Soup Nazi!

Remember Seinfeld's reference to the Soup Nazi? Here is the place where that all started. NO SOUP FOR YOU! :)

Ground Zero

Our hotel was very near the World Trade Center site so we actually saw it a few times over the weekend. I actually think they may be building now (just the foundation) instead of cleaning up... and they will be building this building in its place. It is still hard to think about what happened here and so very sad reflecting on it all.

A lot of construction is taking place and barriers put up so you can't really see what is going on but we did get to see this memorial. This is my sister, Keely, standing in front of all the names on the wall. They appropriately title it, "The Heroes of September 11."

Times Square

A great view of Times Square up ahead. This is our view from where we ate Thurs night on our trip to NYC. We ate at Ruby Foo's which was a great Sushi place. Notice P.Diddy's ad up in the right hand corner...

Hair Spray

First night in NYC, we went to see Hair Spray! It was fantastic!!! Although we were 45 minutes late because our plane was delayed, I am glad we went and made it to about 2 hours of the show. The theater was so quaint that the seats were great and the singing was amazing. We did get to see George Wendt who was "Norm" from Cheers as Tracy's mom and Tevin Campbell (remember him as a teenage R&B singer?) as one of the main characters. Anyway, I loved it and we went for sushi after the show at Ruby Foo's, a place Mara had recommended to me. It was quite tasty! All in all, a wonderful beginning to our weekend in the Big Apple...

Mara

What a weekend! We left on Thursday for New York City and got back Sunday evening. What for? Well, my childhood best friend, Mara Grossman, got married! Here we are together after all the festivities (more pictures to come!) and it was such a wonderful celebration.
Mara moved to Houston when we were in 2nd grade. She and her family left after 5th grade (yes, right when I was entering junior high) for NYC and have been there ever since. Our friendship has lasted 25 years! She is very special and dear to me and it is amazing when I see her how I feel like we have never missed a beat! I LOVE YOU, MARA, and thanks for such a fantastic weekend!

AH-CHOO!

So, I am getting my hair cut today and I receive a call from David. He tells me that we have the most precious boy in the whole world (we often say this to one another). He then proceeds to say that he just sneezed and Drew said out of the blue, "Bless you, Daddy." So sweet! It is amazing how they pick up on everything! :)

Random...

This is an attempt at me and Drew getting a picture together for Easter... my brother took it and it was better than anything I got so I chose to post it here.

This past weekend Drew and I went to Austin for Eli's (our nephew) 8th birthday party. David went to North Carolina for the MBA Games where business schools all over the country raised money for the Special Olympics and competed in various competitions. David took the camera so I don't have pictures of the birthday party but it was fun!

Eli will be getting baptized next month so we can't wait for that! :)

PUBLISHED!

So, I got an email from my "chair" or the professor I worked closely with at BYU during my doctoral program saying my dissertation finally got published. She sent me the article electronically so here is the first page! I had known it was accepted over a year ago, but it took this long to get it in the journal. I have another article I was published on but not first author like this one. It is very exciting to see!

Woodlands Marketplace

We went to The Woodlands Monday to meet up with one of my dearest friends, Mandy, and her children Roan and Mali. Mandy and I met our sophomore year at UT as pot-luck roommates and she has been one of my best friends since. She was in my wedding and I was in hers, she had Roan a month before I had Drew and there is nothing like getting to see her and spending time together with our kids. It just makes me sad that we don't live closer but we have managed to see each other each year even though she lives in San Francicso. The boys played in the water and also in the big grassy field.

Roan was not really wanting to get his face wet but they both liked the water.







Roan and Drew after lunch in front of the turtle statue. It really was such a beautiful day!

Movin' on up...

So, David's start date with Cooper has changed... it was moved up a few weeks. He will now start June 26 which for some reason puts more stress about it all. I thought we both had the whole month of June off to enjoy but truly I would have had to take the month off to get ready to go. Most of our stuff is packed - all the various things I haven't seen for 2 years. But the things we use everyday and the things we have opened over the past few years are scattered about the house and in my office across the street. I feel like packing them now but we are using them, ugh. Then, the question comes of when I move the stuff out of my office on may 31st, where does it go? Where do we put the desk and library? I think I am just feeling a little overwhelmed today by the thought, so I'll just stop thinking about it all... :)