Eye Candy

The JLSJ Fashion Show took place at the beginning of March. It was an event 15 months in the making and I am happy to have had the experience of planning the League's largest fundraiser. Having said that, I am super happy it is over! We raised over $110K! I am proud of the show we put on and the funds we raised will go back to support the community program of JLSJ: Helping young children enter elementary school ready to learn and thrive!

Now on to the show...

As one of the co-chairs of the event, I knew I was going to be crazy busy event week and weekend. Brett was modeling in the show so we needed some help for Hank - call in the grandmas! Both of our moms came in to town for the weekend and although they didn't get to see too much of Brett and I, they didn't care - they had Hank. It was so cute to watch them playing with him in our room at the Fairmont or out on walks in downtown SJ - they kept him busy and happy.

Hanging with Hank while on a break at the Fairmont.

Onstage to introduce the Friday Luncheon show

Brett modeling

Backstage at the Saturday Luncheon

I have to thank my dear husband Brett for putting up with my involvement in this for so long. It took a lot of time away from us and he was a trooper! He even modeled in the show because I asked him to. He was fabulous!

With our friends before the Saturday Gala Dinner. (These were just the friends at our table...soooo many other friends came to support as well.)

Our wonderful friends were there for the Saturday Gala and it was a blast to watch the show with them! Thank you for coming!!!

Models are League Members and their husbands/kids. We also had Firefighters from the Palo Alto Fire Department. Just for the ladies :)

Now, I promise to stop talking about Fashion Show.

-a

Blogtacular is back

The Blogtacular has been on a six month hiatus. I can explain why. If you look at the last post I wrote in September, I explain that I was about to go into retirement. I did in fact retire from the regular work force but in reality, I became busier than ever - but in a different way. It's amazing how once you stop working you all the sudden get busier with random stuff. Anyway, the JLSJ Fashion Show fundraiser took over my life and in December my sweet baby boy Hank was born.

FS + Baby = no blog time

My friends, family, and more importantly, Brett can attest to the fact that I had only these two things on my mind and that I was pretty much useless for anything else. FS took place in March and my brain has fully recovered so it's time to start blogging again. (Seriously, FS was a full time job plus some...when I wasn't taking care of Hank I was working on FS. Not trying to whine, just trying to excuse the lack of blogging!)

To all of you who have been asking for Hank pictures, videos, updates - ANYTHING!! - I promise I will have it all for you soon. I'm going to do some recapping of the past few months to get the blog up to speed on what's been going on around here.

-a

Save the date

We've finally secured the date and location for the JLSJ 2010 Fashion Show - March 5th & 6th at The Fairmont San Jose. Yay! So glad that is done.

Family and friends - mark your calendars please. I promise you will not be disappointed as I am pretty sure a certain person named Brett is going to be a model. That alone will be worth attending.

-a

February already?

I can't believe it's already February. The past month has flown by so fast. I've spent a lot of time on Junior League - but at least it's been fun. I am one of the co-chairs for JLSJ's 2010 Fashion Show (FS) and we've been working on selecting our venue and getting our dates finalized. The event is a year away but it's similar to planning a wedding and about 1,100 people attend it. Once these first big decisions are out of the way, I'll be very relieved.

In January, it seemed like Brett and I had one party/birthday/dinner/happy hour/meeting after another. Oh yeah, and I've been working at my real job too. It was a ton of fun - but I am hoping February is a little less busy. After all, I am naturally inclined to be a hermit and I really haven't been able to do enough of that lately. I haven't even had time to post to my blog!

By the way, Phil saw his shadow today and that means 6 more weeks of winter. Well, someone should tell Palo Alto that because it's 70 degrees outside now. This is my kind of winter.

-a