Chevy Proud....

I hope you watch Friday Night Lights. If not, I really hope you get into it this season. It the most under-rated, best show on TV. It gets GREAT reviews and the critics always dote on the show and the writers! Unfortunately for them, they play it on Friday night to keep with the theme. There aren't too many TV watchers that night, but hopefully you start DVR'ing it. I'll keep you posted for when it starts.

Anyways! I digress....the point is the Chevy dealership on the show. Owner: Buddy Garity. Biggest booster to the Dillon Panther football team, a Texas good-ole boy.

I feel like last week I went to the real-life version of Buddy's Chevy dealership right here in Houston. I've been ressearching cars for weeks now and I was going back and forth between Nissan Murano and Chevy Equinox. I stumble over to LoneStar Chevrolet and it was QUITE an experience!

You're greeted by a number of good-ol boys, I met Roger who had a country accent and boots. He was actually a great sales man and I told him I would be back with my husband, he needed to drive the Equinox too. Upon leaving, the manager comes over and hands me a CD.

"We're so happy you came by today Erin, here's a CD, I think you'll enjoy what you hear, have a great day!" They sent me off with popcorn, water and CD in tow. Great first impression! As I drove down 290 the CD said,

"Hi, I'm Sharon, General Manager of Lonestar Chevrolet. We're so glad you came by, but I'm concerned you're leaving without finding what you were looking for. If you come back and do buisness with us, you'll get free oil changes for LIFE! Thanks and have a great day!' Cheesy country twang playing in the back ground. I loved it.

After a small battle with the husband, I finally came home on Saturday with my very own LoneStar Chevrolet Equinox!! Roger and crew took our picture with our new purchase and said that we'd get a CALENDAR with our Equinox pic on the front in a few weeks. I laughed on the inside. Where will I ever display our new calendar?? It was such an experience, how can you not love these car sales men and their Chevy's??

I'm very happy we bought American. Chevy's have come a LONG way and I'm very used to driving them (hence the Chevy Impala I'm sending packing today, farewell, you gold boat you).

Scents and Babies!

So, last Sunday I had my first Scentsy party! It was so fun. Our presenter was named Brooke and I hosted about 7 girls. Here are some pics from the party!

Scentsy is a good little device that is like a candle, but safer! It just melts scented wax, and there are so many cute designs to fit any decor!

Here's the snacks we had, mimosa, cheese, fruit, cookies...etc...

Yay for good times with friends!! FeFe, Jenn, Colleen, Coty, Emily, Jill, Karen, and me!

We got some really great gifts for mother's day and I got few neat things for our house too!

Another GREAT thing that happen this week was that little Caraline Nicole Frost was born! She was 5 lbs 13 oz and 18.5 inches long. She was so tiny and perfect! Here's mommy Jill and baby.

Luke was awesome and so great during everything. He even got into Facebook picture posting and said he was now a pro and knew how to 'tag.' ha! The Frosts!!

Cute little bow and blankie!!

I had a few hecklers, ahem you know who you are, you cannot believe I've never held a newborn. This is no joke. I STILL haven't changed a diaper in my life. I know this sounds weird, but I never babysat growing up and none of my friends here had kids yet! Slowly but surely this will change.

"Look, you're a natural, wink wink!" (thanks for that vote of confidence, Erica!)

T - Par - T

So it's April 15th! You know what that means....Tax Day Tea Parties!!!

Of course, this is the 2nd annual Greater Houston Tax Day Tea Party downtown. Last year was at Jone's Plaza.... here's a few pics from last year...

Colleen, Me, Mel, Karen...and patriotic Walton!

So this year, they held it at the beautiful Discovery Green downtown and there was a big crowd again.

Karen had mentioned that the best part about the rallies are the signs. Last year they were really creative and made you laugh!! This year I feel they are more on the serious side as the jobs situation has not improved since last Tea Party and the spending has gone even more haywire.

This guy's sign was funny, however!!

