This kids were so excited when they woke up this morning. They went through their Easter baskets then it was time for the egg hunt. The big difference between an egg hunt in Michigan and an egg hunt in Texas is that we do ours outside. I think this might have been their first outdoor [...]
Are you ready to see the scariest Easter Bunny Skeleton ever? Last week my friend Nicole came over and played dress up with my skeleton. Yikes!
We spent the last two days working on our Easter yard decorations and today we finally finished them. If you want to see Day 1 click here. And Day 2 click here. Since it is Saturday morning we had our usual big breakfast. Then we headed out to the garage. Everything was painted and ready [...]
Yesterday we cut the bunnies out, sanded them down a little and put on a coat of white paint. You can click here to see those steps. Today we cut out the eggs. Okay correction… I cut out the eggs. Yes, me. JP had a day trip up to Dallas or a meeting and I [...]
Our skeleton Paddy is very excited about St. Patrick’s Day!
Today Lily, JP and I started a project that involves power tools, wood, and paint. We are making bunnies and eggs for a front yard decoration. I came up with the idea after I saw something similar to what we are making when I was surfing around online a few days ago. After drawing the [...]
This is WAY to cute not to share. My brother sent me a picture last night of his kids leaning against a Seattle Police Department cruiser. The caption said: “Trouble at the tree lighting”.
What is Dia de los Muertos? El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico, the streets near the cemeteries are filled with decorations of papel picado, flowers, candy [...]
Last year I did a blog post about getting boo-ed and if you click here you can read about it. Well… we’ve been boo-ed again! I noticed it on Wednesday night but I left it on the front porch until Lily noticed it on Thursday morning on her way out the door to school. I [...]
Remember the gingerbread houses we made a few weeks ago? We had two houses sitting on the counter and today was the day that I decided I was done looking at them. My plan was to toss them in the garbage. Sometimes the plan doesn’t go as well as I hope… this was one of [...]
I remember when I was a kid we would save some of the seeds from the pumpkins so we could bake them. I told Lily last night when she was carving pumpkins that we could do it but then we ran out of time. After she got home from school I had a couple projects [...]
Today was pumpkin carving day at our house! Since we don’t have pumpkin patches around here I sent JP and Lily to the grocery store while I stayed home and got everything ready. Check out our supplies for todays carving. JP decapitated all of the pumpkins for us. Lily was excited to look inside of [...]
We have a lot of Halloween decorations… A LOT! Today we pulled all of them out and started putting things up both inside and outside. I plan on taking much better pictures once we are done but here is a teaser for now. This picture was taken from down near the street. And this is [...]
I always joke around and say “Mother’s Day is the one day of the year that JP gets up with Lily and I get to sleep in”. But now that I think about it I seriously don’t think I am joking. JP, Lily and Gage woke up and made a yummy breakfast for Shauna and [...]
If you had to guess what would you say ValEaster is? Or maybe EasterTine sounds better? For us it is somewhere between Valentine’s Day and Easter and even a few weeks beyond Easter. I guess it has to do with the fact that I park my car in the garage. When I get home I [...]
I am about to share a secret recipe with you! Have you ever been invited to a get together but you were not sure what to bring? Problem solved. I can’t make any promises about the calorie count but I can totally promise everyone will love it! These are the only ingredients you need. Put the block [...]
Me and Amanda went to The Quarry Mall to go Easter Bunny shopping today. I can’t tell you what I bought because I think someone might read this before Saturday morning. While we were out shopping I told Amanda that I don’t think we own any Easter decorations. Amazing considering all the other other holiday stuff we have! I picked [...]
After our boat trip we drove over to JP’s parents hotel and we all went out to dinner. Phoenix is like the center of the universe for chain restaurants. Seriously there are restaurants here they they have in Washington, Texas, Michigan and everywhere in between. I was so excited when I noticed the Buca Di [...]
I can’t find my blue underwater camera *gasp*! I know when I had it last but I can’t find it anywhere. Me not being able to find my camera is like you not being able to find your cell phone. Anyone who knows me knows that I carry that thing around with me everywhere I [...]
Since Lily always goes back to her Dad on Saturday evenings we decided to do our Valentine gifts today. Here is our pile of loot. The gift bags are from JP and the yellow package came in the mail from JP’s parents. Lily got an awesome bracelet from JP’s parents and some jewelry from us. I think [...]
I have mentioned before that I am a member of the employee club at my work. I was the lead for the Valentine’s Day event. I told you about it in my February 1st posting. Today was the day that we picked up the balloons and then delivered them to people desks. Here I am [...]
Next time you are thinking about buying me a gift.. this is what I want. As you already know I have fallen in love with all things Snowbabie. As of this Christmas my own personal collection has begun. When I moved in with JP he already had a few of the character collectibles but here are the three [...]
I had this idea a few weeks ago and on Christmas Eve I set it into motion. I emailed pretty much everyone in my address book and posted on my facebook asking people to send me a picture that they took this Christmas. Thanks to everyone who helped make this posting possible! I am not [...]
I asked Lily to give me two words to describe Christmas Day and she said “awesome” and “wonderful”. She had no idea she was getting a laptop. Something that we learned from Lily is that if you don’t recognize the brand name you will have no idea what is inside the box. We love love love to get presents [...]
