One of the reasons I was excited for our tip to New Orleans is because it gave me a chance to take more photographs around the city. It really is an amazing place. I’ll let the ton of photos tell the tale… click to enlarge
Feeling Better in my Bathing Suit & Weekend Fun!
I sat by the pool watching a family. They had one little girl, probably about 18 months old and two older boys in their teens. The mother doted on the adorable baby as she splashed about and she must have asked her to say “cheese” a thousand times in one minute as she put her…
It was a REALLY good day
Ten things I loved about Mother’s Day 2013:1. Breakfast in bed. Oh yeah! A cinnamon sugar donut (homemade by the hubby), eggs, bacon and coffee. That’s right girls, be jealous.2. HGTV while eating breakfast in bed. And boys bringing me pressies they made at school, WHILE still in bed.3. Church with my whole family, sitting…
It’s All Good
We ventured out to our little, local zoo today for some Easter-y fun. They host an event with a cute little egg hunt and photos with the Easter Bunny and music, etc. Essentially the kids help pick up recycled eggs and then trade them in for chocolate. It’s a pretty good system, actually. We rode…
We’ve DONE Mardi Gras!
Mardi Gras is a pretty big deal around here. Many balls have already taken place (not that I was invited to any, whatever…) and they start baking King Cakes pretty much right after Christmas. What would you like in yours? Strawberry, chocolate, Bavarian cream? Yeah. One of each please. Also, the parades even started this…
Nature and Ice Cream
Since it finally stopped raining around here (I know, I know, I’m like a broken record), we’ve been getting outside, thank God! Yesterday I went for a 2.5 mile run in the park and it was heaven. The park was packed with people reading on blankets and throwing Frisbees with their dogs and kids playing and as…
Just because…
The rest of the title for this post should be “I feel like posting about this and that and the other”. But I thought that was really TOO long. Like the run-sentence of blog post titles, ya know? Yes, this post is going to be a bit all over the place. In the spirit of…
Park It!
The last people we saw on our travels for the Thanksgiving holidays were my brother, Larry and his family. They were in Houston visiting my SIL’s family so we met up at Discovery Green and the kids ran around like wild banshees. It’s a really neat park right in the middle of downtown Houston. There were…
So many animals (and kids!), yet so little time…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, one of the highlights of our Thanksgiving travels was meeting up with my cousin and her family. We decided to meet at the San Antonio zoo on Friday and it turned out to be a perfect day for it. It was a tad crowded but manageable. She has 6…
Seeing Things Through Their Eyes
Lately I am working on seeing things from other people’s perspective. Particularly my husband’s and my kids’. Especially the kids, who are shorter, and not quite as wise and are still learning and soaking things in every day in some way. I have to try to remember that they do not “know” everything I expect…