Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Dinners and Prizes

I forgot to post about last Thursday! We had a dinner out at a nice hotel. It was a kick-off dinner for that conference/expo he went to over the weekend. I got to meet a bunch of people he works with (his boss reminds me painfully of an old boss I had once! I'm sure he's a great and respectable guy, but it churns my stomach a little to be around him because of the old memories.) And we made connections. If we want to live in Spanish Fork, there's a practice for sale...though I don't think we do. Anyway, the gave door prizes, GOOD ones too!! I mean, like $250 WII gaming systems, an IPOD, a nice digital camera, $100 Visa gift card, etc. No wonder heathcare costs so much eh? Chad and I didn't get any of them, but Chloe won one of the two prizes they had for kids, a $25 Blockbuster gift card. Pretty cool! All 3 of us picked out a new movie and we still have enough left for a rental. Chad had a wonderful time, learned a lot, and met a lot of people. Those of you that have been to an expo know what they're like; Chad came home with a bunch of stuff that the vendors were giving out at each of the booths: toys, pens, candy. And they'd had another set of door prizes. Chad actually won one of them this time and he gave it to me! It was a $50 Visa gift card and the freedom to splurge on anything I wanted judgement free "even a million cotton balls". We went to the mall yesterday for a new book. In one of the windows was the cutest dress ever, and it was modest! I decided to try it on, mostly just for fun. The one on the manican happened to be my size, one of two of that dress left in the store. I tried it on and Chad gave me a cute little smile and said it was cute. I quickly took it off, not wanting to fall in love with it because I can't spend that much on a dress, even if I have it to spend. We left and I couldn't stop thinking about or smiling about that dress, so I went back and got it. It was danged expensive, and I'll be a little over dressed for church, but it totally makes me giddy to think about my new dress.

5 comments:

Jodie said...

SO CUTE! I love it and it looks great on you! And there's no use feeling guilty on the amount...it was worth it!

My Many Coloured Days said...

Fun times! It is absolutely adorable - just missing your cute smile in that picture!

Hope said...

The dress is so pretty. Nice purchase!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad such a fun thing made you happy. These are nice simple times. Live it up. Also I posted again on my blog and I had such a good time with ya'll in UTah.

Dana said...

OH my gosh you look like a doll!!! What a beautiful dress on you. And poooey on being over dressed for church. YOu look georgous!!!!!! I thought for a minute that it was another dress that you made.