Hey Lovely Girls

Anyone remember the time we started a group blog?  Yeah, me neither but when I logged into blogspot today - I found this old thing.  Funny, I guess our CampAPhi group on FB replaced this thing eventually. 

Just thought I'd throw a post out here and see if anyone is looking.... :-)

Hello!!

Hey everyone! Just thought I would share a picture of my "babies". Megan is 13 and Matt just had his first B-day July 15th.

Spring Initiation at Delta Beta

Don't forget that Initiation is next Friday. If you wanted to send a donation towards the meal after the ceremony, please send it my attention by next Tuesday. Please check the evite for more details.

AOE,
Heather Ashton Wunsch

Razoo's Gathering

Mattie & Kyle came into town from AZ this past weekend and Chele pulled together a lunch at the Razoo's in Irving. Deb and her daughter came up from Temple. Kara and Eric, Kris, me, Chele, Scott and their daughter all popped in from around the metroplex. There were oysters, crawfish, fried pickles and green beans all around! It was great to have Mattie back on TX soil.

Reminder: next gathering is planned for Friday, March 20th at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine. A GNO with your sisters!!

Kara is working on a gathering for the families at the Frisco ballpark in April.

CampAPhi is July 31st - August 2nd this year

New Pics posted

Posted some pics of our trip to the Aquarium and our Day at LSP last year. Check them out.

CampAPhi 2009

Don't forget to check out the evite for CampAPhi 2009. If you have never been or have no idea what I'm talking about - get in touch with me and I'll tell you all about the most fun a group of sisters can have on the water.

Lake Bridgeport, TX - Northside Marina

Deposits are due to me by 3/1/09.

Happy New Year Sisters!

Wishing each and every one of you and your families the happiest of New Years! Here's hoping 2009 is a great year for all of us!!!!!

Heather

Weekend Update

Initiation weekend was a blast with a downside. Upon waking up at our hotel in Greenville on Saturday morning, Deb received a phone call from Kara telling us that one of our sisters had been in a car accident on the way to initiation the night before. Here we were singing and humming and one of our sisters was in distress. She was so very close to the Phi house when a truck t-boned her vehicle. Please keep the Blalock family in your prayers (Leann is Scott's sister and Nicole's sister in law).

I have not heard an update on Leann this week but I think she was having surgery yesterday in Tyler?

There were so many alums at Initiation this year. We initiated 15 (included 5 alum initiates). The chapter is at quota and the house is currently full but all rooms are single occupancy. It is my understanding that is about to change and they will double up next semester. The house looks good. If you haven't been back since the 80's - it is so worth the trip. The bones are the same but that is about all that hasn't changed. The Mexican fiesta went well. Thanks to all the alums that brought something or contributed toward the food. Except for using toilet paper as paper towels - the meal was a success (someone needs to put Paper Towels on the "needs" list for the house). Seven of us stayed at the Quality Inn in Greenville afterwards (some of you may remember this place as the old Holiday Inn famous for hot tubbing in 90's- it is where we found the tiny kittens one night). We planned to party at the hotel bar but it closed at midnight so we just hung out in one of the rooms and talked til 2am. Saturday, some of the group parted and the rest of us checked into another hotel (in Irving). The five of us met up with Chele, Dawn, Felicia (all the way from CA) and her friend at Lone Star Park for a few hours of very cold horse racing. When the air was visibly cold, it was off to get some Hot Hooters for dinner. When the five of us got back to the hotel, it was obvious that everyone was ready to get some rest so the conversations ended well before midnight (did I mention Deb was the first to bed both nights just like at camp?). We got up Sunday morning and had breakfast together at the hotel, packed up and headed our separate ways.

I think having a long initiation weekend together was a hit so look for an evite next October when we do it again!

My Blog

I am attempting to create a blog.. its still a work in progress, but here in the link.
http://spotformandm.blogspot.com/

Pictures

Has everyone posted their pics from CampAPhi 2008 yet???

Initiation and GNO

In case you have not read the evites yet......Friday November 7th is Initiation at the Delta Beta house in Commerce. We will be doing a mexican potluck dinner for the chapter so if you can attend, please check out the evite and sign up to bring something. A bunch of us are planning to make a weekend of it and you are welcome to join us. Friday night, we will be staying in the Commerce vicinity (University Inn as of now, possibly to change). Saturday morning, we are going to get up and tour campus, raid the KA house and have lunch together. Saturday afternoon/evening we are going to Lone Star Park to watch the ponies race. Afterwards, we are going to get a hotel room in the area and catch up/veg/rest.

There are two evites - one for Initiation and one for Saturday's activities. Please be sure to view them both and let us know if you can join us.

Simply Fondue

We finally pulled off a successful dinner club after almost a year of trying. Eight Delta Beta Phis gathered at Simply Fondue on Lower Greenville Ave. in Dallas for a fondue cooking lesson (thanks Candace!!). Although seven of us were fondue beginners, we still managed to cook some really good food. Candace, Heather, Kara, Hewette, Rachel, Stephanie and Kim made quite a long night out of it (by our old lady standards) and left Dallas at about 11:15. There were talks of going dancing or getting tattoos afterward but I think once all the food hit our bellys and we realized how late it was - it was decided we would save our energy for Initiation and look for a good tattoo artist in Commerce in November! See you there!!

