Dentist

We had a great time at the Schlitterbahn! We went on many, many tubing rides, slides and wave pools! We also had a history lesson going and coming back from New Braunfels, more pics and etc later.
Today the boys and I had dentist appointments. We love our dentist, but I can't stand it when they use that gritty stuff to polish your teeth! It feels so gross! I don't mind the machine sound or even the scraping off of huge plaque pieces, but the gritty stuff I could do without! Clay has one cavity-upper tooth, Tristan has two cavities-lower teeth and I have a space between my tooth and an old filling and need a crown on a tooth. So next week before school starts will be full of dentist time. YUCK! I know we need to do it, but who wants to spend time in the dentist chair? You're laid back with a light in your eyes, mouth open, lips getting cracked, trying to remember to move your tongue to the opposite side, but forgetting and thinking "Do they notice your tongue is moving all over", giggling, knowing they can't ask you a question cause you can't talk, thinking "Will they find that piece of beef jerky you lost in your back tooth and can't get it out? Or the popcorn you had last night and wow, here comes a kernal?" Hee, Hee! Ok, back to the grind of a house and two boys. Laundry, laundry, feed the animals that the hubby tried to feed while we were gone, but really didn't, groceries, cleaning(?), play a little.........catch up on blogs!

Wow, a week already!

It has been a week since I wrote anything, not much going on here at the house, but here are a few things that we did do.....
--We made an awesome Leek and Potato soup and I didn't think to take pics until we ate it all. The boys ate it and didn't complain cause it was soup and there wasn't any meat in it. I'll try to remember to take pics next time. If anyone wants the recipe, let me know.
--We did a lot of playing this week. Going on bike rides to the pond/park nearby, going fishing, lego's, lego's, lego's, and we didn't go swimming at all! Amazing! Since we all have rec memberships now it doesn't cost us anything to go to the pools. I take snacks and drinks so the boys are happy.
--I got to finish two books this week, Jodi Picoult and Luanne Rice are really great authors if you like good books.
--I went up to my new classroom and tried to get it organized and put up posters, bones, little things to make it "my" room. The animals will go later, Comet the corn snake, Quentin the Tarantula, and Emmitt the pacman frog. I'm trying to think of something else, but can't think what. Clay went and helped one day and discovered roller chair racing. he loved riding up and down the hallways when there is no one around!
--We head to New Braunfels tomorrow to go to the Schlitterbahn! Woo--Hoo!
So, more things next week, have fun!

A couple things happening...

My friend Krista who lives in Colorado came down to visit her sister and I got to see her! We have been friends since 8th grade! That's a long time, really! It was good to get together and talk. She is such an awesome friend, wife, and mom!

Clay and I went early Sat morning to "Meet the Troops" at DFW airport. It is such an inspiring time. The soldiers come out and all kinds of people clap and say Thank you, Welcome back! There were families there to meet their son/wife/hubby/daughter/dad/mom. It was amazing. Clay was standing at the end of the line and shaking the soldiers hands and one of them stopped and gave him this patch off of his uniform! Wow! I've gotta do some research and figure out what it is for, but it was so neat and awesome! Clay is even more interested in being in the ARMY or MARINES now. I highly recommend this to everyone!

Then we went to the Boy Scout National Museum and it was pretty cool. There was so much info on Boy Scouts and when it started, what you can do,
where you can go, all that good stuff. Clay's favorite
things were the lazer shooting, pinewood derby cars,
and finding the birds. Here he is with a wax figure of Baden-Powell.




Ok, that's it for now, everyone have a wonderful, blessed day!

Bubbles and sisters

Hey everyone! Well, last week my oldest got a late birthday present from my lil sis Chickie. It was a giant bubble maker that my boys really loved.

It doesn't look like much but it makes the most fabulous bubbles! See...they're pretty big!

Anyway, she lives in Ft. lauderdale with her two precious girls, M & E.

Her 38th b-day!

She teaches Yoga to pregnant moms, and she is finally going to use her Doctorate she recieved back in 1999/2000? I can't remember when it was, but she is starting up her practice. She is also sooooo crafty. She makes quilts for little ones, potholders, fairies, crayons, all sorts of things. So here are some pics of her, her girls, and her crafts.

Chickie and M....

E, what a cute smile!

Fairies! yes, they are handmade!

Quilts.....they are so beautiful!

My boys and I, with my mom, took a road trip to see her last summer for a couple days and had so much fun at the ocean. She's my lil sis!

My boys with my mom and M.

Pics

Some pics from our weekend!

Fishing Pier that Tristan fished off of right next to our beach Me and Clay
Clay found a coconut, so he stuck a straw in it's "mouth"
A catfish that Tristan caught in the ocean!
Boogie board fun!
Building my favorite drip and shell castle! Feeding the birds in the air...they can catch whatever you throw! We had about 20 flying over us trying to catch food. Of course we had to visit A&M Galveston. Tristan wants to me a marine biologist!Some weird things you find on the beach....a funky toothbrush, old fishing lures, dead crabs, dead fish, coconuts, tons and tons of shells, tons and tons of trash. It really amazed me how much trash there was washed up on the beach, and trash cans right there not even full! Clay and I spent about 2 hours picking up trash on our Monday early morning walk. People were just looking at us like we were crazy! But we put a little dent in the flotsom(washed up trash).
Shrimp and crabs... SHELLS! It was hard to walk barefoot in some places cause of the shells

My weekend.......

Hey everyone, I had an interesting weekend.......we left early on Sunday morning to head down to Galveston island for hubby's conference on turf grass-don't ask! So, we get down there to check in at Moody Gardens Resort, yes, Moody Gardens, we are going to be in a beautiful hotel with the ocean/gulf right out the door, it's going to be awesome! Until....the check in lady says, "Well, you didn't show up Sat night so you have to pay for that night-$190+" Hubby says, we weren't registered for Sat night. CIL says someone called and added on a night and a roll-a-way bed, so you have to pay for it even though you didn't show up! WHAT!!!! Let me talk to your manager...CIL- I am the manager! Let me talk to a different manager--there isn't anyone higher than me here and I say you have to pay for the night! What!!! Do you believe in any customers? We were pretty obnoxious and loud and some people listened.....so in the end we had to pay, but we didn't stay there and we are taking this to our bank and to the higher-ups at Moody and will not pay for Sat night. Needless to say hubby was not in the best of moods for the rest of the day. We found another hotel, right down from the beach, and the boys and I had a great time hanging out at the beach while hubby had to go to the conference for a while. Tristan got to go fishing off the pier and caught some little catfish things. On Monday, the boys and I went to the beach the whole day. We rented an umbrella and two chairs(well worth the $23) and a boogie board and just had fun! Here are some pics from the weekend: something is wrong with uploading...I'll have to try later......

An Award!

Wow, I got an award! I can't believe it! I would like to thank my lovely friend Amorette http://perezfamily4.blogspot.com/ She believes that I am deserving of the Arte de Pico award! I would also like to thank my family for letting momma have her "blogging" time!

So, here are the rules:

You have to pick some blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
*Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
*Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
*Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award. http://arteypico.blogspot.com/.

And, I get to pick some friends to give this award to also:

1) To Stephanie for always posting a yummy recipe, http://stephscafe.blogspot.com/

2) To Katrina for living the Jesus way! http://evolsidog.blogspot.com/

3) To Kat for making me laugh every day! http://mamakatslosinit.blogspot.com/

There are others, but they already have the award :) And if you want it, let me know and I'll tag you! Thanks again Amorette!