Where in the world have I been?

I know, I know. It's been what? about two months since my last post? I have totally and admittedly abandoned my blog. I felt like I really had nothing to blog about. My life is not terribly exciting :)

But I do have some pictures to share and some updates to give.

Oh, and don't worry, I've been keeping up with my blog-stalking. Didn't miss a day on that :)

I will share some pics over several posts. Some are random. Some are not. I went on a trip with my sister and my grandparents to South Dakota. It was a great trip and we saw some neat stuff. That will have to be a separate post of pictures. These are pics of bluebonnets, Rumba 2010, and some other things. Enjoy!

Ali and I in the bluebonnets. My hair looks really red in these pictures.

This is towards the end of the Rumba night. Every year there is a rum tasting in downtown Austin. I went this year with some friends and I'm so glad I did. It was a blast. This is Amber and Peggy showing you just how much fun we had. :)
Me and Sean. This was the start of the night. No dancing yet.
I may have already posted this picture. This is after our friend Jackie had her baby in May. I'm putting this in because Jackie and her family are moving to Cleveland and I'm still sad!
Me and baby Dominic (Jackie's baby). We miss him already and he's growing like a weed!
Me and Laurie at Cinco de Drinko :)
More bluebonnet pictures. This is me trying to a photographer.
Up close.
That's all I have for now. I will do a SD post soon.

This weekend Ali is coming down to float the river and Brian is going to Corpus to hang out with his friend, Christi. We have a busy few weekends. Next weekend we are having a garage sale at Brian's parents house. We have cleaned house and cleaned out the garage in preparation and the house feels so good. The weekend after that is Colorado for my cousin's wedding. Then July will be here - gosh, this summer is already flying by!

Promise I won't wait another 2 months before I post again! :)

More Pictures

So apparently my computer likes the University internet. Today I uploaded all these pictures and the ones from the previous post in about 5 minutes. At my house, it takes me 50 minutes to get 4 pictures onto blogger - and we have pretty good internet. I was so frustrated by that though so that's one of the reasons that I have not been blogging. So here are some more pictures from the past week or so.

My friend, Jackie, had her baby - Dominic James Bonavita. He is a precious and big boy. He was 8 lbs 6 oz and cute as ever. Here he is getting some cries out.

And here is Dominic and Aunt Laurie :)

Here are my babies :) We are keeping Brian's parent's dogs this week while they take a vacation to New York. I am so excited for them to go - it's their first time. So we have a full house and a full bed. Actually, Brian has been sleeping on the air mattress with some of the dogs at night because our queen size bed is too small for 5 dogs and 2 people. This is the best pic that I could get of all of them when they were piled on Brian's lap. It's quite difficult to get 5 dogs all looking the same way :)

Here are some bluebonnets in our neighborhood. This year, especially, we have tons of bluebonnets around here. They are so pretty but I still can't get Brian to take pictures in them :)

We got tickets to the NCAA women's basketball championship game from my boss. It was pretty neat.

Joe Biden and his family was there to greet the military that were honored guest - pretty cool.

And that's all I got for today. Two posts in one day - pretty good, huh? :) I'll try to wait so long for the next post.

An Update

Hello all - I know I've been a bad, bad blogger. But honestly, I haven't felt like there has been much to blog about. Nothing too exciting going on. I have some pictures for you from two weeks ago. There are some birthday pictures and then some pictures from the Orange and White game that we went to with my sister when she was down here.

Beautiful flowers on the UT campus. I want them.

Texas, O Texas :)

Me and Ali at the spring game. It was neat to see all the excitement.

Me and Brian. Excuse the no make-up thing with me - Sundays are my no make-up days :)

We ate at Ritas on the River in San Antonio. It was yummy!

Me and mom on my birthday. She came down for the day and we had lunch at the River Pub and then did some shopping. It was a great birthday and I'm lucky to have a mom that likes to hang out with me :)

I cannot wait until river season - it's just around the corner!

I got this necklace from a co-worker/friend for my birthday and I love it!

Laurie and I had a spa day a few weeks ago to celebrate our birthdays. It was so fun and relaxing. We had yummy treats, got to hang out in the hot tub and then had a massage and facial.

That's all for now. I will have more pics and another update on here later today hopefully :)

26 isn't so bad

Well, I made it. I'm 26 years old. And my chest isn't so tight anymore :)

Mom came down for the day to have lunch and do some shopping. I had an awesome day - even if she did bring cake and make my co-workers sing to me. What are mom's for if not to still embarrass you even when you are 26.

