Elvis show!

The Elvis Show

Last night I ventured out with Tanya and her mom, Barb, we went to see the Elvis cirque show at the Aria. We started out at Margaritaville with Charlie and dinner,  then just us girls headed to the Aria to check it out. It was not a very user friendly place, very crowded and hard to get around in. I like hotel/casinos that have a theme and a route so you can eat, play and find your room...the Aria was just one big mess, it actually felt like an international airport terminal! Very modern and contemporary. Yuck!

We got to the theater, it was actually very beautiful inside, the show was really good and highlighted Elvis's life in song and dance and acrobatics, the only weird part - when the dancers/acrobats dressed up as superheroes and jumped around to "Gotta a whole lotta love" that was strange and needs to be replaced. I loved watching the old movie pieces of Elvis and Pricilla together.

Well, another fun night with two fun people! Thanks for hanging out Tanya and Barb!

Oh, I got an Elvis lunch box for 5.00 in the gift shop, gotta love clearance sales! Barb brought 2 little pigs for my kitchen from Colorado, Thank you Barb!!

Boxing kittens and Piggies!

Lunch box/Junk to jewelry class box!

September already!

Where did summer go???

I am trying to enjoy my pool but fall is creeping up too fast....

I decided to come home from work and soak up a few more rays of sunshine before it leaves for the winter....

I just love the view from where I sit on a sunny afternoon!

Doughnuts!

I made doughnuts this morning...check out my cooking blog

(link on the right, click on cooking blog photo)

Well, it is about time!

Ok, I have been cleaning and organizing my craft room, it's an obsession, I know, I have a problem, let's not discuss it...I have two folders I keep on the wall for organizing my paperwork, on is all the trips I take the other is for misc. stuff, reciepts, important papers, address sheets, stamps for birthday cards and my mailing labels...well, last night I decided to scrapbook up the folders....so here is a little of my scrapbook work, I love scrapbooking but it is odd that I never really share it on my blog..??? So I have decided to start sharing some of my scrapbooking with you...I will try to post more, maybe a favorite layout a week that I have made?? We will see, but for now, here are my folders, I just love them!

Barry Rocked the House!

My friends had been teasing me about going to the Barry Manilow show, I told them, "no way would I go see Barry Manilow" but then everyone was going and talking about how great it was, and I thought well OK, I will go and see it, just so I can say "I saw Manilow" when he had a great run in Vegas.

Charlie and I, Tanya and Colleen ran up to the Paris and saw the show, Charlie was not happy but sat along with us. I have to admit Barry Rocked the House! It was a great show, I am so glad they talked me into going to see him. If you get the chance go to the Paris (my favorite hotel!!) and see Barry, he tells his life story in song and it is so cool, who knew!

Colleen was kind enough to sit with me at while I ate my favorite meal at LeProvencal restaurant, Yes, the brown butter raviloi's!! YUMMMY!! (recipe can be found on my cooking blog) Tanya was not able to get there till later and Charlie wanted pizza, so thanks Colleen for sitting with me and having your salad and water...I love those ravioli's!!

Have a great weekend!

Baseball in Texas!

Dang, it was hot and muggy! I had booked a weekend getaway for Charlie months and months ago..so we could go see a baseball game in Texas. We want to go to a different ballpark each year. This year was Texas Rangers in Arlington.
Nice but not as nice as Arizona where we like to see the Diamondbacks play!
We were a bit stressed out, as Charlie's mom had to go to the hospital right before we left to get a kidney stone removed, we could not cancel flight and hotel without losing all funds about 1000.00, and then we paid 280.00 for two days worth of baseball tickets...we decided to go and hope that she would be in the hosptial for a few days resting and we would fly back first thing sunday, well, turns out she did not need us, as she drove herself home sunday without even telling us! Mordern medicine is a pretty fascinating thing I guess! She is doing fine resting at home.
Saturday morning we rented a car for the day and drove to downtown Dallas, YUCK! Don't bother. Then we headed off to The StockYards in Fort Worth, now that was more like it! You could walk around and the street is like an old western town, we went on a stagecoach ride, ate bbq at Cooper's, don't bother, yuck again!
Got back to the stadium in time to see Saturdays game, this time we headed to the Cuervo Club, an airconditioned lounge, we dined on chips and salsa and beer and wine, after the sun went down we went to our seats and enjoyed the game. I got to see Napoli play friday and saturday, he did great!
All in all, it was an ok weekend, I wished Charlie could have relaxed more, but maybe next year will be better, we will try San Diego or Seattle!!

READY TO SEE THE GAME!

READY TO GO FOR A RIDE

GUS GIVES KISSES

BIG CHEIF CHARLIE

YUMMY CHIPS AND SALSA

NAPOLI BATTING

NAPOLI CATCHING

Sewing Class and Sammy!

I took my class to make a purse today at SewObsessed! Wow, that was fun! But it is a lot of work! Class was from 11:00 to 4:30!! I still had to topstich my handles when I left but came right home and got them done!I chose Vintage Kitchen fabric as the main fabric...I just love this and I learned so much!!

I really love how well made this is, thank you, Tanya, for teaching me I could make a purse! Everybody in class had a different spin on the purse and they all looked fabulous!

P.S. Just an update on Sammy, he is still hanging out, he loves to show up for breakfast then dinner and come in and lounge around the house, but then he wants to leave becuase he has business to attend to, I am hoping to get him to the vet to get clipped and checked out next month!

He is such a lover and a lap kitty, he loves to jump up on my chair and sit with me after breakfast! I have tried to collar him 3 times with breakaway collars but they last 1 maybe 2 days and they are gone, not sure if someone is removing them or he gets into tight spots and loses them. Anyway, Toby still hates him and makes it known he is not welcome here...Toby is such a grouch! I should have named him Oscar!!