Happy Friday

Since the temporarily outage with blogger occurred yesterday/this morning. I thought I'd share two posts to make up for mine not going up last night.

Just something simple for the weekend :)

Have a HAPPY Friday and a HAPPY weekend my friends.  Carmine is ready for a drink, are you?

Now I'm not going to lie.... Carmine DID in fact have a few slurps of Angela's beer.  No harm was done during this photo shoot.

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Cheers

Last night I was so excited to show you all the fun pictures we took at dinner last night before going to Cirque du Soleil with my co-workers/friends... I get home, go to my blog and try to start a new post to find out that blogger was temporarily down. Sad.

Because I've had a little more time to think about the post I wanted to do last night, I decided that instead of showing you only the initial cat picture I took of our awesome drinks we got a Kobe, I also want to give you a sneak peak of us enjoying them before the show.

My drink at Kobe

Me with my Cat

Kristin with her Cat

Carrie (front with her buddha) & Danielle with her monkey (hidden) 

It was all and all a great night! I wish I could show you pictures from the show but they didn't allow any cameras or pictures to be taken with our phones! Kinda crazy if I do say so myself. Thanks Jeff from Centro for taking us there!

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Down We Go.

I was recently at our other office, 2020, which I don't go to often but I'm glad I did.

I was heading up this enormous staircase that leads people up to the rooftop, and look down, and thought hmmm... this could be a cool picture if I can get it just right.

Although I think I could have done better, but after changing up the coloring to black and white I feel like it gave it more of that "cool" look and feel I was going for when I initially took the picture.

 

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I See, You See.

This week's "I See, You See" challenge was given to us by, Angela, our friend at work last week.

Theme: Happy

Of course I waited until the very last day to get my picture but boy was it a good day to wait until.  We celebrated my good friend Kara's 26th birthday celebration tonight.  Her birthday is this coming Saturday but with all our hectic schedules we wanted to get some Kara time to ourselves before the big day.

We celebrated with some yummy tapas at La Bodega.  They have a GREAT happy hour.  We paid $45 between the five of us for 9 tapas plates and one pitcher of sangria.  Crazy, right?

Now for the big reveal.

Here is what I saw (tonight):

Here is what Megan saw, it's her puppy dog Charlie being a happy little pup that mommy and daddy played fetch with him!

Reflection

This past Friday I helped host a work party celebrating Cinco de Mayo.  I thought it was a huge success considering I initally thought we wouldn't use the two rounds of margarita mix (one mix was for 75 people) I had ordered, and we ended up going through BOTH of them AND still had people wanting more.  Note to self co-workers love the margaritas and need to order double the amount next time around.

We have two office locations and the party was held at our 2020 office downtown which has a rooftop deck that overlooks the city.  I love the view and wanted to capture it for everyone to see.  Carrie was kind enough to be my subject for today's post.  We kept trying to get the Western Auto building in focus but unfortunately it was too far away.  Oh well, still made for a good picture with Carrie's beautiful face :)

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ME.

Literally. ME.

I saw this little sign on a bus stop in this area of Kansas City called Westport and loved the colors and the way my new fixed focal lens blurred the background perfectly.

I love walking by something cool and ACTUALLY having my camera to take a picture.  The moments I don't have my camera put me in utter despair and I think about how cool it would have been to have that for my blog post.

Well that was this picture.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo

Tonight Walt and I did some celebrating at a local Mexican restaurant called Manny's for Cinco de Mayo with some friends!

Long story short there was free shots of tequila, a mariachi band, margaritas and 2 for $5 mexican beers! Can't get better than that.

We opted to NOT take the celebration elsewhere and settle in for a low key night which I am a BIG fan of right now....and I'm sure I will be tomorrow when I feel refreshed instead of wanting to smack the alarm and wish for it to be Saturday after too many tequila shots.

Cheers to everyone having a great Cinco de Mayo!

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Mine All Mine!

So today I have a SPECIAL post!

It's not me behind the camera it's me in FRONT of the camera.  Reason for this is that I got a new car! Well a used one, but new to me! My hunk-a-junk 2001 4Runner with 120K miles on it decided it was time to let go and move on... but not without having over $3K in problems... I IMMEDIATELY decided that it was a horrid idea to keep investing in a car that was inevitably going to die on me, so... I got a new one.

