Armed with my ever-present cameras, I document my life & adventures around the globe through photography. My passion for learning, journeys near & far, wine, marathons & my 2 Vizslas are shared through pictures and stories.
My super wonderful best friend Stephanie in Florida sent me a beautiful bouquet for my birthday.
Not only did I enjoy the sight and lovely fragrances, but I had a great time with my much neglected macro lens.
I love fresh flowers and would love to have them more often.
Such awesome colors and unique texture and patterns.
I’m very excited to see my friend in just a few short weeks.
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: I’m only about 2 weeks behind blogging now.
Last weekend, we threw a huge crawfish boil and birthday bash to celebrate our birthdays.
Crawfish festivals and parties are huge around here, so most people will eat these mud bugs several times in the Spring. John and H’s best friend Mark wait anxiously for the first round of crawfish to come out of the boiler.
My Gram was there double- fisting it, even it if it was Coke.
Matt was there with his girlfriend, even if I managed to take an awful photo of them with her half in the shade and half in the sun. I’d promised to take a better picture, but totally forgot.
H cooked up some dogs and burgers for those (like me and all the kiddos) not inclined to eat crawfish.
H’s mom was nice enough to host it at her house and help out with all the food preparation. She however wouldn’t pose for a picture with us!
Our favorite cousins were there too- at least 4 out of 5 (one got in trouble that morning and couldn’t come at punishment).
They had so much fun running around in the backyard and playing hide & seek or catch with the tennis ball.
Until too much rough-housing when they broke the glasses of one of the boys. H to the rescue before their grandma found out and we were all in trouble!
And our other-mother Dana made us some fabulous pastries as dessert- including this beautiful red Velvet cake that was devoured in a few minutes.
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:
This stuff (and the night time one) is saving my life right now!
Finally! After all the excitement of the past few weeks and studying of the last few months, we had a weekend to relax and unwind. I headed to Sams Club on Friday afternoon, to re-stock our freezer with yummy stuff for our new grill.
Saturday, we met our newest tenant for the cottage early in the morning. Then we checked out furniture for H’s boy room. We returned some things to Bed Bath & Beyond, and used a store credit to buy some candles for my office, a new shower head and a gift for mother’s day. We dropped into DSW, where I bought some pink flip-flops and H picked up some sandals too.
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Another relaxing weekend coming up in…oh July!
We bought our old grill about a week after I moved in because we were having family over to see the house. It’s really not big enough to cook a mess of beef and chicken fajitas at the same time. Zoe is checking out the new grill, to see if it will taste as good as the old one.
H is every excited that this one starts up with no problem and I think it’s going to cook our food a bit more evenly than the old one.
Let’s fire it up and cook our first meal!
That’s certainly one way to get it started!
It’s getting hot in here!
Yummy chicken breasts came out awesome!
With a glass of wine and a beautiful sunset, we had a great night!
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: It works great on some tasty steaks that we cooked this weekend!
The day after his birthday & party, I made H work on our garden. We some 4×12′s at Home Depot and they cut them for us, so we’d have an 8′ by 4′ garden.
By last weekend, the 3 varieties of tomato plants were coming right along! 
Zoe is not too fond of all this water interupting her running room in the yard.
