Today, Mason and I are celebrating our 2 Year Anniversary! I am so lucky to be with someone who is so thoughtful and loving! Look at what he sent to my office this morning:
Such a sweetie!!
Here is a picture of us from when we first starting dating
(it was our first road trip to Austin together):
We have already been through so much as a couple in our first two years together... A million roadtrips, a long distance relationship (for our first 9 months together), moving in together, the loss of friends and family members, weddings, new jobs, car wrecks, broke times and vacations! The past 730 days have been some of the best of my life and I look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries together! Love you Mase!!!
We have already been through so much as a couple in our first two years together... A million roadtrips, a long distance relationship (for our first 9 months together), moving in together, the loss of friends and family members, weddings, new jobs, car wrecks, broke times and vacations! The past 730 days have been some of the best of my life and I look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries together! Love you Mase!!! 
Then when I got back to the office my boss told me there was a high speed police chase going on in Dallas (it even went right by our office) and we watched it on tv for like an hour and a half. The bad guy ended up crashing BIG TIME a block away from my high school. Craziness! 
(The gray car is the one the police were chasing, and he ran a red light causing the maroon truck to T-Bone into him...idiot...) Hope you all are having a better Monday than this guy!! ;)
Then, I found out that my best friend Gregg, an officer in the Army, who has been in Iraq since January was injured when an IED went off. He fractured his heel and had shrapnel lodged in his foot. He was flown to Germany where they performed surgery to clean the wound and fix his heel. He was scheduled to come back to Dallas for his two week R&R break in the next week. I'm so glad that he was not hurt worse than he was and even more thankful that he will not have to go back to Iraq! Such a miracle!! He was injured in his first tour of Iraq in 2007, as well, when another IED road bombing blew up the vehicle that he and some other soldiers were patrolling in, he was lucky that time too, only injuring his thumb, but two of the soldiers in the vehicle died and another lost his leg. Gregg has been very lucky and I'm so glad he will never have to go to Iraq again!!
Finally, I was absolutely shocked to learn that Michael Jackson had died at the mere age of 50! He was such a legend and I am such a huge fan of his work. Mason and I always listened to MJ on road trips and I have seen the Michael Jackson cover band "Who's Bad" perform twice in the last year. Love him or hate him, no one can deny the profound influence he has had on the world. The King of Pop will be missed.... 
My fav Michael Jackson song is "Man in the Mirror" and fav Jackson 5 song is "One More Chance"!! But there are sooo many great ones!!!
{I love this book. Andy Warhol paintings are so glam and the cover of this book goes so perfectly with the turquoise theme going on in my living room. }
{I love the Kennedy family too! And since the inspiration for my name came from none other than Caroline Kennedy herself, I thought this was definitely worthy of some coffee table action}
Update on our new "pet": So Mason came home from work on Monday and really "took care of business". Instead of kicking the pesky crab to the curb he has been feeding him snacks and set up a little oasis for him. What's next?? Letting him sleep in bed with us?? Anyway, so it looks like Claude the Crab (yes, Mason named him too) is here to stay, for the meantime...but the first time he escapes and comes crawling across the floor towards me we may have a problem reminiscent of the scene in the Little Mermaid where Sebastian the crab stumbles into the kitchen and the cook goes biserk! ha, only kidding...sorta... ;) Can't we just get a kitty instead???
You will not BELIEVE what happened this morning though!!! During our trip, I found two really pretty sea shells and put them in my beach bag to bring home as decorations for the casa! So this morning I got them out of the bag and set them on a table that I have in my bedroom. I propped them up against one another so they wouldn't roll off. Anyway, so then I went to go put my makeup on for work and I hear one of the shells roll off the table and land on the floor. I'm like, well that's weird, so I go investigate... When I walk over I see the bigger shell lying on the ground and then it starts moving across the floor, because there is STILL A LIVE CRAB INSIDE OF IT!!!! Aghhhhhhhhhhh! I nearly had a heart attack! I immediately called Mason at work, panicking and pretty much begging him to come home and get this sea creature out of our house!! He tells me to pick it up (um, no), put it in a big bowl (eww) and then give it some water so that it won't die! Ha, are you kidding me!!! I am not trying to keep this thing as a pet!! Anyway, so in true girl fashion I put a large bowl upside down on top of it and then placed my heaviest pair of high heels on top of the bowl so that it is trapped underneath, and then Mason can do whatever he wants with his pet crab when he gets home! Sooo gross, but still kind of funny. Don't think I'll be bringing home any more shells from the beach ever again... I'll just buy the pretty ones from the souvenir shops from now on! 
We go every summer to help out with the FINS Fishing Tournament benefitting 
We had an absolute blast last year, so I am hoping for a repeat! See you all next week when I am a tan beach babe! ;)
It was so much fun playing around with this gadget and since I have such fine and thin hair it is hard for me to get any sort of volume! Well, those days are no more thanks to the Bumpit!!
When I first got my iPOD, I tried to wear the complementary little white headphones that came with my iPOD mini, but they kept falling out of my ears and kind of hurt, so I continued to rock my nerd-o pair. Well, my old school headphones are finally at the end of their rope. The mesh ear covering is hanging on by a thread and I swear I get funny looks from people every time I run along Katy Trail. So it is finally time to throw in the towel and retire them.
They may not be the sleekest in headphone apparatuses, but they sure are pretty! I can't wait to go for a jog with these babies... and apparently I am not the only nerd who likes to cover my entire ear while working on my fitness... check, check it out: 
Here are a few pictures from the rest of the weekend:
Mason and Trey were both in the same fraternity (Alpha Tao Omega) at Texas as well, so the wedding will be a big reunion of sorts!!! AND I get to be a bridesmaid!!! YAY!! So excited! Maybe me walking down the aisle toward the alter with a boquet of flowers in my hands will put some ideas into Mason's head.. ;) I will post pictures from all of the festivities next week when I get back! Have a good weekend!!
Yesterday, I received the 6th (yes SIXTH) consecutive magazine covering the marital woes of Jon and Kate Gosselin. That is over a month and a half of their bitter, cheating saga being your top news story! I think I speak for most when I say that NO ONE CARES!!!(and if they did, they have long been exhausted by the overkill of J&K+8 coverage) They obviously don't even care that much about it as they are continuing to co-exist for the sake of ratings and dollars! I feel like you are covering this scandal as if it were as imporant as the Brad, Angelina, and Jennifer love triangle! PSH!
FYI: National Donut day is celebrated on the first Friday in June. It was established in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army to raise money during the Great Depression!
(this one is prob my most fav, just bc it is different, I have too many triangle top bikinis already)
(so presh! Reminds me of the Little Mermaid!)
( Just cuz I love ruffles...)
(fun style and colors!)