For this being the biggest purchase of my entire life (to date), I feel like it was pretty painless and quick.  I decided on Sunday after having my 4Runner looked at that I was maybe going to have to get a new car.  I looked online with Walt all night Sunday night and decided I wanted to look at the Nissan Murano and Ford Edge. After reading Consumer Reports the Murano got great reviews and I have only heard fantastic things about Nissans.

I have never noticed either of these cars when driving around, but of course because I was looking to buy I noticed them every where, mainly the Edge! I decided it was a little bigger than I wanted so went and test drove the Murano Monday night, negotiated the guy down by $1,000!!! Then I looked online again on Monday to make sure there wasn't a better deal out there (I'm a stickler for getting my money's worth).  I decided I'd at least go see what they would pay me for MY car (with thousands of dollars of problems) before making any rash decisions considering this was the ONLY place I went and the only car I test drove. They said they would give me $5,500... Walt and my jaws dropped! Were they kidding? This piece of crap for $5,500... SOLD! In the meantime I got them down another $800... so total $1,800 in negotiations.  I would say that I am a pretty good negotiator wouldn't you?!?

Drumroll please.... here she is!!!

Don't you just love her! Still thinking of names for my new pride and joy...

Thanks to Meggy for taking my pictures today!

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I See, You See.

I know this is a day late, as my Internet is STILL down.... They won't be there until Thursday which is causing me a bit of delay on my posts. However, today I will be giving you TWO posts to make up for missing yesterday.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Megan from ChasingDavies and I will continue our "I See, You See" posts every week. We are looking for suggestions on theme for pictures. Feel free to post a comment about a topic or email me directly at lmajor9@gmail.com.

This week were chose one of our own.

Theme: Flowers

Who can resist taking a beautiful picture of flowers?

Here is what I saw (in my mom's garden):

What Megan saw:

Once I saw them I was shocked that they were almost the same color and similar looking flowers!

Great minds think alike!

Stay tuned for this afternoon's post.  I have a little surprise!

SURPRISE!!!

First, I have to apologize for my lack of posts the past couple of days.

My weekend was filled with going away parties and engagement showers and NO internet.  I am needless to say, NOT happy with my cable/internet provider (Time Warner Cable), and their inability to provide good customer service.

Now onto the BEST part of my weekend. Mandi's surprise

Three of my friend Mandi's bridesmaids (Myself, Kara, Katie, and Sarah) have been hearing Mandi talk about wanting a beagle puppy SO bad lately and how she wanted to get one this Summer. We thought why not speed up the process and get her a beagle puppy as a surprise for her wedding/engagement shower gift!

After endless hours of looking online for the cutest and best beagle puppy we could find, we found her in Bethany, MO (2.5 hours away from KC). We took her fiance Matt to get his approval (we didn't want to be the ones to blame completely if she turned into a little monster that tore up everything and barked all night...ha! ) He fell in LOVE with her and immediately said this is her. We gave them the down payment, waited two weeks and Kara and I went to pick her up the night before the engagement party.  The puppy stayed with me all night Friday and Saturday, I of course fell in love with her and decided the sooner I can get a baby puppy of my own the better... but needs to be when I am in a house not a box.

Long story short I wrapped a huge box with a lid as a present and we hid the puppy in the car (yes the windows were open and it wasn't hot outside so she was fine) as we waited for the present opening to start.  Anxiety immediately kicked in once word started to spread about our surprise and all of us were SO worried all the commotion would cause Mandi to be suspicious.

Finally, when the last gift card was being opened, I flagged down Kara's boyfriend to go get Katie and Kara who had the dog in the box with a big bow on her neck.

They walked in and placed the box on Mandi's lap and Mandi immediately was asking why the box had holes in it. She started to open our card and Matt and another bridesmaid were asking what the heck she was doing and to just open the box! She pulled off the lid and out comes the puppy! Mandi was FREAKING out.  It was the best surprise EVER.  Her reaction was priceless as she cried, laughed, cried some more (tears of happiness of course).  So stinkin' cute. Now for the photos to show you what all the commotion was about with this cute little pup they named Millie.

Mandi's Suprise Face! PRICELESS

Family

Millie. 

 A little fun fact. The named her Millie to go with the "M's" they have for Mandi and Matt and they are also getting married at Mildale Farm. Cute, right?