The newest addition...

Meet Beau.







He's a two year old Golden Retriever that we adopted through Golden Beginnings, a golden retriever rescue group here in Houston. He came from an animal shelter in Jefferson Parish, Lousiana...AKA New Orleans. He's house trained,a cuddler, and extremely lazy. Beau likes the Houston heat about as much as I do and refuses to go outside if the temperature is about 75 degrees. When we first met him at a Golden Beginnings function we took him for a walk outside and he tried to dart into every open door in the shopping center. I'm excited to take him home to LBK and hoping that Homer and Mali are good hosts during Thanksgiving...

Did I mention that my mom shaved Homer?

H-town

I've been a busy bee down here in Houston. I've attended going away pool parties (where people actually got in the pool instead of just standing around it),went to White Linen hights (a party in a neighborhood called the Heights and everyone dresses in white, walks around, shops, drinks, etc.), and have eaten lots of delish food.
Oh ya, I started work also...booo (work starts @ 7:10 am)

Here are some pictures of the things I've been up to....

Art car @ White Linen lights




My office @ SLHS

Goodbye LBK!

The day finally came...I moved out of Lubbock. Although I thought I would be dancing with excitment when the time came for me to leave it was actually quite the opposite. It was sad leaving LBK not knowing if I'll ever live there again. I was upset packing up my college house and all the memories that I have had there...I lived there for six years. So my dad, sister, her boyfriend Blaine, and me packed up the U-Haul (to the brim) and the next morning we left for H-town. After ten hours and many bathroom breaks we made it to Houston a.k.a = home.

Packing wore him out.....


After I moved by bed I discovered this filth left by years of my dogs sleeping against the wall


Goodbye room = (


Goodbye 3212 =(

I know it's never a good thing to talk about politics in public but I couldn't help but share these....enjoy.

It's a Sauna Out There....

Warning: Long Blog
Instead of going to the lake this weekend, Spencer and I decided to stay in town and explore. Spencer being the big shot landman that he is got the extra shrimp from a shrimp boil earlier this spring so on Friday we stayed in and peeled and deveined shrimp...about six pounds of shrimp to be exact. It was disgusting. However, because of this fishy fiasco, we were able to eat shrimp all weekend which is nothing to complain about.

First Time Deveining Shrimp


Finished Product


I got so excited about this shrimp story that I forgot to mention that this weekend had a heat index of 106 degrees. I also forgot to mention that while sitting at home waiting for Spencer to get off work on Friday his air conditioner went out. Lovely. Luckily it was only out for about a day thanks to Spencer's plumbing skills but I do have to say that I considered buying a plane ticket back to Lubbock because Houston is no place to be without an air conditioner.

On Saturday, Spencer and I decided to be productive. We ate at a delish hole in the wall Mexican food restaurant down the street and then headed to the Museum of Natural Science to see the Faberge exhibit. For those of you who don't know Faberge was the jeweler to the Tsars and created all those fancy eggs among many other things.
After that exhibit, we walked over to the Butterfly Center to check out the thing that's all the buzz here in town, the "corpse flower". This monster of a flower grows four inches a day and when it blooms, smells like a rotting corpse, hence the name "corpse flower". Unfortunately, it still hadn't bloomed when we went so we didn't get to experience it in full effect-strangely disappointing. Despite my disappointment, we enjoyed our museum experience with all the other nerds of Houston.
Saturday ended with an afternoon/night at the local beer garden with our friends Meagan and Shaun and our other friends Blue Moon and Dos Equis.

Me and the Corpse Flower


Spencer was in shock


You could watch the butterflies come out of these cacoons


Sunday was brutal and Spencer MADE me help him refinish his deck. YUCKY. We still aren't done and I may "run some errands" for about 4 hours tonight while he finishes.

Quick Recap

The past couple of months have been a whirlwind so I figured before I completely get this blog started I should recap the past couple of months.

1. Graduation
First of all, after seven total years at Texas Tech/Texas Tech Health Sciences Center I graduated w/ a Masters of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. Because of this degree, I am officially more intelligent than my dad's older brother, my Uncle Jimmy, and will forever rub this in his face. One masters degree will ALWAYS trump two bachelor degrees, especially if one of those degrees was awarded at that terrible cult school where they wear a lot of maroon! In addition to securing my place as the smartest person in the family, I also secured a job and will be working as a speech pathologist in Katy, TX.






OH! I forgot to mention that along with Spencer coming to LBK for my graduation weekend, two of my best friends also came to town to celebrate and celebrate we did. Maria, Amanda, Spencer, Scotti, and I stayed out entirely too late Friday night (note: the night before my graduation)at Caprock and then we did it all again with my parents all day Saturday at Chimys. Also note that my mother of all people was the first one to throw in the towel and even stated that "she was beered out". I have a feeling I will never hear these words come out of her mouth again. To sum it all up, I had a great time and wish I could graduate once a year so we could party like this annually.






2. Charlotte's Wedding
After almost a year of planning and even more years of courtship, Charlotte Walters, a good friend from my program, and her fiance Brandon Trice tied the knot! The weekend began w/ a spa day for the girls involved in the wedding followed that evening by the rehearsal dinner at Joe T Garcia's - delish. The wedding took place in Fort Worth on a blazing hot June day. The ceremony was gorgeous and the reception was even better! Good friends + live band + open bar = awesome time.

To Blog Or Not to Blog?

After many sleepless nights of contemplating the idea of starting my own blog I've finally decided to do it. Will anyone read it? I doubt it. My mother doesn't even know how to check her email. But this is besides the point. Beside the fact that I'm completely bored and don't report to my job until August, I started this blog because as most of you know I am moving to Houston, TX the fourth largest city in the nation and some 568 miles from home and everything familiar (e.g., family, pets, hair/nail salons, Possum Kingdom). Because of this I thought that this blog may be a good way for my family (maybe) and friends to know what's going on with me in the big city. So follow at your own risk............

A little about Houston for those of you with two much time on your hands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston