Mail time Monday :)

My mailbox was happy over the weekend :) Here are the gems I got from postcrossing:

*From a sweet family in Pennsylvania

*Doris in Germany sent me this and it is so special to me because I have actually been to Landstuhl and Ramstein and it brought back a lot of nice memories when I see this card :) My brother was stationed in Landstuhl when I lived in Bitburg and we went to visit him often. I miss those times so much!

*Sari from Amsterdam sent me this - love lighthouses as you know :) This card was square shaped and so cute! Sari is sooo lucky - she goes to London every second month to do some shopping. She told me it's so easy to fly there, only 2o minutes from Amsterdam. Her husband and her take a morning flight and in the afternoon back to home. *sigh* if only Wichita Falls was 20 minutes from London!! Sari also put stickers on the backside of the card - including a little red double decker bus :) Adorable!

I love getting postcards in the mail! My darling Mandy sent me this one last week


It was a larger postcard and I loved it because it reminded me of the ending scene in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (the original is def. on my top movies list) when they are in that glass elevator overlooking the little village - for some reason this postcard reminded me of that :)

On the back Mandy wrote some random things about her and I love learning these little facts about her. I want to know everything there is about this pretty girl : ) I sent her the following postcards last week

*Mandy loves butterflies the way I love London :)

*This is a handmade postcard I made of some of her favourite things. On her postcrossing profile some of the things she requested cards of were Chesterfield Ciggerette ads, fashion, Betty Boop, lovers, London, Paris, Butterflies, Cats. I had a lot of fun putting this collage together for my sweet, sweet friend :)

She messaged me this morning to tell me she got them and loved them :) On one of the postcards I told her that even though we have never met, I miss her when it's been a bit between our messages. I am thankful that we are pen pals and I think of her often throughout my day.

Happy Mum's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely moms out there :) Such a special day - one day I can't wait to be celebrated :) I loved this Postsecret!

There were so many secrets today that broke my heart :(

I hope to one day have the kind of relationship with my kiddos that my mom and I have :) She is the most amazing mother and I hope to be the kind of mother she is! I love my mom SOOO much! Today we celebrated mom with a huge lunch at Red Lobster after church.

*Mom with her corsage pin from my seester Madeline

*Mom and Dad - we took these pics on our phones to send to twinkie. We always miss Micaela so much when we all get together!

It's 8:00 pm and I am STILL soooo stuffed from our lunch. I indulged on those yummy Cheddar Bay biscuits! We had ice cream cup cakes from Maggie Moo's thanks to Yarei :) Yarei is Micaela and my college girlfriend who is like a sister to us. She is so close to my mother and is actually staying with my parents right now. That's the kind of person my mother is. All of our friends growing up always felt like my mom was a mom to them. They loved being at our house because my mom is like sunshine :) Last night a friend of ours Craig stopped by to give my parents an invitation to his pinning ceremony (he's finishing up his nursing degree at MSU). His mom is going to be there from Houston and he said he has told his mother all about my parents and can't wait for them to meet. How sweet is that? :) My mom always invites Craig to come over and eat some yummy Philipino food (he's half Philipino just like me!) and when he couldn't go home to Houston for Thanksgiving - there's always a place for him at our table.

After we played a mean game of scrabble.

One of my mom's rituals is doing the crossword puzzle in the newspaper every morning with her coffee. She's pretty good at Scrabble - but nobody is better than my father! His words crack me up - Axiom and Julian :) Can you see my shout out to the sea? :) It was hillarious because my mom had her iPad and was sneakily googling a word because she didn't know how to spell it and completely did not mean to "cheat" - hahaha her and that iPad!

By the way Madeline wants me to be sure and let you guys know I ended the game with a whopping 57!!!!!!!! UGH! It wasn't totally fair because I had the big letters left over z,q,y and had to subtract those numbers from my total score :( hahaha

Scrabble was followed by a LONG nap!!! I had to make up from Friday night's country dancing with Lauren and Mehle (looove my Armstrong sisters!) and last nights karaoke fun for Cameron's birthday. Stayed up SO late but oh SO worth it :)

Now off to watch "Iron Man 2" with Philip and some friends. Hellloooo Scarlett Johansson!

A wonderful Sunday to end a wonderful, fun weekend with friends and family :)

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Fill In the Blank Friday

I LOVE the topic this week! :) Thanks Lauren!

1. My favorite book growing up was Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume. I cry every time I read it and I just want to hug Davey. I love that character! I loved Judy Blume growing up, but this one is by far my favourite.

2. The funniest book I've ever read was ...I'm drawing a blank! I can't think of a book that I read that made me laugh so much. hmmmm...maybe it's like the way I am when it comes to movies - I am just not a fan of "funny" movies - my husband always teases that I have no funny bone! Unless it's like "Old School" I just find movies that are supposed to be funny completely dumb!