I got emails, texts, facebook comments, phone calls and visits with awesome birthday wishes. It made me happy. I even had student-athletes sing happy birthday on speaker phone to me. They are too funny but worth every gray hair they give me. :)

It was a fun day. I am sunburned (cause we sat outside for lunch at the river pub) and wind blown (top down on the Z). I thoroughly enjoyed my day and am glad I got to spend some time with mom doing what we do best.

I haven't downloaded the few pictures that I took today but I will get them up. Right now, I'm going to sleep because I'm exhausted. And yes, it's only 9 o'clock but I'm old now so I can do that, right? :)

d-day or b-day?

Not that this warrants a post but tomorrow is d-day. You know, my birthday.

Only recently has it been changed to d-day :)

About 3 months ago when I would talk about my birthday, my chest would start to tighten. And I would panic a little.

I know, it's only 26 and trust me, I know that is young. I appreciate every day and I feel very blessed in my life. BUT 26?!?! I'm not ready.

I guess cause it's closer to 30 that 25 is but I'm just having a hard time with this one.

Nevertheless, I will celebrate just a little bit. I'm not huge on birthdays - I like a little lunch or dinner and a drink and of course, some shopping. But that's about it.

I am excited, though, cause my mom is coming down for the day tomorrow. I am taking a half day off and we are going to lunch and doing some shopping. Perfect birthday stuff. I'm excited.

I will try to ward off the chest tightening and just be thankful to celebrate 26! Maybe I'll have pictures for you tomorrow. We'll see if I'm in the mood :)

Much love and gray hairs! :)

Kels

Buying a home

No, we aren't buying a house right now.

But we are in the beginnging stages. You know, the pre-approval thing and the looking at houses and prices to determine what we can afford.

And all I really want to say is: home-buying is a daunting process.

We will wait a little bit to move forward but it's nice to know what we are approved for and what is out there. But it's still a daunting task.

There are no classes on this. You're just kinda out there on your own.

In other news, the Solis' are very glad that it is the weekend :) Brian is getting used to being up early every morning so he's pretty tired and you know me, I'm always ready for a weekend to sleep in.

Brian is still loving his job. We've carpooled a couple of times and had a few lunch dates. We had a softball game this week against Texas and beat them! 9-7 with a walk-off homerun! It was an exciting game. I love softball season.

Other than that, there just isn't too much exciting stuff going on around here. My birthday is next Wednesday and I'm not ready for it. Just talking about turning 26 makes my chest tighten. I know, laugh all you want. I know that 26 isn't old but it is just different. I am certainly having a different reaction to it than other birthdays. AND I'm getting gray hairs! Ali will be down next weekend and I'm excited about that!

Brian and I are going to San Francisco again in October, this time with his parents. We've also started planning a ski trip for next Christmas break. I do know that it's early to be planning that but we've been wanting to go for awhile so it's something fun to start looking at.

This was a bunch of ramblings but that's all I've got for today. Oooo, I almost forgot, I'm having a spa day on Sunday and I'm super excited. Facial, massage, pure relaxation.

Much love!

Jackie's Baby Shower: Picture Edition

Took forever but I finally got the pictures loaded - only some since I couldn't wait on all of them to load.

Here is the diaper cake. Now that I know how to make them, I will get more creative with them.

We had cheese tray, fruit tray and some awesome spinach dip and pitas. The cake was red velvet - yummo!

I made some white wine sangria. It was a recipe from online and turned out great. I also got to use my punch bowl that changes into a cake stand for the first time!

We played the 'what kind of baby food' game. It was hilarious and I picked out some great foods. They were disgusting! There was some mac & cheese, oatmeal and ham mixed in there somewhere.

Laurie made the best favors: little chardonnay bottles with bags of m&ms. They had a little note attached saying thanks for making the day so sweet! :)

My favorite picture: Jackie smelling the baby food. Her reaction: Do babies really eat this? Cause mine's not! :) I think that was the turkey one!

Our onesie clothesline

Linda didn't like the baby food either. That had to be the oatmeal maybe?

Cutest clothes ever - a little bath towel and robe with doggie paws all of it.

Jackie and her cake

Mrs. Hindson cutting the cake - it was so yummy! See that depleted sangria bowl? It was yummy too! :)

Mary Ellen, are you having fun?

Laurie, Jackie and me - it was a successful first shower! :)

Now we sit and wait for baby boy Bonavita. I told Jackie he isn't coming out until they pick a name - he doesn't want to go by 'baby boy' forever! Congratulations to Jackie!! Laurie and I can't wait to be aunties :)