Happy Halloween!

Mr. Pimpalicious

Look at that bling bling!

Gilbert and I went out for Halloween on Saturday night and decided to go in costume. Gilbert did a great job putting his costume together. He even entered the costume contest at the club, he didn't win but is a winner to me. Our friend Jean Max went as Flavor Flav and he made it to the finals but didn't win either. We had a great time.

Surprise!

Gilbert and I went to my favorite store, Target, and picked out this nice area rug for the Living Room. Random already loves it!

Gilbert surprised me this weekend with the candlesticks I wanted for my table. Aren't they nice?

Only in Miami

Only in Miami will you live in a city for a little over 2 years and have 5 car accidents. Before I moved to Miami, since I became a driver, I had never had an accident. I moved here in May 2004 and in June, I was rear ended then in December 2004 I was in a bad car accident just one month after I bought a new car. That makes two wrecks so far (please note that none of these accidents are my fault). My car was hit in my apartment complex a couple of months ago, then while my Mom was visiting we got tapped in the back of the car. We are up to four wrecks/accidents now (wrecks sounds so bad and only one of our "wrecks" was bad).

This morning I walked out to leave for work, only to find what you might ask. That's right, some idiot hit our car last night and the kicker is, they stayed parked next to it. Now if you hit a parked car there are two options: 1. be responsible and leave a note with your number or 2. move your car, park somewhere else, and wipe away the evidence. So you can imagine how happy I was to see my car had been hit yet again. To make a long story short, we had to call the police so that we had a claim number for our insurance. The cop was going to file a hit and run but after he sent another cop to the address of the car. The man at this address called his daughter and told her to go out to the car. It was a 20 year old girl, you could still smell the alcohol on her breath and she was as dumb as they get. Well, the good news of this story is I do not have to pay out of my pocket to fix our car.

Adult Furniture

Gilbert and I finally upgraded the last of my college furniture. I am very thankful that I was given furniture while I was in college so I did not have an apartment without furniture, but now that I am a career women I am thankful to have "adult" furniture as I call it. My new dining room table that Gilbert picked out all by himself. I think he did a fantastic job! I did pick out the table runner. It is a little short but I like it a lot.

Once again my husband picked out the coffee table set. Who knew he was an interior designer at heart. He might kill me for saying that but I am very happy I married a man with such good taste. I picked out the decoration on the table. We make a great team!

This is what the end tables look like.

More Pictures from Mom's visit

It was soooo hot this day. We are at South Beach.

Mmmm Dinner was good

Out to dinner

Mom and I at Bayside

Look at that beautiful sky line.
Gilbert and I at Bayside.

Look at that sexy man!

Mom and Gilbert at Bayside

Pictures from Mom's Visit

1. House Scarface was filmed in
2. Rosie O'Donell's house
3. Sylvester Stallone's built this house. Does he live there now? Don't know
4. Vanilla Ice's house
5. Shaq's house. Look closely you will see a small statue of Shaq on the pier.
6. Julio Iglesia's house
7. Does this house look familiar? It was on MTV Cribs. A Mexican female artisit lives here. Don't know her name.
8. American Airlines Arena, where the Miami
Heat play

9. The new theater they built in Miami! No more going to Ft. Lauderdale to see the plays!

10. Statue outside of the theater in Ft. Lauderdale.

Mom's Visit

First I have to apologize for taking so long to post. This week has been crazy to say the least. We have had a lot of technical difficulties at work. Since we moved to the new office, things are always messing up.

Anyways, my mom came down for last weekend and we had a great time. Friday night we went out to dinner at a nice Italian place. I had great lobster and seafood pasta.

Saturday we went on a boat tour to see "millionaire Row" and islands around the beach. First we went by Fisher Island. This island is only accessible by boat or helicopter. Mel Brooks, Oprah, Tom Cruise, Andre Agassi, and Stefi Graff are just a few celebrities that live here. The condos start at 2 million and go to 6 million. The amenities on the island are a polo course, golf course, and 18 tennis courts just to name a few. Then we went by South Beach which is the only natural island off of Miami (I did not know this before our tour). Next we went by Star Island where Millionaire Row is. We saw the following celebrity houses here: the house filmed in Scarface, Rosie O'Donnell, Gloria Estefan (when we went by Gloria's house she happened to be outside getting on her jet ski and was very friendly towards us), Shaq, P Diddy, Sylvester Stallone, Al Capone, Robert Vanwinkle aka. Vanilla Ice, the Parker family (Parker Pens), Bob Kuchenberg (the movie the Specialist was filmed here), some pharmaceutical guy, some German guy that I forgot about, and Julio Iglesias. We had a great time touring through the the islands off of Miami.

Sunday we went to see the Broadway play Rent. We all thoroughly enjoyed this play. It is for sure one of the best plays we have seen. We saw that Lion King is coming in April and can't wait to see this. My mom managed to wear us out but we all had a wonderful time.

Our exciting news of this week is that we just got tickets to the first Miami Heat game!!!!! I am very excited to get to go see them play in person. The game is on October 31st and this is when they players will get their rings.

