So, the deal with the online profiles, well.......it goes from bad to worse depending on the day.  Not always, but more so than not the profiles are either SUPER cheesy or just one big pat on the back, brag-fest!

I know it's super hard to write about yourself.  SUPER HARD.  That's why, I had Lesli write mine.  What, what?  Yeah, you read me right.  I mean, seriously it's genius!

Everyone feels strange telling people all their PERFECT traits...cause let's be honest, IF we were as perfect as our profiles....would we really still be single?  Can I get an amen?

Insert best friend; she takes the good, she takes the bad....she takes them both and there you have....a perfectly written profile!  And it doesn't hurt that she is witty, really smart & a great writer.  Thanks Les.

So, I came across this profile last night and was in AWE.  He had me at she..........

WHOA, we should all strive to be this SHE!

We hosted a baby		shower for Monica and Lyla.  I'm a little behind on the posting....Lyla is 3 weeks old and just the most precious baby-doll you've ever seen.
Lyla's Cake

The Table

Babycakes by Angie cookies...they were a HUGE hit

Punch, champagne or both?

We were SO happy to SHOWER Monica and Lyla with lots of love.

I want this one.....

Thank you Em, for inviting me to go with you. I love your fat black birds, and also what they stand for. XOXO

A few weekend ago, we had a fun night at Sam's families lakehouse, at Cedar Creek Lake

Tara, Kevin, Angie, Adam, Sam & Curt

It was a short trip, but so fun. We laughed most of the time, but enjoyed wonderful food too.

I think from the huge pile, it was a very successful night!

"I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection - the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends.




At first everyone laughed, but he was serious.





Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality “girlfriend time" helps us to create more serotonin - a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings? Rarely.





Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters/mothers, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.





There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged—not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking!





So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! We are indeed very, very lucky. Sooooo let's toast to our friendship with our girlfriends. Evidently it's very good for our health."

A few weeks ago I helped host a babyshower for my dear friend Lauren

2 of my best friends (Ryan & Lesli), childhood best friends (Jac & Ali), had babies just a few weeks apart. I found these very BOY~ish love~ey's & just had to send to them!

This is SUPER WYATT for Ryan's best friend Jaclyn

And this one is for John Morris & Ali

Sam embroidered their names on them for me

I love knowing that I have built in friends via my other friends!

Wednesday night I will be sad. There will be tears involved. And yes, it will be because I will have just watched the last Oprah Show. Tears come easily to me, so this won’t surprise many. I’ve cried at the end of all my favorite shows. I BAWLED, heaving when Friends ended. MY significant other at the time looked at me and said, you do know this is a TV SHOW, right? But not to me, to me they were my FRIENDS and had been for the last 10 years. Oprah is no different.

I’m not going to pretend I’m an extreme viewer, going to the show wasn’t on my bucket list. I didn’t plan my vacations around going to see her. I never wrote in to try to get on the show. I’ve also not watched for the whole 25 yrs (no, my mom didn’t let me watch Oprah at 6 yrs old). But, I can honestly say I’ve been a loyal viewer for at least 15 years. And I’ve loved Oprah the whole time.

There has been lots of talk about Oprah and her “spiritual~ness”….religion, who God is, whether or not she is a Christian (which isn’t ours to say) But I don’t go to Oprah for knowledge on religion, she isn’t my spiritual guru, I didn’t learn my core beliefs from her. I go to Oprah for ENTERTAINMENT. And she has done pretty darn good at entertaining me for those 15+/- years. I’m not exactly sure when or where the Oprah haters got started. Perhaps when she openly supported Obama? My moms group of friends even went as far as to call a boycott of her. I think the word “Anti-Christ” was used. I thought that was ridiculous…but hey, we are all welcome to our opinion & I’m just expressing mine!

So looking back on many years of fun celebrity interviews, trips, FAVE-O-RITE THINGS, medical advice, fashion, weight-loss, financial advice, make-overs & even make-unders, gut wrenching shows about finding family members, stories about precious lifelong friendships, amazing stories about kids, relationship advice, eye opening accounts of the dangers of drugs & alcohol, hundreds of millions of dollars given to charities all over the WORLD, a campaign to put an end to texting while driving and I could go on and on. THAT is what I will miss every afternoon. Sitting down on the coach after a long day at work & knowing I can escape into an hour of entertainment, with my good friend Oprah.

Cheese grits, & I learned something new...BLUE BOX CHEESE

where have you been hiding all my life?

And stuffed zuchinni

I had SUCH a fun time, being able to relax with Lesli. It's been years since we've lived together, but in the matter of a few seconds of being back together, it's like the time never passed and we are right back where we belong. Thank you so much for such a great trip & all your southern hospitality & charm. Love you Sister.