Mexican Food and Swimming

I had a wonderful day today with some great friends. I met Jennifer, JC, and Beth at Alisha's for some yummy Mexican Food. I wish I lived closer to Alisha's because I would eat there ALL the TIME!!!

Me and Lily at Alisha's

All the Kiddos

All of us Ladies...Jennifer, JC, Me and Beth

After lunch we head to Jennifer's to go swimming. I wish I lived closer to her because I love her pool. It is much more updated then our pool!!! We always have a great time just hanging out at the pool. The kiddos have a blast too!!!

Tristan and Kaitlyn being Goofy!!!

Jennifer and Kolby


Lily being silly herself!!!

Well, I am off to my mom's house on Monday. Its going to be a week of swimming in their pool, going to the water park, hanging out with my nephew and doing some shopping for my sister's upcoming wedding...that's right my sister is getting MARRIED!!! I am so happy for her:) I will then be dropping my daughter off at her Aunt Wendy's house on Friday for THREE DAYS...that's right I am finally letting go and going to be away from my daughter for THREE DAYS:( Since Lily was born I have not spent one night away from her. Kane and I haven't even been on a date by ourselves...so this is a HUGE step for me!!! Please pray that I get through the weekend without breaking down!!!! Kane and I will spending the weekend at La Torretta Spa and Resort. I am super excited to spend the weekend with just Kane, but very nervous and on edge about being away from Lily. I guess I have to take that step sometime!!!

What's for DINNER???

A "New Twist to Lasagna" that is what we had for dinner. Over at Mommy's Kitchen I found a recipe for Pepperoni Lasagna Roll Ups. Let's just say they are as good as they look. Here is what my dinner looked like tonight...

Not the best picture...considering Kane was already scooping some out when I was trying to take the picture.

I have browsed through many of her recipes. Alot of them sound very yummy. She always includes step by step pictures. Which is awesome because sometimes when I make something if it looks like the picture then I feel like I did it right, but if there is no picture I always wonder if it looks like it should.

I have also made her Sopapilla Cheesecake.....triple yummy if you like cheesecake.

Tomorrow night I am trying her Monterey Chicken. I am changing it up a bit though. We are not fans of onions...so no onions. I am also going to grill the chicken and then cook it in the oven to warm the BBQ sauce and melt the cheese!!!

Next time you are looking for something different for dinner go check out her website!!!

Fourth of July

This fourth of July was very relaxing. Bruce our friend from Beaumont came up to spend the weekend with us. We hung out at the house pretty much all day on Saturday. We had lunch at Which Wich...which is my new favorite sandwich place. We then watched the UFC fight on TV. I don't watch that stuff at all, but Bruce and Kane does. Sunday Bruce went home, we went to Chili's for lunch and then bought some fireworks. He watched the boys across the street pop off their fireworks as we did our sparklers and bottle rockets(I think that is what they were called). I love to look back at Lily's photos over the years. I actually have a picture of every year on the 4th...so here is Lily the past three years....

Lily July 4th 2008

4 months old

July 4th 2009
16 months old

Lily and Kane

July 4th 2010

2 years old

Lily and I

4th of July 2010

She has grown up so much over the past two years. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July.

First Pet

Lily's first pet is two goldfish and one crab. They don't have names yet. We are still working on that:) We are trying to get Lily to sleep back in her own bed. She has been doing really well as long as we are sleeping right there next to her. I have slept on the air mattress the past couple of weeks. At the beginning of this week, I decided it was time for her to sleep by herself without me in the room. Kane and I both have to have some sort of noise when we fall asleep at night. Well, since Lily has always slept with us in our room, she now needs some sort of noise to fall asleep. Therefore, we decide to get her a fish tank:) Well, we told Lily if she slept by herself in her room that we would get her some fish. I did not put Lily down for a nap ALL day because I wanted her to be really tired when she went to bed. So, last night when it was time for bed I told her, "If you stay in your bed ALL night we will go get fish tomorrow." She did put up a good fight in the beginning, but eventually she laid down and went to sleep. She only woke up twice throughout the whole night...yay:) The first thing she said to me this morning was "Fish mommy??" Of course I said "Yes, Lily we will get some fish."

So here is her crab. The guy at Walmart said he was male because he has one big pincher leg!!!

And then her two goldfish.

Here are a few of pictures of her room.

This is what she will see at night while she sleeps.

Up close of the aquarium. I haven't added the fish yet, because you have to let the pump run for a bit and let the water get to room temperature before adding the fish. Lily picked out the castle and the starfish.

Standing back some so you can see her whole dresser!!!


I sure do hope this works. She is really excited about her new fish, so we shall see. If this works then the last thing we need to accomplish this summer is being fully potty trained. She does really well when we are out and about. She loves to visit every restroom of every store we go into:) But when we are at home we forget to tell mommy when we need to go. We do go
number 1 in the potty, but we forget that we need to go number 2 in the potty:) She just turned 2 in March, so I think we are ahead of the game right now!!

