Happy Birthday!

Maddie turned one yesterday. Here are some pictures from her first Birthday!

5 Days

We are getting ready for our trip to New York. It's hard to believe we leave in just 5 days. We bought the tickets so long ago that it seemed as if this day would never come.

Wednesday night we experienced our first crank callers from Aaron's students. At 1 am Wednesday our phone rang, by the time Aaron and I had figured out was going on and what the noise was we missed the call and we were left a strange message on our answering machine. 15 minutes later and just as we we were falling asleep the phone rang again, this time Aaron answered and let's just say Aaron and the caller exchanged some unpleasantries. I decided it was best to turn the ringers off and the answering machine. I pushed the wrong button on the answering machine so 10 minutes later we heard a voice on the answering machine leaving some unplesantries for Aaron. So if that wasn't enough to ruin our sleep, Conner decided to wake up at 4 am which he never does. Aaron stayed up with him and when I woke up around 6:30 to get ready for work, I found the two of them sound asleep on the living room floor. After a sleepless night, Aaron spoke with the phone company and they have traced the phone number and Aaron filed charges with the Garland Police Department - if you have 3 or more harassing phone calls you can file charges. So the police are working with the phone company to find the callers. The callers called one more time on Wednesday and Aaron told them he had filed charges. Since then we haven't heard from them. We talked about cancelling our home phone service and it will be disconnected at the end of the month.

We drop Biscuit off with my Aunt Glenda on Saturday. She is going to dog sit or "spoil" him for us for a couple weeks while we are out of town. Sunday we plan on going to Aimee's to see Aaron's dad as we did not get together for Fathers Day.

Then we have a couple of days to pack and get ready for our early morning departure on Wednesday.

Hats and Glasses

We had a great trip to Corpus Christi for Memorial Day. Conner didn't care too much for the ocean when we first got to the beach but by the time we were ready to leave he was having a ton of fun. We didn't take our camera but Grandpa Wilson snapped some good pictures. Conner and I have battled being sick since we got home. I had bronchitis and then Conner had another ear infection. He is still getting over it but it does not slow him down one bit. We had a quiet weekend at home this weekend and got some stuff done around the house. Aaron's last day of school was Thursday so now he is fulltime stay at home Dad. Conner and Dad have lots of plans this summer including; story time at the library, swimming in Conner's new pool and some small projects around the house. Conner loves hats and will try and put as many on as he can. He also loves his sunglasses and my head bands. I think he likes anything he can put on his head. Here are few pictures we snapped this weekend of him dressing up.

Splash Time

We decided to get Conner a little pool to cool off in this summer. It was a little chilly today so he just played for a little while. None the less, he had a lot of fun.

Aaron's New Friends

See what happens when I leave Aaron alone at these things!

He makes new friends and gets his picture in a magazine. Aaron made his public debut with Father Guido Sarducci, a former SNL Character and Jalin Wood, former Missippi, model and new friend of the center who had the privilage of wearing the $40,000 pair of diamond earrings sold at the auction.

Celebrity Friends

All the gala pictures from our photographer arrived this week. Above is the stage and some of the tables in the room. It's hard to believe I'm already working on gala 2009. Before next year's gala the center will host a golf tournament on June 2nd, the Teddy Bear Ride on November 2nd and the Appreciation Lunch in February and then before you know it's gala again. Aaron and I have a few trips planned this summer. We are taking off to Corpus Christi for Memorial Day to see my parents and take Conner on his first trip to the beach. I'm hoping to meet up with some High School friends, Leslie and Jenny while I'm there. It's been ages since I've seen both of them. Aaron met Jenny a couple of times when we lived in Austin but I haven't seen her since our wedding and it's been even longer since I've seen Leslie. Conner is ready for his beach trip, we've purchased his first pair of water socks and swimsuit. On June 25th we are headed to New York for a week and will stay in Brooklyn with our friends Sophia and Rene. Sophia is due on May 25th so I can't wait to meet the newest Flores. On July 25th we are headed to New Orleans for a wedding. Aaron's friend Beaird is getting married and we decided it would be a fun birthday celebration for me as well.

Gala has Come and Gone

What an event! Let me first start by saying how excited Aaron is to have me back. I've been Gala oriented 24/7 for the last couple of weeks. Monday I started staying up until 2 am working every night. I finally had some shut eye mid week which was my only saving grace going into the weekend.

Friday: 9:30 am, 2 semi's pulled into the hotel to set the stage, decor and audio/visual equipment for the event. The hotel said it was the biggest event they have hosted to date. In fact they added more riggers (electricity) than ever before. Meanwhile at the center we loaded the Uhaul with the 350 auction items and materials for the event. We pulled the two corvettes for the car raffle in at 11 am and then started unpacking and organizing for the event. We had lots to do Friday, including: wraping "The Best of Dana Carvey" DVD's for the valet gifts, organizing the 800 bidder packets for our 1000 guests and a host of other things. We managed to call it a day at 8 pm and get home to rest.

Saturday: 7:30 am, Rock Demarco, one of our entertainers made an appearance on our local abc news affiliate (WFAA News 8). 8 am, we arrived at the hotel to set everything up. We pulled our silent aution tables together, wrapped and organzied our 100 bottles for the wine pull, tagged and organized the 200 martini glasses for the martini bar, and set all 126 tables in the ballroom. We all finally had a chance to run up to our hotel room at 5 pm to quickly change and make our way back down stairs for the VIP party with Dana Carvey. Yes for those of you wondering - it would be no shower for me.

At 5:15 pm, I greeted Dana Carvey and escorted him to the VIP meet and greet. Aaron and I had our picture taken with him and will have that in the next couple of weeks. He is a very nice guy. Dinner was promptly served at 7 pm and the night continued until the wee hours of the morning and was a huge hit. Entertainment included Rock Demarco, the fastest painter in the world, The Blues Brothers, SNL Characters and Dana Carvey. Our preliminary totals put us at $1.2 million.

1:30 am - Aaron and I finally made our way to our hotel room where we found a chilled bottle of Don Perignon courtesy of the hotel.

Needless to say, I am still recovering. Here are a few pictures that were snapped that night. I'll have better ones soon.