3. The one book that has truly changed my life is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. I believe we could have been the best of friends. She changed my life because she always saw the good in a world of so much hate and cruelty. And I always got so giddy reading the passages about Peter. Once upon a time I wanted to be a journalist who wrote compelling things. It's what I went to college for but never pursued after graduation. The quote I always loved of hers (and she had sooo many great ones) that meant something to me was

"I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disapper, my courage is
reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write
anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I
hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my
ideals and my fantasies" - Anne Frank.

She is my muse!

4. If you're looking for a real 'tear jerker' you should probably read anything by Nicholas Sparks. I can't read any of his books without crying!!! I bawled when I read The Notebook. He truly knows how to write a beautiful love story and he is one of my favourite authors.



5. If I could meet any author living or dead I would want to meet Jane Austen. I have so much love in my heart for her and the amazing novels she wrote. She changed the lives of so many women! Sense & Sensibility is probably my favourite!


6. The next book on my 'to read' list is Eat, Pray, Love because Micaela keeps gushing about it :) Also Anita Shreve's A Change in Altitude. I love all her books!

7. If I was snowed into remote cabin in the woods and could only choose three books to bring with me I'd bring The Bible, Eclipse so Edward could keep me company, Summer Sisters by Judy Blume.

There are so many books I love that I could have easily picked four or five answers for all of these questions (well excpet for the funniest book one hahaha)!

Lady Madonna

Oh how I love thee with all thy heart!!!

Photos taken for Interview magazine

Wish List

Some random things I want to get my hands on....

*I love seahorses. Love this etsy find. It would look PERFECT in the sea room I envision making my spare room at home into...one of these days! hahaha

*JC Penney has the absolute CUTEST clothes and at such a great price! Plus I get a discount ;) My husband is a supervisor there. It's where we met and fell in love. I can still remember what he was wearing the first time I ever met him! ha I worked there for 7 years. Wouldn't this dress be perfect for the wedding I'm going to in Chicago?

*I've had my eye on this necklace inspired by Blaire on Gossip Girl (LOVE that show!) When I saw it on her I searched etsy for one similar and thought it was so beautiful.

*I absolutely love Anita Shreve. She's one of my favourite authors. I desperately want to read her latest book that came out on Tuesday

*some cute work out clothes from Bravada. I normally work out in big t-shirts

*A friend of mine had sent me a link to this dress because she saw it and thought of me. It's so darling!

Oh how I love these pretty things!

KINGS OF LEON!

My bff Steph is in LOVE with Kings of Leon. Honestly I only know the two songs they play on the radio. There is a King of the Lawn Sweepstakes on Facebook where you could enter to win tickets. She text messaged me one day to tell me she entered and I needed to do the same. So of course I did for my bff and guess what?!?!?! I WON!!! :)

I can't believe it :) I got the email today at work saying I had won 10 tickets to see them live in Dallas at the Superpages.com Center on 9/23. I couldn't wait to tell Stephanie. She was SOOO excited :) She loves them! She says I'm always lucky, but I have never won a contest before! I couldn't believe it. I have been pretty lucky in the past (like the time Micaela and I got front row tickets at a WWE Monday Night RAW - soooo awesome!! We were just standing in the aisle holding up our signs when this WWE employee came up to us and said he didn't want to break up our group (there was like 1o of us) but he had front row tickets for us if we wanted them. We were like HELL YES! it was AWESOME!) and then the time I met the wrestlers at Hooters (I'll have to post pics sometime with all the sexy wrestlers!) and backstage at the past WWE event here in Wichita Falls. But I've never won a contest I've entered before so it felt REALLY cool :) I'm not a huge fan of KOL, but before Sept comes around I'm sure I will be haha just because I get to see them :) I told Steph she needs to burn me a CD so I can learn the words to sing along to all the songs haha

*Steph and I at my girlfriend Brit Brit's concert*

I love my best friend Stephanie. We met when we both worked together at JC Penney, but the funny thing is we didn't become close until after we didn't work together anymore. I invited her to my 21st birthday celebration. We were standing in line for drinks and we both told each other these huge bomb shells. I don't know what compelled us to divulge our secrets to each other right there as we waited. They were the type of secrets you have to really know the person in order to tell. Like Postsecret material haha and ever since then I have been pouring out my heart to her on a daily basis. There is nothing I can't tell her. She might not always agree with my decisions, but she never judges me. She always supports me. Always there for me - even if I call her at 2 AM crying. She's my go-to-girl. Like Micaela says about Marisa - Stephanie is my person :) She's the most amazing mother to the sweetest two boys in the world. I love her sons!! She's just a wonderful, caring person. She's taking me with her to her cousin's wedding in Chicago at the end of this month. It will be our first vacation together and I cannot wait. Anytime we are together we have such a good time. I love my green-eyed girl with ALL my heart :) My bff, my life partner (our nick names for each other)

* New Years Eve 2008

*St. Patrick's Day downtown festival 2010

*Relay for Life April 2010