Viva La Silk Oak Girls

(sorry Jen I coppied your title!!)

A couple nights ago some of my old roommates from the Silk Oak house got together. We met at Pei Wei for a "girls night" just like old times. Lisa Crosby, Jennifer (Klipple) Mullenaux and Camilla (Prescott) Workman.

Although i cant put this fantastic story together like my one and only Chancha Jennifer did in her blog but i will do my best!

Here is Lisa and Jen looking cute as ever

My Chancha Jen and Me Here we are the Silk Oak girls back together againMy favorite part was when I thought it would be funny to play with chop sticks. We were laughing hysterically and I'm sure getting some odd looks, but it was such a blast. I felt like we were back to our single years.

My attempt to scare everyone with the Walrus chops!!

Lisa & Jen tried to top it off with ummmm..... I'm not sure!! But it was great!nothing could top Jen's mama lips!!

Camilla holding in the laughter and I began to meditate through the laughter

Lisa & Jen pulled out the kun fu chop sticks on us

The night ended with a picture outside in front of the fountain. the best part of that was the gentlemen we asked to take the picture. He was so nervous and worried about taking the pictures and wanted to get it just perfect.

We definitely need to do this again, it was so much fun.

My New Table

I have been looking for a kitchen table for about ummmm....... 6 months too long!! I found some I liked but nothing that really stood out and was worth the price, so i kept looking. Then after weeks of looking and not having any luck i gave up. About a week ago I was just sitting down after work one day and thought i would just take one more look on Craig's list just for fun and sure enough the table I had been searching high and low for was just a click away!!

So I e-mailed the seller and the next day it was mine.

I am just so excited we have table to sit down and eat meals at. Although we had a table that i wouldn't really call a table... it was more like a square piece of wood with legs that you couldn't fit your lets under and if you wanted to you would be holding up the table! So it then became my office/papers table and constantly had stuff on it.

I really got a steal, it's a cappuccino wood with a fold in leaf, which is called a butterfly leaf (hence it looks like a butterfly half opened!!) the chairs are cushioned and she gave me ALL 9 chairs, don't really need that many now but why not!! Very minimal scratches, overall in great condition. I JUST LOVE IT and it cost me $275.

I looked it up on line and with the table and 8 chairs it costs $1,600

Its so beautiful and i just LOVE it. I feel like we need a really nice house to go with it . But we will have to wait for that!!

This is why its called a butterfly leaf!

What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas!

Tuesday morning Clinton came home from work around 9am and wanted to go somewhere…..so we jumped in the car and drove to Vegas. Call us crazy but we had a blast. This was our first time going to Vegas together. We arrived around 5pm Tuesday night check in and hit the strip. We walked around for a while just looking at the sites, walking through the major big hotels, my favorite, the Bellagio which was an amazing site and not to mention the water show they play all day long. My favorite was the Pink Panther theme song. We were getting hungry and what better to do than find a buffet, Vegas is famous for their buffets. Clinton loves seafood so we found a seafood buffet and ate till we couldn’t move, well more like till I couldn’t move! We then walked around more trying to walk off all the pounds I just ate!
Since we only had a short time we didn’t get to go to any shows, we were actually in Vegas for about 15 hours!
The next day we woke up and check out and got an early start. I was hungry so we went to the Mandela Bay hotel and had their amazing breakfast buffet. WOW it was so good. I love breakfast and well it’s only the most important meal so might as well start it off with a BANG! We then took off down the strip and went to the MGM, saw the Lions, M&M world played with all the toys, and of course had to hit a few slots just for fun. I cant go to Vegas and not play at least $1 in the penny slots. Clinton says to me “i have a fun idea... we each have $5 lets go to all the major hotels while we are out walking around and we can play $1 at each hotel and if we win we leave and go to the next”. I thought that would be fun. So we hit the MGM first and I put in my $1 in the penny slot. Well before I had lost my dollar I ended up winning $5. So we left and went on. The next casino I played my $1 and hit the jack pot with winning $10.22. I was so excited and cashed out!!
We went to the Harley Davidson bar and Clinton was in Heaven. He wants a Harley so bad, but for now I will just have to let him dream!

The last hotel/casino we stopped at was the Luxor and I put in my $1 and hit big this time, I ended up winning $12.87 but became so addicted and just kept playing and lost it all. This goes to show that gambling is NOT good it’s very addicting! So advice stay away, far away!!!

Us in front of the Cesar Palace at the Bellagio water show

in side the Bellagio it was so beautiful
I loved this, get married at the Harley Davidson Cafe, at the "Chopper Chapel"!!!

What's he looking at??? OHHHH he is in a trance!

Clinton thinks he will win something, but little does he know its just a candy machine!!
I love my goofy husband!New York New York hotel
Yummy Crab Legs
Honey what are you doing ?!?!


I just might........ have a slight gambling problem!!! I put in a dollar and got $10.22!!I wont tell if you dont!!

Dinner Argentina Style

So last weekend my sweet husband and his friend/MTC companion Justin Conley decided to make their sweet and hardworking wives dinner, Argentina style!! They told us that they were going to make us dinner to show us how much they appreciated all our cooking. They also wanted to give us a glimpse of what it was like eating on their mission. Our dinner came in sections, first we got what they called Nuqois (pronunciation: Nuokies) which looked and tasted a lot like cheese ravioli with a tomato paste sauce over the top. Next we were served Empanada’s, not your typical ones you got as a kid growing up that was more of a desert, with yummy fruit inside. These were meat, potatoes and pees wrapped in a tortilla and fried and for extra flavor we dipped them in sour cream. They were really good. We also had an Argentina drink called Qurana that was like apple juice and sprite. For desert we had something called Milkies and Dulce de Leche, which was like a very thin sweet saltine cracker and caramel. We were very impressed at how well everything tasted. They did a really good job and had even more fun doing it.
Thank you honey you are a good cook!!

Smooches

I don't have much to say, but ....

I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!

He has been working so hard these past few weeks. Working long hours, 6 days a week, and also helping his friend with his business, very little sleep and he still made time for us.

I love you Honey thanks for all your hard work.

SMOOCHES!!

or as Clinton would always say "Pucker Sucker"