The Encounter Co-ed softball team had a victory last night–we won our game 11 to 1, yeah! I had a good hit which landed me on 1st base but I could have gone to 2nd if I didn’t want to play it safe. I was on 3rd base at one point ready to run home and SHOULD have had a run but as I was running to home, the 3rd base coach decided to tell me not to go (I could have) and then as I tried to stop, he put out his arm so I wouldn’t fall and the ref called an “interferance” and called me out! DUMMY! O’well, it was fun overall, it’s fun when you actually get to play. I guess the coach of our team doesn’t know I can play (not that I am great by any means but I mean come on I can catch a dang ball and throw–and I can hit by golly!!). Instead I get to sit out the entire game except for one inning in RIGHT field–no action there except watching the dragonfly fly around..and I only got to bat once….I should have been able to bat twice, but a competetive little go-getter had to leave the 1st base bag too soon and as I was about to swing, he called her out and it was the 3rd out–so there goes my second at bat….What are you gonna do! But because they just sit me on the bench the whole game I’m not gonna pay money next season to do that. So a long story short–yeah for the Encounter co-ed softball team!

Man has it been a crazy week. We’ve been swamped at work trying to get all the kids in before school starts and next week is going to be even busier–yikes! Wednesday on my way home from work I basically blew out one of my tires and had to change that, well I didn’t change it. I was all ready to do so, I had the spare tire down and the jack out but I just couldn’t get the jack to work, it was sticking and luckily this nice man stopped to help me and he had one of those big jacks on wheels…the whole time I was just thinking to myself “just don’t take me or shoot me” it’s sad that we think that now days but that’s what its coming down to. Just two or three days prior to that a–now stay with me on this–a co-worker of mine, his wife’s cousin was killed while he pulled over to help a guy who had crashed. The guy who he stayed to help shot him and three other guys and then shot himself. looser! Anyway, we got my tire changed and two new ones put on my car b/c they needed to be changed anwyay. Then discount tire was being dumb and couldn’t figure out what they were doing with my tires….they didn’t know where to put the new tires or what to change or whatever……That was a crazy afternoon/evening. Let’s just say i’m ready for the weekend. I think wer’re just going to go eat tonight and then rent a movie to watch at home…if I can stay awake through it! not sure what else we’ll do this weekend. Hope you have a good one!

I’m baaaaack! So it’s been a while since I posted something, we’ve been kinda busy with work and just life in general. It was a fantastic weekend at the casa de Blundell. Friday night Jonathan and I went to Dallas to eat at Snuffers and then went to see Bourne Ultimatum. Ohhh cheese fries and a snuffers hamburger!!!! If any of you haven’t seen the Bourne Ultimatum, you need to go out and see it, it’s just as good as the Bourne Identiy and Bourne Supremacy…I hear there will be a fourth one coming out sometime. Anyway, Saturday my mom and Jonathan’s mom came down to Waxahachie and we all went and got a pedicure and then did some shopping in downtown Waxahachie…we all went home with something from one of the stores we visited. Saturday night our dad’s came out and met us all for dinner and then a fun filled evening with After Hours improv at the Texas Theater in downtown Waxahachie. After Hours Improv is a comedy troup that our friends Shari and Smiley are a part of. They are hilarious…it’s improv at it’s finest! If you haven’t been before you really need to go and see them perform sometime. Then Sunday we went to church and listened to Brian talk about our “Passion Groove”….more on that in the next post. Then we went to lunch with some friends and came home and went to the pool for a little while. It was a very nice weekend, and now I’m back at work…argh. Maybe it will be another good weekend next week.

So last night I got to go to the Faith Hill & Tim McGraw concert…I went about 5 years ago and loved it. I was all ready to go and get some great photos..I was able to take a camera in last time I went. I had my camera and all ready and then was told you can’t take cameras in…I was a little dissapointed to say the least so I ditched it and went inside. When I sat down, what did I see….hundreds of flashes going off! There were cameras everywhere….it was video cameras that you weren’t able to bring in!! I was a little torked off. Where I was sitting mixed wit my telephoto lens I would have had some increadible pictures….I’m talking upclose and personal photos of their faces! Oh well, so goes life! Maybe next year 😉

So it was a very disappointing weekend…but not overall, we had some good times too. We started out to Austin Friday afternoon leaving a little later than we wanted and ran into some traffic. We ended up getting to Austin around 7:30 or so and checked into our hotel room. This is where the disappointment started. Our room was a little musty/moldy smelling and I think my hotel room in NYC was bigger than this one. After a little while our friends Wayne and Cara picked us up and took us to dinner at Matt’s El Rancho mexican restaurant. It was a wait to get in but it was worth it because the food was awesome! After dinner we decided to go snap some night shots of the capital…after all, we are in Austin. The lighting on the pics were a little off and we used the hood of our car because we forgot the tripod, so some of the pictures are a little crooked.