On a side note, I have to post the pictures separately b.c I can't figure out how to get the pictures in between the text like I want.

BORED!

I am sooooo bored right now. It is pouring down rain outside, which made Gilbert and I cancel our plans of playing tennis. Gilbert and I have been "trying" to play tennis. It is really me that trys. Gilbert is good and has played since he was a child, however, I never played before. But I am enjoying it and Gilbert is trying not to get too frustrated with me.

Last night we watched a very good movie which I recommend to everyone, Akleeah the Bee. This has been about the highlight of my weekend so you can see why I am bored. I did clean the house (although I didn't want to) and am doing laundry today. Doesn't this sound like fun. I bet while you are reading this you just wish you could be in my shoes.

My mom comes down on Thursday and I am looking forward to this. I have not seen her since May 1st. We are going to see Rent, which I have always wanted to see. Gilbert and I watched the movie, Gilbert was not fond of. Both Gilbert and I have high expectations for the broadway play.

I recently read a good book, The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. I enjoyed this a lot and now am looking for a good read. Anyone have suggestions?

Couldn't Resist

I can't resist sharing this picture of my adorable dog. Gilbert had shut him out of the bedroom so he was just waiting for Gilbert to let him in the room.

Babysitting!

Well let me first say that Ernesto brought no more rain and wind than a heavy thunderstorm would. We were hoping for a day off of work but we didn't get it. Although we did get to leave early the day before and came in late the following day, this is better than nothing.

This weekend, Gilbert and I had decided to go to Key West for labor day, but the weather had other things in mind. It has been raining ALL weekend and therefore we had to cancel this trip. Instead on Friday night we babysat our nephews. We went and picked them up after work and had them until 1:00 the following day. Friday night we went out to eat and then Saturday morning we went to the park. We all had a lot of fun, but Gilbert and I were so tired afterwards. This was good practice because we want to have kids but boy was I glad that I could give the kids back to their parnets so I could rest. Gilbert and I both laugh about this because we didn't realize we would be so tired.


For the rest of our Holiday weekend we have to clean and do laundry. Doesn't that sound like fun. I seriously am thinking about paying someone to clean the house because I get tired of cleaning each week. We will watch Munich, which is our latest movie from Netflix, hope we enjoy it.

Ernesto

This week has been interesting to say the least and it is only Tuesday! This weekend work was supposed to move into the new office but the building did not pass inspection. Saturday morning we were called in because the moving company came and was taking the boxes. So we were called in only to find out that they had to put all of the boxes on the third floor, when we were working on the second floor so we went home. Don't ask why because for the life of me I can't understand what they were thinking. We finally passed inspection Monday evening. Today, Tuesday, during the storm we were moving stuff to the new office. But we are almost done and will finish whenever we go back to work depending on this storm. We got to go home around 3 and now I am working from home and will do so tomorrow if we can't go in.

People seem to be taking this storm lightly so hopefully we aren't going to get caught off gaurd. However, gas stations are out of gas now and if the happen to have gas the lines are around a 3 hour wait. You can not find water or bread anywhere.

Gilbert and I are as ready as can be. I went to the grocery store with everyone else in Miami last night after work. Other that that we don't have much else to do. We parked out car away from trees just in case and now we will just have to wait and see what happens.

Our life has been boring since our company left. We have been working and that is about it. We were going to the Key West for Labor Day but we will have to wait and see about weather conditions now. Our life will not be exciting until my mom comes in mid September to visit.

More Pictures from Sunday

1. Blowing out the candles
2. Me and Victor (our other nephew)
3. Me and Gilbert dancing
4. Me and Gilbert

Pictures from Birthday Party

1. The guys barbecuing. 2. Jean Marc (Gilbert's brother) and his son Marc
3. Vicky (Jean Marc's wife) and their son Marc
4. Gilbert, his mom, Mai, and Marc
5. Gilbert and Marc

My Birthday

Well my birthday was yesterday (Tuesday August 8th) but we had a pool party for my birthday on Sunday. It was a lot of fun. I was worried about rain, however, it didn't rain and it was extremely hot that day. Next time we have a party we will have to do it on a Friday or Saturday because I thought I was going to die trying to get out of bed for work on Monday.

I got several Rachel Ray cookbooks for my birthday and I can't wait to use them. I don't know who was more excited about these gifts, me or Gilbert. I also got a nice N.C. State clock. I'm looking for just the right place to put it. Gilbert took me shopping and got me the Shakira CD. Since we had the party on Sunday last night we decided to relax. We had a friend of ours and his wife over and watched a movie, Kicking and Screaming, with Will Ferrell in it. However, we all got tired and could not finish it. Man we are getting old! I wasn't expecting much for my birthday and ended up having a very nice day.

More Pictures from the Everglades

Gilbert wringing out his socks and shoes after we got soaking wet on the boat tour.

Pictures from the Everglades

Me and Gilbert at a lake in the Everglades.
Me, Gilbert, and Hannah on the boat tour.

The beautiful grasshopper.
Picture of the park













Bird in the park