Los Angeles

Ok....I'm trying really hard to update my blog.....but I'm having technical difficulties.

I was going to upload all my pics from L.A., but something is wrong w/my camera.
Photos will follow.......hopefully!

Winter in Texas

Ok...so it's a little dramatic....(it was only 65 out), but I was freezing. This is me "helping" put up Christmas lights. Hey...I've had plenty of years in the snow and rain. I wanted to let Miguel have a turn!
Miguel hard at work.

The finished product. Not very exciting...but it is so much more fun to decorate your own house!

Semper Fi (Always Faithful)

The Marine Corps Hymn

From the halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.

Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From the dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines.

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And have never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.

On November 10 is the United States Marine Corps 233 Birthday.

Best present ever????

OK...so when I was home this past week, we celebrated Andy's birthday. (It counts even though it's late!)

Andy got cards....

the kids were kind enough to share their Halloween candy......

an In-n-out 60th anniversary tee, Darth Vader keychain..............

AND

an 'Andy' bobble head.

I know, I know......I was slightly proud of my present choice this year.......ok, let's be honest, I've been scheming and looking forward to this for almost a whole year. Nothing is too good for my bro.

Happy Birthday!

Scary!

Ok, so for those of you who know me know that I love Halloween!

I'm a total dork, but I still love to play in front of the blacklight.

I think it's a good look for me!

We decorated for Halloween and this was what we've come up with so far. Nothing major, but we still have a couple of weeks. I wanted to make sure we got a pic of our "special needs" skeleton. Isn't he adorable?

Just because he's missing a few bones (tarsals I think) doesn't mean he can't fulfill his Halloween destiny.

Vacation......stressful.....yet relaxing!?!?!?

Where to begin??? So, we were planning a nice ultra-relaxing cruise and for the most part that is what we got, it just didn't play out quite like we planned.


With the unexpected Ike taking a turn for Houston, Miguel, Nayeli and myself opted to leave 4 days early for our cruise. Luckily for us, Andy and Corrie were gracious enough to let us crash at their house unexpectedly.We began our trip in Houston, went to Nashville and then on to Columbus. We then drove down to Cincy and stayed for a couple of days. (Everyone at Mom's had a stomach flu so we were trying to avoid that!)

Then we drove back to Columbus, flew over to Baltimore and on down

to Fort Lauderdale. Tired yet? All the while Miguel and I were

totally stressed about our house in Houston. We still hadn't heard

anything. In the morning we caught a shuttle to the Port of Miami.

All things considered....we were pretty happy!

Then the fun began, we heard from our neighbor who said our house looked fine from the outside and there was no water anywhere in our neighborhood. RELIEF!!! We could finally relax a little and enjoy.....so we did. The next couple of days we were in Key West, FL and then on the Cozumel. There was jet-skiing and snorkeling and just good old kickin' back.

Beautiful, right? (Of course the sunset is nice too!!)


We did have a great time and can't wait for another vacation. Maybe this time we will try not to plan it during hurricane season!

Here we go again

Ok, well this time it doesn't look like we are going to miss the Hurricane. Ike is definitely targeting Houston, but we sitting in Andy and Corrie's nice comfy house in Cincy stressing about the storm. We put up our storm shutters and left on Thurs. We'll just have to wait and see from here!