So, Phoenix...

Phoenix was a blast! It was a lot of hard work and I didn't get NEARLY enough sleep but it was a ton of fun. I met a lot of really neat ladies who are Phi Mus and we had some amazing speakers.  The Fraternity had Debbie Phelps come and speak (Shes a Phi Mu and her daughters were initiated at convention!) at one of the luncheons and she seemed really nice but I didn't get to meet her.  Foundation had three really neat guests, all Phi Mu's as well. 

Cheri Griffin AKA Victoria Alexander-who writes historical romance novels-Was hillarious.  she was probably one of the nicest people ever.   She was very gracious and her talk about "Why fiction is almost always better than real life" was great.  I normally don't read romance novels but I have started "The Virgins Secret" which is her least favorite of her novels and am enjoying it so far.

Janet Woznaik (sp?) the wife of apple co-founder & DWTS star.  Was a very smart lady and was very nice.  Her talk during our business session was kind of an overview about enjoying your life.  She started out as a teacher and now works for Apple teaching people about technology.  She actually met her husband on a cruise because she was there to train Apple-geeks on a new software.  They seem to really love life and do a lot of great things for those less fortunate.  "To lend to those less fortunate a helping hand"  I was already addicted to my iPhone and I really want a mac but now I know that my next computer will be a mac because if the wife of the co-founder has the attitude that Janet does I know that he must as well and those are the kinds of people who I want to support even if they are already richer than I will ever be :)

Tammy Gentry-Have you ever seen those little conversation stones they sell at Christian book stores etc.  Well, Tammy stole the idea from a friend and started "Penny Stones".  In her defense she gave her friend the chance to join her and the friend said no thanks so Tammy started the business on her own.  She is an amazing woman and was SOOOO nice!   She developed a special Phi Mu edition so that chapters could use them to build better conversation skills for the real world, interviews, business settings, and yes, recruitment too :)  What an amazing idea!

We stayed at the Biltmore Resort in Phoenix and it was very nice.  Our beds were sooo comfortable!  We discovered a mexican resturant that was even better than the one Adam and I frequented on our honeymoon in San Antonio.  The pools were nice, one of them even had a waterslide! 

All in all I had a blast and I think I have FINALLY recovered from the lack of sleep!

Hope everyone who reads this (all 20 or so of you!) are doing well.  What have you been up to?

Well crap...

I had a long post typed then got a text message and my phone didn't save it when I responded :( here are the highlights details tomorrow because it's bedtime...
July 4th went to Louisville, huge fireworks show, drank Boones Farm from a bottle like a white trash high school kid, tried yuengling (sp?) beer and liked it.

Week of July 17 Worked Phi Mu National Convention in Phoenix. It was exhausting but a total blast. Missed Adam and izzy like crazy may have gotten a bit bitchy by the end because of it.

July 23 turned a quarter of a century old had DQ ice cream cake it was yummy. Adam just bought me princess edition silly bands as a birthday present because I did in fact turn 7 not 25. We are going to Bed Bath and Beyond tomorrow because we both have the day off to pick out my creme brûlée torch which I am super stoked about :)

Currently-Adam just downloaded an app to his iPhone where you type in words and the phone reads them out loud so a robot just told me I'm hot and asked "wanna do it" he is having way too much fun with that thing. He just asked permission to make the bed via robot voice I may have to restrict it's usage.

Night all that's the highlights :)

I am a horrible blogger

I promise to get back in the habbit soon...really...I swear...

Today I am a quarter of a century old...Happy Birthday to me!  I'm looking forward to my DQ icecream cake tonight :)  Hopefully my gift to myself will be ready so Adam and I can go to Louisville this weekend and get the bug :)  I promise to give a real update of the crazy month I have had tomorrow while Adam is at work.

