Long Overdue

Wow, I can't believe I haven't blogged since April. I just haven't been much in a blogging mood lately nor had the time honestly, but I'm back and ready to catch the blog world up on what the Carter's been up to for the last couple of months.

First things first... we are now dog owners! We adopted Bauer from the McKinney SPCA back in April. For those of you who don't know, Michael has been begging for a dog since we got married and I decided to surprise him with Bauer for our 2 year anniversary.

We were told he is a lab/boxer mix, but who knows. This photo was from the day I adopted him. My sister came with me to pick him out. Isn't he adorable?!

The pictures above are from the first week we had him. I can't believe he was ever that small. Here he is now...

Bauer has been so much fun to have around, especially now that Michael is on call several nights a week even if he's a little bit over protective sometimes. He is also a very smart puppy, although he has his occassional blonde moments. :)

United Breaks Guitars

Sorry, the airline geek in me is coming out! I think this is absolutely hilarious, but it's probably not so funny to United Airlines.

PS...I'll be joining the blog work again soon, so check back for updates on the last 3 months of our lives!

On a Roll

Today we celebrated Britney's 24th birthday with a bowling party. Back in the day, she was the youth champion in the state of Arkansas, and man did she make us look like amateurs!

But, I have to say, Wii bowling has been really good for my game. I got my highest score ever today and beat my hubby by 1 point! :)

(don't judge my highest score!)

Making Up for Lost Time

Growing up, music wasn't a big part of my life. I grew up in a small east Texas town where my mom was the children's minister at our hometown southern baptist church...so I'll let you guess what kind of music I grew up on. If you guessed Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace, and Stephen Curtis Chapman, then you guessed right. I'm not knocking christian music, I still like it, but I just didn't experience many other genres.

Don't get me wrong, my friends in elementary school taught me how to belt out some New Kids on the Block with the best of them and dad taught me to love John Denver, but beyond that my exposure to music wasn't particularly broad. Then I met my amazing hubby, and he has introduced me to music that I probably wouldn't have listened to otherwise. My two personal favorites are Marc Broussard and Jonny Lang. We recently got the chance to go to both their concerts and I can honestly say they blew me away. By far the best concerts I have ever been to in my life, especially Marc Broussard! Enjoy some short videos from the Marc Broussard concert!

National Pancake Day

I hope you all got to enjoy Ihop's National Pancake Day! The only thing better than good food and great friends, is free food and great friends!

Beautiful San Diego

Last week, the Southwest Airline's Marketing Department packed up and left for a 3 day Annual Marketing Meeting in San Diego. Every year our whole dept. gets together to learn/set our goals for the upcoming year, rekindle friendships, and get energized for the year ahead. It is always a wonderful time and this year was no different. This is also a time for us(SWA) to thank our host city for all their support. Normally this means doing some type of community service project or passing out free tickets to locals. It is always such a fun time to hear what our Customer's have to say and see them get so excited. In San Diego we had sent a Facebook event out to the locals and announced on our Twitter site that we would be out giving free tickets away, and man did they follow! The second we hit downtown crowds were sworming and willing to do whatever it took to get these tickets...we had singing contest, dancing contests, SWA trivia contests, etc.

As much fun as it is spending time with our Customer's, its also a great time to get to know coworkers outside of the work environment. Our great partner, Sea World, hooked us up this year with a day in the park to ourselves. The best was the private Shamu show to end the night, pretty amazing! Here are some fun pictures of our trip.

Just arrived in San Diego

Before dinner at SeaWorld
Brooke and I before the Shamu show

I definitely could have stayed in San Diego longer than those 3 days. It was really hard leaving this sunset!

**sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. I left my camera at home, so these were all taken on my phone**

Introducing our new SI Plane

About a week ago Southwest unveiled a new plane that will be in rotation for the next 60 days. Southwest partnered with Sports Illustrated to introduce the 2009 Sports Illustration swimsuit model, Bar Rafaeli, and to introduce New York to Southwest Airlines. For those of you who don't know, Southwest will begin flying into New York's LaGuardia Airport beginning this fall. Everyone knows New Yorkers are hard impress, but I think we succeeded with our new partnership.
Take a look at our new plane...

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