He was referring to the ridiculous comment by a Congressman Hank Johnson that the island of Guam may tip over if we send more military personnel. Let's hope he was talking figuratively.

The really fun part was more of the reason Ashlee and I were there. If you want to make a difference you have to start locally. So we're joining the campaign for John Faulk. He's running against Sheila Jackson Lee, who unfortunately represents us both, and many of our friends in MidTown, East Downtown, CBD, and the Heights.

We actually met John Faulk and he enlisted us with a huge roll of stickers and I offered my services as his Twitter-er. Let's hope I get that position, his communications director seemed all for it! Who has time to Twitter?! ....besides me....=) Ashlee has the picture of him and us on her fancy new camera (so jealous)!

Basically, Sheila Jackson Lee was the brilliant Congresswoman who flew out on our dollars to L.A. for Michael Jackson's funeral to say she's going to introduce a Bill to honor him as a humanitarian... as if our Congress wasn't busy enough, they surely will want to honor an alledged pedofile. At least Pelosi denied her request. She also claims the National Weather Service is racist because there are no black-named hurricanes (what IS a black name, Sheila??). She's an all around awful Rep. who answers her cell phone at Town Halls when being questioned by a voter. The landscape of her district has changed drastically. We aim to kick her out!!

SHELBY AGREES!!!

November seems like forever away... but there's no time like the present to try to make a difference!!

Crawfish and Easter Pizza

We packed up our bags and pup and headed to Katy this weekend. Life in the 'burbs is different, but fun too! We had a huge crawfish boil out at Remko's house. These are a bunch of Katy guys who have known each other WAY too long. We all pitched in to throw the party for Charlie and Andrea. They are moving to Cleveland! We're going to be so sad, so will Shelby. She actually cried when she saw their golden retriever, Beanz. She loves him. Here's Andrea and I before it all got crazy...

Jill and Rob showed up with SUCH awesome cupcakes! I asked Jill if she'd make some, and she went to TOWN! They are even Easter themed.

Shelby and Titus lovin' the outdoors and big trucks... and speaking of big trucks, it was getting a little hot, so the guys decided to make a TRUCK POOL. Great idea. 'Burbs.

Look, you can cool off AND drive to a friend's house....so convinient. They are probably reliving times at Katy High and this very moment.

Here's Josh doing what he does best. For those of us who are not all about peeling little crawdads, he made chicken and hot dogs.

Here's Blake, Ryan, Charlie, Remko, Josh, Brian and Daniel.

Daniel, you hot? Don't worry, we'll pull up the pool. Sorry, the pups are hot too!

These are the happy go lucky day time photos. After over 12 hours of sun and beer...things got a little out of hand. So, as you can imagine...the keg was floated...more beer was bought, beer pong tournaments, fist fights, tears...but the friendships are still entact. It was a glorious night in Katy. Hope to do it again...if we're invited back.

EASTER SUNDAY!!

We woke up the next day, had to pull it together from the fun night before, and headed to our 3 Easter visits. We headed to Sealy and had a great meal with Josh's dad's side. They are sweet country folk who think I'm "fancy" because I have a Coach purse and once wore a scarf.

Next we headed to Josh's Godparents, another Nowak clan. We were very excited to see everyone, Donnie, Carolyn, Barb, Speedy, etc...and Kathleen! She and her hubby George live in London, where we stayed last year. They said they are going to get a 'mini pig' as a pet. It's the cool thing over there. Puppies are so last year.

Finally we ended at Josh's mom's house where the Easter pizza comes into play. Josh's mom, Cheryl married Angelo who used to own a NY style pizzaria! He's actually from New York so his hand-made pizza are legit and awesome. I'm so happy they let us bypass the usual Easter meals, I've been wanting his pizza for a LONG TIME! He even taught me a thing or two...

The pizza was amazing and the weekend was great. Hope you had a great Easter, too!!

So Proud?

So Shelby is my pretend human baby. She had a big week that we have to share with the world. She passed her PetsMart beginners class. She can sit, lay down, stay, leave-it, take-it, and drop it. For good measure, since Nowaks are always show-offs, Shelby rolled over, shook hands and twirled in a circle. 'Cause she can.

