My Golden Tickets

My wonderful pal Mandy works at one of the hospitals here in Las Cruces. And one day last week she asked if I would be interested in purchasing a raffle ticket benefitting March of Dimes, the prize being......dah duh dah....SHOES! So of course I said yes. But then the best thing possible ever...not just any shoes- oh no- a pair of MANOLO BLAHNIKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought two tickets- I wish I could have bought more, but they were ten dollars a peice. So now I am praying and wishing and hoping that my two little tickets will be enough to win me a pair of Manolos. Not only do you win them, you get to pick them out yourself (up to $800). Of course, I already have. I am so anxious waiting for the drawing I could almost piddle! I have to wait a whole month!

Kaci's Birthday

Today Mike and I went to what could possibly be the coolest place to have a birthday party ever - the Mesilla Valley Corn Maze. Obviously there is a huge corn maze, three enourmous slides built into the side of a hill, gardens, pumpkin patches, adult and kid tricycle mazes, face painting, roasted corn, cotto candy, hay rides, rubber duck races, "gem mining", playground and tires to climb all over. It's a kids (and this grown-ups) paradise. We were there all afternoon and had a blast! We even got to go on a hayride to the pumpkin patch and pick out our very own pumpkin! The kids seemed like they had a blast too!

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Ornament Debut

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Just when I thought my Hallmark events are over. As most everyone knows beuase I am moving in December I had to resign from my teaching job. And becuase I still have to pay bills I started subbing and put in a few resumes at different places. One of the places is Coach House where I used to work. There's a new manager that saw it and asked me to come back. This was my first week back and although it was a lot of work because of ornament debut I had a blast! I love the people I work with! Anyway, it was a pretty crazy day. The theme was Hoops and Yoyo two very popular and hilarious orginal characters. That means that we all dressed up in pink and green (they are those colors) and had wacky hair and make-up. Although we got a lot of giggles from people in the wall we had a blast!

In addition to Debut, the president of the ornament club brought me my excusive ornament found only in stores with artist sigining. It's super exclusive and the ladies had to go all the way to Tucson to get the ornaments! I love it! They also got one signed from the artist! I love this ornament! It will be something I can look at and remember all the awesome memories of Hallmark!

Chuck E. Cheese: Fun Family Entertainment or National Security Headquarters?

Last night I went on my very first trip to Chuck E. Cheese's for Kaci's fourth birthday. Both Mike and I had a great time! I think when we get bored from now on, that's where we're going. The games are awesome! We were there for like three hours and it only seemed like 30 minutes! We think it's like Vegas becuase the windows are tinted and there are no clocks! We walked out and it was dark! After all the fun we were having it was time to leave....the birthday girl and her sister were getting tired so we turned in our tickets. While we were waiting for tickets, Mike and I were watching Alicia's dad use the last few tokens in one of those machines where you shoot the tokens onto a shelf and make them drop into the bottom to get tickets. There were some right on the edge and my darling obnoxious husband said we should bump it some and they'll fall. We were all laughing and messing around so I bumped it with my hip ever so gently to joke around ( I was seriously not trying to cheat) and guess what happens when you do that? An alarm goes off for the whole place to hear and an employee comes over to check things out. I am not a person who is easily embarrassed and I felt the burning redness start at my toes and move quickly up to my forehead. I was mortified! Who would have thought that behind the veneer of this family place and the scary man in a mouse suit there is a high security system? We can't find Osama bin Laden but don't worry the token machine at Chuck E.Cheese is heavily guarded! Maybe we should open a Chuck E. Cheese in the middle East and when Osama tries to cheat the games we'll know where to find him!

Govenors, Presidents, fanciness and.....smelly?

Okay, so tonight we were to go to the Dean of the College of Business' house for a recption with a big independent Insurance firm- we went.....but it was not what I expected. Come to find out the Dean is not just a guy with a doctorate running a college (although that is impressive) oh no this one is a former governor of New Mexico. Garrey Curruthers. There are pictures of him with presidents in the white house, royalty all kinds of stuff! Their house is amazing (the pool house is like two of our apartment) and they are wonderfully nice people. So for an hour we did feel pretty darn important- UNTIL dum, dum, dum we got home. As we drove up to our quaint apartment, I saw what looked like a cat. But no it was not. It was an enourmous skunk. I'm talking this thing is the size of both my dogs put together and it was running toward us!! So we ran in and I called animal control. Now we are waiting for them so we can take our poor doggies out before they piddle on the floor! Pray for us that nobody gets skunked!

Happy Third Anniversary To Us

My very cute husband took me to dinner at an adorable Italian Bistro here in town and got me the most beautiful opal and pink topaz ring! It's soooo beautiful! It has one big opal in the middlewith the pink stones on each side. Three stones, one for each year we've been married. He's soooo cute! Our anniversary is actually tommorrow, but we were invited to the Dean (for the College of Business) home for dinner...that's right we're high rollers now. ;) Just kidding but it was a nice thing to be invited to. The boy even has his outfit all picked out! If I saw him now three years ago I don't know that I would recognize him!

You Learn Somethin New Everyday!

Soooo...yeah. I went to my very cute and pregnant friends Emily's house today and she has the same very cute polka dot chair I have. We both love our chair- it's awesome. It's the first piece of furniture that Mike and I have ever purchased. I wanted it for so long and this last Valentines Day Mike made sure I got it. The chair is armless and squatty but not as squatty as you would think. I saw Emily's chair today and hers has legs....hhmmm. They were purchased at the same store and are the exact same chair, but mine was an amputee apparently. Upon further inspection, we discovered that when you unzip the zipper on the bottom there are little legs inside! Who woulda thunk it?! So a few minutes later my chair is HEALED!!

Let's Go Aggies...Oh Never Mind...

Well, another football season, another football game Aggies vs. Lobos- The Battle of I-25. This was the first rivalry game I have been able to go to because I wasn't working (only took me graduating almost a year later) and the Aggies lose. We thought it was going to go so well- they made a touchdown on the first play. But the last four minutes of the game they might as well of handed the ball to the Lobos everytime! Although we lost it was fun to finally get to go a football game...the only other thing that stinks about going now, is that I have to pay!