Holy Moly!

Okay we are looking for chickens to put in our yard. Sounds ridiculous, not really when you find a coral snakes in your front yard. Yes, I know since we live in the country..and live in Texas, we are prone to critters, but one of the relatives to a cobra...come on...SCARY!! Okay, here is the low down..... gives me the hibby-gibbies just writing about it.....

Chad was on his riding lawnmower and comes running inside yelling my name, so I immediately think he is hurt. Nope, as soon as I run downstairs he says get a cage (being a science teacher you tend to have many laying around everywhere). So he is running out, with me in tote, and he says.... "What is the saying.... "Red and yellow...kill a fellow....Red and black a friend of Jack". Well this little guy was not a friend of ours or Jack's.

Long story short... coral snakes live here in Texas, come out in the day, are very venomous, but have tiny little mouths and not pit vipers like their cousins, so gnaw on their predators / prey to get the toxin in.... gives you time to yank the sucker off and get to the hospital to get anti venom. This little 2 foot snake has the potential to kill an adult. Scary for my Lissy and for Abbie (our little 2lb yorkie). Oh yeah, back to the story...Chad accidentally ran over the snake with the lawnmower and sliced open a part of his gut, so it took a bit for him to die (bitter sweet...being a biologist and all) but if you laid him just right, you could not even see the wound and he looked as scary as he did alive.

So if you live in the hill country....watch out for the red and yellow! Lissy now wears her pink cowboy boots in the yard each time she goes out....he he...I will have to get a shot of that one, it is funny.... even with her bathing suit! Abbie is always supervised on her potty breaks, and we all tend to watch out step more than before.

My immediate thinking was...."I wanna go back to North Carolina". Chad looked at me with eyebrows raised and suggested getting the chickens....

Lissy's Birthday Bash!

I am the party girl and I do love to plan a good shin-dig but this years birthday party was a little weird. Lissy just started kindergarten and hasn't made any great friends yet in her couple of weeks as an official big-kid-school-kid. So we had a small party for her at one of her favorite pizza places, yes I actually allowed someone else to host her party (although it was kinda nice, no messy house, no clean up, humm this may not be so bad).

Anyhoo....She ate...and ate...and played lots of games (only those of course that would give her tickets).... because it is all about the prize at the end.

PS...the cake was super yummo....an ice cream cake .... delish! Wish you guys were here to join us!

Jungle in San Antonio

Chad gets so irritated with me that I really do hate to go downtown to the Riverwalk. It is not that I don't like it there, but it is VERY tourist-e and the only time we get a chance to go is on the weekend with an $8 parking fee and walk for a couple of blocks (in the SA humidity and heat), ummmm not so fun for me. But okay, it is Lissy's birthday and we wanted to take her to a "special place" for dinner. So we went to the "Rainforest Cafe". It is amazing..... we really do have a jungle in San Antonio, animals and all! She loved it, we loved it, and you gotta go! The food, ummmm, don't really remember that part, we were having too much fun walking on the wild side. So long story short, okay, I wanna go back to the San Antonio Riverwalk. Oh yeah, and my baby is now 6!!

Scooby Doo is still a Star!

We only allow Alyssa to watch cartoons and Disney Channel, although sometimes even Hannah Montana or High School Musical start this ridiculous kissing scene and we scurry to change the channel and she immediately covers her eyes, so innocent....I hope she still act this way when she is 16 (yeah right, I know). But, her ultimate favorite is Scooby Doo. If the kid sees anything Scooby related, she manages to finagle someone to buy it for her or if all else fails, pulls out her allowance money. She has the video collection and knows every single word of the movie. We figured that one out because I got a new car that has a DVD player. With her headset on, we heard her saying the entire movie. Yeah, ridiculous. I promise I am not a latch-key-TV-momma.

She managed to get this ball from Grammy. Thanks mom, for adding to the madness :)

SCREAM!!!

Okay, I, I mean Chad and I are still wondering when we will ever get too old or too tired to ride rollercoasters!? I think we have more fun than the 12 year olds who are wandering the amusement parks. Our favorite ride of all times is "Scream" at Fiesta Texas. Okay, so this ride is not a roller coaster, but it is still one sought out by thrill seekers..... aka....."us". We have season passes and manage to never....ever....get tired of this ride.....it is the first one on every single time! The anticipation makes my stomach hurt and when you get to the top, you feel so helpless and just know something crazy is coming. At the last minute when at the top of the ride I tell Chad how scared I am (every single time) and that I wanna get down. He grabs my hand, and quickly says...." Oh, you'll be down in a couple of seconds". Then woooosh.....down you go like a tiny little part of this big-wide-world.

When can we go again?