And we're out

So yesterday was the last day in our home. For those of you who don't know, we are moving to Boca Raton, FL to work at the Gray's family business McDonald's. We found some renters to rent out our home so we think our home will be in good hands. We spent 15 HOURS packing and loading on Saturday and stayed the night at some friends. We then headed to GA this morning to drop some stuff off at my parents house that we won't be needing until we find a new place. We officially head out of Tampa mid June and will be living with Clark's parents in their new home in Boca for a while.

I have not even had time to be emotional about leaving our home! I am going to miss our house as it was our first one we bought.  Oh well, life goes on and we roll with the punches.

My parents recently bought their second home down where my grandparents live. I LOVE it! Its two stories, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, a HUGE yard that Mac can play in, a VERY lovely open HUGE back porch and a cute front porch. There are so many shelves and storage in this house I can't even begin to explain. The house itself has so much character with built in bookshelves, wood floors, and the cutest bathrooms with the sink handles saying  "Hot" and "Cold". I just LOVE it!!!

Sorry that there are no pictures with this post as my cord is somewhere in a box. We will have many new adventures in the next few weeks to post about! Just thought I would keep everyone up to date!

Strawberry Picking

Last weekend we headed over to Lithia to pick A LOT of strawberries at a farmer in our wards fields. We had so much fun picking buckets and buckets minus the mini bugs EVERYWHERE! EEEK! I think that caused me to pick half of what Clark was able to pick. We enjoyed eating the strawberries as we picked and laughing at the little kids that had strawberry juice all over their mouth. What a great activity and it was FREE! I think we have about 10 lbs of strawberries in our freezer! YUM!

Aloha!

This weekend I had a chance to hang out with some old work buddies at a go away party for our friend Christy and her growing family! They are moving to Kansas at the end of May! So sad! She helped train me when I first started at Qore, now S&ME. We are going to miss you Christy!

Thanks Tara for throwing such a great party at your house!

Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw

Last night some of my girl friends and I went to a concert down at the Ford Amphitheatre! We had so much fun eating, singing and dancing together! Lady Antebellum was so good and Tim McGraw was amazing! Hopefully we can all do it again sometime soon because it was seriously a great night out!

Monkey Bread

So I was looking in the freezer for something to eat and came across one of Clark's weird buys at the grocery store. I can always count on Clark to bring home something home we have never tried before. The packaging and picture make this Monkey Bread look pretty gross, in my opinion.

Think Cinnabon...yes it was that good!

(but pretty fattening)

Much Ado about Nothing

Well, sorry I have been MIA (hehe its been only like a week but WHATEVER) but nothing much has been going on here. I've been working on my new blog I started called Styled by Night. Its a blog dedicated to finding great fashion deals/clothes that are modest! We all have a budget right!? So, to humor me, please go and check it out: http://www.styledbynight.blogspot.com/. Become a Follower too! Hopefully I will have enough traffic so that I can have some people participate in a giveaway! You like free things? Then tell your friends to head over to Styled by Night and Follow Me! Thanks!

The Cove: Help Save The Dolphins, Spread The Word

McDonald's Convention 2010

It was that time again to head over to Orlando and go to the McDonald's Convention! Its my third time going and each year it just gets better!

One night McDonald's rented out Sea World! It was so fun to go on the rides and eat all the free food!

Shamu and the dolophin!

Clark, Carmen, Adam, and Alex at the Shamu show!

The Gray Gang (minus a few)

At the convention we get to sample the new items that McDonalds will introduce on the menu. This is the Big Tasty Bacon Burger available in Europe (about the size of the Angus burger).

Then I ate the whole chicken sandwich which is going to be for the U.S. I was a PIG!

Yum Strawberry Banana smoothies!

Kodak Booth

Each year, McDonalds invites a special guest to perform. 4 yrs ago it was Beyonce, 2 years ago it was Rod Stewart, and this year it was Sir Elton John!

I can't wait for the next convention!

Bern's Restaurant

Some of Clark's colleagues from Singapore and Paris are in his Tampa office the next two weeks so we decided to take them out to a neat restaurant in Hyde Park called Berns. Picture the Haunted Mansion at Disney, yup, that is what it looks like inside. The rooms are dark with pictures and candles hanging on the walls. Its kinda spooky but not really.

We enjoyed an amazing dinner and then proceeded to take a tour of the kitchen and wine room before heading to the dessert room upstairs. If you ever visit Berns in Tampa, consider eating in the piano room when it comes to dessert. There are about 6 booths to eat at and you get to enjoy the nice music!

Really!!??

So the other day my neighbor called me to tell that the contractors across the street plugged in their electrical cord into my outlet on my porch! Are u FREAKIN kidding me. I had a hay day, gave the guy some lip, and then proceeded to unplug the cord. I then took pictures of everything...I took his name and told him to NEVER do this again and that I am contacting his company and the homebuilder. He took his cord back then proceeded to plug his cord into the GENERATORS that they had in the back of THEIR trucks! WHAT!!?? He totally lied to me saying they didn't have any...yup I totally caught his lie...good thing he spoke english or we would have had some problems.

So long story short, the homebuilder for the neighborhood are going to be paying for this months water (see post further down) and electric bill! Dang right they are.