Yup! I did it again. I dressed up our skeleton for Memorial Day Weekend. She is ready to have a picnic, go swimming in the pool, drink beer, watch the Indy 500 and hang out with her friends…. all while being patriotic about it!

Last week I was outside talking to my neighbor and she asked if we were going to the Battle of Flowers parade. Then she told me that she knows someone on the committee and can get us tickets. Since Lily has the day off school for Battle of Flowers I said we would love to [...]

The biggest festival of the year in San Antonio is Fiesta. I’ve told you guys a few times about it click here and here to read more. It’s a 10 or 11 day festival with lots and lots of different things to do. I am not sure if we are gonna do any of it [...]

My sister put a comment on my last blog post asking “What is in the carton of eggs?”. She means the carton of eggs that you can see in Lily’s Easter Basket. Those are Cascarones. In my opinion they are the most annoying thing about the Easter holiday. Every time we go somewhere that has [...]

This morning Lily came running into our room at like 7:00am screaming “The Easter Bunny came last night, The Easter Bunny came last night”. I told her that I guess the bunny knew that she was going to her dad’s tonight so he came a day early. Check out her cool basket loaded full of [...]

Last week when I was picking up Lily from school her teacher approached me and asked if I would be willing to volunteer to help with their class Easter party. Of course I said yes. Last time I helped at the school was on a field trip this time it was actually in the class. [...]

I have told you about the skeleton behind our bar a bunch of times. If you don’t remember you can click here, here, here, here, or here. Today I dressed her up to celebrate Easter this weekend. I changed her name to Easter Lily! And this is the cool sign I set up next to [...]

The other day I found more Easter decorations in a plastic bin in the garage. Now we have some bunnies in our house. This bunny over by the fireplace. And this bunny hanging on the back door. And of course a few bunny stickers for the windows. I think the creepiest bunny we have is [...]

I almost forgot to mention that we decorated for Easter today. We don’t have a lot of Easter decorations but we do have stuff up on the windows. Check out the awesome job that Lily did with the letters. Oh and we bought some Easter candy. As we were eating them Lily said she hopes [...]

What is Pi Day? If you don’t know what Pi Day is click here. If you do know what Pi Day is then you will know that the only logical thing to do is make a pie! Lily and I decided to try our hand at making a Lemon Meringue Pie. This is what you [...]

I will never forget the day that I saw them for the first time. I opened up an envelope and a bunch of vintage Valentines came falling out. They were kinda hidden among stacks of printer paper and other office supplies. I remember that I spread them out on the floor and looked at each [...]

Today has been one of the laziest days I have had in awhile and I love it. I was so tired when I went to sleep last night that my eyes didn’t pop open until like 11:30am-ish. We don’t have a lot of food on hand and we were not going to anyone’s house to [...]

Even though Lily is only in 3rd grade she still comes home with homework every single day. It is always math and reading. We have the perfect after school routine. I pick her up from school. And when we get home we relax a bit then when I am ready to start cooking dinner it [...]

Today was day 2 of our beach adventures. Shauna and the babies had too much sun the day before so Lily, Gage, JP and I headed down to the beach without them. Here is the sweetest picture of the day. Lily and Gage are both big talkers either one can talk you ear off about pretty much [...]

Today we packed up our stuff and headed to the beach for a long weekend of fun in the sun. We are renting a condo down on the Gulf of Mexico on Mustang Island in Port Aransas, TX. Our condo is full water view and only steps from the beach! We are sharing the condo with my dear friend [...]

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 [...]

This morning Lily discovered Easter baskets near the front door. So exciting! There where lots of goodies in each basket but I think everyones favorite things where either the bathings suits or the personalized towels. Look mine says Daisy on it! Once the baskets were picked through Lily looked at us and said “I wonder [...]

What would an Easter weekend be without dyeing some eggs? Remember that dye I showed you the other day? Today was the day! While I was at work Lily and Amanda boiled up every egg that I had in the house. She made a comment that was something like “This is the least amount of [...]

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 [...]

Remember those heart shaped balloons I told you about a few times last month? They are still floating all in lots of different cubicles at my work. Today I decided it was time to take down the ones at my desk. They were all floating and I felt bad just popping them and throwing them [...]

JP: Do you know what tomorrow is? Me: Saturday JP: Yes, but what is happens tomorrow? Me: Sunny Saturday? JP: UUGGHHhhh Me: What am I forgetting? JP: Tomorrow is the 3 year anniversary of the day we met. This my friends is one of the many million reasons I love this man!

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 [...]

A few weeks ago we decided we wanted to do our Valentine’s Day dinner at home instead of in a restaurant. It was Lily’s idea to cook crab for this dinner. Dungeness Crab is native to the Pacific Northwest so naturally when I lived there I ate a lot of it. Eating it here in Texas [...]

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 [...]

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.  ~Author Unknown Today is a very cold day in San Antonio. When my alarm went off it was like [...]

There are only 13 shopping days left until Valentine’s Day! At work the employee club is going to be starting the Valentine pre-sale tomorrow through Friday. For just $2.00 you can send your favorite co-worker a heart shapped mylar balloon, a valentine and a piece of chocolate. Not to bad, right? Well today I had [...]

Today was a warm sunny day in San Antonio. JP, Lily and I spent some time outside taking down the Christmas lights and putting everything up in the storage area out in the garage. While we were out there a Schwans truck drove by. It turned down the street a block away. I had Lily [...]

Today is CuriousDaisy’s first birthday!! Facts about the first year: As of today I have posted 474 times. As of today you guys have left 664 comments. Amanda has commented on 14 postings, and Stephanie once. As of today I have 119 catergories. As of today you have 7 pages of stuff to look at [...]

We woke up and checked out of The Drake Hotel this morning. Here is a picture of the beach on Lake Michigan as seen from our room. Do you see the people? It was like 30º outside! Buurrrrr! Here I am in the shopping part of the hotel. It was about a 1.5 hour drive north [...]

Today was my nephew Cael’s baptism. A few times I asked people what the difference was between a baptism and a christening. Everyone seemed to have the same opinion and now after looking it up we learned that they were wrong. The baptism is the water part and the christening is the giving of the [...]

Growing up it was always easy to remember my parents anniversary because it is the same day as Veterans Day. If my parents were still alive today would have been their 49th wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

We went to Macy’s today to look for winter coats for our trip next month. Did you know they already have Christmas stuff out!!! I am not sure exactly when it started but a few years ago Lily became fascinated with nutcrackers. Anytime she see them in stores she has to stop and look at all of [...]

There are no pumpkin fields in or very near San Antonio, TX. They dont grow them around here. When you go to buy them you find out they are all imported. Since I have lived in the North most of my life I think its crazy! I went online and found a farm that sells [...]

til Halloween! I love love love Halloween. My favorite part is dressing up but I think I like decorating for Halloween just as much as I like dressing up. Our yard is going to be so scary this year. This weekend will be our offical decorating kickoff! You would never believe how many decorations we [...]

Even though I was not feeling well I woke up to a delicious breakfast this morning thanks to Amanda, Stephanie and Lily! Then it was present time. Me and the reason I get to celebrate Mother’s Day. Lily and JP bought me a Dooney & Bourke. They also got me an awesome purple Marc Jacobs wallet. Both [...]

I taught Amanda and Stephanie about Origins skin care today!

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 [...]