Flash Back

I don't know if you noticed or not, but I have been a HORRIBLE blogger lately. The month of July was especially bad. I am finding myself incredibly busy, with nothing at all. It's strange! So I made an August resolution. Be a better blogger. I must find things to post about, even if there is simply nothing going on. So, today after my daily chores, and errands I dusted off my scanner, grabbed my boxes of pictures and scanned a bunch especially the ones that needed touching up, and while doing so, ran across a bunch of old pictures of Michael and I from 1998-2001 (AKA, the years before the digicam made its way into our lives) This month marks 9 years of us sharing our lives together! For the math experts out there, that is 1/3 of our lives!!! I thought it might be fun to post just a few pictures of us together through the past 9 years!

Band camp July 1998

with Dusty Balderas and Blake Hlavaty.
(Go ahead, say it: This one time at band camp.... ya, we've never heard that before ;) )

1999
Ready for TBS (band sorority formal-once a band geek, always a band geek)
Look how tiny Hendrix was!

The pro pic from that night

Michael was once a farmer...so I decided I was going to be one also

2000
Chuck E Cheese's
2001
Gma's Gpa's 50th Anniversary Pro Pic

2002
Paris

Magazine Picture for a Danish Article about the DTU/TTU program

2003
Engagement Picture

2004
Costa Rica

2005
Lubbock Home

2006
Fort Worth

2007
Copenhagen

Newest Picture Together
Istanbul

Congratulations!!!

A lot of you that read this blog know our friend Blake Hlavaty, so I thought it was appropriate to post this one here. Him and Michael have been friends since they were itty bitty and went through high school together. The same way I met Michael, I met Blake: at band camp. He was also in marching band with me at Texas Tech. Blake is in the Navy and lives in Hawaii. (I would be super jealous if I wasn't living in a cool destination myself) Right now he is picking up his girlfriend in Texas to move her back with him. They have been together for quite sometime now and we found out yesterday that they got engaged!!! We are so excited for them and wanted to share the news with all of you :) So congratulations to you Blake and Ashely!

Our "houseguests" or should I say the students that we are hosting for a few days had a lot of delays and such in Dallas yesterday. They made it as far as Baltimore before they couldn't make a connecting flight. Tonight they will be boarding a plane to Iceland and then over to Denmark. To make a long story short, they won't arrive till tomorrow. Last night we decided to test out the Partney Suite so we slept in there. It was really cool waking up with a glass roof and walls! We couldn't see anything while we were laying down besides sky and clouds. Very very cool!

Now, Video Number 3!
If you didn't see the first 2 videos, refer to the previous 2 posts to find out what these are all about and to watch the others, before you watch today's video. :)

"The Partney's in Denmark: Day 3 - Hillerød