366 days of photos week 9

ok, now to catch up...

day 57: sun 2/26/12  oops, forgot to take a pic this day...


day 58: mon 2/27/12

more of the stuff growing & blooming around the house.  not for sure what this bush is but it's so pretty.  this has been planted way before we got in the house.  so weird, was thinking about the other day while talking to my neighbor, we have been in the house almost 7 years now.  it doesn't seem that long since we moved in.

day 59: tues 2/28/12

so i got a text from jess the other day & she sent me a pic of some coconut water, asked if we could get some.  i never had any & while i was out shopping for work stuff i picked some up.  this stuff is super expensive!  well, 2.69 for a bottle of something is a expensive to me.  anyways, i tried it & it's NASTY!!!!  i thought maybe it would taste just a tad sweet, nope, it tasted almost like the brown part, almost dirty.  i know people like this stuff but i couldn't take more than 2 sips of it.  i tried it, just a tiny sip, & thought maybe i didn't get a big enough drink to get the real taste of it but nope, it was nasty the second time i tried it.  :o)  the girls liked it so i let them have it instead.

day 60: wed 2/29/12 HAPPY LEAP DAY!!!  :o)

they've gotten a little bigger...  this week they are even bigger, it actually has started showing it's green leaves, i will take another pic for this week so you guys can see the actual growth.

my fishies.  we got 2 new plecos this last week.  i got a regular one that's brown with dark spots & then i got a rubber lipped one.  i like him the most, he has a bigger, wider mouth, i may start calling him jagger.  :o)  he isn't shown but they are both really little & they are so fast!  they remind me of cats at play.  it cracks me up!  you can see the big blue one swimming at the top, he's blurry, & then our rainbow shark, & then one of my hot pink tetras.  some days it's hot pink & other days it's really pale & yes we have neon gravel & a neon rock.  it's my MIL's fault, she thought the girls needed a brightly colored fish tank, it's grown on me.  at first i was not liking it.

day 61: thurs 3/1/12

i picked up q from school this day & brought her to work with me.  she had practice at 5:30 that day.  she had the letter u for the week & asked me to print out a unicorn so she could take it on friday after she colored it.  this is her final picture.  thank you lisa frank for making excellent art for kiddos to color & enjoy.  i love all her stuff!  :o)

day 62: fri 3/2/12

my boss was asked by one of our local universities to provide a 100 word essay of what it means to her to be a woman & they provided her with a 6x6 canvas to do whatever art on it she wanted to go with her essay.  she is from germany but of turkish decent.  not for sure what her essay said but the meaning of the painting is a color from each of the flags that now represent her.  she decided to put a glob of all the colors in the middle so she could swirl them together. :o)

after school is so hard on q, she will nap without wanting too.  they don't take naps at school in her class anymore, i suspect because they were all pretty defiant on taking naps this year.  :o)  well on the way to pick me up from work on friday she fell asleep.  it was dr suess' bday that day & so they made cat in the hat, hats & then got their faces painted with a black nose & whiskers.  she looked so cute all asleep & the hat over her eyes!  they also had a red "bow tie", you can see it under the seat belt.  happy bday dr suess!!!  it was also texas independence day, not for sure if they did anything for that yet.  she does draw the texas flag pretty good.  i think they have been leading up to that in the previous weeks.  :o)

day 63: sat 3/3/12

hopp checking out the monkey perched on the ledge

hopp feeding the giraffe

q & hopp always have to pose on the caterpillar

they love rolling down the hill, the bottom one is when hopp lost control & was rolling so fast.  it cracked me up, she couldn't stop herself until almost the bottom.  :o)



look how they have grown! the first pic was taken back in aug of last year, q is now to the top of the booty of the giraffe.  hopp had to have grown but i can't tell how much other than she is basically the same height to q as the last one.  so maybe an inch or two for both of them.  next time i need them to stand tall so we can tell for sure.  :o)

  ok, so i'm caught up till next week, taking a couple days off work to spend with my man.  :o)  the littles are staying with nana for a couple of days & jess is heading to dallas to spend time with her dad & siblings there.  i hope all of you have a great & safe spring break!

yarnin stuffs & spring fun

yarnin' stuffs:
this weekend i made this really cute & unique scarf that my friend cristal's grandma made for cristal's daughter.  it's so cute, i hope to get it on ravelry as soon as i have permission from her.  i will post pics on it soon!  sorry for the tease.

