Yesterday after work, Mason and I were headed over to Javier's for happy hour with some friends. It was a nice, sunny and seasonably scorching day as we were pulling out of our parking lot and then all of a sudden the heavens parted and the worst hail storm I have ever witnessed came down. We immediately had to drive back under our covered parking spot to wait it out and to prevent Mase's new car from being battered by large chunks of ice! It was just so random... it came out of nowhere and only lasted about 5 minutes... Anyway, I got it on tape so you could witness it for yourself...Craziness...
What a lovely afternoon I have had. My boss, super-procrastinator extraordinaire, has several weddings in which he needs to buy gifts for. So my "job" for today is to round up all of their registries and find gifts for him to give. Sigh.... can this be my full time job please? It might seem a little crazy, but I have a slight obsession with wedding registries. I love perusing through the list of what couples have decided that they can not live without. Items on registries run the gamut from horrendous china settings in god-awful patterns to $325 Jo Malone candles from Neiman's. Seriously?! Also, did you know you can even register at Wal-Mart?? Who knew? I'd love to see what one of those registries looks like. I'm not sure why I find wedding registries so fascinating. I guess maybe because it gives you a little glimpse into the personal taste of a couple. Also, I am somewhat of a Susie Homemaker and my mother who grew up in Tyler, TX (think small town, with lots of old money) has always taught me to appreciate the finer things in life such as Waterford crystal and Herend china. So maybe it is only natural for me to day dream about getting to register for myself one day. Until then I will gladly stalk other's registries! ;)
I have a confession to make.
We literally had to hike down a million steps and then scale down the rocky cliff in order to get to the boat dock. Last summer, the water level was more than halfway up the staircase! Anyway, so once we got there we went to Carlos and Charlie's for some drinks and then back out on the boat for 
So since the lake is so low I spend the next 30 minutes trying to scuba dive to the bottom and find it, not that it would matter since I'm sure it was already ruined, but I felt like I needed to do something... Anyway, so I never found it and then felt like he and his friends (who I have only known for like 2 hours at this point) hate me and are judging me for being a stupid, drunk girl (I wasn't even drunk when this happened, it was truly just an accident, but still...). Anyway, the rest of the weekend was pretty much drama free (at least on my part). We laid out on our floats, fished, ate (a lot), drank (a lot) and played with sparklers. Good 'ol fashioned Fourth of July fun....
Then Saturday night I could not sleep at all because my stomach hurt soooo bad and Sunday I thought I was going to die bc I was in so much pain (and I'll spare you all the other gory details)! So first thing Monday morning, I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with gastroenteritis (a.k.a. stomach flu), so I stayed home from work on Monday and I'm just now starting to feel somewhat normal (thanks to lots of antibiotics). So that was my holiday weekend in a nutshell. I hope everyone else had a more healthful and less clumsy 4th then I did! ;)
And remember, don't get too close to someone else's sparkler... unfortunately, I had to learn that the hard way a few 4th of July's ago...whoops! ;)
Then for dinner we headed to the new Wolfgang Puck restaurant called 
I had not been up there since Wolfgang re-did the restaurant and Mason had not ever been. It's a fun touristy place to go and also happens to be where my parents got engaged! The restaurant is called Five Sixty because the tower is 560 ft. tall. The restaurant also slowly spins so we got a full 360 view of Dallas as we dined during sunset! Very romantic! ;)
Dinner was really delish and afterwards we went down a level to the observatory deck so that we could walk around and view the Dallas skyline! Mason was freaking out! He was positive that the concrete floor wasn't sturdy enough and that we were going to plummet to our death. I managed to get him to take a few pics before his fear of heights took over.
(Can you tell I have my Bump-It in??) ;) 
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