Do you drink coffee? We do… a lot of it! Do you make it at home? We do pretty much every day. Have you ever cleaned your coffee maker? I will tell you our story. Before I lived with JP I didn’t make a lot of coffee at home. After we moved in together the [...]

A few months ago we were walking through the cleaning isle at the grocery store because I was out of bathroom cleaning products. Lily was standing there and said “Get this Kaboom stuff”. Then she told me that she saw a commercial telling her that it was the best product ever. I am all about [...]

I had a pretty busy day today with nothing in particular to blog about so let’s get random! First thing this morning I took the Silverado in to get an estimate for a little one truck accident that I had a couple weeks ago. Yup… I admit that I was attacked by a concrete pole [...]

I was walking through the produce isle at the grocery store when I noticed some little tiny orange things sitting there next to the kiwi. I asked the produce guy what they were and he said they were kumquats. I know that I have heard the word before but I never in a million years [...]

We see these guys running around the yard, in the trees, etc every single day but I have never seen them doing this. I found these frisky little critters out on the back porch. Hmmm.   I went online and this is what I learned about them : Often mistaken for chameleons, the green anole [...]

If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that I am a huge fan of plants. I like plants and they like me so it all works out really well. Back in like November in preparation for winter I moved two of the big plants inside. We only had [...]

When I woke up this morning the sun was shinning and the pool was calling my name. I checked the temperature and the water was up to 72°. Pretty good considering that 2 days ago it was only 70°. I decided that today was definitely a lay around and be lazy kinda day. But you [...]

You may have many friends, or only a few. But have you ever thought about who your true friends are? Some of the people I call friends are only acquaintances, not true friends. What is a true friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. You do [...]

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 [...]

Usually I try to play sports on nights that I don’t have Lily so that I am not stealing any of her time from me. A few months ago when I signed up to play softball with Beerific I told the captain that I want to play  but I can’t commit to every Friday night. [...]

I was preparing dinner today when Lily said “Can I do a science experiment?”. I asked her what kind of experiment? She said “I saw a video at school and a guy named Bill Nye The Science Guy taught me something cool”. Supplies: Balloons Plastic Bottle Baking Soda Vinegar After she had everything set out [...]

Today I was going digging through an old box of photos and I found this one. This is me like a bazillion years ago. The picture was taken out on a 40 acre piece of property that my dad owned in Michigan. After I started thinking about it I remembered that I snapped pictures of [...]

I love Ranch Dressing! Most of the time it is hard to find a good one though. Some places really mess it up. The other day JP and I were talking about dressing and it reminded me of one that I use to make a long time ago. I would say it has been about [...]

I am not sure exactly what it is because it is hard to describe but something about Colorado really touched me. I am not sure if it is the wonderful landscape, the nice people or just the feeling I had the whole time. I would 100% come back to Colorado any chance that I get. [...]

I have told you before that if you click on the page above named “I Was Where?” you can check out the states that I have been to. Before this trip I was at 28 states… now I am at 30! Number 29 was Colorado and I want to tell you a little story about [...]

I am pretty sure Swetsville Zoo is the strangest place I went today… or better yet the strangest place I have been in a long time. When I travel around I am not a fan of going to zoos or aquariums but the description of this place caught my eye. It has about 150 or [...]

This morning we woke up in downtown Denver. When I woke up I was so thirsty… sure I drank a bunch of beer last night, but this was different. I was THIRSTY!! I knew this elevation thing was gonna make me this way, and I thought I had prepared for it the day before by [...]

This morning we had a direct flight from San Antonio, TX to Denver, CO. Direct flights are awesome and a real treat because there are not to many cool places you can fly directly to from San Antonio. And the best part? The flight was less than 2 hours so we were on the ground [...]

I have told you before that I am constantly looking for things to keep Lily busy. If you have spent any time with her you know that busy Lily = awesome Lily. If she gets bored she is kinda like me… she gets hard to deal with. There are a million things you can do [...]

Once we were almost done planting we had one more plant left… but only 1 pot that wasn’t big enough. I told Lily that we could go buy more pots later on. This is the plant that needed to be replanted to a bigger pot. It is very full and soooo pretty! After doing some [...]

Lily and I have had a project in mind for a little while now so we decided today was the day. See this rocky tree bed? We think it would look much better with flowers around it instead of rocks. We actually had this idea last summer but never got around to it. Our first [...]

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 [...]

For Lily Week today she wanted to plant the flowers that we bought the other day. We bought a few late last week but it had started raining by the time we got home so we never did anything with them. Lily has gotten really good at potting plants. Here she is watering on of [...]

I usually pick up Lily on Wednesday but this week she is on Spring Break so I picked her up a day earlier than usual. Last week I told her that Spring Break week would be Lily Week and she could choose something cool to do each day. After I picked her up I gave [...]

I skipped out of blogging for the last few days but now I am back! I have a really good reason for being gone so long… actually I have 3 of them. JP had to be up in Austin for the SXSW festival and I went to join him I didn’t bring my camera (all [...]

We had our first game of the Beerific Softball season today. I was convinced all day long that it would be canceled because it was raining and like 45° outside. Surely the San Antonio Parks and Recreation wouldn’t make us play in this kind of weather, right? Wrong. I was miserable the whole time as [...]

Actually I always say tomato… not tomato. But I made something the other day that I want to show you. If you love tomatoes as much as I do you are in for a real treat! Get out 3 tomatoes, a baking pan and your cooking spray. Cut the tomatoes in half and put them [...]