Summer List

This summer I wanted to accomplish many things. Here is my list of want I had in mind I wanted to accomplish:

1. Lots of swimming time with Lily
2.Run more I am up to five miles...yay
3. Paint Living Room (not sure this is going to happen)
4. Organize the Play room...almost there
5. Lots of Shopping
6. Go to the gym

Neways, my first project I decide to do was organize Lily's playroom. Lily's playroom is our old dining room. I sold my table back in January or February. I know, I sold my dining room table. Well, considering her room is upstairs and there is NO playroom in this house, I had to find the space somewhere. We never have big family dinners at my house neways, so I said "Why not" it will give me a place to keep ALL the toys. I have actually been very happy with my decision. The only time I missed the extra chairs is when we had her birthday party. But I had extra fold out chairs, so it all worked out. Well, here is what her room looked like before a trip to IKEA...which by the way, I LOVE!!! I can't wait to go back to get more stuff for the house:)

Now here is the room after. I still need a couple more pieces before I am completely satisfied with the room. But I really did not want to spend close to $300 on ALL three pieces.

I got the storage bins there in the middle of the picture yesterday at IKEA.

Lily just got that Kitchen set and Washer and Dryer from my Aunt Patty. It was my cousins when she was a kid. They are probably about 15 years old. They are still in great condition. They just needed a little cleaning and they were like NEW again...thanks Aunt Patty:) Here is Lily cooking me up a yummy meal in her kitchen!!

As for my summer list....well not sure if I will paint the living room. We are going to try and put in hardwood floors this fall, so I was thinking I was just paint then. And going to the gym more, well since I have been running outside ALOT, I figure not going to the gym more is okay. I do go at least once a week, but that is not nearly enough:( As for the rest of my summer is still pretty much the same...laying by the pool and running:) I am going to go to my mom's for a week in July, but that's about it!!! Till next time...have a great fourth of July everyone!!!

Dad, Birthday, Swimming

This past weekend was a very busy weekend. We had two birthday's to celebrate and Father's Day. My two nephew's spend the month of July with their mom, so we try and celebrate both birthday's the same weekend. Ryder just turned 5 on June 15th and Colten will turn 7 on July 2nd. So, Kane and I loaded up on Saturday morning and we were off to Dallas to his sister's house. It was a weekend of swimming in the pool, eating burgers and can't forget the cake that their Grammy made them.

Colten just after opening his presents!!

Ryder with his present from his Aunt Jaime and Uncle Kane.

Lily even got a cute little pink soccer ball.

Colten with his cake!

Ryder with his cake!

Lily wanted to give her Aunt Wendy a flower, so Lily picked her a flower from her garden. Unfortunately, Lily pulled ALL of the flower out of the ground:)

For Father's Day we didn't do much. Lily and I got Kane a movie and card.I made him a special dinner last night. I made him a spaghetti casserole and sopapilla cheesecake!!! Let's just say yum yum:)

Lily and Kane on Sunday!!!

Our weekend ended with a stop at Buc-ee's in Madisonville. Lily wanted to take a picture with every display that was there:)

The last picture was not taken this weekend, but it was taken last week sometime. Its a cute picture of Lily and I just had to share it. She is ready for ALL the summer activities I have planned just for the two of us:)

SuMMeR BreAK

Well, my summer break has been jammed packed since Day 1!! Here is what Lily and I have been up to this past week:

Friday, June 4...First day of summer break. I was up at 630am to have my very first garage sale with Isabel. Let's just say I made a chunk of change. We were actually able to pay off Best Buy and still have some:)

Saturday, June 5...Same thing up at 630am for Day 2 of garage sale!!!

Sunday, June 6...My cousin on my dad's side of the family graduated from High School this year. He is the last of 12 cousins to graduate.

This is some of the "Moore" Family. My cousin Jimmy is the tall kid standing right behind Lily.

Monday, June 7...Kane's first day of college. I had to go get his book for him since he wasn't able to get before his class. So, Lily and I was off to Lonestar College to get his book. It's not a very big campus at all, but I was kind sad that it wasn't me who was going to walk through those doors everyday:( I absolutely love love learning new things. I can't wait till its my turn to go back to get my Masters!!! After getting Kane's book it was off to Walmart to do some shopping.

Tuesday, June 8...Kane survived his first night of college math!! I actually had to go back to the bookstore to exchange his book. He only needed to buy the access code for his math lab, not the book. That's technology these days. He does all his work and test on the computer. He only goes to school to have the math concepts taught to him. After that it was more shopping but this time at Target:) Since, I made a good bit at the garage sale, I was in the market for some new dinnerware. I was planning on going to IKEA with Isabel on Wednesday. Therefore, I want to check at Target before going.

Wednesday, June 9...Off to IKEA with Isabel. I have never been to IKEA before, lets just say I was amazed at all the stuff they have there and for CHEAP!!!! I actually found some nice dinnerware. I got a set of 18 (6bowls, 6 small plates and 6 big plates) for 9.99!!! They were originally 21.99 but on sale for 9.99!!!! So, I got a brown set and a cream set!!!

Thursday, June 10...I had a day long Teacher Conference on Rigor, Relevance and Relationship!! I had a great time and learned lots of new things for next year. I can't wait to share it with my team. Lily spent the day with Isabel. She had a great time. They went swimming, to the park, played, colored and watch movies.

Friday, June 11...Relax and clean my house day!!! Lily and I are just relaxing, watching movies, doing laundry and cleaning up. I try to throughout the week clean alittle here and clean alittle there, so that way I am not spending ALL day cleaning the whole house!!

I hope you enjoyed my crazy, long list of what I my first week of summer looked like. I have one more ALL day staff development on Monday and then I am done till the end of July. The rest of summer will be going to the gym, swimming, shopping, painting my living room and getting Lily's first year scrapbook done.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!