Viva Fiesta

It's Fiesta time here in the San Antonio area.  And that means there are tons of events going on in and around town.  Most of it is family friendly.  Some of it includes arts and crafts, some of it includes kings and queens, some of it includes sports, all of it includes a lot of culture and a lot of eating.  We headed downtown yesterday on what couldn't have been a more beautiful day.

We first stopped at Market Square to eat at one of our favorite SA restaurants...

...and of course to hear the mariachi play.

Then we took took the girls to a charreada, which is a Mexican rodeo.  For Fiesta, they also had mariachias and ballet folklorico dancers.  Of course, nothing beat watching the girls in their pretty dresses ride side saddle without falling.

Our lovelies at the beginning of our festivities.  Natalya had just eaten a yellow snow cone so her lips are orange.

And at the end.  Her thumb had just fallen out of her mouth.  We will try to make it downtown again before Fiesta is over next weekend.  

Hmm, My Best Shot for this Monday... my girlies, 'cause they make me happy.

On the Tenth Day of December

It snowed.  It's very unusual to snow in South Texas so we will take what we can get.  And we didn't get much.  But the girls were so excited to wake up this morning to see it.  I only wished it would stick around until they got home from school so that they would have a chance to play with it.  It's already gone.

Let's Play

Hurricane Ike veered away from us but he has to be the reason we've been having such chilly weather.  And by chilly I mean, "Man, I'm cold" upper 50's waking up in the morning.  Sort of unusual.  But it also means glorious "Man, I'm cold" weather during the day and after dinner in the upper 70's, low 80's.  There's a reason we live in Texas.  The girls will play outside for hours when it's nice outside.  Sometimes I hate to be the one to say, "It's time to go in.  We have school tomorrow."

More playing around at Stacy's.

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.

Singing in the Rain

Can you see it?  Our house in the rain drop. 

 

Last year at this time we had had enough rain.  This year, not enough.  We got about 3 hours of much needed rain today.  And we couldn't stay in and let it happen.  We went out to play in it.