I thought this picture was way to cool not to share. Yesterday when I picked up Lily from school it was about 70°+ outside. After I started making dinner I noticed the sun went away and it was super windy outside. When I stepped out on the back deck the temperature had dropped at least [...]

I am not sure how I always let it come to this… but I do. I feel like my bedroom closet is always a mess. Maybe it’s because it is not in my normal routine so it only gets totally cleaned out like once a year or so. It gets vacuumed like once a week [...]

Do you eat breakfast tacos? We do. I could go on an on about the best places here in San Antonio to get them and what to order. While I don’t usually make them at home I did today. I was digging through the fridge looking for something to make JP for breakfast when I [...]

After Lily was done with her homework today she said she was headed out back to play. I usually check on her through the window every once in awhile when she is out there. She knows that one of the #1 rules about playing in the backyard is to stay away from the pool… thank [...]

A couple weeks ago I told you guys that we have some sneaky squirrels in our backyard. If you don’t remember click here to see them hanging from the bird feeder. About a week ago I bought a new feeder that claimed to be squirrel proof. The exact name was the Perky-Pet Squirrel Stumper. It [...]

Up until a couple weeks ago I thought that there were 3 ways to get into our neighborhood. There is actually only 1 street to come in on but there are a few different ways to get past the gate. When you leave the gate will open automatically on the right side but coming in [...]

When I moved to Texas one of the big lessons I learned was about Mexican Food. Maybe it is because I was always eating the north’s version of Mexican food but there are some things I have learned. When I was a kid my mom use to make something that she called Chile Relleno. Yeah [...]

When I woke up this morning my face was pretty red from playing in the sun all day yesterday. My body was also kinda sore from running around the softball fields. I put on my suit and laid out by the pool for awhile. The leaves are super annoying and falling fast. I cleaned out [...]

I could use one word to describe my day today… SOFTBALL. I showed up at Kennedy’s Softball Fields around 9:00am this morning to play in double elimination tournament with my Friday softball team Beerific. We ended up only playing 3 games before we were out of the tournament. Check out my awesome new shirt for [...]

Everybody loves Friday, right? I mean what’s not to love about the weekend? I have a few things to share with you about my day today. When I was out of town earlier this week my Gerbera bloomed! I told you about her back on January 31st when she was just a little bud. She’s [...]

I was going to name this “angry birds” but not all of the birds are really angry… just a few of them. In the last couple weeks we have had a very heavy flow of air traffic in our backyard. I am not sure if it’s because of the time of the year, or because [...]

I did not want to get out of bed this morning to drive Lily to school… at all. It has taken a long time but I finally have her well trained for school mornings. Her alarm goes off at 6:20 am but mine doesn’t go off until 6:30 am. In the 10 minutes before I [...]

Our vacation ended today at 4:00 am when the alarm went off. JP had a 5:30 am flight out of Palm Springs, stopping in Los Angeles then on to San Jose. We headed to the airport and JP was able to get a boarding pass but since I was on a different airline the ticket [...]

This morning we looked at a few different touristy brochures trying to decide what to do. We finally decided to head up to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Here they are in the parking lot headed to the building where the tramway is. To better describe what it is I found this information on Wikipedia [...]

This morning our plan was to ditch the Coachella Valley and headed East on Interstate 10 to the Joshua Tree National Park. Our first stop was at the Cottonwood Visitors Center. Since we were now at about 3,000 feet it was a little windy and sorta chilly. Marlene bought a sweatshirt in the visitors center [...]

When Marlene first invited us to join them in Palm Springs she told me that there was a car auction that Bob was planning on going to. This morning when we got up we met them at a small diner for breakfast. After breakfast Bob and JP headed for the car auction and Marlene and [...]

Today JP and I hopped on an evening flight to Palm Springs, CA to meet up with and hang out with his parents Bob & Marlene.This is JP’s first non-working trip in a very long time. Since you can’t fly directly to PSP we had a very short (almost missed) connection in Phoenix. The plane [...]

Lily was up with the sunrise this morning… surprise, surprise. She sat next to the bed playing on my iPhone and telling us to get up. Get up! Get up! Then she said “If I make some coffee will you guys get up?”. She came back in the room in a few minutes and said [...]

I was super lazy today and did not feel like cooking dinner. I asked JP if we could go out to a restaurant but we couldn’t decide where to go. Lily said “I want ribs!”. If the girl wants ribs, she gets ribs! Oh and you can’t leave without eating dessert first!

I have been inspired… AGAIN to make something that I saw on Pinterest. Both times I have made the rainbow cupcakes they haven’t turned out as bright colored as I wanted them to so I am going to try a different method. Rainbow Cake in a jar! Sounds good already, right? If I did this [...]

As of today I am officially 33 ½ years old. I realized that when I looked at the calendar but what is even cooler is that my friend Tiffany text me and said “Happy 1/2 Birthday”. I have a hard enough time remembering peoples actual birthday much less their 1/2 birthday. Since it is a [...]

Have you ever heard of Lomography? I have heard the word a few times but up until yesterday I didn’t really know what it was. When we were walking in downtown Austin I saw a Lomography camera store. I went in and asked the guy a ton of questions about it. After he explained a [...]

When I checked the weather this morning I saw that it was gonna be 80° and sunny! I have been waiting for a day like today so that I could motivate myself to go outside and vacuum the pool. Remember last year I declared myself MSPPG? I had a cup of coffee while I tried [...]