I am sitting in the living room waiting patiently as JP hooks up some of the electronic stuff. I am hungry and thinking about putting the tamales in the steamer. Last year we decided our Christmas Eve tradition would be to eat mexican tamales for dinner on Christmas Eve. Here I am sitting in the big [...]
Lily woke me up around 8am this morning to tell me she was hungry. We did some stuff around the house and then started prepping breakfast. We are big fans of fruit around here. Lily’s job was to wash the fruit. We have raspberries from California. Strawberries from Mexico (they look orange in the picture [...]
Here is our 2010 Christmas tree. This is the big bushy noble fir that we treked through the snow for. Here are a few of my favorite ornaments. Lily’s Snowbabie (they never put my name on this kind of stuff). My Dad sent Lily this ornament before he died. I still love it even if [...]
Today after dinner Lily, JP and I all headed over to Six Flags. A couple months ago we bought 2011 season passes which cover the rest of 2010 as well. They have lots and lots of christmas lights up all over the place. When we first got inside the park our first stop was The Goliath which is [...]
When I was a kid going to get a Christmas tree was a big deal. We would have to dress warm, trudge through snow, search, and finally find the perfect tree. Once we found it my Dad would get down on the ground and use a saw on it until it hit the ground. Then he would drag it [...]
A couple days ago JP’s Mom Marlene told me that she mailed us a Pre-Christmas package and it was ok to open it before Christmas. I saved it for Lily to open today. When I handed her the package she read it to herself and said “Ooooh I know who this is from!” and she started to open [...]
How do you make a fun wreath? Check this out. First you need a plain wreath. Some Playmobil toys, a glue gun and lots of glue sticks. A couple hours later you will have this. I took some closer pictures so you can see the detail.
What do you do when you are on an airplane? This is what me and Lily will be doing. On our way home from Best Buy I told Lily we have to figure out what DS actually stands for. Right away she called out “digital” and then we went through a few S’s before we [...]
Today I went through a box of photos that I have from when I was a kid and I pulled out all of the Halloween pictures that I could find. I did my absolute best to put these in date order. As far as I can tell this is my first Halloween! In 1979 Vanessa was Raggedy Ann, I [...]
I have told you before that I like sugar. I really really like sugar so it only makes sense that I would like candy. Yes, I love love love candy! I am not sure if candy is the reason I like Halloween so much but I am sure that somehow it all makes sense eventually. [...]
I told JP and Lily earlier this year that as soon as they start advertising Six Flags season passes as “buy for 2011 and get the rest of 2010 for free” I was all over it. Like a week ago they started advertising for Fright Feast so we bought season passes. The park is less [...]
Today we started a project that isnt quite finished yet. We started with 9 miniature pumpkins and some spray. Then we drilled 8 holes in each one. 4 on each side. Then Lily and Adeline painted them black. After the black paint dried I sprayed them one more time with the clear finish. We haven’t [...]
Happy 4th of July everyone! For the first time in two years it was ok to light your own personal fireworks in the greater San Antonio area… sorta. You have to be outside of city limits. We drove out to BOOM Fireworks and bought some so that we could join in the fun! Here is the [...]
About a month ago I made reservations for 3 nights at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Corpus Christi, TX for the 4th of July weekend. I actually wanted to book a 2 night stay but there was a 3 night minimum. We were looking forward to spending our July 4th weekend in a Gulf of Mexico view [...]
Today was our last day on Padre Island. We started this morning by heading down to the beach for a few hours. Then it was time to go. This is the part we all dread and no one is happy to leave the beach. JP made sure the truck was packed and we were off. [...]
We are just now leaving Padre Island. This is by far the warmest temperature we have seen all year! The truck was parked on the shade when we took it!
Today is Earth Day 2010! When we were at HEB getting food for dinner they gave us a free reusable grocery bag. I told Lily to Ta-Da and this is what I get. Very typical. Ta-Da take two!
As of today I have worked at the same company for 7 years. My team bought me cupcakes! Good choice because anyone who knows me well knows that I love ladybugs and I love cupcakes!
It’s Fiesta time in San Antonio. This is both JP and my first time doing anything Fiesta! It is an 11 day festival that has been celebrated since 1891 or 1959 depending on which article you read! For more information you can go here www.fiesta-sa.org Today we had tickets to the river parade (Side note: Seriously, you need [...]
Yesterday we celebrated Easter with Rickey and his family. Lots of delicious bbq, cascarones, a pinata and even an easter egg hunt. We even went for rides on the 4-wheeler. Here is a picture of Lily and Rickey on one of the 4-wheelers. Not to long after this picture was taken I jumped on and JP and me followed Rickey [...]
This morning when Lily woke up the Easter Bunny had brought her a basket. Then she discovered that the Easter Bunny had hidden eggs in the backyard. Some of them were even in the bottom of the pool! Which one is the Easter Lily? The ones that were in the hottub were very easy to [...]
So as I was cooking dinner today I had two different thoughts. I made the lasagna from Mom Z’s cookbook and I realized that if my parents were still alive I know exactly what they would be eating for dinner tonight. When I told JP that I knew what they would be eating he said “Ok, what [...]
I am not even a wee bit Irish… at all. With that being said and since today is technically a holiday of sorts I had to mention it! Last week Lily pointed out that we have clovers growing in our backyard and she was looking for a four-leaf clover. She had no luck. Here is a picture [...]