After dinner and pictures we went back to the hotel and put on our swimmers. One of the main reasons we booked this particular hotel was because of the indoor pool, hot tub and sauna they claimed to have. We went down to the pool only to find it closed for renovations. Another disappointment so we just called it a night. We slept in a little on Saturday morning and then headed out on the town. We did some geocaching around Austin, we just couldn’t find one of them but had better luck with the second one.

We snapped some photos of a huge guitar outside of the whole foods store in downtown Austin and then ate some lunch at Frank and Angie’s Pizzarria…good pizza. I just got the usual cheese pizza while Jonathan got a pizza with everything on it…most of which would make me sick.


After we ate we decided to get back on the road and we made a few stops on our way back to Waxahachie. We stopped in IKEA and round rock outlet stores for some quick shopping, then decided to eat some dinner in
Waco. We made it home about 9:30 or so and quickly realized I left my purse in the restaurant in Waco. We called them and they said they had it so we turned right around and drove back to Waco to pick up the purse. It wasn’t too long that I realized that ya, someone turned it in but not before they cleaned it out. They took my cell phone (which was about a month old) and a LARGE amount of money that had been given to us as wedding gifts. We kept it to use for trips like this or things we need around the house. We have our ideas as to who it was that took it but we can’t be sure. Obviously the “Klammpits” as I call them, needed the money more than we did. Believe it or not I actually wasn’t as mad as I thought I would be. I thought I’d be ready to punch someones face in but I really wasn’t. I’m more mad at myself for leaving it than anything. I could care less about the cell phone, I have my old one I’m using now. It’s more of a feeling of being violated. Knowing that someone went through my things and my wallet and helped themselves to what they wanted. Luckily it was cash and not credit cards or my debit card…that could have been detrimental to our bank account. If it was who we think it was, this might sound mean but I think they just weren’t smart enough to take the credit cards, they wouldn’t know what to do with them. Well we returned home about 11:30 and went to bed…it was a long day.
Over the last week we’ve been fighting with our Lynksis router connecting to my mac…we had it working at one point when we moved into the townhome but now it isn’t working and we can’t fix it. So I just said forget it and we went and bought a new wireless router…now it works and we’re all set. So if any of you know anyone that wants to buy a router we’ve got one. So that’s the weekend at casadeblundell. Check out Jonathan’s blog for his view on the weekend and if you want, we posted all of our pictures from the weekend on my flickr page which you can click on the link to the right to get there.

Did any of ya’ll need a paddle boat to get to work this morning or was it just me? If it keeps raining I’m going to have buy a jet ski just to get to and from work. Yesterday the news anchors were making a fuss about how severe the weather is and how in Ellis county there was small stream and urban flooding…what does that mean? Just kidding. I am getting tired of the rain…Jonathan and I have been wanting to pull up all the plants, shrubs and such around our patio and lay some sod for the pres-in-ator but it won’t quit raining long enough to do it. Last weekend was about the only weekend that has been sunny in a while and we couldn’t go to the pool because it was closed for maintenance…not cool! Our patio also has so many weeds that have sprouted because of the rain, it looks like a jungle. Hope you all stay dry.

So Jonathan and I have decided to start riding our bikes to get some exercise. I used to be pretty athletic but not so much in recent years. Anyway, We aired up our bike tires and hit the road. We decided to just ride through the neighborhood but ended up riding to the hospital to see a friend who was there. In all, it was aobut a 5 mile bike ride. I did a lot better than I thought I would, I haven’t been able to do much exercise lately because of my heart issues but I guess we found a medication that works well enough so I can exercise. After we got back from our bike ride we jumped in the pool to cool off. I’ve mentioned how much I love sno cones and how often I visit the sno cone stand….well I told Jonathan that from now on whenever I want a sno cone I have to ride my bike there….good incentive, right!