Please Pray for Sweet Abbey!!!

Mason and Cameron's precious second cousin, Abbey, has been in and out of the hospital recently because she has been diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease. Kawasaki disease is an illness that involves the skin, mouth, and lymph nodes, and most often affects kids under age 5. The cause is unknown, but if the symptoms are recognized early, kids with Kawasaki disease can fully recover within a few days. Untreated, it can lead to serious complications that can affect the heart. Her first EKG showed no signs of heart complications so they thought that she was cured, but the results of her second EKG showed some bubbling in her heart which may be several tiny aneuryisms. She is back in the hospital getting treatment for these. Please keep little Abbey and her family in your prayers!!

My boyfriend's back...

and you're gonna get in trouble...Ha, not really... but, after nearly 6 weeks of being apart due to work, Mason is finally home, safe and sound(sans car, which died a painful death in the woods last week)!!! Now my workout buddy, cooking companion & trash tv amigo is back and my lonely nights will be NO MORE!! :) Yay! Love you!!!

Penis Straws!

Only 2 more weeks 'til Miss Caroline R. becomes an honest woman!! To celebrate the end of her single life as she knows it, we headed back to Austin to relive the glory of our college days, except this time we were equipped with Bachelorette sashes, poofy pink veils and (of course) penis straws!!

We had a lovely time lounging by the pool, having the Bachelorette model her new lingerie goodies for us and on Saturday night playing bachelorette party games around town in which we had to ask the male citizens of Austin just how endowed they were (amazingly enough every single guy in the ATX assured us that they were packing 7 in. or more...rrright..) It was so good to spend a fun-filled weekend with my favorite girls and also to get a little quality time with the bride before her big day!! I can't believe that it is just around the corner!!! Until then I'll be working on my bridesmaid aisle strut and practicing pushing people down so that I can catch the boquet! Better watch it girls... ;)

PS: If you are hoping to include the game "Pin the Macho on the Man" in your own Bachelorette party festivities, you might want to try and get your hands on one in advance. All of the novelty shops in Austin were sold out of this little jewel that I had hoped to include in the fun! :(

Bahahahahaha

If you didn't catch the MTV Movie Awards that aired last night, well.... you didn't miss much... However, there was a bit in which Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen's newest creation, a flamingly gay fashionista) flies through the air and then "accidentally" lands bare ass on top of Eminem(probably the most openly homophobic artist around). Anyway, Eminem gets pissed as his bodyguards are trying to punch "Bruno" to get him off of Em, then Em storms out of the awards show looking absolutely pissed. Hysterical! Please enjoy:



Best part: "Guy's get off of me... I already have a boyfriend!" :)

Just one of those days...

So, the past 24 hours have been full of bad luck, annoying situations and near disasters... I'll start with the least awful and work my way to the grande finale...

1.) I am sick of eating Kashi Go Lean cereal EVERY single morning in an attempt to attain a banging bod. Sooo, today I created a culinary masterpiece. An egg white, tomato and parmesean cheese omelet. I carefully chopped and prepped my food and then waited 13 minutes while it cooked. Then I placed it on my plate and walked swiftly over to the silverware drawer to pick out a fork. AND...of course, my entire, delictable omelet slides off my plate onto the dirty kitchen floor mat! Uggghhh, looks like another bowl of Go Lean for me....

2.) Last night, I started packing for my trip back to the ATX for my friend's bachelorette party. I have been out of town a lot recently and had some laundry to catch up on. Well I put this dress that I had gotten from Nordstrom, that I planned on wearing out this weekend, (and only wore once, briefly) in the gentle cycle, by itself, to be washed. It is a black and white dress. The top half is black cotton and the skirt part is white linen. I took it out afterwards to let it hang dry AND the colors bled somehow and the white portion now has pinkish purple polka dots on it!!! I def didnt get my money's worth out of that one... :(

3.) And for the big one!! Mason was driving on a country road yesterday evening and a car was headed directly towards him, so to avoid being hit he swerved a little bit off the road, hit some kind of a ditch and then crashed head first into a tree!!! Fortunately he was not hurt, but his car is TOTALLED! He is always having something go wrong with that car and has spent so much money getting it fixed, and now it is donesky! AND to add insult to injury, a cop who arrived at the scene gave him a $250 ticket for driving recklessly!! Seriously?!?!? So, it would have been a better idea to play chicken with the other driver and ram right into him??

PSH, let's hope our brush with bad luck is over for the day, bad things come in three's right?

{Channel} Surfing this Summer

Now that the days are getting longer and the usual tv show favs have concluded for the season, it's time to find some alternative mindless entertainment. Most shows that air during the summer to fill the seasonal gap aren't the best...however here are a few jewels that are sure to entertain...

Entourage (premieres sometime in late August on HBO)

This gang of Hollywood wanna-bes are always finding themselves in some pickle or otherwise hilarious scenario. Ari (Jeremy Piven), their agent, has some of the best one-liners around and Vince (Adrian Grenier) is HOT!

Project Runway (premieres August 20 on Lifetime)The next (and much overdue) season of this fashion reality show, featuring the likes of Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, is making the move from Bravo to Lifetime. Let's hope it's just as fab as it used to be. "Make it work..."

So You Think You Can Dance (premieres May 21 on FOX)

This might not be one for everyone, but for any of you dance enthusiasts out there the talent on this show is usually pretty amazing!!

Weeds (premieres June 8 on Showtime)

I LOVE this show!!! So great! Kind of like Desperate Housewives, if any of the Desperate Housewives sold weed to support their family... A must see for sure!

Tori & Dean -Home Sweet Hollywood (premieres May 26 on Oxygen)

This is another one that might not be for everyone, but I personally love it! I think that Tori & Dean have a really cute relationship and I was a big fan of 90210 back in the day so it's good to see what 'ol Donna is up to these days without Daddy's money!!

Happy Channel Surfing...

Mem Wknd 2K9

Well, it was another successful Memorial Weekend celebrated in Austin, TX this year! The weather wasn't perfect (it rained both Saturday and Sunday and of course was perfect sunshine on Monday when we left) but we still managed to enjoy the weekend out on the lake! Friday night we dined at Imperia, a yummy sushi restaurant downtown, and then met up with lots of friends at Speakeasy. Saturday was spent lounging around at the lake house. On Sunday, we went to the 3rd annual KB Fest 2K9 (our friends rent a huge party barge for their birthdays every year during memorial weekend) and had so much fun!! Now I am just recovering from all of the cuts, bruises, and soreness that go hand in hand with lake fun & binge drinking for 3 days straight! However, I'm headed back on Friday to the ATX for my friend Caroline's Bachelorette Party!!! YAY! :)