You can't look at this pictures without smiling. My sister even printed it out for when she's having a bad day. No lie!

And since human kids get report cards, they give us weirdo dog people certificates to make it legit incase our friends didn't believe us.

So, this proud parent was astonished, and I mean shocked to the core when I come home and find my perfect little graduate being less-than perfect!

I captured the crime.

Looks like Petsmart owes the Nowaks a refund! I mean, she had the hat on. I saw them hand write her name in the certificate. Refund now!!

Spring into American Idol

I'm not gonna lie, I loved American Idol. Not just me, my sister and mom, too! I even guessed the last 2 winning idols far in advance. David Cook and Kris Allen (dreamboats by the way). I STILL think about how awesome last season's finale was where Kris Allen sang "I wanna Kiss a Girl" with Keith Urban, and Allison I. sang "Time After Time" with Cyndi Lauper. I have always loved singing! I was even in charge of our sorority singing group called the Kappa Pickers.

ALLEN and URBAN

So, much to my dismay this year, the talent and production of the show has changed for the worse. Ellen as a judge is suck-tastic and on top of everything Simon is leaving after this season. He probably could care less about the outcome and he's even gone soft.

Now the kids, who are all way better than me, aren't as good OR as entertaining. It seems the producers are more focused on their "STORY" than their singing ability. MANY people have a good/sad/interesting/odd story that happened in their life. Yes, i do think it affects the way they relate and convey the lyrics. However, I can't STAND every other critique stems from ..."Andrew, I mean, it wasn't amazing, but you have a great story..." WHAT?!

Last night I almost threw the remote at the TV. The majority of singers were SO bad. The judges were just as shocked (finally). Honestly, I will still watch the dang show because there is still hope in my precited winner, Shiobhan Magnus, with close runner up likely to be Aaron Kelly (a David Archulette wanna be).

MAGNUS

AARON KELLY - Only 16!

NO, I didn't say Crystal Bowersox. Yes, she's awesome. She is a modern Alanis Morrisette and is above and beyond most of the contestants. However, I have a feeling she's not going to make it, not going to get the votes. Let's face it, the last few winners are good looking boys. Who votes? Not me. Probably 9-17 year olds and their moms. While Crystal is an artist already, the dreadlocks and lip piercing won't get her the win, but she won't need it. Like Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, and Adam Lambert have shown us...runners up, even 3rd or 4th place, will catapolt you to stardom if you're really that good.

BOWERSOX

Rodeo Time!

It's Rodeo season. The time where normal Houstonians gather up their most western attire and head down to Reliant. We personally can't wait for Rodeo season!

Here's a pic where we borrowed these cowboy hats so we'd look LEGIT.

Though I must say, Cook Off this year was FREEZING!! I wore my warmest jacket and a DRESS and boots. Idiot. Why do I do that to myself?? This lasted until the 2nd or 3rd rum and diet, then I was nice and toasty. =)

Here's a group pic, kinda. And YES that is Panda Tatoo man right up front =)

Basically, Cook Off is a bunch of tents put up by committees, buisnesses, groups of all sizes. You have to score a wrist band to a tent or Cook Off is just pointless. It's free drinks and bar b que all night. Most years I have won tickets to the 100.3 FM tent, but this year we went with UNCLE GLEN. He's a whole blog post in himself, but he DOES have the hook ups! We had a great time!

Next up for Rodeo are the concerts. We're going to see Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban for sure and whoever wants to throw free tickets at us. Though I'd probably pass on "Tejano Night" and Selina Gomez/Justin Beiber night. That kid causes RIOTS in malls I heard!

I really hope you know what Muttin' Bustin' is, because that's probably my fave part of watching the rodeo. It's basically 4 year old kids holding onto sheep for dear life. The one that makes it the longest wins a prize! I think the prize is the sheep actually! LOL

Rodeo 2K10 here we come!!