On the Twenty Fourth Day of December

Today is the Hubs birthday.  Happy Birthday, Honey!

Yesterday we took the girls into downtown San Antonio to do our annual Christmas visit.  We love it down there this time of year.  They light up the Riverwalk, we ride the river boats, take a horse carriage ride, and visit the Alamo.  This year we decided to surprise the girls by staying overnight downtown.  They could not believe the surprise.  It was a cold 40 degrees but we had a blast.  I think we'll make it a tradition.

In case you've been living under a rock, you can track Santa and find our where he is right now.  Hope you'll wake up tomorrow to find magic that only children know.

Happy Veteran's Day

My hub is celebrating his veterans-ness by taking the day off and taking me to have sushi for lunch.  Now that's the way to celebrate.

Country Life

This post will probably interest no one except the other people that live in our neighborhood.  One of the things about living in the "country" is that you get the native creatures that come with it:  snakes, bugs, big bugs, scorpions, centipedes, and the other usual nuisances such as raccoons and armadillos.  Armadillos.  Never seen one in person except dead on the road.  Until tonight.  Armadillos are nuisances mostly because they dig up your landscaping looking for food.  Landscaping that you paid lots of money for and that the homeowners association makes you keep up with.  And boy can they dig.  And one armadillo can do lots of digging.  We have been lucky in that our armadillo has really only done minor work to our landscaping.  But Greg for some reason decided he wanted to try and catch it.  So he set out our trap, humane trap, baited it and waited.  One night, nothing.  Next night, nothing.  Well, this evening, even before dark, HE SAW IT.  In a process that involved a bucket, a snake catcher (What?  You don't have one?), and the DOG, they basically hunted the poor thing down.  And caught it.

Nine banded, Natalya counted.

He really is kinda cute.  And, yes, he is climbing the cage.

"Let me out.  Please."

This one just cracks me up.  The poor thing looks like it was imprisioned.  Rockey was a basket case and hunted in true Jack Russell fashion.  Greg did release the poor guy down by the river so if he ends up at your house, Angelia or Jen or Amy, sorry.  But we are now renting Rockey for armadillo services.  Email me for the price list.  OH, and I did forget to post our raccoon story so that will come tomorrow.  Aw, country life.

New Toy

I figured we're near the water enough that I should splurge and get a waterproof camera.  We played with it for the first time tonight.  Since I didn't swim tonight (I can't possibly swim everyday like the girls) Daddy took these.  Not bad, eh?
I love that Vienne is smiling and that both girls are comfortable in the water.  I am not.  I didn't really learn how to swim.  I can swim enough but the girls are really good.  Mermaids.

Update on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 08:21AM by MelodyA.

It is a Pentax Optio W30 7.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom for $232.10 from Amazon.  So far I think it's a pretty good camera.  I think I will have to take some pictures with it out of the water today and check those out.  Fun!

Waiting

Monday again?  It's seems like we just had a Monday.  We had a great weekend.  On Friday night, we made smores (or shmores as I can't seem to stop calling them) with our friends.   On Saturday, the HipHub and I celebrated our 11th anniversary.  Happy Anniversary, Honey!  The girls spent the day with the Grands and we had sushi (or shushi as I can't seem to stop calling it) for lunch.  On Sunday, we spent the day at Sea World.  It was a great day to be out with the temp at about 91 degrees.  We told the girls that we were not going to the water park but regretted it once we got there. 

Today I will be once again wait to see if the crew comes out to finish up the things that lay waiting to be completed on the house.  We've been in the house since the end of March and there are things that still need to be done.  I've been wanting to post pictures of our lovely abode but I really want it to be done first.  And again I will sit and wait wondering if they will show up and in the end be disappointed because they won't show.  Fun plans pushed aside, just waiting.   I've been patient.  But really. 

This is My Best Shot for today.   But don't wait, just go.