Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, exciting news :-) Our floor battle is over. Nine months later we have won. We lawyered up. (Thank you, Aunt Linda!) And that got everything moving much more quickly. Amazing what a little piece of paper can do if sent by the right person. We gave the flooring company the option of replacing the floor themselves with numerous detailed stipulations or giving us the money equivalent (plus the lawyer fees) and sever the relationship.

::Drum roll please:: They are giving us the money equivalent and we can pursue a different company to lay our next floor! Yay! This is so great. An answered prayer. A dream come true. 2011 IS looking so much better like I thought it would. I just had a feeling it would turn out okay but seriously, for a while there, I wanted to scream. . . a lot. . . all the time. They were AWFUL trying to make it seem like it was our fault. That there was something wrong with our plumbing, something wrong with our foundation. No, no. You just installed it wrong. The guy who changed it all for us was from the national flooring association and he did his examination of the floor and found several things wrong with how it was installed. That was in October. Well, at least it got taken care of eventually. I just feel like we can finally MOVE ON. We can make the house a home. I know we'll be doing our bedroom this year, too. Maybe next year, the kitchen. It will all come together eventually. All we have is time. :-)


Well, I was going to end there but then remembered you want to hear about other things like my birthday and our anniversary :-). Let me just start off by saying that my mom is awesome. How do I say this? She has really gone above and beyond the call of grandma. I had no idea she would be this way. She's pretty much stayed at our beck and call coming out to Dallas whenever we ask her to. She gets excited to and if we haven't called her in a few days, she calls asking how Emma's doing and if we need her to come out. Seriously? This is my mom? I'll take it!

For my birthday, we went to our at-the-moment-favorite-restaurant Kenny's on Beltline. Very unassuming from the outside, DELICIOUS on the inside. Then, we went to a movie. We haven't been to a movie (I went to see Harry Potter but that doesn't count) . . . I can't remember the last movie Adam and I went to together. That's insane. We are crazy movie people. Before baby, we used to have "two-fer" Saturdays where we would pay for one movie and then when it was over, sneak into the next movie. This is very easy to do at the parks mall theater because they have the massive bathroom in the middle and you can just walk into it after the movie like "oh, I just have to use the restroom before we go" and then walk out to the other side, meet up and voila. Next movie. We would find the two movies that synched up perfectly for this. It was fun. But now the baby kind of throws a wrench into everything. :-) We love our muffin.

Anywho, we went to go see The King's Speech. I loved it. I knew I would. The hard part was getting Adam to go see it. He usually complains about the things I suggest but then ends up loving them. Go figure!!

For our anniversary, we were originally not going to do anything because we've been doing a lot lately. We saw the movie, and had a ridiculous night out when Adam's bosses were in town and ate the most ridiculous meal at a restaurant in uptown where our bill was over $2000 (9 people). That was the night that I drank way too much wine because when you order it by the bottle, the little waiters make sure your glass stays full! We also went to see Dane Cook when he was here at the american airlines center. Another fun night.

Okay, so our anniversary. We went to a quick dinner at Mi Cocina and then went to Ovo, Cirque Du Soleil in Frisco. Some of my coworkers had been and said it was great and we've never been to a show before, so I bought some tickets (at 40% off, nice!) and off we went. This is another one of those things I had to convince Adam was going to be fun and he ended up enjoying. haha. Boys, boys, boys. Anyway, I thought the show was good but it was so cramped! We were packed like sardines. I'm sure I would like it in Vegas in a more formal setting and not in a traveling tent. I'm glad we went, though. Some of the things they do are just breathtaking.