Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

"Toothless Tuesday"

I knew as Lissy started kindergarten I would have lots of "firsts" well this was one. Her tooth was so loose and just bearly there. I told her she needed to "Get a kleenex and yank it out" and you know what? When I was not looking, She did it! We were at one of my girlfriend's house's and all of a sudden there is a little blood, and a little girl asking for a little baggie to save a little treasure for the toothfairy.

OMAGOSH

Yesterday I made a little wish for my peeps in cold weather land to send us a breeze....hallelujah we got it! (By the way...thanks!) I woke up at 3am to a windy rainy storm that settled into a cool fall-like day. What the heck, just yesterday yesterday we got a sunburn! Lissy was especially excited because she actually got to wear a light coat from Baby Gap (that is one of her favorite stores...yep already...what she calls "fashy"). I think I might go pick out a sweater and some boots for tomorrow! Burrrrr...... Oh, and this colorful pictures serves two purposes..... to catch the "colorful" mommy picture fever at Picture This and because it is a Macro Monday! Galileo thermometer reads.....well below 90 degrees....59 degrees, baby!

Fall in Texas

Hummm... I am wondering if I will ever be able to put on a pair of jeans and feel comfortable, no not because I've gained a few pounds...or 2 (well that too) but because it is still so freakin' hot here! We use to love North Carolina because when Halloween rolled around it was nice and chilly, leaves turned colors, hot apple cider, going to a "real" pumpkin patch and corn maze...NOW ....that is what you call "Fall" and "Octoberfest". Here, nope..... we are still swimming in the backyard, wearing shorts, finding scorpions, and sweatin' as we mow the lawn. Chad said today, when is the yard going to turn colors....my reply was, "Honey I think we are in for a long wait".

Since I am not a "true Texan" I'm not sure if San Antonian's are the only ones with lame fall weather, I guess I should check out the news. So those of you up north and my peeps in NC.....blow us a cool breeze or two, I have some cute sweaters and jeans to wear!

JOY

So many things in life bring me joy, shoes, purses, food, but not the kind of "LOVE JOY" that my family and pets bring! The joy of family brings meaning to being alive. Being a mommy is the best thing in the world, how boring my life must have been before we had Alyssa. I love my little 2lb piece of love also, Abbie Gayle, who is quite the snuggle-er, and how can you not have joy looking at that tiny little hair face. Check out all the other joys that mommy's have at Tracey's Picture This.

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!