Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Brent, happy birthday to you!!!!!!!!!

Brent celebrated his 28th Birthday this past week. Literally he celebrated for a whole week. The Saturday before his birthday we ate some good grub at Houston's with his Dad, Kathy, little Mason, Bradley & his new girlfriend Jessie. Brent & I both got the stack of ribs, shoe strings fries and cream corn. Oh my goodness, it was amazing and totally worth every calorie. Then we polished off a whole apple crisp dessert. It was so nice having dinner with everyone. After dinner we headed to Pizza Hut Park to watch a little soccer and enjoy the evening. We had some beer, cookies and peanuts. Not that we needed anymore food but we couldn't resist. I of course came home and ran then hit the hay.

On Tuesday, I took Brent out for a nice evening just the 2 of us at Urban Crust. The best fresh pizza on the planet!! Its in downtown Plano and such a cute and unique place. We topped the night off by consuming a chocolate cake the size of an entire plate. Soo good!! Again, I came home and ran.

Brent ended his week long celebration at his Mom's house for a fajitas cookout/pool party. His mom and I prepared the food as everyone made their way over. Grams, Peeps, Bradley, my parents, Grandma and Leon all came out to celebrate with us. I made red velvet cupcakes for Brent's "Birthday Cake" and my Grandma made the best oatmeal cookies that everyone loved. Brent opened presents then we all hit the pool. I brought a beach ball not realizing it was the size of mt. Everest but that ended up making it more fun. We all tried to balance on it (only Brent could do it), tossed it around and jumped on top of it all evening long. My dad had a blast and I loved watching him have such a good time. Brent and Brad lit a few fireworks then it was time to head home. What do you think I did when I got home.....

At Pizza Hut Park watching the FCDallas soccer game

Cute pic...Brent, John (his dad) & Bradley

Bradley & Jessie

SCORE!!!!


Dinner at Urban Crust


Pool Party at Brent's Moms House
Vicki did an awesome job decorating for the party

Texas Ranger Theme

My mom thinking she can blow up that big o' thing...yeah right

Yummy desserts...red velvet cupcakes and oatmeal cookies

We're ready to party

The grub...beef & chicken fajitas

The whole crew

I can't believe my mom is drinking Dr. Pepper...and its diet, crazy to say the least

Birthday Boy

I didn't know you could play the piano

Make a wish

Love me some Grams & Peeps

It might be water proof but is it toilet proof

Money money money

Quick pic

My dad attempting to balance on the huge beach ball

Good try

Here goes Brent

Can't believe you did it

Volleyball time

Good idea, lets jump on it & see what happens

Go Dave its your birthday, not really its actually brents birthday

My turn


Happy 28th Birthday, B-Rent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 4th of July, 2010

Boy o' boy, what a great 4th of July weekend!! Brent and Colby opened up Shorty's Burger Shack in San Antonio, I got to watch 2 firework shows, spent time with the family at a pool party and ended the weekend with a burger and pina colada snowcone! I love big weekends and wish we had more of them.

Brent and Colby had a soft opening of Shorty's this weekend and experienced a few ups and downs. The outside looks great in red and I can't wait to see the final look once we get the logos put on. They got into a little friendly competition with a taco stand outside an uptown club area and learned a few valuable lessons. They have a few more things to get underway then they will be up and running in no time. Proud of you B-Rent!! Keep up the good work :)

While Brent was hard at work, I was hard at play. After finishing decorating for Kaboom Town Saturday morning, I put in a quick workout then headed home for the weekend. I went to dinner with my family then all us of except dad (he was pooped) went on a fireworks show hunt. Bub heard that Firewheel was having a show so we piled into the car and headed out. We found a parking spot and had a front view of the show. The weather was so nice and the traffic wasn't bad at all. Afterwards we headed to Rowlett to hopefully catch their Main Street show and thank goodness we did. The Rowlett show was by-far the best fireworks show I have ever seen. They had such a variety of fireworks and had what seemed to be 4 grand finale's. I know where to go next year, for sure!!

The next day, my aunt and uncle invited us over to their friends house for a 4th of July pool party. We all chipped in on the food and played in the pool all day. Jerod jumped off the diving board for the first time, my dad even got in the water for a while and I got to enjoy a few moments laying out in the hot sun. It was nice spending time with them and I wish one of us had a pool so we could do this more often. I ate so bad so I had to workout when I got back home, probably the toughest workout ever after all that food and desserts, oh well it was worth it ; )

Brent got home early on Monday and since I had the day off, he wanted to do something. I suggested going over to his mom and dave's house for a swim since we didn't get to see them yet for the 4th. They were more than happy to have us over and we cooked all the left overs from their day with Brad and Jessie (his new girlfriend). Brent had 3 hot dogs and I had a juicy burger, chips, baked beans and several cookies, oh and a cupcake too. We played a game of horse-shoes and the girls won...hahaha!! I was craving a snowcone so we drove into downtown Celina and we all got a different flavored snowcone. I got the sugarfree pina colada, Brent got cherry, Vicki got the jollyrancher and Dave got the rootbeer flavor. It was so nice to sit outside munching on a snowcone enjoying the evening sun. We headed home after our snowcones and of course I had to workout after eating all that wonderful food. Man, the weekends totally kill my diet but luckily I do pretty well during the week.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!!

Fireworks Show #1 - Firewheel









Fireworks Show #2 - Rowlett off Main Street



4th of July Pool Party














4th Celebration at Vicki & Dave's

Beer Merchant 201

It's official, I'm a Beer Merchant for MillerCoors. I just completed my 2nd round of in classroom training in Milwaukee Wisconsin for the Beer Merchant Certification. Its a program MillerCoors just recently put together for select employees to gain advanced knowledge of Food and Beer Pairings. Basically, I am now qualified to host and conduct Beer Dinners for all Chain and Independent retail accounts. I learned more about beer in these 2 trainings than I ever thought was possible. Now, I have the pleasure of completing 1 quiz per 2 weeks for the remainder of my career over all the information and required book readings from here on out. MillerCoors takes this program seriously and if you decide to no longer complete the quizzes, your certification will be withdrawn. The facilitator who taught us during the training is a certified Trade Brewer, so we learned from the best out there. Anyway, that's about it. Here are some pics from our last night of training!!

Hand Picked Beer Merchant's

Ashley and I

Another group photo