Monday, April 14, 2008

A fun weekend all the way around.....

Ahhhh, I am sitting here on the couching enjoy a cool morning in SA after a great workout. Its 49 degrees out right now, so nice to be able to have the windows open. Although it will be for a short time as we will reach the upper 70's by noontime....I am just loving the weather down here....of course ask me again in July.....When we will probably be in the 90's all the time....

So we did so much this weekend it makes me tired just thinking about it....Saturday morning we went out to breakfast at Le Peep......after we helped Uncle Joel with a flat tire on the White Squall (Old White Truck)....The tire actually took up a good part of the day, since it was not able to be repaired, we cruised around with Uncle Joel to find one that fit the truck.....Always fun to drive around and explore different parts of SA. After helping Joel get the new tire on the truck it was off to Costco for us......We actually had to come home and get the checkbook because their debit machine was down.....Who still carries their check book these days.....anyway after Costco Joel and Mayday came over and brought the White Squall over, (they are paving at Joel's apt complex and he is going to be out of town part of this week).....I was feeling lazy that Saturday night so we also went out to some Tex-Mex Burritos at Habanero's Grill.......so good and cheap for a family of 5......

Sunday we did some meal planning over coffee......Lila, Mikiah and I went shopping for the groceries.....while Kiara and Dad taped our Master Bedroom....We have decided to paint the ceiling now so we can get our ceiling fan up..since our room is the only bedroom with out a fan.....but I think now that we have the first coat on and the room torn up we might as well paint the whole room.....we are doing 3 walls a light Antique Brown and 1 wall a dark Cargo Brown......I can not wait to see what it will look like......Last night we became guests in our own house staying in the guest bedroom, and I must say totally weird to be sleeping upstairs.....but the room is great and comfortable.....So once our room is all painted I will get pics up....

In between painting and nap time for the girls, I worked out in the yard.....Raking up some leaves, cutting old rose buds and trimming them a little bit and weeding.....We mowed, watered the lawn and tomatoes and Shawn cut down one of the big Cactus plants in our backyard.....and trimmed back the other one.....Oh man it is so nice to have one of those out of here.....they get out of control so fast.....now we are just timing to see how long it will take for it to come back.....here is a sort of before pic....and after pics.....Thanks babe, it makes the yard feel bigger and now safer....

This pic is from December.....you can see both Cactus in the background...

And now...(of course we trimmed our Thorny Citrus Tree too, now we will have to wait to see if it is a Lemon Tree or Sour Orange Tree, but I must tell you the leaves smell so good, like yummy citrus)


Sour Orange or Lemon.....we shall see.....

We finished off the night with a super good fresh pork dish......I will load up on the Breezy sometime today....It was soooo good and simple that Shawn asked for it to be added into the rotation.....then it was bath time for the girls, quick walk around the neighborhood and then bedtime.....And I must say it is so nice that all 3 go down by 8.30ish....I just love it....Lila still wakes up at least once at night, but falls back asleep pretty fast....its all good......

Ok, so now that I typed all this is doesn't seem like we did as much as I was thinking.....oh well, a good weekend had by all!


2 comments:

Erin said...

sounds like a good weekend...better then mine...worked at starbucks...i love your yard...looking great!! cutie lila and mikiah! miss you guys!

Anonymous said...

Great pictures... I really like the green in the back yard. It looks so much better than it did in March. Great Job Shawn, Kiara, Mikiah, Lila and Kaelee. You all worked hard...
L, Grandma