Legally Blonde's Proceedings

I've been a bad blogger again.  Originally, I was a bad blogger because it seriously looked like I was starting another jury trial on Tuesday.  I know that when I was a DA I did back to back jury trials all the time and that was no big deal.  I don't know if it's being on the other side that makes that more stressful or that I'm 10 years older now, but just the idea of it wore me smooth out!  Anyway, we came really close.  The jury was about to be called up to the courtroom and then the DA, bless his heart, offered us a deal that we had been trying for for months and months.  So we plead the case to a misdemeanor instead of a felony and were done. Then I think I was just tired from the anticipation and all the work I had done over the weekend.  So I'm just no getting around to blogging about last weekends fun. On Friday night, I went with my uncle Mark and his wife to dinner.  Mark's birthday was this past Monday and mine is next week, so we d...

I decorated for Halloween back on October 1st, but due to the hub-bub around here, I am just now getting to post about it.  Everything is pretty much the same as always with a few tweaks here and there. My Halloween Tree... The Haunted Houses... The Kitchen Table... The spider web bowl filled with pumpkins... on top of the ice box... The dining room table... Random stuff here and there... The mantle is a similar to last year, but there have been some changes and additions... I'll post outdoor decorations later because I haven't taken pictures and it has been raining since Saturday night!  Rain!  It's been so long since we've seen any!

Today's a big football game.  No, not UT & OU's Red River Rivalry at the state fair.  Texas A&M has traveled to Lubbock for one last match-up. If you will recall, I went to College Station for last year's Tech game...  Sadly, we lost.  But I got to go with some of my Aggie friends.  Side note here:  As a result of A&M not having a law school, the bulk of my best friends are Aggies!  Anyway, my friend Abby & I had discussed going to Lubbock for the game.  But between kids, dogs, school, jobs, and life, we just didn't get it planned.  Problem is, we didn't realize that A&M was defecting to the SEC after this year and this would be our last match-up (at least for a while)!  Now we are so super sad to not be in the Hub City for the big game tonight. We (Lola & I) are all ready for it.  We will be participating in the Black Out at the Jones in spirit from the living room tonight, and are really ho...

Sorry I haven't posted one dang fun thing this week.  Here's what's been going on: (1) On Tuesday, I had an "open plea".  What this means is that my client wanted to plead guilty, but we couldn't reach a plea agreement with the state.  This was a felony case, and my client was currently on parole and had been convicted many many times in the past, so the DA only wanted to offer time in prison.  As you can imagine, my client didn't like that idea too much, so we went open to the judge, which meant that the judge could sentence him to probation, or anywhere within the punishment range which was 180 days to 2 years in prison.  So we did a mini-trial on Tuesday and I got my guy 18 months probation!  Seriously, that's less time than many misdemeanors get.  Woot!  Score one for our firm! (2) On Tuesday night, I found out that Adele cancelled her US tour so no birthday concert for me.  Boo! (3) On  Wednesday morning, we went to Dallas t...

Yesterday was opening day of the State Fair of Texas.  My uncle takes his family on opening day (something about his preference for clean/fresh grease), and they invited me to go along this year.  Are you ready for a picture overload?  The good news is that there are so many photos, you'll feel like you've been by the end of this post! Considering that on Thursday, it was 101' here in Texas, yesterday turned out to be a beautiful day for the fair... First stop:  The Butterfly Exhibit... Mark's company always has a corporate tent on opening day, so we stopped in for freebies and I convinced the girls they weren't too old to get their faces painted... Gracie (almost 12 yrs)... Maddie (10 yrs)... Then it was time to get to business.  There were games to play, rides to ride and food to eat! Roasted Corn is seriously one of my favorites, but don't forget the butter, Lawry's Season Salt, Black Pepper and some Cayenne Pepper! We had a winner (af...