Simply Fondue

Hey all - just a reminder that we are doing Dinner Club at Simply Fondue in Dallas on Friday, September 5th at 7pm. Any of you "Dallas" gals will need to help the rest of us figure out the best way to get there and where to park. I know the lower Greenville area gets pretty lively on the weekends so I'm hoping we can park easily.

Right now, we have 11 signed up for dinner so hopefully we will have a nice sized group. I'd like to make reservations so if you have said you are coming and change those plans - please let me know so I can reserve the right sized table(s).

Outing Update

The Blalock, Cermak and Wunsch families had a great time this past Saturday at the Dallas World Aquarium. We experienced lunch at Cafe Maya (including turkey watching or watching turkeys), giant alligators, penguins, SHARKS and so much more! Being a novice to the DWA, I was surprised to discover that Dallas even had an aquarium and that it was so full of such great creatures and educational opportunities. It was super crowded which was the only downfall of the day - I guess everyone was trying to find things to do indoors since it was 105 outside! The kids really seemed to enjoy each other's company and all the sites. Evan had such a full day, he managed to stay awake for a total of 3 minutes once we were in the car! I really wanted to nap with him but figured I should do the driving.

I am totally open to suggestions as to where our next outing should be. I'm all for 'girls only' or 'family' outings - just need some ideas. Any excuse to 'gather' is a good one! Don't forget, Kris is having a Southern Living party at her house this Saturday so if you can get away from it all for a few hours - head to the Plano area!!

Aquarium

Due to lack of interest - the time for the gathing at the Dallas Aquarium is being moved back to 11am (instead of 1pm) to better fit the schedule of those planning to attend. If this fits your schedule and you can join us on Saturday, please let me know so we know to look for you and your family at the entrance.

FYI - for future gatherings: Dates and times are always negotiable so please let me know, when you get an evite, if another day or time would better suit your schedule. It does not always mean the date or time will be changed, but I do try to take the majority into consideration at all of the functions I plan. Camp is the only thing with a set weekend and that is because it allows us all to plan our year around that 3rd weekend in June every year!! :-)

The past two Dinner Clubs have been cancelled due to lack of interest and the Aquarium trip is down to 3 families at the moment so I'd rather move these events to get better (or any) attendance if I know ahead of time that they don't work for you. I know things come up last minute and none of us can control that - I'm just talking about the things we can control.

New addition to Cristy Coffman Lovick family - Matthew Evan Schmalzried

Hello girls!!

First of all a quick apology for not updating you all sooner. Things have been a bit hectic, and we had a major computer issue.. but we're settling down and the computer disaster was resolved. (I almost lost all of our pictures from the hospital.)

I hope everyone is doing well.. and will someone please forward this email to everyone else also who I didn't include. Kara, I saw where your husband had to have surgery, so I was thinking of you and hope he's okay.

Matthew Evan arrived Tuesday, July 15th at 12:30pm. Weighed in at only 7lbs 2oz, and 19" long. I have to say he must be the cutest baby in the world. He's absolutely perfect.

I couldn't believe how tiny he was, we were expecting an 8-9lb baby. Even the few newborn clothes we have for him are too small.

After he was born, I saw him briefly, then they ended up having to send him to the NICU because his oxygen levels were too low. He was breathing fine, but not getting enough oxygen. So he spent 6-7 hours in an oxygen tent. They let the rest of my family in to see him briefly, so everyone else got to meet him before I did. :O)
I finally got to hold him about 9pm and give him his first bottle.

We came home on Thursday night. Matthew is doing great, I have had some trouble with pain from the surgery. So I've been pretty groggy from taking pain meds. I'm hoping to try to take less today, I'd love to feel awake for a little while.

My Mom has been staying here, but I've insisted on getting up with Matthew and feeding him, etc.. but he's been sleeping sometimes for 5 hours at a stretch so its working out fine. I'm just waiting to start feeling better myself.

I just don't want to put him down for even a minute.. I'm probably spoiling him already.

I will attach a couple of pictures here, I promise to get more hopefully soon, but they're unorganized right now because of the computer problem.


Love you all!! Cristy Lovick

Dinner Club update

Well, it was a small group last night and a change of location. Since most of you had other plans, we moved dinner to Hurst at a place called RJ Gators. Debi and her daughter, Chele and her family met me there and we had a great time celebrating Chele's birthday!! We even had the waiters sing to her and bring her dessert!

If you didn't get a chance to join us last night, good news - Dinner Club Part Deux is next Thursday at 6:30pm in Grapevine. The place is called Flips Patio Grill and my daughter raves that they have the best food EVER! Please check out the evite and hope you can join us!!

Dinner Club Update

DFW Dinner Club - Thursday, July 17th at Uncle Julio's in Grapevine (Hwy 114 and William D. Tate) 7 ish. If no one is coming in from a long distance, we can move the time back to 6 or 6:30 if that works best for those coming in. Just email me: heatherwunsch@gmail.com

Hope to see you there.

who's out there?

Not sure who all is on this... not sure if most of you remember me... Leanne Knowles. I ran into Kim Nixon and she kinda passed on my info. Would love to hear from those I know. Send me your emails... Also, when is the dinner club? I can't find an evite. Thanks! Look forward to talking to some of you! :)

Dinner Club

Don't forget to check out the evite for Dinner Club next Thursday night. Hope you can make it!