The Bachelor, the Emergency Room, and a busy week to follow

I feel like this week has gone by faster than normal. We've been pretty busy so I'm sure that is why. I feel like I am running on fumes, I've been running around like a crazy woman since last Friday. I'm looking forward to (hopefully) a more relaxing weekend!


Brandi's bachelorette party was last weekend and let's just say, we'll all remember this one! Allie and I drove down to Austin Friday night for the lingerie shower at the hotel. That was a lot of fun, she got a lot of really cute stuff! We actually got to bed fairly early (late for me, but I go to bed at 10pm every night, ha) which turned out to be a blessing in disguise.


Saturday was the day we were going to go out at celebrate her last night as a single girl! We went to dinner at Z Tejas, which was wonderful as usual. We got to watch a little of the UT game so that was fun. After that we headed out. Shame on me for not knowing this, but apparently, The Bachelor, Brad, from last season owns some places in Austin. I don't really have a lot of time for TV, so perhaps that is why I missed it. However, after going to a few other places, including meeting Brad's (we are on a first name basis, ha!) twin brother! He was very nice by the way! We decided to head over to Molotov to meet Brad. I'm married, so I may have not been quite as excited as some of the single girls that were there, but either way I was excited to check out his place. We got there, he took pictures with the bachelorette and honestly is really nice. (and yes, good looking!) We were having a great time.... were having, you caught that right?


Well... some guy weird guy bumped into a table full of glasses. I heard a crash and thought nothing of it. Well, then I hear someone say, "Oh my gosh, Brandi is hurt!" I walked over there and she had blood running down her hand. Broken glass = a cut... NO BIG DEAL! I pull her to the back where it is a little lighter and she holds her hand up and EWWWW!!! He pinky finger is DANGLING. She has zero control of movement and you can see her bone. I'm pretty proud of myself because I once thought I wanted to be a nurse, this was while I was a lifeguard, and one day a little boy came and showed me that his toenail was ripped off and almost threw up! Anyway... Brandi is calm, she tells me her finger is broken and we need to go to the ER... so we get someone to call us a taxi and Brad comes down to check on Brandi. He escorted us out the back and after having to kick a few girls out of the taxi because apparently they are only allowed to have 4 passengers, we made it to the ER.


Here is where my shout out to my big sis comes in. For those of you that don't know, she works in the ER in Houston. We were in Austin, on a Saturday, at 2am. Use your imagination. We saw it all. Seriously, it was really sad. I joke, but I am very thankful for people like Brandi because I coudn't work there.... I remember a girl coming in crying so bad she could hardly breath and I wanted to cry with her, from what we heard her friends were in a car accident and one of them didn't make it. After about 4 hours of waiting we come to find out that Brandi will need surgery, her finger wasn't broken, but she severed the tendon or ligament (I ALWAYS get those confused!!) and it has to be fixed if she ever wants control of her finger. They stiched her up and we got back to the hotel around 6am. EXHAUSTED!


All in all, we had a great time... the finger just kind of makes it a fun story to tell! I got to hang out with BOTH of my wonderful sisters and my adopted sisters Michelle and Lindsey and had soo much fun!!


Alec and I have just been very busy at work. I feel like all I do is wake up, work, workout, cook dinner, shower, and go to bed. An endless cycle that doesn't break until Saturday. I'm not going to lie, it is going to take me some time to adjust to Alec working, but I said all along it would. I miss him. I see him every night, but he gets home later and we are both so tired... but that is what the weekends are for!


We are dog-sitting Allie's puppy Bella this weekend, I am excited about that. We are also going to the fair tonight! Yay! I've been looking forward to that for a while! Saturday we are throwing a UT/ou watch party at the Sowards'. I KNOW! I didn't go to UT... but I can still root for them, right?? Colt McCoy is from Tuscola, TX and I used to eat dinner there all the time, does that count for anything??? I like all of the Big 12 Texas teams! (minus Tech, sorry!) and Sunday is Brandi's shower in Temple... so I get to see my whole family :) You have no idea how wonderful that is!


Hope everyone had a great week and an even better weekend!!! Sorry that was really long!