A visit from the parents...

My parents came up from home to visit us in good ol' Sactown.  I always love when my parents come to visit because we always have soo much fun!  Drinking, talking, eating, shopping, golfing....what more could I ask for?!?!?!?!

Well, I am glad that you asked!  As many of you know, one of my (and my mom's) favorite past times is shopping (the other being pedicures, which we also did and got super sparkly toes!).  Well, on Saturday my mom and I went shopping.  I was looking for a big honkin' purse to carry all of my breast cancer stuff (notebook for taking notes, planner, and accordion file to keep receipts, etc).  Shopping for purses is just about as awesome as shopping for shoes (we bought some shoes too!)!!!  And when I say awesome, I mean it in the super cool way!

I should probably explain our love of purses in a better way....

Back in early 2009, my mom was my date to my friend, Mercy's wedding in Las Vegas (Omar couldn't go because he was teaching the next generation).  Anyways, we stayed at the Palazzo Hotel which connected to one of those nice shopping areas.  We happened to find the Michael Kors purse store.  We just wanted to go in and look around.  Seriously, we really only wanted to look.  Well, you know what happened?!?!?  We found purses that we just had to have, of course!  It was my first super expensive purse and it was blue!  I was soo excited that I had the sales associate take a picture of my mom and I with our new purses! 

Now, back to this past Saturday at Arden Fair mall in Sacramento.  My mom thought we should look in the Coach store for a big ol' honkin' purse.  I just wanted to look at Macy''s.  We walked into the store just to look around.  I found a purse that I wanted to look at.  It was just the right size, a pretty pink/coral color (perfect since pink now has to be my new fave color), but wow..the price not soo much.  But the guy who gave it to me to look at said, "If I give you $100 off would you buy it?"  Yup, I sure would.  Then he went and got the matching wallet too.  When he came back I was telling my mom, "I totally deserve this purse!"  The guy asked me why...my mom and I looked at each other and looked at the guy again.  "I have breast cancer," I said. The guy looked at me stunned (this is the reaction that I am trying to get used to).  We all started crying.  Embarassing.  But, I did get the purse and the wallet.  But, the guy also gave me a coach key chain too! 

Would you like to know what my husband's reaction was?  "If he was willing to give you $100 off, you should have held out for more!"  Oh, Omar!  Actually, he's probably right!!!