Random Thing

So it's been forever since I blogged & I've been busy(as usual) but don't have any photos to prove it!  So I randomly selected a photo from my files & the photo above is what I selected.  It's a jewel......blurry, not the best photo of Ron, but in the spirit of being totally random it's staying.  The date stamp on the photo is June 8 2008......it was taken at Ethan's end of the season baseball party.  The family that hosted the party had a BEAUTIFUL mansion in Silverlake.  They had a sunroom full of all sorts of "critters" the ones I remember are a RAT!!!! a snake, a turtle, huge fish aquarium, and the parrot in the photo above.  The parrot was pretty cool.......but they live forever & I think they would get on your nerves after a couple days with all that squawking.  So that's it for today......Ron & a parrot!  Maybe I'll post tomorrow, but odds are it'll be a few days..........

District Champions, Again!

Spent the last few days at Presner Stadium for Ethan's district track meet. He ending up getting 3rd place medals in his relay and the 200m. He placed either 4th or 5th in the 100m.

He was pretty bummed about the relay, but they had one bad handoff & it made all the difference in 1st & 3rd place. In the end, all was well because they won 1st in the meet!!! So they won both the football & track championships...........so proud of all those boys!!!

Colin didn't go to the meet, he was at home doing homework. He has his UIL concert tomorrow and leaves for San Antonio Friday morning for his spring band trip. He won't take photos.......so all you'll get is text about the trip. Unless some of his friends take photos of him & share them with me. I guess we have to wait and see what happens~

Happy News

First.........the boys not only loved the stuff in their Easter baskets, but they let me take a photo of them! I think the iTunes cards were their favorites!!! Best smiles I've gotten in a long time.Next on the list is Ethan's prelims for the district track meet. He did GREAT!!!! He made it into the finals in the 100m & 200m.

Tomorrow he'll compete in the long jump, and then Wednesday he'll have his sprints and a relay! I'm so excited for him.........he was so happy with his times and so was I~

Happy Easter!!

We spent Holy Saturday in Manvel celebrating with my side of the family. It was a beautiful day.....sunny....warm....perfect day to hang around outside & visit. Photo of us girls next to mom's sunflowersThere was also an egg hunt. Gotta love a good egg hunt, and of course that would include a few grass stains.
Then comes the boys fighting with a tree branch. I guess little boys play with sticks, and teen boys play with branches. Just happy no one lost an eye or impaled themselves with the branch.
The boys with Val........they always manage to have fun together.
Happy Easter!!!

Crafty post

I actually spent a little time lately making some cards. I had fun playing with my cricut and simple love the birds & chicks! The first card is a birthday card I sent to my aunt & girlfriend. The Easter card was made for my in-laws in Ohio and my aunt that always remembers to send me a card for every holiday!!! Hope you like them:

flaming hot weekend.....

We had a smoking hot weekend at our house, literally!! For the first time EVER I had an oven fire!!!! It all started with me craving something sweet.......I blame this extreme sugar craving on the fact that I gave up chocolate for lent and really needed a chocolate fix. I made my first mistake by logging into Pinterest (why oh why did I think that would be smart?). For some reason I was craving apples, and wanted to make an apple slab but didn't have any apple cider for the glaze. So while I was searching through the apple recipes I stubbled across the Pioneer Woman's skillet apple cake. I had all the ingredients & decided this was the sweet "snack" for me. So I proceeded to make the cake & then bake the cake.........towards the end of the baking I noticed that the butter/sugar mixture had been oozing over the skillet and making a mess in my oven. So when I removed the cake I did something I never did before.........I was tired (see last paragraph explaining what I'd done all day) & just wanted the cake and I didn't wipe out the gunk in the bottom of the oven. I simply pushed the "self cleaning" button and thought I'd have a nice clean oven when I woke up in the morning. Well that didn't happen.........I had a fire in the oven & tons of smoke that smelled just awful. I ended up with a big mess & let me just say that febreeze commercial is a big fat lie!!!

Good news is......after a couple of cleanings with Easy Off, I was able to clean out the burnt gunk & my oven still works. After googling about my "fire" I decided that I will never use the self cleaning feature again!!! Talk about nightmare stories..........ovens have exploded and babies & pets have died from the fumes. Oh.......and if you are wondering how the cake tasted, I'll leave you with a quote from Zach......."Mrs. Rita this cake is so worth the fire!!!!" It was delicious~

If your wondering what I did Saturday morning............check out the photo below:

I spent the entire day working on my front yard. I lost my azaleas in the drought last summer & decide to replace them with knock out roses. I also planted some begonias & salvia.......I mulched, mowed, put out fertilizer & ant killer. Now I have to plan a day to do the same in the back yard~