergy, we could only make it through half of the Indians (oh I mean Red Wolves) versus Memphis game, Caroline's new wake up time is 4:45 am (and I am I now thinking that's a normal time to get up -- am I crazy!) so AH!


I tried to get Ike to pose, but he wasn't into it. A for sale sign kinda looks weird in our yard!