i wanted to share with you the snake i made for q.  she was begging me to make her a snake.  i started on it a year ago & i kept putting it off & putting it off but i finally finished it.  she loves it!  it took me almost a yr to finish it but i got it done about a month ago.

you can find the pattern here, it's from caron yarns.  she didn't want the red/yellow/black combo so we went with lime green/pink/turq.  it turned out really cute!  i gave it orange button eyes & stuffed it with pony beads & poly fiber.  i alternated a section of each all the way through; a little beads & then a little stuffing.

spring stuffs:
on sunday around 11a i went & had some coffee with my super-wonderful friend claudia, it was so nice to catch up with her after she got back from her trip to san antonio with her 'rockstar' co-worker, really he is a rockstar but i can't divulge who it is, again another tease!  so then after i finished chatting with her i headed over to my mil's house to pick up the girls, they spent the night with nana.  :)  we headed over to michael's to check out some stuff for a little project i want to do with crayons for an easter gift to q's class, but on the way we saw this house that the entire front yard was covered in iris's.  it was stunning & my camera phone didn't capture half the beauty but i tried.  if you live in a-town & want to drive by, it's on the corner of sth 20th & sayles.  the house has always been a bit creepy but was so pretty that day.

every year i get the most beautiful iris's myself but my favorite are my amaryllis flowers!  i luckily inherited them with the house we bought 5 yrs ago & they never need maintenance or watering they just come up like magic! 





i just love how they have 4 huge blooms on one large stalk.  they are white with pink stripes in the middle of the petals.  i really want to take some to work but i usually try to wait till they all bloom but i have noticed that they have several other buds on them ready to bloom soon so i don't want to cut them & then the buds never get a chance to bloom.

sprinkler fun:

it was very warm this weekend & we didn't do much outside on saturday because it was super hot but on sunday it was a little cooler, really i can't feel the difference between high 80s-high 90s it's all so hot!  we use to have a pool but i murdered (yes i said murdered, i took a steak knife to the bottom of the pool all the way around to drain it, the saltwater filter went out so it got nasty) it two years ago & we never replaced it.  i really missed it, we had a saltwater filter & i swear it never got green or dirty.  we had the most beautiful pool!  not only that but the only maintenance you have to do with a saltwater filter is skim it on occasion & change the filters.  it never needs chemicals & your eyes never burn!  your skin feels super soft too!  ok back to the subject at hand; so yesterday i hooked up the sprinkler, let the girls put on their bathing suits & let them have at it.  i don't know what the hell the deal is with sprinklers but hopp will let it splash all in her face, if i dare get water on her face in the bath or shower she wants to KILL me!  :o)  here are the super cute pics of my girlies playing in the sprinkler yesterday.



jess getting wet for a sec with the little ones.



i have a kim k in the making!  look at that booty & those chunky thighs, makes you just want to squeeze them.  :oD



turning away from the sprinkler so it doesn't get in her eyes.




i think q is getting hopp in the face



i hope everyone is enjoying the spring, wish it wasn't so damn hot!  more to come, i still have to tell you about our may farm trip.  have you heard of a beefalo before?  well, there is such a thing, i promise.  :)

the blow thingys

ok, ok, i know they are called dandelions but blow thingys are much more fun to say.  :o)  let me tell you how i got so see something amazing & i had never noticed before...

so this weekend i went to a local pawn shop & got a lawn mower, i will blog about this crazy story later.  i had issues with it so i had to take it back.  they fixed it & i brought it home today.  my work friend jody, so nicely met me there to pick it up for me & dropped it off.  i thought i would just park on the street so he could back up in the driveway.  well this is were i noticed a peculiar looking plant.  it looked almost alien-flower like & then it dawned on me... it's a dandelion... all wet!  had i not parked on the street, i wouldn't have ever noticed it.  it's so pretty but the bad thing is my yard is riddled with these weeds!  i love dandelions, they are so whimsy & cute but in all honesty they are just plain ole' weeds.  :(  so that means i have to spray, i'm hoping to get some yard work done when the grass is green & the sun is shining.  i have some great st. augustine in the front yard so i want to nurture it & make my entire front yard soft enough to go barefoot.  i have to do the back breaking de-thatching first though.  that's why i need the yard to get green.  sorry off topic here are the beautiful wet dandelions.  enjoy...


so pretty



happy spring :)