Hugs and Kisses!
Shanon

Fathers Day

I thought while I am waiting on my work computer to finish searching for a file I would post about fathers day. I'm dpi g this via Iphone though so bare with me!
This was my second fathers day without my daddy. And while I miss home every day it was actually a great day with no even minor brakedowns!
Adam and I went to lunch at a Mexican resturant Yummy! Then we went to the library so he could get a couple of books on CD for the drive to louisille.
He still hasn't had any luck on the job front--well he hopefully will find out today he has a job waiting tables but they can't train him for 2 weeks--and I don't make enough to pay all of our bills since we still have a mortgage in Louisville plus rent down here so he is going back to Lville for a week or two to do some work foe his brother in law. :(.
Anyway back to yesterday. After the library we drove to a nearby town that has a lot of history and I found exactly 6 dream homes all of which I'm fairly certian count as historic. Hopefully if we decide to buy a house down here one of then will be on the market and inniur price range! I LOVE old homes. Our house in Louisville is 100 years old and served as army barracks for WWII training!
Well my computer stopped searching so back to work. More later!

Wow!

Hi blog land I just realized I has been over a month without a post and for that I completly apologize! So here are the highlights and i promise details later (please forgive typos I'm doing this from my phone!)
--Adam is now in Georgia with me. He was told by his recruiter that his age waiver would probably be declined at this point for nuclear engineering so he has put all things Navy on undefinete hold and has started lookin for a career type job here. He might even go back to school. At any rate he missed me like crZy the two months we were apart and isn't sure about planning our lives around 6 month deployments. He is going to go back to waiting tables probably next week because we can't live on just my income if only the house would sell then we would be set!
--I love my job. But i'm going to have to remember that there are 30+ women in the building and for a large percentage this is their first real job. I had seen a lot of the silly drama but this week got to experience it first hand for the first time. God girls are stupid!
--Izzy caught fleas from my moms dog last weekend. $40 later we think they are gone but she is still scratching the bites poor thing! I'm hoping mom will send me a check for the $40 because this is kind of the worst time it could have happend.
So that's the highlights hope all of you are well and even though i havnt been commenting I have been reading your blogs i promise!

Prize Winners! and my 99th post...

--Since this is my 99th post that means my next post will be my 100th.  SOOOO I need all of you to ask me questions to answer so that I will have something semi interesting to talk about! :)

NOW--Without further ado the custom spa basket winner choosing by Izzy :)

Let me start by saying it is a bit more complex to get a 3 year old dog to pick a prize winner than I anticipated.  But here is how it went.  (Please pardon photo quality, these were all taken on my IPhone with very poor lighting!)

First I got together eight index cards and a pretty sharpie marker (because there were only eight entries) :)

Then I wrote each entrants name on one index card for each entry

Then I arranged them so there was equal chance of Izzy picking each one.

Then I set Izzy loose to choose a winner.  She didn't seem to interested at first...

Then she wanted to play...

So I tried to trick her by wadding the choices up in balls thinking she would play with one.

But Izzy said RARRRRR I don't want your silly paper balls!!!

SO I tried hiding her rawhide in the middle of the pile.

It worked!  She picked one of the things in the pile...

And the Winner is!!!!

The Rawhide bone.  But  I didn't think it was fair to put together a spa basket for the rawhide bone since it didn't even care to enter the drawing.

So I piled the entries up in a mound again.

Closed my eyes and picked a winner myself.

And I say the winner is

Heather @ This is the story of a girl!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!  you can send me a direct message on Twitter (or respond to the one I will be sending you as soon as this posts!) and we can work out the details.

Oh and Izzy says congratulations too

But she still says the rawhide shes currently chewing on should have won.

Thanks to everyone else for playing along Bethany and Erica

Giveaway! and life...

Have you entered my giveaway for a custom spa basket yet?  There have only been 8 entries so far so you should go enter your odds are pretty good!  Here is a link go check it out...Go on, I'll wait....

Have you entered yet??


No really, go enter~ http://shanonrenee.blogspot.com/2010/04/giveaway.html#comments


Ok, now that that sillyness is taken care of.

I am super excited for Derby this weekend!  This time tommrow I will be curled up in bed with my husband.  I can't wait!

SOOOOO I apologize in advance if I disappear, I will try to keep up with everyones blogs and try to post some updates.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you Sunday!