Updates Galore!

The two peas have been busy, needless to say, and the forgotten updates have piled up. This week's update covers a needed vacation from busy school and awesome family time.

The hubby's parents flew down and the whole party enjoyed sites all over Texas. Spring vacations end up being pretty awesome, random, and funny. This one was no exception.

A vacation in photos, since a picture is worth a thousand words:

The family at Sea world.

Do you speak dolphin?

Climbing around in the caverns.

Drama happens everywhere, even underground.

Happy birthday, mom and dad.

The Alamo. Funny to think the building wasn't actually finished, and the traditional shape was added later, after the battle.

Love on the beach!

Father and son.

We tried tons of barbeque, literally.

The capitol building in Austin is fancy!

Old mineral water anyone?

What would you look like as the lady of justice?

It really does exist.

If you ever want to know how cowhands ride, here's a detailed schematic.

How long is your reach?

Flowers at the Arboretum

Mustangs of Las Colinas

Oh, how we love our family.

Preparing for the Big Leap...

The wife won't have any time for ginormous projects in the next year or so. She's been cleaning out the sewing bin, cleaning, organizing, and buying school stuff.

The latest creations have been skirts and shirts from materials bought during Christmas, and long overdue hemming and fitting of clothes from forever ago.

 

School is coming, and it's coming up fast! 

Good luck to everyone this year for your projects and school work.

Spring Into School...

We are envisioning the wife will look something like this in the next few weeks:

Eyes wide and bloodshot from reading humongous text books (most of the ones in the picture are close to three inches thick...and that's not even all of them).

Thirteen books! Thirteen! 

And they're all small print, detailed, and long.... She is beginning to feel even more empathy and sympathy for all medical students. Sore arms. And the lack of sleep. And the fried brain. 

(She hasn't even started reading. It's painful just looking at them.)

Christmas Vacation: Decorative Memories

The wife's family tree is full of memories in the form of eclectic Christmas ornaments. Each year the Christmas decorations seem to take on new memories. Here we reminisce about this and past years just before the two peas travel home. It's been a great vacation.

The wife and her siblings used to make these and sell them for school fundraisers.

Mom's creativity. So cute!

Teddy bears and ornaments that came with presents from long ago.

Ornaments that were "new" almost ten years ago, which they got along with Styrofoam balls they could throw at each other (they missed the snow).

Baby ornaments...

Grandma's old ornaments

The little village we all still play with...

Christmas Vacation: the Days After Christmas

Once Christmas day was done the rest of the vacation seemed to fly by. Guess we were having too much fun.

We played games.

French Scrabble Night

We went skiing

Treat making was a must: more truffles, cathedral window cookies, cream puffs, and spinach artichoke tomato cheese cups. Yum!

Christmas Vacation: Christmas Day

Christmas day came and the family went to church early in the morning, and then zoomed home....

Just kidding; actually, some bushes near their parking spot decided to make mincemeat of the grill on their vehicle, so technically they hobbled home.

And then they opened presents. So many great faces and surprises.

Rings and robes

Oh boy! More firepower! There was many a nerf war over the holidays.

Enjoy that chocolate.

Mind puzzles. Hubby is deep in thought.

The Christmas feast...

And, of course, the tea set was a big hit.