Thursday was spent in recovery mode. We slept till noon. Sammy and Tony came over to hang out and then Tina, Angel and Krystal all stopped by to exchange gifts with the girls! They have been exchanging gifts for years now and its awesome to know people who have gone from strangers to people we consider family be a part of our Christmas!! They stayed for a bit and then I made Tony and Sam some breakfast - we tried cleaning up a bit and then all headed out to the stores together. Sam needed to return some things and Tony had some casino winning burning a hole in his pockets! Not to mention that Forever 21 Gift Card Tina gave Makaila was causing major anxiety - so we NEEDED to go to the mall! LOL We picked up a few things at the mall and then had dinner at Cheddar's...it was delicious!!!
I was out in the stores until 2 - but oh so excited with the items I purchased!!
When I got home I put together an example arrangement for Makaila of what her centerpieces will look like! She liked them so now I am really starting to get excited! We decided her theme will be 'A Night in Paris' and her colors will be aqua, dark purple and silver!!
We headed over to Ernie's in the afternoon to drop off Isabella to Juan (she has been bugging about going to stay with him and Aiden for days now - so off she went). Makaila also made plans to spend the night at Ceci's so we took the kids to their chosen destinations then we headed out to a dinner date. We ended up at the Wing Factory in Deer Park and it was delicious!! After dinner we headed home and decided to walk off our full tummies perusing the sales at Target. We bought a couple unnecessary items and then headed to Baskin Robins for a treat. He then headed home and I spent hours on the computer looking at venues for Makailas 15!!!
Saturday morning I did what seemed like 34 loads of laundry and when Danny finally decided to join the living at about 2pm, we headed out and decided to go look at some of the halls we had found on the internet. I was very pleasantly pleased with the first one we visited. the pricing was good, the place was nice and it met all our requirements.
We tried to go see a few dresses to get an idea of cost - but by the time we got to the shop it was closed so instead we went and had an early dinner at Torchy's tacos! LOL I love their queso!!! We walked around in the Heights doing some window shopping and then over to the Galleria area to hit up a few more Christmas sales (not for us but for the 15). We had some ice cream at Amy's (I love LOVE her ice cream). Once we were done we headed home and watched a few old recordings of Two Broke Girls and then headed to bed!
Sunday morning I woke up and went to church. (Danny was to lazy to get up - so he stayed home asleep). I stayed to serve at the service after mine and when I got home at 12:45 Danny was still in bed! LOL For someone who says they never get any sleep this guy is always in bed!!!!
CHURCH NOTES:
(Dr. Lowery was a guest speaker this week and if you haven't read this before - he is awesome!!!)
Move from Average to Awesome
* Pay attention to what you are doing with your life - do not live aimlessly!
* The best way not to loose your way is to lead the way!
* Put into practice things to control your Adam suit
* Success is learning how to do the things you do not want to do
* Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket
* When you are being an enabler ask your self - Has it helped? Can God help him without me?
* Have HOPE
H - Habits - awesome people develop awesome habits that help them in the long term (not just focused on the now)
O - Others - You'll never get the right place with the wrong people
P - Prayer, Plan , Power and Persistence - Keep God in your everyday! Prayer is key!!! Your discipline becomes your delight. Power goals involve God, while process Goals involve you!
E - (He got of target and never got to this one LOL)
Dr. Lowery is a great speaker - he is funny and engaging and interesting but he rarely ever finished an entire message cause he gets off target alot! LOL But I love him!!
We got ready and headed out to get our girls. We picked up Issy at Ernie's again and then headed over to Ceci's for Makaila. They were grilling out so we stayed for some great burgers and I started a Pinterest page of ideas for Makaila's 15!!! We talked about table decor and invitation ideas and all kinds of goodies!! I am really getting excited about this!!!
We headed home and believe it or not by 8pm - I was in bed lathered with Vicks and ready to sleep! I started feeling icky - so Vicks was my answer!
I woke up Monday morning at 5 am bright eyed and bushy tailed! Showered and came to work!!!! I think my weekend was too long cause I was ready for the break (in cleaning house and doing laundry at least! LOL).
Have a great week and a wonderful New Year. I hope you make a great New Year's Eve. We will be celebrating at Ceci & Ray's this year! I have to work on New Year's Eve but I'll be back to work on Thursday - so I'll update you then on my New Years hooplah and my resolutions for 2014!!!!!
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