its been a long week....and a fabulous weekend...

This week was just a long week. We are getting ready for close and trying to get stuff "fixed" to make this close go much smoother....and lets just say everyone's a little stressed out preparing for next week. Then we had a Lippe family blow....two people in the family were laid off this week -- and lets just say it was a not what we expected. Not one bit. I think most of us have been shielded from the "bad economy" and it was definitely a wake up call for all of us. Of course, everything will be fine and in some cases it is a blessing in disguise, and we know that God has an amazing plan ahead in their lives.

This weekend we went to Seguin to lay low and do lots of shopping....I needed to buy some new clothes -- I am down now two sizes and I am officially to that place where I can barely wear my old clothes. They might fit when I put them on, but in about 2 hours I am holding my pants up. Its great, but also really annoying! I do have one pair of jeans and a couple of pairs of work pants that I can get away with, but new clothes were definitely in order. And when new clothes are necessary - well a trip to the outlet mall is necessary! My friends, the O's, wanted to go play too - so off we went....even better that R and I both have 9/80s and got to take the day off -- and we made her hubby leave early too so we could get out of town.

We went to town and immediately went to the outlet mall and met up with my sister and my parents -- we wandered around Pottery Barn...well, the girls did, the boys found a great little set of couches and sat down and hung out. Awesome. Then we went off to a little mexican place and met up with our friend KV and some of his (and P's) friends from high school at this great little mexican food place in Cibolo -- La Tortillita. Let's just say the food is really good, the service is very slow and it was a great time to get to hang out and be silly. And people watch. that was awesome.

Then we went off to the UT game -- lets just say I was a great sport -- and my sister came and hung out with us and we got to enjoy the great weather! Then we went back to the outlet malls...let's just say we actually went three times during the weekend...and then it was time to go home and have a little play time at the Lippe house. It was so fun to get to spend some time with my parents, and the O's and KV and their friends J and S. It was just what the doctor ordered....

Then we got back to town and I had some time to lay outside in the sun, take a little nap and then go out to dinner to celebrate SM's and KC's birthday....I absolutely ADORE these girls. We always have a great time and this time was no exception. We went to Benjy's - one of my favorites. The best was I ordered a bottle of champagne -- they didn't have it. So I ordered another drink. he comes back with another bottle of champagne that was 3 times more expensive for the price of the original bottle and a free mojitos. Let's just say I pretty much didn't need to drink that much on a  Sunday night but it was AWESOME. Here we are....

 LG, PR, SM, me and KC. 

I heart them.