Dallas Blooms 2011

March 20, 2011

It was a girls only day! Me, Kristin, Lacey and my mom went to Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arborteum. We had a good time trying to get Lacey to sit angelic like by the tulips to get perfect pictures, but instead we got Lacey pulling the flowers and giving us the stink eye! It was the first day of Spring and the weather was PERFECT! I even got a slight sunburn from the beautiful day!

More pics are on FB....

Andi

New York New York!!!!

NYC Trip 2011

I went up to NYC to surprise my friend, Michelle, for her birthday. For those that know me well, you know that I am not good at surprises or keeping secrets. I did well considering we started planning the trip in December and arrived in March! Michelle was very surprised!!!

Things that we did:

• Sex and the City Tour
• Drinks at Hotel Jane in the Meat Packing District
• Random ride in a limo from Hotel Jane to our dinner location
• Buddakan for dinner (place of the last single kiss in Sex and the City)
• Yummy brunch on Saturday
• Toured this beautiful catholic church that we just found while we were walking
• Dinner at Otto which is a Mario Battali restaurant
• Billy Elliot on Broadway!!! Really enjoyed!!! Was surprised that I liked it so much!
• Became the papparazzi with Chris Noth, Keifer Sutherland, James Earl Jones and Christopher McDonald. Bummed that I did not get to talk to Keifer and propose marriage to him… Well not really Keifer but JACK BAUER!!!!
• High Noon Tea on Sunday
• Brooklyn Flea Market
• Church
• Walking food tour in Greenwich Villlage
• Bachelor Finale Watching Party with yummy mini cupcakes
• Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour

My ultimate favorite things we did:

• Hanging out with the girls, Susan, Jennifer and Michelle!!! We had a great time together!!!
• Walking food tour in Greenwich Village
• Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour
• Trying new foods!!!

I really do enjoy the city!! I need to start seriously considering if I want to move to a different city to experience something different than Dallas.

I have all my pics on Facebook if you want to browse….

Andi

Happy Belated New Years!!!

This happened a long time ago, but I know that you will love these pictures. I had a party at my place and we played Twister! My New Year's Resolution after that night was to become more flexible! :)

Jorge & Kight looking at the Twister dots like "Really, Is this what I signed up for on New Years?"

All of us minus Marissa!

I think this is Jorge taking an action shot! I am pretty sure I fell after this picture!

Kight thinking he is going to win against the Rock Star Marissa!

Marissa is the winner!!! Pilates does a body good!

Roxy of course was part of the festivities!!! She didn't play Twister tho....

~andi

Partied All Night Long - Part Deux

Tater, Maritza, and Bandi

Maritza & Tut

Aren't they just cute

Not quite sure, what was so funny???
Bandi & Kight

4:00 AM Breakfast

Exhausted, but still beautiful!!!

Drew, Tut (AKA Jorge), Maritza, Tater, Bandi & Kight

Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent....

~andi

Party All Night Long!!!

Tater and Maritza wanted to take me out for my birthday so of course I let them!!! We partied ALL night long, literally! We went to Louie’s for some pizza for dinner and girl talk. We love our girl talk! Then the boys started arriving. Danny drove all the way from Whitesboro. Danny is hilarious!!! He was one of my first friends at work when I started almost 10 years ago. He could only handle Dallas for so long so he left around 11ish. Just an FYI – Louie’s is cash only. We didn’t know that so we didn’t leave the waitress a good tip since we were paying our bill with coins… Haha!

After Louie’s we walked down the street to Barcadia. Tut AKA Jorge, Kight and Drew met up with us around 11:00. We had a good time having some drinks and playing arcade games. Kight kicked my butt each game of Centipede…. Obviously, I had some drinks so it was interesting to see me driving Sky Hunter arcade game. I kept crashing pretty quickly. So ladies and gentleman… Do not drink and drive! Bad for you! The girls played it out with Skee Ball while the boys played Street Fighter! We stayed until the bar closed…

It was after 2:00 AM and we were all hungry. The boys decided we should drive to the HOOD to get some tacos. There were probably 50 people or so in this line outside getting tacos from this gas station stand and it was like 20 degrees outside. The gas station was the happening place at 3:00 AM on a Saturday night. It was so crowded that there were police directing traffic. Just a side note, I believe some of the women in line with us were legitimate prostitutes! They were wearing some interesting clothing that would put Julia Roberts to shame from Pretty Women. Well the taco joint was cash only so we didn’t have any coins left to pay. I wasn’t really wanting the tacos either so we all went to Metro Dinner off of Gaston. Let me just say, that place was packed considering it was 3:30 AM!!! We stayed till around 5:00 AM!!! Partied all night long!

I hate trying to figure out posting pictures in the same post with my text so I am doing Partied All Night Long Part Deux!

~andi

Happy 32nd to Me!!!

Birthday Dinner!!!


My family took me to a nice steak dinner at the Butcher Shop in the West End. My brother and sister in law have raved and raved about this place. So I wanted to give this place a try. I don’t eat a lot of beef but who doesn’t like a good steak every so often??? I really loved this steak!! Very good!

My mom was so cute and even brought a birthday cake for us to eat after dinner. Too bad it was whipped icing instead of butter cream… My question is who actually likes whipped icing? Seriously!

The other great thing was that I got some serious Lacey loving!

~andi

10 Things that I learnd from the Tom Landry Exhibit

I really wanted to see this exhibit during the Fair, but the line was always so long. But the Dallas Historical Society reopened the exhibit in November and it goes until the Super Bowl. I went with my friend David who is a HUGE football fan. I would say he loves the Baylor Bears more than the Cowboys, but still a big Cowboy fan! He went but I wasn't so sure he was as excited about it as I was. He enjoyed it! I warned him when we got there that people don’t normally like going to historical things with me because I read everything! But he read just as much as I did so it worked out good.

I watched the Cowboys growing up with my brothers and dad and always loved Tom Landry.

1. He is from Mission, Texas. Never thought about him being raised in the Valley.

2. He was a Longhorn. :( Ssssssssss!!!! Gig’Em Aggies!

3. He was an assistant with the New York Giants. The team emblem was the NY Yankee emblem with the N and the Y.

4. He was such an innovative coach!

5. The baby blue jacket he wore on occasion was a gift from Billy Graham. I knew that he was a Christian, but I didn’t know that he was heavily involved with the Billy Graham Crusades and FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes).

6. His daughter died after a liver transplant. I knew that he was a supporter of organ donation, but now I realize why. She was pregnant and found out she had liver cancer or something like that and the doctors told her to get an abortion and start treatment. She refused and afterwards received a transplant in 1991, but eventually died due to complications in 1995.

7. Mike Ditka (Da Bears) was a coach for the Cowboys! Who knew? I did know that he was a player for the Cowboys, but didn’t know the coach part.

8. His first Super Bowl ring cost $1000! Crazy huh?

9. The large public funeral that took place at the Meyerson was on February 17, 2000. I was a junior in college and my parents threw me a surprise party in College Station on that day.

10. His wife is still deeply in love with him. Their first date was a blind date. He proposed to her on her birthday and they were married 14 days later. They were married for 51 years when he passed away.

I kinda want to buy a fedora now. They are in again! Just another factoid – did you know that Texas Stadium cost $35 million to build compared to 1.15 billion for the new Cowboy Stadium??? Go if you can! Pretty cool artifacts and just happy memories of such a class act kinda guy! The tickets are only 2 bucks!

Andi